I was gonna say something snarky about the pitiful Groupon deals lately, but then remembered those wonderful pastries from Bleeding Heart bakery…

Today’s Groupon is for a 30 minute private lesson at the Bulls/White Sox Training Academy for $25 (or 53% off the usual price).  Apparently enough people have an interest in this sort of thing to allow for multiple locations.

Another Groupon on the side bar is for City Soles, an upscale shoe store with two Chicago locations.  Warning:  the cheapest shoes I found on their site were ballerina flats for 90 bucks.  Yep, almost a hundred smackers (you don’t want to know how much higher the prices go…).