As you know, Cubs playoff appearances are a rare and magical thing, and tickets to playoff games at Wrigley Field are in high demand. As is the case with most baseball teams, fans who own season tickets get the first crack at playoff tickets, but in a lot of cases, season tickets are shared amongst friends, family, or colleagues. It's a good way to minimize the cost of owning tickets for the individual.Of course, when you share a season ticket package with somebody, or buy them off of somebody, it can lead to problems. For instance, there are two Cubs fans suing the man who sold them their season tickets because suddenly he isn't in the mood to sell his playoff seats.
Business partners Laurence Wright and Brad Ginsberg filed a lawsuit in Cook County on Thursday accusing Jerry Slavin, 84, of reneging on a promise to share playoff tickets with them. The men paid Slavin more than $15,000 earlier this year for his four regular-season seats in the first row of the upper deck and say they had a handshake deal with him for the postseason games.
Slavin, who began going to the games with his father when he was 5, denies he agreed to such terms and says he would never pass up on a chance to see the Cubs make a World Series run if his health allowed.
