tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post5027759533699975168..comments2024-03-04T07:33:09.398-05:00Comments on The Phillies Room: Highlights from the 2017 Phillies Phestival (Part 1) #StrikeOutALSJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-20275751119229640692017-05-16T08:30:35.220-04:002017-05-16T08:30:35.220-04:00Great photos and a nice haul of autographs. I lov...Great photos and a nice haul of autographs. I love the story about Kruk getting your son a Franco ticket!<br /><br />The lines were easily 50% shorter all around than last year and probably 75% shorter than the glory years. It wouldn't have been difficult to have gotten to every single autograph booth this year. For the sake of ALS funding, I hope it picks up more. But for the sake of collecting, I was perfectly happy with the smaller crowd size! The 2009-11 events sold out in somewhere between minutes and a couple days, IIRC (so set your time machine to the day tickets went on sale!). My recollection is that 2008 had tickets available up until the event, but that changed after they won it all. For one thing, it is a lot cheaper to complete a World Series Champs signed piece getting them at the ALS event than it is paying fees like the $199 Ryan Howard was getting at the Philly Show in 2012 or so.Steve F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00753488569249068229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-8868857261452723652017-05-13T09:51:52.986-04:002017-05-13T09:51:52.986-04:00Yet another reason I should finish up work on my t...Yet another reason I should finish up work on my time machine soon. I imagine the 2008-2011 events were way more crowded but it would have been cool to be there.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-77156789312709310532017-05-12T21:10:50.079-04:002017-05-12T21:10:50.079-04:00I agree. How have you never been to that event bef...I agree. How have you never been to that event before? Sounds like an incredible time. Section 36https://www.blogger.com/profile/18194098940017348361noreply@blogger.com