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  1. Yeah, at that point, you might as well drive on up to Kansas to see the largest (reputedly). Is the proper response "sorry about that?" if it's the Cawker City ball? Regardless, it seems that there are several making the claim (Reddit post on the subject), so you gotta figure anybody shilling Ardmore based on the second-largest is a pretty lousy huckster. Now, if we're just talkin' figuratively, I'd say Surly is the world's largest ball of twine -- especially if that Quinn Ewers post keeps spinning around like it has been.
  2. I'm looking at their tap list and going to guess Back Alley Bock Fight. Then I'll blame it on the lighting when you tell me it's one of the ambers. That looks like a nice facility. Haven't been there yet and in fact haven't done Milwaukee any justice whatsoever for it being such a beer Mecca. Envious ... have one for me, will ya, @zlavydra?
  3. There are incredible numbers of German words that start with prepositions. Best to just import their beer and leave the language back there. But I also found that enough beer makes the language flow a lot better.
  4. Final whistle. If I'm remembering correctly, the verb "pfiffen" is to whistle, and "ab" is a general preposition with several potential meanings -- in this case, "off." So literally, the "off" whistle. German is a fun language. Edit: It's "off" more in the sense of "away," which is another common meaning, but whether "off" or "away," it's the same general sense: we're leaving. "Abseits" is another common football word ("offside") and "abwärts" (downwards) is another I've seen when things are going wrong.
  5. As long as Dietmar Hopp keeps supporting it, Hoffenheim will hang around. The relationship of companies and communities to German football (and other sports) is fascinating. I knew about Hopp, Red Bull, and Bayer's ownership of Leverkusen, but I did not know until just this morning (reading about Hoffenheim in Wikipedia) that Volkswagen wholly owns Wolfsburg. Good to know that little ol' Sinsheim will keep hosting Bundesliga ball next year. And Hamburg is coming back. Would like to see Köln back as well, but Elversberg and Paderborn will fight for it tomorrow. I think Elversberg draws on a far smaller area than Hoffenheim does. Wife wants to hike tomorrow with a group of mostly her friends, so I'm going to have to miss the Bundesliga 2 action. Might have to get sick.
  6. Stuttgart is my second-favorite team now. Crazy day as Mainz tells Hope she's not needed here. Would have been nice for Stefan Bell to get that winning goal counted, but even on a day with four goals withdrawn, the 05ers get it done with some needed help from Stuttgart. Nice moment for Xabi Alonso after the game. Mainz waits for Leverkusen to celebrate his run at the Leverkusen end of the stadium, then cuts loose with its own party.
  7. Crazy game in Mainz right now as the 05ers try for European Conference League. Thoroughly dominating Leverkusen, but missed a couple of easy point-blank opportunities and had three goals disallowed in the first half-hour. Did finally manage to pull one out to take a 1-0 lead in a 54-minute first half. They're keeping an eye on Leipzig-Stuttgart, with Stuttgart trying to pull one out on the road but falling behind twice in the first half. Mainz needs to at least equal Leipzig's result, and it looks like the 05ers are going to have to win outright to ease into Europe on points. I haven't had a chance to look at what's going on in the fight for fourth and fifth in the Bundesliga, but if it's half this wild, it's gotta be fun stuff. Ya watchin', @Mittens? Update: Freiburg and Frankfurt in a tight one that may push Freiburg out of Champion's League. Dortmund looking comfortable to win at home over Kiel. Looks like any of Frankfurt, Freiburg and Dortmund could be Champion's League or Europa. And Mainz just opened the second half with a boneheaded penalty and is now 1-1.
  8. I remember when I first heard about shandies/radlers and thought that was way beyond a weird idea. And sours. The more I venture out, the more surprised I am, although I haven't done the coke bit yet. At Leinie's the other day, the lodge included a list of "brewology" combos with my son's flight menu -- stuff like "Berry Weiss + Summer Shandy = Pink Lemonade" and "Dark Lager + Honey Weiss = Bumble Bee." We didn't do that, but we've done similar things once or twice over the years at happy hour, especially with a beer we don't like but are reluctant just to drain into the yard as a matter of principle ("don't waste beer"). Our college-age sons are another way to get rid of less tasty beer.
  9. Other than Turner Falls being 26 miles north, I got nothin'. And that's a smaller private park, so not much hiking. Might be worth a visit because it's nice scenery and it would still be warm enough to swim. Took the kids camping there once on the way back to Wisconsin. Like most Surly posters, I've generally just passed through Oklahoma as fast as I can, especially Ardmore, as it's too close to Texas to stop most of the time. But it's big enough that there's gotta be a decent restaurant or two, and probably a surprising little museum, a good boot store or something for when a guy has to be there.
  10. Great story, @utee94. "Forbidden Fruit" -- I'm going to have to look for that one. The Flemish term sounds very similar to German. My first day at a pseudo-internship was the last day of the annual festival in the village of Reichelsheim, Germany. We all left work at 1 p.m. and parked ourselves in the beer tent. Everybody in the company wanted to buy me a liter, and I think I got through it by taking a couple of laps around the festival area every time I went to relieve myself. They finally let me go around 10:30. German hospitality was the main reason I gained 25 pounds that year -- and I was barely 150 when I went over. Beer and wine were the main culprits.
