If you're like me, or like just about anyone I know, you might be a little upset at the direction that ticket prices for Cubs games have been going in the past decade. When I mention to my mother that I spent $60 to sit in the bleachers she will without fail tell me how she used to skip class and pay something like a quarter to get into a game. Sure, bleacher seats are actually $6 cheaper this year, unless you wanted to go to a good game and you paid the 20% premium to get them early. But maybe, just maybe, you decided to stick it to the man and not give in to their scalping scheme. Maybe you didn't even bother to buy regular tickets when they went on sale because you're poorer than usual this year. Maybe you're a college student so your Thursday afternoons are wide open because you can't be bothered to get a real job. If that sounds like you, the Cubs have a solution.

That's right, the Cubs have brought back the college discount games for another year. You don't even need to be a college student to take advantage of these, because the promotional codes never change. Just type in the mascot from a local college (Wildcats, Flames, Ramblers...) and you can buy bleacher seats to one of nine games for half price. Most of them are day games, and they're early enough in the year that it will be too cool out for the bleachers to be in full party mode, but you can't really argue with $11 or $18 to watch a baseball game. And who says it needs to be sunny out for you to get hammered and try to yell at Kosuke in his native tongue? Here's a tip: "Konichiwa bitches!" isn't actually a common Japanese phrase, but I'm sure he'll get the gist of what you're trying to say.