Jon

Well this is refreshing.

Nice three and out!

Bears win the toss and will kickoff to start the game.

Let's move into 1st place.

A .540ish slugging percentage against can be corrected, guys. Walking people can't.

Nah. Howry throws strikes.

Isn't coming to the party one of Penn State's main problems?

Really? So that means their comeback against Minnesota at the Metrodome a few years ago was the biggest? I think they were down 21 points in that game. that is correct Again, that just amazes me. We have two comebacks against Minnesota alone larger than that in the last decade.

A 19-point deficit was the 2nd largest comeback in Michigan's history? How is that possible?

Amazing turn of events.

Oh my god yes!!! 5-0!!

The refs just screwed Northwestern royally.

Piss, piss, pissing this game away with 2 missed short FGs, a missed PAT, bad punts, and a ridiculous number of costly penalties. And to think that Villarreal was perfect before today. Right now, he can't hit anything.

I can't imagine that Piniella would add Gaudin to the NLCS roster after being left off the NLDS roster, which is a shame. The dropoff from Gaudin in the 7th to Howry is pretty darn big.

single, single, walk, single, walk, grand slam, HBP, HBP Not the way to start an inning.

He was being accused of soft after everyone knew that he was facing something very serious.

Back and forth at least gives you the impression that something is working, but on the bright side, mid-afternoon two days in a row people have been able to pull tickets, theres always tomorrow! Would the Cubs ticket office release tickets on the weekend? Are they even open when the game isnt until mid week next week I don't know what the pattern is. I've seen regular season tickets released on a Saturday night before, so who knows.

Game 5 was going back and forth for a little bit, but I couldn't get anything. It's back to just saying sold out now.

There's no such thing as a third dimension. I think he's referring to the screen when you can select the quantity and type of seat, but not actually get one reserved. I've never seen them stay on a screen where you can select the type of seat as long as they did yesterday, but 20 minutes ago, it was going back and forth between that screen and "sold out" when I was refreshing. That gave me some hope.

When it no longer jumps back and forth between saying it's sold out and being able to select an option, that's when I lose faith.

It looks like there is or was a bleacher ticket floating out there, but I can't get anything to reserve.

Man. Here are the links for checking for a best available single for game 1: http://frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?pgcode=best_available&inventory_year=2008&orgid=21477&target_name_value=&user_context=S_tomcat_lxpvo9_1222375738177_42373|S|tomcat_lxpvo9|frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com|en|US|null|MLB|http-__--..--..-frontline.frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com-..-buy-..-MLBEventInfo_.._pid_%2C%2C_6336215_--_roomid_%2C%2C_5&listing_type=RSAL&mlbamsp=false&upsell_selected=&pid=6336215&inventory_filtering_action=all&prevtrxstate=0&package_pids=null&sprgroup=best_available&s_mem_tkt_ren_retrieval=null&trxstate=1&numresp=9294930&replay_request=&vtoken=fNKCJGzzfXdaWC%2BAcp5vYq25TE23dFRWuZ9AmJNBoiYPkSyYuFxz%2BlueCifNqkD9xTGsD1FSTA40%0D%0AKlc2aww3xjPJ6mN%2BDFdKS6xEgUDweclOVYS8GRqXfw%3D%3D&inventory_month=8&stickets=1&target_prev_trxstate=&target_url=&selected_upsell_option=&target_trxstate=&invalid_seats=null&roomid=3 And game 2 http://frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?pgcode=best_available&inventory_year=2008&orgid=21477&target_name_value=&user_context=S_tomcat_lxpvo9_1222375738177_42373|S|tomcat_lxpvo9|frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com|en|US|null|MLB|http-__--..--..-frontline.frontline.purchasenow3.tickets.com-..-buy-..-MLBEventInfo_.._pid_%2C%2C_6336227_--_roomid_%2C%2C_5&listing_type=RSAL&mlbamsp=false&upsell_selected=&pid=6336227&inventory_filtering_action=all&prevtrxstate=0&package_pids=null&sprgroup=best_available&s_mem_tkt_ren_retrieval=null&trxstate=1&numresp=9294930&replay_request=&vtoken=fNKCJGzzfXdaWC%2BAcp5vYq25TE23dFRWuZ9AmJNBoiYPkSyYuFxz%2BlueCifNqkD9xTGsD1FSTA40%0D%0AKlc2aww3xjPJ6mN%2BDFdKS6xEgUDweclOVYS8GRqXfw%3D%3D&inventory_month=8&stickets=1&target_prev_trxstate=&target_url=&selected_upsell_option=&target_trxstate=&invalid_seats=null&roomid=3

I'm sure the Oregon State fans appreciated the 5 seconds that the ESPN analysts spent talking about their school at the end of the game.

I combined the Game 5 Tickets thread with the original ticket lottery thread. If anyone finds that more tickets are available, please start a new thread to more effectively alert everyone.

I wish I knew. I know there are some old ticket stubs at my mom's house, but I doubt I'd be able to figure it out.