Milwaukee Conspiracy
Is anyone else NOT surprised Major League Baseball has conveniently scheduled the Indians/Angels series to take place in Milwaukee's Miller Park while Jacobs Field ground crews continue to thaw the field in Cleveland?
Many of you are either too young to remember or just not aware, but this isn't the first time the slick city of Milwaukee has made inappropriate advances towards our beloved Tribe.
The year was 1989 and a blockbuster movie entitled "Major League" was in theatres. The movie depicted a fictional scenario in which the real life Indians finally broke their long pennant drought, only in Hollywood's version, they did it with a complete roster turnover consisting of players initially handpicked to lose.
Anyways, something was not quite right about the game scenes in the Major League - THEY WERE FILMED IN MILWAUKEE!
I'm not sure why exactly, the producers of Major League chose old County Stadium in Milwaukee to film the game scenes instead of decrepit Municipal Stadium - the Tribe's home at the time. But one thing is for sure, 18 years later the smooth-talking seductress, better known as the city of Milwaukee is at it again.
Oh sure, on the surface Milwaukee looks like the hero. Swooping in to assist the city of Cleveland in its time of need. I'm not buying it, there are ulterior motives at play here.
Sure, Cleveland may not be as sexy a city as Milwaukee. They think they can lure our ballplayers with their lively night life and beautifully exotic women. But it only takes one trip to Milwaukee to realize something is just not right about the natives.
I, for one, would never trust a city where the citizens wear hats made of cheese.
Many of you are either too young to remember or just not aware, but this isn't the first time the slick city of Milwaukee has made inappropriate advances towards our beloved Tribe.
The year was 1989 and a blockbuster movie entitled "Major League" was in theatres. The movie depicted a fictional scenario in which the real life Indians finally broke their long pennant drought, only in Hollywood's version, they did it with a complete roster turnover consisting of players initially handpicked to lose.
Anyways, something was not quite right about the game scenes in the Major League - THEY WERE FILMED IN MILWAUKEE!
I'm not sure why exactly, the producers of Major League chose old County Stadium in Milwaukee to film the game scenes instead of decrepit Municipal Stadium - the Tribe's home at the time. But one thing is for sure, 18 years later the smooth-talking seductress, better known as the city of Milwaukee is at it again.
Oh sure, on the surface Milwaukee looks like the hero. Swooping in to assist the city of Cleveland in its time of need. I'm not buying it, there are ulterior motives at play here.
Sure, Cleveland may not be as sexy a city as Milwaukee. They think they can lure our ballplayers with their lively night life and beautifully exotic women. But it only takes one trip to Milwaukee to realize something is just not right about the natives.
I, for one, would never trust a city where the citizens wear hats made of cheese.
Lost in all the mix is the fact Milwaukee actually has its OWN baseball team, the Brewers, who have been so bad in recent years, apparently Milwaukeeans have completely forgotten they exist!
Either that, or Milwaukee, in all its arrogance, is placing itself on a level playing field with New York and Chicago, cities that house two professional baseball teams. Of course a quick check of the populations of the three cities shows just how silly and overzealous Milwaukeeans truly are.
New York - 8.1 million people
Chicago - 2.8 million people
Milwaukee - 578,000 schemers
So I'm just going to say it once and for all. Speaking for all Clevelanders, BACK OFF Milwaukee! Our Indians are there for one series and one series only, don't get any funny ideas!
In other news, I went to Opening Day. It wasn't e
xactly pleasant event. Unless your definition of "pleasant" is freezing your a** off in Jacobs Field for six hours to see a disjointed four innings of something resembling baseball.
xactly pleasant event. Unless your definition of "pleasant" is freezing your a** off in Jacobs Field for six hours to see a disjointed four innings of something resembling baseball. 
posted by Jon Sladek at 11:17 PM
1 Comments:
Milwaukee may be exotic and have a dome but if those cheeseheads try to seduce our beloved Tribe they'll see the business end of a large swarm of Clevelanders descending on their city...
It will be a very braveheart-esque moment as we appear along the skyline in our team colors weilding big foam fingers. They won't know what hit them!
As for opening day... that was the coldest 6 hours i've ever spent in a baseball stadium and when they finally called it I had the energy to neither boo nor cheer, just solemnly walk away as they told us to pretend the game never happened.
My missing voice and frozen limbs indicated that something had indeed happened on that field. The fans had gotten screwed.
Putting aside my feelings for Eric Wedge outside of that day, I have to say i'm proud of him, he actually argued for ?!?!?the fans? Yep, ole Wedgy gave it a school boy try and everytime they called the team off the field it was a joy to see at least one Indian drag their feet and try to beg for a few more minutes... they wanted that game.
Now if only they can remember some of that drive and desire as they head to the cheesiest place on earth...maybe we can start something. Maybe they can hearken back to the days when you played the game not for the paycheck, but for the love of the sport and the feeling of a happy hometown crowd... if that happens guys and dolls... we may be in the market for a pennant race. Let's Go Tribe!
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