Scam or Souvenir?

(Plus the damn Ticketmaster fees.)

You can buy one here. I don’t think this is a scam — it’s a chance for the Sox to make a few extra bux — based on that day’s attendance I think they have about 12,000 left.

They’re not the only team to do this. The Twins did this for the game in which Cal Ripken got his 3000th hit in Minnesota back in 2000.

I don’t have a problem with this.

smart, and nothing wrong with it

was right.

and the cheapest i was able to get so far (including the ticket master fee) $33. If I were a Sox fan, i would get one, that is a cheap price for a souvenir from a historical event of the Sox

then I’ll have something valuable.

There were very few fans in the stands at the end of Nolan Ryan’s last no-hitter because they were in the stadium buying tickets to the game they were already attending.

And by awesome, I mean sad.

in 2001 when Sammy became the only person to hit 60 HRs in 3 seasons, they sent out unused “Standing Room” tickets to season ticket holders. Of course it was for free…not for some outrageous price See below

I don’t see anything illegal about it, but I don’t see why anyone would be willing to pay for a piece of paper than you can’t use to get into a baseball game either…

Ha, just kidding. I could care less.

have always been available. My contention is that the Sox could just keep printing tickets forever if there is a demand. Suddenly, you have 50K tickets, or more – instead of the normal amount of tickets for a full house. That cheapens the ticket’s aftermarket value — if there is one.

If each ticket they sell is authenticated, that’s a different story. Of course, how could you possibly tell between a game-used ticket and an ‘after-the-fact’ ticket, since the ducats are scanned, not ‘ripped’ as in the gold ol’ days.

Obviously just by my age I couldn’t come close to claiming I was there. But long before my father passed, he wanted to assure me I’d get his ticket stubs to 5 different World Series played at the Friendly Confines. Kind of funny, there were WS games at “Weeghman Park” and “Wrigley Field” but not “Cubs Park”.

So I do have ticket stubs displayed in my sports room that I never went to but I believe it’s understood that its simply a part of history. I was never at the Blackhawks only stanley cup winning game at Chicago Stadium (1938) either but I have my father’s ticket stub too to that game.

I guess people can claim what they want to. For the Cubs, I bet there’s over 100,000 people out there to claim they were at the game when Mr. Cub hit #500, but in reality there was what 10,000 there that day in May, 1970??

FWIW, I bought 4 of these tix for a very close couple of me and my wife’s and will be having those framed at Michaels in a few weeks. It’ll be their Christmas present.

Married into a White Sox family and just picked up 4 Xmas presents for my father and brothers in law. 88 bucks for 3 cool souvenirs, not bad….