A Thought

[Sox Fan on Cape]

You guys do know that the Sox usually hold-out 500- 1000 tickets to be sold on game day.

[NoPepper]

You guys do know that the Sox usually hold-out 500- 1000 tickets to be sold on game day.

 

I need to plan (way) ahead these days. The eyes are not what they used to be either, so I'd prefer seats closer to the field.

 

I was tempted to fly to Chicago after watching all the empty seats at whatever they call Comiskey Park this week. It is easier (and possibly cheaper?) to fly to another city to get (good) seats to see the Red Sox than to go to Fenway. I don't think the boss will approve a business trip that happens to be only for the weekend the Sox are playing the Sox though.

[soxie thefangirl]

Yeah but aren't those single tickets? And crappy seats too? Heh.

[NoPepper]

Yeah but aren't those single tickets? And crappy seats too? Heh.

 

Didn't even think of that. Taking the family to Fenway, hoping to get 4 or more of those 500-1000 seats anywear near each other is problematic. What do you do if you can't all sit together?

 

What do you tell the kids if, after waiting around, you don't get seats at all? My friends and I just start at the Cask and do a pub crawl. I'll make the best of it. With a family, that's not an option.

 

Worse, you get seats, in the bleachers, and the kids pick up some new words for their vocabulary! (I mean worse that what I yell at home when McCarver opens his mouth)

[soxie thefangirl]

Yeah I'm just saying. I mean I'm 22, don't have a family, but I'd wanna go with people.

[CrespoBlows]

Didn't even think of that. Taking the family to Fenway, hoping to get 4 or more of those 500-1000 seats anywear near each other is problematic. What do you do if you can't all sit together?

 

What do you tell the kids if, after waiting around, you don't get seats at all? My friends and I just start at the Cask and do a pub crawl. I'll make the best of it. With a family, that's not an option.

 

Worse, you get seats, in the bleachers, and the kids pick up some new words for their vocabulary! (I mean worse that what I yell at home when McCarver opens his mouth)

 

I waited in line for a Phillies game for about 3 hours, and got 4, 44 dollar tickets in the grandstand seats. You can get tickets together, but you have to 4 hours before the game.

[Sox Fan on Cape]

I waited in line for a Phillies game for about 3 hours, and got 4, 44 dollar tickets in the grandstand seats. You can get tickets together, but you have to 4 hours before the game.

Time is money, you have to spend one to get or save the other. So you can spend more time at work and make the money and buy tickets at beginning of the season via Sox ticket sales, buy tickets on line at eBay, Stub Hub, scalpers, or go early get tickets and make a day out of it. But don't say you can't get tickets.

[ahhchon]

you know that you don't have to respond to posts with a condescending attitude right? it's ok to not have a philosophical view about everything.

 

john

[Sizzlin22]

There's no way they would move a new team up to New England. No one would watch them except for fait weather Sox fans.

[CrespoBlows]

Time is money, you have to spend one to get or save the other. So you can spend more time at work and make the money and buy tickets at beginning of the season via Sox ticket sales, buy tickets on line at eBay, Stub Hub, scalpers, or go early get tickets and make a day out of it. But don't say you can't get tickets.

 

Actually we were in Boston on vaction, so I wasn't anywhere near my office. Considering the profit line, if I were to work 4 hours which equals $40, taxes make it $37.

 

I bought those Grandstand seats for 44 dollars, on ebay they were offering the same tickets for 125 dollars per seat.

 

125-44= $81 dollars saved

 

Rather then $37 saved.

[Sox Fan on Cape]

you know that you don't have to respond to posts with a condescending attitude right? it's ok to not have a philosophical view about everything.

 

john

Hey, I'm not putting any down. I was just trying to give alternatives for some people that may not know where they can tickets and or can afford them. If I sounded that way I'm sorry, but I didn't dictate the current Red Sox market for tickets. The point being that if you got the money you can get tickets at a number of sources ( at a premium of course ) otherwise you have to get to Yenway early. It's that simple.

[Sox Fan on Cape]

Actually we were in Boston on vaction, so I wasn't anywhere near my office. Considering the profit line, if I were to work 4 hours which equals $40, taxes make it $37.

 

I bought those Grandstand seats for 44 dollars, on ebay they were offering the same tickets for 125 dollars per seat.

