Since I am a native of St. Petersburg, Fla., this World Series is quite bizarre for me. All my friends and family from home are rooting for the Rays, and my Philly family is behind the Phils, as I am.
The worst part, though, is it seems like everyone I know has tickets but me – in both cities. That can get annoying. My phone is burning up with texts about my friends landing duckets.
Some folks had trouble getting tickets down in St. Pete due to a quirk in the Ticketmaster system. According to my sources back home, codes given to season ticket holders could be used online at multiple terminals at the same time. This means a season ticket holder with two regular seats can give their code to others and come up with all kinds of extra tickets before the folks who own the ticket lottery even get a chance to buy.
That seems a little shady to me, but I guess that is because I didn’t think of it first.
It does not surprise me, though. Rays tickets have never had any value whatsoever until about a month ago, so why should they know how to handle it? Still, tickets are pricy enough in Philadelphia that some folks here are buying tickets in St. Pete, getting flights on Jet Blue, getting a room at a seedy Gulf Boulevard hotel and STILL coming out ahead financially.