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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Either evanstonian is pretending to be someone else, or another scalper showed up also trying to make sounding like their scalping being stepped on is an invasion of privacy and hypocrisy on the part of the Cubs.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, it seems kind of adorably naive that they're trying to act like something like MLB having an agreement to effectively track the sales of tickets to their games is this shocking revelation.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    The basketball gods were showing me the truth the entire time.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Actually not shocking, nor alarming.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    no, no it isn't. Dusty made stupid decisions repeatedly, in every series in every season, in nearly every game. His entire thought process was flawed garbage. Maddon gets it, and gets it done. He does things the right way much more than most. He did something stupid in that moment but the Cubs won and it should not and will not define him. There is no good [expletive] reason why he should be out there apologizing for anything. I'm not asking him to apologize -- just to say, "hey I got caught up in the moment and it was definitely not the best decision in hindsight. The good news is that it worked out!" Just because he usually makes the correct moves doesn't mean that he's immune from us saying wtf that was not the best call. This sounds kinda BFIB-ish...
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, but it's obvious who "Zac" is. I'm just amused how he keeps trying to drop StubHub truth bombs on everyone like he thinks everyone assumed their StubHub transactions were completely invisible from the teams.
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  8. Sammy Sofa
    College towns actually always suck.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Just a general sense of how Evanston is a weird collision of North Shore obnoxiousness and NW college town lameness.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Eat a diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick, you greedy, stadium-scamming mother [expletive]: [tweet] [/tweet]
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Contrary to what the haters say, da Bum was much more lovably dense.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Well, horsefeathers, then they're doomed.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Probably not. The wait lists for teams like the Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals are still absurdly long, too.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    This seems pretty obviously just a troll rampage at this point. Once he started ranting about Trump and making up nonsense about how we think the Cubs "care for us" and ticket prices and shitty baseball it became pretty clear.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    You sound a bit...confused on how you ended up with those tickets in the first place. I mean, sure, maybe it was some weird situation where Poor Tom Ricketts forced you to buy them...but I doubt it.
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  17. Sammy Sofa
    So if STH A sells 80 games and makes, I dunno, a grand off of his tickets an STH B sells 80 games and makes something like ten grand, do you think both of them are getting kicked out by the Cubs? well, my contention really is that STH A doesn't actually exist so the cubs aren't bothering to try to parse him out. I can assure you you're wrong; we sold most of our tickets in that range, and actually had to compete with other STH selling their tickets low as well if we wanted to move them. Basically we wanted people to be able to use the tickets. Almost all of the most popular games we were going in some combination anyway, so most of what we sold were "regular" tickets. Combine that with the decision or realization of nobody friends or family-wise being able to attend often times being close to the game itself, so even with an awesome team you were selling them at minimal profit margin-levels to get them sold.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    So if STH A sells 80 games and makes, I dunno, a grand off of his tickets an STH B sells 80 games and makes something like ten grand, do you think both of them are getting kicked out by the Cubs?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Don't agree at all. 2013-14 sucked. Those of us that had them those years did so for the payoff of having them when they were good. It was money lit on fire. Donate that horsefeathers, homie.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody's saying tons of people are just selling them for the exact face value; just that plenty of people ultimately do sell them for close enough to face value for the Cubs to not take action. We sell plenty of our tickets when we can't go, but almost all of them are still pretty close to face value; any "profit" really ends up mostly in the $15-$20 range per ticket. There's a pretty clear difference between making a little money off of an investment and someone selling almost all of their tickets for what was, no doubt, a huge profit.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    It's not as simple as saying the market determines, if some people are just selling to get rid of them while others are putting more effort into pricing them properly, and dipping into other packages to keep making more. On any given day he may not get any more money than anybody else gets. But if you do it right and sell aggressively and for all the right games, you can make a lot more than a typical season ticket holder that just doesn't want to take a bath. Exactly. Dude's talking about "the market" like Kramer talks about writing things off; it's not like the seller HAS to sell their tickets for an insane mark-up just because they can. Basically you're doing that at your own risk if you do it too much. Whether it's the number of games or the money made, both are subjective calls by the Cubs, and, personally, I think the idea of them cracking down on someone they think is making too much/basically acting as professional scalper makes a heck of a lot more sense than doing it because he didn't go to enough games.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I very much doubt that. I very little doubt it. Not that it's a remotely realistic scenario. Nobody is pricing their tickets significantly below what the market allows. Some more aggressively to make sure they sell them, sure, but nobody is selling a high demand game for face on StubHub just out of the goodness of their heart or intentions. I just don't see why they'd even look at how much he got. Because it would be easy for them to do so and spot some pretty obvious selling trends to help them make their decision to give someone the boot. Otherwise it amounts to little more than, "well, this guy is doing something that almost all STH's do, but we're going to kick him out because4 he sold X number more games than the next guy." Money is doing pretty much all of the talking here.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not talking about single game profit. If they have the ability to track all of your season ticket movement through Stub Hub, they can determine what your true intentions are. There is clearly verbiage in the contract for season tickets that says that if you are behaving as a baseball ticket broker with your season tickets, you will lose your tickets. Agreed; every STH is going to sell tickets at some point they make a decent profit from. I have no doubt that they saw a trend here of someone selling almost all of their tickets for way over face value and made a judgement call. Yeah, it's a subjective grey area, but I seriously doubt the profit margin didn't play a huge factor.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    "Holy strawman-from-a-guy-who-sold-tickets-to-80-games-plus-a-flex-package, Batman!"
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, it sounded worse when we were getting the initial story from the OP, which it made sound like all he had been doing was selling some of his tickets via StubHub and then got the boot without much explanation from the Cubs, but then it turns out he sold all but 8 games and also bought a flex pack that he sold. Obviously, we don't know the guy, but it sure seems like he was leaving out a lot of info until it was pressed.
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