First Bite: Marietta Melt Shop

Last night we picked up supper for them at a nearby sports bar: the Marietta Melt Shop. It’s been written up in Atlanta Magazine. While we were waiting, C played a pinball machine. 

My burger was pretty good, as were the fries. When I was looking at the menu options I noticed an option called the Meat Mountain: a burger with 8 smash patties and 8 slices of cheese. $75 - but it’s free if you eat it in ten minutes (along with an order of fries). 

Behind the scenes at the Masters Champions dinner. 

Another writer's story of playing the Augusta National course on the Monday after the Masters. 

The only Masters story Jim Nantz won’t tell. 

Monday night M attended the Carolina Hunnricans at Philadelphia Flyers game.

Inside the Braves’ creative team’s design process for the new City Connect uniforms. 

Here's a long but interesting tour of Erlanger Park in Chattanooga. Parts of the complex date back to the late 1800's. 

Interesting info on the pros and cons of owning a home sauna. 

The Vatican has built a Muslim prayer room inside its Apostolic Library. While Christians are banned from Mecca, while no church stands in Saudi Arabia, and while Europe’s cathedrals are being turned into mosques, Pope Leo XIV rolls out prayer rugs in the heart of Rome. He’s doing it side-by-side with Amy Pope, the UN’s migration chief and former Obama insider, who runs a billion-dollar machine moving “refugees” across the West. Together they preach “compassion” — but it’s really globalism disguised as faith. The UN engineers the migration. The Vatican blesses it. And Western civilization pays for it.

ANDRUW JONES  [B-R Bio] is the only National League outfielder since Roberto Clemente to win ten consecutive Gold Gloves. Jones won GG from 1998-2007 for outfield play. Jones was the first teenager to homer in a League Championship Series game, on 17-Oct-1996, the 7th game of the LCS, his homer contributed the Braves’ lop-sided clincher. He carries a scar on his chest from an iguana bite. Growing up in Curaçao, Jones hunted Iguanas with his father.