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Apparently I have underestimated the craziness of Red Sox fans. Perhaps that I thought that a trip to Philly to see the Sox take on the Phillies in June was something that only my friends and I thought of, and figured not many people would a) see this as a viable road trip and b) actually purchase tickets. I was way off. It seems as though those Southwest Airlines commercials that played between every pitch last season, have really worked. Everyone is going to Philly. There…there’s a lot of culture there. It’s like a baby New York. And oh yeah….cheese steak, and the Liberty Bell.

Since sometime before Christmas, my friends and I had targeted the weekend of June 24th as THE Sox road trip of the year. National league game, decent city, easy trip, and a three game, weekend series in June. All said and done, we thought we could make a trip down to the city of brotherly love for under $350 a piece, which is the approximate cost of seeing the Sox on any summer weeknight at Fenway. Not including parking or concessions.

Long story short, a ticket presale link that was sent to Phillies mailing list subscribers only, which allowed hard core Phillies fans to purchase tickets a day before the general sale opened was leaked out and made its way onto the Sons of Sam web site. This cause the entire series to sell out literally a full day before the tickets were to go on sale to the general public. I am not kidding. Luckily I got wind of this link through a friend and was able to scrounge 4 $20 bleacher seats for Friday night’s game, but that’s all. I am now without tickets for Saturday’s game and none to happy about it.

Now obviously it is easy to GET tickets to the Saturday game. As long as you don’t mind paying through the nose via a broker or a scalper (mind you the only difference between the two is that one has an uncle on the police force that got him/her a broker license)., but that kind of defeats the purpose here. If I wanted to pay $175 per ticket, I can do that here in Boston 81 times a year. Thanks though.

If anyone out there happens to have 4 tickets to the Sox/Phils game in Philly on June 25th and is looking to sell them at a reasonable rate. Shoot me an email. I will buy them.