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    Soler status: still outrageously handsome, despite his terrible ensemble.
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    So a typical Bears game then.
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    BULL VS. NOBULL FIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHT
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    Exactly. If you choose to sell your tickets that way, hey, more power to you. But if you get busted and lose your tickets, well, that should just be an assumed risk.
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    Who cares what I think I am providing? The secondary market makes tickets available to people who otherwise wouldn't have access to them. You have provided nothing to contradict this. The above poster stated the issue correctly: In a world where demand exceeds supply, there are two systems: (1) The first to purchase them may not re-sell them; (2) The first to purchase them may re-sell them. Your approach is Option (1). That would cut out hundreds of thousands of fans from bidding on tickets in the secondary market. My approach is Option (2). Hundreds of thousands of fans have access to them as a result and I get paid the difference between what the Cubs charged and what these fans decide is an appropriate amount to pay. Convince me using rational argument that your approach is the fairer. Why do people who have access to scalped tickets not have access to buying them otherwise? The same number of people can go to each game regardless of how many times the tickets change hands, so you're not making more tickets available or anything along those lines; the same number of tickets are available to people who want to buy them whether you are selling them or not.
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    He's talking like nobody has access to them unless he sells them; someone else owning them doesn't mean they're "unavailable;" it means someone bought them first. He's not making hard to buy things any more available; whether the tickets were bought from the Cubs, someone just looking to unload something they can't use or scalpers like him, the end result is exactly the same, and the availability of the tickets is the same. He's not adding anything to the process besides an extra person making money off of them.
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    There are about 41,300 seats at Wrigley Field. People were willing to pay $3,500 for crappy upper level seats to Game 1. The scarcity of tickets relative to the demand for them is what dictated those prices. I don't know what the actual number of fans who wanted to attend one of the games was. I'm guessing it was easily over a million, though. Regardless, it turns out that the evil scalpers may have provided a way for some of these fans to attend the first WS in 71 years who would otherwise be locked out. The suggestion that brokers don't make otherwise-unavailable tickets available to fans doesn't pass the laugh test. That's precisely what they do, and why people are willing to pay the high prices. Unless you think there's some sort of scalper monopoly cartel out there. Hmm.... They're not unavailable tickets, you loon; you keep talking like you're providing tickets that wouldn't be used unless you provided the generous service of selling them as a scalper.
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    Unless you're somehow making extra tickets appear out of thin air, you might have wanted to mull that one over a few more times.
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    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.
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    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.
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    The basketball gods were showing me the truth the entire time.
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    Actually not shocking, nor alarming.
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    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...
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    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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    College towns actually always suck.
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    Just a general sense of how Evanston is a weird collision of North Shore obnoxiousness and NW college town lameness.
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    Eat a diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick, you greedy, stadium-scamming mother [expletive]: [tweet] [/tweet]
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    Contrary to what the haters say, da Bum was much more lovably dense.
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    Well, horsefeathers, then they're doomed.
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    Probably not. The wait lists for teams like the Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals are still absurdly long, too.
  24. 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.
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    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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