Friday, February 09, 2007
Now here's a collection for you
I got an e-mail from someone who was interested in this ticket stub of mine...
...because he's attempting to collect ticket stubs from every 2001 Diamondbacks game. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to part with my stub at present, but I said I'd publicize his collection here. So if anyone out there has some 2001 D-Backs stubs (home or away, obviously) that they're willing to part with, e-mail JonB99.
...because he's attempting to collect ticket stubs from every 2001 Diamondbacks game. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to part with my stub at present, but I said I'd publicize his collection here. So if anyone out there has some 2001 D-Backs stubs (home or away, obviously) that they're willing to part with, e-mail JonB99.
Labels: diamondbacks, tickets
Friday, September 16, 2005
WWBD?
That's What Would Bud Do? Thursday afternoon game that's the home season finale. Unlikely to be well-attended, even though this year's Brewers team has been a lot of fun to watch.
I'm guessing Bud would do . . . nothing. Adjust his hairpiece, maybe fire off a fax to the Wisconsin state legislature about how maybe the state should pay for the Brewers to have weekday games.
New Brewers ownership, however, is smarter. They've announced that tickets to that game will be free. Absolutely free. And they've already distributed 23,000.
If you're going to be in Milwaukee September 29th, call the Brewers ticket office.
If you're not going to be in Milwaukee September 29th . . . why not? What have you got to do that day that's better than free baseball?
I'm guessing Bud would do . . . nothing. Adjust his hairpiece, maybe fire off a fax to the Wisconsin state legislature about how maybe the state should pay for the Brewers to have weekday games.
New Brewers ownership, however, is smarter. They've announced that tickets to that game will be free. Absolutely free. And they've already distributed 23,000.
If you're going to be in Milwaukee September 29th, call the Brewers ticket office.
If you're not going to be in Milwaukee September 29th . . . why not? What have you got to do that day that's better than free baseball?
Labels: brewers, bud selig, tickets
Saturday, August 14, 2004
I don't know what I was worried about
A scan of a ticket is worth a thousand words:
Also in the envelope was the promised $20 in concession vouchers, in the convenient form of four $5 vouchers. That should make it easier for the people who want to eat sausages with Secret Stadium Sauce to purchase them, and if anyone wants to search the catacombs of Miller Park for the stand that reluctantly sells veggie dogs, well, Levi can go off by himself and try to find it.
In other news, I discovered that the necessary files to operate an iTrip are freely available for download, so I will have no reason to connect my iPod to Levi's computer.
And finally, here's a quote from a Usenet newsgroup that I felt desperately needed to be posted here: "One of the funnier stories on ESPN radio was Rob Dibble talking about how he checked into a hotel and misunderstood the instructions on the TV screen -- he thought he was ordering a block of adult films. The only thing more embarrassing than having the adult films show up on your bill is having to call down and ask the nice girl to please take the block off so you can watch some."
Toby: Just don't go to the concession stand during the 7th inning stretch while they're having the sausage race. Randall Simon is back with the Pirates, you know... There could be another incident...
maura: actually, he was released over the weekend, shortly after he found his SUV riddled with bullets.
Levi: Now, I don't get releasing Simon right now. You don't save anything on his salary at this point. You don't really save an important roster space, because in two weeks you can call up everybody and his grandma. And you lose the fun of having Randall Simon on your team.
I could have understood releasing him the minute you signed him--coming to your senses and just getting rid of him so somebody else, anybody else, could play first base for you. But now that you've carried him all this way, why not hold onto him the rest of the year?
Toby: What kind of season is his grandma having in A ball, anyway?
thatbob: When I was freeloading with Angie in San Diego for the librarian convention, we made the same mistake with the "Adult Block" feature. Except we weren't actually trying to order the adult block, we just wanted to look at the funny movie titles. Really!
Also in the envelope was the promised $20 in concession vouchers, in the convenient form of four $5 vouchers. That should make it easier for the people who want to eat sausages with Secret Stadium Sauce to purchase them, and if anyone wants to search the catacombs of Miller Park for the stand that reluctantly sells veggie dogs, well, Levi can go off by himself and try to find it.
In other news, I discovered that the necessary files to operate an iTrip are freely available for download, so I will have no reason to connect my iPod to Levi's computer.
