OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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Just an encouragement to everyone to, whenever possible, support your local restaurants and shops. And if you pay cash, they keep more of the dough and your money stays in the community.

Last week someone introduced me to the best burger I've had in years, and it was right here in Columbia, TN. They cut and cook nothing but local, grass-fed, grass-finished beef. Fries were special, too, with their own seasoning.

Paired it with a Yazoo Gerst Amber Ale on tap (from an hour up the road) and it was perfect! Also met the owner and his son while talking with one of my former players in the lobby. Ex-Marine, good people!

1750801316396.pngExplore your small, local restaurants. Treasures waiting to be discovered.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Just an encouragement to everyone to, whenever possible, support your local restaurants and shops. And if you pay cash, they keep more of the dough and your money stays in the community.

Last week someone introduced me to the best burger I've had in years, and it was right here in Columbia, TN. They cut and cook nothing but local, grass-fed, grass-finished beef. Fries were special, too, with their own seasoning.

Paired it with a Yazoo Gerst Amber Ale on tap (from an hour up the road) and it was perfect! Also met the owner and his son while talking with one of my former players in the lobby. Ex-Marine, good people!

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Great review. I avoid national chains like the plague whenever possible. Locally owned restaurants are the best!
 
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Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY, October 1, 1951 - An aerial view of a playoff game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the first game of the best out of three after the Giants came back from to tie the Dodgers for first place. At one point in August the Giants were 12.5 games back of the Dodgers!

The first game would be played at Ebbets Field and then the next two at the Giants home park, the Polo Grounds.

In Game One, the Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a home run and the Dodgers' Ralph Branca took the loss - a recurring theme we would see again - in New York's 3-1 win.

All the runs in the game came courtesy of the home run. Andy Pafko hit one in the second inning to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead, then Thomson's 2-run blast gave the Giants a 2-1 lead in the fourth.

In the seventh, Monte Irvin went yard for the insurance run. From there on pitcher Jim Hearn shut down the Dodgers limiting them to only five hits for the complete game win. In taking the loss for the Dodgers, the burly Ralph Branca clearly didn't have his best stuff, while he only gave up five hits, he did issue five walks and was on the end of both Giants home runs.

-Ron A. Bolton

Photo Source - New York Daily News
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I can’t imagine trying to get out of one of those parking lots after the game.
 
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Looking more likely than not that the NCAAT for men’s and women’s basketball will be expanded to 76 teams. There will be a decision made in the upcoming weeks and if they approve expansion it will be implemented for the upcoming 2025-26 season…
 
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