3/30/23 – Brewers (Burnes) @ Cubs (Stroman), 1:20pm on Marquee

[gflore34]

18 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Considering Seiya's injury and Burnes being the opposing starter, everyone now has 24 hours to mentally prepare themselves for the strong possibility of Nick Madrigal: Opening Day Third Baseman

Could be worse. We could be watching Heyward hit GB after GB to 2B instead of Madrigal' soft liners to CF.

[PackLandVA]

I always wonder how significant it for the players adjusting overnight to temperature extremes. Grant it, the weather out here in AZ has been much cooler than normal.  But to go from sunshine and upper 60s / low 80s to the crap weather in Wrigleyville….upper 40s, ugh!,

Edited March 30, 2023 by PackLandVA

[David]

 

2 hours ago, jersey cubs fan said:

It’s opening day and there’s a ton of tickets available at under $100. It’s not the fault of dynamic pricing. The indifference to this roster is palpable. 

lol did you read the post I was replying to?

 

if you think it has nothing to do with dynamic pricing, i'm not gonna argue with you.  just keep doing you.  plenty of bad teams sold out opening day when you could get the cheapest tickets for $40 face value or whatever the hell.

bottom line is you're going to have less games sell out basically by definition with dynamic pricing.

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[jersey cubs fan]

11 minutes ago, David said:

 

lol did you read the post I was replying to?

 

if you think it has nothing to do with dynamic pricing, i'm not gonna argue with you.  just keep doing you.

Yes I read that. Somebody not wanting to spend $220 on three tickets to opening day says a lot about the lack of interest in this team. 

 In years past it would have sold out and tickets would be going for well over $100 on the secondary market. Right now there are tons of tickets available for under $100. You can get 4 together at $59/each. Dynamic pricing makes it very annoying to plan a trip. But it's the lack of interest in the team that is making all these tickets available day of. 

If Cubs fans were excited about this team, those tickets would be gone or much more expensive. 

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[David]

 

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[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, David said:

 

That’s very blue. Wasn’t expecting the mastro himself to start opening day

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

Gomes in front of Hosmer(even without a LHH in front of Gomes) feels like an early data point on what they think of Hosmer

[David]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

That’s very blue. Wasn’t expecting the mastro himself to start opening day

At least we were spared Madrigal.

And, yeah, I wish they'd go back to the Wrigley scoreboard lineup graphic from 2015.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[jb10194]

Mastrobuoni is definitely going to be a guy I won't be able to remember when taking the Cubs opening day lineup Sporcle quiz in five years. If I do remember, will probably take me 3-5 tries to spell it right 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

[Brian707]

12 minutes ago, jb10194 said:

Mastrobuoni 

[Outshined_One]

[David]

5 hours ago, Tim said:

Assuming we're going to win today, I'm going to have to find a new way to put W flags in a post to track our win streaks this year.

Is that something that could be added to the emojis fairly easily?  Seems like it, but what do I know?

[David]

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[David]

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[Duke Silver]

In case anyone has been wondering how I've been doing the last few years...

[Old Style]

2 hours ago, David said:

 

[PackLandVA]

Not Cubs related but Aaron Judge just crushed an 0-1 pitch over the CF wall. Picking up where he left off 2022.

[jersey cubs fan]

2 hours ago, David said:

 

I love the beefs from MastroBuoni

 

[Derwood]

I see that PTR is saving money by running a "Win a chance to play Right Field" fan contest

[UMFan83]

Dynamic pricing!

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

How many minutes of game time does the pitch clock need to save before Marquee realizes they don't need a 3rd person in the booth to fill every single second of airtime

[David]

18 minutes ago, Derwood said:

I see that PTR is saving money by running a "Win a chance to play Right Field" fan contest

Only because it's you (because yeah, it was a funny and appropriate joke), but you're aware that Seiya Suzuki exists right?  Just making sure.

[David]

1 minute ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

How many minutes of game time does the pitch clock need to save before Marquee realizes they don't need a 3rd person in the booth to fill every single second of airtime

At least less Taylor nonsense.