The Cleveland Indians have announced that the home opener against the Minnesota Twins on April 4 has sold out.
Though attendance has been the subject of heated local debate the past few years, home openers have never been a concern. This year marks the 22nd consecutive home opener sellout for the Tribe. Tickets were gone within 15 minutes.
This will the first home opener ever that the Indians will go to bat without the Plain Dealer’s support for Chief Wahoo. (A HISTORIC STANCE).
The Indians are still peddling season tickets — it’s the only opportunity for fans to get to see the home opener at this point — and have introduced dynamic pricing for single-game tickets for the rest of the season.
Today, the Tribe takes on the Texas Rangers at 3:05 p.m. in Cactus League play.
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2014.
I tried to buy tickets at 15:01.76.
The only thing that sucks is about half of the tickets purchased were from resale sites. There are over 20,000 tickets on the internet that are priced at 4 times the face value right now.
Fans can’t buy the tickets unless they pay thru the nose to a reseller.
Great job Tribe! Good luck w/ your sin tax, douches.
Most of these were already pre-sold to season ticket holders. There were only a couple thousand tickets left to go on sale today. So it’s not that they sold 43,000 tickets in 15 mins
Oh, I thought you guys wrote “sold out” but I must have misread because what you meant was “all the tickets are available from third parties at inflated prices.” Good luck playing to an empty stadium. I also tried getting tickets 5 mins after they went on sale and it said they were gone. The stadium should recall the bulk tickets.
I will not buy event tickets for anything unless it is directly from the source. These third-party sites like stub-hub are ruining, scratch that…they HAVE ruined ticket-buying experience. Find another way to rub two pennies together, you low-lifes.
I love how the tickets sell out year after year yet people (see above) who are too slow, lazy or forgot to get tickets complain about having to get them from secondary markets. Also, there are TONS of pre-sale opportunities sent out to NON-season ticket holders through promotions and emails by the Indians, all you have to do is sign up.
Also, you can easily get tickets to ANY OTHER GAME this year directly from the Indians.
So instead of perpetuating the notion that Indians fans don’t turn out for a club that wins games, be a smarter fan to get your opening day tickets, go to other games, or STFU and stop complaining about “problems” that you could easily handle yourself. Don’t post dumb stuff because you’re butt hurt about missing out on opening day.