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The Cubs, along with every other team aside from the Red Sox, have deals with StubHub. The more tickets sold on StubHub, the more money that is made. It only makes sense that they'd encourage people to go through StubHub than a private broker. As for those expensive seats, they were never going on sale to the public, anyways. Those are season tickets. Only select seats in the 200, 400, and 500 levels, along with bleacher seats, are being made available in the on sale.
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Can a winner let us know tomorrow morning if the password is indeed unique?
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Yikes. Did you guys see the prices for the NLCS? Bleacher seats will be $100.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaand there's the rejection email.
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I assume everyone who won got their emails about an hour ago?
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I hadn't been to the Cubs.com board in years before today. I can blame MLB for this one.
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Stop it! Stop it! Can't you see this barnyard noise guessing game is tearing us apart?! It does kind of feel like I'm just waiting for a comet to land and crush my NLDS ticket-buying hopes.
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Are they trying to raise a sunken ship? I think that will be my first and only mythbusters reference. But we'll see.
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Yeah, I don't think the emails have gone out yet.
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Nah. The trend seems to be that the rejection emails are sent out after the success ones, whether by the Cubs for the luxury seat opportunities or other teams for the playoffs. I hate you for telling me that I've been Mr. Pessimistic throughout this whole thing, but Jon has to be Mr. Bearer of Bad News (note, not badnews). Sooo, about 7,500 per game means a bit over 10,000 unique ticket purchasers. I'm guessing they'll allow 3x the amount of people through the VWR (to ensure it sells out), so maybe 30,000 people will get the good email. Hey, I've been pretty pessimistic, too.
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Nah. The trend seems to be that the rejection emails are sent out after the success ones, whether by the Cubs for the luxury seat opportunities or other teams for the playoffs.
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Found the 2007 info:
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Yeah, I wouldn't consider our odds fairly decent at all. It all depends on how many people they let through to the VWR (2x amount of tickets available? 5x amount of tickets available?), but our odds individually are terrible, and cumulatively as a board, not great. For example, it doesn't sound like anyone has gotten picked for the other teams' lotteries. I'm sure less of us signed up for those than for the Cubs, but its indicative of the process. If Jon is right and we are looking at somewhere south of 15,000 seats per game, we are probably looking at roughly 20,000 unique buyers. Given that as UM mentioned above, I'm sure the scalpers have worked around it somehow, we are looking at even less unique buyers. I sure hope a lot of people get selected, but I highly doubt it. I think it was under 10,000 per game, actually. I remember being surprised at how low it was.
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Didn't the season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing extra tickets early, or am I getting the Cubs and Bears mixed up? Cubs season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing their tickets early. My boss's boss is a bleacher season ticket holder. Yeah, he's thinking of the Bears club season ticket holders. Cubs season ticket holders can only purchase the seats they already have and not any additional ones.
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I can't recall how many tickets were made available for the NLDS last year, but it was well under 15,000 per game. Season ticket holders and seats held back for use by the Cubs and MLB take up the majority.
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I hate you. My discount viagra email is apparently generic, not brand-name. I would assume the "sucks for you" emails won't go out until the end of the day.
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You've got a 1 in a gazillion chance of winning that contest, so I wouldn't sweat the entry restrictions.
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If anyone gets selected, can those people post when they receive those emails?
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Was Tillman behind the Bucs players throwing two punches the Bears' way?
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And these two games could easily cost the Bears a trip to the playoffs. Hopefully they send the tape to the league for review. You shouldn't get a 15 yard PF when another player takes a full swing at you and all you do is wrap him up and go to the ground.
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Another near pick.
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Two different Bucs players threw punches and the Bears get penalized. Wonderful.
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Oh my god
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Holy crap the Bucs player just threw a punch. This is the WRONG time to get into this, Bears.
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They're not going to call that in a situation where the flag ends the game, sadly.