Posted by Jon Roe
on 1/23/2003, 5:34 pm
208.37.48.66
It's a shame you couldn't "roam" around the stadium. I was at that game on the 4th; I go to all the big matchup games and I never go with a ticket. I stand in front of field box entrance and ask for extras. 80 per cent of the time someone just gives me a ticket for free (I am charming, of course, while I'm begging!) and the other 20 per cent of the time I pay face value, and I'm talking the normal priced $20 ticket. If someone shows me a ticket with a face value of 40 or 50 or whatever because they bought it on line, I just say no thanks and wait for the next person. The system has NEVER failed; I have never had to drive home without seeing the game. Once inside field box level, I sit anywhere I like and with that ticket I can go anywhere in the stadium (except those new dugout seats behind home plate.) I've even walked into the Stadium Club and watched the game for a bit as I sat at the bar with a cocktail. But, of course, the best seat is behind either dugout (I prefer behind first base side so I can see into the Dodger dugout.) The ushers are far from strident and even if they have to ask you to move (which rarely happens), you just go to the next aisle. I don't think they care too much. The important thing to remember, and what I tell my friends when they say, "But it's sold out!" is that, yeah, the rest of the stadium might be sold out, but where I sit is in the corporate section and THERE ARE ALWAYS EMPTY SEATS THERE. Those seats are always sold, so being "sold out" doesn't apply here. And just by the way, I stay till the last out, I walk out of the stadium to my car which is parked near my favorite exit, I easily beat the crowd to the freeway entrance and I'm in my WLA home within a half hour of game's end. So, let me know the next time you want to go to Dodger Stadium. Perhaps I can show you the ropes.
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