01-19-2009, 03:25 PM
<!--quoteo(post=12417:date=Jan 19 2009, 01:05 PM:name=Coldneck)-->QUOTE (Coldneck @ Jan 19 2009, 01:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Butch, you're not going to like this:
From Wittenmyer today
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->License to bill
A near-certain, unsurprising byproduct of the Cubs' impending sale is the same kind of seat licenses for season tickets that the Bears imposed after the Soldier Field reconstruction.
The positive, the Cubs say, is fans' ability to transfer rights to their season tickets to non-family members. Among the negatives: A slow-moving waiting list for season tickets rarely, if ever, budges; and season-ticket holders get the great privilege of paying thousands of dollars for the right to pay thousands of dollars for tickets. What a country.
''A future owner will look at all the possibilities,'' vice president for business operations Mark McGuire said. ''That would be one of the things that would be a possibility.''
Read: Count on it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was from the same article. I thought it was kind of funny.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Strategic failure
Exchange of the day, during Sunday's Q&A with Cubs business executives:
Fan: ''What's your business strategy in getting Aramis Ramirez to come to the Cubs Convention?''
McGuire: ''Our business strategy is to plead with him every year to come and then to find out he has no interest in coming.''<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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That would *really* suck. It would also ensure that only wealthy people and ticket brokers had season tickets.
From Wittenmyer today
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->License to bill
A near-certain, unsurprising byproduct of the Cubs' impending sale is the same kind of seat licenses for season tickets that the Bears imposed after the Soldier Field reconstruction.
The positive, the Cubs say, is fans' ability to transfer rights to their season tickets to non-family members. Among the negatives: A slow-moving waiting list for season tickets rarely, if ever, budges; and season-ticket holders get the great privilege of paying thousands of dollars for the right to pay thousands of dollars for tickets. What a country.
''A future owner will look at all the possibilities,'' vice president for business operations Mark McGuire said. ''That would be one of the things that would be a possibility.''
Read: Count on it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was from the same article. I thought it was kind of funny.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Strategic failure
Exchange of the day, during Sunday's Q&A with Cubs business executives:
Fan: ''What's your business strategy in getting Aramis Ramirez to come to the Cubs Convention?''
McGuire: ''Our business strategy is to plead with him every year to come and then to find out he has no interest in coming.''<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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That would *really* suck. It would also ensure that only wealthy people and ticket brokers had season tickets.