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Gothamist loves covering food, but this is really bizarre: What to make of the so-called "Sausage incident" in major league baseball? The Milwauke Brewers sevening inning stretch entertainment involves a four sausage race inside Miller Park. Huh? Yes, a hot dog, a bratwurst, a Polish sausage and an Italian sausage race each other to the delight of baseball fans. But during a game between the Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pirates first baseman Randall Simon "half" swung his bat at the Italian sausage, who fell and took the hot dog with her. Simon was arrested (but charges were later dropped to disorderly conduct), the Brewers were outraged, and the Italian sausage felt the whole thing was overblown and that Simon didn't mean any harm. Gothamist can only say that it's a good thing that (a) NY doesn't have such an insane activity (though you never know what Steinbrenner will do...wait, we do have Mr. Met) because (b) New Yorkers would have spilled onto the field, demanding to know what Simon had against Italians and then (c) the tabloids would never stop talking about it.
The Times has a slide show of grainy videotape footage, showing with better-than-Zapruder quality the incident. ESPN has a police report about the matter. Joe Saraceno of USA Today thinks the Brewers overreacted and that Simon wouldn't have been treated so harshly if he were a star player.
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Before anyone thinks I don't know, I do: George Steinbrenner owns the Yankees, Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon own the Mets. Just making sure everyone knows that I'm a litte on top of things.
The front office of the Brewers freaked the fuck out about this and I think in the end made themselves look foolish. I think it's pretty obvious that he meant no harm and the woman/sausage was laughing about the whole thing.
Jen, I must disagree with you on one point. I think a pork race of some sort would be a fun thing to see at the ballpark. Certainly better than that abomination of a mascot Mr. Met.
Yankee stadium is far too dignified a place to sully itself with the cavortings of some ridiculous mascot. We'll stick with our grounds crew's singing and dancing tribute to annonymous gay sex, thank you very much.
having grown up in wisconsin, i've seen the sausage race many times.. although when i lived there we had grungy county stadium instead of the state of the art miller park with its retractable roof. having also been to baseball games at qualcomm stadium (san diego), yankee stadium and shea stadium, i've got to say that the sausage races are definately the most entertaining seventh inning stretch entertainment i've ever seen. GO HOTDOG GO!
mr met scares me
You're right - pork race would be hot. And since NY is a melting post of people and cuisines, like katsu don races pork saltimboco and lamb rogan josh. And maybe a Kobe beef burger.
I agree, Rachelle. My family's from Milwaukee, and I, too, get a kick outta the sausage sprint. Sure beats the lame electronic subways jockeying across the Yankees' scoreboard or (even worse) the Mets' version -- cars speeding down the Grand Central toward Shea.
One thing I don't get, though: The squiggly mustache and chef's hat make the sausage on the left Italian. Sure thing. And the lederhosen and tyrolean hat convey the bratwurst's Germanity. A baseball uniform on a hot dog makes perfect sense. But what makes the Polish sausage Polish? Those sunglasses?
While not subtle, the sausage race is...fitting for Milwaukee. However (and maybe this is just me being old here) Milwaukee's old shit-bag park used to have Bernie the Brewer who would slide into an enormous mug of beer after every home run. I mean, this mug of beer was the size of an apartment building. Balloons would of course then rise out of the beer.
They did away with that because it was said to be a poor example for kids. Yet, the brewers are still the brewers and they play in Miller park.
Lesson here is don't beat the sausage, hotdog, or, well really...any tube steak.
Sorry 'bout the baby Tribe beating the big, bad Yanks. Our guys are soo young they really didn't deserve to win 2 outta 3, did they?
Regards,
Orrin
Akron, Oh.
BTW - the Tribe AA club here in Akron is beating up the Eastern League.
several things:
wilpon bought out doubleday's half of the mets. there was even a legal battle over the final price.
mr. met is not an abomination, despite his semi-perverted constant smile.
bernie the brewer still has a slide in the new park.
and there was a bit on espn last night about the whole thing. quite funny.
Actually, New York DOES have a version of this -- during one of the breaks in a Brooklyn Cyclones game, several mascots race, including at least one hot dog.
I'm not aware of the hot dog getting in any fights, though.
The minds over at ESPN.com came up with quite possibly the most perfectly constructed headline in web history: "Beat On The Brat With A Baseball Bat."
holy jesus- that is genius!
"brewers executive vice president rick schlessinger said two scheduled races between the brewers 'racing sausages and the pirates' team of racing pirogis were still on. the mascot challenges are set for Aug. 15 in pittsburgh and aug. 22 in milwaukee."
Damnit. Somebody tape/Tivo those games or Sportscenter coverage for me, because I know I'll not bother. Or maybe the Times will have slide show coverage of it again.
The reason Mr. Met has a permagrin can be attributed to his heavy-duty pot smoking tendencies...
Wait, was the hot dog trying to catsup?
And did Simon know he'd end up in such a pickle?
ZIMMER IS A PUSSY. JEN KNOWS ZERO ABOUT SPORTS. SOX IN 7.