The Official 2008 Chicago Cubs Thread!!!!!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

i have decided against purchasing tickets for a bunch of games when they go on sale...

ill go to 2-3 games one way or another....

but i am not spending $1000 on tickets this year....

mca47

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

i have decided against purchasing tickets for a bunch of games when they go on sale...

ill go to 2-3 games one way or another....

but i am not spending $1000 on tickets this year....

I don't blame ya'! It's incredible how fuckin' expensive tix are year after year.

I'll be going to a few spring training games (they are dirt cheap), all the Cubs games here against the D-backs and probably one back in Chicago.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

mca47 wrote:

I don't blame ya'! It's incredible how fuckin' expensive tix are year after year.

I'll be going to a few spring training games (they are dirt cheap), all the Cubs games here against the D-backs and probably one back in Chicago.

thats just it....year after year of raising the fucking prices...

and they havent won a fucking thing in 100 years.....fuck them...

if i feel like going to a couple games in june or july...then ill get tickets...

when i was a kid ...taking the bus to wrigley field was fucking a magical experience......

as an adult.....going to wrigley field with my girlfriend turns into a $150-$200 adventure.....

fuck that.........

pureoc

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

thats just it....year after year of raising the fucking prices...

and they havent won a fucking thing in 100 years.....fuck them...

if i feel like going to a couple games in june or july...then ill get tickets...

when i was a kid ...taking the bus to wrigley field was fucking a magical experience......

as an adult.....going to wrigley field with my girlfriend turns into a $150-$200 adventure.....

fuck that.........

I hear ya. I bought 20 games two years ago, the 96 loss season, and learned the hard way not to do that again. I'll probably get 6 this year. Opening Day, Sox, Cards, and maybe one or two more. I'm going to all the games in Milwaukee, and those SOB's raised there tickets too, since everyone is jumping on there bandwagon.

PJPAT

As a season ticket holder the price of tickets have not gone up in the last 3 years. They did go up this year and now match what single game tickets go for so it was a big jump.

$17 ticket is now $20. It does not seem like much but when you multiply that by 4 seats and 55 games it is a lot.

The payroll goes up every year as does everything you buy in the park.

Just slap a name on Wrigley Field like Nike Field and keep the prices for poor bastards like me so I can afford to bring my family to a baseball game.

This is the year guys. Cubs should run and hide in this division. Lets hope they can get hot in October soy we can see a World Series.

pureoc

1 week till tickets go on sale.

Z to start opening day.

eddievedder1977

PJPAT wrote:

Just slap a name on Wrigley Field like Nike Field and keep the prices for poor bastards like me so I can afford to bring my family to a baseball game.

They certainly might use this as their reason/excuse to sell the naming rights. But I've heard all the lies before, it sure as shit won't keep ticket prices down, all it will do is give them more of a profit.

pureoc

10 years. Hard to believe it's been 10 years today, since Harry passed. I am probably the biggest Anti-Budweiser person you'll find, but tonight I'll be drinking a Bud for Harry.

mca47

pureoc wrote:

10 years. Hard to believe it's been 10 years today, since Harry passed. I am probably the biggest Anti-Budweiser person you'll find, but tonight I'll be drinking a Bud for Harry.

Holy crap! It's been 10 years?!?! Man, time flies!

frank coztansa

Is it fate, coincidence, or just ironic that the letter the Cubs wear on thier hats and the value of the Roman Numeral for 100 are the same?

pureoc

Tomorrow's the big day. Stopping after work and picking up some Old Style and will be crackin' one at 9:30 tomorrow when I hop on-line.

pureoc

Well it was much more of a bitch than I expected getting Cubs tickets. The system crashed due to overflow and the website was extremely slow.

Fortunately my buddy got opening day, Cubs Sox Sat. and Cubs Cards Sept. 21st. I was able to snag Sun June 1st vs. COL, Sun Aug 31st vs PHI, Mon Sept 1st vs HOU, Wed. Sept 17th vs MIL. I also have tickets for all the games in MIL and the June 29th game at Comiskey. GO CUBS!

mirrorthelight

got my tickets for the game i wanted!!! i couldn't get to the virtual waiting room at work (stupid block) so i called around 11:10am and I got the tickets I wanted!! I think its best to just call and get the tickets, last year I was in the waiting room for 5 hours so I just said fuck it and called and got right thru!

pureoc

mirrorthelight wrote:

got my tickets for the game i wanted!!! i couldn't get to the virtual waiting room at work (stupid block) so i called around 11:10am and I got the tickets I wanted!! I think its best to just call and get the tickets, last year I was in the waiting room for 5 hours so I just said fuck it and called and got right thru!

Glad to hear what game did you get? I agree the VR thing sucked. I think the system crashed or something cause between 9:30 and 10 all you would get would be a blank screen.

mca47

So it looks like Soriano will be hitting either 1st or 2nd Fuc will be hitting 3rd, Lee 4th, and Aramis 5th.

