{"id":1849,"date":"2009-08-15T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/pittsburgh-pirates-at-chicago-cubs-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:48:00","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-at-chicago-cubs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/pittsburgh-pirates-at-chicago-cubs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As was the theme with the last couple Chicago Cubs home stands, I planned to meet a friend in the stadium so I decided to buy a standing room only (SRO) seat for $15.  As I have mentioned before SRO at Wrigley Field is a good deal for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1) It is the cheapest ticket in the ballpark.<br \/>2) Fans do not have to pay a premium buying tickets from a ticket broker or StubHub.<br \/>3) Although most people will plan to stand in the SRO areas, this is a bad idea.  There are always plenty of empty seats in the 200 sections of Wrigley Field where 2 to 4 people who are attending together can almost always find seats to sit together.  Remember that you may have to move two or three times before settling in but that is a small price to pay when considering you only spent $15 per ticket.<\/p>\n<p><u>The Game<\/u><br \/>The Cubs defeated the Pirates for the second day in a row 3-1, behind the pitching of Tom Gorzelanny who the Cubs acquired from Pittsburgh on July 30.  Wrigley Field was only buzzed a couple of times from Air Force jets on Saturday compared to the dozen or so times from Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As was the theme with the last couple Chicago Cubs home stands, I planned to meet a friend in the stadium so I decided to buy a standing room only (SRO) seat for $15.  As I have mentioned before SRO at Wrigley Field is a good deal for multiple reasons.<br \/>\n1) It is the cheapest ticket in the ballpark.2) Fans do not have to pay a premium buying tickets from a ticket broker or StubHub.3) Although most people will plan to stand in the SRO areas, this is a bad &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}