 

125-44= $81 dollars saved

 

Rather then $37 saved.

Thanks, that's my point.

[riverside sluggers]

i had went on ebay several times, and you do get lucky from people who arent that greedy with setting the max so high, like for a sox/orioles game i had grandstand seats behind home plate on the 7th row and the two seats were together. I wound up being the top bidder at just $67.

[ahhchon]

Hey, I'm not putting any down. I was just trying to give alternatives for some people that may not know where they can tickets and or can afford them. If I sounded that way I'm sorry, but I didn't dictate the current Red Sox market for tickets. The point being that if you got the money you can get tickets at a number of sources ( at a premium of course ) otherwise you have to get to Yenway early. It's that simple.

 

then say it that simple, i know i haven't been here in a while but the first two threads i read from you are extremely condescending, just wanted to point it out before people got all over your pants for it.

 

john

[Sox Fan on Cape]

i had went on ebay several times, and you do get lucky from people who arent that greedy with setting the max so high, like for a sox/orioles game i had grandstand seats behind home plate on the 7th row and the two seats were together. I wound up being the top bidder at just $67.

Exactly, if you know what you want and wait for the right auction, you can get a reasonable deal. Got four tickets on Mother's Day in 406 Club for below face value. Also, with the advent of ticket@home it's possible to grab tickets the day before or even the day of the game at discounted price ( although there is a slight risk- check feedback and rating ).

[Sox Fan on Cape]

then say it that simple, i know i haven't been here in a while but the first two threads i read from you are extremely condescending, just wanted to point it out before people got all over your pants for it.

 

john

Don't know what those were, but NEVER my intention to cause grief or aggrovation to anyone. I have a sign on my garage that reads " Not to Worry ", which is basically my credo. My job is to solve problems not create them. But, shouldn't I have an opinion ?

[NoPepper]

There's no way they would move a new team up to New England. No one would watch them except for fait weather Sox fans.

 

I agree that this isn't likely to happen. I don't agree that no one would watch them, assuming a NL team. I'd love to easliy get face value tickets, see NL teams locally (besides inter-league play), and get a new ballpark that doesn't result in anything happening to Fenway.

 

If an expansion team, the Sox would get a few easy inter-league wins on rivaly week too.

 

I don't see another NL team here as being any more distracting than the Sox overlapping the Pats, the Pat playing while the Bruins and Celtics play. The Bruins and Celtics play all the time and I catch all of it, along with out of town teams. I can't be the only one with no life!

[NoPepper]

Yeah I'm just saying. I mean I'm 22, don't have a family, but I'd wanna go with people.

 

Do you babysit

[NoPepper]

Time is money, you have to spend one to get or save the other. So you can spend more time at work and make the money and buy tickets at beginning of the season via Sox ticket sales, buy tickets on line at eBay, Stub Hub, scalpers, or go early get tickets and make a day out of it. But don't say you can't get tickets.

 

I've found it cheaper and less time consuming to fly to another city and watch the Red Sox there than to get tickets for Fenway at times.

 

The suggestion about a Boston NL team and ballpark would let one see Pro ball and use the T. It would let a new ballpark get built, but keep wrecking balls away from Landsdowne Street etc. Getting tickes easier is just one aspect to justifying this fantasy of mine

[soxie thefangirl]

I actually do babysit while I'm applying for jobs. Fitting everything into a college schedule is soooo not fun haha.

[NoPepper]

i had went on ebay several times, and you do get lucky from people who arent that greedy with setting the max so high, like for a sox/orioles game i had grandstand seats behind home plate on the 7th row and the two seats were together. I wound up being the top bidder at just $67.

 

EBay is fantastic. My brother worked 1 week/month in SF when Pac Bell was first built. He bought season tickets and auctioned off all those games when he was back here in Boston for just face value. Lots of deals like this are around. I use it a lot when I'm away on business.

[NoPepper]

I actually do babysit while I'm applying for jobs. Fitting everything into a college schedule is soooo not fun haha.

 

College was fun. Enjoy this time. The real world $*s. Try having fantastic Sox tickets and then the boss sends you to NYC so you have to give them up. If you do manage to catch the game on TV, cause that job thing doesn't get in the way, you're in the land of the enemy.