better do it now man. we will be there.

keep believing

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

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!

….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).

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.

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.

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.

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