April 1: Taylor's Ticket Tour - Day 16

It’s been a tremendous run. We’ve hit the north end, the west end, the south end and even the east end. We’ve been to Sanford and Carman and Morden and Winkler. We’ve done downtown and down the street and met up with more than 200 Goldeyes fans and potential Goldeyes fans.

It would be inaccurate to suggest that the 2010 Ticket Tour has been an overwhelming success – at least, not yet – but I do believe that by meeting a whole slew of people we’ve never met, I learned one important lesson: The Goldeyes name is as good as gold in this community.

Day 16 was a clean up day for the 2010 Ticket Tour. We called some of the people we met along the way and we’ll be doing a lot more of that as April goes along. We spoke at length with folks from NCI Radio, Variety, Earl’s, monart, Metro Trailer Sales, ChangeMakers and Investors Group Winnipeg West. We answered some important questions and cleaned up some loose ends.

We also drew the winner of that spectacular Roman Swiderek print. With Goldeyes sales and marketing director Dan Chase as our witness, and with 211 business cards in our draw drum, we chose the business card belonging to (drum roll please)...

Rick Watts, president of The Fabris & Milano Group Ltd., the marble and tile guys, over at 1035 Erin St. We’ll see Rick next week when we deliver his framed “Winnipeg Goldeyes” print and recently-purchased 2010 ticket package.

It was a wonderful trip through Winnipeg and the southern part of the province and we want to thank everyone we met for the fabulous Friendly Manitoba hospitality. And, don’t worry, we’ll be calling all of you in the coming weeks to follow up on our initial meetings.

Now, let’s play ball...