The Oakland A's had a cool promotion on Thursday  (May 1,2008) night.  The game was in Anaheim against the California, Los Angles, So Cal, Disneyland, Angels of Anaheim.  For every hit the A's got that night the ticket price for a select group of seats at Sundays game against the Rangers would drop one dollar.

So what did the A's do?   They proceeded to go out and rack up 20 hits.  So  those $24 dollar second deck tickets were now $4.  With ticket prices that low I could probably afford a second beer at the game.   So a few minutes after the game ended I got on the A's website and tried to purchase some of those tickets.   Well as you might guess it was pretty much impossible to get through to purchase the tickets.  I tried for about a half hour and kept getting the server is busy try again later message.

I tried again Friday morning but the seats they were offering by then were way out in center field.  On Friday nights broadcast of the game , Ray Fosse talked about what had happened with the tickets.  The A's had set aside 2500 seats for the promotion, never thinking in thier wildest dreams in a game against the Angels they would get 20 hits.  Those first 2500 seats sold out in 20 minutes.  They released two more sections of seats and ended up selling a total of 7300 seats at the $4 price.

I dont know if Oakland is the first team to do this or not, has anyone else heard of a team doing that?  If not , I suspect that you may see this promotion coming to a team near you.