Vincent Carroll!
Vincent Carroll is a very interesting writer who does his work in Colorado, mainly about issues in Denver and surrounding areas. He is a very factual writer, due to the reason that he presents both sides of an issue and the background facts and information regarding all points of view. This is a good trait to have but only to a certain extent, which Carroll does a great job of. He adds his opinion along with the facts, limiting bias as much as he can. He can at times show bias in his writing, but he does a good job of heading in the opposite direction. The tone that Carroll writes with is a questioning and sort of paranoid tone. He always writes about problems, along with possible solutions. Carroll asks himself and the reader, is this right, or do you disagree? One example of Carroll’s writings is his piece on the Colorado Rockies and their ticket distribution. There was a major issue in how they sent their extra available tickets to charities and other organizations; they never recorded what happened with the tickets. This is a big mistake because there are over $140,000 worth of these tickets moved around each season with no record of who received the tickets. Carroll says that change should come soon to the ticket distribution process. Do you agree with Carroll? Do you think that the ticket distributors should be punished? Should there be a new system put in? If so, what?
Jonny,
Great post and Carroll seems to be a very intellectual, unbiased columnist. In this certain column, I do agree with Carroll that change should be made to the ticket distribution process for the Colorado Rockies. I think it is great that they are giving these extra tickets to charities, but this information should definitely be recorded. If it is not recorded, how do they know they are going to the right people? The ticket distributors may be giving them to their friends and family causing the $140,000 dollars of tickets to be used in the wrong way. However, I don’t think that the ticket distributors should be punished for this, since it seems like there was no rule against what they were doing. I certainly think a new system should put in to distribute the tickets. I think that each year, the ticket distributors should meet and decide which charities to give the tickets to, and how many tickets will go to each charity. They should also record this information each year for anyone who questions where the extra tickets are going.
-Colleen K.
In this column by Carroll, I agree that change needs to come to the ticket distribution process. The system does not seem to be efficient enough, especially when a large sum of money is in place. Although it is a great idea giving these tickets away to charities, they are not executing it properly. There seems to be no order to the distribution of tickets. There needs to be recorded documents of where the donated tickets go. This way, the Rockies know how many tickets they gave away, to how many charities, and for what games. When it comes to punishment for the ticket distributors, I don’t feel that any should be put in place.. unless the system does not get fixed, (that would look a little fishy). Clearly the distributors had good intentions giving away the tickets to charities, but you never know if there was a bad seeded distributor. I feel that you live and learn from this and you fix the problem.
I like how Carroll writes, in the sense that he talks about the problems, and then gives possible solutions. This, along with the facts and other background information, gives the readers knowledge so that we can make an intelligent opinion on the problem. I partially agree with Carroll on the ticket sales problem. I do agree that they should revise their ticket distribution system. It is great if they are donating the tickets to charities and things like that. However, I believe that the ticket distributors should have to log how many tickets and where they were given. This way, the organization will know how many tickets were given where and will be able to regulate the donations so that the debt doesn’t get that high. Also, I do not think that the distributors should be punished because there was no rule against what they were doing. So, they cannot be punished on something that they didn’t know about.
Good job Jonny. Carroll seems like a very interesting columnist who sticks to the facts which is a good thing when talking about issues/problems. Based on this certain column, I do agree with Carroll that change should come soon to the ticket distribution office. I believe that they should start recording where each ticket goes to but not necessarily stop giving all of these tickets to charity. No, I don’t think the ticket distributors should be punished because they had only good intentions. Lets not forget that they gave these tickets to charities. I think that they should start recording where they give them too but I don’t believe they should be punished. The only thing that they should add to the system is to punish the ticket distributors if they continuously pass out tickets without recording where they go after they have been told to do so. They should do that every year. It would tell everyone where the tickets go and it would be much more organized.
I understand the process is largely unregulated, and, possibly, these charity organizations could be re-selling the tickets for unhealthy purposes, but it does not seem like a pressing issue. Carroll goes about the situation in an intelligent way by presenting different sides of the argument and yes, the system should be changed.
I agree with Carroll on suggesting to make a change in the Colorado Rockies ticket distribution process because of the fact that was stated about the $140,000 worth of tickets that could have been unused. However, I do not believe that the ticket distributors should be punished. They very well could have had an error that did not take place on their end. Other speculations that I have could be that they did give them the tickets, but did not follow through with other things needed for charities such as transportation. With that being said, I do not think that a new system should be put in but just improved with more attention paid towards getting the ticket holders to the stadium and more contact with ticket holders to make sure that the Colorado Rockies money is not going to waste in that measure.