The Miracle On Landsdowne St.

That's right, we went to Game 1 of the World Series at FENWAY PARK! And if you didn't know how hard those tickets are to get your hands on, you're looking at paying at least four times the face value, but more often these tickets are going for thousands of dollars.

Well, it was our normal Wednesday date night and we started into one of our normal routines. That's right...Chili's and we got our normal chips and salsa while splitting the quesadillas. But to change things up we had decided that we would go by Fenway to take in some of the atmosphere of the World Series before the game started. For fun, we decided to make a sign that read "Need 2 Face Value - Not Scalped Tix for Our Daughters First Sox Game." There was then a little arrow pointing down to Joy. About an hour before the game we went to one of the busiest places around the park and I held the sign up while Joy sat there revealing here cute little belly and waiting for sympathy coupled with extra tickets. Well, we got plenty of sympathy, laughs, good lucks, and a few ahhhs...but 15-20 minutes after standing there, a "miracle," as the guy next to us put it, occurred.

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A man by the name of Dennis walks up looking at our sign and chuckles. He had got his hands on a bunch of tickets and brought 13 friends and family with him to the game. However he had several leftover that he had been selling for well over $300 each which was 4x the face value. Somewhat moved by compassion, he asked if we were willing to go any higher seemingly wanting to sell us the tickets but not take to big of a hit because he too had bought them at an inflated price. We told him that we couldn't go any higher, but if he had any problems selling them that we would be right there. After taking about three steps away he spun around and asked, "Are you guys ready to go in right now?" Joy and I immediately looked at each other in amazement, not really thinking that we were going to be going to Game One of the World Series and decided to go for it. He escorted us in to make sure that we were going to sell them for a few hundred bucks ourselves.

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The atmosphere was so much fun and so exciting. Our seats were in the right field bleachers and we cheered on the Sox to a 13-1 victory. Now that is changing up our date night! I also got to see Peter Gammons, Chris Berman, and John Kruk.

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