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The Yankees are so desperate to sell seats at their new stadium, they're having David Cone leave drunk dial-length messages for fans they hope to lure into buying high price tickets. Today's Post reports that the beloved Yankee pitcher is on phone duty trying to "persuade fans and corporations to spend $2,500 on luxury seats."

Tickets to the upcoming Bruce Springsteen/Billy Joel "Change Rocks" fundraiser concert for Barack Obama are being scalped (shocking!). Tickets already cost $500 to $10,000--and even though the latter are still available, scalpers are hiking up the prices to as much as $25,000! The Campaign Silo reports that ticket scalping breaks campaign finance laws, and "fans who use scalpers could be complicit." David Donnelly of Campaign Money Watch explained, "If someone purchases tickets for the express purpose of reselling them rather than to make a contribution to Obama or the DNC, they appear to be breaking the law." There are other ins and outs to the legality of ticket purchases, but the only legal way to do so is through Obama's website. The show, at the Hammerstein Ballroom, is one day after the final presidential debate, and it's rumored that Obama himself may make an appearance.

It's no surprise that ticket prices for the Bon Jovi concert being held in Central Park this Saturday went from free to $1500 in no time. As we mentioned yesterday, Spitzer had signed a legislation making online scalping legal, and Bloomberg agrees that there's not much that can be done. The mayor declared to the NY Post:

"The scalping is just a way of life. I can't tell you it's not worth that kind of money. It's up to you if you want to spend the money. But whatever the scalping laws are, you're going to have to comply with them."

It's up to the officials at MLB to enforce their limitations, which they said they plan to do.

As the big Bon Jovi concert approaches tickets to the free show are going for as much as $1500/pair, The NY Post reports. The show is going down this Saturday on the Great Lawn in Central Park, and an additional lot of tickets will be released at the Javits Center this Friday (more details at MLB.com). Hardcore fans of Jon Bon who don't get their hands on the freebies will have to lay down some serious cash via online outlets like eBay and Craigslist.

An eBay search at midday yesterday found 267 listings for the sold-out concert, with prices ranging from 99 cents to $1,500 a pair from one especially audacious seller identified as "agttickets."

So far 60,000 tickets are in the hands of fans (or scalpers). A search on Craigslist today shows a number of non-specific listings, mostly asking for "best offers." One scalper, who allegedly has 49 tickets to give away (even though there was a limit to 2 per person), claims they will only go to the die hard fans who meet him the day of the show (he'll be wearing a blue sweatshirt by the E 72nd Street entrance at 2 p.m.!).