Oh, Puh-LEASE!!!

It's the 25th anniversary of the movie Bull Durham (one of the all-time great baseball movies), so the city of Durham, as well as the Durham Bulls, are kinda excited.

One of the things they're doing is bringing Kevin Costner, who played Crash Davis in the movie, back to Durham.

But not to do anything Crash Davis-ish. Nope, he's coming with his band to play a concert in the Bulls' stadium (which, incidentally, is NOT the one the movie was filmed in!). But, still, it would've been cool, and it was on the 4th of July, so it was followed by fireworks.

I briefly considered going, but decided I'd rather go to the ballgame the night before, when I'll have my kids, so I went out to the Bull website to buy tickets. Because of other people in the group, I needed 7 tickets. I've been to enough Bulls games that I now refuse to buy tickets unless they're under the roof -- there's always a really good chance of either rain or blistering hot sun, so the roof is a good investment.

So, I found the section I wanted, and there were three rows with open seats: Row Z had three seats, row Y had 5, and row X had 3. The automated progam gave me 3 seats in row X, three in row Y, and one in row Z. Not really what I wanted, 'cause who wants to sit alone at a ball game? So I went in and changed it to 5 seats in row Y and 2 in row X.

Nope, can't do that. The online ticketing won't allow you to buy seats if it will leave a singleton seat open.

Um, excuse me???? I got there first, I should be able to buy those tickets!!!!! You're going to charge my credit card immediately, before we know anything about injuries, rain, win-loss record, who's pitching, or ANYTHING, but you want me to re-arrange my seating preferences for a hypothetical couple who might or might not decide to come to the game at the last minute?!?!?!?!

Uh, NO!!!

Now, because tickets are cheap, I merely went back to the ticket selection screen and added another ticket to my order, and now I have a row of 5 and a row of three.

But still! This is stupid! Memo to Bulls: If someone wants to give you money for tickets, a month in advance, TAKE IT!

Sheesh.