Spring festival season has ended, giving me a lot less news to report. I considered not blogging at all today, but I’m up early and I might as well do something.<\/p>\n
Richard Wilson plays Sunday Evening Slowdown<\/a> tonight at Ghost River at 5 PM. If you go there earlier (12-3) you can get brunch from the Flying Sobies food truck – Cornish hens with your choice of sauce.<\/p>\n If you don’t mind a drive to Jackson, Tennessee, you can play Dungeons and Dragons<\/a> at 2 this afternoon.<\/p>\n There’s a kick-off party for Vacation Bible School<\/a> at Fellowship Baptist Church in Marion today at 5:00.<\/p>\n An armadillo was spotted outside Max’s Sports Bar in South Main last night.<\/p>\n Seriously, that’s how bad I’m hurting for news to report.<\/p>\n I sure have enjoyed these past 6 months at places like Max’s, Blind Bear, and Silly Goose. Wish I could have 18 more just like them.<\/p>\n In case anybody cares who I hope the Grizzlies pick with their #4: Jaren Jackson Jr. He’s the safest bet for a team that can’t afford another Hasheem Thabeet-type mistake. He’s one of the few bigs in the draft who actually plays defense, he can shoot the three ball, and he’s 6’11”. Start him as a power forward alongside Marc Gasol, let him learn everything he can, and eventually he can be moved over to center when Gasol leaves or retires.<\/p>\n The only thing I dislike about picking Jackson is it leaves Jamychal Green coming off the bench, and makes Jarell Martin all but expendable. I’ve always liked Martin and think he has more potential than people give him credit for. You have to do what’s best for the team though.<\/p>\n Now and then I hear naysayers talk about Seattle poaching the Grizzlies from Memphis first chance they get. I think that’s total B.S., BUT… a Thabeet-level bust in the draft this year and yeah, it becomes possible.<\/p>\n While we’re on the subject of the NBA, I’ll share an opinion that is going to be wildly unpopular: I actually like Draymond Green. He far exceeded initial expectations and has become the epitome of the NBA in this decade. When he retires in 8 or 10 years, how awesome would it be if he joins Sir Charles and Shaq on commentary?<\/p>\n Time for D-RANKS with B-RAD at Pontotoc Lounge. Today’s conversation topics: People who can’t handle the truth and 96 degree patios. Back tomorrow with more news unless tomorrow is as slow a news day as today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring festival season has ended, giving me a lot less news to report. I considered not blogging at all today, but I’m up early and I might as well do something. Richard Wilson plays Sunday Evening Slowdown tonight at Ghost River at 5 PM. If you go there earlier (12-3) you can get brunch from … Continue reading “The slow season”<\/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\/21065"}],"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=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21066,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}