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[Photo: Instagram/Northern Spy Food Co.] The people at Superfly Presents pulled the plug on day three of The Great GoogaMooga food and music festival at around noon today because of bad weather. In a statement, Superfly explains that the group and the Parks Department made the decision "in the interest of safety and prevention of damage to the park grounds." Many of the chefs and restaurateurs that were participating in the fest voiced their thoughts about this on Twitter, and some of the city's big writers and critics also commented on the news this afternoon. Find a roundup of the top 15 tweets below, as well as information from Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayers about how the company plans to work with the vendors to make up for day three. This afternoon, Eater asked Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayer if the company is going to offer any reimbursement to the restaurants that prepared food and set up shop today. His response: Well, right now, we're closing down operations, but we'll be working with the restaurants, sitting down with them, and working through the issues. We have a good track record of being fair with vendors, and artists. Our whole intention behind doing this festival was to celebrate these restaurants and local business...We want to support and be a good partner with these restaurants. We want to do the right thing. We're still finalizing things and assessing operations.So, no word yet on whether the vendors will actually get any financial help to cover the food and labor costs from today. But if you are one of the unlucky vendors who set up shop today only to find out that the event was cancelled, expect a call from someone at Superfly soon. Christophe Hille of Northern Spy Food Company tells EV Grieve that his restaurant lost around $10,000 this weekend. UPDATE: Superfly also passes on this statement: "GoogaMooga is all about supporting local businesses and our intention is to do right by each vendor. In the coming days, we will be sitting down with all our partners to find financial solutions." Here's how the news of the cancellation played out on Twitter: Mile End, right before the gates were supposed to open: Superfly announcing the cancellation and the refund policy: One festival goer points out that Superfly sent out an announcement about ticket availability this morning: From Allison Robicelli: Chef Andrew Carmellini: One of the members of De La Soul sends a message to fans: Northern Spy Food Co.: Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton: Mr. Sutton offers more thoughts on GoogaMooga on his blog, The Bad Deal: "Maybe we don't really need GoogaMooga's particular brand of an NYC food festival because maybe it's just bringing together NYC restaurants we can already visit any day of the week, except here, they're outside...Maybe restaurants will realize this could all be harmful to their brands and harmful long established customer relationships?" The people from Pig and Khao respond to Sutton's question: From the Pork Slope crew: Blogger/Author Emily Gould: The people behind Pizza Moto send word that City Harvest might pick up some of the extra food. Heritage Radio Network: The people from Luke's Lobster are trying to make the most out of the situation: Team Seersucker: · All Coverage of The Great GoogaMooga [~ENY~]

Five. Five goallar. Five goallar Bruins gaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Suck it Rangers. Suck it Ryan Callahan. Suck it Henrik Softqvist. Suck it Rick Nash. Suck it Linda Cohn. Suck it Stan Fischler. Rask was a beast. Hey buddy, we already forgot. How many goals did your team score on Lundqvist while you were playing A LOT better than him again? If we forgot you and you're a Rangers fan, suck it. BUT THE RANGERS CAME BACK FROM BEING DOWN 0-2 AGAINST THE CAPITALS. Yeah. But Tuukka Rask isn't a freaking sieve. Chara has more talent in his nose hair than the entire Washington defensive corps combined. Ovechkin is a terrible leader with no heart. Basically, the Bruins are the opposite of the Crapitals. Lick our collective buttholes. - Bruins defensive scoring goals everywhere up in here. Bruins defenseman are scoring more goals than Rick Nash. - So ummm... that move by Krug to collect the puck and then score was absolutely ridiculous. We'd get more excited about Krug, but the names Kampfer and Hunwick jumped into our heads. Please be better than them Krug. He's been awesome. But so wasn't Hunwick and Kampfer for a while. We'd like to see Krug keep this up over a longer period of time. Still though, another great game by Krug. - Boychuk has been a shot blocking beast. He certainly understands it takes some pain to win. In his case a lot of pain. What a bad ass. - Chara blocking the middle of the ice and just letting Rask take on Nash on that 2 on 1 early in the second. Chara just blocked the passing lane and let Rask get a good look. Perfect play. - Boychuk deserved that awesome goal. Oh boy did he. He hit roughly 30 posts last game and has been playing his balls off. If you hate Boychuk, Jon hates you and your stupid ugly face. - Glad to see Pierre McGuire is back in the dating game with Ryan Callahan. Took Pierre forever to get over Mike Richards. - Shawn Thornton is TERRIFYING! - Campbell and Paille. Campbell scores. Paille messes you up with Campbell on the PK. Do something Rangers. Do something. - Bruins PK in general mother uckas. - The Bergeron-Marchand Connection. Again. - Rask made some perty saves. - Lucic certainly working hard to put all that regular season Whocic stuff behind him. He's finally throwing hits again and grabbed a goal. - King Who? - Milbury GM University is accepting new students. Only those with an IQ less than 10 will be accepted. - Hamilton and Marchand, what in the blue hell were you doing on the Rangers' first goal? - Games on NBC. - Pretty much any time Mike Milbury talks. At all. - Dorsett is the Colton Orr of this series. Bruins fans are pumped such a shitty player is getting way more ice time than he should. - Chara got buuuuuuuurned bad on that Nash goal in the second. Shit happens. Calm down Jimmy Murphy, no need to trade Chara because of that play. - Can Nicklas Backstrom of the Washington Capitals score 15 goals in 15 seconds? No, because the Captials blow and he's golfing. - Bruins power play is almost as ugly as Pierre McGuire. Almost. - Bruins were outplayed BADLY in the second. They got lucky the game wasn't like 10-2 Rangers going into the third. - Seguin couldn't be more invisible if he was Phaneuf. - Callahan, if you're going to come at Destroychuk with a late hit your face is going to get punched. Get the sand out of your vagina. - People who call assists "apples." Jon hates you. Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much. - Rangers fans saying being down 0-2 isn't a big deal because they came back agains the Capitals. The Captials couldn't win a series even if the other team didn't show up. Shudda you faces. - How the hell does Nash not get called for trying to cut Paille's hand off? Nash is just pissed th

