I like it. Screwing the scalpers.

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Except themselves.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

2016

I haven't heard yet if we are getting hard season tickets from the team. The Blackhawks cut that cost out this season. I think it kinda sucks that STH's don't get the hard tix.

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I think the lede to the story is actually in the last line of it.

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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

I have confirmation, STHs will still have hard tickets.

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well, this will be inneresting

So StubHub is pretty much rendered useless? Is this what I read?

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

good call. stubhub must not have cut them in enough to maintain 100% functionality going forward. JORR had a good point re: "wrigley field premium ticket services" and all, and i'm guessing nowadays this somehow benefits the cubs in getting more people to go through "preferred means" of getting tickets as opposed to stubhubbing something cheap in the last week or two b4 a game.

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I'm still seeing stub hub working...from Crain's.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

of course stubhub will work, but you gotta actually go and get the actual ticket now; that takes longer. if you were, say, trying to do something on a monday in mid-late april like "hey i wonder if there's anything cheap for thursday's game?" that's where this new "ban" will have teeth and try to force you to start using "preferred methods of acquiring tickets"

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that's going to be some line at will call then...

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

(quote added in after i typed my post)

also, upon reading the whole quote i see there's still an option to have them printed out at will-call, which i reckon will be the go-to means of replacing the printed out tickets thing.

still, this whole thing smacks of the cubs being fairly clever in using some dumbass thing that happened to a few dumbass people (getting $$$BUNKED$$$ on playoff games via the print-outs/barcodes) as a way to try and put it out there that you're supposed to use official avenues like wrigley premium or whatever the mlb app thing they're talking about is. honestly i don't think printed out tickets are truly a crisis as much as they're a useful excuse to try and wane people off of stubhub and get them into more "preferred" means of giving the cubs/mlb all of stubhub's cut.

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I mean from being able to data-mine the phones that use that feature, particularly those who love to let their phone know where they are to make it find them things to do and buy. And maybe some ancillary fees, but the former is the reason imo.

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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