How does the economic situation affect you purchasing Cubs tickets?

The 13-pack is a good indication. If you didn’t buy them — and usually you do get tickets like that — I suspect a lot of people will buy less this year.

I expect games to still sell out, but perhaps slower than before, and some of those “platinum” games — say, vs. the Mets, who aren’t the rival they used to be — might go real slowly.

I hope they stay under $2 a gallon for the baseball season. However, I anticipate the prices to go over $2 a gallon. I plan to make the drive to Atlanta to see the Cubs in June and catch an I-Cubs game against Nashville on my way back. I should see the Brewers at Wrigley in September for the last three games of that series and catch a Cubs-Cardinals game in St. Louis on my back. As long as gas doesn’t get outrageously expensive again to the tune of $3.50+ per gallon, my plans won’t change.

My family and I split season tickets and due to the near stop in new construction projects I had to sell my portion of the tickets. It was a very sad day.

We’ve gone to Chicago for several games. And for the last 7 years we have gone to Mesa for ST for at least a week. This year we’ll be Mesa for 7 days…but don’t think we’ll see a game at the Windy city — probably head up to Denver (When Cubs play the Rox) for a couple since its alot closer to Albuquerque.

My family purchased a partial season ticket plan 15 years ago or so – weeknights, weekends and holiday games.

Usually, we split the tickets among 4-5 families, but this year, we’ve gotten more people involved so as to not have unused tickets.

I’ll still make the drive up to Chicago for 5-10 games, mainly because the price of gas has thankfully dropped.

I live in Mississippi, and ChiTown is our only long vacation each year, and I’d have to be absolutely broke and jobless not to go. So my wife and I will be up there for 5 games again this year – the same as we were last year on our honeymoon. But we’re driving in our car (usually take the more spacious truck), and we’re staying in a much cheaper apartment / hotel than we have before. We will probably opt for less museums, cheaper food, etc. So I guess the rest of our vacation will be affected, but not the Cubs games.

but that will probably get less than fewer games did last year. I buy extra bleachers and am pretty sure I can sell them off but IF I or my wristband friend’s get through I will have them get only the top 10 games and the 4 other games I need. Ironically since I did get laid off and plan on taking time off I will probably see MORE games than last year.
Throwing caution to the wind I extended my Spring Training trip by a day and a half.

for the Cubs vs Rockies and Diamondbacks. In a few years it may cost me more to see spring training games because after the Rockies and D’backs leave Tucson, I will have to drive to Mesa to see the Cubs. If gas goes back up to $4.00/gal. again it will certainly make me think twice about making the drive.

will probably be in the same ballpark it has been for the last few years. My best guess is that the secondary (scalper, stubhub, ebay, etc) market will come in quite a bit. People probably won’t pay $125/ticket to sit in section 238 just because it’s a nice Saturday afternoon in the summer. I think that market will suffer which is totally fine by me since the average fan who may be limited to less games due to the economy this year will get the opportunity to see a World Series season.

I was laid off last week, shortly after relocating to take the position. With this economy, I don’t know how long I’ll be out of work, which is a very scary thing. I’ll be buying tickets to scalp, in hopes of making some money.

for ST a couple times; one weekend with the buds, one full weed with the family during kids’ spring break.

I’ve sold 66 of the 81 regular season games. Even without the downturn economically, 1. It’s almost impossible for me to go to anywhere near the full seasons worth of games and 2. I’d have a hard time justifying dropping $80-100 a ticket for so many games. 3. I have BLACKHAWK PLAYOFF tickets to get.

As I am on so many things.

I don’t enjoy going to games. I enjoy drinking beer that I bought at the gas station for $15 a case instead of $15 for two at the stadium. No one charges me to park in my driveway and I don’t have to stand in line for the bathroom.

There is no traffic to get from my living room to my bedroom to go to bed when the game is over. I can pause the DVR, rewind it if I miss something, or switch around if it’s a dull game.

I went to a Cards-Astros game two years ago because someone gave me $10 tickets and I wanted to see the new stadium — and I’m geographically closer to St. Louis than Chicago anyway. That was the last time I went.

I fear the economy will create more people like me.

I could actually see myself attending MORE games this year if, by some stretch, it becomes easier to buy day-of-the-game tickets.
At the same time, I won’t be indulging in anything extra at the games (beer, food, etc.). Well, maybe a scorecard (but I’ll bring my own pencil).

the family and myself came into Chicago for 3 game set against the Pirates. We also had 3 days in the City to do other things. Great time, family just loved it. Obviously coming from Delaware we will not make the trip again this year.
 I have never been to the new Pirates stadium, plan on going in June for at least one of the games.

would have been I will see road games only, due to the lesser cost of tickets. I see them in Houston (might go to Atlanta if things line up right), and have not gone to WF in years, and will not be making my return this season with the finances as they are currently.

I had my Mesa trip scheduled last fall. Since then I bought a new furnace and airconditioner. That unplanned purchase plus everything else that seems to break at the same time has put me in a hole. I’ll still go to Mesa but may not get my usual two or three trips to Chicago, maybe just one. I feel a lot of fans will cut out a trip or a game just to save some cash. At least I have my job. My heart goes out to you that lost yours, I would not handle that well. I hope this gets turned around for everybody.

Not because I’m hurting that much, but because my friends and brother, who always come along, are either unemployed, expecting pink slips, or just going into money saving mode.

It’s pretty interesting, from an economic point of view, how just from this BCB post, we can see why the economy has grinded to a halt — People just ain’t spending money. Hopefully things change, sooner rather than later.

Hang in there Cubs fans — Things will improve!

Right now I’m on a one trip to Wrigley and one trip to AZ every 20 years pace, so uhh, I probably will just maintain that.

it stands at 8 years right now. I am 19 and live 2 hours from the best stadium in sports. I will be making the trip at least once, but I don’t know when or against whom.

Tickets should be easier to come by this year so I will probably bring the girlfriend for a May game as her graduation gift. She’ll skip school, we’ll drive in from Rockford and catch a game and stroll through the city…should be a lot of fun.

Oh, and I forgot to add, for all 8 years I’ve gone, the Cubs have won at least one game that I’ve gone to each year…so hopefully that trend keeps going too.

In my experience even with a down economy if the Cubs are winning people will pay top dollar to come to Wrigley and watch a game.

I do think that the new ticket prices will cut into scalpers margins somewhat but those guys seem to manage to rig the prices so if you show up to the park you have to pay the ‘going rate’ whatever that is.

I sell a few of my season tickets to games I can’t go to- so it is nice to know what to expect in return. At first I felt bad about it, but then I realized I needed to feed my cubs addiction somehow… selling some of my season tix allows me to break even most years… maybe not this year but I can’t resist buying those damn tickets!