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The Phillies are Trying to Lure You to Tonight’s Game with Pokemon
By Jim Adair
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Pokemon Go is all the rage with pretty much everyone right now. The game where you walk around with your head down trying to catch Pokemon is granting bragging rights on text chains for people who do more walking around at work than I do, Justin.
The Phillies are smartly trying to capitalize on the trend tonight (and last night) by telling players they’ll be dropping lures, basically an attraction point for the Pokemon to show up at more frequently, at all Pokestops (places of note) in the stadium all night long. Citizens Bank Park is already built for taking game-long strolls around the concourse, so why not do that and try to catch another goddamn Zubat or Doduo?
It actually works great if you don’t play, too. Find yourself in a long food or beer line? Just loudly state that you just caught a Snorlax near the Harry Kalas statue and voilà, line is gone.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.