Diamondbacks Baseball

Most of you know that I am a big Diamondback fan. This year Alvin purchased season tickets for me to enjoy and that "we" did.

Our seats were behind the Diamondback dugout and I really liked the view.

With tickets you got a few extra options. We could trade in unused tickets for more seats for a game you could attend so we did that so everybody got a chance to go.

You could trade your tickets in "one time" for better seats. We did and were 2 rows behind dugout instead of 24 rows.

You could watch fireworks every Friday night game, see a concert, watch the "reunion game", and laugh with Baxter being up close and personal.

And there were things we didn't even do that were offered. We really did enjoy going to the games and it was expecially nice the summer months when Alvin didn't have a big teaching load. There was one week we went to five games. We never tired - always ready to go. Usually a 10 game homestand and then they would be gone maybe 10 games so the break in between made it workable.

They had 81 home games. Seven we missed because we hadn't bought tickets yet and basically 74 games we had the opportunity to attend. We went to 44. When school was going on we missed all Tuesday and Thursday games and we never went on Sunday. We missed 10 games when we were on vacation. We had hoped to sell unused tickets on Stub Hub but we only sold 6 sets so not so successful. On many games Sub Hub had 800 to 900 DB tickets on sale. The last month we gave the seats we couldn't attend or sell to friends.

Even though I am that "DIEHDFN" we have decided to not purchase again next year. Mainly the expense and being gone for the full month in the summer was the deciding factor. Thanks Alvin for buying the tickets! I will miss them that is for sure but I always have the TV. I will miss Mark Grace too but I guess he deserves what happened to him.