For the first time since I’ve been a Season Ticket Holder, this homestand offers no gifts for “the first 40,000 people” to arrive at the games. Not one.

In another effort to screw over its most loyal fans, Dodgers management this year — while occasionally doling out bobbleheads, hoodies and jerseys — are preferring instead to offer “Ticket Packages” featuring all the good stuff, like the cute little Dodger Stadium figurine with the Millennium Falcon hovering over it that they’re giving away on Star Wars Night (Monday, May 6). Ticket Packages cost extra, you see, so Season Ticket Holders, who reliably fork over thousands of dollars every year, would have to fork over even more to buy extra tickets they don’t need in order to get the good stuff.

They must think this greedy, spiteful practice is paying off, because, while they are not rewarding the fans who come to nearly all 81 home games every year, this homestand features four “Ticket Packages,” all of which are Sold Out.

I’m actually getting tired of complaining about how abhorrently management treats Dodger fans. The team is really fun to watch. We have a great bunch of players, and I enjoy the experience of going to the games. I know that they spent a great deal of money on some of those great players, and they have to try to get some of it back. But just once, I would like to feel appreciated for my undying Dodger loyalty. Even if it’s just by printing out some paper tickets for my technologically challenged husband. I’d take that over a giveaway any day. And it would hardly cost those greedy bastards a dime.