{"id":3333,"date":"2011-03-26T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:13:41","slug":"chicago-fire-home-opener-at-toyota-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/chicago-fire-home-opener-at-toyota-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire Home Opener at Toyota Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past two seasons, I have attended the Chicago Fire home opener. This year was no exception especially since the game was on a Saturday afternoon. Under normal circumstances I would bring the Ultimate Sports Baby with me to an afternoon game, but the temperature was in the 30\u2019s which is too cold for him to attend.<\/p>\n

\"Krash<\/a><\/p>\n

Pre Game Dining<\/span>
\nSince I did not have the Ultimate Sports Baby, I decided to go to one of the bars around Toyota Park. I ended up at The Krash Inc. located at 7122 S. Harlem \u2013 a dive bar just south of the stadium. The main benefit of going here was that the owner of the bar told me I could park for free in his parking lot while I attended the game. Since beers are only $2 each that is a hard deal to pass up moving forward.<\/p>\n

Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span>
\nI walked across 71st Street to Toyota Park. When I got to the main box office, I bought a ticket for $5 from a fan who had an extra ticket.<\/p>\n

Sporting Kansas City at Chicago Fire<\/span>
\nChicago took 2-0 lead into halftime which was too much for Kansas City to come back from. The Fire won the game 3-2 but never gave up the lead.<\/p>\n

Post Game Dining<\/span>
\nSince I had parked for free I felt obligated to complete my end of the bargain which was to come back to the bar and buy one more $2 beer. It may not have actually been part of the bargain, but I also needed to warm up after sitting outside for two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past two seasons, I have attended the Chicago Fire home opener. This year was no exception especially since the game was on a Saturday afternoon. Under normal circumstances I would bring the Ultimate Sports Baby with me to an afternoon game, but the temperature was in the 30\u2019s which is too cold for him to attend.<\/p>\n

Pre Game Dining
\nSince I did not have the Ultimate Sports Baby, I decided to go to one of the bars around Toyota Park. I ended up at The Krash Inc. located at 7122 …<\/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":[170,57,252,324],"tags":[340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333"}],"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=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}