Did anyone else see this?

 

You can plunk down $10 (or $20) to reserve the right to buy playoff tickets for face value. Apparently screwing over season ticket holders. Gone away are the days of frantically clicking on ticketmaster?

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_leagu...?urn=mlb,252857

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/tickets/ticket_rese...=mm_mlb_tickets

Did anyone else see this?

 

You can plunk down $10 (or $20) to reserve the right to buy playoff tickets for face value. Apparently screwing over season ticket holders. Gone away are the days of frantically clicking on ticketmaster?

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_leagu...?urn=mlb,252857

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/tickets/ticket_rese...=mm_mlb_tickets

So who is going to take the risk with our sox?

So who is going to take the risk with our sox?

 

Is this only open for a specific time frame? I didn't catch a deadline.

Is this only open for a specific time frame? I didn't catch a deadline.

 

You can basically wait until the team is guaranteed to be playing in the series???

 

 

The latest possible closing times for each 2010 Postseason Ticket Reservation marketplaces are:

 

•2010 Division Series: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:59 pm ET.

 

•2010 League Championship Series: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 11:59pm ET.

 

•2010 World Series: Wednesday, October 21, 2010 at 11:59pm ET.

 

If that's the case I would assume the available tickets in this program would run out rather easily if it's obvious a team is going to the post season.

If that's the case I would assume the available tickets in this program would run out rather easily if it's obvious a team is going to the post season.

 

 

It looks like this already. If you look at the available dates for the BoSox, just the ALDS says recent market activity on games 1 and 3, but only 3 is available now.

 

It looks like this already. If you look at the available dates for the BoSox, just the ALDS says recent market activity on games 1 and 3, but only 3 is available now.

 

Yeah, for ALCS only 3 & 4 are there, World Series Game 4 only. There is no link for the Yankees at all.

This will never work, there just arent enough tickets to go around since season ticket holders still get priority.

There's obviously a limited # of "reservations" available for each game. I imagine these just come out of the tickets that would go towards the public sale. Smart move by MLB. They make extra money not only for "reservations" on playoff teams, but also on all the teams that don't even make the playoffs. I'm tempted to fork over $35 for a ALCS and WS reservation.

Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of people who were able to go to playoffs games because they were connected to some corporation that got a bunch of tickets.

 

Stuff like that always annoyed me, especially when it's people who are not even really fans of the team and there's bigger fans out there that would've given anything to attend a playoff game.

Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of people who were able to go to playoffs games because they were connected to some corporation that got a bunch of tickets.

 

Stuff like that always annoyed me, especially when it's people who are not even really fans of the team and there's bigger fans out there that would've given anything to attend a playoff game.

 

It's not going to affect that in the slightest. The only thing this is doing is making the tiny subset of tickets typically available via TM to the regular public even more limited, or most likely non-existent.

It's not going to affect that in the slightest. The only thing this is doing is making the tiny subset of tickets typically available via TM to the regular public even more limited, or most likely non-existent.

That sucks, then. I was hoping this would make more tickets available to the general public.

This also doesn't guarantee where your seats will be located. You could be looking just for the cheapest upper deck seats, and they could say only lower level behind home plate for $150 are available. If you can't afford that or won't spend that much, then you are s*** out of luck and lose your deposit.

This also doesn't guarantee where your seats will be located. You could be looking just for the cheapest upper deck seats, and they could say only lower level behind home plate for $150 are available. If you can't afford that or won't spend that much, then you are s*** out of luck and lose your deposit.

 

 

The only thing generally available to the public are seats in the upper corners and occasionally a random section upstairs that's not all the way in the corner. Pricing is set by MLB for most teams, if not all, teams and nobody seems to balk at the prices.