Sour grapes. Why didn't you get tickets a couple of months ago when there were plenty available or buy a game pack that included the LA game? Still tickets available for Sunday should be a good game against the top team in the league. My ticket cost just over 30 dollars and I sit on the 18 yard box 12 or 13 rows up sounds like pretty good value to me. If someone waited to hear if one aging player was going to play before they were willing to buy a ticket I got no sympathy. It's their event and right or wrong they can run it as they see fit.
My comment does not have anything with Beckham (I could not care less about that guy). I just hate to see how Bobaduzzi is trying to fool all of us. The stadium has 55,000 seats so capping the number at 21,000 and then calling it a sell-out is pathetic. That number of 21,000 does not have anything with "an intimate soccer atmosphere"; it is just a creation of an artificial demand for tickets and unfortunately a lot of Whitecaps fans are OK with that!
Even your $30 tickets are too expensive considering that they should be much, much cheaper if the whole stadium was offered for each game. If your $30 tickets were even cheaper Whitecaps would have a lot more season ticket holders (cheaper tickets are always offered to a season ticket holder, that is perfectly normal but because of a demand for a certain game there has to be room for all interested walk-ins who will eventually pay a lot more than a season ticket holder pays per game). But, when they offer only 21,000 tickets and call it a sell-out then that is just fcuking ridiculous! They could, at least, open fully the lower bowl and they would have last night 27,000 people! But, they decided to keep it at 21,000 so, I guess, those scalpels can make some money.
Based on Bobaduzzi's and Furlong's comments they basically expect all fans to be season ticket holders! Where did they learn their marketing philosophy? I do wonder what the owners of Whitecaps think about that philosophy and missed opportunity to make some serious money last night. I will certainly not become a season ticket holder after realizing what kind of game WC are playing with 21,000 number in a stadium that has 55,000 seats (yes, I will still go and watch some games; did it 3 times this season with the whole family and I will most likely go to see next game vs San Jose but WC lost an opportunity to have me buying 4 season tickets next season and I know at least 10 other people who think the same way I do).