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Baseball tryouts - Football tryouts - now there is a combine where teams can check out who is the best ticket salesperson.  In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette there was an article about a group of sport ticket salesperson wannabes.  Outside of PNC park they taped a group of prospective salespeople trying to interact with the crowd and sell tickets.  These videos were reviewed by the Cleveland Indians and Cavaliers, New York Knicks and Rangers, Charlotte Bobcats, Georgia Tech, Chicago Fire, Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers.  Instead of just reading a resume, these teams were able to see the sales people in action.

One person indicated that they always look for people wearing Pittsburgh Pirates merchandise.  Another one said they avoided the people wearing St. Louis Cardinals merchandise.  All of them tried to gain the confidence of the fans and use their best selling skills.  They looked them in the eye.  They listened more than they talked.  Before heading into the crowd, everyone got a training lesson.  Hopefully, this helped because the event cost the prospects $395 per person.

I can see it now.  In addition to the telephone sales people selling us season and single game tickets, the roving salesperson will carry Pittsburgh Pirates merchandise in a backpack that they can whip out for an other sale.  There will even be in the stands along with the hot dog salesman, beer man and peanut vendor, a guy or gal selling Atlanta Braves stuff while we sit in our seats.  I can't wait.  All I can say is that they should stay out of line of site.  It would really irritate me if I paid a telephone sales person, bought a hot dog, beer and bag of peanuts and the Chicago Bulls merchandise salesperson was letting someone try on shirt between me and the the next slam dunk.  It wouldn't be pretty.