Wednesday, October 16 Trades offered for elusive World Series tickets Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- It's the San Francisco version of "Let's Make a Deal.''
Holders of World Series tickets willing to trade could get anything from a week at a ski condo to a five-course dinner prepared by a gourmet chef to a roundtrip ticket to Sydney, Australia.
On Wednesday, 1,750 fans who had received orange wristbands two days earlier got in line at Pacific Bell Park to buy four tickets each.
The wheeling and dealing is happening online.
The buzz of morning talk shows was a woman on Craigslist.org who offered two prime World Series tickets for a sperm donation.
"You can bet that the child will be raised a Giants fan!'' promised her lengthy ad.
Others got straight to the point: "What's the craziest thing you'd do for two seats right behind the Giants dugout?''
Empty-handed fans offered thousands of dollars, dates, free hotel stays -- seemingly anything they could think of.
Others holding tickets saw the frenzy as their big chance. One poster was looking for a new computer, another, a motorcycle. |
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