{"id":2591,"date":"2010-05-18T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2010-06-09T00:31:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T05:31:39","slug":"cheaper-on-the-outside-rockies-at-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/cheaper-on-the-outside-rockies-at-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper on the Outside: Rockies at Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCheaper on the outside\u201d \u2013 the famous quote heard from all peanut vendors as you walk from your car to the ballpark. And, if you have been to Wrigley Field before, you know there is no way you cannot avoid a peanut vendor on your way into the ballpark. I would argue that they are not actually cheaper. Yet, my friend, Frank Garrett, buys these peanuts every game as he enters the ballpark \u2013 until tonight when he will no longer buy them \u201con the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2592\" title=\"P5170173\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/2010\/06\/P5170173-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5170173-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5170173-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P5170173.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nNot only did he find a \u201cwalnut\u201d in his peanut bag, he also found this \u201cforeign\u201d object. I am not sure about you, but cheaper on the outside does not justify this find. There are other options. The first is to buy peanuts in the ballpark. \u201cCheaper on the outside\u201d only saves you about 50 cents when compared to the ballpark. Not the substantial savings I am expecting when compared to buying $7 beers. Second, buy peanuts from the grocery store if you really want to save money. This way you know where the peanuts came from and you are saving several bucks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Colorado Rockies at Chicago Cubs<\/span><br \/>\nAramis Ramirez snapped the worst slump of his career as he hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to lift the Cubs to a 4-2 victory over the Rockies. It was the fourth extra innings game I have attended this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCheaper on the outside\u201d \u2013 the famous quote heard from all peanut vendors as you walk from your car to the ballpark. And, if you have been to Wrigley Field before, you know there is no way you cannot avoid a peanut vendor on your way into the ballpark. I would argue that they are not actually cheaper. Yet, my friend, Frank Garrett, buys these peanuts every game as he enters the ballpark \u2013 until tonight when he will no longer buy them \u201con the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did he find &#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":[170,45,260,258],"tags":[336,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}