Ceil was at The Table on Delk women’s ministry Tuesday evening, so after work I picked up a to-go bacon cheeseburger and tots from Firebirds, the fancy steak restaurant across from Avalon on Old Milton. Very good, both the burger, bun, and tots. Again the patty was so big the chef did a decent job cooking the inside of the burger.
Speaking of burgers, tomorrow I’m attending a taste test focus group for hamburger buns. I hope there’s the burger to go with the buns. I’ll have to wear a mask the entire time, except when I’m actually eating the food.
Busy at work. Lots of little things keep getting in the way of the big things.
Watched some Braves Yankees. Looked like young pitchers Touki, Bryce Wilson, and Luke Jackson didn’t do too bad. The phrase “you can never have enough pitching” is really ringing true. Those fans complaining about the Braves drafting and trading for so many pitchers should be eating their words right now. Heard another ridiculous comment from a fan, that “no one is hitting.” In the last three games they’ve scored 8, 8, and six.
This afternoon M has an interview at Little Rey, a Ford Fry taco restaurant at Piedmont & Cheshire Bridge. It went well. We'll see. Next week more interviews at Fry's Beetlecat and Superica.
Clickbait: the top nine players for each team, according to www.stadiumtalk.com Perhaps I’ll post each team’s best nine, one team a day.
VINNY CASTILLA [SABR Bio] broke a drought of more than 35 years by homering in a certain major-league stadium. Castilla went deep in the newly moved and re-named Nationals’ 14-April-2005 home opener in Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. The last round-tripper hit in RFK was struck on 30-Sept-1971 by Frank Howard of WSA before the franchise re-relocated to become TEX. Although Bill Murray famously suffered through a Groundhog Day, this player enjoyed an entire Groundhog Year. Instead of being doomed to repeat the same exact day over and over again like Murray, Castilla posted excellent identical marks of exactly a .304 batting average, 40 HR and 113 ribbies in back-to-back years 1996-1997. Like Murray (who eventually broke out of his rut and got the girl), Castilla’s 1998 season’s numbers improved to .319, 46, 144. With only a few weeks to go in his career, he was signed by the team he had played the best for in order to retire in their uniform. Castilla was released by SDP on July 19, 2006. Then, on August 14, COL signed him to a minor league contract and he was recalled 01-Sep when rosters were expanded. On 28-Sep, he pinch-hit an RBI single in his last at-bat at Coors Field, proudly wearing, of course, his Rockies uniform.
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