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After all this super-secret-memo and banned-monologue business today, it's probably fitting to wrap matters up with something we can all come together on: BEER.
This last weekend, the Atlanta Braves started selling $60 tickets that include all the food and beer you can drink. When you allot for the fact that beers usually cost about eight bucks, geez, folks, we think those seats very well might end up paying for themselves.
We still think nothing will beat the soccer league that offered free beer for those who took part in a blood drive, but hey, it's a start. Whatever gets people to actually attend games in Atlanta.
Are All-You-Can-Eat Seats A Good Deal? [UmpBump]
Three Great Tastes That Taste Great Together [Deadspin]
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That picture... it's so simple... and so very brilliant...
That man is my hero. At least in part for the shirt.
I shore hope y'all upgraded the turlets in the Turner pavilion level.
I hope history repeats itself.
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I'm so happy I don't live in Atlanta. I'd be found dead at Turner Field soon.
Is that a young Chris Berman?
"Are the $60 all-you-can-eat seats a good deal? The seats ordinarily cost $32. So you're paying an extra $28 for the unlimited grub and grog. Currently, 16 ounce beers at The Ted retail for $6.75. So that means you'd have to drink five beers to get your money's worth, or drink four beers and eat a pork barbeque sandwich, or three beers, a pork sandwich and an order of wings."
Five beers? I drink that getting ready for work in the morning.
I just got back from class all day sans internet and all the ESPN posts made me think I missed the revolution. Thanks for waiting for me.
And...do I have to say it? All-you-can-eat is JUST AS AWESOME as all-you-can-drink. No more. No less. EQUAL.
Give me six Schlitzes... whatever's free!
I know what I am trying tonight.
I've had 40 straight beers; I do believe that is a record.
Will the Falcons offer a similar deal if Vick gets suspended? It would make the team more tolerable.
@becky: Sheffield just told me that Torre agrees, but that the two options should also be kept separate.
"so you'd have to drink 5 beers to get your money's worth"
Or, you could drink four and throw the last at someone.
But the beer contains potassium benzoate!
That's bad.
@Raskolnikov: I've had 40 straight beers; I think this is a record.
Way to fuck up, you Dylan Thomas wannabe.
It's just like Sandals...all inclusive...you know what that means. Michael Scott would like to order a ticket...
Dad?!! Dad!!!!!!!
Landfill would be right at home!
"God damn brewery! You know that brewery makes 10,000 bottles of beer a day. I drink 45 of them, and I'm the asshole!"
@Raskolnikov:
So what? I've had at least 100 straight beers. Over the course of the last 3 months.
Since this is the DU!AN thread for the evening, I would officially like to wish everyone a happy burritoversary.
It was 52 weeks ago today that the first proto-Deadspin Up All Night emerged from the primordial ooze of Will's post that NCAA Football 07 had been released to discuss burritos. We were all stunned and amazed that the comments nearly approached 200. Oh what little we would know at that time.
So to you, all of you, the denizens of DU!AN, a happy burritoversary and may the next year of DU!AN be even better.
My dad used to tell me stories of ten cent beer night at Brewer games. I think the good people of Atlanta are soon going to learn a lesson Midwesterners learned a long time ago. Free beer = more problems than you can handle.
Yostal, I think we should all raise a glass.
And then four more. So that we get our money's worth.
@G Voll the Mole:
there's a Kenny Lofton joke in there but I'm too frazzled to find it at the moment.
@Sh!tShow:
Braves fans are entirely too apathetic to aspire to the proper trajectory.
@Yostal:
that's obviously why I went to Burrito Loco after class...NOT cuz I'm fat...OBVIOUSLY.
"No, Mr. Wickman, you don't need a ticket to get into the game. You play for the team."
"Aw, nuts."
@becky:
Good evening Becky. Did you end up staying in the class all day? Was it helpful?
The Braves had $1 beer night back in the day. It didn't cause many problems, because even $1 beer brought on 1000 fans.
@Yostal: it kind of scares me that you know that. Also, you going to the game with us on Sunday?
Matt_T?
I stopped in looking for my missing pit bull and all I got was this lousy burrito.
