So\u2026 it\u2019s not been a good week in Royals-land. Back on April 30th, the Royals stood at 12-19 after losing a Thursday game to the Homeless A\u2019s. I was tempted to put in a poll: \u201cWill the Royals reach .500 again this season?\u201d They proceeded to win 5-in-a-row and 7 of 9 to get to 19-21. Maybe the team had turned a corner? However, they never got back to .500. With the team at 20-30, I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s worth posting a poll. It\u2019s going to take a ridiculous hot streak just to get back to .500 now. And most teams don\u2019t stay hot forever, even good ones. It seems particularly unlikely for a team that still can\u2019t put together much offense, keeps losing starting pitchers, and has a questionable bullpen taking on water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This is still just\u2026 I don\u2019t even know what to say:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But, hey, life is full of surprises. I bet you didn\u2019t expect to see John Bale today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hm\u2026 news is tough to come by. The Star and KCRoyals.com have no new articles. David Lesky\u2019s and Craig Brown\u2019s latest are recaps from Wednesday night. I think everyone just wanted a breather yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We\u2019re going to switch things up and start with blogs and then do a couple of listicles for our \u201cofficial\u201d stories. How\u2019s that sound?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Leading off today, Kevin O\u2019Brien, formerly the Royals Reporter, now at Royals Keep, writes about what Jac needs to do to get into the lineup more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Against lefties, Cags ranks in the 7th percentile in Z-Swing% (swings on pitches in the strike zone), 11th percentile in O-Swing% (swings outside the strike zone), and 94th percentile in Strike% (percentage of pitches he\u2019s seen that are strikes). Conversely, against righties, he ranks in the 60th percentile in Z-Swing%, 57th percentile in O-Swing%, and 19th percentile in Strike% (lower is good in this case).<\/p>\n So what do these metrics mean?<\/p>\n Against lefties, Cags is swinging more, chasing less, and facing more challenges from pitchers. Unfortunately, he\u2019s being challenged because the production isn\u2019t there against lefties (1st percentile xwOBA), and he tends to chase. His chase issues are also prevalent against breaking pitches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Two listicles, as promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At The Athletic ($), Jim Bowden asks if eight veterans are slumping or in their decline phase<\/a>. A prominent Royal made the list:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Salvador Perez, C, Kansas City Royals<\/strong> Perez, 36, is a future Hall of Famer, team leader and the face of the Royals franchise. He was a star during this spring\u2019s World Baseball Classic, but he\u2019s showing signs that age is catching up to him. His early-season slump could be due to playing in the WBC and not having a normal spring training because last year he hit 30 homers and drove in 100 runs and he played like an All-Star. However, he\u2019s slashing just .199\/.249\/.343 \u2014 the worst slashline of his career.<\/p>\n Like Machado, Perez has seen his bat speed decline some this season, though Perez\u2019s attack angle remains solid (12 degrees). He\u2019s chasing pitches at a very high rate (46.4 percent, in the 1st percentile for the league), which could be a sign he\u2019s trying to swing early to make up for the slower bat, or could just be an approach issue.<\/p>\n He can still contribute, but the Royals probably need to give him more days off, especially with rookie catcher Carter Jensen on the roster. Keep in mind decline can be gradual or sudden, there is no consistent pattern across the league.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n At ESPN, Kiley McDaniel updates his Top 50 prospects list<\/a>. One quick-rising Royal made the list:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 50 FV tier<\/strong> We talked about Olympic movies last week, but let\u2019s talk about something else Olympic-related. For those of you who don\u2019t like the Olympics, find the IOC on a level of corruption of FIFA, or whatever else – you\u2019re probably not wrong. This just isn\u2019t your Friday. Maybe you don\u2019t want to read about frustration. I get that. We have some funny stuff down in SotD. But for the rest of you, buckle in for a 6000-word OT. Besides, today\u2019s post isn\u2019t exactly about the Olympics proper. It\u2019s also about game theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As far back as I can remember, I\u2019ve always loved the Olympics. Back in 1996, I remember we drove to where the torch passed through Houston, and I still have some old photographs of the event. I\u2019m an Olympic junkie, binging as much as I can for two weeks straight every couple of years. I love the idea of the games, and I love the spectacle of it, even as I know there is a lot of imperfection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To go to the Olympics has always been a true bucket list item for me. I\u2019ve had it on my travel spreadsheet for years, and we\u2019ve now started making plans. We\u2019ve been setting aside money and points for tickets and accommodations. I entered the 2024 Paris Olympic ticket draw so I could experience the process. And I\u2019ve tried to read up as much as I can to prepare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This post is about where we are in the LA28 Olympics ticketing process and plans going forward. If you have designs on going, maybe this will help you out. For