Cardinals Charities? Yeah right...

[Duckjake]

He's Ryne Sandbergs step son right? I played Baseball for Valley Christian and whacked a liner off his knee, thought I killed him.....

I'd find it more believable if you said you whacked a golf ball off his knee.

 

[NEZCardsfan]

He's Ryne Sandbergs step son right? I played Baseball for Valley Christian and whacked a liner off his knee, thought I killed him.....

That's totally possible. I moved away during 4th grade and only kept up with the old hood through church. They could have broken up and both his parent's remarried.

I know that B.R. was pretty good at baseball...I thought he played for Corona, maybe I'm mixing him up with his brother.

As for Sandberg....we went to school with his daughter. Ryno was the best....everytime he'd come to the school he'd sign autographs until everybody had gotten one. Great great guy. I was a huge Cubs fan for a long time....until the Dbacks joined MLB. My bro used to play house with Ryno's daughter.

 

[clif]

Anyway, the auction is coming up and I need to see who would be willing to donate to the cause. The Diamondbacks review any requests, and send out items 3 weeks prior to the event. They say they will definitely be participating. Cool. The Suns have the same procedure. OK, cool. The Rattlers have sent tickets to the school already. Cool again. The Coyotes want to really get involved, and have a pep rally at the school, have a player do a motivational speech, and let the kids set something up on the concourse at Glendale Stadium to try and raise funds at a game. Along with some memorabilia. Very cool.

So what did you expect them to give you? My point being that the person that you got in touch with may have not understood nor really been trained to handle your type of request. It seems as though she was unprepared for your request so just grabbed the first thing she had. Now is that bad? Yeah, but it doesn't mean that the organization is uncharitable.

 

[Card Trader]

I'd find it more believable if you said you whacked a golf ball off his knee.

Only if he was standing in sand!

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

like they don't care.

I'm guessing it has more to do with incompetence than apathy.

 

[Toro]

The Cardinals spend more on non-profit than any team in the Valley. Sorry you had a bad experience.

Unlike Jerry C. that would send out press releases and call press conferences when they donated anything, the Cards are silent in their chest pounding.

also, it is the offseason.

 

[bigredjane]

You Are So Right--

The Cardinals spend more on non-profit than any team in the Valley. Sorry you had a bad experience.

Unlike Jerry C. that would send out press releases and call press conferences when they donated anything, the Cards are silent in their chest pounding.

also, it is the offseason.

About silence with so much of the charity work they do! I know for a fact that Michael Bidwill donates his airplane, time, gas etc. and flies dentists and dental assitants down to Mexico all the time to out of the way places to help needy people. He is the pilot and donates his time to the doctors without borders. No one ever hears theses things!!

 

[Matt L]

i know for a fact that they donat alot of money and they are also very quiet about it. It is almost as if they do not want anyone to know that they are charitable. In fact eric swann gave a speech at my grade school and i am pretty sure old man bidwill had something to do with it.

 

[SeattleCard]

I used to be in the advertising business before I got into education. I found that in situations like these it's useful to say "We do appreciate your generosity, but I feel that I should tell you the Suns, Rattlers, and Diamondbacks donated tickets, and the Coyotes sent a player to the school for a pep-rally. Is there another department of the Cardinals organization, or a specific player, I can talk with?"

Usually organizations want to be on the same tier as their competition. Could be this lady had no clue what the other teams were donating.

Very well put. Saying what you've stated above may have elicited a different response.

 

[football karma]

The team is entitled to give as much or as little as it wants, but considering that they'll probably sell about 20,000 season tickets next year I find it hard to believe they couldn't throw a season ticket package at any (legitimate, within reason) chartiable organization that wants one.

The tax benefits alone, even if one chooses to look cynically at this, would be worth it.

Since ticket revenue is a shared with all teams, each team has lots of restrictions on what it can do with its tickets --

 

[ds512az]

The team is entitled to give as much or as little as it wants, but considering that they'll probably sell about 20,000 season tickets next year I find it hard to believe they couldn't throw a season ticket package at any (legitimate, within reason) chartiable organization that wants one.

The tax benefits alone, even if one chooses to look cynically at this, would be worth it.

There is no way that I would expect a season ticket package. I just thought that an autographed "something" would be OK. (Mini helmet. bobblehead, etc.)