frosted baseball in milwaukee

last night i had the opportunity to soak up a milwaukee brewers game, so being a selfless public servant of a reporter for the greater masses of the world, i felt obligated to go undercover in the land of cheese and expose the world of baseball in milwaukee to you, my currently nonexistant readers.

in a phrase, the baseball up there is sugar coated. loud top 40 music media clips after base hits, constant mind-numbing distractions in between half-innings (the sausage race is, of course, the most ballyhooed outlet of said distractions)... things are dumbed down, the score plays are posted on the giant scoreboard, and its a loud raucous time in a sea of scott podsednik jerseys.

last night was bobblehead night for the venerable i-pod, and he didn't fail to deliver his usual scrappy game, collecting a couple hits, one of which being a nifty running bunt infield rbi single, all reiterating exactly why we're there with a graven googly image of his likeness.

there were actually 40,000 people there, and the crowd was in general loud and responsive to the events of the game. roy oswalt, steadily losing his gratuitous "baseball's most roy" moniker with each blown lead this season, choked like a stupid baby with a t-bone steak. overblown similies aside, when the big O is representing 66.7% of your fantasy baseball acumen on a given night, watching him elevate ben grieve to mid-90s proportions of foretold greatness is that much more painful.

from that 5 run inning on it was your typical baseball game, lyle overbay added a home run eventually leading to more inexplicable greatness from the mighty DAN KOLB (danny is so 2003). the only thing i noticed about his 1-2-3 dominance was that he threw up some garbage that the batters fouled off or took for a strike, was ahead 0-2 or 1-2 to all three hitters, and then he sealed the deal on all three of them. even though he's only approximately 1/3 into his workload for the season at around 20-25 innings, he's got a 1.13 ERA, which no matter how you got there is still earned somehow.