Rooftop Coupons!!!

by Chodes on Mar 24, 2010 10:03 AM CDT

Today's deal on the following site is discount tickets to rooftop games in April. There are many games available at discount prices. Go to Groupon.com You need to give them a valid email address to see the deals. I thought this deserved a fanpost rather than fanshot so I'll keep on typing. Have Fun. Go Cubs Go. I guess this should have been a fan shot since it is taking me a lot of words to fill this up.

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As i said in the "what revenue do the bleachers make" FanPost...

… this is in line with what you should REALLY expect to pay for a single rooftop ticket, in my experience.

Most of the big games / weekend events end up being groups – the businesses entertaining clients, the office parties, that sort of thing. Unless you are part of that, you don’t have much of a chance of getting up there for the Sox / Cards / Weekend / night games. Only in the last season or so has the recession forced the rooftop owners to market single tickets with any regularity, and this is generally for afternoon / day games, and some of the lesser-in-demand nights. And when they are coming to the people in the midst of a recession, they know they can’t get $150 a pop. They’ll try, but you can count on them discounting close to game day. Today’s $69 offer, for example, was for April games ONLY.

I went to a few games on the rooftops this way last season. Do NOT pay full price, at this point. Businesses are still pulling back their luxury spending, and just like the NBA is wilting under its lack of luxury suite sales, the rooftops are desperate as well, and will be for some time i suspect.

When its all said and done – if you have the patience to wait out a discount – these things become a good deal. A bleacher ticket, a few beers, and a "Love Me Tender" basket can easily reach $100 on any given day. On a rooftop, you can drink unlimited beer (often of good quality as well) and eat better food at a fixed price.

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by AndrewJStone on Mar 24, 2010 10:30 AM CDT reply actions

I've always been leery

of the roof-top suites because I believe you can’t see the whole field. is it good enough view to make up for being across the street?

Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.

by drewishdrewid on Mar 24, 2010 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions

I can only speak from my experience at Murphy's

They’re the last rooftop on the right field line. You can see everything, but it’s very easily obstructed viewing. My girlfriend spent the entire game trying to get drunken idiots to move so we could actually watch the game.

by redward on Mar 24, 2010 11:07 AM CDT up reply actions

I've enjoyed

the few games that I have seen from the rooftops. I have only been on the rooftop (I think it’s Bricks and Ivy) that is just outside of the left field foul pole. From there, we couldn’t see anything happening along the outfield wall from the left field corner about half-way to center field. The remainder of the field we could see.

I enjoyed that I wasn’t assigned to one place to watch the game, but could wander anywhere on that rooftop to watch the game and talk to a number of different people during the breaks in the action.

The best part, as Andrew says is the fixed price for beer and food. It is very easy to spend $100 on the ticket and beer, etc, so if you can get a rooftop ticket for $60-$70, I think it is worth it. Obviously the atmosphere isn’t nearly as good as it is inside the stadium, so you have to factor that in as well.

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by gwood on Mar 24, 2010 11:11 AM CDT up reply actions

I've sat in a couple of Left Field Rooftops

And you get a surprising good view. You do miss plays deep in left but if you sit in the Bleachers you miss the warning track as well. Many of the rooftops supplement the action with TVs so you can get a replay as well.

by Chodes on Mar 24, 2010 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions

I signed up and went to the site, but I am not seeing the deal you are mentioning

Can anyone send me the coupon?

onemanfilms at yahoo dot com

Thanks!

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by Cubskingdom on Mar 29, 2010 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions

think they're good for only a short day,

perhaps one full day. There’s a count-down clock I’ve seen on some of these offers.

Just win the next game...!

by blackhawk24 on Mar 30, 2010 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions

Part of it is planning.

If you’ve got a night game, a rooftop in left field is nice – you don’t want to be staring in to the sun.

Most of the roofs open an hour or two before game time – i can’t remember exactly – and there is a distinct advantage in getting there early enough to have your choice of seats. And just like sitting in the bleachers, you won’t ever be able to see anything up against the ivy.

