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Speaker 1: Did you know there's one hundred and twenty I believe
Speaker 1: this is correct, there's one hundred and twenty seven days
Speaker 1: till Red's opening day, holidays coming up. How about some
Speaker 1: stocking stuff for ideas, some stuff to put under the trees.
Speaker 1: And this is news that warms you up on a
Speaker 1: miserable day. Red single game tickets excluding Opening Day are
Speaker 1: on sale now. For more on that, let's go straight
Speaker 1: to the source. He is the senior director of ticket
Speaker 1: sales for yours, Cincinnati Reds. That would be Mark Schuller.
Speaker 2: How are you, Lance, I'm doing great? How are you
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's start here. I don't want to bury
Speaker 1: the lead because I know everybody loves to hear this
Speaker 1: about fees. Tell us about a window of opportunity right
Speaker 1: now that does not involve fees on Red's tickets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over the past couple of years, we've actually moved
Speaker 2: up the date to put single game tickets on sale.
Speaker 2: A big part of that is to allow fans to
Speaker 2: purchase them for gifts and really lock in, you know,
Speaker 2: the following summer early on. So right now, tickets are
Speaker 2: available for all eighty games other than opening Day online
Speaker 2: with no fees, and that'll be running through Monday, November
Speaker 2: twenty four.
Speaker 1: Can't beat that, all right, give us a quick overlook
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty six schedule and maybe some opponents of.
Speaker 2: Note yeah, so, I mean, our goal has always to
Speaker 2: deliver great experience and offer a bunch of different ticket
Speaker 2: packages and varieties for folks. And you know, we're excited
Speaker 2: about twenty six there. It's packed with a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: We have seven Bobble Had dates. All those will be
Speaker 2: on various Saturdays throughout the year. We're gon have multiple
Speaker 2: firework shows, a special Fourth of July celebration which will
Speaker 2: include a Reds branded USA hat which will be really cool.
Speaker 2: And we'll continue to addmo items tough the calendar for
Speaker 2: the next couple of months. But you know, as we
Speaker 2: look at this schedule, it's really exciting. We have to
Speaker 2: start with the Red Sox and open up against them,
Speaker 2: so have a prime opponent right off the bat, which
Speaker 2: is really exciting. And you know how the schedules change.
Speaker 2: We play a lot of American League team, so we'll
Speaker 2: have the Tigers in April, and you know the La
Speaker 2: Dodgers will be coming here in September, so and we
Speaker 2: always know we see the Cubs and Cardinals every year,
Speaker 2: and so really good opponents on the on the schedule.
Speaker 1: I love and I know my son Casey loves the
Speaker 1: pick six plan. Perfect for maybe a holiday gift for
Speaker 1: a Reds fan in your home. Explain the pick six plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so our pick six plan has been a popular
Speaker 2: item the last several years. So purchase on a pick
Speaker 2: six plan, you actually get to pick any six games
Speaker 2: throughout the twenty twenty sixth season and it comes with
Speaker 2: an exclusive bobblehead. So this year we're doing Ellie de
Speaker 2: la Cruz. He's going to be dabbing and it's going
Speaker 2: to be a light up bobblehead, so the base will
Speaker 2: light up and he's going to be doing his famous dabs.
Speaker 2: So you check that out at red dot com slash
Speaker 2: pick six.
Speaker 1: Love that and I'm really excited with this next thing
Speaker 1: because last year you guys introduced the three two to
Speaker 1: one Tuesday Ballpark Pass, which is a fantastic idea and
Speaker 1: it's my understanding it is expanding with multiple options this year.
Speaker 2: Do tell yeah, it is expanding. So for the listeners
Speaker 2: that don't know, every Tuesday at the ballpark we do
Speaker 2: a three to two to one special, which is three
Speaker 2: dollars beers, two dollars hot dogs, and one dollar ice
Speaker 2: cream and that's became really popular over the past couple
Speaker 2: of years. And last year we interdewed what's introduced what
Speaker 2: is called a pass product. It's a little bit different
Speaker 2: in the ticket meaning they can't be forward day or
Speaker 2: resold or anything like that. So the way they work
Speaker 2: is the day a game, you'll get a text message saying, hey,
Speaker 2: are you coming tonight, you say yes, and then two
Speaker 2: hours before the game, you'll be sent tickets to the game.
Speaker 2: So we dabbled. Last year we did a pass it
Speaker 2: was forty nine to ninety nine for all thirteen games.
Speaker 2: We're bringing that back as well, and we're also expanding
Speaker 2: that into a couple of different seating levels, so you
Speaker 2: can get an upper level pass for just eighty nine
Speaker 2: to ninety nine and a Premiere Pass which is our
Speaker 2: lower level pass or one hundred and ninety nine ninety
Speaker 2: nine and again access to all thirteen Tuesday games throughout
Speaker 2: this season. So really great value and great opportunity.
Speaker 1: Can't beat that. That is a fantastic deal, absolutely all right,
Speaker 1: and last but not least one. No, everybody's excited it's
Speaker 1: back after a two year break. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: do sports talk on that Friday night from Reds Fest,
Speaker 1: which returns January sixteenth and seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you are a busy man at RedFest.
Speaker 2: I think it's this NonStop player after player and it's
Speaker 2: been a little hiatus with the renovations going on. So
Speaker 2: we'll actually be the first event back at the convention Center.
Speaker 2: We're really excited about that. We did a walk through
Speaker 2: the other day. It's coming along great and it'll be
Speaker 2: ready for us on January sixteenth and seventeen. So reds
Speaker 2: dot com slash tickets has all the information about all
Speaker 2: the tickets we talked about, but also go on there
Speaker 2: and get RedFest tickets if you've never been. It is
Speaker 2: a spectacle. It's a great way to get autographs meat players,
Speaker 2: see live interviews, and just hang out and think about
Speaker 2: baseball when it's nice and cold here Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Love it, Love love talking Reds baseball. Great catching up.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time tonight and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy Thanksgiving me you Lance, I appreciate having me
Speaker 2: all you got it, Take care.
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark