The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Welcome to the Chicago Cubs Virtual Waiting Room!
Tickets for 2006 home games are on sale now.
I've been staring at that for about an hour now. Thirty seconds...refresh. Same thing. Ugh, is there anything more frustrating that buying tickets online on the day that tickets go on sale? Anything? Anything at all? I suppose it could be worse. I could be freezing my ass off at Clark and Addison right now. Or making my fingertips bleed by hitting redial on the phone several thousand times. But this still suckss.
To make matters worse, Perry got in after about 2 minutes of waiting. What a lucky bastard. Check that, a lucky Sox fan bastard. Geez. When he was having the Virtual Waiting Room blues last week, when Sox tickets went on sale, I was thinking that maybe my luck as a Cubs fan would change. All the bandwagon fans at Wrigley might have been attracted to the gleam of the World Series trophy on the South Side. No dice. While I'm sure that more than a few people have shit-canned their “We Got Wood” shirts in favor of good guy black, the Cubs will still sell out Wrigley regularly this season. It'll take more than Dusty Baker and a few late season collapses to kill the Cubs popularity in this town. If ninety-seven championship-free seasons didn't hurt ticket sales, a ninety-eighth will obviously have minimal effect. So instead of three million tickets sold this year, look for 2.5 million. At this rate, obtaining tickets in 2045 should a breeze. Wish me luck.
Update: Around noon, it became incredibly easy to get tickets. I guess people got pissed off and logged off. Oh well, my gain. I got tickets to four games within a half hour. Oh, happy day.
Update (2/25/06): Brewers tickets went on sale today. I logged in and got four primo seats to a Cubs-Brewers game. They use the same tickets.com software that the Cubs use. Total time spent online? Three minutes, with no waiting. A little easier than the Cubs experience, don't you think?