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[–] 50 points 2 months ago

$300 for water?!?!

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago

    Who could sit through a baseball game without 23 beers?

    Better make them Lite, though, I'm on a diet.

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  • [–] 131 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    I'd say twenty-three miller lites are the bare minimum needed to make baseball enjoyable.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    What do you need to pre-game to make the Miller Lites enjoyable?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Baseball is the socially acceptable background noise for sitting in public and drinking beer, tbf

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yet nothing makes miller light enjoyable. Monkey piss.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Back when I used to drink beer, I never understood lite beer. It's just beer with added carbonated water. I preferred drinking 1 normal beer vs swilling down 2 or 3 lite beers like a lot of my friends did.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    If you buy it at a grocer, the IPA is actually cheaper for the alcohol you get now too. It's like 2x strength. 18 bucks, 20 out the door for a 15 or 12 pack, when a thirty pack of light beer or a case is like 30 bucks to 25 or so.

    And the IPA actually tastes good to boot.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Ballpark dogs also help.


    Unnecessary tangent: the main thing that makes them so good* is that they wrap them in foil before handing them to you, letting the bun heat up and steam a bit. You could microwave a cheap bun for a few seconds at home and get the same experience while saving several dollars. Or grill/toast it for one that blows ballpark dogs out of the water.

    * Besides cooking them well enough, which most people don't do because the perfect hot dog takes multiple times longer than the instructions say. Simply heating them through isn't enough - blistered is better!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Air fryer has totally changed my hotdog game, shit's unreal

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You can also (lightly) score them down their length before cooking for more surface area (the cuts will pop open during cooking) and a firmer texture. Even one line makes a huge difference in how they come out.

    It's basically the same thing as that spiral cut technique that was going around a while back, but doesn't need a skewer and requires a hundredth the effort.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I haven't been to Dodgers, but they have a reputation for being a pretty terrible hotdog due to the sponsor being mediocre.

    On the flip side, all of the Chicago stadiums are sponsored by the best in the business, Vienna.

    When I was more directly involved in lower-scale hotdog slinging, we'd get a similar result by holding the buns in a steam table, making them warm and fluffy. Boil a pack of hotdogs, finish them on the grill... A boil-grilled Vienna 6" 6:1 on an S. Rosen (Alpha Baking) 5" bun with diced onion, celery salt, mustard, and ketchup... Perfection.

    Pretty much everywhere in the Chicago region uses the exact same hotdog bun you can get in every grocery store here. Most stores don't carry the poppyseed variant though.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    46 comments and nobody's suggested that's how many Miller Lights you need to get a buzz?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Miller lite is 12 fl oz, 4.2% ABV. A baseball game is typically 2.5 hours long. Assuming a 200 lbs man, and using the calculator.net BAC calculator, drinking 3-5 beers over the course of the game will leave him in the "buzz" range between 0.02% and 0.06% BAC at the end of the game.

    Consuming 23 beers over the course of the game will result in a 0.38% BAC, which calculator.net helpfully describes with:

    "Stupor, central nervous system depression, loss of understanding, lapses in and out of consciousness, low possibility of death"

    In metric:

    Miller lite is 0.355 liters, 4.2% ABV. A batball game is typically 9 kiloseconds long. Assuming a 90.71847 kg man, and using the calculator.net BAC calculator, drinking 0.3-0.5 decabeers over the course of the game will leave him in the "buzz" range between 0.02 metric% and 0.06 metric% BAC at the end of the game.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago*

    In metric:

    Whew, thank you, this was getting so confusing until that point.

    Also,

    “Stupor, central nervous system depression, loss of understanding, lapses in and out of consciousness, low possibility of death”

    Those appear to be desirable for a significant subset of US people nowadays from what I see online.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Your calculations are off. Most ballparks stop selling beer in the 8th inning.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    The calculator.net BAC calculations assume a linear reduction in BAC over time, so as long as you start drinking at the beginning of the game, and never get down to 0% before you finish drinking it works out the same under those assumptions.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Okay, but unless these are gourmet nachos, gourmet hot dogs, and gourmet mountain dew, this is still gouging before the Miller Lites.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    I highly doubt it. It's probably like $5 for a single 12oz can. The kind you could buy a 6 pack of for the same price.

