And you thought World Series parking in Wrigleyville was expensive.
Bars near Wrigley Field are charging as much as $250 — per person — to get inside this weekend to watch the Cubs play in the World Series ... on TV.
At several bars, the steep charge gets you drinks and a buffet, but no guarantee of a seat.
To guarantee a four-seat table, that'll cost you an extra $500 at bars like Old Crow Smokehouse, Deuces and The Diamond Club and John Barleycorn. Casey Moran's and Moe's Cantina have similar watch party packages for home games Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Internet lit up last weekend with people aghast that The Cubby Bear was asking a $100 cover charge to watch the National League Championship Series across the street from Wrigley Field.
But that's chump change compared to this weekend's asks. Tickets for the packages range from $225-$250 on Hastickets.com.
HVAC Pub, 3530 N. Clark St., is hosting a watch party Saturday, and tickets are $250 for all-you-can-eat pizza and wings, plus free beer, wine and well drinks. Pay an extra $1,000 and get seating for six during the game, plus a bottle of Grey Goose vodka and a bottle of champagne.
Other bars have slightly more modest offers, while others aren't bothering with a cover at all. But fans planning to head into Wrigleyville should get there plenty early — some fans waited in lines for more than two hours during the final game of the National League Championship Series.
Fans packed into Old Crow Smokehouse for the final game of the National League Championship Series on Saturday. [DNAinfo/Ariel Cheung]
Myron Mixon's newly opened Smoke Show Barbecue at 3801 N. Clark St. will have all-you-can-eat tickets for $50 on the weekend. Reservations will be accepted for home games, but it'll be first-come, first-served for away games Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Cubby Bear at 1059 W. Addison St., is keeping it simple for the weekend: the cover is still $100 with no table reservations or party packages.
Standing room at Rockit Burger Bar, 3700 N. Clark St., is $40, or guests can pay $100 for a table. Yak-Zies, 3710 N. Clark St., will charge a $25 cover and an hourly surcharge of $50 for a table.
Many places will only admit people 21 years and older, so call ahead if you want to bring the kids. Most weren't charging during away games this weekend, although some of the bigger bars like John Barleycorn and Cubby Bear are.
The skyrocketing fees irked Cubs fan Rigo Fernandez, who theorized several of the most popular bars colluded to fix entry prices.
"I was outraged at this apparent monopoly situation that was occurring before us," Fernandez said. Lifelong fans like him who can't afford $750 for seats at a watch party "will be prevented from participating in the historical moment ... when the Cubs end their 100-plus year championship drought," Fernandez said.
After reading up on price fixing and looking over the bars' offerings, Fernandez decided to file a complaint with the Department of Justice.
"There appears to be no competition. All of the prices are advertised at the same level," Fernandez said. 
The prices are huge hikes even from the National League Championship Series last week. Then, Old Crow entry was $30, while Deuces charged a $100 cover.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

$250 to enter? Better come with a handjob....

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Sometimes I do.

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If you build it, they will come.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Just goes to prove what White Sox fans already knew, Cub fans are complete suckers. Their purported quaint lovable Wrigleyville neighborhood is nothing but a means to part them from their cash.

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Wonder if they can be got on MLB licensing for "selling" viewership of the game?

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Elections have consequences.

Yeah, some of this shit has to be illegal. Save your receipts for the class action in three years!

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Baseball steals another idea from football!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

They've done it for the Super Bowl for decades.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That's for a TV show. Big difference. This is a sporting event, Rick.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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What?

Who's in? Extra $1000 on me.

You guys can have the champagne.

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You know me like that.

Quoting myself, yes.

But $250 gets you free beer.

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You know me like that.

yeah we were gifted tickets to fridays game by our boss. my buddy's wife and sisters and brother in laws are all going up to hang out but are now probably just going to some bars a ways away now due to all the ridiculousness.

Following up....

How disgusting will that place be when all the broheims that spent $250 can get all the beer they want and are thinking that they are going to get their money's worth, dude, around the 2nd inning?

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You know me like that.

When you click on the link to buy tickets at Barleycorn:

Includes general admission for one (1), 1 entree, 1 appetizer and drinks from 7pm to the 9th inning. There will be a service fee as well at checkout. This does not guarantee seating. Guests with tickets are welcome to come as early as Noon.

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I've got $30. In.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

You couldn't pay me $250 to go to John Barleycorn as an adult.

Yeah, that's going to make for some great World Series Moments that no one, except maybe the judge, and the broheim's sex offender registrar will remember...

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I don't get it. "I overpaid to get into a bar near the game"?

I guess I'm too old.

You misspelled 'smart'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....I did a $50 Alumni Club New Year's Eve on Division.

All you can eat and drink. I never got a beer. And people were crowded around the kitchen door to the point where when a pizza would come out, 10 guys grabbed a piece when the server was 2 feet out the door.

My partner, who is dead, saw the jello shot girl and bought her entire tray of 40 and the 4 of us sat there and ate jello shots the entire night with no food.

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You know me like that.

Lotta folks who like to criticize others for maximizing their own utility. Live and let live.

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It'll be tough to get a drink.

The long waits will keep pacing OK.

I swear to God I have a similar story with that same location. Fuck Alumni Club.

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just letting you guys know that my house will only have a 50$ cover charge
reservations are recommended