David

I have a question: Have you ever purchased a ticket off the secondary market before? Did you think it was a bad thing that there were tickets available for you to buy that you didn't have access to before? do you think those tix would somehow be unavailable if people like you weren't involved? Well, the barrier would become getting there first instead of just having to pay more money. If scalpers were eliminated and reselling for profit in all forms were eliminated, the tickets would still get bought up immediately in the case of any high demand games. They'd be insanely hard to get. This is obvious given what people pay scalpers/brokers. So if you don't get there first (which is going to be really hard to do...we've all tried to buy tickets before - yeah, there would be fewer scalpers in the way and more supply, but the demand is so overwhelming that it'll still be insanely hard to get them), you don't get to have them. Whether this is any more/less "fair" than "you get to have them if you pay more money on the secondary market" is debatable, I guess. Like Cubs playoff tickets would be insanely hard to get, scalpers or no scalpers. At face value they will sell out immediately. But with a secondary market, you can pay more and get to have them. This is without even getting into how unrealistic this would be when it comes to STH. If you never got to re-sell and had to use or give away every single ticket, the amount of people capable and willing to buy them would be cut drastically. EDIT - OR the Cubs could just cut out the secondary market altogether and just charge what the market dictates. Either way, the tickets aren't going to be easy to come by when the demand is what it is. One way just requires being the lucky few who are fortunate enough to buy them first, and the other one requires being fortunate enough to be able to afford what the market is willing to pay.

Care to share how much you profited off the sale of your season tickets this year? I would almost bet that the amount you made on your tickets was a much larger factor in you losing your season ticket account over selling all of your tickets. And I ask this because I could totally understand someone losing their season tickets if it gives any appearance that the sole purpose of the use of those season tickets is to make a living/ridiculous profit. I think it's great that sports teams are able to monitor/control that type of behavior, as it wasn't what season tickets was designed for. There are so many people waiting for tickets that would truly use them for what they were designed for, and they are getting hosed by those who only have the tickets because they want to expand their wallet. I would bet quite a few other people did lose their season tickets in this fashion. But I'll also bet that the Chicago Cubs are using due diligence in making sure the people they are taking away season tickets from are deserving so. Aside from the fact the Cubs got caught in allocating a bunch of tickets to the "3rd party" subsidiary a few years ago. I guess it's okay for the Cubs to profit off them while others can't. If you have season tickets you are stupid to sell them on Stubhub. Find some other broker outlet like Vivid or a local broker that you can offload to and potentially still makes some money. I don't think you guys realize how much information Stubhub shares with the MLB. Even if you buy tickets with CASH and sell them on Stubhub they still have the data from the account. I have a broker friend who attempted to buy Royals season ticket last year. They refused him as they said he had "too many sales associated with his name" on Stubhub. He knew he paid with cash so the only way for them to have that data is if Stubhub gave it to them willingly. He was furious at first and thought it had to be in violation of privacy laws, but the practice is in fact 100% legal. The big boon to MLB though is the ability to nail their dynamic pricing for games. They are able to use the sales data to figure out true market value then incorporate that into their pricing models. They've figured out they are leaving money on the table if people are willing to pay more on Stubhub. At it's core I wouldn't have a problem with this if the MLB or the Chicago Cubs really gave 2 horsefeathers about scalping. Like I pointed out earlier they've already been caught with their pants down once and we didn't hear ANY rumblings when the team sucked and people were losing money. If he was a FIRST YEAR holder and was doing it? Different story, but he's been a ticket holder for 6 years and has likely lost thousands if went to as many games as he said he did. Either scalping is bad and you are altruistic in both good and poor years, or you are okay with it. Not this it's okay when we suck but not okay when they are good BS. The reality is scalping ensures the highest profits for the MLB and all of it's teams. If a game is in high demand it will sell out regardless, with the difference being the prices will be higher on the secondary market. It's it's low demand there will always be people that speculate and those tickets will fall on the secondary market. It's that latter scenario, and the fact that the secondary market brought about Stubhub which further increases revenues with the data sharing, that guarantees maximum profit for the leagues and it's teams. Regardless the Cubs are talking about of both sides of their mouths on this. And it's total BS that any non-new account would lose their tickets after profiting in one year off of a lowly franchise. At the very least there should have been a warning. If that hadn't been heeded that's one thing, but it's still a hypocritical stance none-the-less. Earlier when? This is your first post...

jim bob cooter could be the best head coach ever and i'm not sure i could get past having a HC named that i was also incredibly shocked to find out he is younger than me

where the hell did this apology strawman come from?

