Steve R.

Nice job tonight.  It’s going 7 with every game won by the road team so far.  Gonna be exciting.

5 hours ago, Bob Wells said:

I've never been to Luger's but I love the attacks on people who order fish. Quality steakhouses know how to cook fish too.

Not Luger’s.   Like ordering chicken salad on white at Katz’s Deli 

I have no idea about Old Homestead, other than you probably dined alongside many rock stars, artists (the non-starving bunch) and movie folk in the '80s.  It was the hot place to party, ordering verrrry expensive bottles of wine, Kobe beef & other high end items to make the evening more enjoyable.  I went twice back then-- pretty much out of my league.  Haven't gone since.

A steady decline over many years for many reasons (long winded treatise available upon request).  I started going 50 years ago & was there often enough 35 years ago.  However, I haven't gone in at least 10 and have maybe been there 3 times in the last 20.  So many better places these days, not that Keens wasn't always right up there (and still is).

I'll be on the couch in front of my tv.  Feel free to try.  We have wine (& some beer), maybe some cheese.

Well, good luck with the Astros.

Nice sweep.  All the pre-season expectations that folks thought were going unmet are coming forth when it counts.  They are a strong force for the upcoming World Series.  I can only hope that my Yankees start hitting these Houston pitchers.

Are you all avoiding talking about their recent wins (as of this post, they are 2-0 over the Cards) due to superstition about hexing them or is it just indifference? ⚾

I wouldn't be missing a chance to gloat/brag/be happy if I was youse guys.  Just sayin'. 🧛‍♂️

We may be related 😳

My father was born in Brooklyn in 1910.  He had an older brother born here as well, so I'm guessing that his parents came to the U.S.in the late 1890s.  Since both of my grandparents died before I knew them (my grandfather in 1918, when my father was barely 8 years old; my grandmother in 1954, when I was only 1), I never got a chance to hear about their history directly from them.  And all of my aunts & uncles are long gone as well.  My father didn't talk much about his parents' pre-U.S. lives (not sure he really knew much) & only said that we were of Russian descent & got the hell out of Dodge when things heated up.  We never visited gravesites (although I was told that they were both in a certain cemetery in Brooklyn) nor were there relatives from that generation around us.  My mother's parents and their extended family were what I knew & they were from elsewhere.

So... about 9 years ago, I decided to search out my paternal grandparents' gravesites.  The office for a very large Jewish burial ground on McDonald Ave is amazingly well organized with a paper filing system that floored me when I showed up with names and approximate dates.  They quickly found my grandmother's site and just as quickly stated that there was no way they'd ever find my grandfather's 1918 one.  I went to the site & visited her well worn marker, which was within the small section of the Brooklyn Jewish Bialystoker Society.  My mother had mentioned this society being part of their lives when they were young, but I knew nothing else of them & never really paid any attention to it.  At any rate, apparently this (now defunct) society serviced those Jews who came from the area around Bialystok & my father's parents were of this flock.  One of these days, I'll see if the parallel Lower East Side Manhattan Bialystok Society received any of the Brooklyn info. when the society dissolved.  Or not.

In summary, I have fewer "nuggets" than you but a very similar tribal history (on my father's side).  But a very different last name, so don't worry.

I have too many Dodger fan in laws to not appreciate (& chuckle over) this result. 😂

He brought in Kershaw.  And the Nats did what they do.

Congratulations.

Well, there goes the coach.

For no reason other than general channel surfing last night, I wound up watching them win the Wild Card game and get into the playoffs.  Nice clutch hitting but even nicer patience at the plate.  Congrats.

Another year, another 1st round meet up.  Felix did not fare well & got a 1st round farewell.  Denis moves on unseeded.

Nope.  I have tickets for Monday & Wednesday, so of course they scheduled her first round match for Tuesday.  And, just to piss me off even more, they schedule Felix to play Denis in the first round - on Tuesday, of course.

I’m kinda bummed at Gauff getting a wild card into the Open.  Sure, she deserved it, but now I didnt get to see her in the Quals today.  Guess I’ll just have to hope that her 1st round match gets scheduled for Monday, when we have tickets.

Thanks for that.  Sounds like something we might do when we next go to Charleston.

While I'm at it, I might as well close the loop on my above post.  As stated, we were in Charleston for several nights on our way home to NYC from Florida in late March and loved Fig. We were also pleasantly surprised at Purlieu & would definitely go back. A nice Southern influenced French meal was had at 39 Rue de Jean and I believe they have a Savannah location as well. Chez Nous was also very good but its a very limited menu of 2 choices, changing daily, so I’m not sure if its always as it was when we dined there. All but 39 Rue de Jean took reservations thru Resy. 

Just saw a current interview with Santana where he states that he wasn't expecting to go on stage for at least 6 more hours so he accepted acid from Jerry Garcia and wound up hallucinating throughout the set.  He said that to explain his faces (like the above screen shot) - he said that he was trying his hardest to stop the guitar neck from slithering out of his hand, as it kept curving and moving.

Unlike the lofty theatrical pursuits of The Hersch on that weekend (see his post from 5 years ago), I was busy working that weekend, delivering drugs.  The legal kind - I worked for a local drugstore bicycling over prescriptions to those who wanted them brought to their door.  

Great clip -- I've watched it many times, since I'm a fan of both of them.  Reports have it that Cocker was upset at watching Belushi, since he didn't recognize (or appreciate) the movements.

At least 35 years ago (I know that much because I was with a previous girlfriend, something that was frowned upon after I took up with my wife 35 years ago), I stood on line waiting for a table at a then popular Indian restaurant in Manhattan (Mitali) one block from the Fillmore East.  Right in front of me/us was Joe Cocker.  I was totally amazed that, in the 15-30 minutes we were there together-ish, he had none of his singing "mannerisms" while socializing.  

Dean: if you’re reading along, you should know that there’s a SlowEurope thread about your impending closure.  That’s how far reaching your places have been.  Ginny & I wish you the best and hope that your withdrawal from restaurant ownership allows for more travel, opera and relaxation.  We’ll miss dropping by every couple of years.

No hanging chads, just some hanging drop shots.  You can probably form a coalition to protest, after the fact, just about anything.

On a less sarcastic note, several of my tennis friends & I just had a conversation, completely apart from Wimbledon, about the charm of the tennis scoring system; specifically, that it’s not cumulative the way other sports are & so a player continuously has the opportunity to re-set and start from 0-0, both at the beginning of every game & every set.  All of us played other sports and loved them but, if you go down 6-1 in a baseball, soccer, hockey, football or even a squash game, you need to make up that deficit to win.  I guess that there’s a genius there that I appreciate, especially since it serves to keep butts in their seats a lot longer.

Over 50 years of watching tennis & I have never seen a better match.  As aFederer fan, it will take a while for me to get over him unsuccessfully serving at double match point - so damn close to winning another major - but all credit to Djokovic for hanging in there and breaking.   They are both truly great players in every way.  I just wish that I could like Djokovic more.  But I don’t.

Okay.  I wasn’t really going after #s of Grand Slams being more important, but unattainable for others (like Laver).  I was more wondering why your “Race To Be The GOAT” title wasn’t followed by more than one graph (comparing Grand Slams won), like one of weeks ranked as #1, record/titles in secondary tournaments, # of titles on different surfaces, etc.  Not asking you to do the research.... just suggesting that stats other than Grand Slam titles would go into my definition of the GOAT. 

Interesting.  Am I to infer that you closely correlate Grand Slam titles with the GOAT designation?