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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

How desperate are you for Philadelphia Phillies' tickets? Would buy a premium, full-price ticket for a game all the way down in Miami...that was played four days ago? The Florida Marlins are banking on it!

You can own a piece of Phillies history, even if you weren't there to witness it. Today, the Florida Marlins will begin selling unused tickets to Roy Halladay's perfect game at the box office and online. Tickets will be regularly priced.

Paid attendance Saturday night when Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in baseball history was about 25,000, bolstered by postgame fireworks, and more than twice the crowd of 10,115 that showed up for yesterday's game against Milwaukee. That was the smallest crowd of the season.

Sun Life Stadium capacity is a little more than 36,000, so plenty of tickets remain available.

"I am sure the Marlins are doing this because they have a ton of tickets left over, given they don't really sell a lot of tickets to begin with," Taylor said.

So if the Marlins sell all 11,000 or so unused tickets, will they retroactively list the game as a sellout. This is so confusing. How many fans will buy the ticket, frame the stub, and tell their grandchildren in 50 years they were actually at the game. So many questions.

Two others things worth noting about Halladay's perfecto. First, I've often accused the Eagles of timing major moves -- like the Donovan McNabb trade, for example -- in a pathetic attempt to take the spotlight off of the Phillies. Well, the Birds are off the hook now. Halladay and the Phillies and their little "ploy" to grab the spotlight from the Flyers in the Stanley Cup finals was unconscionable.

Also, this once again confirms what I've learned since I came to the Daily News in 1995, which is that when it comes to news, Saturday rules, and Saturday of a three-day holliday weekend reigns supreme. Here's just a few things that have happened on a Saturday since then: The 2003 space shuttle disaster, the John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash, and impeachment of Bill Clinton, and on a Labor Day weekend, the death of Princess Diana and now the Phillies' first perfect game in 46 years on Memorial Day weekend.

Why take note? Because the Daily News doesn't publish on Sunday, so there's no front page to commemorate these events -- and when there's a major Monday holiday there is no paper for two straight days. I guess the Daily News is like Barack Obama: God doesn't like us.

Posted by Will Bunch @ 12:09 PM  Permalink | 26 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:22 PM, 06/01/2010
    Still nothing on the WPE -Worst President Ever? This is an Epic failure. There are too many issues to list with this Obama Administration-Bunch was obsessed with Bush/ Cheney - yet nothing on Obama, Pelosi, Reid- Joe Biden makes Dan Quayle look like a genius- yet nothing on Biden's 200 errors?.....Can Obama do anything else wrong? He is batting 1000% in failure.....
    Manny Trillo
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:23 PM, 06/01/2010
    "Hey look aover there everyone- Glenn Beck, don't mind the Great Obama debacle going on, nothing to see there......"
    Manny Trillo
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:26 PM, 06/01/2010
    Sounds convoluted. A lot like padding job creation numbers with "saved" jobs.
    jmc
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:29 PM, 06/01/2010
    Will, what really bothers me about this ploy by the Marlins is how can you tell if they stop selling seats when it sells outs? Not like people can show up for last Saturdays game and say "hey, you're in my seat". Seems pretty bogus.
    bird11
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:38 PM, 06/01/2010
    Will, I hope you didn't expect any good will (no pun intended) to carry over from your excellent Memorial Day post.
    bird11
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:40 PM, 06/01/2010
    LOL, Bird11 -- of course not!
    will
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:42 PM, 06/01/2010
    So many questions, so few question marks, pro.
    SteveMG
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:45 PM, 06/01/2010
    This team is unwatchable right now.
    RG
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:47 PM, 06/01/2010
    Will Bunch- Hope and Change Apologist. Can someone list what exactly has changed since the 2nd coming of Christ?
    Manny Trillo
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:54 PM, 06/01/2010
    Manny- to answer your question, the war in Iraq is over, deficits are under control, taxes are getting lower, everyone who wants a job can find one, the government is now competent, seal levels are lowering, gitmo is closed, Iran and North Korea have abandoned their weapons programs, the terrorists have stopped trying to harm us, etc etc etc. Manny do you have a job?
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:01 PM, 06/01/2010
    Watch next the 1st lady will become pregnant to divert attention away from her husbands bumbling.
    MikeD930
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:12 PM, 06/01/2010
    Al and Tipper are separating. Add one more person to the list who can't stand Gore.
    bird11
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