those involved with the 2026 World Cup, a lot of this will feel similar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you\u2019ve read Friday Rumblings long enough, you know how I like to do this: link after link of relevant data to back up what I\u2019m saying. However, some of this data is intentionally opaque\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Just to get an example, I tried to get a high-level answer to a simple question: how many total tickets are available for the Olympics? You\u2019ll see the number \u201c14 million\u201d thrown around over<\/a> and over<\/a> – but it\u2019s always with the caveat of \u201c14 million for Olympics and Paralympics\u201d. The Paralympics is a fine event, but we won\u2019t be there for that portion of the games; I\u2019m trying to determine how many tickets are available specifically for the Olympic games. I searched using search engines, I searched using Reddit, I even tried to argue with Gemini for 15 minutes. But it kept producing link after link that didn\u2019t have the relevant data. I swear, calling LLMs on their BS can be a full-time job. NOTE: I wrote this paragraph a month ago and maybe it\u2019s been clarified sinc\u2026. but I doubt it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n We\u2019re going to use an estimate of 11M Olympic tickets and 3M Paralympic tickets, going off of recent history. For Paris<\/a>, they sold 9.5M Olympic tickets and 2.5M Paralympic tickets for a roughly 80\/20 split. An estimate of 11\/3 puts us in the same ballpark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Why does this matter? In the end, with a lottery and opaque pricing, supply matters. A friend of mine* pithily summed up my pursuit: \u201cit\u2019s just one big game of chicken\u201d. Sort of, yeah. There\u2019s also a lot of backup plans and opportunity cost to add to this game theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n *yes, I have nerdy friends who like to tabletop stuff like this with me<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s also going to matter for pricing breakdowns of tickets. From the link above<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In total, around 14 million tickets will be available for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games combined, with sales taking place in several phases and the Paralympic ticket draw beginning in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Looking back at Paris 2024, many ticketing aspects were similar to LA28<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The ticketing phases have already deviated significantly from Paris. Here were the 2024 ticketing phases:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s what we\u2019ve seen so far from LA:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One significant wrinkle was the Phase 0 lottery. The first few days were only open to residents of LA and Oklahoma City (OKC is hosting a handful of events). One day before the Phase 1 lottery slots opened, LA28 announced that there would be no refresh of tickets<\/a> between Phase 0 and Phase 1. This led to a \/lot\/ of anger and disappointment. As noted in the official announcement<\/a>: \u201c95% of all tickets under $100 were sold during the LA & OKC Locals Presale\u201d and, ahead of the drop \u201cLA28 claims 30% of remaining tickets are under $200, users report that marquee events\u2014specifically the Opening and Closing Ceremonies\u2014often show only premium seats costing upwards of $5,000\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I\u2019m going to try and make that sound less abstract with some examples below. The first thing to keep in mind is that you aren\u2019t buying a specific seat, you\u2019re buying a \u201czone\u201d. Let\u2019s make it Royals-centric, too. Pretend tomorrow\u2019s game is in the Olympics and you want to buy 4 tickets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s the available zones and prices:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You can already see some problems. If you pay $30 just to get in the door, you can\u2019t get too upset if you\u2019re in the back of 401 or the front row of 433. However, if you\u2019re paying $500, I\u2019m guessing you care a lot if you\u2019re at the back of 217 versus 2 rows behind the Royals dugout. I would even argue that knowing which specific seat you\u2019re getting could be the difference between going to the game or staying home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Now imagine you won the first day of the Phase 1 lottery. But, when you log in, you see that Phase 0 bought up all the seats under $100 and you\u2019re left trying to decide which of Zones A-D you want, if any. You would have happily paid $50 for Zone F and not cared what you got, but that\u2019s not available. Now you\u2019re playing roulette with tickets three times as much: do you end up in the sun out in 324 or maybe you get some of the nice shaded ones in the front row of 309. Never mind if you are in the latter days of Phase 1. Now all the $150 and $250 seats are sold out so it\u2019s $500+ or don\u2019t go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It can\u2019t possibly be that bad, right? Well, yes and no. Let\u2019s look at some examples to illustrate. There were folks on Reddit who did a wonderful service of posting all available tickets and the lowest prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n These events were already sold out by April 9: Artistic Gymnastics, Artistic Swimming, BMX Freestyle\/Racing, Climbing, Cycling (Track), Diving, Flag Football, Golf, Modern Pentathlon, Mountain Bike, Opening Ceremony, Rhythmic Gymastics, Rowing, Shooting, Skateboarding, Squash, Table Tennis, Tennis, Trampoline Gymnastics, Weightlifting. This doesn\u2019t mean they