OT ...Cubs fans in Cleveland

[Saboteur]

I am sure no one will ever know the final figure, but it was just a bit embarrassing to have sooo many Cubs fans take over Progressive Field.

No one has ever offered me ridiculous money for tickets before so I can't say what I would do, but based on what I saw and heard last night, wallets in Cleveland must be heavier than before because Cub fans owned that place.

 

[Tony Zimmermans Dennys Adversary]

I am sure no one will ever know the final figure, but it was just a bit embarrassing to have sooo many Cubs fans take over Progressive Field.

No one has ever offered me ridiculous money for tickets before so I can't say what I would do, but based on what I saw and heard last night, wallets in Cleveland must be heavier than before because Cub fans owned that place.

Those ticket brokers in Cleveland found a gold mine in this years playoffs. They said on the tele that a few tix went for 32 G's a piece behind the Cubs dugout.

For that kind of money they were getting last night I would've sold my seats to Vladimir Putin. It wouldn't have mattered.

Cubs fans had the $ and were clearly more passionate, its Cleveland's fault they let them take over. Greed is a powerful thing.

If you object to capitalism, I hope you're not one of the people who sold their Penn St. Tickets.

 

[HailtoPitt]

There are a lot of Cubs fans, from a big city relatively close to Cleveland, and it's been over 100 years. Not that embarrassing imo.

 

[Swervin27]

Game 7, at home, and the home team is the minority.. That's bad..

 

[upj87]

Game 7, at home, and the home team is the minority.. That's bad..

So what you are saying (assuming you are a Pirate fan) is that you would not part with your $400 Bucco game 7 world series ticket for 10 grand, correct?

 

[KennyTheKangaroo]

what are you going to do with $10k ? Go on vacations? Pay down your mortgage balance? Put it in savings? Buy a Suzuki? What vacation is going to be as memorable as a game 7?

 

[upj87]

what are you going to do with $10k ? Go on vacations? Pay down your mortgage balance? Put it in savings? Buy a Suzuki? What vacation is going to be as memorable as a game 7?

Zion National Park with a Bryce National Park chaser...awesome and breathtaking!....and to some of the other questions, uh, yeah....Game will be just as memorable from my recliner in crystal clear hd but just not a comfortable with that bulky 9,600 extra bucks stuffed in my wallet.(Costanza-like) .

 

[Piranha]

On average, an Indian fan probably made $1,000 per ticket. The highest ticket sold went for $23,500.

 

[CaptainMurphy]

So what you are saying (assuming you are a Pirate fan) is that you would not part with your $400 Bucco game 7 world series ticket for 10 grand, correct?

Tough, tough decision....not sure what I'd do in that situation. Obviously many Indians fans took the cash. But the majority of tickets sold were sold for far, far less than 10K. I think by game time the average was somewhere around 3600. So, probably a decent chunk of seats sold for ~$2000 or less and you had a chunk in the 10K+ range. I don't think I'd sell for a few grand if I was a long suffering fan of a team that has lost for decades. And I probably don't need the money if I had one of the prime seats selling for 10K+.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

Can you imagine Cub fan paying that and then Chapman choke job? Them pulling it out probably preserved a few lives.

 

[wicker]

Cleve was #28 in MLB attendance. WS or not seems that local interest didnt motivate ticket buying

 

[Saboteur]

So what you are saying (assuming you are a Pirate fan) is that you would not part with your $400 Bucco game 7 world series ticket for 10 grand, correct?

I was pretty clear with what I wrote..."I can't say what I would do"...hypothetical questions are bogus. No one offered me so what I say doesn't matter.
But you are going with $10,000 in return for a $400 ticket. How many of those instances were there?
I am a Pirate fan and the only time I came close to this, here is what I did.
I negotiated a 3 way trade.....I sold my tickets to a guy for money and two lesser seats...so I made money and still went inside. It wasn't a Pirate game by the way. But the profit margin was NOT 2400!!!
At the end of the day, a boatload of Cleveland fans decided to take the cash. Cub fans decided to take the experience.

 

[CaptainMurphy]

I didn't realize Jacobs field had been reduced capacity to the smallest in MLB. That stadium looks fairly big and only has a capacity of 35K....3K less than PNC.

 

[CorsosRevenge]

Can any Clevelanders weigh in on what happened to the interest in baseball in that city? Jacobs Field was sold the hell out from 1999-2000. Now, you reduce capacity and let Chicago take over your stadium 15 years later. I don't get it.

