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Never.

If anyone says it the response is “who’s dying?”

A friend of mine is a police sergeant in Superior. When the game ended people were setting of fireworks in that city.

Superior to Am Fam Field is just under 400 miles.

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No deferred contracts

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Not accurate. Ryan Braun and Lorenzo Cain are still on the books and Yelich has money deferred. Those are the only three and it totals around 38 million.

Cooper Pratt will never have to buy a Fanta in Wisconsin again.

He’s Mormon and doesn’t drink. They’ve had Fanta Orange for him in the clubhouse.

Let’s say it was 20% Brewers fans. If the Trop holds 40,000 that’s 8k Brewer fans leaving 32,000 Rays fans. An estimated 31k were at the ballpark in Milwaukee watching there and tickets for that watch party were being scalped.

We’ll never know exactly what the percentage breakdown at the Trop was but when the Fox and MLB postgame shows continually talk about how they’ve never seen visiting fans show up like that it furthers a narrative that doesn’t look positive for Rays fans.

8 runs with 2 outs. They’ve scored runs with 2 outs all season long but not quite like this.

Article in The Athletic about the bond between Brewer fans (and the state of Wisconsin) with Bob Uecker. Great tidbits in here about mentorship of other announcers.

Athletic Article on Uecker

Even without Uecker the Brewers radio guys are great. In the bottom of the 6th during the pitching change, Jeff Levering drops this:

“The Brewers are making a mess of this 6th inning. When you make a mess there’s Northshore Adult Diapers….”

If anyone cares, Italian Sausage won the sausage race with a time of 16.73 seconds. Bratwurst was 2nd.

Apologies for the long post here.

I was 6 years old in 1982. My dad took my brother and I to every postseason game in Milwaukee in 1982. It was a 3 hour drive. Go to those games, drive back home was 3 hours, he’d drag our asses out of bed a couple of hours later so we could milk cows before we went to school.

I’m still salty about 1982. I refuse to drink any Busch product because 6 year old me still wants to piss on Darrell Porter’s grave. At my wedding I had them remove any/all Busch products from the reception hall because of how irritated I was and still am.

Outside of my own immediate family the voice I heard growing up the most was Bob Uecker. So many years of really bad baseball but it didn’t matter. You got to listen to Ueck. So many of us heard Bob Uecker talk to us more than anyone else.

My dad passed away last May. He talked fondly about the 1950’s Milwaukee Braves teams and as a result I always had the Braves as my NL team when the crew was in the AL. I still can’t despise them because above everything else I might’ve hated the Cardinals more than Osama Bin Laden all because of 1982.

Uecker leaves us and it was emotionally hard listening to Brewers games. My dad left us and the Crew provided some enjoyment. When Jack Jack caught that final out I sobbed more than I did at my dad’s funeral a few months ago.

To the Dodgers, Yankees, Cardinals, or Red Sox it’s just another fall classic, To those of us who don’t get to experience this every handful of years it hits on a pre motional level, I’ve seen two Packer Super Bowls. The first was incredible but the NFL is just different. A Super Bowl can happen anywhere. A World Series cannot be taken for granted outside of a few places.

Wisconsin is known for its drinking habits. We already had a penchant for drinking that baffles the rest of the country, it’s a bit beyond that tonight. Four more wins to go. Get those four wins and this state will be drunk even by Wisconsin standards.