    In that same breath, $13 beers are just insane. There's no logistical cost or reason for them being that expensive other than they have you restricted as a captive audience. It doesn't cost them nearly that much, but you'll pay it, because otherwise it's nothing. And baseball without beer should just be classified as a genevia level form of torture.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    One of my oldest schemes was to make a sort of like russian hat, those high fur ones, and sneak a six pack in there, hooked up to tubes, where you can sneak the tube down to your mouth and drink. For football more where the temperature is colder.

    But it could be done with any sort of diaphram. I think military guys carry like a bladder of water, something like that on the belly with loose clothing made to look like you were overweight would work, at least for us skinny people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Depends on how crazy security is. I've seen it done with a CamelBak, dark fabric, and a decoy water pouch. Then again I've also seen a guy that brought so much beer through security that he built a little pyramid of cans on the seat in front of him.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yes that’s stadium pricing. Pay $10-$15 for a hot dog that makes the Costco $1.50 hot dog look gourmet.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    The Costco $1.50 hot dog is gourmet!

    Or at least it was, until they stopped giving out sauerkraut and brown mustard <grumble, grumble>

    But seriously though, Costco hot dogs are objectively excellent, regardless of price.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    $4 for a stadium hotdog seems reasonable

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The receipt says $8 per hot dog.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The baseball team by me does $5 hot dog specials on certain days. $8 ain't atypical for ballpark dogs sadly. Also $10 for nachos is cheaper than I've seen. It's why I'll only go if I can grab $20ish dollar seats, cause after food its closer to $50 for the day per person.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    HA-HA, "he buy too many beer."

    Ok but there's NO FUCKING WAY a $3 trash beer should be $13, and they give you those small ass Dixie Cups.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The only reason that anybody should ever have 23 beers at a baseball game, is if it's .10 cent beer night.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Maybe his kids shouldn't drink so much beer.

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    What an odd thing to post on a LinkedIn profile

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean 50+ dollars for hot dogs nachos and some sodas is still highway robbery.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not in the LA sport scene. It’s pretty normal. Want to live in an amazing area you will be paying for it. Rams and chargers same thing

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Try this one trick to save on your drinking bill!

    spoiler

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    $13 beer is why I bring my own booze to sporting events!

    They could have easilly had me get 8-14 beers at $5 a piece and make money, but instead their greedy asses get $5 for a pop to be used as mixer. Bastards!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That could easily be 6-8 adults and 2 kids (we told them not to bring the kids, but they never listen).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    And you can only run a tab in a box lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    IASIP taught kids how to pregame with antifreeze (don't do it, joke) and huffing glue. Gen X boomers who already have a house, and avocado toast lifestyle can learn finance tips too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Four Mountain Dews is not healthy

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Mountain dew is not healthy. Pop is not healthy.

    Although mountain dew is unhealthy in the additional way of shrinking your testicles, just a little bit. Have fun with that guys! (yellow 5, it's in pickled goods now too, and a host of other processed foods. Because don't you hate it when your food isn't yellow enough?)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I remember several years ago when someone tried to sell a clear cola with no caramel coloring. I am pretty sure it was Pepsi. Cheaper for them to make, and a little bit less unhealthy for the consumer. People wouldn't buy it, so they gave up on selling it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Could've just bought 11 Miller regulars.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Hope daddy brought a designated driver 🤦🏼‍♀️ His dear son just wanted quality time with Dad but instead got a day with a drunk guy & overpriced junk food 😥

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago

    $13 beers is surprisingly reasonable. I would have assumed LA was more expensive. That's cheaper than local stadiums in my experience.

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