I bought a strip.
After talking with one of the reps, it made a lot more sense. You don't have pay for your 2013 renewel along with the post season strip. The payment from the strip can be applied to a 2013 season ticket package and once you have a 2013 package the remaining credit can be applied to individual game tickets in 2013. Granted given the price difference between a partial plan and strip, I may just run with a half instead of a partial if we don't make it.
$760 for a full strip of 2 seats in section 226, row R with a ballpark of an addtional $300-400 if we make the World Series. Compared to other post season prices I have seen it could be much worse. Keeping this cheaper partial on the side has a lot of benefits.
She is a sweatheart. I am a lucky man.
Thanks for the info - I think I'll buy a strip of 2 seats as well (and mine would be 226, row P, one row below yours). Gotta think about it a little more, but that's probably the way to go. Unfortunately, I'll be out town during the first part of the WS, but if it gets there, I know I could easily sell those tickets. So, excluding the WS games, each seat costs $370 (2 seats are $760, including a $20 service fee), or an average of just over $40 per game (they plan on a one-game tiebreaker, a wildcard play-in game, 3 games in the LDS and 4 games in the LCS) for seats that cost $10 normally. Could be worse, I guess. Chances are pretty slim that they would play that many games, so I imagine that will pay for a small chunk of my plan for 2013.