When the summit convened last week, its venue -- expanded to 500 seats -- was sold out.

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The Padres said opening day Monday against the Dodgers was sold out except for some single seats.

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With middle-class fans priced out of most seats, corporate sponsors were sold the idea of a yuppie audience at the ballpark.

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Once under way, television footage of rows of empty seats at venues long assumed by home fans to be sold out had threatened to become a defining narrative that distracted from the events themselves.

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His recent tour of Northern Ireland sold out in record time -- 20, 000 seats in six minutes.

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