And finally, here's a quote from a Usenet newsgroup that I felt desperately needed to be posted here: "One of the funnier stories on ESPN radio was Rob Dibble talking about how he checked into a hotel and misunderstood the instructions on the TV screen -- he thought he was ordering a block of adult films. The only thing more embarrassing than having the adult films show up on your bill is having to call down and ask the nice girl to please take the block off so you can watch some."
Original comments...
Toby: Just don't go to the concession stand during the 7th inning stretch while they're having the sausage race. Randall Simon is back with the Pirates, you know... There could be another incident...
maura: actually, he was released over the weekend, shortly after he found his SUV riddled with bullets.
Levi: Now, I don't get releasing Simon right now. You don't save anything on his salary at this point. You don't really save an important roster space, because in two weeks you can call up everybody and his grandma. And you lose the fun of having Randall Simon on your team.
I could have understood releasing him the minute you signed him--coming to your senses and just getting rid of him so somebody else, anybody else, could play first base for you. But now that you've carried him all this way, why not hold onto him the rest of the year?
Toby: What kind of season is his grandma having in A ball, anyway?
thatbob: When I was freeloading with Angie in San Diego for the librarian convention, we made the same mistake with the "Adult Block" feature. Except we weren't actually trying to order the adult block, we just wanted to look at the funny movie titles. Really!
Labels: brpa, planning, road trip, rob dibble, tickets
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Keep this in mind, potential hangers-on
Monday, August 30th happens to be one of the dates on which Brewers are offering their "Mastercard Grand Slam Ticket Pack," which is four $28 tickets and a $20 concession voucher for $75 total. So it would be nice, and money-saving, if Levi and I could find two people to join us for the 7:05 game. (It's a little unclear whether or not you can get that deal at the stadium, or if you have to buy them in advance..."seats are limited," they say, but how many people are going to show up for a non-pivotal Brewers vs. Pirates battle on a Monday night? Nevertheless, let us know as soon as possible if you want to go.)
If you wanted to also join us for the 1:05 game in Chicago involving the White Sox and Phillies, so much the better, although the Sox don't seem to have any promotions happening that day to make their tickets cheaper. I think our plan as of now is to head straight to Milwaukee immediately upon the conclusion of that game; however, if you can't make it to the Sox game but can make the Brewers, we'll work something out.
Levi: I'm sure my wife, for one, will attend the second game, and a second person (especially at less than $20 for a seat and some food!) will be easy to find. So go for it!
stacey: levi's right. i Would like to attend the second game. i probably can't get off work for the day game, sadly.
Jim: Does it ruin the road trip magic if we take the 'L' to the Sox game? I guess it shouldn't, since it's an "extra" game anyway.
Steve: as far as special promotions, that's a half price monday.
stacey: if you're going to take the 'L' to the sox game, i could drive the rental car to work (in hyde park) and then pick you guys up after the game at comiskey and we could shoot up to the city that beer made famous. anyone else who wanted to go could either get picked up along the way or meet us at sox park.
Jim: Thanks, Steve! I missed that. Hooray for cheap tickets! Stacey: Sounds like a good plan. I won't tell Hertz if you won't.
thatbob: Count me in for both games. BOTH games. Levi will just have to wait a couple more weeks for that money I owe him.
Jim: Yeah, you can give your money to ME instead. I have to say, we got two hangers-on faster than I thought we would. I'll go ahead and order the Brewers tickets.
Levi: I assume we'll pick up Sox tickets at the window?
The only caveat is that back before they began their current stretch of Oreck XL-quality sucking, the crowds at the walkup windows were impressive enough to cost those (like me) unprepared for their size a view of the first inning.
Jim: Even for a 1:05 P.M. game on a Monday? If Lee Elia taught us anything, it's that it's Cubs fans who don't go to work, not Sox fans.
Fear not, because I can already predict that one of the themes of this trip is going to be me attempting to get us to games ridiculously early.
Levi: Is that why I'm posting this from the Wireless Intenet kiosk in front of the Davenport Swing ballpark?
Luke, hanger-on: Have you ever had a post get to 12 comments?
Levi: I would leave Jim to answer that, if you hadn't just done so.