As long as you stay between the foul poles and far enough south on Sheffield or West on Waveland to avoid the scoreboard, the view is fine. Everything just looks a little bit tinier.

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by AndrewJStone on Mar 24, 2010 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions

According to the email

We’re playing the Arizona Cardinals on April 29th. Should be an interesting match-up.

by redward on Mar 24, 2010 11:10 AM CDT reply actions

LOL

Well, at least Kurt Warner is retired. Maybe that’ll make it easier to win.

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by Al Yellon on Mar 24, 2010 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions

May help to have Spellcheck on the roster then, just in case.

by redward on Mar 24, 2010 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions

i knew we shouldn't have gotten rid of derosa

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by mjk83 on Mar 24, 2010 12:59 PM CDT up reply actions

$69 is a big time buy

I can hit $69 in Wrigley concessions for myself quite easily, even with the early-bird discount.

Just win the next game...!

by blackhawk24 on Mar 24, 2010 11:40 AM CDT reply actions

I have a better idea

Buy my bronze April tickets in MUCH better Upper Deck Box 4th row seats at a 25% discount! at $20 each, you still come out ahead and can actually see something instead of being 500 feet from the plate.

by The E-Man on Mar 24, 2010 1:34 PM CDT reply actions

Do your tickets come with beer and food?

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by Schwa on Mar 24, 2010 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions

Have you ever sat on the rooftops before?

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by cubswynn on Mar 25, 2010 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions

Today's Groupon e-mail made me laugh

For those that don’t know, you can sign up and get a daily Groupon offer e-mail. Along with the primary offer, they usually have a side deal – maybe it’s a previous deal they’re recycling, maybe it’s just smaller in value or thought not to be as popular.

Anyway, I had a nice chuckle when I saw that right next to today’s offer of an afternoon/evening of wanton gluttony, slothfulness and neverending beerfestivities was this little gem:

Today’s Side Deal
$50 Fitness Assessment and Two Sessions at GH School for Healthy Living ($170 Value)

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by ballhawk on Mar 24, 2010 9:10 PM CDT reply actions

I guess it's good that I've done it....

to get an accurate assessment, but I doubt I’ll ever do a rooftop game again. Just not for me, and not my type of crowd at all. I’ve been to a rooftop game on Sheffield, and one on Waveland. Both times, the experience was exactly the same. The view was OK, but it’s the people that ruin it. Unfortunately, these are the types that perpetuate the Cub fans stereotype that Sox fans love to promote. Rich, drunken snobs, out to see and be seen. The game? What game? Oh yeah. What’s the score? Who are the Cubs playing again?

You know the crowd. It sucked. I’ve done it twice, no desire to ever do it again. I’ve seen all I needed to see, and it’s not good.

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by ctcoff99 on Mar 25, 2010 1:18 PM CDT reply actions

good post, makes me think twice about it...

especially if i only make it to a game 5-6x a year since i live in DC. i love to drink at the games, but i never get drunk enough not to pay attention or start fights.

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by Zakh on Mar 26, 2010 12:32 AM CDT up reply actions

Well I'm gonna have to disagree with your assessment.

No, I’ve never done a rooftop game before. But what exactly did you expect when you went somewhere that is all you can drink? Would you rather these guys be in Wrigley acting like this or on a rooftop?

My friends started emailing about going to a rooftop game because of the Groupon deal. Guess what? If we go, we’re going to drink heavily. Why? We’re a bunch of mid-20’s guys who will take any chance we can get to hang out together (not everyone lives in Chicago). And not everyone in our group is a Cubs fan. The rooftops are essentially glorified bars with a view. If you go to them expecting a peaceful night trying to figure out whether or not Marmol is tipping his pitches, I’d say your expectations are the problem. I don’t consider myself any less of a Cubs fan if I spend a cool April evening boozing with my friends on a rooftop. Will I know the score of the game? Probably. Am I there to watch the game? Kinda. I really don’t see a problem with any of this.

“Rich, drunken snobs, out to see and be seen”. Really? Apparently Cubs fans promote this stereotype as well. It’s always fun to reduce a group of people you don’t know to a few words.

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by Schwa on Mar 26, 2010 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions