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Chicago Cubs Online > Notes from the Soap Box > Why I Won’t Sell My World Series Tickets

Why I Won’t Sell My World Series Tickets

October 25, 2016 1:00 pm By TheCCO Leave a Comment

The Cubs are in The World Series and the team that we have rooted for our entire lives are playing for a championship. Long-time reader Joe N. sent us an email with a story about what the Cubs playing in the World Series means and that nothing could keep him from experiencing it.

We’ve had season tickets since 1998. I say “we” however, my Dad made the decision to get season tickets in 1998. I’ve only started paying for my share since I graduated college and became a “financially” responsible adult in the last five or six years.

Since the Cubs have returned to relevance (if relevance ever was a reality), I’ve received a lot of questions regarding whether I’d sell my World Series tickets. I’ve been presented with the argument to sell them and buy cheaper ones elsewhere in the Friendly Confines. It’s true; as it stands right now, there are seats in our row for $5,000 to $8,000 per ticket on StubHub …

You couldn’t add enough zeroes to convince me to sell them.

Since 1998, I have seen hundreds of games and the Cubs (mostly futile) attempts to accomplish what the 2016 Cubs did last Saturday night.

I remember seeing Sammy Sosa hit numbers 61 and 62 in that summer of ’98 …

I remember seeing Mark Grace catch the final out of the ’98 one game playoff …

I remember seeing Kerry Wood’s Home Run in Game 7 of the 2003 NLCS …

I remember coming home from college every year to go to Opening Day keeping the tradition with my Dad going …

I remember betting quarters on plays with my Dad and wife as the Cubs won their 61st and final game of the 2012 season … Seriously the highlight of the game.

I remember 2007, 2008 and 2015.

I’ll remember Miguel Montero’s Grand Slam.

I’ll remember the double play that will erase Tinker to Evers to Chance and instill Addy to Javy to Rizz into Cubs folk lore.

All of these memories have two things in common. They were all shared with my Dad, my wife, my family. And they were all seen from Section 135, Row 6, Seats 101-104. Those seats are a part of my childhood, my adolescence, my adulthood. They are priceless.

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