Major League Baseball is offering fans the opportunity to buy post season tickets at face value for their favorite team… AT FACE VALUE.  MLB.com has introduced the Postseason Ticket Reservations system.

It basically works like stock options and futures. You can buy a reservation for the Division Series ($10 per reservation), League Championship Series ($15 per reservation) and World Series ($20 per reservation). The maximum purchase for each game is two reservations per household per team per series. If your team makes it to the playoff series that you reserved the tickets for, then you can buy those tickets at face value.  If your team is eliminated prior to your reservation becoming valid, then MLB pockets your money.

This is a great revenue stream for MLB since only eight teams will qualify for post-season play and as the playoffs go on, more people will lose their reservation. However, if your team is the lucky two to make it all the way, you can skip the lines at the box office and the ticket brokers and get the tickets at face plus the fees that always end up on the order.

However, if you are the gambling type, can you put down $90 down [2 x ($10 + 15 + 20)] and you and a friend can be guaranteed two seats for one game in each playoff series.

Sorry Yankee fans, there’s no reservations available for you.

Information from Mark Newman of MLB.com was used in this article.