{"id":23892,"date":"2020-07-16T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=23892"},"modified":"2020-07-16T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:29:52","slug":"thursday-update-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/16\/thursday-update-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to speak ill of a legend, but after watching last night&#8217;s match, I have to wonder whether it&#8217;s time for Memphis 901 FC to bring this &#8220;Tim Howard in Goal&#8221; experiment to an end. He looked sluggish last night against Birmingham, giving up 3 goals in 30 minutes. Having Howard as an active player was more of a marketing ploy to put butts in seats, and COVID-19 has prevented that from happening. Maybe it&#8217;s time for the next Memphis 901 FC goalkeeper to take over while having the best mentor he could possibly ask for.<\/p>\n<p>Former Grizzly player and Tigers assistant coach Mike Miller has been introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sports\/article\/15460\/mike-miller-former-grizzlies-new-houston-high-coach\">the new head coach<\/a> of Houston High boys&#8217; basketball. He will coach his sons there. This is surely a stop on the way to an NCAA coaching career. Don&#8217;t high school coaches have to teach? How cool would it be to say that you have Coach Miller for third period P.E.?<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering if Coach Penny still has the golden touch now that Mike Miller has left his coaching staff, wonder no more. Yesterday five-star center <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/article\/15458\/moussa-cisse-commits-to-memphis-tigers-after\">Moussa Cisse<\/a> announced that he will reclassify to the class of 2020 and play for the Tigers this coming season if college basketball actually happens. He will help fill in a big hole in star power in the front court created when James Wiseman and Precious Achiuwa departed for the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/474495536816258\/\">Willie Nelson<\/a> has rescheduled his Orpheum date for Monday, November 16. I wonder if the Orpheum takes out death insurance when a performer the age of Willie is booked?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of old people, the folks who own downtownolympics.com certainly took down their new website quickly after I linked to it in yesterday&#8217;s post! For those of you who missed it, it appeared to be a WordPress template for a company to which other companies outsource HR functions.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyer&#8217;s Bruce V <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/memphis\/close-the-bars-open-the-schools\/Content?oid=23386185\">weighs in<\/a> on the county&#8217;s plans to close the <del>bars<\/del> limited service restaurants and open the schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/dining\/2020\/07\/14\/memphis-restaurants-buffets-covid-19-owen-brennans-the-peabody-india-palace-garibaldis-pizza\/5359933002\/\">asks if we will ever see buffets again<\/a>. Marketing director Kelly Brock is interviewed about the Peabody&#8217;s brunch buffet, but there&#8217;s another reason Downtowners will want to click through to this article&#8230; SHORTY!!! The man who drew a crowd at the Silly Goose&#8217;s pasta bar for years has also drawn a crowd at Owen Brennan&#8217;s omelet bar for years.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Michael Patrick of Rizzo&#8217;s was interviewed in this Fox 13 report of the Health Department looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/memphis-officials-working-creative-ways-help-struggling-businesses\/ZEOZ72MVRRBWXNPGHVP2V2ZKWU\/\">creative ways<\/a> to allow restaurants to re-open at a higher capacity, including putting tables on sidewalks and parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>You can get banned on some Facebook groups for talking about this, but this week Mendatius T. Roll and I tried the new Wendy&#8217;s Baconator flavored Pringles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23893\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?w=1680 1680w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_0033.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re good, but in no way do I think I&#8217;m eating a Baconator when I munch on them. Maybe Pringles will come out with a Mrs. B&#8217;s Sub flavored chip soon so Memphis Sandwich Clique will have something to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>WMC Action News 5 has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/2020\/07\/15\/federal-report-calls-shelby-county-add-covid-testing-set-trip-wires-trigger-immediate-restrictions\/\">the official report<\/a> from the CDC&#8217;s visit to Memphis around the July 4 holiday. The report discusses the &#8220;trip wires&#8221; Health Department director Dr. Haushalter has talked about, conditions under which tighter restrictions would be immediately triggered. Dr. Haushalter is going to discuss the trip wires in today&#8217;s noon press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news, or later today if anything important comes up. WEAR YOUR MASKS!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to speak ill of a legend, but after watching last night&#8217;s match, I have to wonder whether it&#8217;s time for Memphis 901 FC to bring this &#8220;Tim Howard in Goal&#8221; experiment to an end. He looked sluggish last night against Birmingham, giving up 3 goals in 30 minutes. Having Howard as an active &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/16\/thursday-update-152\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday update&#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\/23892"}],"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=23892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23895,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions\/23895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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