were sold out of all tickets for the Olympics. But it means their Phase 0\/1 tickets were sold out. Basically, if you didn\u2019t live in LA\/OKC (or have a way to fake that you did), you had no access to any of these sports. Not \u201cno $28 tickets\u201d, not \u201cyou could pay a lot and still get tickets\u201d – no tickets available at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On April 9th, here\u2019s the cheapest you could get for these sports: Athletics (Track) medal round ($744), Baseball Bronze Medal Game ($465; Gold was sold out), Beach Volleyball ($558 for prelims – sold out by end of 1st day), Equestrian ($292 – sold out by end of 1st day), Closing Ceremony ($4961), Swimming ($1116 for prelims), and Wrestling ($396). That\u2019s not to say there aren\u2019t some good events with decent tickets available, but that\u2019s a lot off the table or at prohibitively high prices before most people ever had a chance at them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Let\u2019s say you had a drop on April 17th (the last drop). You see the list on April 9th and start making a plan. Here\u2019s how it went for various sports (the parenthetical :<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ahead of the final day of Phase 1, the only tickets available for under $200 were Cricket prelims ($100\/$174\/$192, depending on session), Field Hockey prelims ($174), and some of the soccer matches outside of LA (Nashville and St. Louis, specifically).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aside: For all the talk online about how awful LA28 handled this, I\u2019ll refer back to this article<\/a> that came out ahead of Phase 2 for Paris: \u201cMany French people were indeed disappointed by the first phase, because even if they were drawn, most of the disciplines were already unavailable and the prices were inaccessible.\u201d Sound familiar?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Also, if you want to compare ticket prices between Paris and LA, there are substantial differences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s a link<\/a> to the Paris ticket prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s a link<\/a> to a spreadsheet that a Redditor has put together of LA ticket prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A quick spot check of prices (not including the $28 tickets that are impossible gets) tells me that most prices are 2-4x what they were for Paris. C\u2019est la Vie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And this is where I come into the story. My wife and I both entered the lottery. You\u2019re only allowed one account per person, but multiple people in a household can enter. Considering there are 3 of us in the household and a 12-ticket limit between Phase 1 and Phase 2, that means 4 events for each of us. If I\u2019m flying out there and paying what I\u2019m going to pay for a hotel, I\u2019d like to see a fair number of events. While 4 is not enough, 8 is a good start until the secondary market opens up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n With my luck, I wasn\u2019t picked for Phase 1 at all, and my wife was picked for the very last day of Phase 1. Sad trombone. Those hypothetical plans above? I was that person making them. Not for those sports, specifically. But I watched tickets melt away, day-by-day. Needless to say, the plans that I made at the start of the Phase were not the plans I have now. I\u2019ve set aside a decent chunk of cash for this trip and did not expect tickets to be cheap. However, there are \u201c$100-$200 not-cheap-tickets\u201d and there are \u201cfamily-of-three costs a mortgage payment for one event not-cheap-tickets\u201d and the latter was almost all of what was left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There\u2019s a few other bits before we really dive in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n First off, there\u2019s timing. We\u2019re not going to be able to stay for the entire Olympic Games. Lodging will be exorbitant, so we\u2019re probably limiting ourselves to 1 week in LA. It will also be tricky. I don\u2019t trust rentals one bit. There are legions of stories of Airbnb hosts cancelling right before large events because they could sell for more. With hotels, you have a little more leverage because of their parent company. Marriott, Hilton, etc, have literally thousands of rooms around the LA area in the event of an issue. There\u2019s a risk of overbooking your room, but they\u2019re not going to yank your reservation a week before you arrive just to sell it for $200 more. With us arriving before the games officially start, it\u2019s more likely we won\u2019t be the ones bumped, but someone arriving later. I\u2019m also not above reserving multiple refundable reservations and cancelling an unused one (we did that for the 2024 eclipse). As noted above, I have a fair number of hotel points saved up with a couple of different chains so that may also help. Also, many people did this for Paris: reserve at an acceptable-ish price early and then rebook late when prices come down. Again, World Cup much?