Chicago Cubs

[Mary Anne]

Are there any Chicago Cub Baseball fans that can answer a question for me.

I was just out onthe Cubs web site to see if I could buy tickets. There is no option to buy tickets for the August 3, 4 or 5 home games against the NYMets. Are they sold out already to to those games, or were they pulled from the single ticket option and bundled so that if you want them you have to buy a mini package.

Thank you.

 

[DisneyDotty]

Well, from my limited experience buying tickets off that site, if there is no little T with a box around it, those tickets are indeed sold out. Sorry.

 

[robinb]

Sorry, those days were sold out the day they were released . I would recommend eBay or StubHub.

 

[disneyfan67]

The Tribune comany which owns the Cubs set up a seperate ticket broker that is completley owned by them. When the tickets are ready to go on sale this un official ticket broker owned by the Tribune company, gets a lot of the prime ones and sells them at 5 to 10 to 15 times more than the price that's printed on the orginal ticket. It's impossible to get good seats on prime game days unless you go through them or other ticket brokers.

The Cubs were taken to court by a group of fans crying foul. The Tribune company was tired of seeing Stub Hub and other ticket brokers make all the money, so if you can't beat em, join them! Here's an older article about it in 2003.

http://www.bullz-eye.com/NewsAndCommentary/2003/120201.htm

It's wrong on so many levels, but it is their company and their product. It just stinks that they opened right across the street from Wrigley Field. The Tribune company was the first professional sports team owners to do something like this. Other sports teams have now followed their lead. The whole thing stinks, IMO.

 

[robinb]

It's impossible to get good seats on prime game days unless you go through them or other ticket brokers.

Absolutely not true. I picked up tickets to 3 games (2 St Louis games and a Build-A-Bear Workshop game) the day that single game tickets went on sale last Friday. It was kinda a pain, but I got those "prime" games all of which are now sold out. I have a weekend/night game season ticket package and these were just "cherry" games that I wanted to make sure I could go to. The sad fact is that the majority of seats at Wrigley are season tickets and there has been a waitlist for those for years. The ballpark is small and it's hard to sell single game seats to a weekend game when there are very few seats available to sell.

 

[disneyfan67]

Absolutely not true. I picked up tickets to 3 games (2 St Louis games and a Build-A-Bear Workshop game) the day that single game tickets went on sale last Friday. It was kinda a pain, but I got those "prime" games all of which are now sold out. I have a weekend/night game season ticket package and these were just "cherry" games that I wanted to make sure I could go to. The sad fact is that the majority of seats at Wrigley are season tickets and there has been a waitlist for those for years. The ballpark is small and it's hard to sell single game seats to a weekend game when there are very few seats available to sell.

I wouldn't say the words "absolutely not true". Having family that has lived near Wrigley Field since the late 1940's, my father and I have been to enough Cubs to last a life time. Now in complete honesty the last time I went to Cubs games on a regular basis was 2003. Tickets were getting harder and harder to come by at reasonable prices. I can remember days of just showing up and getting an outfield or a bleacher seat and paying the ticket price. That was back in the 80's and early 90's. The Tribune company did a great job of selling the park as the place to be. It doesn't matter if the Cubs are decent or not, they always pull in good numbers. It the worlds biggest beer garden.

You're correct about season ticket holders, but you also forgot about all the seats that are taken up by corporations and businesses. The have expanded their hold on already hard to get tickets as it is. In the 1970's and early 80's when the Cubs really were terrible, Wrigley field was a ghost town on a week day noon game. I remember being there with my family in the summer back in the day and it was nothing like it is now. It may be possible to get tickets now, but good luck if the Cubs start winning and go deep in the NLCS like they did in 2003.

 

[robinb]

I can remember days of just showing up and getting an outfield or a bleacher seat and paying the ticket price. That was back in the 80's and early 90's.

I dated someone who lived within a mile of Wrigley in the early 80's. I too remember walking up and buying tickets.

You're correct about season ticket holders, but you also forgot about all the seats that are taken up by corporations and businesses. The have expanded their hold on already hard to get tickets as it is.

I actually lumped them into the season ticket holders. I would love to be right behind the Cubs dugout, but I can't afford the seats that the businesses can! Even at face value .

It may be possible to get tickets now, but good luck if the Cubs start winning and go deep in the NLCS like they did in 2003.

I can only hope . Actually, I don't think there will be much of a difference. Games later in the season will be harder to get if the Cubs do well. If they tank again this season the resale prices on eBay and Stubhub will tank too.

 

[mickeymo]

the day single game tickets went on sale, dh sat in a virtual waiting room for over 4 hours to purchase Cubs/Astros tickets. (and he's not even traveling with us) I'm a former Chicago suburbian and a lifelong Cubs fan. dd9 is a Cubs fan and ds 12 is an Astros fan. We've finally planned our summer vacation to the grandparents around a game - and far enough in advance to buy tickets.

We're spoiled in Houston being able to get tickets cheaply and usually up to a few days before the game - unless it's late in the season and the Astros are doing well. Parking is easier and cheaper too!

 

[Mary Anne]

I want to thank everyone for their reply. Well, I guess the bottom line is that we'll pick another city to try and do a road trip too.