Dear Readers,
WWW.YOUAREAHOCKEYFAN.COM has been revamped and is now live.
Technically, it is still in its "testing" stage...but don't let that stop you! Come on by, check it out, test the features, join the Fan Forum, get the RSS, and all that jazz. The store isn't up yet because we are still waiting on license and incorporation, but it should be sometime soon.
I'm going to be vulnerable for a moment: the future of this blog, this site, is going to hinge on sponsors, advertisers and backers. We recently had the equivalent of a quarter of Goliath's annual salary stolen by a trusted contractor and friend who promptly filed bankruptcy and left us with a half finished barn, a half finished house, and a very bruised spirit. If I've come across as a sappy sad mess lately (or alternately, quiet and cold)...that's why. It was a huge loss, a personal betrayal, and it hurt. Due to the contractor's declaration of bankruptcy and fleeing the state, I (and all of the others he swindled) cannot pursue him legally leaving me no recourse to recoup our losses. This has meant that funds that would have gone to supporting this blog have been redirected to those unfinished projects. I have to buy season tickets just like everyone else. I don't know what to do. I want to say I'll see you at the rink come October 14th, but the truth is...as of today, I just can't do it. Any offer of support, interest in advertising, big or small, private or public would be met with massive tears of appreciation, love and joy from your Penny (as well as other goodies!)
Thank you so much for the support. Hockey changed my life. This team changed my life. You know how a person can be headed in a bad direction and something or someone comes and takes them by the shoulders and sets them right again? They make movies about those sorts of sappy platonic love affairs with sports and sports teams. That happened to me last winter. It sounds absurd, but if you've ever experienced being saved by something, you know I'm not joking. This team and this sport made the difference and I wouldn't be here without them.
Anyway, no matter what, I will look forward to continuing to be your leading source of churro-flavoured Grizzlies Mania in the future even if it means listening to every game over the internet. You know I will! It worked for my love affair with the Habs, if I must, it'll work for the Grizz.
Always,
Penny
Wow...
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't you say something sooner?!?
By the way, how much does a season pass cost?
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteBecause it's not in my nature, because I feel like an idiot for hoping otherwise and because...I can be insanely independent and incapable of giving up. I really wanted to explore every chance I had to recoup my losses before admitting defeat. This last week there was no ignoring it and I had to face the reality that I was never going to get it back. I am an optimist, sometimes even, surprisingly, to my disadvantage. Hence, my working long long nights for weeks to get the new site up, even though in the back of my mind I was aware I might not even be able to be there opening night or any other night after that.
My season tickets are the worst. I prefer rinkside so that I am able to shoot even if I get booted by a higher ranking photographer (and I sometimes am...I learned that lesson many times last year). Between myself and goliath (who also shoots games and catches things I cannot) it's about $2000.00 USD. I have about two weeks to come up with it, or at least a down payment, I think, and then I can chip at it on a more...agreeable...monthly basis. (Can you tell I've been dragging my feet to call my ticket guy and go "Dan, I failed, I'm horrible, and I can't do it!"?) But again! Me! OPTIMIST! At this point though, I think I'd work out anything with them.