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    (MONTAUK) SUPBERBURGER FRIENDS & FAMILY TIX

    A very limited number of friends & family tix are quietly on sale now at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3837325544?nomo=1. Password is “superburger.” Public on-sale next week, exclusively at eater.com. Get at it.

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    (MONTAUK) SUPERBURGER
    8/25/12, 1 PM

    Featuring
    THE BURGER JOINT & MOMOFUKU MILK BAR

    Sponsors
    Amstel Light and LaFrieda Meats

    Competitors
    SEAMUS MULLEN, Tertulia
    JESSE GERSTEIN & DAN ALDWORTH, 2011 Superburger Runner-up (a)
    ALEX STUPAK, Empellon
    ZAK PELACCIO, Fatty Crab
    EDDIE “HARLEM” HUANG & CHARLIE DOUGIELO, BaoHaus
    RYAN SOLIEN, Montauk Yacht Club
    HAROLD MOORE, Commerce
    MEHDI BRUNET-BENKRITLY, Fedora
    MIKE DEFONZO, PJ Clarke’s
    SARAH SIMMONS, City Grit (a)
    JAMES RAMSAY & STU “THE GRIFTER” WILSON (a)

    Judges
    PAT LAFRIEDA, LaFrieda Meat Purveyors
    SPIKE MENDELSOHN, 2009 South Beach Burger Bash Winner
    JOSH CAPON, 2010 NYC Burger Bash Winner
    HEAD JUDGE KATE KRADER, Food & Wine Magazine
    LEE “THE RING” SCHRAGER, NYC/South Beach Wine & Food Festivals

    Plus
    “EL PRESIDENTE” MARK PASTORE

    #mtksuperburger

     
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  3. The Greatest Pop Culture Trivia Question in History

    Between 1970 and 2000, the same subject appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Time and Newsweek in the same week. An animal, a team, a woman and two men. Who are they?

    cc: RVV.

     
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  5. Everyone knows by now that, even with [ARod’s] legendary October of 2009 included, this is an awful contract. The question that still must be answered is, how bad will it be?
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