{"id":10497,"date":"2011-08-20T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2011-08-20T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:43:15","slug":"soccer-brass-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/soccer-brass-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer @ Brass Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite bosses ever was a big soccer fan. We’d be in his office, discussing a SQL Server stored procedure, when he’d hit F5 and say, “hang on.”<\/p>\n

“Reloading the football scores,” he’d tell me. “Arsenal is up, 1, nil.” Meaning, he was reloading the soccer scores, and Arsenal was up 1-0. (This is America dammit.)<\/p>\n

This morning the Brass Door opened at 6:45 for the Arsenal-Liverpool match.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t actually there at 6:45. About 8 my friend Lauren tweeted “where are you?” and the notification woke me up. I put on yesterday’s drunkass clothes (complete with beer stains) and walked down there. For 8 AM the bar was pretty full: All the bar seats with a view of the TV were taken, except one which I took, and two tables were occupied. I did a head count and 17 people were there, most in Arsenal jerseys. Glad I was on the right side. Unfortunately Arsenal lost 2-0.<\/p>\n

Mad props to Katie, who was a cheerful bartender (can you imagine how bad the Saucer girls would bitch if they had to open at 6:45 AM) and to Seamus, who recognized that Downtowners would get up early in the morning to watch soccer.<\/p>\n

I hung out at Brass Door til 1 then hit Bardog for Panda Manda’s brunch. It’s now 3:30 and I’ve done none of the three Ss. Time for a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"