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Sunday, October 9. 2011

It’s On!

To Hell with politics. To Hell with President Obama, Governor Rick Perry, Mit Romney, Newt Gingrich, Governor Chris Christie — especially Chris Christie — Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann. Sure, that’s important and all, but it don’t mean a thing ’cause I need some swing: Milwaukee Brewers baseball swing.

That’s right, the Milwaukee Brewers are in the National League Championship Series for the first, the second time they’ve been to a league championship series, the first one being against the California Angels in 1982, which they won, going on to the 1982 World Series — against them fuckin’ St. Louis Cardinals.

Damn Cardinals. No love lost between these two teams. No love lost between these two baseball cities. Hell no! The ’82 Series was named the “Suds Series” because St. Louis is the home of Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch and Milwaukee is the home of good beer: Miller, Pabst Blue Ribbon and, back in the day, Schlitz.

All those cocky Budweiser drinkers, thinking they got it going on. Puh-leeze! Milwaukee didn’t become the Beer Capital of the World for nothing!

And now you got these perennial playoff Cardinals starting the game in Milwaukee. Yeah sure, they score in the top of the first, but that don’t mean a thing. There’s still eight and a half innings to go and pitcher Zack Greinke is just getting warmed up.

This will be a good game, as long as the Brewers walk away with the W. Bottom of the first and Ryan Braun has just hit a two-run homer, taking the lead. Cards pitcher Jaime Garcia is rattled; he hit Prince Fielder, sending him to First Base and then walked Ricky Weeks in four straight pitches. And there’s only one out.

It’s time to stop this typing and put my full attention to the game. This is a fight, a brawl; this is the Brew Crew against them goddamn Cards. Most people might think that Milwaukee’s major rivalry would be with the Chicago Cubs because the Chicago White Sox were the Brewers most hated rivals when the Brew Crew was part of the American League. But that’s not the case. Milwaukee has a score to settle with St. Louis, one that’s needed to be addressed for 29 years.

Gotta say this though: it’s kind of weird to have two teams from the same division playing for the league championship, but such is life in the Wild Card era.

So, this blog is short, far too short for the average reader. Probably just right for the rest of you. But I have priorities and that means watching the Brewers take care of Game One of the National League Championship Series.

There won’t be an ACLS today between the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers. Rain put that game on hold until tomorrow, so this is it—until the Packers take on the Atlanta Falcons at 5:30 (PST). Ah yes, the Green Bay Packers, Super Bowl XLV Champs, unbeaten so far this season. They take their aerial show into the Georgia Dome.

If anyone is thinking of calling, I’m gonna be busy all day.

Posted by Tim Forkes in Sports at 12:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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