If you wanted to also join us for the 1:05 game in Chicago involving the White Sox and Phillies, so much the better, although the Sox don't seem to have any promotions happening that day to make their tickets cheaper. I think our plan as of now is to head straight to Milwaukee immediately upon the conclusion of that game; however, if you can't make it to the Sox game but can make the Brewers, we'll work something out.
Original comments...
Levi: I'm sure my wife, for one, will attend the second game, and a second person (especially at less than $20 for a seat and some food!) will be easy to find. So go for it!
stacey: levi's right. i Would like to attend the second game. i probably can't get off work for the day game, sadly.
Jim: Does it ruin the road trip magic if we take the 'L' to the Sox game? I guess it shouldn't, since it's an "extra" game anyway.
Steve: as far as special promotions, that's a half price monday.
stacey: if you're going to take the 'L' to the sox game, i could drive the rental car to work (in hyde park) and then pick you guys up after the game at comiskey and we could shoot up to the city that beer made famous. anyone else who wanted to go could either get picked up along the way or meet us at sox park.
Jim: Thanks, Steve! I missed that. Hooray for cheap tickets! Stacey: Sounds like a good plan. I won't tell Hertz if you won't.
thatbob: Count me in for both games. BOTH games. Levi will just have to wait a couple more weeks for that money I owe him.
Jim: Yeah, you can give your money to ME instead. I have to say, we got two hangers-on faster than I thought we would. I'll go ahead and order the Brewers tickets.
Levi: I assume we'll pick up Sox tickets at the window?
The only caveat is that back before they began their current stretch of Oreck XL-quality sucking, the crowds at the walkup windows were impressive enough to cost those (like me) unprepared for their size a view of the first inning.
Jim: Even for a 1:05 P.M. game on a Monday? If Lee Elia taught us anything, it's that it's Cubs fans who don't go to work, not Sox fans.
Fear not, because I can already predict that one of the themes of this trip is going to be me attempting to get us to games ridiculously early.
Levi: Is that why I'm posting this from the Wireless Intenet kiosk in front of the Davenport Swing ballpark?
Luke, hanger-on: Have you ever had a post get to 12 comments?
Levi: I would leave Jim to answer that, if you hadn't just done so.
Labels: brewers, brpa, phillies, pirates, planning, road trip, tickets, white sox
Friday, July 30, 2004
I hope the game justifies the positive feedback
I have been checking eBay occasionally to see if anyone is selling tickets for the games on the trip. Finally, that paid off, because I found someone selling his 18-rows-behind-the-plate season seats for the August 23rd Tigers-White Sox game. I gambled on not using "Buy It Now," and that paid off as well; I ended up being the only bidder, so I got them for his starting price, a significant discount from the face value. The tickets came in the mail today.
I didn't post anything about this before now because I didn't want any of the miscreants who read this blog to bid on the tickets and bump the price up. These will probably be the best seats we have for any game on the trip, except perhaps Davenport, or Montreal.
I didn't post anything about this before now because I didn't want any of the miscreants who read this blog to bid on the tickets and bump the price up. These will probably be the best seats we have for any game on the trip, except perhaps Davenport, or Montreal.
Labels: brpa, planning, road trip, tickets, tigers, white sox
Thursday, April 01, 2004
At least they're not outsourcing
I have been informed that, for budgetary reasons, my company no longer has Pirates tickets. So it looks like we'll have to pay for our seats in Pittsburgh.
Labels: brpa, pirates, planning, road trip, tickets
Friday, March 19, 2004
Whetting Levi's appetite again
Here's 50% of the items that came in the mail today (in the most nondescript envelope ever, with an indication that it contained "your requested dated material")...
Yes, it's vertical, which I had previously thought was an orientation reserved for football and hockey season tickets. (Bleacher section 36 is in dead center field, if anyone's curious. Looking forward to seeing Johnny Damon's back!)
Yes, it's vertical, which I had previously thought was an orientation reserved for football and hockey season tickets. (Bleacher section 36 is in dead center field, if anyone's curious. Looking forward to seeing Johnny Damon's back!)
Labels: brpa, planning, red sox, road trip, tickets
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Whetting Levi's appetite
I fired up the ol' scanner tonight, and first of all, since the other attendees have already seen their tickets:
And this is the route map as it stands now. I have a feeling some portions may not be the AAA-approved routes, such as the "back way" to get to Yardley, Pennsylvania from the north (on U.S. 202 and state route 31), which involves going through some of the less smelly parts of New Jersey.
