He really was not built for the punishment he took as a QB. That rookie year game against the Ravens when Ngata just pummeled him, watching his leg whip around.. YIKES! He was never the same after that. And OF COURSE the Redskins botched his injury and recovery and the whole circus that came with the RGIII experience.

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He’s a wholesome talented white guy - HE’S IN!

True - Chuy’s rocks. That’s one place I didn’t mind to see expand out to the east coast at all! But how sad is it that Chuy’s is in Rockville and one out in the Chantilly/Fair Oaks sprawl? Like, those are not short drives from the District at all.

I rather like DT, but I generally stick with the breakfast tacos.

Wentz seems to be a better pocket passer than Newton, and he’s got a much thicker build than RGIII. I used to work at the VA with RGII - he’s got that barrel chest you see with older former military guys - but his son didn’t have the tree-trunk legs that II has. They made III fast as all hell, but that frame makes it…

Right. Still doesn’t change the fact that DC has more Mexicans than Des Moines, does it? 55,000 is still more than 24,000, right?

No - when I lived there, the East Side was basically barren and a few LGBT bars. I wasn’t in town long enough last fall to go to the “East Village” - got my George’s, Simon’s, and a sports bar. That was that.

Any place I should check out on my next visit?

I actually should mention that Oyamel in Penn Quarter is friggin’ AWESOME, but it’s pretty-high end Mexican small plates, and is hardly traditional. Some of the best meals I’ve had in the city were there.  

Blue Agave in Baltimore’s Federal Hill is really good traditional Mexican food, though higher-end than most. Not…

Some of the Baltimore crabcake places will mail crabcakes; I wonder if DT could hook you up?

DC has the reverse halo effect. Most “normal” cities have less ethnic food in the suburbs while the city grid is usually a smorgasbord of variety. In DC, though, the urban core has some unusual quality (Ethiopian obviously) and El Salvadoran, and tons of good steak houses, and the `burbs have the good ethnic chow.…

True. DT is pretty solid for just a basic taco joint, but it also doesn’t have a lot of good local competition.

Cuban chow... oh man, craving some Ropa Vieja.

I lived in Des Moines for 2 1/2 years in the late 1990s. There were some really good Mexican places - El Aguila Real, Monterrey, even El Rodeo in Urbandale was pretty serviceable - and I was in town last year for a visit. Seems like they’ve gotten even more joints since I moved back east.

Des Moines was a good dining…

Drew, which corn maze did you go to? I’d like to take the Wee Baby Smoak and Mrs. Smoak to another one besides Jumbo’s in Middletown.

This is the correct take. District Taco is really good, and their breakfast tacos are killer, but I had much better Mexican food in Des Moines, Iowa.

A place with far fewer Mexicans.

I have been a travelling video tech for the past couple of years, and I have a variety of DeWalt 18v and 12v drills in my bag. My wife wanted a small driver for little around-the-house tasks, so I grabbed her this set for her toolbox. I used this a couple of times, and I’ve WARLORDED the Bosch drill set and I’m hoping…

I have been a travelling video tech for the past couple of years, and I have a variety of DeWalt 18v and 12v drills…

The city is the capital. The building is the Capitol. They do not play in the Capitol. They play in the capital, and they play like the Capitals.

It’s not that hard. Trust.

I went to school in Annapolis where they friggin’ drilled that into our heads. Annapolis, Capital of the State of Maryland, home of the Capital newspaper and the Maryland State House, the capitol building of Maryland in the Maryland capital. Some teachers would flip the hell out if you wrote that you read an article…

Are you kidding? I’ve been jonesin’ for a Chick Parrrrmmmmmmmmmmm

Capital = City
Capitol = Building

You can take rewrite the sentence by saying “You can take the baseball team out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the baseball team.” I suppose you could take the team out of the building, but I’ve been in there and really, not a lot of good sightlines. Good concessions,…

+1 for the screen name alone. Boosh! and or Kakow!

I don’t think many Trump voters think the Pope heads their religion. They generally don’t consider Catholics to be Christians.