 

[upj87]

I was pretty clear with what I wrote..."I can't say what I would do"...hypothetical questions are bogus. No one offered me so what I say doesn't matter.
But you are going with $10,000 in return for a $400 ticket. How many of those instances were there?
I am a Pirate fan and the only time I came close to this, here is what I did.
I negotiated a 3 way trade.....I sold my tickets to a guy for money and two lesser seats...so I made money and still went inside. It wasn't a Pirate game by the way. But the profit margin was NOT 2400!!!
At the end of the day, a boatload of Cleveland fans decided to take the cash. Cub fans decided to take the experience.

dude, it is a freaking message board....most everything is hypothetical..if you do not wish to speculate on the "bogus" scenario, then do not, but in any case I was not responding to you. .

 

[Pitt79]

what are you going to do with $10k ? Go on vacations? Pay down your mortgage balance? Put it in savings? Buy a Suzuki? What vacation is going to be as memorable as a game 7?

$10,000 is worth more to me than going to any sporting event, I'd take that kind of money. I'd probably take $2,000 too.

 

[Pitt79]

Can any Clevelanders weigh in on what happened to the interest in baseball in that city? Jacobs Field was sold the hell out from 1999-2000. Now, you reduce capacity and let Chicago take over your stadium 15 years later. I don't get it.

They should tarp the upper deck and pipe in fake crowd noise to impress the recruits!

 

[Piranha]

I believe season ticket holders for the Pirates can purchase their tickets for the playoffs + an additional amount = to how many season tickets they have. I would use my 2 and then sell the additional 2 for a large sum of money.

 

[h2p_5150]

Can any Clevelanders weigh in on what happened to the interest in baseball in that city? Jacobs Field was sold the hell out from 1999-2000. Now, you reduce capacity and let Chicago take over your stadium 15 years later. I don't get it.

Not a Clevelander but from what I've heard from fans in that area people got reallly ticked off at ownership when the core of that team wasn't re-signed/was traded and fans really haven't come back since. I imagine going to the WS will give them a pretty nice bump in season ticket sales next year, though.

 

[CorsosRevenge]

Even before this series they were something like 28th in attendance with a team that won the division.

 

[JoseLind13]

I wonder how many WS tickets were bought by brokers seeing the investment opportunity and then went straight to Cubs fans without ever passing through 'real' Cleveland fans' hands?

... and having been to every Pirates home playoff game at PNC, the Cubs wildcard game was the most visiting fans I have seen at any Pirates' game. Many migrated to the first base lower bowl to celebrate at the end of the game and seemed to fill several sections. Speaking to the Cubs' fans around us, they viewed their $500 tickets plus airfare/hotel to Pgh as a bargain compared to the game happening in Chicago.

 

[Swervin27]

what are you going to do with $10k ? Go on vacations? Pay down your mortgage balance? Put it in savings? Buy a Suzuki? What vacation is going to be as memorable as a game 7?

I was at a game 7, '91 against the Braves. John Smiley gave up a couple runs in first, we were never in game.. I'd take a vacation in jamaica, getting weird with some 20 year old girl with a local accent, pouring bottles of rum over our head while making love in the sand over that memory any day.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

If I had a baseball game ticket, and I could flip it for the amount of money that I would pay to go on a ten-day, two-adult all-inclusive Caribbean vacation, then fire-up the jerk chicken and pour the rum; I'm outta here. And I wouldn't have to think twice about it.

 

[h2p_5150]

It's a pretty easy decision for me. If I go to the game there's a roughly 50/50 chance I'll go home very happy, and an equal chance I'll be miserable and hate the memory forever. If I take the $10,000, there is a 100% chance I'll be very happy.

 

[NNFAN]

There are a lot of rich Cubs fans out there. Cub fan base is yuppie snob north shore Chicago and the affluent west, northwest suburbs. They also have as large of a fan base as any. Even the bars in Wrigleyville were charging hundreds of dollars just to get in. The average Clevelander or burger will take the money because we don't have 2 mill in the bank. Unfortunately I have to live with these arrogant a-holes. I just ask them "who won the Stanley Cup"? Not the Shit Hawks.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

There are a lot of Cubs fans, from a big city relatively close to Cleveland, and it's been over 100 years. Not that embarrassing imo.

Yes, it was embarrassing.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I was pretty clear with what I wrote..."I can't say what I would do"...hypothetical questions are bogus. No one offered me so what I say doesn't matter.
But you are going with $10,000 in return for a $400 ticket. How many of those instances were there?
I am a Pirate fan and the only time I came close to this, here is what I did.
I negotiated a 3 way trade.....I sold my tickets to a guy for money and two lesser seats...so I made money and still went inside. It wasn't a Pirate game by the way. But the profit margin was NOT 2400!!!
At the end of the day, a boatload of Cleveland fans decided to take the cash. Cub fans decided to take the experience.

