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LL Season Tickets?

Update #2:  We've done it!  But we still are interested in finding a fourth. We've got a few weeks to come up with the cash for the extra seat.  The seats are in Sec 114, row 25.  Prime Ichiro heckling zone. More info below..

 

UpdateSee my new post down at the bottom. We've got three folks interested and need a fourth. The sooner the better, because a lots of people are buying the 4 for 2 deal (it is pretty awesome).  The seats near the field and near home plate are apparently going fast.  I mentioned FanFest in the OP, but the rep suggested locking this in before FanFest to get the best seat selection. Wanna play?

 

Got $1300 now and want to go to a bunch of games?  or  Want to hang with LL'ers when going to the occasional game?

There are still 2 for 1 season tickets available on the Field level.  I would like to gauge interest in an LL "group" for buying a block of tickets, but would want to know a few things:

1) Assuming you don't have $1300 to drop right now, but were going to go to the occasional game, would you preferentially consider buying seats from a block of other LLers?

I ask this first because the one of the main issues for anyone wanting to buy in is selling tickets for games that they can't attend.  Personally, I am busy and travel a decent amount, so would probably only go to 20-30 games.  My friends who did this last season broke even* for the season, but also spent many many hours on craigslist/meeting up with folks.  My first thought to mitigate this is something like this:

Those who pay up front obviously get the choice of whatever games they want, up to say, 5 days prior - Then remaining seats are open to LL members until say 2 days prior. Then craigslist/whatever.  The hope is that random LLers would be interested enough to make selling the extra seats less of a pain. The M's have a new web tool that might facilitate this.

and of course this all depends on the answers to question number

2) Are you interested/able to purchase season tickets in the very near future?  Obviously there is a lot to figure out like which section, whether we like each other, ticket lottery details, etc.  But all of this will depend on the general response.  Not looking for commitment - just an expression of interest (you can also email me directly)  If there is enough, we can have non-virtual beer thread or something. Oh yeah, and if we really get our act together we could have a "choose your seat" party at FanFest.

This is something I have always wanted to do.  And I really couldn't think of a better crowd to do it with than a bunch of beer swilling stat nerd fans.

*yes - broke even. meaning free baseball. there is the potential to make or lose money on this depending on how many games you go to and how well/much the extra tickets sell. but it should be pointed out that "losing" in this context means going to more baseball games. ALSO GUARANTEED PLAYOFF TICKETS!