{"id":28113,"date":"2024-08-08T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28113"},"modified":"2024-08-08T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:14:57","slug":"thursday-update-315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/08\/thursday-update-315\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FedExForum has been named the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\/all-grizzlies\/news\/fedexforum-ranked-35th-best-american-sports-venue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35th best American sports venue<\/a> out of all NBA, NFL, and MLB venues. In terms of NBA only, the Grindhouse came in 6th.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sports\/article\/45566\/memphis-red-sox-redbirds-minor-league-baseball-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Redbirds will play as the Memphis Red Sox Saturday night<\/a> to honor the city\u2019s 20th-century Negro Leagues teams.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> There will be a ceremony prior to the first pitch, and the jerseys will be auctioned off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Memphis River Parks Partnership <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2024\/08\/08\/city-mrpp-eyeing-plan-connect-improve-parks-along-memphis-riverfront\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans<\/a> to better connect its parks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From ABC 24: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/blind-bear-becomes-latest-downtown-memphis-business-to-close-in-2024\/522-f9b07ddf-a03b-4088-8675-35a87ee71385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blind Bear becomes latest Downtown business to close.<\/a> This story was posted to Facebook and a commenter noted a couple of possible contributing factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Downtown was a ghost town during May without the REAL Memphis in May Music Fest and BBQ Fest down here. That destroyed area restaurants\u2019 most profitable month.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The cost of insuring a Downtown bar has skyrocketed in recent years, as much as quintupling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisdelia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris D\u2019Elia\u2019s<\/a> Straight Out the Multiverse Tour comes to the Cannon Center Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/maps\/president\/2024\/no-toss-up\/electoral-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin has flipped blue<\/a> in RealClearPolitics\u2019 No Toss-up States Electoral College projection. The Trumpster still leads with 287, but Kamala is closing in with 251. 270 are needed to win. If Kamala can flip Pennsylvania, she\u2019s there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DJs A.D. and Jordan Rogers go head-to-head at tonight\u2019s Peabody rooftop party. 6-10 PM. If you\u2019re in VIP you get a buffet of pulled pork sliders, pulled chicken sliders, and waffle fries. Win a Mich Ultra standup golf bag.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/suns-out-burger-buns-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the Memphis Flyer Burger Week burgers.<\/a> Burger Week runs through the 13th. During that time, get the burgers for only $6.99.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Downtown burgers include<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunrise Patty Melt at Sunrise Memphis<\/li>\n<li>The Classic Burger at Rock\u2019n Dough Pizza<\/li>\n<li>World Famous Huey Burger at Huey&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>BBQ Pulled Pork Burger at Tug&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Baja Burger at Loflin Yard<\/li>\n<li>The Tavern Smash at Belle Tavern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve added Zelle to the list of ways you can support this blog (see footer below). I discovered it\u2019s seamlessly integrated with my Ally Bank account; I just had to set it up. Cheers to my friend Otto for recommending Ally. Initially I was skeptical of a bank with no local branches, but Ally has been superb.<\/p>\n<p>Back sometime between tomorrow and Monday with more news.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedExForum has been named the 35th best American sports venue out of all NBA, NFL, and MLB venues. In terms of NBA only, the Grindhouse came in 6th.\u00a0 The Redbirds will play as the Memphis Red Sox Saturday night to honor the city\u2019s 20th-century Negro Leagues teams. There will be a ceremony prior to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/08\/thursday-update-315\/\" 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\/28113"}],"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=28113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28114,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions\/28114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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