Tag: food

Photos: Owning the Final Level

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So last night, without any doubt in my mind, I went into Battle & Brew and dominated the shit out of the Final Level burger “challenge” they have.  I’m guessing the stipulations for the challenge are going to have to be changed (again – pretty sure it was 30 minutes when it debuted, now down to 20), because quite a few people are completing it since they started.  Despite the fact that I ate mine in roughly 14 minutes, apparently two people, with one of them being last night, have posted finish times in the nine minute neighborhood.  Not quite sure if I want to compete with those kind of times, although I’m sure I could have finished quicker, but needless to say I’m satisfied at putting to rest, another eating challenge, regardless to how simple it actually was.  More pictures of the mayhem on the click.

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I’m kind of in Sports Illustrated

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And here I thought that I wouldn’t have anything to write about today.  A few weeks ago, I volunteered to write a review for a Sports Illustrated article about ballpark foods, with my task being a brief blurb of Turner Field’s Hammerin’ Hank sandwich.

Being the wordy, long-winded writer I tend to be, my original submission ended up being four paragraphs, explaining the rationale behind chicken and waffles, the greatness of Hank Aaron, and the slightly egregious price of the sandwich itself.  I was politely asked to reduce my blurb, and I ended up narrowing it down to a single paragraph.  But apparently that was still a little much too in the end, and it was apparently reduced to the above-seen cherry-picked sentence in the end.

No worries though, because I’m just glad to have my name appear in Sports Illustrated.  Not that I expect it to actually make it into any print edition or anything, but it’s still a small pleasing achievement for a sports geek like myself, and I’m also pleasantly glad to see a lot of familiar colleague names from other teams’ blogs doing similarly for their home parks.

Since there is a part of me that’s a little dissatisfied with the shortness of my published work, I feel it is an obligation to myself to share the real words behind the review.

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