THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL TICKET PRICES NO REAL DEAL.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH With David Beckham  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , loose in L.A. for another 24 hours, what could
possibly go wrong?
Maybe he'll get arrested for scalping. One of these here so-called friendly matchups between a jet-lagged, star-studded Real Madrid squad and a Donovan-less Galaxy tonight at a quaint grass field with about 27,000 numbered seats in Carson has been rattling ticket broker's phones and jamming websites like some kind of Lakers playoff run from days gone by. Tickets that once were available to the public for between $50 and $150 have mysteriously doubled and tripled. This is just soccer we're talking about here, isn't it? On StubHub.com, two tickets in section 111, midfield, behind the Real Madrid bench, eight rows up, are going for $348 - each. At TicketLiquidator.com, same section, same row, just $310 apiece. The best that Barry's Tickets could do was a couple in the same section, four rows up from them, at $325 apiece. Parking passes are going for $40 alone. Thanks, but we'll pass. There's another friendly coming up this weekend, again at Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box Center, again with the U.S. team. The women, that is, taking on a bunch of shivering gals from Iceland. Tickets for that one start at a more reasonable $15. ... -- Maybe the guy with the Dodgers you should feel worst for these days is the one who has to keep coming up with fresh info for those DiamondVision bios when the players come to bat. Like when it was Jayson Werth's turn Sunday against the Giants, up came this tidbit: ``Hit .652 his senior season at Glenwood High in Chatham, Ill.'' Great, but what have you done lately? ... -- Had former Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. and USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. star Barry Zito Barry William Zito (born May 13 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He previously played seven seasons with the Oakland Athletics. finished off his no-hit bid when he was soft-tossin' Oakland to another win over Texas on Friday night, it would have been the first by a local biggie big·gie n. Slang 1. A very important person: "hassles between executive biggies" New York. 2. since Bret Saberhagen (Cleveland High of Reseda) did it for Kansas City against the Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the White Sox have played in U.S. , 7-0, on Aug. 26, 1991. ... -- Actress Alyssa Milano, who last year was hanging out as Zito's steady, has now been spied at the side of Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. He must've made quite an impression back when he was with the Marlins, when Milano was then hooked up with another Florida pitcher, Carl Pavano ... -- Saturday, after Kenny Rogers won his second game for the Rangers since conveniently skirting a 20-game suspension, Texas shortstop Michael Young tried to defend his teammate. ``Kenny has probably been the MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. of this club,'' Young said. Which ``V'' would that be, virulent, vicious, violent, vindictive, vile, volatile, volcanic, vulgar, villainous, venomous venomous secreting poison; poisonous. or vendetta-minded? ... -- We're pulling our hair out watching Steve Garvey, who was once dragged through an FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). lawsuit that sought damages for his endorsement of a fraudulent weight-loss supplement (since dismissed), now trying to pitch a follicle-transplantation procedure in a full-page ad featured in the Dodgers' game program. ... -- Sparks 6-foot-5 center Lisa Leslie, romantically linked over the years to several equally tall basketball players, let it spill during her appearance at the ESPY Awards last week that she's getting hitched to a UPS airplane pilot named Michael Lockwood in November. Sizewise, it's a good match. He also happens to be a former center himself at the Air Force Academy ('85 to '89) and is the school's all-time leader in games played (112). ... -- Andre Agassi has announced he won't be seeking a Congressional seat in Nevada's elections next year, despite the fact Dems in the state have been trying to recruit him. Apparently, he'd rather reserve his filibuster filibuster, term used to designate obstructionist tactics in legislative assemblies. It has particular reference to the U.S. Senate, where the tradition of unlimited debate is very strong. It was not until 1917 that the Senate provided for cloture (i.e. skills for explaining to everyone why he's backing out of another tennis tournament because of (fill in the blank). |
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