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I'll put my name in for the grab bag. Thanks!

I agree with everything you said, bluemoundlotallstar, except the part about ticket prices being driven up by Season Ticket Holders who buy extra tickets and then resell them. What drives up ticket prices in my mind is that there are people willing to PAY outrageous prices. If people weren't willing to pay that much, prices would come down. Also, if people hadn't been willing to pay that much in the first place (ie in past years), the season ticket holders likely would never have bought them in the first place. Other than that, I completely agree. I have a hard time feeling sorry for any season ticket holder who is upset with the seat location they got for OD through the SSH presale. Success means high demand, which means games sell out faster, which means tickets at face value are harder to come by for the big games. If you're that upset about receiving "subpar" Opening Day tickets, then you have a couple options 1) Call and complain to your ticket rep. Do it without sounding too mean/aggressive, and depending on your past relationship as a SSH, maybe some of the extra OD tickets they still have reserved for late season ticket purchasers or other reasons may suddenly "open up." Doubtful, but who knows? 2) Sell these tickets for a premium then buy a better pair. I'm guessing your total net expenditure won't be that much more than if you had gotten the better seats at face right off the bat, if you plan it out well and know what you're doing. 3) Buy a full season or a different partial season plan next year.

Any tickets they have left for Opening Day that are currently reserved for late season ticket buyers they will probably make available the same way they did last year. Everyone who entered the lottery will probably get the chance to buy them online the day before the game. Only singles, obstructed view, and SRO mainly, unless you get really lucky. I got stuck in the waiting room for a while but managed to gain the privilege of paying $200 total for 3 singles obstruced view club level seats for someone I know.

Interesting point about eventually the demand will be for exam questions to be online. It's interesting to me mainly because I have a professor who gives 3 essay exams throughout the semester, and for each one, he gives out the "big" question ahead of time -- the one that requires the longest answer and is worth the most points. He says he does it because never in life will we be required to memorize a bunch of info and then write as much about a couple questions related to it as we can in 50 minutes. But, for example, we may be given a topic on which we must give a presentation to our boss/coworkers and have a couple days to get ready for it. Now, obviously this wouldn't work for all classes, most obviously the classes that give multiple-choice exams. But, I think in a way the prof has a point. And let me make it clear that he does not post a "sample answer" or anything like that, and he makes it very clear that neither he nor the TAs will discuss anything related to that question from the time he sends it out until after the exam.

All the games listed on your virtual waiting room screen (April 11th, May 8th-10th, June 13th) are technically "sellouts," judging by the fact that they are now selling SRO tickets for those games, which they only do when a game reaches its "sellout" point -- when only single seats and obstructed view are left. However, there are still tickets available for every game besides Opening Day.

Kids are 14 and under. Idk the exact age required for seniors. That said, once you buy the tickets, they're not actually going to check when you enter the game whether you have a discounted ticket or a regular ticket.

To discard tickets/games you don't want and still keep your window alive, you could always just take the seats they give you, then when it shows you your shopping cart, click on "add another game" at the bottom. Then, just pick the game you want. After selecting tickets to that game and being directed into your shopping cart again, simply check the box in the "Remove" Column for the tickets you don't want, click "Recalculate" at the bottom of the page, and it should bring up your shopping cart again with only the desired tickets. From there, you could always go back and still add more games. (You could even wait to remove the undesired tickets until the end, to give yourself the best chance at getting all the other tickets you want earlier on.)

Just wondering here, but are you sure they gave out that D-Mase bobblehead in 2007? I thought I got all the ones they gave out that year, which were Redd and Bogut.

Probably won't be much. Probably just a railing just to your right that may be in your way, especially maybe for seat 1 (since the way your seats will be situated, a "straight-ahead" view would have you looking into the outfield -- to look at home plate, you have to look to your right). I think in general, only seats with railings in the way of the infield (or some part of the field/foul play fairly close to it) count as obstructed view. I have sat in Bernie's Terrace before, and Bernie's dugout does literally block the whole outfield if you're in a higher row. However, those tickets aren't listed as obstructed view (at least they weren't when I sat there.) The only obstructed view seats I have ever sat in have all been terrace seats and have been ones where there's a handrail just in front of you, blocking a small portion of the infield. And just for the record, there are 106 Uecker seats.