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s the LA28 schedule<\/a>. For comparison, here\u2019s Paris\u2019s schedule<\/a>. The biggest quirk compared to years past is that they\u2019ve basically swapped Track and Swimming. For LA, Track is the first week and Swimming is the second week. They\u2019ve also stretched out Artistic Gymnastics to cover almost a week and a half, but it\u2019s still front-loaded. Baseball starts before the Opening Ceremony and ends in the first week. Also, there are more preliminaries on days T-2 and T-1 than in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After making a list of sports\/events we\u2019d like to see, the first week seemed like the obvious choice. Even beyond that, my wife and I thought it would be good to go out there for some of the prelims before the Opening Ceremony and leave around the middle of the first week. That way, we might get in before prices are at their maximum. We can enjoy a week of Olympics up close and then fly back home to binge the remaining week and a half of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Geography is going to play a big role, too. Anyone who has ever been out to LA knows that it\u2019s huge. And this is coming from a guy who lives in the endless expanse of concrete known as Houston. It\u2019s also full of traffic. At all hours. Every. single. day. They\u2019ve made great strides in their mass transit in the last few decades, but this isn\u2019t NYC or DC. The Olympic sites are scattered all around the LA metro area: from Venice Beach to Pomona, from Pasadena down to Long Beach and all the way out to Anaheim. There will be people who think you can get from Venice Beach to Anaheim in 40 minutes. I drove the 18 miles from Venice Beach to Dodger Stadium downtown on a random Saturday afternoon: it took over 2 hours. And then, after the game, the drive down to Anaheim took more than an hour. At midnight!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s the LA28 map<\/a>. The obvious thing that jumps out to me is that you need to pair events at the same area. For instance, the LA Galaxy play at what they are calling \u201cCarson Stadium\u201d. That hosts Archery and Rugby Sevens. But venues within walking distance also host Tennis, Track Cycling, and Field Hockey. So, if you want to see Rugby Sevens (\/I\/ want to see Rugby Sevens), then pair it with one of those other sports. There\u2019s a bunch of sports down in Long Beach or up in Van Nuys (\u201cValley Zone\u201d) – pick two or three and make a day of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lastly, I\u2019m going there with my wife and son. My wife has a much lower tolerance for uncertainty. I don\u2019t like doing it, but I\u2019ve walked into a situation where I don\u2019t have tickets, and I\u2019m at the mercy of last-minute purchases via a resale app or buying from a scalper. He and I will eventually find a level where the number of $20s I hand him is equal to one of the tickets I want. This isn\u2019t going to work if I have a wife and\/or kid taking away my leverage. Also, buying tickets in threes is hard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A side variable on that is that we don\u2019t know which teams are playing in which games. Anything with Team USA will carry a significant premium. That\u2019s something that may come into play if I get tickets in 2028. It\u2019s not a factor now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Now that we\u2019re 3000 words in, let\u2019s get down to the nuts and bolts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The first four days (Wednesday\/Thursday\/Friday\/Saturday) are easy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since they\u2019re before the games officially start, Wednesday and Thursday are limited in that they have no medals awarded. But they have some really obvious pairings or choices:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pomona is really out there. Getting to Dodger Stadium is hard on a good day. My son really enjoyed learning about Cricket when we were in New Zealand this past winter, but I don\u2019t know how to make that work. The Cricket matches start at 9am and 6pm. Those are rotten times for something with a minimum one-hour travel time. In my perfect world, we do Long Beach one day, Carson the other. There are more days for games at Dodger Stadium. But if Basketball\/Baseball fall into our lap, I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The only thing on Friday is the Opening Ceremony. After 2 days of chasing around LA, time to rest most of the day. That evening, we either get tickets to the ceremony or we find some Olympic village area or whatever to watch it with other people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While the lottery is one way to get tickets, the other way is hospitality. If you\u2019ve ever tried to go to a big event in the last decade or so, you\u2019ve seen these packages. Along with your ticket, you get some light snacks, an area in the arena with a paid bar, and maybe some gift shop trinket. But, really, what it\u2019s all about is locking in a ticket that isn\u2019t available otherwise by paying 2-10x face value.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s the LA Hospitality site<\/a>. I didn\u2019t realise this initially, but they had access to tickets before any other presale. Also, their inventory has fluctuated throughout the drop. They were getting restocks, even when the lottery pool was not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you\u2019re curious, the ticket my wife and I both want the most is Opening Ceremony. I would love to see the Parade of Nations in person. You can\u2019t just order those on the site. You have to fill out a form and then put in a deposit (rumoured to be $5K) for On Location, the hospitality service, to contact you directly. When they call you, tickets start at $5K each and you have to order 3 other sports through hospitality. It\u2019s also rumoured (read: Reddit) there are a couple of other high-profile events that have the same process: 100M track nights, Gymnastics finals, and the men\u2019s Basketball final. We\u2019re no longer talking \u201cmortgage payment\u201d. Now we\u2019re talking about paying for an entire car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n My wife really wanted to see Gymnastics at the Olympics. While lottery tickets were long since sold out and the hospitality finals tickets were way too much, the