  11. Eyed some cans of those pretty hard, but didn't buy because they're in stores here. Put together a couple of mixed sixers ($21 total) of stuff that's not readily available -- a hazy tropical IPA, some original-recipe Leinie's, some lime Mexican lager. Wanted to fill some crowlers but they were out of cans -- almost certainly would have gotten grapefruit shandy, which I suspect is that much better fresh. Was impressed with the offerings, as I'd never looked at their beer menu before. We canoed up there when my son was in 7th grade. He suggested we go again, so I think we'll try to make it happen. Not many more chances. Just before leaving Leinie's we asked for a couple of tasters and they're pretty dang generous -- probably over three ounces just to sample, and when one of them is the imperial shandy at 9 percent, it can force a change of departure plans. Our mostly old-guy happy hour has taken to splitting the big boy beers. I might have posted a pic of the Central Waters Why Is The Cake Gone? not long ago -- a couple of years ago those were close to 15 percent, and our campus is probably still trying to recover from it taking out part of our IT staff for a day.
  12. Label doesn't look familiar and I don't have it in my Untappd listing, so I was going to say I haven't had it ... but I see the last review on Untappd was four hours ago and there are also 2023 and 2024 versions listed separately. When I read the description of Born Yesterday, I know we had a discussion in our happy hour group not too long ago about rushing the hops to the brewery so they could be used within 24 hours of harvest. That means, if not Born Yesterday, we probably had a similar beer, but I can't be sure. We try pretty much any Lagunitas we can find, and I'd have to say I didn't find it that memorable if I did have it. Speaking of fresh beer, my son and I stopped by the Leinie Lodge in Chippewa Falls today for the first time. I had the Lakeside Cherry sour gose, which was pretty good for a Wisconsin-warm day (83 at the lodge around 3 p.m.). Virtually everything I've had from Leinenkugel's is fairly light (as it's generally been their shandies and seasonal fruited lagers). But they had a decent stout in my son's flight. Nice setting and their stuff was pretty good on tap from the source.
  13. I like your take, except for the "nobody has the time or means ..." part. Lots of great reporting still out there, but it tends to get buried under the landslide of crap. And some media just have a lot more capability to kick off the landslide. Bohls is too much of a rock-kicker in a way that the original scattershooter, Blackie Sherrod, never was. It's maddening, often infuriating, but at least this one had some good follow-up and we got a clearer story -- assuming the unnamed Texas source is shooting straight, which I believe is probably the case.
  14. Virtually impossible to comment on this thread without going CR, but I will say that Saban is an enigma to me. On the minus side, there's primarily his association with Bama and what appears to be some hypocrisy on his part regarding NIL, but it's a pretty damn complex problem and therefore difficult to judge. Also a minus is that it's exceedingly difficult to trust any power structure, and he just aligned with the structure when he's supposed to be "retired," whatever that means -- and I'm not going to trust anyone in that kind of role who's also paid to be a talking head. On the plus side, he appears to have some ability to poke fun at himself, and for a guy with such a deadpan personality he milks it for everything it's worth. So I gotta respect that, too.
  15. As a noob on this thread since around February, I skimmed or read through large portions of past beer threads, and as best as I can tell somebody checked out the Book of Beer Thread Rules sometime during the 2018 thread and never returned it. So as far as I'm concerned you're doing it right, but I'm not in charge. Happy Mother's Day to your mom, @Derka. And to all other Surly moms and moms of Surlies.
  16. Thanks. No skin off my teeth when Mainz loses; Bundesliga is always a bonus sport, and for sport's sake. Regardless of what happens, the final weeks of the season are always a happy time -- end of a school year, summer almost here. Always a time to reflect on our kids and our students growing and changing. My grading is almost done for the semester. Finals next week, and I'm going to pick up our son from the Twin Cities on Monday. Daughter's track season in full swing and her relay team has a chance at state for the third year in a row. There's even some Longhorn baseball and softball, maybe, somewhere, although I watched one inning of each last night before giving up, getting back to my grading and then some beer outside with the neighbor. But, yeah, I'm no fan of Bayern, other than the grudging respect for a behemoth. It's just that this season there was an on-field interest because the European spots are so tight and it would be nice to see Mainz get the money and the opportunity. They'll likely need it. I'm assuming they lose Burkardt this off-season, so there will probably be some rebuilding. And as I type they take a 2-0 lead and are in the sixth spot. Lots of interesting and consequential games going on right now. No Champion's League for Mainz, but Europe still a very strong possibility, and five teams fighting for those two or three spots. Headed back to the TV now ...
