Toronto Blue Jays fans are already facing an uphill battle even before the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers begins — trying to secure tickets to a home game.
Legions of Jays fans queued up on Ticketmaster on Wednesday to try and get tickets, which went on sale at 10 a.m. eastern time. But face-valu e admission was sc ooped up quickly, according to fans, leaving only pricey resale ones in their place.
Greg Overmonds was one of them. He logged in at 9:45 a.m. to try and get tickets, and wound up about 22,000th in line when he got his queue spot. At 10:25 a.m., he says he got a notice on-screen that said ticket inventory was limited, and only made it to the front of the line by 10:40 a.m.
By then, “they were all sold out and the only thing I could find was a $1,600 resale ticket in the 500 level,” which he said was out of his budget.
“It feels like we're being excluded from something that we've
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