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OK, who had unemployed pest control technician first in line for Red Sox spring training tickets?

That would be 35-year-old Chuck Null, who yesterday arrived at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers at 11:45 a.m. Tickets don’t go on sale until Saturday morning at 10.

The Fort Myers News-Press caught up with Null at the park, where he set up camp hoping to get tickets for a buddy of his, who apparently has a job and can’t spend 72 hours collecting unemployment by sitting outside a closed box office sipping Mountain Dew.

“I'm saving a seat for him,” Null said. “He called at about 10 and said, 'What are you doing?' I said, 'Nothing.' And he said, 'Do you want to sit at the stadium for tickets?' And I said, 'Sure.'”

Less than two hours later, there he was.

Null did admit that he thought tickets went on sale yesterday, but doesn’t seem to have too much of a problem waiting things out. According to the paper, he “kept busy by eating a pizza and offering a slice to maintenance workers around the park.”

If anything, I guess it’s fitting that even more of Fort Myers’ tax dollars are headed to the Red Sox.