The Two Worst Teams In Baseball

If you haven’t been paying attention to the Chicago Cubs’ season this year and are wondering how they’ve been doing, consider this: You can get tickets to their final home series against the Houston Astros for 74¢ for Monday night’s game, 97¢ for Tuesday night’s game, and for Wednesday afternoon’s final game of the season, 50¢. Of course, there is a $5.45 delivery fee and a $5 “convenience” fee, making the final cost of the ticket itself about 5/1000^th of the total cost. And yes these are upper deck and obstructed-view seats, but since there will be more empty seats than sold seats you can pretty well sit wherever you want. This is what happens when you have the worst two teams in Major League Baseball – Cubs at 60-100 and Astros at 54-106 – playing each other the final week of the season. There are other series this week where out-of-it teams might be able to play a spoiler roll and knock another team out of the playoffs, or log an end-of-the-season moral victory over a team headed to the playoffs. But here you have two teams that are at best battling for the worst record in baseball. I guess that’s worth about 50¢ (plus convenience fee).