Baseball remains the national pastime, despite recent challenges from upstart pastimes like warming up bagel bites and discreetly googling hernia symptoms at work. Spectate the sport of sportsmen with today’s Groupon: for $9, you get a four-pack of box-seat tickets to a Carolina Mudcats baseball game (up to a $40 value). The Mudcats play at Five County Stadium in Zebulon. This Groupon is good for games on Sunday–Thursday.
A Double A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds with alums including major-leaguers Gaby Sanchez and Dontrelle Willis, the Mudcats are in the midst of its 21st season of swatting baseballs. With MLB veterans David Bell and Ryan Jackson returning as manager and hitting coach respectively, the Mudcats continue to develop future big leaguers. Featuring the hilarious on-field shenanigans of Muddy the Mudcat, the team provides family entertainment with on-field flurries of bat-whiffing curveballs, home-run strolls, and daring base-stealing followed by on-field theft litigation.
In addition to the four tickets, purchasers of today's deal are eligible for a random drawing, depending on the total number of Groupons sold. If more than 1,000 Groupons are sold, one random purchaser will receive an autographed baseball. If more than 2,000 are sold, a second purchaser will have the opportunity to throw out a first pitch, and if more than 3,000 are sold, a third purchaser will receive a luxury suite for any Mudcats game between Sunday and Thursday.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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