today i have been participating in something so absurd: the purchase of chicago cubs home game tickets. the demand is so high for these tickets that they have elaborate systems put in place with wristbands, a random number drawing, online waiting rooms, and various ticket limit rules. since 10am, i've been in an online waiting room, as has heath, hoping against hope to get to drop gobs of money on baseball tickets. by the time i finally got in at about 2:10pm, about seven games had completely sold out. i managed to grab some bleacher (read: hot commodity) seats for a weekend game in may. i lucked out and got back in at about 2:45pm and grabbed some tickets to a weeknight brewers game in september (hoping that it is the heat of the pennant race). heath still has yet to get in at all. as of this post, there are 16 games sold out. the first to go were the cross-town classic tickets (heath and i were at one of those games last year and it was miserable - cubs lost, i was sick, and it was rainy and freezing) and opening day. next were the cardinals games. now, it seems more random, but weekend games always go first.
it's insanity, really. which is why, when i bought whitecaps tickets last may about a week before the game and got seats right (and i mean RIGHT) behind homeplate for a fraction of a fraction of what cubs tickets cost, i was visibly giddy. small town baseball is soooo fun! but wrigley field is one of a kind! GO CUBS!
