http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/detroit-pistons-try-to-give-out-50-free-lower-bowl-season-tickets-eleven-people-show-up/ Your Go-To Source For Pistons Coverage Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/detroit-pistons-try-to-give-out-50-free-lower-bowl-season-tickets-eleven-people-show-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9048 Laser Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:08:51 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/detroit-pistons-try-to-give-out-50-free-lower-bowl-season-tickets-eleven-people-show-up/#comment-9048 just read this on detroit bad boys and said WOW to something pistons-related for the first time in a long time. i think it happened twice since last season: bynum's 20-assist night (oh, but stuckey dropped 34 on the wiz in a preseason game and managed a +1 AST-TO spread, so he just HAS to start, right?) and GSW picking udoh sixth.   (note: a friend just called me to discuss this very subject!)   on one hand, when you read the optimism of pie-in-the-sky dreamers, cheerleaders, joe dumars apologists, you'd think 300 was the number of people who showed up to audition. i sincerely hope this sends a message to the organization. it's time to make that "change for the sake of change" dumars refuse to make. give the people what they want.   on the other hand, the poison pill might have been the commitment to attending all 41 home games. i mean, even if you thought you'd enjoy watching the team play (and apparently those people somehow still exist, at least 11 of them), it's sort of a weird and burdensome commitment. even most season ticket holders (have the pistons got any of those left?) who pay a fortune always give away their tickets once in a while. so maybe that's it. but it was highly publicized. props to the 289 people who sent the right message, intentional or not. just read this on detroit bad boys and said WOW to something pistons-related for the first time in a long time. i think it happened twice since last season: bynum’s 20-assist night (oh, but stuckey dropped 34 on the wiz in a preseason game and managed a +1 AST-TO spread, so he just HAS to start, right?) and GSW picking udoh sixth.
 
(note: a friend just called me to discuss this very subject!)
 
on one hand, when you read the optimism of pie-in-the-sky dreamers, cheerleaders, joe dumars apologists, you’d think 300 was the number of people who showed up to audition. i sincerely hope this sends a message to the organization. it’s time to make that “change for the sake of change” dumars refuse to make. give the people what they want.
 
on the other hand, the poison pill might have been the commitment to attending all 41 home games. i mean, even if you thought you’d enjoy watching the team play (and apparently those people somehow still exist, at least 11 of them), it’s sort of a weird and burdensome commitment. even most season ticket holders (have the pistons got any of those left?) who pay a fortune always give away their tickets once in a while. so maybe that’s it. but it was highly publicized. props to the 289 people who sent the right message, intentional or not.

]]> http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/detroit-pistons-try-to-give-out-50-free-lower-bowl-season-tickets-eleven-people-show-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9044 Jason Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:39:49 +0000 http://www.pistonpowered.com/2010/10/detroit-pistons-try-to-give-out-50-free-lower-bowl-season-tickets-eleven-people-show-up/#comment-9044 This was extremely tough to believe when i read it this morning.. I'm in Chicago, or you better believe I would have been there. But 11 people?? Just plain upsetting... I just hope Illitch doesn't see this article.. haha. This was extremely tough to believe when i read it this morning.. I’m in Chicago, or you better believe I would have been there. But 11 people?? Just plain upsetting…
I just hope Illitch doesn’t see this article.. haha.

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