I think that will be something most opposing pitchers aren't going to want to face too often!!

Can't wait!

eddievedder1977

mca47 wrote:

So it looks like Soriano will be hitting either 1st or 2nd Fuc will be hitting 3rd, Lee 4th, and Aramis 5th.

I think that will be something most opposing pitchers aren't going to want to face too often!!

Can't wait!

I disagree with moving Lee out of the 3 hole, but the article I read said Lou used 125 different lineups last year.

eddievedder1977

MESA, Ariz. (AP)—Second baseman Mark DeRosa was taken out of the Chicago Cubs’ spring training complex on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to a hospital Saturday after experiencing an irregular heartbeat.

DeRosa was sitting up as he was wheeled out of the Fitch Park complex. Some of his teammates were still in the field winding up a day of workouts.

“Mark’s doing fine,” manager Lou Piniella said. “He came in with a rapid heartbeat from doing the things on the field and was having a little trouble breathing, so they called in the medical team.

“He’s completely stable, but better be safe than sorry. With the irregular heartbeat and so forth, they sent him to the hospital to test him and evaluate him. But he’s fine.”

A team spokesman said DeRosa felt faint but never lost consciousness.

“I talked to him. He was a little nervous and outside of that he’s OK,” Piniella said.

Team trainer Mark O’Neal accompanied DeRosa to the hospital.

“We’ll find out what the medical staff or doctor at the hospital tells us to do,” Piniella said. “I don’t expect this to be serious and don’t expect it to be too long.”

A team spokesman said the medical team was brought in so DeRosa could be hooked up to an EKG first and then be moved to the hospital for further testing. A team doctor was at the complex.

Shortstop Ryan Theriot said DeRosa started to have a problem during groundball practice Saturday.

“It wasn’t any one particular thing,” Theriot said. “It started to speed up on him, and I think he started to get a little worried.

“He was fine through the whole thing. I think it was just one of those deals. He was more scared than anything.”

DeRosa, who will turn 33 on Feb. 26, batted .293 in 149 games last season, his first with the Cubs.

pureoc

eddievedder1977 wrote:

MESA, Ariz. (AP)—Second baseman Mark DeRosa was taken out of the Chicago Cubs’ spring training complex on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to a hospital Saturday after experiencing an irregular heartbeat.

DeRosa was sitting up as he was wheeled out of the Fitch Park complex. Some of his teammates were still in the field winding up a day of workouts.

“Mark’s doing fine,” manager Lou Piniella said. “He came in with a rapid heartbeat from doing the things on the field and was having a little trouble breathing, so they called in the medical team.

“He’s completely stable, but better be safe than sorry. With the irregular heartbeat and so forth, they sent him to the hospital to test him and evaluate him. But he’s fine.”

A team spokesman said DeRosa felt faint but never lost consciousness.

“I talked to him. He was a little nervous and outside of that he’s OK,” Piniella said.

Team trainer Mark O’Neal accompanied DeRosa to the hospital.

“We’ll find out what the medical staff or doctor at the hospital tells us to do,” Piniella said. “I don’t expect this to be serious and don’t expect it to be too long.”

A team spokesman said the medical team was brought in so DeRosa could be hooked up to an EKG first and then be moved to the hospital for further testing. A team doctor was at the complex.

Shortstop Ryan Theriot said DeRosa started to have a problem during groundball practice Saturday.

“It wasn’t any one particular thing,” Theriot said. “It started to speed up on him, and I think he started to get a little worried.

“He was fine through the whole thing. I think it was just one of those deals. He was more scared than anything.”

DeRosa, who will turn 33 on Feb. 26, batted .293 in 149 games last season, his first with the Cubs.

Saw that too, scary stuff. Glad to hear it appears as though he's all right.

PJPAT

pureoc wrote:

Well it was much more of a bitch than I expected getting Cubs tickets. The system crashed due to overflow and the website was extremely slow.

Fortunately my buddy got opening day, Cubs Sox Sat. and Cubs Cards Sept. 21st. I was able to snag Sun June 1st vs. COL, Sun Aug 31st vs PHI, Mon Sept 1st vs HOU, Wed. Sept 17th vs MIL. I also have tickets for all the games in MIL and the June 29th game at Comiskey. GO CUBS!

I would say you did pretty damn good! I did not get to buy tickets until 2:30. At that time there was not a weekend game available.

I only wanted 1 game for my kids to get a build a bear on Friday July 25th so I am good.

pureoc

PJPAT wrote:

I would say you did pretty damn good! I did not get to buy tickets until 2:30. At that time there was not a weekend game available.

I only wanted 1 game for my kids to get a build a bear on Friday July 25th so I am good.

Glad to hear you got the game you wanted. First spring training game Thur. afternoon and it's on WGN radio so the afternoon at work will be a lot better.