VEB DAY 2011: FROM TORONTO WITH LOVE
by Alxfritz on Mar 22, 2011 4:10 PM EDT
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Hello (or, as the say in Canada "Helloooooh!"),
The winner of our poll for VEB Day 2011 is the Jun 25th matchup versus our friendly neighbors to the North, the only Major League Baseball team which still plays America's Hat, the Toronto Blue Jays. They used to have the coolest logo ever:
But like the Indiana Jones franchise, Growing Pains (starring Canada's main export, Alan Thicke!), and everything else awesome from my youth, it has been ruined.
Anyhoo... the game is at 6:15 and I'll put some ideas for pre/post game activities together later. What we need to decide now is how we want to do tickets. Vote in the poll on the option you prefer, and if you definitly plan on attending, leave a comment below with the number of seats you'll be occupying [ie +1, +2, +7 (if gdm brings the voices with him)].
Poll closes April 8th!
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Fritz +1
Wait, why am I talking to myself?
"In 2035, 25 young men will be able to call themselves world champions. Some of those guys haven’t even been born yet. And some of fang are Asian." -Mike Shannon
Albrtfn +1
I’ll be getting my own tix with the 2 free vouchers that come with Cardinals Nation.
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
I'm confused
Are the numbers by our names the total number of seats we’re getting or our “plus one”? As in I’m coming AND my wife is coming.
I meant me and my wife.
What’s going on down thread with people putting zeros and whatnot is confusing me.
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
Too early to know for me
At least the Jays do throwback Fridays
Auburn Tigers - 2010 National Champions, 2011 Fulmer Cup Champions
Count me in
Just one ticket
Proud member of the Sports Injury Industrial Complex: We feel your pain and it feels good.
a fink + 1
How would this work? Someone would buy all the tickets and we’d owe ya? Or do we pick a section and all buy on our own?
If it's a meme, or looks like it might be a meme, I do not get it.
If everyone sits together is the winner
then we sit around for a few days really awkwardly until someone comes forward to front everyone on the tickets. Once nobody comes forward, I will get stuck fronting everyone on the tickets, have to put in a big group order that my wife will hat me for, and lose money in the end.
So, free-for-all is my choice as it means nobody gets screwed on someone not showing up/not paying/ feeling like an asshole charging more money than the ticket says its worth b/c the Cardinals are dicks. Also, it means that we’re not forcing someone to pay for a seat they don’t want to pay too much for.
I hope to have cool enough places organized both before and after that we don’t have to feel compelled to sit together… unless you do, then go in together on your own tix.
We could also split it up so those that want their own seats get them and the rest get some place together all-inclusive? I don’t know. I hate organizing this shit.
"In 2035, 25 young men will be able to call themselves world champions. Some of those guys haven’t even been born yet. And some of fang are Asian." -Mike Shannon
A good compromise might be
‘try to sit in section X, and we’ll arrange to all wear some identifying feature, like an awesome white ‘80s headband’
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
"Hey guys!"
"In 2035, 25 young men will be able to call themselves world champions. Some of those guys haven’t even been born yet. And some of fang are Asian." -Mike Shannon
I don't see why this can't be the last option
add in getting together before and after the game and it sounds grand
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
can't we rent out the champions club or something?
what’s the box where it has all the awesome food & they have called a game from before?
Balls
i plan on being way too drunk before the game to get my $100+ worth out of the champions club
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
damn
didn’t know that was that expensive
by Cards Fan in Chitown on Mar 23, 2011 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Why not do on of the last two options?
Let groups form if they wish. Nobody has to be “in charge” except among those that want to sit in the group.
If it's a meme, or looks like it might be a meme, I do not get it.
I won't be in if it goes all-inclusive.
If it's a meme, or looks like it might be a meme, I do not get it.
I hope to be able to go
95% count me in
by Cards Fan in Chitown on Mar 22, 2011 11:48 PM EDT reply actions
RiverRat -0.
Also, screw you Fritz.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
I'm really surprised he went with you and not bobo
Auburn Tigers - 2010 National Champions, 2011 Fulmer Cup Champions
by jd is legend on Mar 23, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm assuming that there's a new twitter account in the making.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
Stlcardsfan4, 0
I might end up going though but I cannot commit to anything
"And a boring game for boring people. Did you ever watch golf on television? It's like watching flies FUCK. Think of the intellect it must take to draw pleasure from this activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick and then WALKING AFTER IT" -George Carlin
what the hell do you do?
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
coming in 2011: Boog would've moments count....
That's cool my gf lives in Canada
yeah, Canada
by FlimtotheFlam on Mar 26, 2011 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
mysterui +1
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
Alright everyone
shut it down.
Proud member of the Sports Injury Industrial Complex: We feel your pain and it feels good.
by azruavatar on Mar 24, 2011 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
unless the +1 is his mother
Skip Schumaker fields like a goat wearing capes
by mattyfrommo on Mar 24, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Oh, sorry Rui, looks like it's all sold out.
"In 2035, 25 young men will be able to call themselves world champions. Some of those guys haven’t even been born yet. And some of fang are Asian." -Mike Shannon
by Alxfritz on Mar 24, 2011 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
nice!
i was confused by the whole system of +1’s or whatever.
i’ll be coming down, and i prefer free-for-all, because if my plans change, i’ll just mail my ticket to someone. just like how i got my ticket last year!
excited to drink with internet friendz again
"...and pujols has given st louis the lead"
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by tgreenfield on Mar 24, 2011 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
you're welcome!
