Pain and Torture of Buying Yankees Tickets

So I'm headed into work this morning and I here on the 20/20 update machine on 1050 espnradio that Yankees single game tickets go on sale today. Sweet, I got this, first time I actually remembered to do this and I'm going to get a bunch of Red Sox and Mets tickets. Hell I even have two computers at work I'll just punch everything in at 10 on the dot and zip there will be a bunch of games sitting on my lap. Or not. See those screen shots ya thats the what I had staring me in the face for countless minutes, pain and torture. I had my Internet Explorer going and my FireFox going, yet it didn't appear to help. All I did was stare at those searching screens forever.

It took under 30 minutes for the opening series of the Red Sox to have only single tickets available.

Prior to 10 I looked at the schedule and saw that the Mets were playing in Yankee stadium on Fathers day, well thats certainly the perfect gift, so I focused mose of my attention on that, only to get denied on every day. Boourns. You want to know what failure looks like its that screen shot to the right.

In the end I was able to get Red Sox tickets on a Monday night, where with my great luck it will either be the season finale of 24 or I will have class that night anyway, the final home game of the season versus the Blue Jays on a sunday when my luck the Jets will be playing the Pats or someone cool at the same time and Sunday July 1st versus the A's (I like their pitching staff)in the Alcohol Free Section. I suck at this, Ugh...

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