preliminary men\u2019s sessions were surprisingly \u201creasonable\u201d. We picked up 3 for \u201cless than a mortgage payment\u201d. Our Saturday morning is now set, and with an event that was near the top of my wife\u2019s list. The things we do for love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of note: hospitality tickets don\u2019t count against your 12 ticket limit. One of the underrated games of \u201cchicken\u201d we\u2019re playing with the system is with that \u201c12 ticket per account limit\u201d. As above, even if both my wife and I get picked for the next lottery, that still only gives us 8 events. I\u2019m guessing resale tickets won\u2019t count against that limit and the limits will loosen or go away entirely as we get to last-minute ticket drops. But, for now, it\u2019s something to be cognizant of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Having secured our Saturday morning, there are a couple of nice things to pair with Gymnastics. All are at the Los Angeles Convention Center, a couple of blocks away from Crypto.com Arena (or DTLA Arena, as it\u2019s called on the map). My first choice would be a set of Judo medal finals. There are also Fencing finals, but they\u2019re later in the evening. There\u2019s also some Table Tennis prelims. I\u2019d watch any of those. However, both the Fencing and Table Tennis tickets were sold out in Phase 0 and the Judo session started Phase 1 at $471 and sold out long before it was our turn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The second half of the trip is more wide open. I was trying to plan around \u201canchor\u201d events like the aforementioned gymnastics. Pick another couple of events we really want and build the rest of the trip around those.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Obviously, I\u2019ve seen some of the best athletes in the world play team sports in person. I\u2019ve seen Mike Trout\u2019s only postseason home run<\/a> (but that game was fun for other reasons). I\u2019ve watched Steph Curry and Kevin Durant crush my team\u2019s dreams in Game 7<\/a> of a series that almost certainly determined the NBA title. I\u2019ve watched shots<\/a> that have made it into NCAA tournament lore (and some infamous ones against my school). I\u2019ve seen one of the most dramatic finishes to the Indianapolis 500 in recent memory. Those have all had amazing emotional reactions – some positive, some negative. In short, I\u2019ve been lucky enough to witness some amazing sporting moments in my life. It\u2019s really fun, and I\u2019d like to do it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some of those you can plan for. If you\u2019re going to a playoff game, you\u2019re likely to see drama. Others, you stumble upon. In 2012, we found ourselves in Omaha for a wedding. We couldn\u2019t figure out why plane tickets were so expensive until we discovered the Olympic swim trials were the same week. As we had a free morning before the wedding, we picked up some cheap seats and had a blast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you\u2019re unfamiliar, like we were, here\u2019s the lowdown on that. To make it to the swim trials, you have to post an eligible time at a sanctioned meet<\/a>. We got to see scores of (mostly) college kids and their families trying to live out the Olympic dreams. For the 800M freestyle, we got to see Janet Evans try to make a comeback at 40. There was a lot of buzz around a 15-year-old Maryland swimming prodigy named Katie Ledecky who easily won her heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But the real treat was watching Michael Phelps, in his prime. Sure, he was swimming in a preliminary round. And, yes, he smoked all the others in his heat, swimming at half speed. And, yes, it was a sleepy Saturday morning in Omaha. But even with all that, the sound of the crowd was an awesome memory. I want to see that amped up to 11, with medals on the line at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sidebar: If you can\u2019t make the Olympics, the 2028 Swimming or Track or pick-your-sport trials will likely be very approachable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n All that is to say, there\u2019s one sport I might pay a significant premium for: a track final. One thing I\u2019ve always wanted to do is experience the final 50 meters of a major race. I want to listen to the crowd swell, watch everyone on their feet, and bear witness to some of the fastest people on planet Earth, all in the historical LA Memorial Coliseum during Prime Time Olympic coverage. Now that would be my anchor event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Below are the days and events that correspond with when we might be there:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The big problem with the Athletic (what they\u2019re calling \u201cTrack & Field\u201d) events is that there are no cheap seats in the house. Here\u2019s the zone map<\/a> for the LA Coliseum. The cheapest get-in-the-door tickets are $104 (Category I) and $186 (Category H). That price would be great. However, some of those have a horribly obstructed view. I don\u2019t mean \u201chey, there\u2019s a pillar in the way\u201d obstructed-view like you can get at Fenway. I mean, \u201cyou can\u2019t even see the field<\/a>\u201d obstructed view. Even some of the Zone B<\/a> seats that cost more than $2000(!) could have that problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you eliminate Categories H and I. Prices go up fast. Category G is the next lowest at $403, Category F is $620, and Category E is $744. Those are the only tickets under $1000. We\u2019ve jumped well past the \u201cmortgage payment\u201d ticket price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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