Spring Training is coming

On Thursday, tickets went on sale for the Phillies spring training games.  I was very excited to pick up tickets for their March 17th match where they were hosting the Yankees.  I saw the Phillies host the Reds on St. Patty’s Day last year, and it was very festive.  The Phillies wore Kelly Green jerseys and the Reds wore kinda ugly dark green caps.  The tickets went on sale to the public at 9 AM.  I logged into the ticketmaster link at 9 AM, asked for three of the best available… and got Berm.  Berm, for the uneducated (I was one of those uneducated folks until a couple years ago… ) is where you sit on the grass just outside the outfield.  Its a neat area for a picnic, but its also the last seats to sell out.  I thought it was a bit of a rip that everything but Berm was sold out that quickly.  Spring Training is becoming less accessible for the regular fan who doesn’t want to drop MLB-type money for an exhibition game nowadays by buying them from StubHub or some other secondary outlet that jacks up the prices after buying them in bulk before I ever got a shot.  So, I decided to give the game a miss and let those precious Berm tickets fall to someone else.

However, yesterday I bought three tickets to the Yanks vs. the Tigers on March 21st, continuing my annual trek to Tampa to watch some Yankees spring training baseball.  I’ll be taking the wife and son down to Tampa for the weekend and enjoying some fun in the sun and then a Yankees game.

Funds are limited this year, so I didn’t do my normal splurge of buying tickets for about three Yankees games, then picking up tickets for a new ballpark each year as well.

I do plan on heading down to see an Astros game, since it is in Orlando and pretty close.  Plus, the Florida Marlins are coming to Jacksonville on April 2nd to play their Double AA affiliate the Suns, and I’ll grab a GA ticket for that game and hopefully attend with some of my work friends.

So, I’ll get in three games, but spend much less on gas and travel and get to see some different teams.  Spring is in the air already!!!

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