When Matt Garza returns from the DL on Tuesday to start in Pittsburgh, he’ll bump Carlos Villanueva to the bullpen. The question then is who gets bumped from the bullpen. Shawn Camp? He certainly hasn’t pitched well this year, and isn’t going to accumulate any meaningful trade value between now and the Trade Deadline. Hector Rondon? He’s a Rule 5 guy whom the Cubs like, and they aren’t going to dump him now for nothing. Of course, they could just put him on the disabled list for a few weeks with a bad back. Carlos Marmol? The Cubs don’t seem inclined to release him right now (he did look pretty sharp today), and there probably isn’t much of a trade market. So it won’t be him. No, according to Bruce Miles it’s going to be Michael Bowden, who is out of options, getting designated for assignment. The 26-year-old righty was great down the stretch last year (after previously being DFA’d and clearing waivers, incidentally), and has a 3.78 ERA and 1.140 WHIP. Then again, he’s striking out just 3.8 batters per 9, and walking 2.7. Small sample size, but he hasn’t been dominating. Still, is risking losing Bowden for nothing really the right move? I know you can only kinda-sorta play disabled list games, but I’m surprised that the Cubs aren’t going to try. We’ll see if something changes tomorrow, but, as of right now, it looks like the Cubs will DFA Bowden, and try to figure out whether to trade, release, or waive him. Presumably, the Cubs would love to find a trade partner (unlikely) or see him clear waivers so they can outright him to AAA Iowa. Related posts: Cubs Claim Jairo Asencio Off Waivers, Designate Michael Bowden For Assignment The bullpen shuffle continues.... Chicago Cubs DFA Blake DeWitt (Again) to Make Room for Travis Wood This could be the end of the line for the... Michael Bowden Recalled from Iowa, Brooks Raley Sent Back to Iowa Don't worry, though - Raley could be back for his...

Here's a very thin silver lining for anyone who was rained out from day three of The Great GoogaMooga: all unused drink tickets will be refunded. If you want your money back, all you have to do is send an envelope with any unused beer and wine pavilion tickets and a copy of the receipt for your Sunday ticket to Superfly's GoogaMooga offices, to the attention of Ticket Reimbursements, by June 17. That address and the return policy can be found here. [Brokelyn] [Photo]

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The view from my seat...looking straight up. Hello? Tap, tap. Are FanPosts working again? MOOSIC, PA (May 12, 2013) - Photos from the third game of the Gwinnett Braves at SWB RailRiders series. Jason Heyward on deck. The view from my seat...looking straight up. Hello? Tap, tap. Are FanPosts working again? MOOSIC, PA (May 12, 2013) - Photos from the third game of the Gwinnett Braves at SWB RailRiders series. Jason Heyward on deck. Fouling one off. Joey Terdoslavich singles in the first. On the mound for the G-Braves: Daniel Rodriguez. Tyler Pastornicky doubles in the second. Heyward hits a 2-RBI single in the second inning. Alden Carrithers steals 2B in the third. Reegie Corona with the tag. Ernesto Mejia with a putout in the third. Daniel Rodriguez pitched 5.1 innings, giving 5 runs (all earned), 4 walks, and 2 home runs. He had 3 strikeouts. Mejia after striking out in the sixth. Tyler Pastornicky was stranded after getting on via a hit by pitch. Brandon Boggs is out on the forceout in the 7th. Shortstop Addison Maruszak's throw is too late to get Alden Carrithers at first. Wirfin Obispo pitched the 7th and 8th, plus two outs in the 6th. Heyward reacts to striking out in the 8th. He had a pretty good day, though: 2 for 4 with 3 RBIs. Joe Terdoslavich also struck out in the 8th. Ryan Buchter pitched the 9th. Addison Maruszak reached on an error by right fielder Joey Terdoslavich. A single and two walks scored Maruszak, and the Braves' two-run lead was down to one. Catcher Matt Pagnozzi confers with Buchter on the mound. Whatever he said must have worked, because Buchter struck out the next two batters, ending the game. The 14-game losing streak was over! Jason Heyward and Paul Janish on the field after the game. (Janish got the day game after the night game off.) Jeez, Heyward's a big guy. Janish is 6'-2", and looks like a shrimp next to Heyward. Final score: Braves 7, RailRiders 6.

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