Milwaukee celebrates
Holy cow, the Brewers are in the playoffs and their fans are ready to par-tey!!!
Well, I’m glad.
Truthfully, I would have liked the Mets and Brewers to have won yesterday to force a game between the two teams to decide which one moved on. You see, I’ve always been a Mets fan but that’s another story.
But how can you not be happy for Brewers fans?
The 26 year drought without an appearance in the playoffs is over!!
Finally, the city can stop looking back nostalgically on a seventh game loss in the World Series.
This guy had the courage and commitment to open up his checkbook and bring CC Sabathia to town. Baseball fans can reasonably disagree about lots of things but there is no chance that the Brewers would have made the playoffs sans CC.
How exciting it must have been to watch the Brewers win at Miller Park and then stay to cheer as the Mets fell to the Marlins.
Me, I was home watching the Packers lose while on the phone with my brother who was providing me with a play-by-play of the Jets game.
Clearly, this is not the day to talk football and relive the Brett soap opera but give me a break? Aaron Rodgers has played great and he may be the future of the team but if he misses a single game due to injury, boy will the Packer brain trust get an earful!
So I will be totally and completely rooting for the Brewers against the Phillies and, hopefully, against the Cubs or the Dodgers, and, yes, against the Red Sox, Rays, Angels, Twins or White Sox in the World Series.
Sure it’s a long shot but that’s why they play the games.
Oh, and one last thing. Back in 2000 when I had just moved to Wisconsin I went nearly insane with excitement when the Mets and Yankees met in the first (and, so far, only) Subway Series of my life.
Did anyone here care? Who cares about baseball, I was told. The Packers season has started!
Well, folks, whaddya know?
It’s October (almost) and baseball still matters in Milwaukee.
Whoo Hoo!
