Blue Metalhead Needs Clues, Badly
Apr. 27th, 2019 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreLast night was Metallica Night at the ballpark. I wish I could say we had a great time, but the fact was a variety of factors, not the least of which being the Giants' inept play and the bone-chilling wind, led us to give up after five innings and head for home.
But there were highlights. We did get this year's goodie, a reversible Metallica/Giants wool cap. One side is digital camo, the other black with a big Metallica M and the Giants' SF logo. We ate pizza, I had a beer, and at the Junior Giants' table, they were selling mystery autographed balls. I took the plunge at got reliever Mark Melancon.
But the mind-boggler of the night was the lady we met in line outside Oracle (still getting used to the new name) Park. She was one of the more clueless people I've encountered in a while. We were at the park earlier than planned thanks to kismet providing us with an express train up. This lady was stressing about missing the band's "pre-game" activities. Folks, the pregame activities are the following. James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet play the National Anthem. Lars Ulrich throws out the first pitch. James heads up to the PA booth and does the Giants' starting lineup introductions. That's it. She thought she was missing out on a show, or a meet & greet. Nothing we said could convince her otherwise.
Then the conversation turned to S&M2. She was complaining about getting "screwed out of tickets" for both shows. While everyone got screwed out of the first show due to ticket bots, the second show was handled by Metallica and was fair. The venue holds 18,064 people in its concert set up, and there were millions of 5th Member fans vying for the tickets. We were lucky to get the second chance draw.
But no, that was getting screwed. After that, she thought that she could score tickets on the secondary market. Um, no. Tickets for the September 8th show are linked to your name. Oh, okay. she'll just wait for the public sale. There's not going to be a public sale! The reason you didn't get tickets in the lotteries is they sold out!
Thankfully, she left the line when we started heading in to look for a friend. But seriously, Metallica sent out emails detailing all of these for both shows; step by step instructions on how the sales would work.
*sigh* At least people complimented our battle jackets.
But there were highlights. We did get this year's goodie, a reversible Metallica/Giants wool cap. One side is digital camo, the other black with a big Metallica M and the Giants' SF logo. We ate pizza, I had a beer, and at the Junior Giants' table, they were selling mystery autographed balls. I took the plunge at got reliever Mark Melancon.
But the mind-boggler of the night was the lady we met in line outside Oracle (still getting used to the new name) Park. She was one of the more clueless people I've encountered in a while. We were at the park earlier than planned thanks to kismet providing us with an express train up. This lady was stressing about missing the band's "pre-game" activities. Folks, the pregame activities are the following. James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet play the National Anthem. Lars Ulrich throws out the first pitch. James heads up to the PA booth and does the Giants' starting lineup introductions. That's it. She thought she was missing out on a show, or a meet & greet. Nothing we said could convince her otherwise.
Then the conversation turned to S&M2. She was complaining about getting "screwed out of tickets" for both shows. While everyone got screwed out of the first show due to ticket bots, the second show was handled by Metallica and was fair. The venue holds 18,064 people in its concert set up, and there were millions of 5th Member fans vying for the tickets. We were lucky to get the second chance draw.
But no, that was getting screwed. After that, she thought that she could score tickets on the secondary market. Um, no. Tickets for the September 8th show are linked to your name. Oh, okay. she'll just wait for the public sale. There's not going to be a public sale! The reason you didn't get tickets in the lotteries is they sold out!
Thankfully, she left the line when we started heading in to look for a friend. But seriously, Metallica sent out emails detailing all of these for both shows; step by step instructions on how the sales would work.
*sigh* At least people complimented our battle jackets.