White Sox World Series Tickets: Tuesday, Noon

by The Cheat on Oct 17, 2005 1:17 PM CDT in News Comment 24 comments

Since I know most of you had trouble getting ALCS tickets, here is your reminder that tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon Chicago time.

[Chisox.com]

CHICAGO -- Individual-game tickets to each of four World Series games that could be played by the American League Champion Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field will go on sale Tuesday, October 18 at noon.

Tickets will be available only through TicketMaster - by phone at (866) SOX GAME and (312) 559-1212 and online at whitesox.com. Tickets will not be sold at ticket outlets or at the U.S. Cellular Field Box Office. Fans may purchase up to four tickets to one game only.

World Series ticket prices, as set by Major League Baseball, are: Lower Deck Box $185; Lower Deck Reserved/Bleachers/Upper Deck Box $140; and Upper Deck Reserved $125.

World Series tickets must be printed at home using Ticketfast or picked up at the U.S. Cellular Field Box Office. Tickets that are not printed through Ticketfast must be picked up at the U.S. Cellular Field Box Office, Gate 4 Windows 1-10, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 20 or Friday, October 21 only. Will Call ticket orders that are not picked up by 9:00 p.m. Friday, October 21 will be cancelled and the amount charged to the customer's credit card will be refunded.

The World Series will begin on Saturday, October 22.

According to displaced Sox fan Mike, he had success getting Marlins World Series tickets in 2003 by calling Ticketmaster outlets in other states. [List of some numbers after the jump.]

If you do get shut out, note the bolded portion of the quote. There are sure to be some tickets that become available because people didn't read the small print. I would be online friday night looking to pick up the newly available tix.

I chose some numbers that I thought would be relatively empty. -- I don't know if you can even purchase tickets through these numbers, so I would be sitting at my computer with a few hunder browser windows open just in case.

South Dakota - 605-334-8181
Vermont - 802-862-5300
Denver - 303-830-TIXS
Colorado Springs - 719-520-9090
Kansas City - 816-931-3330
Topeka - 785-234-4545
Phoenix - 480-784-4444
Tucson - 520-321-1000
New Mexico - 505-883-7800

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Oh Man

I know the press release is a couple days old, but they need to update the "American League Central Division Champion" part to say "American League Champion"!

by mike42 on Oct 17, 2005 1:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

at Ticketmaster.com

It says that there are Tickemaster outlets in The Boston Store. So, I went there to see if they would have any advice or perhaps be able to sell them to me. It was a long shot, but it didn't work out. So tomorrow I will try online as I call the Madison ticketmaster #.

AIM: shaftr01

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by shaftr on Oct 17, 2005 2:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Neyer

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=2193673

I'd sure love to read what Neyer has to say about the Sox. It's too bad he's behind the wall over at ESPN. -- If it should magically appear in my inbox that would be awsome.

AIM: SouthSideCheat

by The Cheat on Oct 17, 2005 3:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

well, if it does...

send it here

AIM: shaftr01

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by shaftr on Oct 17, 2005 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

here guys...

its a decent enough article. I know magic

AIM: BrentBrookhouse

by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 17, 2005 4:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

tickets available

on abc 7, they are reporting that only 2,000 to 4,000 tickets will be made available. that seems awfully low. i think i'll make a token attempt, but i won't hold my breath.

by cnobody on Oct 18, 2005 4:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Tried Indiana

I tried all the Indiana numbers half hour before noon and they were all busy. Should have tried wisconsin too. I knew the bloomington, IN number was free at 11:00, so i was pretty frustrated.

bkool

P.S. Chuckled when the Terre Haute Indiana number was busy. I wonder who lives there.

by bkool on Oct 18, 2005 12:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Boise

I even tried Boise, Idaho... busy.

oh well, why have the fans who've been through thick and thin with this team in there, anyway

by Not Brian Crawford on Oct 18, 2005 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Anybody get tickets...?

And I'm not talking if you were part of a season ticket plan...?

by CWSKeith on Oct 18, 2005 12:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

no

something just stinks about this.

by Not Brian Crawford on Oct 18, 2005 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

they should do a lottery

this system is ridiculous.

I hit search for tickets at noon and the Word Verification never loaded, so I retried it and half the word loaded, the third time I finally got in but I'm pretty sure it is too late. It has said I have a 15 minute wait for the past 35 minutes.

AIM: shaftr01

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by shaftr on Oct 18, 2005 12:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Re:

I got 3 tickets to game 7, upper deck section 558. Those were the best available when I finally got through at about 12:19.

