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Screw Jinxes; Playoff Travel advice

I understand the whole cart-before-the-horse sentiment, but unfortunately travel plans are not made or broken with the same ease as a Cubs season.  Therefore I have already begun looking at airline flights into Chicago for the October 25-27th weekend.  Being a college student (poverty implied), I'm rather afraid of exorbitant airline prices if I wait into the playoffs, especially if waiting until the NLCS is clinched.  However, as a Cubs fan, I'm more terrified of not being able to experience a possible World Series appearance firsthand.  A round-trip ticket to Chicago is only $140.00 as of right now, which is well inside my budget.

Question1:  Are any other out-of-towners planning on visiting Chicago in the playoffs, and assuming there are, what might your plans be?

Question 2:  Will airline prices be affected by the Cubs reaching a WS?  I realize buying an airline ticket will naturally cost more the closer to one's desired date, but will it cost even more due to the attraction?

Question 3:  Is it worth the gamble to invest in travel accomodations when one bad series or streak could end it all?

Not only am I worried about pricing, but in order to miss Thursday, Friday, and possibly Monday classes, I must schedule an exam to be taken earlier and also complete a couple assignments ahead of time.  So I'd be quite stuck if I delayed for too long on my plans.

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book em

better do it now man. we will be there.

from the mouth of Uecker:

"Am I the only one who’s glad it’s only a 4-game series? If was a 9-game series, I think the Cubs would win them all."

by cubsluver22 on Sep 2, 2008 4:05 PM CDT   0 recs

You called?

"I see the playoff schedule posted in the paper, and that stuff makes me nervous because you can't take anything for granted. We have a great team. We have a really good team. We're playing well, but we haven't won yet." - Jim Edmonds, 8/31/08

by dat cubfan daver on Sep 2, 2008 4:14 PM CDT   0 recs

Oh please no...

my life has now lost meaning.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Sep 2, 2008 4:16 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

ewwww

that’s just so wrong

Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!

by cubnational on Sep 2, 2008 7:18 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I lvoe this picture

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Sep 3, 2008 12:12 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

keep posting

keep believing

by cubswynn on Sep 2, 2008 4:17 PM CDT   0 recs

i for one

am planning on quitting my job if the cubs go to the world series

by cubswynn on Sep 2, 2008 4:17 PM CDT   0 recs

you could always try asking for an October sabbatical lol

"A catchers biggest concern behind the plate is to make his pitcher pitch a little better than he can" Roy Campanella

by Madison Cub Fan on Sep 2, 2008 4:32 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

It's called sick day

and just don’t get seen on TV

by ak123 on Sep 2, 2008 4:34 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I did..

and did get seen on TV. Fortunately for me my boss was a Cubs fan too!

by cubsgirl2 on Sep 3, 2008 9:09 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

If the cubs lose today...I blame you!

Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory

by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Sep 2, 2008 4:36 PM CDT   0 recs

so if the cubs win

are there still jinxes?

by cubswynn on Sep 2, 2008 5:15 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Nice move Jack #%@!

Enjoy your day.

Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory

by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Sep 2, 2008 11:28 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Really nice move KS

Z is hurt, too

please stick to what you are good at, i.e. growing corn and living off the government tit.

Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory

by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Sep 3, 2008 12:37 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah...

we’re still hoping to get electricity out to the Western half of the state. Or not.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Sep 3, 2008 12:41 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

i love having so much power

i’m going to ask for a ransom or else i’ll keep jinx’ing the cubs and causing them to lose…..you have 2 hours to come up with the $$$

by cubswynn on Sep 3, 2008 10:16 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Re. hotels -

They usually let you cancel until pretty close to your arrival day, like 24-48 hours in advance, so you’d probably be safe booking something now.

With airlines….geez, I’ve given up trying to figure how they calculate fares. So many people fly in and out of Chicago anyway that any possible WS might not really make a perceptible difference. For $140, I’d just grab the ticket. Yes, it’s a gamble, but if everything falls into place, that’ll probably be one of your smaller expenses!

"Eighty-five percent of the world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here." - Lee Elia, 1983

"The only thing that bothers me is that I would never want to destroy the love and what the fans of Chicago are to the Chicago Cubs. I mean, God knows. If there's one pure thing in baseball, it is the fans of Chicago." - Lee Elia, 2008

by CaughtInTheVines on Sep 2, 2008 4:38 PM CDT   0 recs

Worst case....

….they don’t make it and you can always transfer the credit to a future trip, or just make the trip anyways. Then you’ll tell your grandkids someday that the Cubs once got so close to the WS that you bought plane tickets. (Of course by then everyone will have their own spacecraft and they won’t know what the heck you’re talking about).

"I'm petrified of nipple chafing. Once it starts, it's a vicious circle." Andy Bernard

by TXCub on Sep 2, 2008 5:30 PM CDT   0 recs

I plan on going too if the Cubs make it to the WS

but I’m going to wait till at least till the end of Sept. before I start looking at airline prices. I don’t like the idea of paying a lot for tickets but I’m not a student and therefore have a little bigger budget. I also have family in Chicago that I can stay with so that cost is eliminated.

