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JT45242

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2. Honestly surprised that not all the playoff tickets for original sale were not gobbled up by season ticket holders

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:54 PM

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It used to be that when teams were approaching the playoffs, they would be given the green light to start selling playoff tickets by the league.

most teams gave preferential treatment to season tickets and often held a lottery or similar thing to get tickets (that's how I got tickets to the first playoff games at Jacobs Field in Cleveland in the mid 1990s).

This was a method that was meant to try to keep the tickets out of the hands of scalpers -- now of course MLB and the other sports leagues are in cahoots with the scalpers at StubHub and others as well as the evil monopoly of exploding fees that is ticketmaster.

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