Keep Your Head Held High or How I Learned to Get Yesterday's Game Off My Mind and Love the 2008 Brewers)
by ZTK Always on Vacation on Oct 6, 2008 8:40 AM CDT
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PrintTo be honest, I was a bit down yesterday after the game (the Packers and the Badgers didn't help much either). But this morning, I woke up, took a shower, and put on my favorite Brewers shirt with a smile. Why?
- Because of Ryan Braun's home run in St. Louis followed by Torres icing the sweep.
- Because I finally kept a New Years Resolution, to make it to five Brewers games, and they won all five.
- Because One of those was C.C.'s first in Milwaukee.
- Because it's now only been one day since the Brewers have been in the playoffs, and for the Cubs it's been two.
- Because of J.J.'s defense in the Cubs series when everything else was cover your eyes awful.
- Because I'm pretty sure my sister was crying when she told me Ryan Braun hit a three run homer on the last day of the season.
- Because I sat watching Gameday in suspence and anticipation for a Mets-Marlins game.
- Because Prince Fielder flat out mashed the last home run of the season.
- Because we got to see Dave Bush come up huge in game three after being jerked around by Ned Yost.
- Because I had a reason to call Craig Counsell C.C. Jr.
- Because of the thought of Craig Counsell trying on Prince Fielder's uniform.
- Because out of nowhere, Russell Branyan carried this team.
- Because of the number 3 million.
- Because of the number 90 million.
- Because at the end of the day, if all signs point to a job well done, I will untuck my shirt.
Thanks for 2008, now make 2009 even better.
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Classy man
But you forgot:
16. Because some crazy girl invaded the blog
17. Because said crazy girl loves everyone
:)
"Brett Favre looks like a man in a parking lot playing with boys." - John Madden
"Pujols just unloaded." - Bob Uecker
36. Because JJ, Braun, and Corey bring the honeys to Miller Park
37. Because middle-aged white people now love Jeezy’s Go Getta
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am also pro-Rodgers.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on Oct 6, 2008 9:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Keep ya head up
Oooooh child, things are gonna get brighter…
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
How about...
the performance of Parra and YoGa and Villanueva? All things will not be lost when CC’s a Yank next year.
And let us not forget
18. Because we got to see Ned Yost get fired.
Another one
19. Because my entire neighborhood thinks I’m a nut after I ran around hollering after Braun’s home run on the last day of the season.
Brewers fan lost in South Carolina.
20. Because of Seth McClung. ’Nuff said.
Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.
26. Counsell catching one off the roof
27. Fielder’s splash landing in San Francisco
28. Counsell with bases loaded (on the season)
29. Braun’s bomb that looks like it left Miller Park
30. Fielder’s inside the park homerun (stuck under the rolled up tarp)
31. Sheet’s all-star-game performance
Situational Signature (8th/9th inning only): pleasenotkendallpleasenotkendallpleasenotkendallpleasenotkendall
--NoahJ
Through the eyes of a 5-year-old
As only a kid can make you appreciate the game, my personal highlights, in chronological order:
1. At spring training, asking me every 5 minutes, “Daddy, where’s Ryan Braun now?”
2. June 20. Watching Bernie slide during his (and my) first game at Miller Park. Asking me every 10 minutes, “Where’s Ryan Braun? Where’s Prince Fielder? Is dat Corey Hart?” Unfortunately, the Brewers didn’t win the game. Like most of the games I used to attend at County Stadium.
3. Cheering for whichever sausage was winning the race. Kids are born bandwagon fans.
4. Getting out of bed and running downstairs in his pajamas to see Braun’s walk-off Slam.
5. Three days later, cheering with me as the Brewers made the playoffs for the first time since I wasn’t all that much older than he is now.
Where did you end up?
Brew Angel,
I think you asked earlier this spring about where to sit with your young son at the June 20 Brewers game. I replied and told you to sit in section 109. Where did you end up?
I took your advice
(almost). I got tickets in section 107. We were on the right-field side, field level, right in front of the kids’ playground area. My son had a blast! I just missed catching one of the warmup balls that Hart threw into the seats, too.
I wound up getting to see the Brewers live 3 times this year. Spring training, at Miller Park, and against the Dodgers. I don’t know when I’ll make it back to WI for another Brewers game, but I plan to see them in spring training again next March (a trip I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to any baseball fan — the small venues, relaxed atmosphere, and up-close interaction with players is not to be missed!), and hopefully against the Dodgers or Padres too.
36) Because of the horrified look on the father of two young children’s face when our section broke out with a “Hermida has herpes” chant.
"I think this decision could go either way," Baseball Tonight legal analyst John Kruk said.
by ZTK Always on Vacation on Oct 9, 2008 10:18 AM CDT reply actions
Classic
I was around 12 sitting in the bleachers at County Stadium when a couple of guys who had a little too much to drink started a “Daryle Ward beats his wife” chant. Although, at that age, I thought it was funny. He didn’t come back out the next inning, though he was probably replaced for a defensive upgrade.
by jeffro53081 on Oct 13, 2008 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions
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