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Fans that attended tonights game and sat in the rain...well I guess they get rewarded.

Game 4 tickets are now apparently Game 5 tickets.

And those fans with Game 5 tickets would have to go to the game tomorrow...because those are now Game 4 tickets!?!?!?

What obtuse logic used here...cannot imagine that there are people this ignorant.
 

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TonyMar said:
Fans that attended tonights game and sat in the rain...well I guess they get rewarded.

Game 4 tickets are now apparently Game 5 tickets.

And those fans with Game 5 tickets would have to go to the game tomorrow...because those are now Game 4 tickets!?!?!?

What obtuse logic used here...cannot imagine that there are people this ignorant.

sorry but I disagree but with your logic than you are screwing 2 sets of fans over by making them BOTH re-sked all their plans.
 

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Iceman said:
sorry but I disagree but with your logic than you are screwing 2 sets of fans over by making them BOTH re-sked all their plans.

Nope.

There are fans that bought game 5 tickets for two reasons:

1. Last game at Busch III in '06

2. Could be a WS clinching game.

I would be extremely pissed off if I had game 5 tickets and the Cardinals win this thing 4-1...and my Game 5 tickets all of a sudden became Game 4 tickets...

The brokers are going to be hearing about this...because the $$$$ was different for games 4 and 5...

Many people will be pissed about it.
 

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TonyMar said:
Nope.

There are fans that bought game 5 tickets for two reasons:

1. Last game at Busch III in '06

2. Could be a WS clinching game.

I would be extremely pissed off if I had game 5 tickets and the Cardinals win this thing 4-1.

sorry but totally disagree. You are always going to piss off someone in this situation but if I have planned all week for going to the game on a particular day and now it is switched becasue a totally different game than you bought for was cancelled I would be pissed. It would be a complete clusterfuck if you screwed over 2 sets of fans instead of 1 by making everyone change their schedules.
 

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Well I guess its just me then...

Because if I paid more $$$ to a broker for game 5 tickets vs game 4 tickets...and now those 5's are 4's...well WTF?

The ticket says game 4...it should be used for game 4...IMO.
 

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yeah, like I said it you aren't going to win over many fans with this type of decision either way. That's probably one of the main reasons MLB tried like hell to get this one in.
 

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this makes perfect sense
you inconvinicne 50000 people instead of 100000
 

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What's the historical precedent for this ? I'd think if I held tickets for the 4th game of the WS, then the tix are good whenever they get game #4 in, supposed to be Wednesday, but Weds, and Thurs, get rained out, played Fri... then game #4 from Weds is still game #4 even if played Sunday, is what I'd think is correct. I'd accept whatever the past precedent from the last 100+ years or so has been, as long as it is consistent.

I'd never buy the tickets in the first place.

I look at like this. Say Joe Average makes $50,000 a year, that's not really Joe Average, that's a $25/ hr job, to make that... well maybe average, but above median or whatever...

You make 50k... how do you justify spending $2500 ( 5% of that) on a 3-hour baseball game ?

I'd say you don't do that unless you make closer to 250k, it's irresponsible for Joe 50k to blow 5% on his annual income on just attending a game... it could be used more responsibly later !

Those with parents or grandparents alive during the Great Depression wouldn't find their ancestors wasting money like that !

If you're an "average ordinary Joe", the type that drives a Dodge, picks up the dog's crap, hopes it is hard" !.... maybe spend that $2500 on a splurge vacation for a week to some island, what will your wife remember more 20 years later ?

It's different if you bet the money on the game !

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After it pisses down rain for the next two days and they play Game 4 on Saturday, and the Cards get a perfect game tossed at them by Kenny Rogers, it isn't going to matter.
 

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Drunken Horseplayer said:
After it pisses down rain for the next two days and they play Game 4 on Saturday, and the Cards get a perfect game tossed at them by Kenny Rogers, it isn't going to matter.


Kenny "sticky-paw" Rogers and the word "perfect" should be prohibited from being used in the same sentence.


:pope:
 

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Mets did the same thing in the playoff this year. Really stupid if you ask me.
 

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Makes complete sense...You had plans to go to the game on Thursday...Those people are GOING on THURSDAY...and the game that got rained out...gives you one day to reaarange your schedule to make it back to the stadium, instead of trying to come right back the next night....
 

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Absolutely ridiculous.

What if it was game 6 and 7????

When you buy tickets to game 1 or game 5 or game 6 or game 7, you expect to go to that game irrelevant of dates.

The normal thing to do is say game 4 are good for game 4 and game 5 are good for game 5. If you want a refund due to date change, return your tickets within the next 12 hours and we will resell them. Been done a million times and they'd probably have to resell about 2 tickets.

-Sean
 

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