A reader weighed in on USC sell outs.
“When it looks like a game is close to a sell out, the school moves the tickets to SeatGeek.
“SeatGeek can then raise the price and people won’t give USC grief for raising the price of tickets. And if they don’t sell they can drop the price easily with annoying USC season-ticket holders.
“For example, if you log onto SeatGeek now for the Penn State game, you will find tons of tickets in Section 313, Row 15. No individual is selling 24 tickets in Row 14 of Section 313.”
“Right now, it’s just those two rows. Once they sell, the next two rows will be available on SeatGeek. They have this down to a science.”
Why is this happening?
“Once USC sees a game to selling out they can move the seats to SeatGeek and raise the price.
“If the tickets don’t sell, they can crash the price. They can’t do that via USC athletics because it would upset the season-ticket holders.
“There is a benefit to saying a game is sold out as opposed to eating a few hundred unsold tickets.”
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Could someone please translate?
You must be driving while writing as no USC school of journalism graduate could write something so unintelligible.
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It’s happy hour, somewhere…and that somewhere is one block from Scottie’s house.
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We can’t all be as clear and concise in our writing as Ed G
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There are a couple of presidential candidates who could really benefit from Ed. G’s insights.
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Pete Rose RIP
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Sorry to here that, I was a big fan of “charlie Hustle”. going back to the days of the “Big red Machine”
There are some crazy stories about him hanging out at the sports books in Las Vegas
RIP, Pete Rose……….perhaps one day you make it to Cooperstown postmortem
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Great competitor but a bum….all the hand wringing by the 4th estate his being blocked from the HOF. MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti barred him not because he gambled and not for betting MLB games ‘but’ because, as manager Rose placed bets on the very games he was managing.
There was, at the old Astrodome, a pay phone in the visitors locker room that was ripped out because Rose was on it 24/7 with his bookies.
Mickey Mantle was the one who gave him that nickname and it wasn’t one of respect.
Best was poor Ray Fosse 1970 ASG, game over.
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Fosse was never the same after that collision. Rose never owned up to his addiction, refusing help. He lived out his final years in Vegas, signing as many autographs as humanly possible, including signing yesterday. He was stubborn as hell. That helped him as a ballplayer, not so much as a human being.
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If Pete Rose is out of baseball forever, Alex Cora should be too
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Saw Pete Rose one time at Dodgers’ stadium batting left handed, and he would choke up on the bat looking for a single, which he got
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Charming: I don’t suppose anybody ever had a Boring dream
Prince: I certainly haven’t. But dreams can be bizarre. I once dreamt I was watching a football game and they were using 2 footballs simultaneously. I don’t think the NFL will be implementing that idea into their games
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Charming: I have a dream when I’m awake, I dream of being the U.S. President
Prince: Well, just keep on dreaming kid
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Second Border Patrol Agent Blows the Whistle on Border Czar Kamala Harris Nightmare 20 Million Illegal Alien Invasion Border Crisis – “Cartels Are Running the Border”!
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Charming: What bothers me is how most Americans look at work as ‘the tyranny of steady employment’
Prince: Never had that problem, every day is the dawning of a new adventure
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What bothers me is Senile Joe and Kamala’s Katrina in North Carolina. Senile Joe was laying comatose on a beach all weekend and Kamala was hobnobbing with millionaire celebs in California while the people of Asheville languished in devastation and the illegal alien Dreamers looted.
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Got to believe Pete Rose finally made it to the ‘Hall of Fame’
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Charming: I can imagine the busy life you’ve got, but that’s as close as I want to get
Prince:–And just when I was preparing to ask you to dinner
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Thanks to the weakness of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the entire world is on fire.
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Let me know what they should be doing? I’ll give them your answer.
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Senile Joe and Kamala giving Iran billions of dollars to spread in arms, training, financial aid and supplies to their 20 proxies including the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah was their first mistake, Cowardly Gabby. Alissa J. Rubin has a nice breakdown of it in the April 6 2024 NY Times.
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The people who voted for all of this have so much blood on their hands and may soon have a LOT more. But they just lie to themselves about that, as we see here.
In 3, 2, 1….
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OBSESSED!…….. SEEK TREATMENT!
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Exactly 1 year ago, Jake Sullivan declared: “The Middle East today is quieter than in decades”…. BWWWWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cowardly Gabby actually believes these clowns.
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Send Trump over there, he claims it will be over in one day!
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Weird how we had peace in the Middle East from 2017-2021 by isolating Shiite Iran instead of trying to make them an ally and giving them billions and Trump signed the Abraham Accords with Israel and the Sunni Arabs. Senile Joe and Kamala stupidly destroyed all that progress. All they had to do was coast on what Trump had established.. but nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Two years after President Donald Trump announced the U.S withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran has resumed its enrichment of uranium, restarted research and development on advanced centrifuges, and expanded its stockpile of nuclear fuel, cutting in half the time it would need to produce enough weapons-grade fuel to build a nuclear bomb.
“Iran is manifestly closer to being able to produce a nuclear weapon than they were two years ago,” said Richard Nephew, who participated in negotiations on the landmark nuclear deal in 2015.
good old Trump, he left the backdoor wide open again
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The Senile Joe/Kamala administration wants something it can’t have in the Middle East: continued influence with diminished presence. Its diplomacy is aimed at preserving a regional order that depends on the kind of American power projection the president desperately wants to avoid. As Senile Joe/Kamala attempts to withdraw, from the region, its influence over the relevant parties diminishes. The less reliable Senile Joe/Kamala look, the less value anyone attaches to promises of their support. The more obviously Senile Joe/Kamala looks toward the exits, the less anyone fears Senile Joe/Kamala power.
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Ooooooo Wolfie, you are quite the detective. Did you ever write for Enquirer Magazine? Keep up the good work, enquiring minds want to know.
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So SC is jetting-off to the Midwest again after Michigan. Must be a bit taxing on any traveling team and maybe why gamblers give the home team 3-points for that
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Minnesota Gopher fans have to be encouraged by its showing with Michigan albeit a loss as was true for SC. Some Gophers are probably thinking, “It’s nice at long last to be playing SC but they’re beatable
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Why does Major League Baseball need 162 games to sort out its finalists. If they reduced the season to 100 would anybody notice
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And cut back college football to 10 games like the old days.
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-As I understand it if SC senses a sell-out the school will deliver hundreds of its tickets to ticket-brokers who will then raise the price–“We have this down to a science,” the brokers brag– Something seems not right about this
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