What should I do with my Wizards season tickets for 2010-2011?

What should I do with my Washington Wizards season tickets for the 2010-2011 season?

Option 1: Keep status quo and keep: I right now split with a friend, 50/50. We continue to share tix for next season, though if my friend/partner bails on me, I have the means to hold all 41 games plus the preseason game, which means dropping close to 3 G’s, but I don’t want to do that. I will likely have another person or two who would like the tickets if that happens.

Why Keep: Season ticket holders are the bread and butter of a team. I continue to get a good seat at deeply discounted prices to many games. I get incentives to renew, last couple years were pretty nice. For renewing in 08-09, I got a an autographed Caron Butler All Star jersey, AND I got a team autographed basketball. For renewing this year, I got an autographed Antawn Jamison basketball in a cryllic case and a chance to take a picture with him and Caron. Last year, Wizards season ticket holders even got a chance to go to Ballers Bowl, which is a charity event, for free at Lucky Strike, which is a “stylish” bowling alley in Gallery Place which is connected to the Verizon Center. I got free food, pics and autographs that day, and I got to watch March Madness, I remember UConn-Purdue was on that night… on CBS.

At $31/seat per game ($1302 a season for 41 games at full price, 2 preseason games at half price per seat, $2604 for two seats), that’s a great deal for the lower level, and most teams charge at least 60 a seat for where I sit.. It is unlikely, at best, that the Wizards would raise prices in a stagnant economy in the DC area (not declining, but still stagnant), in a season where the team has underperformed based on the team’s talent on paper and video games, AND had to deal with getting rid of its marquee player for the exact reason why Mr. Pollin changed the team’s name. If anything, prices may be lowered if Nick Young and Andray Blatche are our marquee players in three weeks.

Get on the Caps Season Ticket waiting list, drop Wizards: If I didn’t watch hoops in the winter, it was hockey. But if both were on, I watch Wizards over Caps. I dealt with the post Jagr years and saw Ovie grow from the Kevin Durant of the NHL to the LeBron James of the NHL mostly on TV.

I save money now because I can’t buy seats for next year because of the demand, but chances are that I will have to spend 60-70 a ticket for lower level seats which means close to $5000 a year if I don’t have a season ticket partner, and yes, I buy two seats. My money still goes to Wizards ownership in Ted Leonsis’ crew if and when I get my tickets.

Buy Mystics Season Tickets, drop Wizards: Basketball is a year long sport, and I work with a Mystics STH, and I live near a couple who has seats too. Mystics play under Flip’s offensive system, though their defense is a bit more aggressive, and they have a young team built around Alana Beard, they are maybe a piece away from getting to the Finals from what I’ve seen in their playoff matches vs. Indiana. The Mystics are also our best chance for a basketball championship as well and I’m being honest.

While I can watch a game or two and PAY FOR IT, I don’t know if I want to commit my summer to watching WNBA games. If I can’t go to a Mystics game, there’s a much higher chance that I won’t be able to sell the ticket, period unless I sell at a pittance (their prices are discounted pretty well), or if I can post on a lesbian forum. Right now, I’m probably the best bailout plan for my coworker/neighbors who have their seats, and probably I should stay status quo on the Mystics. Buy a la carte from them for the games when they can’t be in the Phone Booth. At least with the Wizards, I can find someone who will buy my tix at $62 for both of them since they’re pretty deeply discounted as it is. Only plus to getting Mystics tickets for me is possibly seeing this team making its first consecutive trip to the playoffs and advancing to the Finals. But that’s it really with them.

Drop the Wizards, save my money and time, get Wizards again when they improve, if they do, EVER: It’s not like Wizards season tix will be sold out in the near future, especially when they are a team right at the point of “let’s blow this thing up” mode. Of all the NBA teams in rebuilding mode or soon to be in it, the Wizards are quite possibly in the worst shape of them all given that Caron is under contract until 2011, Antawn is under contract until 2012, and Arenas is under contract until 2014. Arenas’s deal is by far the worst in franchise history. So bad that when Portland played here a couple weeks ago on MLK day, no one booed Juwan Howard at all! Not even me! That is how bad the Arenas contract is.

Tickets should remain cheap over the next few years anyway as well. But dropping tix just because of a team’s performance is the sign of a bandwagoner. Look at the Capitals’ season ticket holder increase over the last couple years. There is a waiting list now for them, and three years ago, they were available if you wanted them. I know the fanbase got more rabid too even among the die hards, I myself like the Caps a lot since the Jagr days even, but at least a third of those STH’s are likely Ovie fans just like half of “Cavs fans” are really LeBron fans, especially on the road, and I don’t blame them, the “Cavs fans” AND the “Caps fans”. Those same fans will turn into “Knicks fans”, “Nets fans”, or even “Wizards fans” once they “Witness” LeBron’s signing to another team if that happens, though I really doubt it. But then the same goes with the “Caps fans” if Ovie signs with or gets traded Detroit, Chicago, or Pittsburgh to team with Sid, but that’s just as unlikely. So yes we have a lot of “Caps fans” too but the Caps fans themselves are more rabid as well. 10 Wins in a row now, baby!!!!

The down side is perhaps price increases if and when the Wizards improve and yes, if LeBron/Dwyane/Chris signs here in July, I’ll regret it because our season tix will be sold out. At least I saw negotiations earlier last April.

What should I do with my Wizards season tickets for 2010-2011? Contra10

keep them

Send em to me..jk..jk. sell them

You seem like a very die-hard Wizards fan so I kinda find it difficult to imagine you not owning season tickets to Wiz games; considering you are a dedicated fan and all.

Who knows how well they'll do next season (it doesn't look good so far unless they make critical moves during off-season) but at least, you may feel slightly better supporting your team through the good and the bad.

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