What would you trade for the chance to watch your team win its first World Series? For some Milwaukee Brewers fans, the answers include plumbing services, or even a boat.

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The Milwaukee Brewers are appearing in their first World Series since 1982 this weekend, and some die-hard fans are getting creative for a chance to see the team play in person. From Wisconsin Public Radio, Evan Casey reports.

EVAN CASEY, BYLINE: The Brewers have been in Milwaukee since 1970. They’ve never won a World Series. Game 1 of the Fall Classic is Friday night at their home stadium, American Family Field. Resale tickets are going for thousands of dollars, and some fans are thinking outside the box to avoid shelling out. Natasha Moser recently posted on Facebook looking to trade her husband’s plumbing services for tickets.

NATASHA MOSER: That could be a way that we might be able to go to a game – just one game, whatever it is. I don’t care where we sit. To be in that stadium, have that experience, is once in a lifetime.

CASEY: Casey Kusch had a slightly different idea – trading his 20-foot pontoon boat for tickets.

CASEY KUSCH: Pontoons come and go, but taking my daughter to the World Series and creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I think is – well, for me, it’s way more valuable than a pontoon.

CASEY: Wisconsin native Griffin Kerwin lives in Wyoming now, but he’s trying to swap Green Bay Packers tickets for a World Series game and is willing to throw in a little extra cash.

GRIFFIN KERWIN: Yeah, I’m looking forward to hopefully telling my kids someday that I was there watching the Brewers win the World Series.

CASEY: The Eau Claire-based band Them Coulee Boys also made a social media post jokingly offering up their tour van for tickets. Soren Staff is in the bands.

SOREN STAFF: We thought it was funny to kind of capture that, like, optimism and desperation. You know, I mean, like, I think everybody wants to be there, and we would definitely want to be there too.

CASEY: To be clear, the van is actually not for sale. Other fans have offered up carpentry services and baseball trading cards. In the days before the first game, resale tickets were going for a little over $2,000 on the low end. Some cost upwards of 20,000. Keith Pagello, founder of TicketData.com, says Games 1 and 2 could be the most expensive World Series tickets ever. The Brewers will take on the Tampa Bay Rays who also hope to win their first World Series. For NPR News, I’m Evan Casey in Milwaukee.

(SOUNDBITE OF JACK NORWORTH AND ALBERT VON TILZER SONG, “TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME”)

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