Exhibition Baseball Fever...Catch It!

Random thoughts from Saturday's Brewers game:

1) I'm generally a straight Johnsonville brat guy, but I think I'm now a Klements convert. After all, when you've run out of Klements, you've run out of taste.

2) Detroit Tigers fans travel well. There were a TON of Tigers fans considering it was an exhibition game. Kudos, Detroit.

3) No matter what his bio says, we were pretty sure Gregg Zaun is from Rhinelander - just look at the guy? Maybe Antigo.

4) Somehow, someway, Brewer fans love Corey Hart. I was smirking in anticipation of the PA guy announcing his name....was eager to partake in the booing. Well, I was the only one! Seriously, after Prince/Brauny, Hart got the loudest ovation. I couldn't fucking believe it!! Maybe it was an unintelligent fan base because it was an exhibition game. Could be why...

5)...Jim Edmonds is the best free agent signing of all time. Well, at least that's what the surrounding fans were saying. It's like it's 1998 or something.

6) My Guy this year is the Brewers backup catcher, Cottaras or something like that. Why? Because his AB music is old school LL Cool J. Nice!

7) Phil Coke is one of the better names in baseball. I loved checking the scoreboard and seeing "Coke" in the pitchers spot. He got shelled.

8) Brewer pitchers were in 2009 mid-season form by serving up about 5 bombs. I thought Looper was gone?

9) It's official: Miller Lite is undrinkable. That shit is disgusting.

10) The game ended like only a Little League game could. The Tigers went Yakety Sax on a routine ground ball allowing two Brewers to score. It's something you'd only see in coed softball at UWEC.

Big Ten Football Fan Polling

Check out this very interesting polling of Big Ten fans, conducted by SI.com.
Some highlights:

-98.2 % of Buckeye fans consider Michigan to be their biggest rival. But only 96.0% of Michigan fans consider OSU to be their biggest rival. This conclusively proves that Buckeyes are smarter than Wolverines (I know, I'm surprised too). But really, how this isn't a clean 100% on both sides is beyond me.

-9.3% of Badger fans consider Michigan to be their biggest rival. But 0.0% of Michigan fans consider Wisconsin to be their biggest rival. This disconnect is amusing to me. In fact 0.2 % of Michigan fans thought Northwestern was a bigger rival than Wisconsin. In the same vein, 1.3% of Minnesota fans think OSU is their biggest rival. We've had historically less success against the Buckeyes than any other Big Ten team. Who are these idiots?

-Northwestern is widely considered to have the most polite fans overall. That's easy though, when nobody shows up for the games. No one there = no one to heckle you.

-Ohio State and Wisconsin consistently shows up in every other teams top 4 for the rudest fans for visitors. Ohio State looks to have Wisconsin beat by a significant margin though...

-Only 2.9% consider Minnesota to have the favorite stadium to visit in the conference. Those are Metro-dump #s. Look for that to climb substantially in the coming years. 'The Bank' is phenomenal.