World Series

i wanted to buy 2 tickets to go to the world series on saturday or sunday (chicago). tickets started selling at noon yesterday, but since my ass is sleeping at that time (work), i wake up at 6pm. i went to ticketmaster.com Tickets were sold out angry5

. Tickets sold out in around 18 mins from time it started selling. just right now i checked dailyherald news reading this:

‘Several thousand’ tickets?

Seats to World Series simply not available to most

By Dave Orrick
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Tom Colgan didn’t stand a chance.

Sure, the Glen Ellyn resident had his computer all tuned up with pop-up blockers turned off and a smooth-rolling mouse.
And sure, after a mere two minutes, he actually got in — one of the lucky ones — to the screen that would have let him buy four tickets to a White Sox World Series game, as miraculous as that phrase still sounds to fans.
But then the computer screen gave him the bad news: No more seats available, presumably, for a block of four seats.
“I knew it was all over at that point,” Colgan said Tuesday, adding that he didn’t even bother to try to get back into Ticketmaster’s online box office, where at one point 130,000 people were waiting in line.
Associated Press
Indeed, it took a mere 18 minutes for “several thousand” tickets to sell out, White Sox spokeswoman Katie Kirby said.
The team won’t release anything more specific than “several thousand,” and that makes Colgan and plenty of other disappointed fans wonder about what might be the right way to handle ticket sales.
They wonder about the fairness. And the baseball-ness.
“Especially the White Sox,” said Colgan, a lifelong Cubs fan who years ago gave his son a “family waiver,” allowing him to choose to be a fan of the South Siders. “The White Sox have this blue collar image, and with tickets going for a $1,000 an inning and hardly any available for face value, it just doesn’t seem like it fits their image.”
Hannah Salomon of Schaumburg agrees.
A 68-year-old retiree who isn’t much for computers, she got “beyond frustrated” trying to get through on the phone. She wanted to surprise her grandson with tickets for an early Hanukkah present.
“Here’s a kid who was raised in the Northwest suburbs, and he’s a lifelong Sox fan,” she said. “These are the people who are the team’s future. Shouldn’t we have priority over the brokers with 30 or 40 computers?”
Sour grapes? Perhaps.
And the fact is that U.S. Cellular Field holds only 40,615.
“The quantity of tickets is so small that we’re just going to disappoint fans no matter what we do,” Kirby said. She added that Major League Baseball takes a chunk of World Series tickets for the media, corporate sponsors and every other team not in the series to dole out as they wish.
MLB spokesman Carmine Tiso described that as “a small percentage” and pointed out, “You’ll see it on TV: Most of the fans there will be White Sox fans.”
It’s true that in the 1920s, baseball playoff games outside New York didn’t even sell out. But the short supply of tickets now isn’t brand new. In 1959 — the last year the Sox won the pennant — the team held a lottery for regular folks to get tickets.
Still, something has changed, experts say.
“It’s the corporations,” said Bill Savage, a Northwestern University senior lecturer who teaches a course in baseball narrative. “Folk culture is becoming corporate culture.”
Savage and other experts who’ve studies major American sports point to the economics of the 1970s, when the Super Bowl, television and advertising all amounted to one thing that forever changed sports: money.
“I’m sure guys always took clients to the games, but the whole thing changed when network television saw big money in sports,” Savage said.
Alan Sanderson, a sports economist at the University of Chicago, says one change was that teams relied less on the masses of fans who went to a few games a year and more on season-ticket holders. Indeed, more than 1,000 people have signed up for Sox season tickets for next season, just to get tickets to this year’s World Series.
Sanderson said the season ticket phenomenon effectively shrunk the supply of tickets for playoff games, even though the face price, starting at $125, isn’t outlandish when compared to tickets prices 50 years ago.
Economics aside, Salomon and Colgan joined uncounted numbers of disappointed fans Tuesday calling for a fairer system. A lottery — perhaps like the one the Houston Astros are doing now — could encapsulate the American democratic ideals of peanuts, popcorn and one person, one vote all in one, they said.
“A lottery could be a great thing,” Savage said. “But still it favors the guy who comes up with the most names for himself. … But I guess that would be the Chicago way.”
Daily Herald News

by the way i went to ebay
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=chicago+white+sox+tickets&category0=

TOO MUCH angry5