2026 Pittsburgh Pirates

I followed the game up till the 5th inning when it was still 2-1 Pirates and Skenes. I later walked by the bar at the restaurant I was having dinner at (Sliced Elk New York with a mushroom sauce - wonderful) and saw the score was 2-2 in the 7th. I thought - not too bad until I looked closer and saw a "1" before the 2 for the Brooklyn Bums.

 

https://x.com/colin_beazley/status/2064439105371394371

 

What is that saying, something like one man's trash is another man's gold?? Well what you call wonderful I'd call disgusting. Hate mushrooms and guessing Elk taste like Deer which I'm not a fan of. Friends tell me they taste gamey, whatever that taste like. Cows and chickens may not be pretty creatures but they sure do taste good.

I always feel bad for the humans of the hunter/gatherer era. Cows would have been so easy to hunt

Does Elk taste like Deer???

 

Not at all. Slightly different than steak with same exact texture, extremely tender, at least the times I've ordered it. I like it better than venison but like venison as well. Ostrich is very good as is bison. Also love duck, veal, rabbit and squab, although there's not much meat there with squab. But it sounds like you wouldn't care for or venture into any of these but I'll bet there are a whole bunch of hunters on this MB (not me) who probably catch them and like to eat them. Nothing wrong though with just beef, chicken, turkey and pork. So many variations just with them. My first wife couldn't stand fish or me cooking it indoors. She hated the smell (so she said). But wouldn't hesitate to open a can a tuna fish, one of the smelliest fish you can find IMHO where even the empty cans in the trash smell up the whole house. Kind of like the Bucs this past week. Oh well. Enjoy your Italian food on your upcoming trip, they have some interesting items that you don't find in our US Italian restaurants.

 

Ohtani
6-2
Era 1.06
Batting avg .296
By far the best ball player I have seen in my lifetime

 

Elk taste more like beef than deer
Deer meat is excellent with 10% fat added to it
Chicken is the dirtiest animal on the planet
Eats its own feces
But chicken meat is delicious
All in all the meat depends on how you get it processed
Next time you get deer meat ask if fat was added and how much
I love deer ground meat

 

Elk tastes like deer not bad but not beef

I go to NM and the mountain folks serve elk burgers. I eat them but would not buy them. Not so much gamey just dry tough and flavorless. Kind if like making a burger out of cheap rump roast rather than chuck and brisket.

I don’t think there are any steaks it is all ground together because I guess an elk rump is three steps below a beef rump

But it is good if you are feeding your family

 

My wife won’t let me broil or bake fish because it smells bad doesn’t even like me ordering it in a restaurant and then she will fry chicken livers and roast Brussels sprouts

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?

 

Bucs up 9-6 going to 9
Soto comes in gives up 2 runs
Surprise Surprise
Raise it
Magic # 53
Looks like the league has figured Skenes out
BP definitely undeniably has major issues

 

Like my sprouts steamed laced with butter and garlic
Chicken livers with hot sauce= yum yum 4 the tum tum

 

Thank you Reynolds
Robbed Ohtani of a hr
Or
Ohtani would’ve had 2 hrs in this game
Once again in my 60 yrs have not witnessed a MLB player as good as Ohtani

 

To me Brussels sprouts are like a cross between a cabbage and an old tennis shoe

 

+3


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Cabbage I understand
Old tennis shoe?
Never ate a tennis shoe
So I will take your word on that

 

Probably one of the few games this season where Bucs come back like that. In true Pirate fashion they tried to give it away in the 9th.

 

Well at least somebody else’s bullpen imploded for once.
Tyler Callahan hit two out!
It is a known phenomenon that a player who has waited a long time in the minors for his shot in the show will exceed his expected offensive level for half a year or so. For want of a better name I call it the Al Pedrique effect. Maybe Callahan is doing that. He was buried in the Reds’ farm system for a good while.

 

The few times I had Elk out it tasted more like beef than venison, possibly due to the mushroom gravy poured over it that might have been beef based? I really like it. Very lean, no fat/grizzle. This one below from Tuesday night was called "Elk-New York" on the chalkboard as a special. A week earlier I was at a great little steakhouse in Lone Pine CA that has Elk Medallions all the time on their menu but they were out with no date for it coming back. They said it's somewhat of a seasonal entree. But just 5 nights later found it at Whiskey Creek in Bishop CA as a special of the day.

 

Damn, does look tasty and it does look like beef. Looks rare.

Cows everywhere are hoping it catches on as humans favorite red meat

 

It was med rare as they suggested and how I order all my beef steaks/prime rib including burgers (at decent sit down places). And the good news, you don't hear the Greenies running around with their hair on fire about Elk farts.

 

Getting drubbed 8-4.
Looks like the injuries are stacking up. Cruz and Konnor out, bullpen ineffective, Ozuna can no longer hit and runs like he is giving two clones of Casey Hampton a piggyback ride. Hank Davis could not find the Mendoza line with a telescope.
Looked pretty hopeful for a while and may again, but at this moment they look like a .500 team. Maybe.

 

Uh-oh closing in on under .500. Lasted longer then I thought they would. Maybe they will hang around .500 a little longer but it's gonna happen.

We'll get em in 2028.