Like I said, I believe it's illegal within some distance of the Kohl Center, and possibly Camp Randall too. One thing I know for sure though is that there are ALWAYS scalpers out selling tickets over face on the street corner for UW basketball games, football games, and hockey games. I have even seen some of the same guys selling reserved seats for the WIAA state basketball and wrestling tournaments for over face value.

For those people who haven't heard one way or the other, I'd consider calling the Brewer ticket office. It certainly can't hurt. I heard of similar things happening to people here at UW in the student lottery for football tickets, and it turned out that a lot of the people who didn't get emails actually won tickets.

Just for the record, scalping is not illegal in the state of Wisconsin or in any cities in Wisconsin. However, there may be some sort of city ordinances forbidding any sale of tickets within X amount of distance of a sporting venue. For example, it's technically illegal within 500 feet of the Bradley Center. It's technically illegal anywhere on Miller Park grounds except in the designated "resale zone" (there it's only allowed under face, although that rule is hardly enforced). At the Kohl Center, it's illegal to either sell tickets over face or to sell them in general (not sure which) inside the barriers in the walkways around the edge of the grounds. In any case, I don't really have an opinion one way or the other as far as selling tickets over face on this site. I have no problem with people selling tickets over face on ebay, stubhub, etc.

I laughed out loud when I read this. It fits one of my housemates PERFECTLY, except that she watches The CW, TLC, and the History Channel. It's really kind of irritating, but it would REALLY feel like a slap in the face if she actually got the grades the rest of us do. I honestly wonder how in the world she got into school here at Madison. I have another friend who got by in high school purely by smarts, not by effort. Now, in college, he skips class all the time, and expects my friends and I to help him out when he misses, including things like letting him copy assignments. (He actually got caught for having someone else do a final project for him for a class because he just didn't feel like doing it.) He had also planned a week-long cruise with his parents 2 weeks before spring break. Talk about planning that for a good time. And then he talked to a couple professors who are going to give exams that week, and they actually gave him permission to take the exams at a different time. On top of all this, he came up to me a few weeks ago and said he literally had no money, an empty bank account, and no food, because he was waiting for the paperwork on a new loan to go through. A friend of mine loaned him $100 for a week, but my thoughts were, you didn't know you were this low on cash two weeks ago? And then, if you're that low on money, why are your parents paying for you to go on a cruise rather than for you to go to school? (They ended up canceling the cruise because his dad is now in the hospital with a somewhat serious condition. I feel sorry for him for his dad's troubles, but for nothing else.) Sorry to rant, but it is very irritating that people like this with no work ethic and no common sense will earn undergrad degrees from UW-Madison just like I will.

I'm guessing you meant the 21st and 22nd... according to the nascar.com schedule that's when the Busch Series (now known as the Nationwide Series) and Nascar (Sprint Cup Series) Races are.

For some reason I thought they were holding the drawing and notifying the winners on or around Friday

The impression I got from the email was that the inventory of tickets for those games for season ticket holders was used up. The way they phrased it, they may make additional tickets for those games available to the general public once single-game tickets go on sale. Obviously, they still have yet to sell SRO for those games too.

no idea if this will help you or not, but here goes.... I don't know if it's possible to get them on their way in/out, but I believe they enter right off of State Street. For a lot of games there are coach buses along the side of the road there if my memory serves me right. Also, that would make sense for them to enter there, because that is the end of the arena on which all the players go into the tunnel to the locker rooms (at least for Bucks games... I have never paid attention at Marquette games). As far as getting autographs inside the stadium, I know for Bucks games you can go down to section 101 before the game. You can only wait in that section and can only go until all the players are done shooting around (usually about a half hour before the game). For Marquette games, I couldn't tell you whether they have the same policy or not. Hope this was some help to you....

