Posted on 07/08/2014 2:49:21 PM PDT by SMGFan
This year, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game will be held at Target Field in Minnesota. In advance of the game, the stadium has solved one of the great sporting-event dilemmas of our time: the possibility that you might miss some of the action on the field while waiting in line for a cold beer. What do you do? Target Field’s answer: vending machines.
Now, Target isn’t starting some kind of underage drinking utopia. Customers will have to prove that they’re over 21 in order to buy a prepaid card to use in the beer-o-mat. The machines also limit the quantity of beer that customers can purchase, limiting them to 48 ounces every 15 minutes. You know, in case a group has dispatched one person to get beer for everyone.
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That’s a beer every 3.75 minutes!
At 10 bucks a piece!
Limiting customers to 192 ounces an hour will keep everyone sober.
If you’re watching the Twins these days, being drunk is a considerable asset.
What’s old is new again.
Lowry was outside of Denver. All I remember was my dorm had a pool table, a blackjack logo on the wall and a Coors machine. I could very well be confusing it with the beer clubs the under 21 crowd went to in Rapid City.
It was a while back and my memory isn’t that sharp.
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