Ticketmaster refusing to sell Red Sox-Yankees playoff tickets to Mass. residents

[usonian]

https://www.masslive.com/sports/event-tickets/2025/09/red-sox-vs-yankees-tickets-where-to-buy-al-wild-card-series-tickets-at-yankee-stadium.html

The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees face off in the American League Wild Card series this week, with all games at Yankee Stadium. Here’s everything you need to know about how to buy tickets so you don’t miss out on this classic rivalry in October baseball.

The series kicks off on Tuesday, September 30, at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN. Tickets are on sale on Ticketmaster, but fans should know that tickets sold through Ticketmaster are restricted to residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania because Yankee Stadium is located in the Bronx, NY.

“Yankee Stadium is located in Bronx, New York,” Ticketmaster points out on the site. “Sales to this event will be restricted to residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Residency will be based on credit card billing address. Orders by residents outside New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania will be canceled without notice and refunds given.

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Fans outside of these states who are looking for the best prices and seats can shop online using reliable third-party ticket sellers, such as StubHub, Vivid Seats, and SeatGeek. These ticket sellers don’t have restrictions for the MLB Playoffs.

[underpants]

1. A holes.

[JT45242]

2. Honestly surprised that not all the playoff tickets for original sale were not gobbled up by season ticket holders

It used to be that when teams were approaching the playoffs, they would be given the green light to start selling playoff tickets by the league.

most teams gave preferential treatment to season tickets and often held a lottery or similar thing to get tickets (that's how I got tickets to the first playoff games at Jacobs Field in Cleveland in the mid 1990s).

This was a method that was meant to try to keep the tickets out of the hands of scalpers -- now of course MLB and the other sports leagues are in cahoots with the scalpers at StubHub and others as well as the evil monopoly of exploding fees that is ticketmaster.

[usonian]

3. Scalpers, gambling ...

And we got upset at baseball's long history of racism and tolerance for PED's.

They just keep finding new ways to blacken their socks.

(hits garbage can)

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. I've never heard that expression "to blacken their socks"

If you invented it, congrats. Clever.

[usonian]

5. Refers to the Black Sox scandal of 1919

I was not there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein. There is strong evidence both for and against Rothstein's involvement; however, there is no conclusive indication that the gambling syndicate's actions were directed by or involved organized crime. In response, the National Baseball Commission was dissolved and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed to be the first commissioner of baseball, and given absolute control over the sport to restore its integrity.

LANDIS? Racist to the core.

One of the most controversial aspects of Landis's commissionership is the question of race. From 1884, black ballplayers were informally banned from organized baseball. No black ballplayer played in organized baseball during Landis's commissionership; Rickey (then running the Brooklyn Dodgers) broke the color line by signing Jackie Robinson to play for the minor league Montreal Royals in 1946, after Landis's death. Robinson became the first African-American in the major leagues since the 19th century, playing with the Dodgers beginning in 1947.

Integrity, my ass!