sign of the times
The Michigan economy is officially in the shitter.
The surest sign of this is not the number of houses up for auction downtown (not sale, mind you, but auction). It is not the grotesque unemployment rate or the beyond-dismal automotive sales figures. The surest sign of economic Armageddon in the Motor City is this:
There are Red Wings playoff tickets still available.
And GOOD tickets, not nosebleeders. And they cost $65.00. I paid $85.00 for round 1 tickets in 2001--top tier tickets, almost to the ceiling tickets and I was damn lucky (and happy) to get them.
If you don't live in Detroit, you cannot imagine how unnerving this is. It's been close to impossible to get regular season Wings tickets for as long as I've been in a financial position to buy them. I'd like to believe that maybe it's not so much the economy as it is Detroit finally has more than one sports team worth going to see. But Pistons tickets are still thick on the ground and the Tigers aren't selling out games just yet.
Next week, hell freezes over.
The surest sign of this is not the number of houses up for auction downtown (not sale, mind you, but auction). It is not the grotesque unemployment rate or the beyond-dismal automotive sales figures. The surest sign of economic Armageddon in the Motor City is this:
There are Red Wings playoff tickets still available.
And GOOD tickets, not nosebleeders. And they cost $65.00. I paid $85.00 for round 1 tickets in 2001--top tier tickets, almost to the ceiling tickets and I was damn lucky (and happy) to get them.
If you don't live in Detroit, you cannot imagine how unnerving this is. It's been close to impossible to get regular season Wings tickets for as long as I've been in a financial position to buy them. I'd like to believe that maybe it's not so much the economy as it is Detroit finally has more than one sports team worth going to see. But Pistons tickets are still thick on the ground and the Tigers aren't selling out games just yet.
Next week, hell freezes over.