  17. Like many others, my university is run by 12-year-olds.
  18. Not to defend Aggies in any way, as my time in College Station as a Horn was not particularly pleasant, but I was a TA in a class at A&M with around two dozen football players during the Slocum glory years. We were having some discussion and one player gave his opinion on something from the back of the room (side note: probably not Terrence Kiel, father of A&M's current left fielder, who was in the class but who I don't recall ever saying anything). Bethel Johnson, who later ranked second in KO returns for New England as a rookie, was sitting in the front row. I remember being slightly stunned when he turned around and called over his shoulder, "But that's just YOUR paradigm, man." Bethel was pretty funny and seemed like both a decent and intelligent guy. Got a couple of Super Bowl rings with the Patriots, played a bit for Minnesota, and signed with but didn't do anything for three other NFL teams -- the last of them being the Texans in 2007. I just looked him up on LinkedIn and it seems he's a self-employed business consultant in Arlington. Not much on his page, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's doing well. TL/DNR version: Bethel used a big word correctly, but still, to hell with A&M.
  19. I do not miss living in Manhattan, Kansas, during this time of year. The smoke from prairie burning was a constant irritant.
  20. Sunday happy hour: first day it's been nice enough to take it back out to the patio, our regular warm-weather location, after a long winter and mud season. Got all the way to 71.6 today, according to the NWS. Started with a Central Waters Tomorrow River Helles. Beer stories associated with the Tomorrow but ain't nobody got time for that. Other notable beers included Dragon's Milk (the original) from Holland, Michigan -- literally, as the wife of one of our regulars was there this weekend and delivered it shortly before happy hour. The regulars also loved New Holland Brewing's Tangerine Space Machine, a tangerine IPA that was more tangerine and less IPA. It was probably just that it tasted like summer and everybody wanted that. Started with 10 beers of three types in the garage mini-fridge. Ended with 19 beers of 11 types. Some will not make it through the week, as yard work season is now in full swing.
  21. Here's the "everything has already been said before we've got nothing new to say so we're saying it all in one thread" thread. Spoiler: no, it ain't Rickrolling, but you've probably all been there before and it's close enough.
  22. Point well taken. Trot was ... uh ... fiery. The part I edited for brevity about throwing the bat toward Rupe (which I should have left in) mentioned several HBPs that I imagine Rupe took part in. Wouldn't want an asshole on the team, but would want a guy who stands for his teammates every time. Nothing in the Horns' team culture right now points to Sark recruiting assholes.
  23. Grilled some prime rib and filet mignon with the neighbors last night and scrounged a Three Sheeps (Sheboygan, WI) Rebel Kent out of their basement fridge. Not a big amber guy but this one is probably my favorite. Nice and malty, very slightly sweet. Good stuff. Love the can, too. Has a tiny castle in Brussels on one side of the can and the tiny brewery in Sheboygan on the other, separated by fields of grain.
  24. Stuttgart gets that necessary win, @Mittens, although it's looking grim for European play through BL play. Gonna take a series of miracles. But you gotta like their chances of getting there through the Pokal on the 24th. I'm not feeling great about chances for Mainz, either. Having Frankfurt at home tomorrow could allow them to crawl back into the sixth spot in the table before traveling to Bochum next week, but I don't like that last game against Leverkusen, even if it is in Mainz. Could be a cracker, though, and it should be an exciting last couple of matchdays. Good to see that Leipzig kept the title on hold for at least another day. Definitely rooting for Leverkusen tomorrow against Freiburg, but as distasteful as it is, I'm gonna hope Bayern wraps it up next weekend and Leverkusen has nothing to play for on the final weekend.
  25. Highlights from Wikipedia entry on Trot Nixon: May 5, 2002, threw his bat toward Devil Rays pitcher Ryan Rupe, pretending the bat slipped out of his hands while swinging. Fined $2,000 and suspended four games. Best year was 2003, hit .306 with 28 home runs, 87 RBIs. On October 4, in Game 3 of ALDS, had a two-run pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the 11th to win the series over Oakland. Hit .333 (8 for 24) with 3 home runs and 5 RBIs in the ALCS but Sox lost to the Yankees. Herniated disc and a tight thigh muscle kept him out of much of 2004, but hit a two-out, two-run double off the right field wall at Busch Stadium in St. Louis in the top of the third to give Boston a 3–0 lead -- the final score in the fourth game of Boston's World Series sweep, bringing its first title in 86 years. Batted .357 (5 for 14) with 3 doubles, 3 RBIs in the series. Endeared himself to Sox fans by briefly wearing a mohawk hairstyle, "one of many unconventional and bizarre hairstyles the Sox sported over the course of the 2004 season." Known for his "extremely volatile temper and steadfast dedication to his teammates. In August 2005, while officially on the disabled list, Nixon remained in uniform and in the dugout with the rest of the team during the game. When teammate Gabe Kapler ... hit a long fly ball off of the Green Monster, the umpires ruled it a double. Nixon leapt off the bench and argued with such passion that Kapler's hit had been a home run (television replays confirmed that the hit had landed above the home run line...) that he was ejected from the game." If Trott is like Trot, he deserves the spot.
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