WBRS Sports Blog

Monday, October 09, 2006

"The Way of the Future"

Playing Howard Hughes in one of WBRS Sports Blog's favorite movies, The Aviator, Leonardo DiCaprio constantly repeated the phrase "The way of the future"...Mainly due to his obsessive compulsive order. It seems now Cleveland Cavalier season ticket-holders will experience that this upcoming season. In an attempt to "take business back from scalpers", approximately one-third of Cavs season ticket-holders have agreed to give up their paper tickets in exchange for "Flash Seats". Under the Flash Seats program, the ticket-holders will "go through special gates and use their driver's licenses or credit cards to prove they have reserved seats."

While this is an attempt to reduce the number of scalpers selling Cavs tickets, ticket holders will still be able to transfer Flash Seat tickets to others..."Ticket holders will also be able to give tickets away or sell them on the Flash Seats Web site. The seller can price the tickets for more than face value, and the buyer pays a fee to Flash Seats."

It seems the only downside to this is that fans won't be able to keep their ticket stubs from memorable Cavs games. If they can't keep their stubs, what proof do they have that they were legitimate "witnesses"?

// posted by Mini Me @ 1:17 AM

5 Comments:

At 10/09/2006 9:43 AM , Pacifist Viking said...: "The CIA put a chip in my brain."
At 10/09/2006 2:00 PM , Anonymous said...: Bring a camera.
At 10/09/2006 2:09 PM , TJ said...: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads..."
At 10/09/2006 2:44 PM , AwfulAnnouncing said...: Wait...does that mean I can't steal the scalpers seats when they don't sell their tickets?
At 10/09/2006 3:36 PM , Zach Landres-Schnur said...: robots aren't too far away.