{"id":11621,"date":"2012-03-15T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:49:54","slug":"thur-update-brass-doorst-pats-double-jst-pats-lunchtime-ncaa-watching-at-fedexforum-sam-young-trade-new-peabody-duckmaster-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/thur-update-brass-doorst-pats-double-jst-pats-lunchtime-ncaa-watching-at-fedexforum-sam-young-trade-new-peabody-duckmaster-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur update: Brass Door\/St. Pat&#8217;s, Double J\/St. Pat&#8217;s, lunchtime NCAA watching at FedExForum, Sam Young trade, new Peabody Duckmaster blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11622\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foodbank.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622 \" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 8px;\" title=\"foodbank\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foodbank.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foodbank.jpg?resize=300%2C216 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foodbank.jpg?resize=150%2C108 150w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/foodbank.jpg?w=320 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mid-South Food Bank posted this pic to Facebook. Your $1 can buy the can of green beans pictured here. If you give the Food Bank the dollar, they can buy all this food with it. Donate at www.midsouthfoodbank.org.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Memphis Daily News has a long article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisdailynews.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/15\/brass-door-looks-to-bring-true-irish-to-st-pattys-day\/\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration at the Brass Door<\/a>. They&#8217;re going to have an outdoor alley party with 8 bands, as well as food specials in the bar including corned beef and cabbage and $5 fish and chips. Their last alley party, their grand opening last summer, drew 800 people. There are a lot of events going on Downtown Saturday, but I tend to believe this one will be the biggest and the best. I plan on getting there early in the day, paying the $10 cover, and then coming and going throughout the day (I&#8217;m assuming they&#8217;ll have wristbands or some kind of system that will make this possible).<\/p>\n<p>The article is worth a read not only for info about the party, but for what managing partner Seamus Loftus has to say about St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. He grew up in the western part of Ireland, where the holiday is celebrated much differently than in America. It&#8217;s treated as more of a solemn religious event there. That said, Seamus very much likes the fact that Americans have turned it into a party, a celebration of being Irish.<\/p>\n<p>In other St. Patrick&#8217;s news, I&#8217;ve learned that Double J SmokeHouse and Saloon will have $2 PBR all day Saturday to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to watch the NCAA tournament at lunch tomorrow, Jack Daniel&#8217;s Old No. 7 Restaurant in the FedExForum will be open &#8211; not only the restaurant, but the patio. You&#8217;ll be able to watch the game on 20 TVs. They&#8217;ll have the following lunch specials, all with a Pepsi beverage included:<\/p>\n<p>Spicy Popcorn Chicken w\/fries $8.50<br \/>\nSausage &amp; Cheese Plate $8.75<br \/>\nChicken Wings with celery, carrot sticks and ranch $8.50<br \/>\nOld No. 7 Half Pound Burger with fries $9<br \/>\nCajun Catfish Basket with fries $8.75<br \/>\nGrilled Chicken Caesar Salad $7.50<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also have 16 ounce domestic beers for $5 (for the Forum that&#8217;s dirt cheap). Free parking in the Toyota garage. Promotions and giveaways will be happening during lunch. They&#8217;re open for lunch and game viewing today too, but since I don&#8217;t do my lunchtime post until around 1 PM on weekdays, it&#8217;s probably too late to do any good.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that Sam Young is being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. Sad to see him go, but it&#8217;s a win-win &#8211; it reduces the Grizzlies&#8217; payroll so we don&#8217;t have to pay the luxury tax, and it will probably get him more playing time. Thanks for all your hard work here, Sam. Memphis will miss you.<\/p>\n<p>The Peabody Hotel Group has launched a new duckmaster blog. The Memphis, Little Rock, and Orlando duckmasters will blog about their jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/peabodyduckmaster.com\/\">View it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for now. Time to grab a quick burger then back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Daily News has a long article about the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration at the Brass Door. They&#8217;re going to have an outdoor alley party with 8 bands, as well as food specials in the bar including corned beef and cabbage and $5 fish and chips. Their last alley party, their grand opening last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/thur-update-brass-doorst-pats-double-jst-pats-lunchtime-ncaa-watching-at-fedexforum-sam-young-trade-new-peabody-duckmaster-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thur update: Brass Door\/St. Pat&#8217;s, Double J\/St. Pat&#8217;s, lunchtime NCAA watching at FedExForum, Sam Young trade, new Peabody Duckmaster blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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