Friday, May 15, 2009

Baby Redbirds

The Brewers play the Cardinals this weekend in Busch Light Stadium, and you know what that means! Let the crybaby, hypocritical-ness begin!

Exhibit A (for 2009) - this story is actually on the Cardinals website as the preview to the Brewers series. Lordy, lordy, are they seriously still concerned about the shirt un-tucking?

But first it's the Milwaukee Brewers, who are tied with St. Louis atop the National League Central. And who, honestly, are a little bit more fun to beat because of their flamboyant ways.

They sure are flamboyant - did you see Cameron with that blue feathered boa on during the game yesterday?

"Well, they've got a little flair about them that some people don't care for," said closer Ryan Franklin. "But that's just the way they are. So yeah, I think it would be more fun to beat them than it would be the Padres or something, just because of what they do after they beat you."

Actually, each Milwaukee Brewer is required to wear at least 30 pieces of flair on their jerseys. We're not in Kansas anymore. And do wins against the Padres count in the standings this year?

It's not that the Brewers are bad guys. It's not that this is the Red Sox and Yankees in the 1970s, when players were at one another's throats. But the Brewers are well known around the league to be a little showier about things than some other teams are. And dating back to late 2007, St. Louis and Milwaukee have had the occasional dustup.


Not bad guys? Well, that's a relief. I mean, when I saw them un-tucking their shirts after clubbing the Cardinals last year, I figured they were all pederasts and drug dealers!

The solution, of course, is to beat them. And that's something the Cardinals had some trouble doing in 2008. For the first meeting in '09, they'll send Kyle Lohse to the mound. Lohse is looking to snap a mini-slump that has seen him post his two worst starts of the year since the beginning of May.

"They are what they are," Lohse said. "That's how they choose to present themselves and play the game. A lot of people don't like it. We're not the only ones."

As opposed to, say Statute Albert Pujols, who watches a meaningless home run longer than Tony LaRussa spends passed out behind the wheel of his SUV on an average Friday evening?

My God. Anyone have Bernie Miklasz's take on the series?

18 comments:

brad said...

Wow, these Brewers sure are rebels and showoffs. Did you see them do that insulting "high 5" the other night? Total disrespect for the game.

garcia said...

My favorite post from that stupid article...

"If any clothing on a Brewer is loosened, let it be their pants around their ankles and their buttocks an angry red from the spanking they've been given"
~~HummingBirds

Tim said...

Talk about show-offs. Ankiel's unnecessary head-butting inanimate objects after catches takes the cake.
Show some class.

Peter Gibbons said...

You know the Nazi's had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear.

Donny said...

What's a pederast?

Goldy said...

As Matt and I discussed in an e-mail exchange, this feels like when the Badgers play MSU in basketball. they Cardinals (Michigan State) are having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that a team, the Brewers (Badgers), that they used to pummel every year is now at the top of the division and has their number.

Todd said...

"Carlos Villanueva is a journeyman punk that has no right to breath the same air as the Guardian of Goodness, Lord Pujols. I will personally see to it that I break the Baseball Writers Association of America's rule of "no cheering in the press box" every time Pujols reaches base. I'll be wearing my Chris Perez jersey."

I'm guessing that's what Bernie wrote.

DOGY said...

Donny-

Are you serious?

Justin said...

How dare you guys. Albert Pujols has earned the right to stop and stare at home runs and walz to first base because of the statistics he's put up, and by guys like Bernie Miklasz dubbing him the "Guardian of Goodness".

All Ryan Braun has done is hit clutch home runs and equal or come close to, most all Pooh-holes statistics through their first three years of their respective careers.

How dare Corey Hart and JJ dye their hair black too. Show-offs.

Donny said...

I am the walrus?

Anonymous said...

eight year olds dude

Anonymous said...

Can't wait until Pujols gets the A-Rod/Manny treatment. The Cardinal fans say he's clean, just like they did about McGwire, lol.

Anonymous said...

with no game tonight, you have to wonder what balls the happy youngster was juggling tonight...

Anonymous said...

The Happy Youngster apparently has more than 775 to play with. That should keep him busy for at least another inning or two of rain delays. Douche.

Jim said...

You guys are crazy - we totally showboat more than (most) other teams when we win.

I really think if you said that to Braun his response would be more "deal with it, baby" than "no we don't".

Trent Durrington said...

@Jim

I don't think Brewer fans think that the crew is the most humble team in the game. It's more that the Cardinals and their fans have been making a big deal out of petty insignificant things and trying to paint the Brewers as some terrible black eye on baseball history. It's all pretty ridiculous.

Anonymous said...

1-0 on 2 hits? I'd be pissed if I was Adam Wainwright. The guy has a crazy-good start and his team is too worried about the Brewers so-called showy and disrespectful celebrations to produce any runs to back him up. Ah, well. Enjoy second place!

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