Futures Games Announced

by ken on Dec 16, 2008 12:34 PM EST

The Cincinnati Reds will get a look at the future as they prepare for the 2009 season with one last tuneup on April 4 in Dayton, Ohio, against their top Minor League prospects. The Reds will play a team consisting of players from the Triple-A, Double-A and Class A levels at Fifth Third Field, home of the Class A Dayton Dragons, prior to the start of the regular season.

They'll play a futures game the day before in Zebulon NC, home of the new AA affiliate.

Doug has a write-up and lists his starting lineup. He also notes that Juan Francisco is hitting well down in the DR winter leagues and even drawing a walk now and then.

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Ought to be fun.

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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 17, 2008 10:28 AM EST reply actions

tickets look like they'll be tough to come by

anyone have a connect?

please get at me if so…

by BigRedMechanic on Dec 17, 2008 12:09 PM EST reply actions

i have a great connection

www.ebay.com

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by justin007000 on Dec 17, 2008 12:12 PM EST up reply actions

Tickets are hard to get at Fifth-Third Field even when it's just the Dragons playing

Good luck. Maybe you should just try for lawn seats.

by Brendanukkah on Dec 17, 2008 12:13 PM EST up reply actions

actually

you can get a lot of tickets for almost all games on ebay. They generally don’t cost anymore than face value.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack

by justin007000 on Dec 17, 2008 12:43 PM EST up reply actions

does ebay pay you a commission or something?

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by chandrathan on Dec 17, 2008 1:51 PM EST up reply actions

just trying to be helpful. I never went to a Dragons game until last summer, because they sold out. I decided to check on ebay, and found tickets for almost every game at face value or less. Apparently one of the reasons the Dragons sell out is they sell alot of season tickets to corporations and what not, and the tickets that they don’t use go up for sell. You will notice when you are at Dragons games, that despite the “sell out” there are a lot of empty seats.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack

by justin007000 on Dec 17, 2008 4:55 PM EST up reply actions

that's how it is in Scranton

They’re always sold out, at least in the lower deck, because of the season tickets. When you go to the game, there’s nobody in the seats.

I’ve taken to showing up early and standing near the curb in front of the ticket booth. There’s usually someone giving away tickets there. Not just one or two – stacks of tickets.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 17, 2008 5:17 PM EST up reply actions