{"id":2620,"date":"2010-05-30T00:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T05:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2010-06-09T05:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T10:58:35","slug":"big-day-in-chicago-cardinals-at-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/big-day-in-chicago-cardinals-at-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Day in Chicago: Cardinals at Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big day for sporting events in Chicago. First, the Chicago Cubs were hosting the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field at 3:10 pm. Second, the Chicago Blackhawks were hosting the Philadelphia Flyers in the first NHL Finals game in Chicago in 18 years. With the NHL Finals game starting at 7:00 pm there was very little wiggle room for the Cubs game to run long.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span><br \/>\nAs was the case Friday, I was shocked at how little Cubs tickets were selling for outside of Wrigley Field for the Cardinals. I ended up paying $25 for a $70.56 ticket in the upper deck box.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs<\/span><br \/>\nIn need of a quick game, the Cubs and Cardinals delivered a 2 hour and 33 minute affair. Much of the thanks go to Carlos Silva who motored through the Cardinals lineup to become 7-0 on the season. He became the first player to start his Cubs career at 7-0 since Jim Weaver achieved the feat in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fontenot hit a pair of triples as the Cubs defeated the Cardinals 5-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big day for sporting events in Chicago. First, the Chicago Cubs were hosting the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field at 3:10 pm. Second, the Chicago Blackhawks were hosting the Philadelphia Flyers in the first NHL Finals game in Chicago in 18 years. With the NHL Finals game starting at 7:00 pm there was very little wiggle room for the Cubs game to run long.<br \/>\nBeg, Borrow and Deal<br \/>\nAs was the case Friday, I was shocked at how little Cubs tickets were selling for outside of Wrigley Field &#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":[170,45,258,277],"tags":[336,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}