Cubs Announce 13-Game Ticket Plan

… people on the “Wrigleyville Neighbors” list get access at noon CST tomorrow also.

Whether it’s on the actual on-sale date or during the presale (which I assume they will have again)

Oddly, the Cubs do not have individual game prices on the website right now, or at least nowhere that is easy to find.

My guess is that they will be offering mostly UD Box, UD Reserved and Terrace Reserved seats. Based on Al’s Fact Sheet that he posted earlier this offseason and after adding 12% tax to them, I’d say the average ticket price for each section would be around $25 for UDRSVD Inf, $20 for UDRSVD OF, $65 for UD Box IF, $50 for UD Box OF, $40 for Terr Rsvd IF and $35 for Terr Rsvd OF. Obviously, these are rough estimates for the single ticket per game averages of games in the actual package. So IMO, for TWO tickets they’d probably be (for the whole package):

UD IF Box: $1690
UD OF Box: $1300
Terr IF: $1040
Terr OF: $910
UD Rsvd IF: $780
UD Rsvd OF: $650

Again, just rough estimates that are my opinion. Could be completely wrong. But that’s my guess.

It will depend on your choice of games, but that’s probably a pretty typical price for those seats.

It’s obvious that, like the Holiday Packs, they are trying to get rid of the April and September games in this pack. I don’t intend on buying a bunch of games I probably won’t be able to attend and won’t be able to make the money back just so I can get Yankees and Sox tickets earlier. I’ll take my chances with the Presale or VWR this year. I really don’t think that acquiring tickets on the actual on-sale date will be too big of a hassle this year.

… I agree with Jessica.

No reason to buy these unless you want to go to most of the games in the package.

especially the April and May games.

same kind of multi-game package deal (9 or 13 games?) where you got some prime games but had to take a lot of “less-than-desirable” ones as well?

I was at the three Cubs night games there this past August, and the day game. The day game was quite pleasant. The night games… well, it was pretty cold.

Beautiful park, IMO. I’ve been to both, and I’d say definitely a day game. The view of the water from the Upper Deck was pretty sweet.

Oh, and try the garlic fries.

All they’re saying is that they’re not adding any more.

I don’t know how many were offered or accepted. I do know that a fair number of bleacher season ticket holders, while returning, will be cutting the number of tickets in their accounts.

I think the “high level of retention” is spin. We don’t know if that’s 99.9% or maybe only 95%, both of which would be “high”.

If a bleacher seat is already $100 face value, how much more can people really mark it up?

They can’t. That’s the theory, that this is pricing out the secondary market. The problem with that theory is that the secondary market is maybe 10% of the total. Trying to sell 100% of the tickets at a secondary market price… I doubt it will work.

They may sell out the Yankee games at those prices. But a Saturday game vs. the Marlins in July? Not so much.

I will start a post here soon for people who want to sell individual game tickets. There’s already one for people who want to sell large blocks of tickets.

A 20% premium puts those over $100.

My email says it doesn’t go on sale until 12 PM CST. I’m likely not going to purchase, but I’ll probably look to see what’s available.

but I don’t think they have any “good” terrace infield seats for weekends and night games. It is all in the eye of the beholder but expect some sight line issues. Anyone actually buying these packages should be careful. I can’t emphasize to much that unless you plan to go to nearly all the games yourself or have made some kind of sharing arrangement you will be eating a lot of money for inferior tickets. You will be able to get better seats and not be forced to buy so many difficult to sell games if you go to Craigs iist, BCB etc.

I know that, if I were willing to put in the legwork, I could probably scrape up tickets to these same games for the same or less money. And I probably wouldn’t buy some of the lesser games on the list – such as the April 4-5-6 Dbacks series.

BUT… I’m not willing to put in that legwork. I’m much happier having 13 games in hand right now and telling my family when to come to town, as opposed to trying to coordinate schedules and track down tickets to particular weekends when they may be around. (Easter at our place this year, for instance – and we have Cubs/Dodgers tix for Saturday AND Sunday! We’ll walk to the game from St. Al’s.)

And, as a guy who is partial to tickets in the 500s adjacent to the press box, this package was ideal. The 2-3 bad games are $10 tickets… so if I really have to miss one, I don’t mind giving them away. The marquee games are $30 tickets — and they’re truly some of the best games of the season (Father’s day v. Yankees, July 3 v. White Sox).

While I’m sure that a better package of tickets could be assembled, I’m not sure it would be light-years different – at least if it were . I was able to get 12 different teams in the 13 games, and quite a few weekends. (In fact, I think there’s only 1 non-holiday, non-Friday weekDAY game in this year’s 13-pack.) That’s substantially better than last year.

It’s also not SO heavily April-weighted as it has been in the past – unless, like me, you want to be there opening series and easter weekend.

All told, I think that the ticket-pack guys did a good job this year. Credit where credit is due – business seemed awfully brisk for the games I was after, especially for a presale day. I had one “servers are too busy” message, and was already pushed away from the closest sections in about 5 of the games – that didn’t happen last year.

(I may still hit you and other BCB STHers up for some extras.)