For $5 I'll be a macadamia nut!

Rumor has it that the "High Life Guy," known to some as Windell Middlebrooks, will be throwing out the first pitch tonight at the Crew - Cardinals game. He will also be all over the parking lot before the game...passing out Miller gear.

If you're tailgaiting at the game tonight and you run into the guy, feel free to offer him a cold beer and hot dog. If you're really classy maybe throw some chicken wings his way.

Just don't offer him some organic chips, a veggie burger, or a daquiri. Cause if you do sir, you are not living the high life.
UPDATE:
For the record, when I say "Rumor has it," I mean that "Brad emailed me telling me to post about this because some guy in his office told him and he can't post himself cause he is in meetings all day." But now I read on the JSONLINE that the tubby bitch is going to be at Miller Park this Saturday (but won't be throwing out the first pitch apparently). So maybe this is what they were referring to. I don't freaking know. Bottom line, everything I wrote above stands, look for Mr. Middlebrooks at Miller Park on Saturday.

Eat a cheeseburger Fella!

Here's a interesting little article written on Deadspin about Prince Fielder's Vegetarian lifestyle.

I don't feel like writing much about it...cause what the F do I know about this type of shit?

Judge for yourself. Look at his career numbers and compare the last 3 years. The guy is playing pretty similar to his rookie year. His BA & OBP are pretty similar and are right at his career numbers.

However, slugging is way down. It's 150 points less then last year. Can all of this be attributed to the lack of Popeye's Chicken and Kopp's jumbo burgers?

Screw it...I say yes. You just know there has to be times when it's like 1:30 in the afternoon and Prince is on his way to the ballpark. Maybe the wife and kids were bitchin at him all morning around the house. Maybe he went 0-4 the night before. Maybe he read online another freaking idiot on the JSOnline blog saying he's a disappointment. Like you don't think the Big Fella wouldn't feel a hell of a lot better if he rolled through McDonald's drive thru and pounded 3 double cheeseburgers and a McChicken? Dude would take a greasy dump by 4:00 and would have two HR's by the 5th inning.

Have some meat Prince...you've earned it.

Welcome Back...

Good lord.

There were several homecomings tonight at Miller Park....

1. The Brewers welcomed back Geoff Jenkins - and he didn't disappoint, striking out once and doing one of his patented I-don't-have-to-dive-for-this-ball-but-I-want-to-get-on-Sportscenter plays in right field.

2. The Brewers welcomed back Prince Fielder - a couple of 2-run bombs for the big fella. The best part was him mouthing "No Meat" to the camera after the second dinger.

3. The Brewers welcomed back...Derrick Turnbow? Although I was ready to reach through the TV screen to wring Ned's neck on that decision, Turnbow did the job in the 9th for the save. Yost said after the game that he had made his mind up before the game, that depending upon where the Phillies were in the lineup, if there was a save situation it would be Turnbow or Shouse to close. Nothing if not decisive...

Everyone will be second-guessing a couple of Yost decisions in this game, but how about how Charlie Manuel handled Cole Hamels? Hamels was well over 100 pitches to start the 8th, and the Phillies have the best bullpen in the league. After Braun doubled, I'm really surprised that Hamels stayed in the game to face Prince. That turned out to be a mistake.

Well, any time you can have Dave Bush, Mitch Stetter and Derrick Turnbow pitch in a game against Cole Hamels and you come out with a victory, it's a good day. But I could really use an 8-2 game one of these days...oh, and Trenni was out with guns blazing tonight...

Oh, and there was sort of a Steve Bartman moment in the early going, when Greg Dobbs hit a foul ball down the third base line and some yahoo stuck his glove over the railing and stole the ball from Bill Hall. Except this yahoo was wearing a Packers T-shirt, and Hall (who doesn't pee on his hands) didn't jump up and down and throw a hissy, and Bush got Dobbs to fly out to right so it didn't matter, and the game was in April. So I guess it wasn't all that similar to the Bartman play.

Quite a bit going on for a Wednesday night game in April, actually.

Tofu Prince?

Well, I'm not sure I like this.

The Journal Sentinel is reporting that Prince Fielder is now a vegetarian.

As of February 3.

Why? Is it a diet?

No. His wife gave him a book that talked about how animals are treated and slaughtered for food, which "grossed him out." (Side note: Perhaps this will make Wrigleyville's nickname for Prince obsolete.)

As long as Prince can still mash 50 bombs on tofu burgers, I guess I'm OK with this, but put me down as skeptical at this point. Thankfully, Prince's wife is on the same page with me:

"My wife said that if I lose some power, she's cooking me a big steak."

Thank you, Mrs. Fielder.