Jul 28 2008
WTF?
My husband purchased our tickets to Saturday’s Red Sox/Yankees game months ago, when they first went on sale. A few weeks ago, we receive a call from the Red Sox ticketing office. They asked my husband if it would be okay to move us over two seats because they wanted to sell 5 seats together, including our 2 seats, to which my husband replied, “No Way”. We sat in these seats for Game 1 of the World Series, and we were content to be in exactly those seats.
Apparently, the guy did it anyway. Issued our two seats to other people, then didn’t send us the new seats. We were told at the game that supposedly he left them at the on call window for us, but never told us this. How do you like that story? So needless to say when people showed up to sit in our seats we were none too pleased. That’s putting it mildly.
I asked the person sitting in the same seat as me if they had a friend in the ticket office to which they responded “No”. You know how you can tell when people are lying. I got that feeling that I wasn’t being told the whole truth in this case. I guess it is nice to have friends in the Red Sox Ticket Office who will conveniently move people if their friends need a block of seats together!
It all worked out in the end because seats 9 and 10 in the same row were just as good and were open for my husband and I, so we graciously moved down and all was good, except for the Red Sox losing that day! 
I found out after I moved, that I forfeited my seat to a Yankees fan. Had I known that I was moving for a Yankees fan, I would have not relinquished my seat and someone would be leaving on a stretcher and it wouldn’t have been me!
So I had to sit and make small talk with some woman next to me, who was wearing a Red Sox tank top with masking tape over the Sox logo. She bought a tank top to wear because she was warm, but she was a Yankee’s fan so she thought she would be clever to put the masking tape over the logo. It was all I could do to not tell her, in not so nice words, to get out of Fenway Park and go back to Connecticut or wherever she was from.
So a word of warning, don’t be surprised if you arrive at Fenway Park and this happens to you.