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
I hate all of you
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
by mysterui on Mar 24, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
you jerk won't be bringing the wife?
as soon as the ink dries she’s not getting courted anymore? that’s just cold
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
coming in 2011: Boog would've moments count....
Another ticket option
(hi all…long time, no post for this guy)
I wonder if we might hold out in hopes of taking advantage of a “cheap” all-inclusive promo? It is a little risky, but this is sort of a “random” game.
Basically, when they have a bunch of unsold all-inclusive seats – and they have these quite a bit – they blast a discount offer to people who are signed up to receive promos and junk via stlcardinals.com. I received a number of emails last year advertising ridiculously discounted all-inclusive tix. I’m talking like $50-60 for weekend games.
Like I said, it’s a little risky, but if you’re willing to roll the dice, you will likely be pleasantly surprised. And if they don’t offer a good deal, you could probably just find tix another way (e.g., the normal online method, Craigslist, buying them from a sketchy guy by the stadium, buying them from a not-so-sketchy guy by the stadium, etc.).
Just another option to consider, as it looks like we’re pretty split.
I don't see it happening on an interleague game
by FlimtotheFlam on Mar 24, 2011 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions
on a saturday
"I still don’t understand what commercial is better than having me on tv" – Chris Carpenter
coming in 2011: Boog would've moments count....
Maybe, maybe not
but I remember getting a few of those type of emails last year. Ditto for weekend games. Hell, they offered a discounted All-Inclusive deal for a Labor Day weekend series vs. the Reds AFTER the kicking/trash-talking incident last year. To me, that’s much more in demand than a Saturday game against a 4th place AL-East team.
I’m in a season ticket group with some folks at work. There were probably 3 or 4 times, easy, that I sold my own tickets to buy that same game’s All-Inclusives. All I’m saying is that IF people aren’t trying to pigpile in the same section AND they’re willing to wait on tickets, there’s a decent chance they’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Has anybody ever been burned by the scalpers outside?
I had good luck the couple of times I dealt with them. You just have to hustle the hustlers.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
key to buying from scalpers
always gotta be willing to walk away
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
You know they don't actually scalp people, right?
"Sometimes you scare me." - azruavatar
by spants on Mar 25, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
oh ya, that's the first, maybe second move in getting a deal.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
Exactly
I’ve actually walked away and come back two hours later to get tickets before. You just have to be willing to do something different. In that instance I got four seats in section 163 for $35 a piece to a Friday night Padres/Cards game. You just have to know how much demand there actually is and go from there.
by WizardofOz1982 on Mar 28, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
dttl89 +3
Yeah…Me and two friends…be jealous…
BTW, one of them is a girl.
check out VEB on facebook...just search groups for Viva El Birdos
Your mom doesn't count
bollocks
by SecondHalfMatt on Mar 25, 2011 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
I know...
But yours does!
check out VEB on facebook...just search groups for Viva El Birdos
by Dttl89 on Mar 28, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
OH THE DOUBLE ZINGER
Which, coincidentally, I also gave your mom last night
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
Twitter | Gas House Graphs
by mysterui on Mar 28, 2011 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I am totally in
I voted all-inclusive but it won’t happen. They are $100 at ticket min on the weekends. It worked out pretty well last year for just one person to buy all the tickets.
Solanus & Rejuvenile, as usual
If I’m gainfully employed by the middle or end of April, I might be able to front for the group. I don’t want to chance it before then.
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink", Watterson
I voted All-Inclusive
It’s a profitable venture for a fellow of my appetites. I’ll have to make some inquiries before knowing how many in my party, but it’s going to be in the 2-6 range.
Guys like Bradley are exactly why we can't have a pumpkin patch anymore.
how much is all inclusive?
no dingers allowed
by Cards Fan in Chitown on Apr 6, 2011 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm in +2 (hopefully the wife can make it this year)
Wait what am I saying? That I want my wife to accompany me to meet a bunch of baseball nerds while I get shit faced and make an ass of myself. Of course she knows all this already. Not sure why she married me…..?
Anyway, I will check into group pricing. Since I bought all the tix last year, I have group sales contacting me this year anyway. I will ask about the party rooms, all-inclusive and others.
I should have some info soon. My only problem is that I cannot post from work anymore and yes, Flim I do know about the proxy. Unfortunately so does my techie brother who runs our network at my work.
"The Helping Phriendly Book it seems contained the ancient secrets of eternal joy and neverending splendor. The trick was to surrender to the flow." Phish - The Lizards
Coincidentally, I already have tickets for this game
so I will actually get to attend VEB day instead of being in STL but having to watch the last 10 minutes of the game from a bar because of other obligations.
Yay!
I created the first #BrendanRyan hashtag on Twitter. EDIT: (I think)
"I think those scorers must be from Mars or Venus. Or maybe they're just from that book." --Mike Shannon, 7/09/2009
I hate day games.
Listened to most of it, but, fuck day games.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
by RiverRat on Apr 6, 2011 9:35 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
wrong thread.
dumbass.
Asshattery: it's an epidemic.
Second base….I’ve played second base, how hard can it be? -TLR
Also, Dave Concepcion.
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