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A funny thing happened while I was out in New York once.\u00a0 My friend and I went out to the small town of Auburn, to try and catch the last of the minor league games we had planned to see, but several hours prior to the game, it began raining, and raining steadily.\u00a0 At this point, it really began to look like the game was in jeopardy, but since we had come such a long way, we wanted to wait as long as possible, or for the team to officially cancel it before we made our next move.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a little bit of frustration as the rain continued to come, and make it look obvious, but not being from the area, we still weren\u2019t completely sure on whether or not to get the hell out of dodge yet, or wait on.\u00a0 But at this point, we needed a place to kill some time and not putter around out in the rain and waste gas.\u00a0 So we went to a nearby bar.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Auburn, New York is a pretty small town whose notoriety most comes from its proximity to the Finger Lakes, which I had never heard of until this trip, but it looked like the neighboring town of Skaneateles was the more popular regardless.\u00a0 Anyway, walking into the bar was definitely one of those movie moments where everyone there, naturally a regular, stopped what they were doing and stared at the Asian guy with his white friend walking into their bar in central New York.\u00a0 The bartender almost didn\u2019t accept my Georgia license.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, I don\u2019t like awkward situations like that, so I attempted to engage the bartender in some small talk.\u00a0 \u201cTalk to everyone.\u00a0 You never know what others might say.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 RPG logic \u2013 the shit that wouldn\u2019t really work in real life, because who the hell wants to speak with complete strangers?\u00a0 Or so I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n I mentioned that were passing through, with hopes of catching the Doubledays (the name of the team<\/em>) game, but it didn\u2019t look very promising.\u00a0 Immediately she exclaims that she didn\u2019t know that there was a game scheduled, but she could text her friend to find out of it was canceled or not.\u00a0 Her friend?\u00a0 Apparently the bartender\u2019s friend was someone who worked\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>the Doubledays.\u00a0 Apparently one of the regulars at the bar at that very moment worked for the Doubledays\u2019 treasury department.\u00a0 Like I said, small town.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line was that a few innocuous words of small talk ended up turning into very useful information for my friend and I.\u00a0 After three Yuenglings, the bartender relayed to us that the game was going to be cancelled.\u00a0 Neither the Twitter accounts of the Doubledays or the local beat reported had mentioned such at that time, but we were so enamored over the RPG logic that was taking place in front of us, that it was good enough.<\/span><\/p>\n Three minutes later as we were already on the road out of Auburn and back towards the highway, the Twitter feeds of both the team and the local reporter reported that the game was cancelled.\u00a0 Fascinating.\u00a0 Three minutes might not have seen like a big deal, but that was still a nice jump start to have, and contributed somewhat to our ability to reconvene our plans and make it down to Allentown, Pennsylvania to catch an alternate game instead.\u00a0 All thanks to \u201ctalking to everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A funny thing happened while I was out in New York once.\u00a0 My friend and I went out to the small town of Auburn, to try and catch the last of the minor league games we had planned to see, but several hours prior to the game, it began raining, and raining steadily.\u00a0 At this … Continue reading RPG logic in real 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