I loved that Miller showed OBP and I think SLG on the scoreboard; something that B3 did when it initially opened, but then, for some reason that no one has ever explained, stopped showing them, despite having a massive scoreboard. I went to a talk held by the Cardinals director of marketing and he said that he did not even know that the change happened.

The music at Miller was a lot better. When the lineups were announced they played “El Distorto de Melodica” by Everclear. This song won best rock instrumental in ’97 or ’98 and is perfect. The Cardinals play some mash up song, which starts with the Stones “Start Me Up” and quickly devolves into some Hip Hop BS. Then we play so much country music. I know we are in the Midwest and baseball is a little bit of a country sport, but it is so annoying. We used to have “Real Redbird Moments” and “This date in baseball history” between innings, but those have been taken over by things like “Kiss Cam.”

Maybe the Kiss Cam just makes me so mad because so many people love it. There was even an article in the Post-Dispatch about it and how much the fans love it. It makes me feel like I am at a minor league game. The only time it was ever mildly entertaining was when 2 hot girls starting making out- that was on the screen for about 1.5 seconds. Guess the B3 staff deemed it inappropriate.

I kind of liked Bernie the Brewer going down the slide after homers and I could live with the sausage race. Anyway, I think Miller still has Busch 3 beat.

What do you mean “you can live with the sausage race”. The sausage race is amazing. It is the original and easily the best of all the racing food products and mascots in any stadium. The sausages are part of the Brewer experience.

Kiss cams are just stupid things that almost every stadium uses in between innings. I don’t know if there is any reason to hate on it really it’s light hearted and harmless. If it replaced superior between inning entertainment in St Louis that is a shame but its not something that is going to put a team over the top or make them fail in terms of stadium experience.

I was just in downtown STL for the first time in about four years two weekends ago, and I was really surprised at how nicely integrated into the downtown area the stadium is. It made me wish Miller Park was in downtown Milwaukee.

I was at the home-opener this year and it was definitaly on. A couple of the people were actually kinda funny.

Thanks for the help guys. I am sure that I will stop by and check in some more times this summer- despite being a St. Louis man with a St. Louis plan, I am still a Brewers fan.

As for Bud vs. Miller, I won’t drink anything made outside of St. Louis and rarely stay vere away from Busch, but sometimes I can’t help but enjoy a Milwaukee made PBR.