March 19: Taylor's Ticket Tour - Day 13

Some days are just better than others. Take Day 13 of the 2010 Goldeyes Ticket Tour as an example.

It began way out west with a stop at the ESSO Avitat near the airport. A great young woman at the flight desk said she’d get our ticket news out to all the pilots from the small airlines and private jets that fly out of the Avitat.

I then spent some time with our old pal Murray Hill, the business development director for a marketing and communications firm known as ChangeMakers. Murray has long been a friend of Goldeyes sales and marketing director Dan Chase, so I expect to see my old friend at the park a lot this summer.

From there, we (at this point my student assistant Chelsea Larsen from Red River College had joined the caravan) dropped in at Winnipeg Sport and Leisure and met Natalie LaRoche. Natalie and most of her staff gathered round to talk Goldeyes and one of the customers, Roberta from Prairie Places Inc., asked for a couple of packages to take back to the office. Evidently, Roberta has known the popular Dan Chase from way back in another, younger, life.

We then moved on to Western Storage where we met Sandra Tucker who really seemed to enjoy the Skysuite nights she and her fellow employees have spent at Canwest Park. We then dropped in at Starlite Communications, followed by stops at Phase II Autobody Ltd., Aqua Tech and Crown Utilities Ltd.

At Crown Utilities, Chelsea spent some time with longtime Goldeyes season-ticket holder Frances Adolph, and learned what it means to be a real Goldeyes fan (not that she wasn’t already). And we also popped in at Thomas Auto and Tire.

Day 13 ended by going viral. We spent the first 15 minutes of Marty Gold’s Great Canadian Talk Show on 92.9 KICK-FM talking about Goldeyes tickets, the upcoming season and the spectacular team that Rick Forney has assembled.

The message was simple: It’s time to get your tickets because this is shaping up to be the best year of Goldeyes baseball – ever!