{"id":1498,"date":"2008-08-29T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/a-call-to-the-bullpen\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:00:00","slug":"a-call-to-the-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/a-call-to-the-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call to the Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was trying to be good today. My plan was to finish an article I have been working on for longer than I would like to admit. To finish the article, I would have to stay home and NOT go to the Cubs game. I watched, at 1 pm, as Andrew finished his conference call and went off to the game. I sat in my chair in front of my computer- ready for the long haul. <\/p>\n

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Ten minutes of facebook, checking my email and opening up my word doc, and then the phone rang. I got the call from the bullpen. It was Andrew…at the game…sitting in prime seats right by the Cubs bullpen. I have learned to ask questions later. <\/div>\n
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In the interim, I quickly got ready and was over at the park in minutes. Andrew met me at the gate, passed the ticket through the gate and within moments, I was seated 3 rows from the Cubs Bullpen and one section from the Bartman seat (Section 4, Row 8, Seat 113). <\/div>\n
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Andrew summarized the process of getting this free ticket in his blog,<\/a> but I am quite happy to call what he thinks is a ‘skill’ as just ‘dumb luck’. We were sitting in the sun, up-close-and-personal to Wood, Marmol, and Gaudin. I have written before that “finders keepers are sometimes weepers<\/a>” but in this case, I was finally on the winning side of a free ticket. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was trying to be good today. My plan was to finish an article I have been working on for longer than I would like to admit. To finish the article, I would have to stay home and NOT go to the Cubs game. I watched, at 1 pm, as Andrew finished his conference call and went off to the game. I sat in my chair in front of my computer- ready for the long haul. <\/p>\n

Ten minutes of facebook, checking my email and opening up my word doc, and …<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"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=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}