Cubs, White Sox Limiting Number Of Playoff Tickets Available
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Cubs Offering Smaller Allotment Of Playoff
Tickets To General Public Than In Past Years |
Both the Cubs and White Sox have made “fewer tickets available to the public this year than they did the previous times they were in the playoffs,” according to Caro & Noel of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The "landscape has changed dramatically, in large part because the secondary ticket market has exploded." StubHub Corporate Communications Manager Joellen Ferrer said that "more than 2,000 tickets" were available for each of the Cubs’ three possible home NLDS games. That is up from 900, 600 and 300 tickets being sold for the Cubs’ three first-round playoff games at the same time last year. Ferrer added that Cubs NLDS tickets are "selling for an average of $490 -- tops among [MLB] teams.” The Cubs also have "made money on marked-up tickets through Wrigley Field Premium Ticket Services," the team's secondary-ticketing service. But a Premium rep said that "it won’t be selling Cubs playoff tickets this year.” Potential buyers are “redirected to StubHub from the Premium Web site.” Meanwhile, White Sox Dir of PR Lou Hernandez said that his team has “reduced availability for the public compared to 2005, in large part because the team now has a larger season-ticket base.” Hernandez did not disclose how many White Sox seats are set aside for season-ticket holders. Cubs Assistant Dir of Media Relations Jason Carr said that season-ticket holders will account for “about 22,000 of Wrigley Field’s approximately 42,200 seats” (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 9/25).
BROKEN PROMISE: In Chicago, St. Clair & Olkon report business partners Laurence Wright and Brad Ginsberg Thursday filed a lawsuit in Cook County (IL) accusing Jerry Slavin of "reneging on a promise to share [Cubs] playoff tickets with them." Wright and Ginsberg "paid Slaving more than $15,000 earlier this year for his four regular-season seats in the first row of the upper deck [at Wrigley Field] and say they had a handshake deal with him for the postseason games" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 9/26).
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Writer Feels Mayor Asking Bars To Halt Alcohol
Sales After Seventh Inning Will Not Work |
PLAYOFF FACE-OFFS: In Chicago, Richard Roeper wrote of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's call for bars surrounding Wrigley Field to voluntarily suspend alcohol sales after the seventh-inning of series-clinching playoff games, "Millions of hardworking fans love their sports team -- and they have at least an equal amount of love for the release of getting out there and celebrating with adult beverages. A one-hour 'timeout' isn't going to change anything" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 9/24). Meanwhile, Daley on Wednesday "urged state Sen. James Meeks not to rain on the Cubs parade -- by having 6,000 protesters ring Wrigley Field during next week's opening playoff game to call attention to the school funding disparity between rich and poor districts." Daley: "We've waited 100 years for the Cubs to get in. You shouldn't disturb them. I really believe that" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 9/25).
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