The St. Louis Cardinals’ Jack Flaherty is expected to make a rehab start for the Memphis Redbirds tonight vs. the Durham Bulls at 7:05. Flaherty is a former Redbird himself, having pitched the latter half of the 2017 season here. First 1000 fans in the gate tonight get a Jack Flaherty jersey.
There are three specialty tickets for the Redbirds tonight. Tonight’s All-You-Can-Eat ticket gets you breakfast for dinner: all-you-can-eat scrambled eggs, pork sausage links, breakfast potatoes, biscuits & gravy, hot dogs, chips, soda, and water $21 field box/$24 dugout
Another specialty ticket gets you a jersey honoring St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
A third specialty ticket gets you a Dylan Carlson bobblehead. Carlson, an outfielder for the Cards, is also rehabbing with the Redbirds this week. The Goldschmidt and Carlson promotions will be available for tomorrow’s game too.
Edge District news from WREG: Hundreds of apartments are planned along Union.
From Action News 5: $5.5 million has been allocated to fix the Memphis monorail that transports visitors to and from Mud Island. But is it enough?
There’s a regional HBCU reunion in Memphis this weekend with alumni of 25 colleges and universities attending. They have a mixer on the Hu. rooftop tonight and a day party at Carolina Watershed tomorrow.
The Downtown Neighborhood Association and South Main Association will have a joint meeting this month on Tuesday, June 21 at Beale Street Landing. Amber Lombardo, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects, will speak, as will George Abbott of the Memphis River Parks Partnership. Because parking is scarce in the area, Groove on Demand will provide free rides there – just download the Groove on Demand app and get 10 rides free. There will be free beer, wine, and food for DNA and SMA members.
The most boring sport on Earth, golf, is actually not boring this week. There’s a new golf tour, the LIV Tour, which is offering huge prize purses (like, bigger than the purse at the Masters) at its events; however, it is somewhat controversial due to Saudi investment. This week the PGA Tour suspended 17 golfers, including Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, for participating in the first LIV event. Johnson had already resigned his PGA membership but Mick planned to play in the U.S. Open next week. It’s reported that Mick got $200M and Johnson $100M for joining LIV. They are reported to have dangled a billion in front of Tiger Woods but he said no.
The I-40 bridge will undergo single-lane closures for approximately two weeks beginning June 18, Action News 5 reports.
Anime Blues Con will run today through Sunday at the Renasant Convention Center.
Bestselling author Wright Thompson will be at the Rendezvous tonight for BBQ, Brews, and Books.
The River Rockets play #1 hits from the 1960s through the 1980s this evening at the Ghost River taproom on Beale.
We’ve got a rainy day ahead of us. Back tomorrow with more news.