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| - OK I admit it. Right now it is hard to be a fan of the Phoenix Suns. The team has been dismantled and mismanaged and it is pretty easy to shake a finger at ownership for destroying a team that might not have ever won a championship but they did win a lot of games, were always in the playoffs and were really fun to watch. Sadly, I must confess I usually go to the games now to see the other team's stars. Sitting behind the visitor's bench makes that a whole lot more interesting too. Before you get on my case about being a fair-weather fan, I should tell you my family has had these seats for 42+ years and I think there are now only about 100 people that have had season tickets longer than us. The Suns' win/loss record does not determine if I like going to games. It does have an effect on how easy it is to sell tickets to the games I can't go to, though, and that is becoming a sensitive issue to me.
My biggest complaint is that ticket prices have not dropped along with the quality of the team. At some point I hope supply and demand kick in and forces the prices down. Unfortunately, I will want to go to watch the Suns no matter what the prices are and it will only mean that I will want to sell a few more of my season tickets to reduce the pain level. The superfan side of me wants to try and convince you to go to more games and the logical side wants you to stay home so they have to drop the ticket prices to get more butts in the seats. You can buy a pretty awesome home theater and big screen to watch the games on for the price of season tickets, though, and cherry pick the games you want to go to off of Craigslist. The tickets are now almost four times more expensive than what they were when my dad made me the lucky guy that gets to pay for the tickets. I still love going to the games but the "value" part of the equation is definitely not there for me. You just gotta love going to the games for the experience instead of the W's and the L's. Now if I were the guy cherry picking seats at discount prices instead of paying full price for season tickets, then my attitude might be different. At least I don't have to worry about getting gouged on tickets for the Lakers games and then having to listen to all the obnoxious Laker's fans at OUR OWN home games. Shut up already! Right? Occasionally I do get a surprise that is worth more than the price of admission like the time Jerry Buss happened to be sitting in the seats right in front of us with one of his young hotty girlfriends. He was actually a cool guy and we teased him the whole game and he played along.
So, I am going to play it safe, give the Suns 3 stars and let you decide if the season tickets are worth it or if the cherry picking plan is a better strategy. In off years like this, the latter probably makes more sense. If they ever get hot again and add a couple superstars, the former may be better but I can only imagine what they will do with ticket prices in that case. I hope they remember the loyal people that hung in there and paid the silly ticket prices when they really needed us to.
Go Suns...I think.
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