Jose Garces’ Distrito is offering some World Series deals. Get $2 Tecates and $5 frozen margaritas as you watch the games on their big screen or in the semi-secret karaoke room.

Distrito [Official Site]

Joe Sixpack asked Yuengling’s owner Dick Yuengling if he would have any divided loyalties because of the Tampa outpost of his Yuengling Brewing Co.

“No way,” Yuengling told me. “I’m with the Phillies all the way. I’ve been a Phillies fans since 1955, when the A’s left town.”

Yuengling bleeds Phillies red [Beer Radar]
Yuengling Brewing Co. [Official Site]

Foobooz is going red for the Phillies and now we’ll attempt to answer everyone’s number one question, “where should I watch the game?”

In the Metro today The Bite notes Johnny Brenda’s will have the game on downstairs on a temporary plasma TV and tonight they will have the upstairs open and the game projected on a 10′ x 7′ screen. Get there early and enjoy their meatball sliders and Philadelphia Brewing Co. beer specials.

Also in The Bite today is our favorite promo so far. Bridget Foy’s is offering skate wing crusted in cornmeal and served with a jalapeno and Creole remoulade. How great is that? Eat some Ray as our Phillies devour the Rays.

More worthwhile places to consider after the jump.

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The Phillies are playing again tonight and if you’re not actually in L.A. for the game (ahem) we’d suggest watching it at the South Philadelphia Tap Room, which has a new chef and menu.

Meal Ticket has all the scoop on the chef - Scott Schroeder, formerly of the departed Deuce and Pontiac Grille - and he’s got the menu, too, which debuted this past Friday.

Still no Newbold Spuds, but we can certainly get behind roast pork with long hots, braised brisket sandwiches with horseradish Cheddar and Southern-fried chicken wings.

South Philadelphia Tap Room [Official Site]

Our oh-so-smart readers have come up with some good places to watch the debate tonight. But of course before the debate is game two of the Phillies and Brewers. GoPhila.com has ten suggestions on where to watch that.

Oh and we just found this, vice-presidential debate drinking games.

$6.75 for a beer may not seem like a great deal but it turns out that price makes Citizens Bank Park the cheapest in the majors! In the Bronx you can spend $10 for a Miller Lite.

How Cheap Should A Beer Be? [CNBC] via the Illadelph

Last year Citizens Bank Park received lots of praise for its food from everyone from PETA to the Food Network. And the praise continues as the New York Times sung our ballpark’s praises in Sunday’s travel section.

But the prize for vernacular food probably goes to Citizens Bank Park, the four-year-old home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Most of the action takes place in Ashburn Alley (named for the Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn), a brick promenade behind center field where fans can practically hang over the visitors’ bullpen or dine under the giant Liberty Bell sign that lights up and rocks back and forth when the Phillies hit a home run.

Ashburn Alley is home to hoagies, Chickie & Pete’s crab fries (French fries dusted with Old Bay seasoning) and two of the city’s respected cheese steak purveyors, Rick’s Steaks and Tony Luke’s. Tony Luke’s had the better cheese steak of the two (though their other locations are notably superior). Even better is Tony Luke’s juicy roasted pork and provolone sandwich, dressed with tender broccoli rabe, as good a meat sandwich as there is in the majors.

Also not to be missed is the Schmitter sandwich from McNally’s, an outpost of an 87-year-old Germantown tavern at the end of Ashburn Alley. It’s not named for the Phillies legend Mike Schmidt, but rather, I was told, after a long-gone McNally’s customer who always ordered it with Schmidt’s Beer, the now-defunct Pennsylvania brand.

The Schmitter packs, from top to bottom: melted cheese, a generous squirt of a “special sauce,” griddled salami, more cheese, sliced tomato, fried onions, griddled steak and another slice of cheese, just to help keep the beef in place. It was the unhealthiest thing I encountered on my cholesterol-gathering trip, an unholy alliance of meats, cheese and mayonnaise tucked into a Kaiser roll. It was also impossible to stop eating after the first bite.

Buy Me Some Sushi and Baby Back Ribs [New York Times] via The Illadelph
Finding the Hits, Avoiding the Errors - Interactive [New York Times]

Hey maybe you heard, the Phillies made the playoffs. And like many of you we plan on doing as little work as possible this afternoon and jetting out early. Interestingly we have not been bombarded with bars doing drink deals. But we’ll give a shout out to a couple who did contact us.

Barristers Bar & Grille will be doing their typical Phillies specials including $1 hot dogs. And these are nicely grilled dogs, not some nasty boiled variety.

Lucky Strike also got word to us that they are doing half-priced appetizers and drink deals during all Phillies playoff games.

And the people have spoken suggesting Moriarty’s as a good spot to watch the game.