re: What was getting tickets in Omaha like?

Championship series. We got SRo game 1. Game 2 me and my buddy sat behind the plate for just over $300 each about 25 rows up in the lower seats. Game 3 we sat behind the plate about 25 rows up a section over for $100 each. Game 3 you could still buy club seats for 135 and Sro tickets from the box office at game time.

Honestly not hard if you are willing to spend a little money. SRO isn’t the worst thing in the world either but I did like having a dedicated seat not in the sun for the last two games.

Easy on Ticketmaster.

It was relatively easy as I went through Ticketmaster. It was also relatively expensive compared to other baseball games and tournaments. With their inordinate fees and expenses, it probably came to $175ticket

My grandson was on his laptop & I was on my PC when the tickets went on sale. We were going to be there for games 1 thru 8. We knew we would see LSU twice if they made it to the show. We needed 5 tickets for each game. I started at game 1 and my gs started at game 8. We were in que when the sale started. When sales started, only outfield seats were available. You could only buy 1 game at a time. By the time I got finished with all the required entries, game 2 was sold out ( for 5 seats), then game 3 was sold out. My gs by going backwards managed to get seats for games 8, 7, 6 & 5. 4 was sold out. My tickets cost $18 with taxes & fees. His cost around $40 with taxes & fees. We managed to get tickets for game 4 after the CWS schedule was set. $1110 including taxes & fees for 3 seats - row 18 behind the plate. We did manage to sell 3 seats for game 3 that payed for the 5 seats we originally bought.

As easy as getting tickets to anything else just a little pricey. That’s to be expected when it’s last minute.

I stupidly bought all 3 games the Friday before the championship series (night after we beat wake in game 3)

All through Ticketmaster. After Fees:
Game 1: $275 LF line even with LF’er
Game 2: $250 LF line 1 section closer to home than game 1.
Game 3: $175 even with 3rd base middle of section.

We didn’t want to drive 11.5 hrs not knowing we’d have decent tickets. When I go back, I’ll purchase on Ticketmaster the day of the game.

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Locals control the ticket market

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I recently met a guy who was a schoolteacher in Omaha in the 90s. He said he would pay his kids to line up and buy the max tickets per customer. Then he would pray that schools like LSU or Texas with a big fan base got hot so that the rich alums would fly in and make him serious $$$ scalping his tickets. He loved Skip Bertman.

Bought the final three games through Ticketmaster and paid around 200 a seat after fees. Seats were up the RF line in the 2-3rd last section before the OF section for all games.