FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Veek]

TDT - I had talked to Fins and Frank about possibly being able to arrange hosting a golf tourney in Little Falls but the city officials decided to lease out the clubhouse restaurant to a third party which threw a wrench in the works.  They used to offer a deal for $75 that included your round of golf, cart rental, box lunch, steak dinner afterwards, and last but not least, all the beer you could drink!  I realize that the inaugaral event would have been the first and last with the likes of Duffman, Frank, Fins, Ritz, TDT, and myself drinking more than $75 each but it would have been a grand time. 

I would love to partake in a golfing event but my only "in" fell through.  If nothing can be arranged I'm sure we could always scrape together a few teams for a scramble.

Fins - can you feel your fingers yet after fishing last Saturday?  At least Sunday ended up being much nicer.  I bet your hottub hit the spot after a cold day of fishing.  Keep me posted when the next meeting of the minds is taking place.  On a golf course is always an option, too.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

JR - You could have easily offset said comment by referencing the Tommie choke in the recent baseball playoffs -- top seed losing to #4 Hamline in the first game of the MIAC tourney after breezing through the conference at 16-4.

Maybe so, but they got in the NCAA field, and that's all that counts...not like many other MAIC baseball teams can say that (including the two teams that lost to Olaf)

JR-- I know it was hard for you to cheer UST softballers on, but you can bank on them bringing home that softball title....3 in a row has never been done before, but after seeing them play a couple of times, Id be stunned if they lost...and with it being double elimination, they'd have to lose 2X this weekend....and have only lost 1 game to a d3 team all year

it sounds like they have more than enough coming back next year to go for 4
******

RIP, Rich Hall.....a great man, unquestionably

[Willy Wonka]

Good dig, MM. However, if you are gonna try to slide that in then I reserve the right to point out what nobody cares about: My Gusties broke the Tommies 50+ games D3 winning streak to give them their only loss against like foe this year.

[Johnnie Red]

The visitation and funeral mass will be tomorrow, Wednesday, for Rich Hall at St. Alphonsus Church, 7025 Halifax Avenue North, Brooklyn Center. The church is located north of I-694; take the Brooklyn Boulevard exit north up to 70th Avenue North; go east a few blocks to Halifax. The visitation is from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., when the Mass of Christian Burial will start.

[DuffMan]

The Johnnies are MIAC All-Sports champs!

[tmerton]

Yeah, grocery stores and gas stations sell 3.2 beer.  Your son (once he turns 21, of course ) will have to stick with the liquor store for real booze.  Not a big deal in St. Joe, as long as you have the foresight to make it there before 10pm.

Or swing by the La at 1 AM when you need a few cases/another keg/couple liters of whiskey!!    Getting hired there was one of the best moves I ever made   

I thought the word a couple of months ago was that the La was closing.    No so?

[finsleft]

Veek- The fingers are alright after fishing, but the liver sure took a beating.
Actually one of the best days I've had in a while. 3 of us in the boat, caught 25 northerns between 10 and 1:30, plus 4 or 5 bass. Kent Hrbek should've been there with his camera.
As for the golf, why don't we see who's interested, I can line up a local course and we just do it. We can all throw out a few clubs to make room for beer, just like in college.
So who's in?

Rest in Peace Rich Hall. A great guy and a true Johnnie!
Karma from heaven for everyone in Rich's name.

[finsleft]

Yeah, grocery stores and gas stations sell 3.2 beer.  Your son (once he turns 21, of course ) will have to stick with the liquor store for real booze.  Not a big deal in St. Joe, as long as you have the foresight to make it there before 10pm.

Or swing by the La at 1 AM when you need a few cases/another keg/couple liters of whiskey!!    Getting hired there was one of the best moves I ever made   

I thought the word a couple of months ago was that the La was closing.    No so?

All I can say is, maybe...or maybe not. Your chances of experiencing the post-football La this fall are good.

