As I said in yesterdays blog, the baseball season is now upon us. Full sqaud workouts have begun in Florida where the Grapefruit League hosts 18 teams and in Arizona where the Cactus League hosts the other 12 ball-clubs. Generally speaking spring training is open to the public to watch the early workouts before the games begin and even then sometimes you can check out the minor league-rs at the secondary fields and that can be quite entertaining and free. Put it this way, they’re pros. It’s not like watching a high school or college club workout. All these guys have ability and the potential to advance to the Major Leagues or they wouldn’t have been signed in the first place. So pull up a beach chair and watch the drills, take note of the studs and maybe cop an autograph or two and who knows you may have a future stars signature and you can say I told you I knew. And as a bonus generally speaking in the spring the atmosphere is light and casual and your able to easily shoot the breeze with these guys and that’s always fun and in fact can be done even on the main field with the big league ballplayers , even the superstars, before and after their games and workouts.
Once the exhibition season starts you’ll need to buy tickets to watch the games. The first couple of weeks the games are dominated by mostly a mix of rookies and minor league-rs vying for a roster spot or showcasing their skills for a late season call up or a higher placement on the minor league rung. As spring training progresses the core players , the regulars start to play more innings, pitchers that were at first working out the kinks now start to throw harder and use all of their pitching arsonal. Obtaining tickets to 90% of the pre season games should be no problem and mostly any seat in these small stadiums is a good one and for the most part you can easily move around and see from different vantage points even up to the front rows. I particularly am partial to sitting behind the plate where you will often see the scouts with their radar guns and stop watches, charting pitches, observing swings etc. If you look like you belong and stride confidently to an open seat often you should be safe and able to stay. I have even engaged in conversations with scouts at a fairly high level like damn that catcher takes along time to release the ball, he aint gonna make it huh or that’s his curve ball wow mine is better than that haha …Now why you may need Joe Ticket and National Ticket Agency in the spring is if you want to see one either the Yankees or the Red Sox, clearly the two teams with the most loyal and aggressive fan base. The Yankees and the Red Sox not only sell out at their home fields, Legends Field in Tampa and City Of Palms Field in Fort Meyers, but they are mostly sold out at every other ballpark in Florida too. Allot of folks from up north take their vacations in Florida during spring training so these games and tickets are a big deal. I myself waited online for hours only to be able to get standing room only seats in Jupiter for the Red Sox / Marlins game on March 3rd.But the weather is so pleasant that SRO isnt too bad at all and having a couple of 6.50 beers with the faithful legions all asking each other hey where you from? Worcester oh ya I’m from Swampscott bla bla….it’s wicked pissa fun. Also good tickets are hard to find for the Mets in Port St Lucie at Tradition Field. I’ll list the links to tickets for those 3 clubs here now and tomorrow when I give a full capsule preview of the American League I will have a link to tickets for those teams as well both preseason and regular season..Can’t say I have ever been to Arizona so I really cannot comment on the state of spring training there, vis a vis tickets, but a quick search at NTA’s website reveals that plenty of tickets seem to be available for most games. I would doubt you would have to go to a secondary source..but if you did, call me 
Just another note: It looks like the Dodgers long standing tenure in Vero Beach is coming to an end this season. It’s likely that either the Indians or the Orioles will be moving up there next season and somehow it just won’t be the same. Dodgertown is what they call it and that stadium Holman Field is a throwback to the days when baseball and life was a lot simpler and less stressful and such things as steroids and HGH didn’t exist. Not that they didn’t have their issues with drinking and carousing etc Anyways if you can fit it in check out Dodgertown, where the players sit on a long bench without a dugout much like your local high school team.
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