I'm not usually one to brag, given my own spiritual/religious values (for some reason, they just don't condone it), but this has to go up there, with the time I grabbed a coat hanger... and proceeded to stick it in the keyhole of my dad's old 1986 Toyota Camry several years back (instead of sticking it through the window to pull the lock up).
Scalpers. Here's how you apparently beat 'em*: arrive about an hour after the baseball game starts, be the only one among your friends with cash (and a very limited amount), and appear utterly disinterested in buying scalper tickets when you could just as easily go to the ticket sales area, which is what we were planning to do in the first place.
End result: I bought three behind-home-plate tickets (upper deck, of course) for only $8. Unfortunately there were four of us, so the fourth ticket had to be bought at face value ($22 I think). But instead of paying a combined $28 for four cheap seats tickets way out behind left field, we essentially paid the same amount for the same number of tickets behind home plate.
At the end, though, I'm thinking the scalpers were just looking to get rid of their tickets (I bought the last three that they had), so they probably would have taken anything. But there you have it.
For your enjoyment, below is a pic of the baseball field. Since the Metrodome will no longer be in use by the Twins after this year, this pic could potentially have some historic value to it. Oh, and the Twins beat the Tigers ["http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090918&content_id=7037924&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=min"] 3-0 in what has become a pretty tight pennant race. ["http://espn.go.com/mlb/huntforoctober"]
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* Said scalping the scalpers has been proven to work at the Metrodome only once, and with ones who are desperate to sell.