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't include the fees. I guess my line of thinking is to expect the worst, and anything else that happens is a pleasant surprise.

Hard for me to blame Braun for personalizing when he isn't getting any money out of this. Also hard to blame the Brewers when they may not have known ahead of time that he was personalizing. One thing that I've learned from autograph collecting: there are lots of variables. You may have an usher who is slow to scan tickets for an Autograph Friday. You may be along a fence/railing where players start to sign at the opposite end as you, even though your end is the logical place to start. You may be next to kids, who a player or is more apt to sign for, or you may be next to collectors, who players may be less apt to sign for. In any case, I have learned to be as prepared as I can, and expect the "unlucky" experiences along with the "lucky" ones, while trying to learn the tricks to put yourself in a position to get lucky

My dad got 4 free courtside tickets from his ticket rep to a game earlier this year without even asking for them. The day of the game he called and asked for the tickets he left for a customer at will call to be changed back to his name since the customer backed out. Well, my dad opened the envelope up and the tickets were section 101, row BBB. The funny thing is my dad noticed they weren't the season tickets and argued with the guy at the window that they were the wrong tickets for about 5 seconds lol.

MLB The Show is the sole reason I sometimes wish I hadn't upgraded from a PS2 to an Xbox 360.

How old is this guy roughly? I may have an idea of who you're talking about.

I got Uecker's autograph at the Vince Lombardi Classic golf tourney in the Falls this past June. I was waiting with about 5 other people just off the 4th green. A couple people, including a dad with 2 girls, were following him because they didn't get him on the first couple holes. When he signed, I found out why they hadn't gotten him. Like all the big-name guys playing in the tournament, Uecker had extra security type guys with him. They had us form a line, and I was 5th in the line. As Uecker signed the one right before me, one of the security guys was like, "OK, this is the last one." Naturally, I wasn't too happy, and I just held out my ball anyways without saying anything. Uecker took my Official League ball and signed it on the sweet spot without so much as looking at me. I thanked him, and he still barely looked at me, let alone said anything. I also was lucky enough to get his autograph on my Brewers hat as he entered Kauffman Stadium in KC in 2006, and he was just as un-personable then too. He seems like an old man who just wants to enjoy his work and otherwise pretty much avoid people. I know someone who like Bob Uecker lives in the Falls who mentioned to me once that when Ueck goes to the grocery store or anywhere else around town, he wears sunglasses and puts his collar up really high. He just doesn't want to be bothered by the fans and doesn't want to sign autographs unless there are very few people around or if he has to.

But, if Braun was personalizing AND sweet-spotting, that's just about a fair trade-off if you're not planning to sell the item anyways. If I'm keeping it, I think I'd rather have it personalized and sweet-spotted than signed below the MLB logo.

This is just a story of sheer dumb luck, and the bat isn't from the greatest player, but I think it's kind of neat nonetheless. Back in 2007 I was at the Cubs-Brewers game on Friday, April 6th. My brother and I got there early and, since the Brewers were done taking BP, we walked down by the Cubs dugout. There is an usher who works down there fairly regularly who I know because my dad's company used to have season tickets in his section. Well, I went down to say hi to him, and he said he had something for me. He then pulled out a Cliff Floyd BP bat from underneath a row of seats. It turns out Floyd broke it and gave it to some of the grounds crew guys or something. Well, anyways, it was given to the usher, and he was told to give it to someone. He said he gave it to me because I was the first person who he knew that he saw. I examined the bat and honestly could not find where it was broken. As far as getting it signed, I tried a couple times in the future but to no avail. At least I finally managed to get it into the stadium. (The first couple times I tried were not autograph Fridays and I didn't have a case for my bat, so apparently it was considered a "weapon." But then I managed to borrow a case from a friend and email Mike Serio, the head of guest relations, who gave me the OK to bring it in in a case.) Basically, to wind up with a signed bat, you either have to get very lucky or pay a ton.