Not sure what to tell you but I’ve had bad experiences in the past when talking to my brother about coming to Chicago at this time in the season only to have you know what happen. It’s gotten to the point that I know that he knows and we just don’t say anything about it.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson

by tucsoncubsfan on Sep 2, 2008 6:23 PM CDT   0 recs

Of course, if this whole drama ends up with the White Sux being our opponents ..

For me, the earth’s axial spin will tilt, mountains will crumble, seabeds shift and blood will fall from the sky and Chicago as we know it shall cease to exist.

I would go stark raving crazy.

In utter abandon, I will quit my job, probably lose my wife, max out a couple brand new credit cards and drive every member of my familia in Chicago absolutely insane trying to live with them for a month. I will do whatever it takes to score tickets, drag my princess with me, wave signs on TV, fight Ebay, camp out at the keyhole on Sheffield, snarl at the Sux fans and pack fresh Marnell’s Italian beef sandwiches in to every game.

It would take my wife having me committed to an asylum for the month of October to spare us from economic ruin.

I am so financially strapped it hurts to even think about it. Our trip to Cincy this weekend was planned months ago to see the Cubs and have a family reunion there .. but this will be my last hurrah. Unless a rich uncle dies in the next month or so and leaves me some big cash in the next three weeks, that will be all of the Cubs I will be able to see this year. I am just going to have to emotionally lobotomize myself to some degree because deep, deep, deep inside, all that has yearned to be home, home, HOME when the Cubs make the Dance will drive me bats otherwise.

My travel, sadly, will be right here on the couch watching it all on TV with a tear in my eye feeling a thousand lightyears from home and yet – in that curious paradox only the human spirit can fathom – be at one with the Cub Nation on the streets of my far away home town.

Register a sigh, folks. That’s as far as I’m going to be able to travel .. but that’s my world and you’re welcome to it.

Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!

by cubnational on Sep 2, 2008 7:14 PM CDT   0 recs

Same!

I’m in the same exact dilemma!!

College student trying to figure out if I should buy plane tickets now or wait…

I’m leaning towards buying the plane ticket now for the same reasons people outlined above. As for where I stay when I get there… NO IDEA

"Winning is the greatest marketing idea of all time." --Cubs President John McDonough

by cubbieblue on Sep 2, 2008 10:56 PM CDT   0 recs

I say this fanpost gets closed

especially after tonight!!!!!

I had a plane ticket and a hotel reservation booked after Game 4 of the NLCS in 2003. You know what happened!!

by PhillyCub on Sep 2, 2008 11:58 PM CDT   0 recs

Well said.

Too early to plan anything. I say, say no more about this for a while.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 3, 2008 3:54 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

This...

coming from the one who states after every win: “Remember where you were,” “How you felt,” etc. so you can tell people about this someday.

Unfortunately, plans cannot wait much later. But it’s going to happen if it’s going to happen, and no jinx or curse will affect that.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Sep 3, 2008 10:15 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Sure, that's exactly what I say.

I’ve been contemplating where & whether I can or will travel from Chicago to wherever in October. But I have made no specific plans yet.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 3, 2008 1:55 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I plan on selling various organs and body parts to get to a playoff game

If you know anyone that needs these things from a 25 year old male that has two marathons under his belt, the price isn’t too high, just a plane ticket and a game ticket.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Sep 3, 2008 12:13 AM CDT   0 recs

Seriously.....

Jinx or no jinx I hate to think about October let alone talk about or even acknowledge that it exists.
 
But……..

say you get a hotel & Airline ticket, have you thought about how much a ticket to the GAME would cost. I’m guessing $1500 min for the crappiest seat (and, no, I do NOT want to start a thread about how much tickets could cost, really.)

by cubsgirl2 on Sep 3, 2008 9:17 AM CDT   0 recs

To be quite honest...

I’m actually content to absorb the atmosphere from the Cubby Bear across the street and to stand on Waveland. I realize it’s a long way to travel not to be inside the stadium, but I’m not willing to part with that much money for a baseball game.

I’ll monitor prices of course, and look online and any nook I can find for some sort of deal. Had a brother-in-law’s friend who once paid 100 dollars in the top of the sixth inning of a Yankees ALCS for a ticket. He only had the seat for 4 innings, but the Yankees came from behind and won in the bottom of the ninth. I could imagine spending 100-200 bucks once the game gets going. Either way, I’m fully aware a trip to Chicago might not mean a trip INSIDE Wrigley field.

Free Ronny Cedeno

by Kansas25 on Sep 3, 2008 10:21 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Do it.

They might make it, they might not — but your travel plans or discussions thereof will have no bearing on the outcome.

I’m not a proponent of counting chickens, but you’re just making plans — plans that can’t wait until things are definite. Take the chance.

Go Cubs.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Sep 3, 2008 11:26 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Buying a ticket like that...

… after the game starts, isn’t a bad idea.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Sep 3, 2008 1:56 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Just saw this an read it.

One question on “Screw Jinxes.” Wasn’t Jinxes a cat?

Disposable dixie cup drinkin... I'm hiding out in the big city blinking...

by N Oakley on Sep 4, 2008 11:03 AM CDT   0 recs

Yep. a distant relative of Toonces, I believe...

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Sep 4, 2008 10:10 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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