Pushfrog98

Yeah, I knew we were probably going to not get "GREAT" prices, but at the same time, I didn't think we were going to get raped that badly. We were in Chicago for a wedding and realized that day that we'd have time to see a game too... so it was kind of spur of the moment. We usually get our tickets online ahead of time (and usually for somewhere other than wrigley... it's cheaper to drive to Cincy and see the cubs play there). Also, I know this might be me being nieve(sp?) or whatever, but isn't it illegal to overcharge by that much?

So I live near St. Louis and I hear a lot of stories of people just going down to Busch and waiting till the 2nd inning or so and getting pretty good seats for really good prices. The scalpers basically bail after then, so they want to cut their losses ASAP. Not really thinking, I went to wrigley with this same mentality this weekend. BAD IDEA! My first encounter with a scalper there was a real douche nozzle. I walk up and he says "How many tickets you need?" I reply with "2... together. What's the cheapest you got?" He counters with "how much you willing to spend?" I say "40 bucks." "Each?" "No, total." He then went all ape crap on me saying that i'm a freakin idiot, blah blah blah, etc etc... So I ask him what the cheapest tickets he had were and he said, "I can get you 2 standing room tickets for $130 total" You have got to be kidding me. Standing room only for $65 a pop?! I have only been to wrigley twice before in my entire life (i'm 28 now), so I was not familiar with how things worked up there... but my goodness, I was NOT expecting that! Finally during middle of the 4th inning, I was able to "find" "good" tickets for $40/each in section 204. Sad to say that I'll probably not be going to Wrigley again anytime soon because it's so stinking hard to get tickets in the first place :(

I saw it on the first night and it was a disaster! They show stopped 4 times with tech problems. It's gotten much better since then. For a while I kinda felt like I was inside John, Paul, George and Ringo's minds while they wrote some of the songs.

dangit! I saw "Love" on Saturday... should have held out for a Monday showing. Great show by the way!

that was my thought as well.

I apologize if this has been posted before: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f7_1183182961

I wish search was working as I've been through this too many times... The runs per game was about the same before and after Lofton. the distribution of runs was about the same. The difference in 2003 was that Prior & Wood had absolutely unreal second halves to fuel the push. yeah... Prior and Wood were successful because they had Lofton in the clubhouse though!

Soto calls a good game... or so i've heard.

SOLD! I'm too lazy to look, but doesn't Scott's brother play for Texas now? Maybe that's what he needs to get it going again. Also... what is the difference between the current cubs and the 2003 cubs? That's right... Kenny Lofton! He's been that missing link this whole time. Slight sarcasm there, but I would really like Kenny back!

I'm sure he'll learn the "gyroball" that Matsuzaka "throws."

:cough: Bo Hart :cough: Not suggesting bringing him up... just suggesting that he and Theriot are quite similar... Good players until people realized how to pitch to them.

Quoting stuff from Rumor Central isn't really stealing pay service, all they are are rumors from public newspapers posted in one central location. And this doesn't say much of anything we don't already know Honestly, I'd eat about 70% of JJ's contract if it got his horrible bat off this team. Addition by Subtraction... it's quite simple and I agree with you.

Girardi said this winter that he didn't want to be a part of a "rebuilding" team, and that's exactly where the Orioles are going to be here soon... He already did his "tour" with the marlins and their $15million payroll... he wants to be a manager for a team that actually WANTS to win.

I was hoping we'd throw in Izturis and they'd throw in Maddux.

Perhaps Bowen has some intangibles that aren't being mentioned yet.

But Pujols doesn't always beat you by hitting homeruns... he beats you by just putting the ball into play.

Peavy didn't get suspended though because he was trying to get DLee off of a Padres player. You can see it clearly in that picture... he's about 15' in front of him. I think DLee had him in a jedi mind trick choke! Good thing Peavy intervened!

My guess is that they plan on using Barrett as a trade chip... they do seem to like Bard, so Barrett doesn't really improve offensively for him, and he's not much of a backup catcher because well... he's Michael Barrett. I wonder if they plan on swinging Barrett to the Reds in an attempt to get Dunn. The Reds have a bunch of catchers, but none that can hit...

maybe they are talking about the 1998 version of Jason Kendall... if that's the case, I'd make the trade!

I haven't read all the pages in this thread, but am I the only one who at first thought Soriano was doing the "Stay fair... stay fair... stay fair" dance?

He ripped Jake Peavy's head off... after Peavy charged in from behind and tried tackling DLee.

Peavy should be suspended (It would help my fantasy team)... but I don't see why Giles is being punished at all. He was the one doing the job that the home-plate umpire SHOULD have been doing!

... and he's back on the DL. link

If you think that's bad, Juan Encarnacion was batting clean up the day before. Yet, as mentioned in another thread, people STILL PITCH TO PUJOLS!!! WHY?!?!?!

I think you are legally required to refer to him as "hard hittin" Mark Whiten... He's right