Are there set dates for the World Series?

[Old Style]

Or will the start date depend on how long the division series and championship series last?

[jersey cubs fan]

I believe that if it goes 7, the WS will end on October 30. And I assume that means it will be played October 22/23, off day on the 24, October 25/26/27, off day on 28th, October 29/30.

[Old Style]

It seems odd that they would start on a Wednesday and then not play on Friday night.

[jersey cubs fan]

It seems odd that they would start on a Wednesday and then not play on Friday night.

 

Worst ratings night of the week I believe.

[Mizzou]

I still have 5 or 6 vacation days to use by mid-November... I'm definitely saving them for a late October trip up to Chicago. World Series tickets (if we get there) are going to be through the roof, but for something that only happens once a century, I'll pay an obscene amount of money to witness it.

[apete6]

I believe that if it goes 7, the WS will end on October 30. And I assume that means it will be played October 22/23, off day on the 24, October 25/26/27, off day on 28th, October 29/30.

 

This is correct. Saturday/Sunday/Monday nights at Wrigley...or at whatever NL team luckily wins the NLCS if its not the Cubs.

[Old Style]

Thanks, everyone. I don't want to assume anything, but I also don't want to wait until the last minute to request time off from work.

[jersey cubs fan]

Thanks, everyone. I don't want to assume anything, but I also don't want to wait until the last minute to request time off from work.

 

I told my wife month's ago that were weren't taking our anniversary trip on our anniversary. She understood.

[Old Style]

I already reserved a room at my brother's house in Bartlett. :grin:

[David]

I wonder how much it'll take just to get IN the park for a potential clinching WS game.

 

 

Let's say the Cubs are up 3-1... does $600 get you an SRO ticket to game 5? $1000?

[UMFan83]

I wonder how much it'll take just to get IN the park for a potential clinching WS game.

 

 

Let's say the Cubs are up 3-1... does $600 get you an SRO ticket to game 5? $1000?

 

Id pay whatever, but I'm planning on having tickets to all of the World Series game, should they get that far.

[moorecg]

I wonder how much it'll take just to get IN the park for a potential clinching WS game.

 

 

Let's say the Cubs are up 3-1... does $600 get you an SRO ticket to game 5? $1000?

 

I would say AT LEAST $1000...more like $1500 or higher.

[soapy]

Thanks, everyone. I don't want to assume anything, but I also don't want to wait until the last minute to request time off from work.

 

I told my wife month's ago that were weren't taking our anniversary trip on our anniversary. She understood.

 

i was pretty shocked when my wife told me to pay "whatever it takes" to get a WS ticket if it's at wrigley. then she told me to take a buddy who is a huge fan instead of her.

 

this is either a) a trick; b) her way of trying to jinx it; or c) her way of setting herself up for something she really wants that i don't want to buy. "c" is my early favorite.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'd strongly consider driving up from school just to be in Wrigleyville for that if it were to happen.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'd strongly consider driving up from school just to be in Wrigleyville for that if it were to happen.

 

I did for game 7 in '03.

 

Sad face.

[Old Style]

Even if I can't get tickets, I'm coming up from Texas.

[CubmanPi]

I, for one, am very in favor of ambiguous WS topics such as this one to be in general baseball discussions vice cubs discussions. After all, there are still 504 outs to go until the Cubs get there...

[David]

Nothing wrong with daydreaming a little about it on an off day.

[Mizzou]

Oh I'm definitely going up there, tickets or no tickets. I'm not about to watch something that magical by myself or with my friends in St. Louis.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

If you want to go to a clinching game at Wrigley, buy your tickets ahead of time and hope for the best. Don't wait till it's 3-0 or 3-1.

 

I was in St. Louis during their WS, and I hung out around the ballpark each night before the games. Games 3 and 4, there were roughly equal numbers of people buying and selling and tickets were changing hands at not much more than face value.

 

Once it got to 3-1, everything changed. Three hours before the game, there were large groups of people on every corner offering obscene amounts of money for a ticket, and I didn't see a single person selling.

[CubmanPi]

Nothing wrong with daydreaming a little about it on an off day.

I know. I have a few days of leave set aside as off-limits, "just in case," and I've done more than my fair share of daydreaming, I'm just eternally afraid. If I don't get tickets from the VWR, then I'll be on Waveland with a few flasks for those games.

[Cynosure]

Well luckily my sister's boyfriend's dad works for the Tribune so I'll likely have tickets in the Tribune Box... if not I will be outside Wrigley EVERY DAY.

[David]

Well luckily my sister's boyfriend's dad works for the Tribune so I'll likely have tickets in the Tribune Box... if not I will be outside Wrigley EVERY DAY.

 

 

I would think you'd be pretty low on the totem pole for those tickets if that's your only relation to them, no? Plenty of Trib employees, closer relatives/friends, crap like that in your way. Seems like a Cubs World Series game isn't something many people are going to pass on...

 

If not and it really is that much of a lock, you'd better do everything possible to keep them together for the next two months.

[moorecg]

I just looked on stub hub...they are selling SRO tickets for $2K per ticket for Game 1 of the WS right now...that's plain crazy talk.

[Abe Frohman]

I already reserved a room at my brother's house in Bartlett. :grin:

 

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