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Butterscup ACL Cubs

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You had to keep clicking submit. After clicking on it about 15 times, tickets finally popped up. Not good ones, but I know I'm lucky just to have tickets.

 

I've been hitting different quantities for the last half hour at no luck. Oh well.

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evv98

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I would have had a better chance at hitting a Chapman fastball.

 

I ended up in the virtual waiting room for four minutes and there was nothing left by the time I was let out.

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evv98

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You had to keep clicking submit. After clicking on it about 15 times, tickets finally popped up. Not good ones, but I know I'm lucky just to have tickets.

 

Congratulations.

 

I tried every game and number of ticket combinations for any seat available, multiple times. Eventually I got a message to try back in ten minutes, which turned out to be more of the same rejection.

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vance_the_cubs_fan

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I was trying to teach and refresh at the same time. Kept telling me no tickets when after about 15 mins, it finally brought up some for Friday. Then I tried to add another game while the clock was ticking down from two minutes before my tickets were released. With 30 seconds left, it pulled two for Saturday.

 

So...Friday in section 536 row 6 and Saturday section 512 row 3. I'm taking my nephew to his first game at Wrigley since 2005. We going to drive in one day and leave on Sunday and drive all the way back.

 

I can't wait!

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I just got the rejection email to one of my email addresses. There's still 2 email addresses I signed up with that have neither gotten the rejection or acceptance email.

 

I still never found my rejection email.

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Sammys Boombox

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Just for a future reference if you get through and don't get any keep on trying, like for a long time. If people are found to have broken any rules their tickets get dumped back in. I've scored concert tickets this way in the past where they sold out in seconds, but I was able to get 6 together almost 2 hours later.
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jersey cubs fan

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Anybody ever use airbnb? Looking at hotel prices, my nephew and I are considering going that route, but I have never used it. What should I expect?

it's fine

 

you need to research the neighborhood a bit more on your own, and a lot of these will be the type of place somebody who travels for business keeps relatively unfurnished.

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vance_the_cubs_fan

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Anyone wanna make suggestions. Looking for safe but as inexpensive as possible. Also a place we can have a place to park the car we are driving up in but close enough for us either to walk or take public transportation to Wrigley.
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If you're looking for cheap, I'd go with the Elk Grove area and take the blue line to the red or a bus to get down to Wrigley.
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soccer10k

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If you're looking for cheap, I'd go with the Elk Grove area and take the blue line to the red or a bus to get down to Wrigley.

 

We're thinking of doing the same thing for a wedding (and maybe the NLCS) in mid October. How is the Wicker Park/Noble Square neighborhood right off the blue line?

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We went a little more expensive but still cheaper than a hotel and got a place a block from Wrigley. My nephew is stocked and I figure any time we aren't at a Cubs game we will be inebriated so probably won't care about the place that much,
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Well MasterCard had a special NLDS sale this morning. It didn't give a specific on sale time just that it was today. Sometime between 1am and 8am they went on sale and sold out. Dammit
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SouthSideRyan

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If you're looking for cheap, I'd go with the Elk Grove area and take the blue line to the red or a bus to get down to Wrigley.

 

We're thinking of doing the same thing for a wedding (and maybe the NLCS) in mid October. How is the Wicker Park/Noble Square neighborhood right off the blue line?

 

The area is fine, but youre going to have to transfer to another line or a bus to get to Wrigley via public trans

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soccer10k

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If you're looking for cheap, I'd go with the Elk Grove area and take the blue line to the red or a bus to get down to Wrigley.

 

We're thinking of doing the same thing for a wedding (and maybe the NLCS) in mid October. How is the Wicker Park/Noble Square neighborhood right off the blue line?

 

The area is fine, but youre going to have to transfer to another line or a bus to get to Wrigley via public trans

 

Awesome, thanks for the info! Knew we'd have to take two trains, which wouldn't be a problem. AirBnB's were cheaper out there than downtown.

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FYI for those that won the lottery but didn't get tickets. Usually a day or two before the game, very small quantities of tickets are released sporadically. Most of the time it's a single ticket but in rare instances you will find a pair. I was hoping they would open this up to everyone but I don't see a link to buy tickets so I'm assuming only lottery winners have access to the buying tickets page. In 2008 it was available to everyone and I was able to get tickets to Game 1 without winning the lottery
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Yeah there isnt even a tickets link on the Cubs page, usually its there and then you click on it, select a single and it will then tell you no tickets are available.
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Yeah there isnt even a tickets link on the Cubs page, usually its there and then you click on it, select a single and it will then tell you no tickets are available.

 

I'm assuming one of 3 things:

 

1) Only lottery winners have access to the ticket buying page and thus are the only ones that can stalk the page looking for a re-released single

2) The only way to actually do this is to physically go to the Cubs box office and check

3) The Cubs are just taking the re-released tickets and selling them through their Premium Ticket box office that they own for an up charge.

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if you are looking ahead to the Series...we are fans we can do that ...its much cheaper to fly to Toronto or Cleveland than trying to get into Wrigley

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