The fundamental difference between being a baseball fan in Michigan and being a baseball fan in Boston?
In Michigan, if I wanted to see the Twins play I would drive to Detroit the day of the game and purchase as many tickets as I wanted without paying crappy TicketMaster fees.
In Boston, it is still January, and I went looking to see the status of Twins-Red Sox tickets to find that I can no longer get two seats together. Thus, I have just given TicketMaster $16 for “convenience” and have a single ticket to each of the April 21st and April 22nd Twins/Red Sox games. Also, one of the tickets cost me $90 — there is not a seat anywhere in Comerica that approaches this.