I just noticed that a local ticket broker is charging $195.00 A PIECE for tickets to the Creighton/Nebraska game in two weeks...
These seats are 10 ROWS behind mine, in the exact same section. (I'm in 113, Row 4, and these are all the way in row 14).
So, for tickets that with my season tix I paid $9 each for, they're getting $195??
Still, I wouldn't sell mine for that much. Even though its $400 I would never allow a fan of the other team to sit in my seats for that game, at any price. I'm serious.
You think I'm kidding. My brother graduated from Northern Iowa, and when he sat in my seats last year with me for that game, I made him swear on Burger King French Fries that he wouldn't wear his Panthers crap. He did. Hasn't been invited back to a game since. (Just kidding, but I was rather stern with him in voicing my displeasure. Much like that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine wears the Orioles cap to sit in the Yankees owners box.)
Funny thing is, I paid almost that much in '02-'03 for tickets to the final game at the Civic. After attending 90+ games during college, I had to be there for that, at any price. But that $300 "investment" convinced me to just get season tix the next year. Had 'em ever since. Now some other poor sap is going to lay down $400 for tix? If they're wearin' blue, I might feel bad enough for 'em to buy a Schlitz for 'em. If they're in red...well, enjoy the game, by all means, but you'll have to buy your own beer.
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Jays against some dude named George Mason tonight, out in Fairfax VA. I asked a guy this morning if this George Mason fellow was any good, and if was related to Georghe Muresan, the great Bullets center (DC and Fairfax are close, aren't they?)
Since this is apparently some kind of one-on-one duel, my prediction is Funk 198, Mason 32.
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In all seriousness, George Mason is a pretty dang good team out of the Colonial Athletic Association. They beat a good UC-Irvine team that handed Stanford's lunch to them a few days later. They took Wake Forest to OT at Wake Forest (!) before losing. This is a tough game.
Prediction: Mason forces Jays to play 40 minutes for the first time this year, hangs close throughout but the superior depth of the Jays wears them down in the waning moments.
JAYS 61, GEORGE MASON 54
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