First Bite: La Carreta

 

Busy at work. Lower back still hurts. Better in the afternoon & evening. Worse in the morning.   

 

Tuesday night Ceil was at her women’s ministry The Table on Delk, where they decorated surgical masks in an effort to get the kids to wear them.

Grabbed a Smokehouse Burger and tater tots from Ruby Tuesday. Tots were good, and the burger was tall. Tomato, bacon, onion ring, BBQ sauce – had to smash it down to eat. Lots of sauce on the side but mysteriously dry in the middle. Good even though the service wasn’t that great. Only two of three other tables had diners.  Went in one store on the way home. Some wore masks, others didn’t. Also mailed a package at the Post Office. Later Ceil watched a movie on the Oxygen Network.

Braves win big with Fried on the mound. Dansby hitting .340. Riley slugger another dinger. Albies and Adams to the injured list. More playing time for Camargo and Culbertson. Markakis to be activated.

 

Today: left shortly after 5 pm to shop for a new refrigerator. Old one is almost dead. First to Home Depot in East Cobb, then doubled back to Lowes on Mansell in Roswell near 400. Then back to Office Depot East Cobb, then back to East Cobb Home Depot. Then to Sears Appliance near the Big Chicken in Marietta on the other side of 75.

 

Ate Mexican at La Carreta near the Big Chicken (top). My first time but C and M had been before. Very good. Toasted chicken burrito and cole slaw. C got something similar in a bowl. Great service as well. Just a few diners, so everone was spread out.

Drove over 40 miles. Got home after 9 pm. Now it's late and this durn blogger format changed on me so the post ain't gonna be as good as usual. Wanna cuss.

 

A US senator / business owner / minority employer is speaking out against an admitted Marxist organization, whose core values include “disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” The senator’s employees are openly campaigning at work for the opposition candidate. If I did that I'd be fired.   

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/wnba-players-wear-shirts-opposing-dream-co-owner-kelly-loeffler/ar-BB17zS3Q?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

  

STEVE FINLEY [B-R Bio] was not voted into the Hall of Fame on his first ballot. Finley’s 1st HOF ballot was a disheartening 0.7% in 2013, and so didn’t even qualify for a 2nd year of voting. A career offensive statistical combination of 300+ home runs, 400+ doubles, 100+ triples and 300+ stolen bases was achieved by only two players. 

 

304 HR 449 2B 124 3B 320 SB Finley

660 HR 523 2B 140 3B 338 SB.Willie Mays

 

Finley’s 6th career leadoff home run was also the one that placed him in the 300/300 club - 300th HR 14-Jun-2006. He was met at home plate by his 13-year-old son Austin after rounding the bases. He played for 8 franchises during his 19 years in the majors and won Gold Gloves for 3 different teams. Won a Gold Glove for SDP (1995, 96), ARI (1999, 2000, 2004) & LAD (2004). His other teams were BAL, HOU, LAA, SFG & COL. He twice led the National League in triples, ten years apart. NL triples leader in 1993. Had 13 w/HOU & in 2003 when he had 10 w/ARI. 

 

MANNY RAMIREZ  [SABR Bio] is the only post-WWII player to collect more RBI than the number of games he played that season, and do it in back-to-back seasons (100 RBI min). In 1999 he played in 148 games and had 165* RBI (*Highest season RBI total for any player since Jimmie Foxx had 175 in 1938). The following 2000 season Manny plated 122 runs in just 118 games. Gehrig had 169 in 154 games in 1932 and 163 RBI in 149 games in 1933. Manny is the only AL player to receive four intentional bases-on-balls in a single game since Roger Maris in 1962. DET manager Phil Garner gave Manny first base on purpose 4 times on 05-Jun-2001 at Fenway, in the 8th, 10th, 14th & 16th innings. It proved a wise strategy, as Manny was stranded on base each time when the batter(s) behind him ended the inning. BOS still won the game when teammate Shea Hillenbrand homered in the bottom of the 18th. In 2000 Manny played for the Buffalo Bisons for a five game rehab assignment, and in 2013 he played 49 games for the EDA Rhinos of the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

 

We had one of those asbestos roofs on our house on Hillpine. Not sure, but I think we got a new roof there. Not sure if they put a rook on top of the asbestos or took it off. People don’t want to tough the stuff. We sold asbestos gaskets at Jim Suggs’ company.