Ticket prices are destroying the World Cup, NBA Finals, and Stanley Cup on resale market | SB Nation Skip to main contentCome Fan with UsFriday, June 5, 2026SBNation.com homepage The Feed If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I found myself outside a Walmart at 6 a.m. on a Wednesday, because sometimes being the father of a nine-year-old is like that. My daughter informed me the evening before, right as she was going to bed, that she had to have a plain white t-shirt they were going to decorate in class for the end of school — and naturally, I’m not organized enough to have checked the class email to have this prepared ahead of time. Instead of venturing out that evening I figured “I’ll go in the morning when nobody is there yet.” Arriving just before six, there was a huddled mass of between 12 and 15 men, aged from their early-to-mid 20s. I figured it had to have something to do with sports cards, and I was right. This was a weekly ritual for the citizen dirtbags of my central North Carolina city, teeming outside the Walmart to buy up every card put on the shelves, not to open as collectors, but to turn around and flip them…
Published: June 4, 2026 4:58 pm
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