GAAHH!!! PHIL STEELE NIGHT!!! VHT SOD MEDRS #1SS HS!!!!!
@pr0ff3ss0r_j3rkwh3at:
So you'll be there? Saw your answers on EDSBS. My answer on conf game was the same as Orson (UT/UF) but hoping for a VERY different outcome!
WWL is telling me that Chris Benoit's body contained more than 10 times the normal amount of testosterone.
WHAT A FUCKING BADASS!
@Lisa: The most important word in that comment? Hope. Tim Tebow will crush such dreams.
@Lisa: yeah, I'm going to make it afterall...CAN.NOT.WAIT.
@Lisa:
I stayed. It was helpful but brutal. But if I went over the stuff on my own I know it would take me twice as long. It's a live class too, not a vid, and the dude seems real eager to help us.
How's cat food biz?
@MannysHeadStash:
normal...for a human.
remember, Benoit was Canadian.
@becky: They didn't say anything about his Molson content.
@Yostal: Well remembered, sir. I raise a Freebird's Monster burrito in your honor. (I'm not trying to start anything, honest.)
Greetings.
As an engineer, I would like to compliment that ambitious young man on his innovative, efficient and economical beer drinking procedure. He clearly has superior time management skills.
But the (possible) plastic hospital bracelet on his wrist concerns me.
@TattooedMess(iah):
Yes, Hope was a carefully chosen word, I'm a trueblue fan, but also somewhat reasonable in expectations.
@becky:
Great to hear! Nothing worse than a wasted day at this point. Interview is tomorrow, bosox sent me tons of good stuff to think about.
Looks like Young Berman pre-ordered the hospital bracelet. I believe he's earned 'grizzled veteran' status.
@Yostal: Wow, I didn't realize D!UAN dated back that far. I'll have a burrito for dinner in your (and all of our) honor tonight.
"As I was going through this process I heard about a quote by Gandhi that best expresses my thoughts about this victory: 'First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.'"
-Daunte Culpepper
Discuss.
@MannysHeadStash: Pfft. I don't know many Canadians who drink Molson. We just give it to other people as a joke. Like Aussies do with Foster's or you guys do with Coors and Bud.
Wait... you guys do what?
@Scout:
And notice, he has five beers. That man is getting his money's worth.
@becky:
Jon Stewart: Canadian beer, you know that stuff's like moonshine...
Old homeless guy: HELL YEAH!
@GirlLegal29:
Ah, but what if he has a Reversal of Fortune? I'd have to demote the efficiency rating.
@Yostal:
If I remember correctly, wasn't Winslow going to order a buritto in south beach and end up with Brittny Spears? I have drank too much since then but I remember 3am and winslow and buritto stands.
@Scout: I'm sure it's a cover-charge indicating bracelet.
I agree with you about the engineering prowess of the pictured drinker. While he may not be sober enough to realize that the rate of change of beer in the third cup is equal to the flow rate of the beer from cup four into cup three, minus the flow rate of the beer from cup three into cup two, he has surely concocted a system so that the flow rate of beer from cup one into his belly is constant.
@jwaves:
Friends don't let friends end up with Brittany Spears.
@Scout:
I'm not sure if this method of drinking five beers would work for just anyone (I would certainly have a "reversal of fortune"), but the guy in this picture clearly can handle five beers in this fashion.
@Scout:
I cant remember the entire story, I think it was her before she got ugly(I'd still tap it though)
@Bort:
Legal advice and now engineering knowledge. If I could get beer through deadspin I would never leave.
@Bort:
Succinctly put. Unfortunately, I predict that the stability of said structure will decrease as product consumption increases, until a catastrophic failure occurs and flowrate goes to zero.
@Scoops:
My 1 Candanian friend used to buy those huge Molson coolers. It was all he had in his apt in college.
Hello party people in the place to be...
I just got back from a 3 hour thrillride with my 4yr old and 5yr old nephews at Chuck E Cheese.
Let's go over the good and bad of Chuck E Cheese:
BAD:
1. They actually have to stamp your hand when you come in with your kids so that a child molester doesn't steal them. I'm all for the security, but it just creeps me the fuck out that it's necessary.
2. A million fucking kids running around whil