[tmerton]

Today's sports quotes (okay, yesterday's sports quotes):

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."
-Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf
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"I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?'"
-Eddie Eichorn, White Sox owner
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"Raise the urinals."
-Darrel Chaney on how management could keep the Braves on their toes
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"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
-Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991
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"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
-New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers
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"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
-Charles Shackleford of the NCSU basketball team
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"Are you any relation to your brother Marv?"
-Basketball player Leon Wood to announcer Steve Albert
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"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
-Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
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"He (Julio Cesar Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual, too."
-Don King, boxing promoter.

[finsleft]

If the La does close, maybe we can get one of these...


Suggestive name puts eatery, city at odds
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 22, 2006 12:00 AM
• Q&A with Pink Taco chief Harry Morton

In a city aspiring to be defined by its good taste, a new Mexican restaurant, the Pink Taco, is opening with a name that some find offensive.
Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross was so put off by the name, a slang term for vagina, that she asked its owner to change it. advertisement 

"I don't appreciate anything that offends more than half the population," Manross said. "But he said no and heard my concern. I really didn't want to see a business with that name opening anywhere here."
Sounding more strip club than cantina, the restaurant isn't coy about the double entendre.

"(The name) came out of a dish (that's on the menu), but it's tongue-in-cheek. It was amusing, catchy," Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton said. "You've got to stand out from the rest of the crowd."

The Scottsdale City Council will consider the Pink Taco's application for a liquor license May 15 and will vote whether to recommend that the state liquor board approve the license. No letters of opposition have been filed with the city so far, but Pink Taco management is nervous about the name controversy because the restaurant won't open without that license.

The original Pink Taco is inside Morton's family-owned Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where they serve strong margaritas and upscale food with sides of loud rock, Mexican art and "East LA" bric-a-brac, i.e. low-rider bicycles and license plates.

"I haven't had a single flap since the restaurant opened - in 6 years," Morton said.

Scottsdale is first in a planned expansion to other "AAA+ locations in A+ markets," he said.

The Pink Taco is slated to open in June on the corner of Scottsdale and Camelback roads in the $250 million Scottsdale Waterfront.

The restaurant will be next to the elegant Wildfish Seafood Grille and boutiques where blouses sell for as much as the payment on a Lexus. Nearby condos under construction will cost as much as $4 million.

And the name does offend some.

"It's degrading to women. It sounds like a sexual slur," said Dorina Wilson, 40, of Phoenix, a mom who shops in the area regularly.

Dawn Staples-Kerr, 39, of Scottsdale, agreed.

"I don't think we'd even go to lunch there. It's already been a talking topic," she said. "We were like, 'Can you believe they're going to open something with that name here?' "

Moments later, Staples-Kerr explained the phrase to a friend who's 44. Giggling ensued.

David Roderique, the economic-vitality director for Scottsdale, also giggled when asked about the restaurant. Then he regained his composure.

"While there may be some people who have concerns about the name of the restaurant, we've got a younger crowd who appreciates more diversity and finding ways to slap the establishment," he said.

The leasing agents in charge of the Waterfront's retail space knew the name had baggage, but it didn't matter in the face of the hipster cachet the Pink Taco would bring, said LeDonna Spongberg, vice president of leasing at the Phoenix-based Corritore Co.

"We knew who they were, and we liked them; they bring a really high energy to the project," she said.

Future condo tenants haven't been turned off by the name, said Jeff Roberts, vice president of real estate development with Opus West, the Waterfront condo developer.

Rick Kidder, president of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce, wonders if people aren't upset because the name goes over their heads.

"I've seen the Blue Burrito, and I thought, 'Oh, Pink Taco. OK.' " he said. "Somebody had to explain it to me. I just didn't get it."

[tmerton]

If the La does close, maybe we can get one of these...

Click here: Suggestivenameputseatery,cityatodds.htm

I'm clickin', I'm clickin' - now what?

[tmerton]

If the La does close, maybe we can get one of these...


