Fair Market Value
This was a long time coming....but they ought to triple the price reduction:
- The Cubs said Tuesday their overall average ticket price will decrease by 2 percent in 2013, most of which stems from a 10 percent reduction in the average price of a bleacher ticket.
After a 101-loss season in which they drew more than 2.6 million fans, the Cubs had to determine whether prices needed to be reduced drastically, or if fans still would flock to Wrigley Field in 2013 no matter the price .
2.6 million people spending how many billions in a ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
44 Comments:
TWO PERCENT... is that a JOKE?? what is that gonna be, fifty cents for your average ticket.... makes NO sense, even if they had a winning record, how is saving 50 cents a ticket gonna make people buy more tickets
Rip on the Cubbies all you want but they are the only baseball team that matters in this town.
2018 World Champs!
Cubs price reduction, huh? Maybe if the Sox give away even more free tickets next year they will finally get asses in the seats at Mobile Phone Park. But maybe not.
Sorry, you don't have a case here SCC. The housing bubble didn't start until the late 90's. Daley bought the property well before the bubble. Here's a nice chart of housing prices over the last 100 years:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHk84Mq9_48/Te2EJsaePsI/AAAAAAAABE8/ELksE6qfhrc/s1600/U.S.%2BHousing%2BPrice%2BIndex%2BSince%2B1900.jpg
Reducing ticket prices? Wow! Somebody's getting the message! Wasn't it SCC, just a couple of weeks ago that said,
"How about trying this on for size northsiders - stop going to games. Stop buying Cubs stuff. Spend your money somewhere else."
Oh, yeah, it was! Right here:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13350456&postID=297359644190217180
Maybe the Rickets' read SCC, too!
I would really respect Tom Ricketts if he were to come out and say publicly, "Folks, we suck. I know it and am ashamed to take your money for such an inferior product. Until we have a winning team, over .500, I will cut ticket prices in half. I think that is fair and the die hard fans deserve it." "Thanks for your support over the years and please know this, prices will not go up again until we can again cheer for this team with pride."
Lowering the prices and Rahm's budget is based on an improving economy? Need we remind anyone what the attendance was like on the south side park that was a division contender for much of the year?
Season ticket holders will be rewarded further for the 2013 Season.
In conjunction with partnering Northside pet stores, all season ticket holders will receive monthly vouchers redeemable for one gerbil*.
* Gerbil selection limited to in-stock specimens. Declawing services available for a modest surcharge.
"If you build it, the dumb-asses will come."
Oooooooh boy 2%!!!!! Not even enough of a savings to pay for the mustard on a crappy hotdog!
below the "former" robert taylor homes.
The Cubs dont play ball in October, Cut the price in half.
I wouldn't spend a penny at that dump!
Cubs are better off tearing Wrigley Field down!
Maybe then the demons of no World Series Champioships at the venue could be excersized! Bury a goat there, too!
ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes.
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Wow. I spent many hours in those stairwells in the mid to late 90's. That's quite a mental image you painted there...
the cubs will continue to be losers as long as fans keep going to the games.
"2.6 million people spending how many billions in a ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes."
At least they pee in troughs at Wrigley Field.
Anonymous said...
Sorry, you don't have a case here SCC. The housing bubble didn't start until the late 90's. Daley bought the property well before the bubble. Here's a nice chart of housing prices over the last 100 years:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHk84Mq9_48/Te2EJsaePsI/AAAAAAAABE8/ELksE6qfhrc/s1600/U.S.%2BHousing%2BPrice%2BIndex%2BSince%2B1900.jpg
10/17/2012 12:14:00 AM
Sorry, but YOU don't have a case HERE. You see, your mindless contribution with a chart of skewed home prices belongs on the thread about Daley selling his house to his daughter, not this thread.
Jackass
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
Season ticket holders will be rewarded further for the 2013 Season.
In conjunction with partnering Northside pet stores, all season ticket holders will receive monthly vouchers redeemable for one gerbil*.
* Gerbil selection limited to in-stock specimens. Declawing services available for a modest surcharge.
10/17/2012 01:05:00 AM
You belong onstage doing improv, Mr or Mrs Westside. You officers crack me up, but I swear there's a handful of you folks that missed your true calling. Keep up the good work and remember that a sense of humor is as important as anything else, especially in your profession.
So next year it will be $121 for a Field Box ticket to see the Cardinals that was $32 in 2002. What a bargain!
If you declaw a gerbil, do you still receive the same gratification?
"2.6 million people spending how many billions in a ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes." -- SCC
COMMENT OF THE MONTH!