If I had Pirate World Series tickets and I bought say 2 @ $400 each, and someone is willing to offer me $10,000 a ticket???? Gone. Boom. Gone. I mean getting 20 large for less than a thousand dollar investment? Are you kidding me?

 

[Jpripper88]

Those ticket brokers in Cleveland found a gold mine in this years playoffs. They said on the tele that a few tix went for 32 G's a piece behind the Cubs dugout.

For that kind of money they were getting last night I would've sold my seats to Vladimir Putin. It wouldn't have mattered.

Cubs fans had the $ and were clearly more passionate, its Cleveland's fault they let them take over. Greed is a powerful thing.

If you object to capitalism, I hope you're not one of the people who sold their Penn St. Tickets.

I don't think it was a passion issue. There are a heck of a lot of Cubs fans who went to that game who don't have a friggin clue about that team. However, they have the numbers and dollars in multiple multiples vs Indians fans. The problem was the Indians box office not restricting ticket and game limits and out of area code purchases throughout the end of the season and entire playoffs.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I don't think it was a passion issue. There are a heck of a lot of Cubs fans who went to that game who don't have a friggin clue about that team. However, they have the numbers and dollars in multiple multiples vs Indians fans. The problem was the Indians box office not restricting ticket and game limits and out of area code purchases throughout the end of the season and entire playoffs.

One reason why I heard so many Cubs fans, the prices were so ridiculous at Wrigley that they were actually more of a bargain in Cleveland if you can believe that.

 

[Jpripper88]

One reason why I heard so many Cubs fans, the prices were so ridiculous at Wrigley that they were actually more of a bargain in Cleveland if you can believe that.

Absolutely. Half as expensive to see one of the games in Cleveland as it was in Chicago. That is even more true when you talk about folks who would have to travel in and get a hotel anyway.

 

[Pitt4Life34]

I am sure no one will ever know the final figure, but it was just a bit embarrassing to have sooo many Cubs fans take over Progressive Field.

No one has ever offered me ridiculous money for tickets before so I can't say what I would do, but based on what I saw and heard last night, wallets in Cleveland must be heavier than before because Cub fans owned that place.

I was going back and forth with football game and hockey game so not sure if I heard this exactly but I thought heard there were tickets bought from 15 different countries and 80% of tickets purchased were from states outside of Ohio. That would seem to point to 100 years of Cub fans.

 

[Pitt83Panther]

Just imagine how many couches were spared in Cleveland last night...some of the heavily soiled /bed bug infested sleeper sofas were probably destined for Morganhole.

 

[pbrad]

So what you are saying (assuming you are a Pirate fan) is that you would not part with your $400 Bucco game 7 world series ticket for 10 grand, correct?

As a Pirate fan I don't think I will have to make that choice.

 

[pbrad]

I was at a game 7, '91 against the Braves. John Smiley gave up a couple runs in first, we were never in game.. I'd take a vacation in jamaica, getting weird with some 20 year old girl with a local accent, pouring bottles of rum over our head while making love in the sand over that memory any day.

Except that that game seven in the Burg was not even a sellout. McArver blasted the pgh fans on national TV about the lack of enthusiasm.

 

[Panther Holla]

What was the estimated split of the crowd anyway?

 

[Swervin27]

Except that that game seven in the Burg was not even a sellout. McArver blasted the pgh fans on national TV about the lack of enthusiasm.

well three rivers held about 50,000 for baseball. PNC holds about 38k.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

well three rivers held about 50,000 for baseball.

Games one and two had over 57,000 people at them.

 

[Swervin27]

Games one and two had over 57,000 people at them.

i knew football, 3 rivers held 59k. not sure why I thought baseball was less. I know they did the tarps for regular season and they slid the lower sections over for football but did they keep the tarps up for playoff games?

 

[JokePa]

So what you are saying (assuming you are a Pirate fan) is that you would not part with your $400 Bucco game 7 world series ticket for 10 grand, correct?

I would in a freaking heartbeat and I'm a huge pirate fan.

It's a pastime, a sport... Not important. That would be a great investment you could give your kids an education or a family vacation or any number of things for your own family with that money

 

[Swervin27]

I must be getting old or maybe it's that I've been to so many sporting events in my younger days, not sure but I prefer watching any sporting event on tv over being there live 99.99999% of the time.. Honestly, if it wasn't for tailgating, it's not even a question..