Cubs Introduce "Best Buy" Ticket Package

is it 40 bucks for 4 tickets or 40 bucks per ticket? If the former… wow, that’s a great deal (and a sign of how unbelievably desperate the Cubs are). If the latter, meh.

It comes to approximately $7 per ticket over face value. Not a bad deal, I suppose, and at least they are now offering it in more sections than just bleachers.

Can’t imagine why someone did not think of that before ( OK I kid by I have been suggesting this in my infamous ticket posts for a while) Like most of the marketing ideas , too little, too late. An act of desperation instead of real planning.

A hot dog and beer alone would be $11.75. For $10, you get admission AND all that. Great deal if you don’t care where you sit.

Even Silver games in the 200s, you basically pay full price for a ticket and get a free hot dog and beer. So I ask… where are my free hot dogs and beers for April and May?

The bottom feeders of NFL attendance do stuff like this and I’m sure you can find it in the NBA and NHL. I don’t think this is desperate, it’s normal. Yes, it’s indicative of their ticket sales when they decide to roll out stuff like this during the season, but it’s not out of the ordinary. We’re just more used to begging scalpers for tickets 2x instead of 3x than actually going online and looking for a deal that gives us the most bang for our buck. Look around the teams in the league and see the deals you can get that maybe the Cubs marketing department has decided to implement.

In another gear, I’ve been to this blog and read comments bashing the Cubs for bringing in concerts, football games, possible soccer games, and other non-baseball events. These comments ignore the fact that they bring in additional revenue for the team. Look at this deal: they’re filling up seats no one is using and eating food and drink that may have otherwise found itself to the dumpster after the game. There’s this other nugget too: it’s not just the “Chicago Cubs Family Four-Pack,” they threw on a corporate sponsor onto it. That’s even more revenue and for the haters of the special events at Wrigley, that’s baseball revenue. Not football or concert revenue like people were belly aching before about turning Wrigley into something it’s not, but revenue generated by its true tenant, the baseball team.

Why don’t they just go to the root of the problem as to why people aren’t coming in the first place? A few years ago people were willing to pay the price to come watch the Cubs play, but during the last few seasons people aren’t interested anymore.

Say what you want to say about the bad economy, but it comes down to this: bad management, horrible offseason moves, bad treatment of Cubs legends (Sandberg), and lazy play by players (which was accepted). It also doesn’t help that some of the ushers are extremely rude. Combined with that, the Cubs don’t seem to be in a big hurry to change things.

If Ricketts would have come in, replaced the front office staff, replaced Piniella with Sandberg, and even had a team led by people like Brett Jackson, Chris Archer, Tyler Colvin, and company then people would come out to watch players try hard every day. But like I said, there’s no hurry to change things so people are not going to part with their hard earned money to attend these games.

Duh! Capital D.U.H.

Box office sales are down, attendance is down (yeah, 36.5k last night, right….), tickets are nearly given away. They have to try to do something.

I got worse things to deal with on the sporting front, like going to United Centre tonight to see my last home ’Hawks game of the season….In the very near future, the ’Hawks will become the Reigning Stanley Cup Champions.