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TORONTO (Canada).\u2014<\/strong> Tickets for the first game of the 2025 World Series<\/strong> between the Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong> and the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/strong> reached record prices, exceeding $2,000<\/strong> on the secondary market, according to official reports this Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>Shohei Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the great figures called to define the 2025 World Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nTickets for the Rogers Centre<\/strong>, with a capacity for more than 39,000 spectators<\/strong>, sold out in a matter of minutes after sales opened on Tuesday morning through the Ticketmaster<\/strong> platform, the only one authorized for distribution.\n\nAlthough the official price of the most economical seats was approximately 250 Canadian dollars<\/strong> (about 180 US dollars<\/strong>), on Ticketmaster’s own website those same tickets appeared for resale for more than 2,000 Canadian dollars<\/strong>, while the preferential seats exceed 12,000 dollars<\/strong>.\n\n\n \u201cWhen you have a single actor controlling the market, that’s not fair to the people,\u201d Ford declared. \u201cWe are reviewing this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe company Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of the LiveNation<\/strong> group, also faces a lawsuit in the United States<\/strong> filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)<\/strong>, which accuses it of deceptive practices and manipulating the resale market.\n\nIn Canada, the company was also the subject of a class action lawsuit in 2018<\/strong> for concealing commissions, a case that concluded this year with a settlement of 6 million Canadian dollars<\/strong> in favor of consumers.\n\n\n TORONTO (Canada).\u2014 Tickets for the first game of the 2025 World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers reached record prices, exceeding $2,000 on the secondary market, according to official reports this Wednesday. You may be interested in:Shohei Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the great figures called to define the 2025 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-487813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22TX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/tony-vitello-768x432-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/tony-vitello-768x432-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\nOutraged Fans and Official Criticism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe excessive increase in prices has generated outrage among fans and provoked political reactions. The Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford<\/strong>, called the situation a \u201crip-off\u201d and announced that his government will investigate Ticketmaster’s monopoly<\/strong> in the sale of tickets for sporting events and shows.\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n Economic Impact in Toronto<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nDespite the controversy, Toronto’s tourism and commercial sectors anticipate a “strong positive economic impact” with the arrival of the World Series. City hotels report a 22% increase in room demand compared to the same period in 2024, and bars and restaurants are preparing for a historic weekend.\n\nThe last time the Blue Jays<\/strong> played in the World Series was in 1993<\/strong>, when the cheapest tickets cost 32 Canadian dollars<\/strong>, equivalent to about 62 current dollars<\/strong> adjusted for inflation.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"