{"id":3634,"date":"2009-06-21T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2009-06-21T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T19:31:44","slug":"sal-has-the-best-seat-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Sal has the best seat in the house."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_5204.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647855222\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3638\/3647855222_5ece0ca9cc.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5204.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5211.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647030145\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2476\/3647030145_a38f34db5e.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5211.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5214.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647056515\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2446\/3647056515_64f7bd37fc.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5214.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again Legendary Traffic Coordinator Sal Pisconeri came to town.\u00a0 The main purpose of the weekend was to see another Cleveland sports team lose a game despite itself.\u00a0 We accomplished this with the best seats in <a title=\"Wikipedia: Wrigley Field. \" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrigley_Field\">Wrigley Field<\/a>.\u00a0 I of course secured the tickets figuring no way a &#8216;Row 1&#8217; seat can really be obstructed view.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 Dead wrong.\u00a0 As you can see in the top photograph there was a load bearing steel I-beam directly in front of my seat.\u00a0 I could only see the batter, center and right field.\u00a0 Really quite amazing.\u00a0 On two separate occasions I was shocked to learn from Sal (who sat to my right) that the Indians had the bases loaded.\u00a0 This is because I could not see any of the bases&#8230; at a Baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>Classic.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"photo by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647841160\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3382\/3647841160_a7eb4a23a7_t.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"photo by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647035761\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2423\/3647035761_93b2fe79f3_t.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5190.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647844346\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3394\/3647844346_0bba8cb35f_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5190.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5186.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647026453\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3383\/3647026453_22c3fef11d_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5186.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5215.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647837258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3066\/3647837258_ed932e060d_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5215.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5187.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647036359\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3630\/3647036359_db5d417fb7_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5187.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5193.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647848710\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3300\/3647848710_d8e0a89e77_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5193.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"IMG_5209.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/3647858308\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3647858308_6fca5c1003_t.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5209.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kyle Neugebauer Bachelor Party was also in town, which of course led to a couple bar &#8216;throwouts&#8217;, several broken bottles and some really bad choices.\u00a0 On the other hand Sal and I managed to go nearly the entire weekend with just two meals. I have to say if you&#8217;re going to spend 48 hours in Chicago and only eat twice you do as we did.\u00a0 <a title=\"Wikipeida:  Wiener's Circle.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiener%27s_Circle\">Wiener&#8217;s Circle<\/a> (after 1am) and <a title=\"Lou Malnati's Pizzeria.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loumalnatis.com\/\">Lou Malnati&#8217;s<\/a> deep dish pizza (I&#8217;ve moved on from my infatuation with <a title=\"Giordano's Pizza.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.giordanos.com\/\">Giordano&#8217;s<\/a> over the last 8 months).\u00a0 Needless to say Lou Malnati&#8217;s put us into a food coma which lasted about 4 hours and threw us off our game.<\/p>\n<p>But as great men always do&#8230; we rallied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again Legendary Traffic Coordinator Sal Pisconeri came to town.\u00a0 The main purpose of the weekend was to see another Cleveland sports team lose a game despite itself.\u00a0 We accomplished this with the best seats in Wrigley Field.\u00a0 I of course secured the tickets figuring no way a &#8216;Row 1&#8217; seat can really be obstructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,7,17,22],"tags":[40,87,120,323,410],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronder-luck","category-common-man","category-food","category-sports","category-wosu","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-cubs","tag-sal-pisconeri","tag-wrigley-field"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-WC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}