I had to try the word verification at least 5 times before it would load.

by scaryice on Oct 18, 2005 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

3 phones. 2 broadband connections and squat

it almost makes me want to endorse a free market system

alia iacta est - win now

by dyspeptic on Oct 18, 2005 12:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Tried all those numbers

no dice. The tickets are in the hands of those who rightfully deserve it - ticket brokers.

by chrome on Oct 18, 2005 1:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Irony

I guess it's ironic that people (ie, news media, Cub fans, etc) like to point out the lack of support the Sox receive during the season but now that they are national news everyone wants in on the action (and by all appearances a lot of people with clout shoved aside us Joe Sixpacks for tickets). The Sun-Times says there were only a few thousand tickets available, but they fail to say why. Even if the Sox season ticket base is 15,000 (shot in the dark), where are the other 25,000+ tickets that should be for sale? How do ticket brokers get them? I really want to know, I have no idea how that works.

by the wolf on Oct 18, 2005 3:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

the pie slices are smaller

from my limited understanding, after the season ticket holders get theirs, each team in the league gets a certain number of tickets and corporate sponsers get a certain number of tickets. i'm guessing quite a few people decided to take up the sox offer of world series tickets with purchase of next year's season tickets and that probably made the number of available tickets even less. i think ticket brokers take their chances with buying season ticket packages to guarantee playoff and world series ticket chances, not too sure though.

by cnobody on Oct 18, 2005 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

If there are at least fans getting tickets that's good. If I see Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston sitting in the first row behind the Sox dugout I'm going to retch.

by the wolf on Oct 18, 2005 4:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This will be

the one guy you see the most of at USCF

http://www.fox.com/berniemac/

FOX show. Actual sox fan. Grew up on South Side.

AIM: SouthSideCheat

by The Cheat on Oct 18, 2005 5:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bernie Mac is cool, but the pickings are slim

If none showed up I'd be happy. Candidates

Jim Belushi: necronepotist

John Cusack or worse his sister Flappy.

Bill Murray: Camera moth who likes to think he's J.D. Salinger; has professed his undying cub fanness once to often for it to be legit

Larry Ellison: maybe he likes the Gooch because of his fascination with oriental culture

Various and interchangeable members of the bands Styx and REO Speedwagon: the fact that the two worst rock and roll bands of all time could emerge in the same area at the same time is akin to that monkey typing Hamlet

David Mamet:'bring some goddamn peanuts and motherfucking cracker jack you bastard')

Michael Flately: though you wouldn't know it by that irish accent he sports. I think he got it by injection

Ted Kaczinski: hey we went to the same high school

alia iacta est - win now

by dyspeptic on Oct 18, 2005 6:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

All this bandwagon jumping makes me kinda ill

Next thing you know, it'll be hard to get tix in spring, and then i'll be really pissed.

by spengler on Oct 18, 2005 11:40 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think

it is kind of funny. I live in the northwest suburbs, and everytime I went into a store with a T.V. on I would ask how the sox were doing that night and they said nobody cared. Now I drive around and see signs in everybodies widows that say "Go Sox"

I don't mind peolpe jumping since now I have people to talk to about baseball with out having to deal with Sox suck talk.

P.S. the cubs fans talking about how they won the season series with the cards is getting ridiculous.

The Doctor has spoken

by drzorba on Oct 18, 2005 11:59 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

hey!

That's all we got to hold on to this season. Let us have it. Please. =P

by gjdow on Oct 19, 2005 1:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

My friend Matt in Bucktown

is a bartender and a Sox fan. People would come in and say 'could you put the ballgame on?' when the Sox were already on. They didn't stop asking until Oct 1.

alia iacta est - win now

by dyspeptic on Oct 19, 2005 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its true...

I've always been a big advocate of "let people jump on the bandwagon!" Because if we make more money off tickets that is more money we can spend on talent.

But something about this does suck. The Sox fan is supposed to be a blue collar Joe Sixpack kind of guy. Now that we see our team go to the World F'n Series we're taking a backseat to almost everyone else it seems.

I probably don't have tickets (unless a hook-up comes through for me), I know SHAFTR didn't get any...all the biggest Sox fans I know didn't get any tickets. But do you know how many Cubs fans who are now claiming to be "Chicago Fans" that I know got tickets? 8 people with a pair of tickets each.

Too bad there isn't some sort of special presale where you have to pass a Sox history quiz to get tickets. Now the only way you'll be able to get tickets is by paying 4 times face value (above the dugout is going for $10,000 I heard on the radio this morning). What kind of blue collar guy can foot that bill?

AIM: BrentBrookhouse

by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 19, 2005 7:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs