Cubs Win!

[billroper]

And the Cubs beat the Padres in the Wild Card Series, two games to one, and move on to face the Brewers in a best-of-five in the NLDS. I had tickets to all three games and sold all of them, because getting to the games from Des Plaines when the remote parking lot is unavailable was being untenable.

I have, however, managed to recover my Ventra card and load it into my Google Wallet which means that getting to NLDS games next week should be much more likely, although still non-trivial. At least it will be once I know when the Cubs are playing...