RastaHawk12!":165rwtyv said:
RiverDog":165rwtyv said:
Just curious...does anyone know the reason they shut down The Blue? I heard it was because TC was making some sort of statement about dynamic ticket pricing, which really seems odd. I have a hard time believing that.
That's all we know. It was SO random. I went to the site Sunday morning and it went straight to a message supposedly from TC that he was shutting it down because of dynamic ticket pricing and not supporting a greedy organization. Next thing you know it was shut down and still is.
I actually considered that it was a hack, as it's hard to believe and one 12 would do that to so many people. Like you... it seems really odd, but last I looked it's still shut down.
Interesting. I do know that it was hacked once, but he had it back up and running very quickly. The dynamic ticket pricing policy was announced way back in June. It's odd that it took him that long to work himself into a frenzy. And it's odd he'd flip out about that particular policy. Why not ticket prices in general, which IMO are absurd, or the price of concessions, parking, or any of the other expenses that makes attending game cost prohibitive to many.
I didn't care for TC at all, he banned me with absolutely no warning and for no rule violations that I am aware of as my style there was no different there than in any of the other 3 forums I post in. The only explanation I got was that he was cleaning out the forum, or rather his little club, of all the negativism. Apparently he didn't like my comments about Percy Harvin, which ironically was one of the few things I was dead right about. He didn't even bother to send me a PM or anything as a warning, a classic sucker punch. But I do respect most of the other posters over there, even the ones I had my biggest disagreements with.
Anyway, that's all water under the bridge and I've long since put it behind me. Glad you and the others made it over here. Go Hawks!