2010 Game Selection - Send me your lists!

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Game selection will happen on Saturday March 27.  If you're unable to attend, you'll need to send me the list of games that you want.  As a backup, even if you're coming on the 27th, you still might want to send me a list in case something happens and you can't make it at the last minute.

Even if you don't send me a list and intend to be there on March 27...come prepared with a list so that we can get through the selection process more quickly!

Please send me lists no later than Friday March 26.  I will likely print out the emails and take them with me.  It's better if you send to me earlier than 3/26 so that I can follow up with questions if I need to.

Please consider at least one weekday afternoon game - particularly if you have Club or Diamond Box seats (we have some flexibility in Field Box).  These were typically the toughest to get rid of in the Dome, and maybe now that they are outside, that won't be a problem.  But we no longer have the luxury of trade ins.  I used to trade in unused day game seats for handicapped access seats to other games or other games for myself, but that's not happening this season.

I had thought about making everyone liable for at least one day game - and if you couldn't make it you'd need to sell the tickets, but let's see how it plays out this season.  But it's not going to be fair if the people with the most ticket requests - and thus still picking games after you might be done with your 5-6 games - to be on the hook for all the remaining day games if they don't want them either.

Reminder - the Home Opener is not available

How to ask for games -

• It's pretty free form - you can ask for specific dates or something like "one game in the final series of the season" or "one Sunday game each month"
• The more specific information you give me the better.
• If you'd like to see Cleveland any game April 19-21, and you have a top preference for which day, you can list the days in the order you want them.
• Put them in priority order.  If you list them in chronological order, that's the way you'll get placed (though I may try to get you into a high-demand game first).
• You can list an alternate selection for a pick.  Perhaps you list Wed. May 26 vs New York as your top pick and if you don't get that, your next choice would be Saturday May 22 vs. Milwaukee.  (But if you get the Yankees, I'd ignore that Milwaukee pick the next time your name came up).
• In lieu of a specific alternate for a game, you can list more games than you have tickets.  So, if you're getting 5 games, maybe you send me 10 games in priority order.  When it's your turn, I take the top game still left on your list.
• Make sure you check game times - so if you are asking for a Thursday afternoon game, that's what you really want.
• Please list the number of seats you want for the game - we have up to 4.  If you're flexible for a particular date, you could list "2 or 4" (or "4 or 2", if 4 is the first preference).
• If you're getting only blocks of 4 tickets, keep in mind that as the games start getting picked over, it begins to get harder to place you in your preferred games.

An added point of difficulty this year.  Many of you have tickets in more than one section.  You're going to have to tell me what section you want...and if the tickets are gone in the section you want, is it OK to put you in a different section for the same game?  If you are saying "4 tickets, but 2 if that's all that's available" you'll also need to signify if getting 2 in your desired section is more important or getting 4 in a different section.  (This is why being there live is such a good thing).

I'll reiterate that it's much better for you to list more games than you have tickets.  If we run out of your game selections, I stop trying to place you in games...you'll need to submit another list after I send you the remaining open games when we're done.

Yankees, Red Sox, and Brewers are historically the highest-demand games.  If you're listing them, you should definitely have alternates and/or extra games listed.  It will be even tougher for Red Sox tickets because it's the opening series.

Let me know if you have questions - good luck.