We have been trying to get opening day tickets forever! They never went on sale, so we have just been trying to find someone willing to sell them for a reasonable price! We have been scouring craigslist.com but everyone wanted crazy amounts of money. So, we ended up just going down to the park (5 of us) and trying to buy tickets there. It started slow, no one really advertises they have a ticket to sell, or scalp, I should say. So, we find a guy celebrating that he got a ticket and he's holding a sign "Need One Ticket." He says he comes down every year on Opening Day with a sign and he always gets a ticket. Since he didn't need it anymore, he gave us his sign. I was the only girl in the group, and I thought I might get more offers so I held the sign. For a long time. I took some abuse holding that sign. Laughs, inappropriate offers, and other such things. But, we got 5 tickets this way. Some for face value, some for lots more. We split the cost and it ended up being about $70 per ticket. Not bad at all! Here's some photos of our adventure:
Me and the sign
Me and the sign, realizing that John is taking photos.
This is us with our tickets in the park!
We saw the guy that gave us the sign in the park, so we got a picture of him too. Without his sign, we would never have gotten 5 tickets!
Oh, you want to know if the Tigers won? Well, no. But, that's to be expected, they don't win any regular season games that John and I attend. But they played well. This is going to be a great season!
Go Tigers!
4 comments:
I see a fun scrapbook page coming from these pictures. I'm glad you were able to get tickets!
glad you got the tix! It ended up being a beautiful day.
I love that he got a photo of you holding the sign!
Congrats on getting all 5 tickets! I really like that 2nd photo!
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