"* Gerbil selection limited to in-stock specimens. Declawing services available for a modest surcharge."
--10/17/2012 01:05:00 AM
* We reserve the right to limit quantities.
great beer garden!!
I thought that they were overpriced at .19 a ticket.
Long live Mobile Phone Park!
Way nicer than Chewing Gum park!
Or Capt. Morgan park....
Or Bud Light Bleacher Park
The sux are running a promotion also.
They are putting past fans pictures on Milk Cartons in hopes of getting SOMEONE, ANYONE, to come and see a game.
But, once football season starts, who really gives a sh-t about either baseball team?
Sox cannot give away Gerbils, due to fact Sox fans cannot afford to care for them,
nor do they have the family structure to raise them in a safe, loving, non criminal type, lifestyle,
nor do they make stained wife beaters in Gerbil sizes.
And, it's very hard to grow a mullet on a Gerbil.
And, it's very hard to put a gang tattoo on those little Gerbil arms.
Gerbils can be given to famous Sox Fans, B. Obama, R. Daley, M. Madigan, and P. Quinn.
These avid Sox Fans could put the Gerbils to exhausting use.
You moron cub fans can keep lying to yourselves if it helps, but no one is showing up at wrigley to watch Baseball!
Chicago Cubs 2012 attendance award champions!!
Sorry, Sox fans, you'll have to be happy with that 2005 World Series Championship you have..
ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes.
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Wow. I spent many hours in those stairwells in the mid to late 90's. That's quite a mental image you painted there...
You're welcome. Never let it be said we lacked inspiration
Good for them.
Wrigley Field, you could have a performance by a bunch of naked men and the place would sell out. Have to admit, watching the games from a rooftop is a far better value.
Anonymous said...
If you declaw a gerbil, do you still receive the same gratification?
10/17/2012 10:34:00 AM
Then they start eating their way out.
Anonymous said...
So next year it will be $121 for a Field Box ticket to see the Cardinals that was $32 in 2002. What a bargain!
10/17/2012 10:03:00 AM
It's cheaper to drive to St Louis, buy a ticket for a game there, and see a team that has won more World Series than every other team except for the New York Yankees.
You have to be soft in the head to pay that kind of juice to see the bunch of miserable losers who pretend to play baseball in that outdoor urinal at Clark & Addison.
The best seat at Busch Stadium, a Brand New Ballpark by the way, is less than half the price than at that crumbling pisshole called Wrigley Field. Or you can go to Milwaukee when the Cubs are there. Or Cincinnati.
All better options than going to the North Side National League Ball Park. And no shitheads hustling you for tickets, no shithead teen thugs banging on plastic buckets pretending they are making music.
Anonymous said...
ballpark rated below most stairwells in the Robert Taylor Homes.
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Wow. I spent many hours in those stairwells in the mid to late 90's. That's quite a mental image you painted there...
10/17/2012 07:56:00 AM
Oh I hated when you stepped in a puddle and you knew it wasn't fresh rainwater.
Anonymous said...
If you declaw a gerbil, do you still receive the same gratification?
10/17/2012 10:34:00 AM
Sounds like a question for the Keesing Bandit.
Chicago Cubs 2012 attendance award champions!!
Sorry, Sox fans, you'll have to be happy with that 2005 World Series Championship you have..
A least they have a World Series Championship asshat!! No go get your shine box.
I was at Fenway Park recently and that park is 1 or 2 years older than Wrigley. What a difference! Fenway is a really nice ballpark whereas Wrigley is an armpit.
If the Cubs owners wanted to they could've spent money on renovations over the years but they always chose not to.
They knew that shitty park, bad team it didn't matter because the fools kept flocking there.
Rahm better not give them a red cent of taxpayers money. Put the money into our pensions where Daley hadn't for the past 20 years!
"once football season starts, who really gives a sh-t about either baseball team?"
Amen!
"Sorry, Sox fans, you'll have to be happy with that 2005 World Series Championship you have.."
We are. At least it occurred during your lifetime.
The Cubs magic number is 162.
Send those cubbies to alaska who needs them here
I have never used a gerbil in any of my various activities. Humans are much more interesting.
I do love my Cubbies though. I could be their gerbil anytime. In fact, most of the men at the ballpark would jump at that chance also.
When are the naked men appearing again??????
I have to sit down. I think I am getting the flutters.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
The Cubs should pay people to have to see them play, not make them buy tickets to get into Games. Cub fans should also be forced by Law keep their drapes closed when watching a game, so little kids don't get scared or discouraged.
Carlos Zambrano
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