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From: cjsgro@watrose.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: World Series Begins
Message-ID: <7604@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 11:56:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: watrose.7604
Posted: Fri Oct 18 11:56:25 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Oct-85 06:21:28 EDT
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In article <335@ltuxa.UUCP> jmh@ltuxa.UUCP (64lt503310-Jon M. Hanrath) writes:
>
>After watching the 7th game in Toronto I was very surprised to hear
>that therer were only about 35,000 at the game, it wasn't a sellout.
>I didn't realize that this ever happened.  I guess I'm a bit disappointed.
>

There is one and only one reason for the lack of a sellout:  the unreasonable
ticket situation.  The only tickets available were bleacher seats, which are
very difficult to get a good view out of.  Even still, the prices for these 
seats were exorbitant:  $19 per ticket for what are usually $4 seats.  It is
unreasonable to expect people to shell out bucks like that for unacceptable
seats such as those they were offering.  For the World Series, it was even
worse.  I shelled out $55 for a pair of those aforementioned bleacher seats
(list price, straight from the official ticket distributor) ( don't ask me
why I spent the money for the World Series and not the LCS ).  To me, it 
seems like this is simply a case of lack of consideration for the people 
that have been supporting your team throughout the year (although all of 
the ticket guidelines came from the Commissioner's office, so I'm not 
blaming the Jays).

By the way, they claimed that the 'good' tickets went for "official league
commitments".  Can anyone explain what this *really* means???


money 
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Carlo Sgro
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