Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Friends, it's official.
If the Angels make it to the World Series, so do I.
I have mixed feelings about this purchase. I am BEYOND giddy at the prospect of watching my Halos beat the Dodgers (or the Phillies) in a WORLD SERIES game. I have always wanted to go to the World Series and used to think that was completely unattainable.
Until this morning.
I have confirmation that I paid too damn much for an awesome seat to a game that WILL happen.
(Will as in, there WILL be a Game 2. There may NOT be a Game 6 or 7.)
But I have mixed feelings.
I was on the phone with Kristi (aka: my awesome sister-in-law) when the Angels Insider pre-sale started at 10am. I sat with my laptop beside my coworker's computer and Kristi had two laptops going. All four computers churned through impossibly irritating wait times, looking through separate sections for the cheapest seats in the stadium.
(It was $100 to sit as far away from the field as humanly possible while still technically sitting inside the ballpark.)
One by one, the computers returned the same message: Sorry, no tickets were found to match your request.
Then Kristi's internet connection dropped and I was on my own. I tried splitting the search to find two pairs of seats in the same section. No luck.
Finally, I decided to try searching for any Best Available single seat. I figured if nothing turned up then the game was sold out and any further attempts were obviously in vain.
I waited.
And waited.
And waited.
A single seat popped up.
For twice what I was hoping to pay.
In the section that is the same number as my birthday.
It must be a sign, right?
I hesitated. I wasn't sure what to do. Do I leave my brother and sister-in-law and nephew in the dust while I take a ridiculously-expensive-but-completely-amazing seat all by myself? Or do I give it up and hope eBay will yield four even-more-ridiculously-expensive-and decidedly-crappier-but-still-together seats so that I can sit with them?
Like so many things in my life, I'll be going solo.
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"You know what they say. If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me."
~Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias