odessasteps Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Cactus league seems light years better. All the parks are close together, better weather and the teams i like play there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 What's funny about Cubs Park is that if you went to Wrigley Field for a Cubs game, you could get decent tickets the day of and get them for dirt cheap off of Stub Hub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Game was sold out. Scalpers wanted $30 and $50 apiece for two $8 lawn seats. Eventually, an oblivious older woman sold us two $29 seats behind the plate for $20 each. God bless you and your ignorance. Park is nice, and the crowd was what you'd expect from the Cubs - diehards who are miserable, bros, and women who looked like their next stop was a porno shoot. The new Budweiser deal is in full effect there. No craft beers at all. Every beer sold was A-B owned (including the few Goose Island taps you could find), and the famous Old Style was only available at about three or four stands across the park. Another oddity - soda was only sold in bottles and not cups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Dr lucha told me that, about the cups, because he always buys me souvenir cups from the cactus league ballparks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I've been doing that over the last few days, didn't even think about it at a couple of parks... just thought it was extremely weird. Maybe it's a deal where the Cubs have a deal with Pepsi but the concession company (who works at a few other stadiums I've been at) can only sell Coke out of a fountain. I dunno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Yeah, this year at the park will be odd without Old Style. That's a totally not good beer, but for some reason, I like one at Wrigley Field. Pairs well with nachos piled with jalapeños. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Braves sign Ervin Santana One year, $14.1 million So he gets the same exact deal as the qualifying offer he rejected, he just moves to a better team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Listening to the people on the FAN in Toronto and the twits on Twitter you would have thought Ervin Santana is Cy Young reincarnated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Well apparently Alex Anthopoulos said that the Blue Jays basically made the same exact offer to Santana and they were told that Santana didn't want to pitch in the AL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 The AL East specifically probably. Santana's people played as best as they could. The offer got out there and they figured a better situation would open up due to injury and it did while getting the same money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Plus I would think the taxes would be lower in Georgia as opposed to Ontario. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 AA was supposed to be on 590 this morning. What timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Plus I would think the taxes would be lower in Georgia as opposed to Ontario. . . Moot point since Toronto is roughly middle of the pack in that regard and while he is in Toronto he has an extra 10 cents on every dollar he makes. He's playing for another deal next year so do you want to face the AL East in a park that you have given up 24 home runs in your previous 17 appearances playing for a team that probably wont contend or go to a team that made the playoffs last year in a much more pitcher friendly park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LethalStriker Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Game was sold out. Scalpers wanted $30 and $50 apiece for two $8 lawn seats. Eventually, an oblivious older woman sold us two $29 seats behind the plate for $20 each. God bless you and your ignorance. Park is nice, and the crowd was what you'd expect from the Cubs - diehards who are miserable, bros, and women who looked like their next stop was a porno shoot. The new Budweiser deal is in full effect there. No craft beers at all. Every beer sold was A-B owned (including the few Goose Island taps you could find), and the famous Old Style was only available at about three or four stands across the park. Another oddity - soda was only sold in bottles and not cups. I think soda only in bottles is the right thing to do, if I'm paying $5 or more for a soda it better not be watered down with ice and soda in bottles is much better then soda coming off of a soda machine which comes in syrup form and mixed with water at site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Buy it stinks if you want the cup more than the actual beverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Well for me the tipping point is - if it is in a bottle, do they let you have the cap? If they don't then the bottle is worthless and I would rather have the cup Otherwise I prefer the bottle because of the mess prevention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I've never gotten that take the cap thing. Or opening my can before you give it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 If it's a beer can, presumably they don't want you shotgunning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I've never gotten that take the cap thing. Or opening my can before you give it to me. Dont want full item to be used as projectile. I assume aerodymamics are pooree for open bottle than sealed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 A lot of states have alcohol service laws that require a server or bartender to open or pour any alcoholic beverage. I imagine that some of the companies that provide beverage distribution nationally for various parks choose to adhere to some of these laws just to make life easier for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Re: soda in a cup. Two of the parks I went to had cheaper refills costs if you bought the souvenir cup - Goodyear (Ohio teams) wanted just $1 for the refill of a massive cup, while Surprise (KC/TEX) wanted $3 for a refill of a smaller cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Part of me also figures they use the "keep the cap" thing as a way of keeping track of if anyone is skimming when you turn around to hand a guy a beer and put your tray down for 10 seconds. Like I imagine this disheveled ex-con that can't get any other job in the back, counting that if 80 went out, 80 caps came back. This theory may have some flaws. But it generates work so I'm keeping it as part of my platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10598404/new-york-mets-pitching-coach-dan-warthen-apologizes-asian-slur Okay, I'm confused; is chinaman a slur or did he use the other one and ESPN won't say it? Either way keep it classy Mets. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Also, in the same day I lamented the lack of Old Style at Wrigley Field this year, it was announced that Old Style would be returning, so there is that. And Javier Baez absolutely smoked a 460 homer yesterday. Javy is the fucking realest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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