The only site I'll ever need...

[Eli]

And I am, of course, kidding.  Mostly.

<NSBB smiley>

Having avoided NSBB since the Nomar trade, I'll assume that said smiley is insanely annoying.

Yeah. 

[Eli]

DPD.

I'm thinking about making a trip to Chicago in July with my girlfriend!!! to visit some friends and see a Cubs game.  The weekend that seems to work is July 11-13, when the Cubs are playing the Giants.

Since it's a weekend, all tickets appear to be snapped up.  So what's the best way to go about finding tickets?  Stubhub?  Or do any morans here have tickets they don't want for that weekend? 

Suggestions are appreciated.

[Dave B]

Craigslist is an option. And I hate to say this, but BCB runs a board where readers can sell tickets (but ONLY at face value).

[TJ]

DPD.

I'm thinking about making a trip to Chicago in July with my girlfriend!!! to visit some friends and see a Cubs game.  The weekend that seems to work is July 11-13, when the Cubs are playing the Giants.

Since it's a weekend, all tickets appear to be snapped up.  So what's the best way to go about finding tickets?  Stubhub?  Or do any morans here have tickets they don't want for that weekend? 

Suggestions are appreciated.

Go the day of the game, and buy tickets at the Wrigley Field box office. They always have definitely a few they hold back unless every sponsor and visiting players' wives want to go.

[Lance Dicksons Arm]

DPD.

I'm thinking about making a trip to Chicago in July with my girlfriend!!! to visit some friends and see a Cubs game.  The weekend that seems to work is July 11-13, when the Cubs are playing the Giants.

Since it's a weekend, all tickets appear to be snapped up.  So what's the best way to go about finding tickets?  Stubhub?  Or do any morans here have tickets they don't want for that weekend? 

Suggestions are appreciated.

For affordability,  EBay still trumps Stubhub I've found.  

If you go the StubHub route, wait until the game gets closer.  

[PTanner]

DPD.

I'm thinking about making a trip to Chicago in July with my girlfriend!!! to visit some friends and see a Cubs game.  The weekend that seems to work is July 11-13, when the Cubs are playing the Giants.

Since it's a weekend, all tickets appear to be snapped up.  So what's the best way to go about finding tickets?  Stubhub?  Or do any morans here have tickets they don't want for that weekend? 

Suggestions are appreciated.

There's a guy where I work with season tickets he looks to unload. I won't be in the office until tomorrow. I'll check with him then. Pretty good seats, I've sat there with a few of these morans.

[TJ]

Every July 4 I go to Las Vegas with a group of friends, and spend 4 days there, which is too long. Because of that, we schedule a day trip to a ballgame. It started innocently enough, with us renting a car and driving down to Phoenix to watch Mark Mulder come five outs from throwing a perfecto vs. Bob Brenly's and Mark Grace's D-backs. It continued with two more trips to Arizona, once in 2002 to watch the Dodgers knock off the D-backs, and then again in 2004 as the D-backs celebrated Brenly's axing by losing to Minnesota (and I celebrated by watching the fifth game of my $50 5-team parlay come in on the out of town scoreboard). Then we mixed in a trip to LA (to watch the D-backs and Dodgers yet again), and then PETCO in 2006 to see Chris R. Young's fist and Matt Morris' beard duel.

This year, we're going to San Francisco to catch the Cubs and the Giants play in a 4:05 game at Pac Bell SBC AT&T Park. Here's the catch: Game starts at 4:05 PT (weird), and we have a 9:00 flight out of SFO to McCarran. Berkeley, Stew, how much should I allow for traffic/BART/packed mule to get back to the airport?

[Indolent Reader]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

[Oleg]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

[Kerm]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Speaking of batteries, do you have any tips on where to get them on the cheap?  Stock laptop batteries suck balls.

[Indolent Reader]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Thanks - I don't plan on taking it anywhere other than throughout the trailer, where the noise from the little sox fans ain't.

[Oleg]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Speaking of batteries, do you have any tips on where to get them on the cheap?  Stock laptop batteries suck balls.

Yes, I do.  I don't know about price, but here you go.

I'm sure there are other places, but here's a start.

[Slaky+]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Speaking of batteries, do you have any tips on where to get them on the cheap?  Stock laptop batteries suck balls.

Yes, I do.  I don't know about price, but here you go.

I'm sure there are other places, but here's a start.

Oleg sells the damn things!

[Oleg]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Speaking of batteries, do you have any tips on where to get them on the cheap?  Stock laptop batteries suck balls.

Yes, I do.  I don't know about price, but here you go.

I'm sure there are other places, but here's a start.

Oleg sells the damn things!

Nice, liberal use of the word "sell".

[morpheus]

Looking for a cheap laptop for the trailer.  I use a thinkpad at the meth lab where i work, which i love, but i know next-to-nothing about computers.  newegg has a daily special on this bad boy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146441

(the lenovo IdeaPad Y510(59013769) NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory 250GB HDD 5400rpm Dual layer DVD Burner Intel GMA). 

Can someone tell me (a) if this is good deal (appears to be), and (b) if this is a good computer (i don't "game"; I only use my computer for working from home via citrix and itunes).

Thanks.

When shopping for a laptop, figure out how portable you're going to need it to be.  You can get a 17" screen, which is awesome but very heavy and not very portable.

You can get a 12" screen, which is good and portable.  However, obviously, the screen is small.

The one that's there is perfectly fine if you don't game.  It's portable enough, 3 GBs of RAM, 250 GB of HD.

The battery is kind of small (that 4 hours will likely be closer to 2.5 or 3), but you can upgrade that.  The price is all right.  It is a consumer-grade notebook, which means [I've heard] that it goes through less testing/qc than a business notebook, but is also much less expensive.

Speaking of batteries, do you have any tips on where to get them on the cheap?  Stock laptop batteries suck balls.

Yes, I do.  I don't know about price, but here you go.

I'm sure there are other places, but here's a start.

Oleg sells the damn things!

Nice, liberal use of the word "sell".

With you it's always liberal, isn't it Oleg?