12/03/24
May 31, 2010
Marlins Sell Tickets to Guaranteed Perfect Game Night...:
...because it's already happened.
IIRC, the White Sox did the same thing last year for Buehrle's perfect game.
posted by tommybiden at 10:26 PM on May 31, 2010
Good for the Marlins, as I'm sure that they'll make at least some money on this, although the fact that there may be a market for this makes me kind of disappointed. To be honest, I'm hoping that they don't sell very many.
posted by bender at 07:54 AM on June 01, 2010
People collect tickets just like anything else (tickets to Woodstock, a Beatles concert, Super Bowls, etc.). I'm not clear why there's surprise that there's a market for these tickets. Who cares if no one actually used the ticket? Collectors aren't buying the ticket because they care about the person who used it.
posted by DudeDykstra at 08:09 AM on June 01, 2010
Sadly though some people will try to pass off that they really attended the game. The number of people I have heard tell me that they were at Roger Clemens' 20 strike out game would lead me to believe that 40,000 people were there, when actually the attendance was only a little over 13,000. With this, you will have people saying that they were there because they have a ticket stub, when actually they were in Omaha. It's just not right.
posted by Demophon at 08:37 AM on June 01, 2010
I understand collecting tickets... if you attend the event. I have several tickets from sporting events or concerts I was at. I don't get collecting tickets that I didn't use. If it's people who want to claim they were there, then they are losers, and that is why I am disappointed.
posted by bender at 12:50 PM on June 01, 2010
If it's people who want to claim they were there, then they are losers, and that is why I am disappointed.
People can do that with tickets bought on eBay, regardless of whether the Marlins sell the unsold tickets. The only thing this promotional gimmick does is make the unused tickets bought before the game less valuable than they would be. Insert Nelson Muntz "ha ha!" here.
The Marlins should require fans to buy a future ticket in order to get one of these. Out-of-town collectors could donate it to a local youth charity.
I do like the time travel involved.
posted by rcade at 03:30 PM on June 01, 2010
Rcade, you bring up a good point...I had overlooked the fact that someone that had attended the game just had the value of their ticket stubs diminished. Not that many, if any, fans bought those tickets with the intent of selling them, but, none the less, the value is now reduced.
posted by dviking at 08:31 PM on June 01, 2010
Very clever. Actually gives the Marlins a chance for a sell-out.