Suggestive name puts eatery, city at odds
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 22, 2006 12:00 AM
• Q&A with Pink Taco chief Harry Morton

In a city aspiring to be defined by its good taste, a new Mexican restaurant, the Pink Taco, is opening with a name that some find offensive.
Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross was so put off by the name, a slang term for vagina, that she asked its owner to change it. advertisement 

"I don't appreciate anything that offends more than half the population," Manross said. "But he said no and heard my concern. I really didn't want to see a business with that name opening anywhere here."
Sounding more strip club than cantina, the restaurant isn't coy about the double entendre.

"(The name) came out of a dish (that's on the menu), but it's tongue-in-cheek. It was amusing, catchy," Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton said. "You've got to stand out from the rest of the crowd."

The Scottsdale City Council will consider the Pink Taco's application for a liquor license May 15 and will vote whether to recommend that the state liquor board approve the license. No letters of opposition have been filed with the city so far, but Pink Taco management is nervous about the name controversy because the restaurant won't open without that license.

The original Pink Taco is inside Morton's family-owned Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where they serve strong margaritas and upscale food with sides of loud rock, Mexican art and "East LA" bric-a-brac, i.e. low-rider bicycles and license plates.

"I haven't had a single flap since the restaurant opened - in 6 years," Morton said.

Scottsdale is first in a planned expansion to other "AAA+ locations in A+ markets," he said.

The Pink Taco is slated to open in June on the corner of Scottsdale and Camelback roads in the $250 million Scottsdale Waterfront.

The restaurant will be next to the elegant Wildfish Seafood Grille and boutiques where blouses sell for as much as the payment on a Lexus. Nearby condos under construction will cost as much as $4 million.

And the name does offend some.

"It's degrading to women. It sounds like a sexual slur," said Dorina Wilson, 40, of Phoenix, a mom who shops in the area regularly.

Dawn Staples-Kerr, 39, of Scottsdale, agreed.

"I don't think we'd even go to lunch there. It's already been a talking topic," she said. "We were like, 'Can you believe they're going to open something with that name here?' "

Moments later, Staples-Kerr explained the phrase to a friend who's 44. Giggling ensued.

David Roderique, the economic-vitality director for Scottsdale, also giggled when asked about the restaurant. Then he regained his composure.

"While there may be some people who have concerns about the name of the restaurant, we've got a younger crowd who appreciates more diversity and finding ways to slap the establishment," he said.

The leasing agents in charge of the Waterfront's retail space knew the name had baggage, but it didn't matter in the face of the hipster cachet the Pink Taco would bring, said LeDonna Spongberg, vice president of leasing at the Phoenix-based Corritore Co.

"We knew who they were, and we liked them; they bring a really high energy to the project," she said.

Future condo tenants haven't been turned off by the name, said Jeff Roberts, vice president of real estate development with Opus West, the Waterfront condo developer.

Rick Kidder, president of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce, wonders if people aren't upset because the name goes over their heads.

"I've seen the Blue Burrito, and I thought, 'Oh, Pink Taco. OK.' " he said. "Somebody had to explain it to me. I just didn't get it."

Well, I guess that fixes it ... soon as I find my magnifying glass, anyway.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

The Johnnies are MIAC All-Sports champs!

Yep, congrats for a balanced program.... even though UST had 5 championships to SJU's 2, the Js had better balance across the board. Swimming, golf, tennis and (not surprisingly) football proved to be the key differences.

Yes, WW, the Gusties were the only d3 team to beat UST softball (impressed that you knew the count of the streak, since no one cares )-- from what I hear, it was an incredible game. But they got paid back twice in the MIAC playoffs. Conway hit one HR in the 2nd round that was still rising as it cleared the fence-- opposite field. SHe needs a massive HR count this weekend to break the d3 all-time career record, but its not ouot of reach. Lenoch closed an incredile career for your Gusties... she owns every meaningful offensive career record down there.

[DuffMan]

Don't be jealous, Maniac.  At least you're not an Augsburg Tech alum.  Their men and women finished 11th

[johnnyadmit]

Coulda swore there were plenty of pink tacos in St. Joe already!!