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If you can be patient and wait until 10-15 mins before game time to buy a ticket on Stubhub, then do it. Download the app and its easy to purchase seats on your phone. Only thing is you need to print a hard copy of your ticket.

From the looks on Stubhub, everyone has an assigned spot so its not general admission like during the regular season. Cheapest pair is $290 USD in the bleachers (not including fees and conversion rate) for tonights game.

I don't even think he had his A stuff in game 1. He walked like 4 or 5 guys and did get into trouble, though the Jays didn't take advantage.

It's disgusting. I hate f***ing Toronto fans. There are maybe only 15,000-20,000 loyal baseball fans in this city. The rest just attended games after August 1st and will continue to do so for the Home Opener, Canada Day, and Bobblehead/Jersey giveaway days.

Not in Chicago.

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Agreed. We saw AA take that chance this season at the trade deadline. If the Jays decide to keep both EE and Bautista next season, then hopefully more is added to the roster in order to get back to the postseason again in 2016. This is a fantastic core and with players locked up like Donaldson, Martin, Tulo, Pillar in their prime, young arms like Stroman, Sanchez, Osuna taking that next step, and with Bautista and EE making far below market value, you need to take advantage since likely a better window will never present itself. Also, consider the Yankees and Red Sox not being the powerhouses like they once were in the late 90s/early 2000's, and with Tampa Bay keeping it cheap, the AL East is available for the taking.

Yeah I've just checked on Hotels.com for tomorrow night and everything is booked solid. That is weird. There are some nice hotels available at a decent price near the Airport. Otherwise if you want to stay downtown, I'd do the AirBNB route.

Whats going on in the city this week? Can't think of anything big that would make hotel room availability limited and expensive...

I think there were a lot of factors at play. Like you said everybody kind of abandoned ship when the Blue Jays were coming back down 2 games and even more now down 3-1 in the series. Toronto fans are awful. It goes to show you that the casuals will only show up when the team is winning or playing the Yankees. When this team is down at rock bottom, they'll jump ship right away (evident from seeing less demand for the ALCS). Secondly, Rogers marked up ticket prices to the postseason way too high for the ALCS. The ALDS was reasonable, though prices in the ALCS are kind of absurd when you think about it. Cheapest 500 level seats face value come out to $111 with Ticketmaster fees. So right off the bat, as a seller on the secondary market its going to be tough to mark them up since it seems like many people don't want to spend close to $300-$400 on a pair of crappy tickets. At least with the ALDS, it was easy to mark up a $60-$70 ticket, since people were willing to spend $200-$250 for a good pair in the 500s. Additionally, the price points for tickets have not been fair and I think someone who bought flex packs should write into the Blue Jays ticket department and complain. Basically a seat in 113D or 130D is the same price point for a seat in 123 for example behind home plate. Why is that? Overall, Rogers took advantage of all the hype and charged astronomical prices for these games. So paying face value was already expensive for the average person, so it would be quite hard to sell tickets at 2x the value, unless you got lucky selling your tickets to some idiot over StubHub weeks in advance. Additionally, some poster made a good point earlier. People with season tickets and flex packs bought up so many extra seats thinking that they'd be able to sell them at like 3x to 4x the prices to defer the costs for their tickets. So then you see a huge increase of tickets made available in the secondary market, with prices sky high earlier on. Like me and some other posters said, those tickets weren't going to move at those crazy high prices, unless some people got lucky. Tickets weren't moving at those high prices + the Jays coming back to Toronto down 2 games created panic and leading almost everyone dropping their tickets close to face value, which still was even tough to sell as is. Most scalpers I know maybe made $20-$30 over face on each ticket they sold for Game 3 and 4, and even took losses for other tickets. Overall, everyone who got their hands on postseason strips early thought they were going to make a huge profit on their extra postseason tickets, which wasn't the case. This created a flooded market of tickets available with not that high of demand. Also, consider the Rogers Centre holds 50,000 people, it wasn't that tough to get a ticket in comparison to events held at the ACC or smaller ballparks like Wrigley or Fenway. Lastly, MLB screwed over Toronto with the start time for home games. Only one night game, for 6 home postseason games? That played a huge role. The 12:30 and 4 PM starts made it tough to demand a high premium on tickets since most people work 9-5. This created less demand and more tickets flooding the secondary market. If the Blue Jays played perhaps 1 or 2 more night games (one on a weekend especially), then I'm sure there would have been a higher demand for tickets.

I've used airbnb a couple of times when travelling, though never in Toronto. Just make sure you book with someone who has great reviews and has a superhost badge.

Wow seriously? When did Toronto all of a sudden become Manhattan? You should be able to find something decent downtown between $150-$200. Check Hotels.com or Expedia.

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Sign both Iwakuma and Shark.

I agree. Though don't count out Boston or the Rays bouncing back, along with the Yankees being a force as well. Blue Jays should be the favourites, though s*** happens as we've seen in the past. Jays blowing close games they should win, injuries to core players, etc. Hopefully AA shows some of his magic this offseason.

Chris Davis is a FA...

Don't be a bandwagoner!!!

Like BTS said, you need to use an arm like Lowe or Sanchez in that situation with the bases loaded to get the strikeout since they give you the best chance in getting one. This isn't a regular season game, it's the postseason. It's inexcusable using Tepera in that situation.

I guess though Hawkins hasn't been that great as of late. It's not the end of the world. And with Gibbons always leaning on Sanchez, Lowe and Osuna, you would have thought using them to hold the score in a 5-2 game was as or more important than using them with a 9-4 lead.

I was so puzzled at the game today. Gibbons feels it's important to use Sanchez and Lowe with a 9-4 lead though in a close 3 run game he decides to turn to Hawkins and Tepera? I'm lost for words right now. And Lowe is used instead in the 8th in a blowout when the game was far out of reach. You're telling me losing 5-2 in the 7th and holding the score isn't as important as using Sanchez and Lowe with a 9-4 lead yesterday. Ugh

Tickets 10 mins before the game dropped to as low as $40 on Stubhub. Even 200 level seats at third base were around $60-70 when face value they're $225 CAD. It's astonishing how ticket prices dropped so low for an ALCS especially after winning last night.

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I have some extra singles available for todays game (536 Row 1 and 534 Row 10 aisle seat) at face value. PM me if interested.

They blocked off some areas for accessible seating & extra TV cameras. Though there are still some parts of the 100 level that you could watch along the railings close around the infield and along the baselines. Also, could stand behind the ropes for sections behind home plate. Though have to probably get there early to get a spot or else you'll be behind someone.

Bump. Sorry I'm on my phone so not sure how to quote all these statements all in one post. Just hilarious though reading back from September.