2013 MLB postseason running thread

The most I've ever paid for a ticket to a sporting event was $300 for Game 4 of the 2009 NBA Finals. I think I paid $75 or so for Final Four tickets in 2006, but those were on the cheap end since I went through a season ticket plan with George Mason.

I hate to think about what I'd be willing to pay to see Virginia Tech in the national title game or the Redskins in the Super Bowl. Then again, I shouldn't worry about it too much as those events are unlikely to happen anytime soon.

 

If you go to a sporting event, are patient and willing to wait up until around the start, you can get reasonable seats for about $100 at most from scalpers desperate to get rid of their tickets.

 

When I was in St. Louis for their clinching game in 2006, that was absolutely not the case. It was the case for games 3 and 4, but the moment a clinch was possible, it became impossible to find scalped tickets.

 

The report I got from a friend who went to Game 1 of the ALCS was that it cost $40 ... to park.

 

Fine. I bet you could still get them for under $300.

 

Potential clinching game of the World Series and Jim Joyce is the home plate umpire?!?!?!

 

The next time the Cards have runners on first and second with nobody out, maybe Metheny should have them put down a sacrifice and a couple of suicide squeezes.

 

He was going for the double play. It wasn't that walk that did Wacha in.

 

Why play for a double play in the third inning, especially without a runner on 3rd?

 

Because that's what his mentor would do.

 

There was no runner on third. There was a runner on second with one out when he walked Ortiz. It was the hit batter that caused all the misery.

 

Sigh. It was a plan. It didn't work because Wacha hit a batter and then got behind the next one. And it doesn't matter much now, as the Cardinals cannot get a hit with men on and the bottom has fallen out for their pitchers. The Red Sox pitchers just were too much for the Cardinals in this series,