That was a homerun, I don’t care what the refs say.
shugsays
He seemed to get a good view of it.
alexwillsays
we’re doing good for now, so i think we’ll be safe, but i’d hate it if that one run tipped the game.
afertigsays
we didn’t need it. Good game!
alexwillsays
my power in the whole building goes out! we’re up 7 to 1, but last time I fell asleep before the game ended, the Indians scored 7 in one inning (Saturday). but had no idea what to do so was glad to wake up and see the score didn’t change after that
eaboclippersays
I’m sick of them. Really can’t they do anything right.
Not even watching the game. Nope. Most important sports thing about tonight is that it’s 2 1/2 days from the big game against the University of Miami Dolphins.
howardjpsays
Nice doubleheader tonight …
eaboclippersays
but they don’t play. Since when did College football institute a bye week?
centralmassdadsays
when I was in college
nomad943says
I lost interest in the sox when it became apparent that the reason why the only way to get tickets was to buy them through some scalper was because the management wanted it that way; like big thanks to all you fans; now pay our pals a 400% markup or stay home and watch all the advertising …nah …
Did you catch the story where some guy found an envelope full of thousands of dollars worth of playoff tickets only to turn them in so the rightful owner could have them, then they flashed a shot of the rightful owner … yupp, ace tickets dot com … What a chump.
theysays
to maybe one game every two or three years, if that. When we hear of someone going to the game, instead of high-fiving, we should look at them like they are driving an SUV to Antarctica to club seals. One game every three years, max. And if that is what you normally do anyway, then one game every ten years.
jksays
I go to about 20 games a year and haven’t paid for a ticket in over six years. That’s what contractors and vendors are for, free tickets. Hell, I went to both Becket playoff games thanks to a laboratory we use for soil and groundwater analysis and another lab that is trying to get our air analysis work.
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Free tickets to sports events is the best perk of my job.
theysays
Yeah, half the seats are owned by banks and insurance and biotech companies. It’s a travesty. You don’t need to go to 20 games a year. Someone is paying for your tickets, JK.
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Tickets should be available for a dad to take his kids without spending their college tuition.
jksays
Who are you to decide how many games a year I should go to? It’s my money, or rather the money of the various contractors I work with, why should you get to decide where I spend it?
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It’s funny that guys like you bitch now about how seats should be cheap and how can a family afford to go. I bet you were also bitching about how bad the team was in the early 90’s when you could walk up and get a standing room ticket for $5. You want the team to be successful but you don’t want to pay high ticket prices when they are.
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If you want an affordable day at the park, I suggest you check out the Brockton Rox or some other unaffiliated minor league team. Those seats are nice and cheap and they do all kinds of stuff to keep the kids interested in between innings.
jkwsays
You can also watch the Pawtucket Red Sox. There are always tickets available and they cost less. My cub scout troop went every year when I was a kid. It was lots of fun, and I never cared that it wasn’t major league.
hrs-kevinsays
By calling. I know a couple of people who got playoff tickets by calling when they went on sale. I got mini-season series tickets — “10th Man Plan”, they call it — by calling back in 2004. I know someone else who got onto the 10th man plan after a year or two on the waiting list. During the regular season you can always wait on line before the game to get standing room and other assorted tickets from the ticket office.
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So you can get face value tickets if you are patient and watch for opportunities.
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The reason you can’t get cheap tickets is essentially because they are extremely scarce. The stadium is small and the vast majority of ticket holders don’t resell them so that pool of scalpable tickets is relatively small.
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In essence, you saying you lost interest in the team because you are not a big enough fan to spend the effort to try to get the cheap tickets nor rich enough to spring for the expensive tickets.
This is a much better team that last time. Last time we had to win 4 in a row this time we’ll only have to win 3 in a row.
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This is from last summer when I was just starting out video blogging. I think I made this the day I went to see a game and sat on the Monster. Papi won it with a walk off homer. It was the most thrilling game I’ve seen in a few years.
ed-prisbysays
… is the bottom third of the order. Varitek, for all his value behind the plate, just can’t be counted on as an offensive force. Lugo has been hot and cold, and Coco “I was a teenaged Klingon” Crisp can’t buy a hit right now. I haven’t seen such a sorry bottom third of the order since 1998’s squad featured Troy O’Leary and Darren Bragg.
nomad943says
Why is it that in order to get ANY tickets to ANY game, one basicaly has to endure days in the “virtual waiting room” sometime over the winter in the hopes of winning the lottery and actualy getting a connect to a sale. Yeah, some people win, most dont, but if you go on Ebay its quite obvious that certain entities ALWAYS win.
I would think it should be a MISSION of SOX management to see to it that some effort is made in ensuring that a reasonable percentage of tickets go to actual fans who actualy plan on using them.
howardjpsays
As we often discuss on the baseball message board I belong to, if you put in the time, and don’t just want to go to Yankee games, it’s not that hard to get tix. Even last week, there were ALCS tickets on sale via phone for three straight days. Couple of the easy ways:
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Buy a Sox Pax in December, 4 games, includes NYY and often an interleague game, might be stuck in the virtual waiting room for a while, but hey, you want tickets, don’t you.
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Join Red Sox Replay for $50, and get good tix from season ticket holders on occasion.
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Call the ticket office, especially early in the year. They only sell field box and monsters by phone these days, and if you’re not greedy, you can get a pair of both. If you get one of the good guys there, they will go the extra mile for you. I once asked for tickets to a Sun. Orioles games in May, the guy said they were sold out for Sun, but had a pair of monsters for Sat. Not bad …
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I saw about 25 games this year without having to resort to those resellers that the House seems to love. Even bought tickets below face on EBay (which you can do in april or for random Tampa or Baltimore games, got 2 pavilion clubs worth $410 for $200 vs Seattle).
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If you seek, you can find … usually, anybody got tickets for tomorrow? đŸ™‚
That was a homerun, I don’t care what the refs say.
He seemed to get a good view of it.
we’re doing good for now, so i think we’ll be safe, but i’d hate it if that one run tipped the game.
we didn’t need it. Good game!
my power in the whole building goes out! we’re up 7 to 1, but last time I fell asleep before the game ended, the Indians scored 7 in one inning (Saturday). but had no idea what to do so was glad to wake up and see the score didn’t change after that
I’m sick of them. Really can’t they do anything right.
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Not even watching the game. Nope. Most important sports thing about tonight is that it’s 2 1/2 days from the big game against the University of Miami Dolphins.
Nice doubleheader tonight …
but they don’t play. Since when did College football institute a bye week?
when I was in college
I lost interest in the sox when it became apparent that the reason why the only way to get tickets was to buy them through some scalper was because the management wanted it that way; like big thanks to all you fans; now pay our pals a 400% markup or stay home and watch all the advertising …nah …
Did you catch the story where some guy found an envelope full of thousands of dollars worth of playoff tickets only to turn them in so the rightful owner could have them, then they flashed a shot of the rightful owner … yupp, ace tickets dot com … What a chump.
to maybe one game every two or three years, if that. When we hear of someone going to the game, instead of high-fiving, we should look at them like they are driving an SUV to Antarctica to club seals. One game every three years, max. And if that is what you normally do anyway, then one game every ten years.
I go to about 20 games a year and haven’t paid for a ticket in over six years. That’s what contractors and vendors are for, free tickets. Hell, I went to both Becket playoff games thanks to a laboratory we use for soil and groundwater analysis and another lab that is trying to get our air analysis work.
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Free tickets to sports events is the best perk of my job.
Yeah, half the seats are owned by banks and insurance and biotech companies. It’s a travesty. You don’t need to go to 20 games a year. Someone is paying for your tickets, JK.
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Tickets should be available for a dad to take his kids without spending their college tuition.
Who are you to decide how many games a year I should go to? It’s my money, or rather the money of the various contractors I work with, why should you get to decide where I spend it?
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It’s funny that guys like you bitch now about how seats should be cheap and how can a family afford to go. I bet you were also bitching about how bad the team was in the early 90’s when you could walk up and get a standing room ticket for $5. You want the team to be successful but you don’t want to pay high ticket prices when they are.
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If you want an affordable day at the park, I suggest you check out the Brockton Rox or some other unaffiliated minor league team. Those seats are nice and cheap and they do all kinds of stuff to keep the kids interested in between innings.
You can also watch the Pawtucket Red Sox. There are always tickets available and they cost less. My cub scout troop went every year when I was a kid. It was lots of fun, and I never cared that it wasn’t major league.
By calling. I know a couple of people who got playoff tickets by calling when they went on sale. I got mini-season series tickets — “10th Man Plan”, they call it — by calling back in 2004. I know someone else who got onto the 10th man plan after a year or two on the waiting list. During the regular season you can always wait on line before the game to get standing room and other assorted tickets from the ticket office.
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So you can get face value tickets if you are patient and watch for opportunities.
<
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The reason you can’t get cheap tickets is essentially because they are extremely scarce. The stadium is small and the vast majority of ticket holders don’t resell them so that pool of scalpable tickets is relatively small.
<
p>
In essence, you saying you lost interest in the team because you are not a big enough fan to spend the effort to try to get the cheap tickets nor rich enough to spring for the expensive tickets.
This is a much better team that last time. Last time we had to win 4 in a row this time we’ll only have to win 3 in a row.
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p>
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This is from last summer when I was just starting out video blogging. I think I made this the day I went to see a game and sat on the Monster. Papi won it with a walk off homer. It was the most thrilling game I’ve seen in a few years.
… is the bottom third of the order. Varitek, for all his value behind the plate, just can’t be counted on as an offensive force. Lugo has been hot and cold, and Coco “I was a teenaged Klingon” Crisp can’t buy a hit right now. I haven’t seen such a sorry bottom third of the order since 1998’s squad featured Troy O’Leary and Darren Bragg.
Why is it that in order to get ANY tickets to ANY game, one basicaly has to endure days in the “virtual waiting room” sometime over the winter in the hopes of winning the lottery and actualy getting a connect to a sale. Yeah, some people win, most dont, but if you go on Ebay its quite obvious that certain entities ALWAYS win.
I would think it should be a MISSION of SOX management to see to it that some effort is made in ensuring that a reasonable percentage of tickets go to actual fans who actualy plan on using them.
As we often discuss on the baseball message board I belong to, if you put in the time, and don’t just want to go to Yankee games, it’s not that hard to get tix. Even last week, there were ALCS tickets on sale via phone for three straight days. Couple of the easy ways:
<
p>
Buy a Sox Pax in December, 4 games, includes NYY and often an interleague game, might be stuck in the virtual waiting room for a while, but hey, you want tickets, don’t you.
<
p>
Join Red Sox Replay for $50, and get good tix from season ticket holders on occasion.
<
p>
Call the ticket office, especially early in the year. They only sell field box and monsters by phone these days, and if you’re not greedy, you can get a pair of both. If you get one of the good guys there, they will go the extra mile for you. I once asked for tickets to a Sun. Orioles games in May, the guy said they were sold out for Sun, but had a pair of monsters for Sat. Not bad …
<
p>
I saw about 25 games this year without having to resort to those resellers that the House seems to love. Even bought tickets below face on EBay (which you can do in april or for random Tampa or Baltimore games, got 2 pavilion clubs worth $410 for $200 vs Seattle).
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If you seek, you can find … usually, anybody got tickets for tomorrow? đŸ™‚