{"id":1443,"date":"2008-04-24T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/break-of-dawn-for-baseball\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T14:07:00","slug":"break-of-dawn-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/break-of-dawn-for-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Break of Dawn for Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered how people were able to go to a Cubs day game.  Don&#8217;t these people have jobs?  How are they at the park when I am stuck at work?  Well, don&#8217;t make a little thing like a job stand in your way from a day of baseball. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,  going to the Cubs vs. Mets day game meant getting up at the break of dawn for baseball and needing a day to recover. But, it was worth it.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/\"  TARGET=\"_blank\">Ultimate Sports Fan<\/a> and I work up for work at 5:45am.  We car pooled to work and rushed through as much work as possible until 12:45pm.  We were super efficient.  No talking and socializing with others.  No coffee breaks.  No facebook.  We got back to Chicago at about 1:10pm&#8230;grabbed our game day essentials and were in the park in the 1st inning.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, by the end of the game, the pace of the day caught up with me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/Cubs-Mets-723748.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/Cubs-Mets-723722.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>But, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/2008\/04\/new-york-at-chicago-nl-game-2.html\"  TARGET=\"_blank\">Ultimate Sports Fan<\/a> did the Red Line double header.   He took a short nap after the Cubs game, change jackets (yes, he has a Sox jacket), and headed South to see the Sox vs. Yankees.  <\/p>\n<p>This level of fan endurance is rare but feel free to pick a leg of this journey and try it yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered how people were able to go to a Cubs day game.  Don&#8217;t these people have jobs?  How are they at the park when I am stuck at work?  Well, don&#8217;t make a little thing like a job stand in your way from a day of baseball.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday,  going to the Cubs vs. Mets day game meant getting up at the break of dawn for baseball and needing a day to recover. But, it was worth it.  The Ultimate Sports Fan and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}