Well, I finally found a little luck! Every year I sign up for a chance to win the right to purchase Boston Red Sox playoff tickets. There is an online drawing for division series, league championship series, and world series. And each year, I lose.
Not this year, baby. On Tuesday I received an email telling me I won the right to "try" and purchase two tickets to home game two in Boston for the ALCS. I knew there was a catch, and indeed there was. It seems what you "win" is the opportunity to log on to a secure website the following day between 11:00 a.m. CDT and 5:00 p.m. CDT where you will wait in a virtual waiting room to be randomly selected for the chance to buy tickets. Of course everywhere on the page it repeatedly said "while supplies last" and "if available", etc. Also, if you messed anything up, i.e., address, name, password, etc., it would kick you off the page and relegate you back to your couch to watch the game on TBS.
After almost one full hour of watching the automatic counter count down from 30 seconds to 0 and then reset it finally happened. I got in. I was afraid I would inadvertently hit "enter" before I was finished and it would kick me out. Fortunately the story has a good ending with me purchasing two tickets, lower level right field, second row, right next to the Sox pen where I can watch Mississippi State product Jonathan Papelbon get ready.
Jamie and I are heading up to Boston Monday night and will return Wednesday. We are super pumped!
