Results tagged “redsoxtickets”

Are you feeling jittery about registering for the chance to buy Sox playoff tickets in the middle of a wild card race? We imagine that people aren't only worried about giving the Sox their credit card information without actually buying anything, there's also the fact that many people think talking about playoffs means you're jinxing playoffs. more ›

Is anybody else sketched out by this? In order to register for a chance to buy postseason Red Sox tickets (should they, er, make the postseason), you have to give Major League Baseball and Sports Illustrated your credit card number. We understand the rationale—nobody wants scalpers registering thousands of times—but have we reached that point in our society where anybody is willing to give away valuable access to their money, credit history, and financial future simply to have a vanishingly small chance of being given the opportunity to maybe buy some Red Sox tickets? Did we just answer our own question? more ›

Yesterday, Bostonist received a notice from Sam Yoon's campaign urging us to enter a sweepstakes that that the mayoral candidate was holding. The prize? A pair of box seats to tonight's Red Sox-Yankees game. The details were simple. Text "Red Sox" to the Yoon campaign's special phone number, which subscribes you to Yoon's text alert service, and wait to see if you ended up with the tickets. It's pretty sweet deal, if you were the winner, but doesn't it sound sort of fishy? Can the Yoon campaign legally pay people to become supporters? more ›