How hard is it going to be to get tickets for Opening Day?

[Abe Frohman]

Planning a trip up to the Windy City, and imagine it is going to be a tough ticket.

[sethuel1]

depends what you're willing to spend and how lucky you get on the day the tickets go on sale.

[Irishoshea21]

Planning a trip up to the Windy City, and imagine it is going to be a tough ticket.

 

It's easy to do standing room, plus it's only 10 bucks

[cubsavant]

It might be expensive to get tickets, but it will be easy to get tickets.

[Derwood]

back in 1994 or 1995, I got tickets for Opening Day by walking up to the box office an hour before the game. Sat upper deck behind home plate. Frank Castillo took the mound against the Padres. It was like 10 degrees.

[J.R.]

It might be expensive to get tickets, but it will be easy to get tickets.

 

I like to say that there are no hard tickets, only expensive ones.

[cheapseats]

I've made it through the VWR for opening day tickets in each of the last three years. The White Sox series will sell out first.

[nilodnayr]

I've made it through the VWR for opening day tickets in each of the last three years. The White Sox series will sell out first.

 

I prefer one of the weekend games of the home opener series (gotta get the magnet schedule), and have had no problem getting them the last three years either. You gotta be commited to the VWR though. I take the day off or work and enlist an army of friends.

[Twiggy]

I've made it through the VWR for opening day tickets in each of the last three years. The White Sox series will sell out first.

 

I prefer one of the weekend games of the home opener series (gotta get the magnet schedule), and have had no problem getting them the last three years either. You gotta be commited to the VWR though. I take the day off or work and enlist an army of friends.

 

any secrets for the vwr this year? My mom and brother are planning a trip so I'm sure I will have to help them try to get tickets to the Braves series.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

[Jon]

I've made it through the VWR for opening day tickets in each of the last three years. The White Sox series will sell out first.

 

I prefer one of the weekend games of the home opener series (gotta get the magnet schedule), and have had no problem getting them the last three years either. You gotta be commited to the VWR though. I take the day off or work and enlist an army of friends.

 

any secrets for the vwr this year? My mom and brother are planning a trip so I'm sure I will have to help them try to get tickets to the Braves series.

Open up tons of windows and you shouldn't have that much of a problem. Opening Day usually doesn't sell out for a couple of hours, and that's if demand is really high. It also depends on the other hot games, though. The fewer there are, the faster Opening Day goes.

[Abe Frohman]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

Solid.

[Soz]

In the Wrigley era, 22,000 seats went on sale the day of the game, including Opening Day. You just had to get there early enough, although even that wasn't a problem until post-1969. But it did start getting ugly in the late '70s when some of the first ones to gain access to the bleachers would urinate onto the lines below.

 

Hard to believe bleacher tickets were only 75 cents, then a buck, then two bucks in those days.

 

The bleachers weren't even sold in advance for the '62 All-Star Game. My dad dropped me off at the bleacher entrance about 7:30 a.m. I got in for $2. Sat in the normally closed-off section of center field, which was opened that day for the only time since the '40s and never again for baseball. Can you imagine an 11-year-old kid going to the all-star game by himself today?

 

Thanks for allowing me to reminisce a little.

[Roast]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

Hahaha. Thats a constructive use of time.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

Hahaha. Thats a constructive use of time.

 

And bonus points for the student who nabs some Cubs-Sox tickets where I can utilize the profits to finance my trip.

[CuseCubFan69]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

Hahaha. Thats a constructive use of time.

 

And bonus points for the student who nabs some Cubs-Sox tickets where I can utilize the profits to finance my trip.

 

An education on capitalism, very good Vance.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

Hahaha. Thats a constructive use of time.

 

And bonus points for the student who nabs some Cubs-Sox tickets where I can utilize the profits to finance my trip.

 

An education on capitalism, very good Vance.

 

Well, I keep having to go to seminars on incoporating technology into the classroom and just last November one on applying the classroom to the real world....

 

I think this applies! :)

[cheapseats]

although even that wasn't a problem until post-1969. But it did start getting ugly in the late '70s when some of the first ones to gain access to the bleachers would urinate onto the lines below.

 

Yuck.

 

I liked the stories, though.

 

I plan to enlist my students and a full computer lab to acquire the tix I desire.

 

I know a Cubs fan who runs a company's IT department, so he has a lot of computers at his disposal. Last year he got throught the VWR so quickly that he got good seats for all three Sox games, opening day, and every Cardinals gave he wanted.