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almost horsefeathering homered off kluber in g1 when we couldn't touch him

Maddon kind of did that though when talking about Chapman's game 6 usage. He brought up the injuries to Rondon and Strop and basically said that it was a bad part of the order and he didn't trust anybody else. That Maddon interview was a long interview, and he only acknowledged two mistakes. He didn't have a reliever up in game 6 in case the Cubs pushed the lead from 5 to even more. Then he essentially blamed David Ross for Chapman's performance in game 7. He seemed to think that Chapman's stuff was fine, but Ross just called for too many fastballs in the 8th inning. Yeah, I forgot about the Ross thing. That was so strange.

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it's not even about an apology. and it's not a big deal to me...just saying i'd have preferred he at least acknowledged that what he did was questionable instead of basically trying to mic drop it. i'm used to him being a reasonable and honest guy who makes good well-spoken and reasoned arguments for stuff even when i disagree with him. in this case it just irked me a bit. did you really need to bring him in with that lead? even the hendricks thing, i'm fine with. it's not like he can see the TV angles from the dugout to know that he was getting screwed by the ump. and i'm fine with bringing in lester. what happened there was a huge fluke. but the chapman stuff was so bad.

he's a smart guy. there's no way he doesn't know he made some questionable, to put it politely, calls in the heat of the moment. just admit it rather than defending the indefensible. and it was even reinforced with a negative outcome when game 7 was almost blown as a direct result.

i would just prefer he give a normal honest answer like a cool human being would is there something wrong with that? a normal honest answer is to not admit you horsefeathers up in the world series win what are you saying mistakes aren't mistakes as long as the outcome is good or what are you saying

what is the point of the manager acknowledging he screwed up in a world series win? i would just prefer he give a normal honest answer like a cool human being would is there something wrong with that?

If anything, I'm way more annoyed at Maddon refusing to even somewhat acknowledge that he fucked up and basically saying, "We won, didn't we?" when asked about it than I am at these comments.

I don't agree with how he was used either. I'm not gonna get all meatbally about him saying so. He's trash for what he did but that's not really related to these comments.

is there some never ending stash of evanston jokes i'm not aware of?

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the funny thing is i have almost zero recollection of anything da bum did outside of mf'er windermere

It's not that hitting would become scarce, it's that hitters are a more predictable, less volatile asset, which is undeniably true. So while other teams have tried to ransom young pitchers with some pedigree, or build a rotation full of guys with great stuff and injury/control risks, the Cubs have won 200 games the last 2 years and a world series with a rotation that's 40% a pre-arb reject(Arrieta) and a low-ceiling prospect(Hendricks) providing about 19 fWAR over that time. There was an observation that power numbers were dropping precipitously, and a perception that Theo was accumulating power as a market inefficiency. That trend reversed in 2015 and even more so in 2016 with the 2nd highest hr/game rate in history, second only to 2000 (1.17 vs 1.16). That's because of the Cubs dongs

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Yes, and that moment will almost surely not pass. When Theo came, there was a theory that hitting would become scarce and teams with hitters would have a trade leverage advantage. That theory does not appear to have been fulfilled. I'm not sure about that. The Cubs could trade Schwarber or Baez for a young pitcher, they just prefer not to (which I agree with). Yup. (Well, Baez depends on the pitcher - but yes, generally I agree with the philosophy)

Mine hasnt changed since an email I got on March 23; 18,902. Yeah I'm guessing they just haven't updated after the scalpers who got theirs revoked. That and maybe some old people dying is all you'll be moving up this year.

it's baseball heaven because they're all dead

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then. It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders. I want to see the imaginary posts you are replying to.