{"id":44471,"date":"2017-03-24T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44471"},"modified":"2020-07-31T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:17:00","slug":"surprise-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44471","title":{"rendered":"Surprise of the century"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shocker<\/a>: ScumTrust Park, the new home of the Atlanta Braves of Cobb County, has abolished on of Turner Field\u2019s most popular policies \u2013 the ability to bring in outside food<\/span><\/p>\n

This is about as surprising as finding out water is wet and fire is hot.\u00a0 Anyone who thought for a second that one of Turner Field\u2019s most popular policies would carry over into the new ballpark was delusional.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course<\/em> ScumTrust Park isn\u2019t going to allow people to bring in their own food; with the park smack dab in the middle of The Battery<\/em>, the lame name used to describe the epicenter of shops, restaurants and other tourist crap that will surround Great White Flight Park, naturally they\u2019re going to do everything to dissuade people from bringing their own food and instead spending money on overpriced homogenized pretentious crap around the park in order to eat instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s like they had to have the policy of outside food at Turner Field, because aside from a shitty barbecue restaurant, there literally was nothing surrounding The Ted.\u00a0 The Taco Bell that sat caddy-corner to the ballpark for years conveniently<\/em> burned down in 2006 at the same time Chick Fil-A opened up inside the ballpark, and there\u2019s been little else outside of the park.\u00a0 If they didn\u2019t allow for outside food, The Ted would have had even more pathetic and paltry attendance, than the 2015 season was, when people would rather not go than be forced to spend money on Aramark garbage.<\/span><\/p>\n

If there was ever an example set, it would be 30 miles north of the city of Lawrenceville, where the Gwinnett Braves minor league squad plays.\u00a0 From the onset, they disallowed outside food, and I was even interviewed and quoted in the local paper for pointing such out and putting it on the internet, back in my baseball-writing days.\u00a0 If the lowly minor league team can get away with it, why shouldn\u2019t the big bad major league club follow suite?<\/span><\/p>\n

As the grand opening nears, there\u2019s no shortage of attention that ScumTrust Park is getting, and going to get.\u00a0 Banning outside food is the smallest surprise yet, and I\u2019m sure there are going to be more tryhard over-serious rules in place that are going to put a wet blanket over the potential of fun, because they might be my team and all that shit, but there\u2019s no denying that the Braves are kind of among the fun police in Major League Baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next thing you know, the park will have a Nazi-like ticket proximity policy, where having an upper deck ticket will only allow patrons to move about only on the upper deck.\u00a0 The Chicago White Sox\u2019s U.S. Cellular Field has such a policy, and such a policy alone is why I\u2019ve anointed The Cell as the worst park in MLB.\u00a0 But until the Braves decide that they will have a policy that handcuffs patrons to their assigned seats regardless of weather or actual entertainment value of the game, there\u2019s no shortage of things they could come up with to try and do their best to trump the White Sox.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shocker: ScumTrust Park, the new home of the Atlanta Braves of Cobb County, has abolished on of Turner Field\u2019s most popular policies \u2013 the ability to bring in outside food This is about as surprising as finding out water is wet and fire is hot.\u00a0 Anyone who thought for a second that one of Turner … Continue reading Surprise of the century<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,62,66,45,56],"class_list":["post-44471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-fail","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44473,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44471\/revisions\/44473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}