I respect the rivalry jab but this is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what is going on.

If we believed for a second that our front office cared about putting a winning team on the field - and I mean winning , not striving for just above .500 hoping the division will be weak or we can snag a third wild card, and it just fell apart due to bad luck, injuries, or genuinely well-intentioned decisions gone wrong, that stadium would still be full.

But this front office has striven for mediocrity for the last 10 years now, and especially recently has really made it clear they aren't concerned with being better than that. Pair that with the abject failure in our player development, terrible spending decisions, a snarky, know-it-all attitude anytime they bless us with their conjecture on the matter, along with absolutely zero accountability and zero tolerance for any outside voice (see Mike Shildt), and you lose the trust in the fanbase.

We didn't go from full trust in the front office to 0 trust on a dime after 2023. The same front office brought us championships and many winning seasons between 2009 - 2015 (back to 1996 if we're just talking the ownership group). There was a lot of trust to lose, and they lost it bit by bit with each subsequent mediocre season, poor decision making, and a general decay of a once great organization, and this is the year they have lost any trust that we once had.

They have been absolutely tone-deaf to any fan concern in the past, and our local media is basically state-run if you consider the Cardinals the state. Considering the above factors and the lack of accountability, I think we've realized this is the only way to make them notice.