I'm sorry that my clumsy attempts to reduce the image size, not to mention my clumsy attempts to draw a line, made Mapquest's beautiful cartography look like crap, but I'm not exactly working with the Adobe Creative Suite here. (This is the non-online, made-from-dead-trees 2004 Mapquest "Routemaster" spiral-bound road atlas we're looking at, just in case you're wondering why Mapquest.com doesn't look that good when you use it.)
And this is the route map as it stands now. I have a feeling some portions may not be the AAA-approved routes, such as the "back way" to get to Yardley, Pennsylvania from the north (on U.S. 202 and state route 31), which involves going through some of the less smelly parts of New Jersey.
I'm sorry that my clumsy attempts to reduce the image size, not to mention my clumsy attempts to draw a line, made Mapquest's beautiful cartography look like crap, but I'm not exactly working with the Adobe Creative Suite here. (This is the non-online, made-from-dead-trees 2004 Mapquest "Routemaster" spiral-bound road atlas we're looking at, just in case you're wondering why Mapquest.com doesn't look that good when you use it.)
Labels: brpa, planning, road trip, tickets
Monday, March 01, 2004
The first tangible sign of spring
Hey, the Phillies tickets showed up in the mail already! We'll actually be meeting up with my aunt and uncle at the game and our mutual friend Maura, so I'm going to mail those people's tickets to them ASAP.
On another note, I bought Padres tickets over the weekend for a May game against the Cubs. This isn't directly relevant to the road trip, except that both the Padres and the Phillies are going to be playing in new stadiums in 2004, so it'll be fun to do a comparison and contrast. The Padres' stadium, Petco Park, already gets points for being named after something warm and fuzzy (well, as warm and fuzzy as a chain store can be, i.e., much warmer and fuzzier than Wal-Mart), whereas the Phillies' stadium, Citizens Bank Park, loses points for being yet another stadium named after a cold, impersonal bank. Actually, at least it's a bank that still has "bank" in its corporate name, unlike its baseball stadium naming rights counterpart across Pennsylvania, PNC.
On another note, I bought Padres tickets over the weekend for a May game against the Cubs. This isn't directly relevant to the road trip, except that both the Padres and the Phillies are going to be playing in new stadiums in 2004, so it'll be fun to do a comparison and contrast. The Padres' stadium, Petco Park, already gets points for being named after something warm and fuzzy (well, as warm and fuzzy as a chain store can be, i.e., much warmer and fuzzier than Wal-Mart), whereas the Phillies' stadium, Citizens Bank Park, loses points for being yet another stadium named after a cold, impersonal bank. Actually, at least it's a bank that still has "bank" in its corporate name, unlike its baseball stadium naming rights counterpart across Pennsylvania, PNC.
Labels: bolands, brpa, maura johnston, padres, phillies, planning, road trip, tickets
Thursday, February 19, 2004
The Phillies don't think different
Actually, as it turns out, that error message is the modern equivalent of "your telephone is not compatible with the Bell System," or something like that. I thought the problem was that the Phillies' web site was too busy, but the problem seems to have been that their ticketing process was incompatible with Macintosh web browsers. Everything worked perfectly on my PC at work, so we now have 12th-row upper-deck seats to see the Phillies vs. Brewers at the new Citizens Bank Park.
Labels: brpa, computer, phillies, planning, road trip, tickets
Trying to buy Phillies tickets
Turns out the modern equivalent of a busy signal is the message "DTWP001E: Net.Data is unable to locate the macro file err_bad_user_init.d2w." (I got up ridiculously early this morning and have been looking at this, and related gibberish, for hours now.)
Labels: brpa, phillies, planning, road trip, tickets
Sunday, February 08, 2004
I guess it's going to happen
The first tickets have been purchased, bleacher seats for the Red Sox vs. Tigers at Fenway Park. Up next, Phillies tickets, which go on sale on Thursday the 19th. Those may end up being the only tickets we get in advance, although we're pretty sure we can use our connections to get free Cardinals and Pirates tickets.
Labels: brpa, phillies, planning, red sox, road trip, tickets
