Game Time Claims Victory - Still Has No Tickets

If only they’d deliver to North Co.

So, with Gametime’s newly realized power, can we work up a list of ideas that we want you to put out there for management to read? Just a few thoughts…
1. Kill the mascot idea
2. I want cheap tacos
3. Discounted preseason tickets (Full NHL price to watch the Peoria Rivermen play?)
4. I really want cheap tacos
5. Get rid of the bizarre bunny (?) statue across from Scottrade and replace it with something more inspiring… 15 foot tall Al MacInnis statue, anyone?
6. I’ll say it again slowly… TA – COS
Anything I’m missing?

Jessica wrote:

“So, with Gametime’s newly realized power, can we work up a list of ideas that we want you to put out there for management to read? Just a few thoughts…
1. Kill the mascot idea
2. I want cheap tacos
3. Discounted preseason tickets (Full NHL price to watch the Peoria Rivermen play?)
4. I really want cheap tacos
5. Get rid of the bizarre bunny (?) statue across from Scottrade and replace it with something more inspiring… 15 foot tall Al MacInnis statue, anyone?
6. I’ll say it again slowly… TA – COS
Anything I’m missing?”

1. Agreed.
2. Me, too.
3. Great idea; I think having the Rivermen play a game or two in St. Louis, as an afternoon prelude to an evening Blues’ game, would be a swell idea also.
4. Me, too.
5. Absolutely a great idea. I’ll miss Kung Fu Bunny, but a statue of Al Macinnis would be appropriate there. Or even Brett Hull, since the street has been renamed BRett Hull Way…
6. TA-COS… TA-COS… TA-COS…

There’s another idea I was kicking around as well; I can’t take full credit for it, because it was inspired by a poster at The Asylum (STL Today, which has become much less an Asylum since a few of the worst trolls have gotten the boot), but I’m planning to whip up a quick article here for the site as soon as I get a few minutes.

B.

frank the bunny rocks!! we are likely the only city to memorialize “donnie darko” in bronze.

i’d say

1) game time in the parking garage

2) press passes for game time staff

3) game time readers get to take turn driving our players back and forth to peoria

4) we retire jeffio by hanging him from the rafters

- How about not showing Towel Boy on the scoreboard?
- I would pay full price for a preseason game if the beer was half price (a cause we can certainly all get behind).
- Never, ever play again that damn Cotton Eyed Joe song.
- I don’t think the team has any say about Kung Fu Bunny. And I don’t see MacInnis getting a statue since he wasn’t drafted a Blue and none of the other HOFers who started elsewhere have statues.

While I agree that the team doesn’t have a say over the bunny (wishful thinking on my part), I disagree that there won’t be a MacInnis statue in or around Scottrade sometime in the future. I will admit to not knowing all of the ranks of Blues management past and present, but how many former Hall of Famers retired as a Blue to worked in their operations department? Even more importantly, this ownership group has definitely jumped heavily on the “honoring popular players” bandwagon (or honouring, for the readers north of the border). That aside, I cannot agree more about Cotton Eye Joe, ban it and the guys that dance to it up by the Top Shelf Club!

Jessica, if I wasn’t married, I’d kiss you.

The very first thing I wrote for Game Time back in the winter of our discontent (December ’05) was about suggestions to make the game night experience better. My biggest wish was to end the playing of that dreadful song and the stopping of that attention whore and his friend who does the lame dance.

CT wrote:

“2) press passes for game time staff”

I’d like that, too, but good luck with it… I couldn’t get the Blues’ Media Relations Department to even acknowledge my existence when I asked for a press pass for the Atlanta pre-season game, despite several e-mails and FAXes to them…

B.

Peoria, on the other hand, has been very accomodating.

B.

Brad- Thanks for the offer, but I agree that your wife and my boyfriend would not appreciate it. I went to the preseason game on Friday and they played Cotton Eye Joe. One of those guys was up by Top Shelf dancing, but he didn’t even have the courtesy to make a bigger ass of himself by wearing a drink tray on his head like they sometimes do. I think all the attention has made them lazy. Yet another reason to ban the song.

so you could have hooked me up for free? another $25 dollars down the toliet! lol

I think we’ve got a couple of ideas here that can be married. Let’s built a brand new corporately-sponsored Taco Bell Plaza will bronze statues of all the Blues Hall of Famers. Rather than charging the fine people at Taco Bell the full price for namign rights and all the publicity, fans get discounted tacos the day after a game by presenting their ticket stubs.

Here’s the best part. To make room for the plaza, we bulldoze city hall. It’s not like anything important goes on there anyway. If the mayor trully cares about sports in St. Louis he’d get this done for us.

- Bringing back 35-cent tacos would be a large step in making me feel like it was hockey season again (post-strike).

- Embrace the kung-fu bunny… before it destroys you.

- My season tickets, while not delivered by even the lowly Cajanek, are the single greatest item that the Blues have ever printed on stock paper (Kariya’s contract included) – very nice work from the front office with those things. This it the first time in recent memory that the Blues have out-done the Cardinals in any facet of the season-ticket-holder experience.

- I have a feeling that ticket scalping is going to be absolutely obnoxious this season, as is the guy in front of me who constantly yells “Boo! Hiss!” after any undesireable call/Jamal Mayers shot attempt.

- I’m just going to say that if the glass at the bottom of section 314 were to be a little bit loose, and a fully-celebrating Towelie were to tumble over it onto some unsuspecting yuppies, I wouldn’t complain about the delay that it would inevitably cause to the game.