Word: scalpers
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Problem is, the scalpers have extras also. Jack circles around a bunch of likelies before the tattooed scalper can get to them, just to get the bloody ticket off his hands...
...Skip The Scalper StubHub is changing the secondary market for sports tickets...
...Hardball, currently shooting in Chicago, KEANU REEVES plays a ticket scalper sentenced to coach some Little League ragamuffins from the Cabrini-Green housing project. Sounds saccharine enough for a Robin Williams flick, but the film, very loosely based on actual events, has Chicago Mayor Richard Daley fuming. A copy of the screenplay Daley obtained has Reeves' li'l sluggers acting like delinquents and making liberal use of the F word. (You'd think Daley might protest that the film's central plot device is stolen from that 1992 classic, The Mighty Ducks--but no.) "They just don't want this...
...awkward. "We don't have tickets," they say to me. "Do you have any extras?" I told them that I did not, and I thought the show was sold out. "Yes, we know, but her Mom (points to friend) said we might be able to get some from a scalper." Your mom? Are you serious? I told her that if there were any scalper, they would hit the front of the line or the corner of Landsdowne and Yawkey. "Yeah, but we don't want to lose our space in line." Did they already forget that they didn't have...
Time to go try out the scalper scene...