re: Info from ticket office about season tickets

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Hopefully, they give fans the opportunity to decline to attend first. If they say attendance is limited to, say 15,000 people, I'd have no interest in going. It would be more fun to watch on TV.

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If I were in charge of this process, and I'm not, here's what I'd do:

1. I'd give every season ticket holder the opportunity to opt-out for the entirety of the season without harming their saved seat locations. This would then give you the total # of season ticket holders you need to worry about doing further filtering.

2. I'd look at how many seats are being requested, and review the scenarios that are being considered, such as:

- Full capacity option: In this scenario, by priority ranking, I'd give people a chance to opt-in to better seats for one year based on who has backed out in #1. Then, once that dust settles, we can open up to additional ticket sales.

- Limited capacity options: In these scenarios, based on the # of seats we can fill, ticket packages can be created to allow each season ticket holder the option to select the games they want to attend, based somewhat on priority. OR, create different packages and do a lottery of some sort. Once these packages are offered, you can then opt-in or opt-out. After opt-out, you can then sell the empty seats.

At no point in time should anyone who does not want to attend be forced to eat the cost of the tickets or be penalized for 2021 tickets. If I want my money back, I should be able to get it -- I'm okay with the consequences associated with my priority ranking.

In order to do any of this...they have to start planning now. So, my judgment is that if they are deferring seat relocations until August, it's because they are planning on people having an option to opt-out, regardless of planned max capacity.