i'd love to take my wife and kids to a game at wrigley, but i have more pressing financial needs (mortgage, daycare, car payment, insurance, utilities, groceries, etc.) for the $400 that it would cost.
and it's a damn shame because my love for cubs baseball was cultivated by my mother who used to take me and my sister to dozens of those weekday afternoon day games back in the '80s when you could get upper deck nosebleed day of game tickets for 5 bucks!
5. measly. freaking. bucks.
so for $15 admission, and an additional $15 for a hot dog and peanuts and a pepsi for each of us, my mom and sister and me got to see cubs baseball at wrigley on a very regular basis (usually 3 or 4 games a summer) for a grand total of 30 bucks a pop.
sadly, my kids will not have that same experience. they'll be lucky to get into wrigely once or twice as a true splurge.
