One Month to Opening Day 2009

How the time flies; here we are only one month from Opening Day.  Almost everything is set, programs and activities all ready to go, all we have to do is actually make it happen, and the Sun goes and causes a mini-panic by their reading of a list from the Ministry of the Environment that makes them think the City wants our site for temporary garbage.  A little more fact-checking might have been in order.  I hope that everyone who read that story also noticed the quote from Mayor Miller the next day.  Exhibition Place is just too valuable, period, and never was a serious candidate for those double-bags.
 
Now that we have THAT settled, back to business getting everything ready.  Outside my office the twinkle lights are being carefully laced into the tree branches and the Indy race course is gradually disappearing.  Inside the Press building there is a buzz in the air that says we are now in FMFM (Full Metal Fair Mode).  There is much to do, but we all know that at 10:00 a.m. on this day next month, the 131st will kick off with a wild and wonderful $1.75 Opening Day.  We haven’t done an Opening Day gate promotion in a long time, so we don’t really know what to expect, but something tells me it is going to be big (and fun).  Let’s Go to the Ex!