of this World Series matchup:
1. Secondary-market tickets are going for about $50 percent more in Philly than in New York. With the I-95 corridor proximity of the teams, ticket brokers are expecting a bigger Philly presence at the games in Yankee Stadium than the other way around.
“We’ll be watching prices in Philadelphia and New York very closely in the coming days to see what happens to ticket availability and prices,” a broker said. “If these prices hold, look for lots of red in Yankee Stadium.”
2. It’s making Mets fans inconsolably miserable. (An odd footnote: the linked story was written by A.G. Sulzberger, 28 year-old scion of the dynastic family that owns the New York Times.)
Pathetic, actually, that Mets’ fans are developing a Cub-fan-like complex , replete with romantic failure-angst. Their club has won two World Series, one by getting on one of those unstoppable and inexplicable rolls and beating an utterly superior opponent (1969), the other handed to them through Bill Buckner’s legs (1986).
Nobody owes them anything.
In related news, it’s apparently very good to be a Phillie right now in ways that are only tangentially connected to baseball. To summarize, chicks dig Charlie Manuel.
