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09/30/2008 08:52 - Welcome to Occtobefest
So this is what playing in October feels like? It's great to be here and playing at this time of year. I think the fact of the playoffs has sunken in and now I'm on to playoff preparation mode. I just bought the clubhouse granite Brewers Wildcard shirt. That'll be part of my playoff uniform, along with the 07 and 08 PYPFTB shirts. I think I'm going to keep a quality rotation going- rather than trying to create a lucky shirt and drive that one home. However, if something lucky happens in one of the shirts- that may need to change. Get your rest Brewers. Tomorrow is the beginning of a new era.
Here's a great example of pledge fulfillment. Keep posting your video responses to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmsbIfwQhc
09/30/2008 10:43 - Markmotown
I never quite got the whole commemorative playoff t-shirt thing. I get that people want to root for their team and have pride when they do well, but that always wears-off, but people still wear the shirt! I just scratch my head when I see people wearing stuff like "Purdue Rose Bowl 2001" or "Seattle Mariners 1995 ALDS." Don't be that guy. Oh, and it is nice to see so many new people posting around here--please do stick around!
09/30/2008 11:06 - Tim
Mark- I've respected what you've been writing all season, but I wholeheartedly disagree with you on t-shirts celebrating team success. I used to think they were pretty stupid and in 96 I didn't want a Packers Super Bowl Champion with the terrible New Orleans logo, but now that's one of my biggest regrets. I think it shows you were there, and t-shirts with dates on them are great for memories. Can you imagine passing an NLDS shirt to your kid? True that it's commemorating a small event, hopefully there will be cooler t-shirts, but I'd love to celebrate every moment along the way.
09/30/2008 11:17 - Teve
C'mon Mark! Buy the t-shirt...it's been 26-years, be a consumer , boost the economy
09/30/2008 11:26 - Markmotown
I hear what you are saying... I'm not against them per se, just when they go out of style. I'm fascinated by the psychology of it. For example, a few years back, I bought one of those "1975 All Star Game" Cooperstown collection t-shirts because I really liked the nostalgia of the old Brewers logo. I thought that was cool, even though I really couldn't care too much about the game in particular. Different strokes, I guess. As for me, I'm thinking about getting a CC jersey, and that I could pass down to my kids. For those in the know, it would commemorate this glorious moment and the guy who helped make it happen, before inevitably finding greener pastures elsewhere.
09/30/2008 11:29 - Greg P
I agree you have to buy the shirt. I still have an 82 World Series shirt. You know how cool I'm going look wearing that bad boy tomorrow - with my beer gut showing because it will only cover half my belly because I bought it when I was 16. My wife claims she won't go to the bar with me to watch the game if I wear that shirt - an added bonus. I also wear my 07 PYPFTB shirt (yellow version of course) just to show I'm not an 08 bandwagon PYPFTB fan. Teve's right, boost the economy - make sure you put it on a high interest rate credit card.
09/30/2008 11:34 - Torres
You can wait no more!
09/30/2008 11:43 - Markmotown
Nah, I'm still not buyin' the shirt.
09/30/2008 11:45 - Teve
you'll regret it.....
09/30/2008 11:57 - Masuelli
Consider yourselves lucky Brewers fans. Had your quasi-owner Bud Selig not forced the Astros to play the Cubs in Milwaukee (and totally ruined our momentum), we would have won the Wild Card!!! You lucked out in that you had a friend in the commissioners office. See you in the playoffs again in 2034! Bitter Justice
09/30/2008 12:01 - Stanley Spadowski
What do we think of t-shirt jerseys?
09/30/2008 12:10 - Markmotown
What do you mean? Like jerseys that have a non-sports connotation? Like a baseball jersey that says AT&T, or a hockey jersey with an "Old Style" logo where the team logo should be? I'm not a fan of those.
09/30/2008 12:10 - Greg P
I'm not a jersey fan. I like to show off my flabby forearms with my beer belly.
09/30/2008 12:36 - Teve
I think I know what you mean Stan, I have a soriano and lee t-shirt/jersey.... cubs logo on left chest on front and name/number on back...looks like cubs road jersey.... but its a t-shirt....my favorite t-shirts by the way.
09/30/2008 12:38 - tim
i think stanley is referring to a braun "brewers jersey" that's a t-shirt instead of an actual jersey. It has the team, number, and player number- but plastered on a t-shirt instead of an actual jersey. They're a little bit lame, but i think kind of cool since you can always wear t-shirts where sometimes wearing an actual brewers baseball jersey is a big-time faux pas- like at a wedding.
09/30/2008 12:53 - The Answer
Hold the phone. A Brewers jersey at a wedding would be a faux pas? How come Packer jerseys are ok then?
09/30/2008 12:55 - Markmotown
Those are pretty lame. In my opinion (take it or leave it), you gotta get the good jersey that you only bring out once in a blue moon, so it wouldn't be a faux pas, and even at a wedding, the bride would be like "did you see that guy with the authentic 1953 Satchel Paige jersey? Sweet!" (26 years from now, a nice CC Brewers jersey would be something of an anomaly, potentially eliciting a similar response.) Of course, my taste for baseball history often runs up against my extreme distaste for pinstripes of any variety... including the Brewers home retro jerseys.
09/30/2008 13:17 - Gerrard
The amount of pee video responses on youtube has been paltry at best. We need to hold up our end of the bargain, the brewers did.
09/30/2008 13:19 - Tim
I read recently that the current brewers don't like retro brewers day because they want to estblish their own identity. whatever. the old-school jerseys and logos are the best. New M not that cool- no matter how you slice it. I think it's universally agreed that the old brewers logo is one of the best sports logos of all-time
09/30/2008 13:19 - Stanley Spadowski
Yeah, Teverino's got it. It's a t-shirt, but has the logo, name, and number of a player. The clear advantage is that it's a ton cheaper, $20-25 instead of $100+ for a real jersey. I always thought they were pretty lame looking, but over the past year or so, I started to like them. They are almost funny in a way. I think I should get a Fielder one. And no, Tim, they do not just make them for Braun. Teve has two for the Cubs.
09/30/2008 13:38 - Greg P
T-shirt jerseys are cool. I thought you meant jersey jerseys. The cool thing about t-shirt jerseys is that in 20 years the t-shirt jersey itself will be retro. That will make the retro t-shirt jerseys even cooler. I want to get a Kendall #18 t-shirt jersey. Only true Brewer fans will know how cool that jersey is in 20 years. Hell, I may run into Markmotown 20 years from now wearing my Kendall #18 retro t-shirt jersey and he'll say, "Cool retro t-shirt jersey" and then offer me up a stranger high five.
09/30/2008 13:39 - Markmotown
Tim: I agree, the old logo is one of the best around. (Designed by a UW art student, so I hear), but pinstripes suck, no two ways about it. The worst are white pinstripes, like the Cubs had on the baby blue uniforms back in the late 1970s (no offense, Teve).
09/30/2008 13:41 - Markmotown
Greg: It is quite possible! =) Am I ever going to live down the stranger-5?
09/30/2008 13:45 - Greg P
After Braun's homer I was stranger high fiving everyone in sight. All I kept thinking was, "please don't be Markmotown, please don't be Markmotown." Sorry Markmowtown, for better or for worse, you will always be in the back of my mind during any stranger high five.
09/30/2008 13:53 - connie
From Brewers.com (history section) One of the most recognizable logos in sports, the Milwaukee Brewers yellow and blue mitt logo was introduced in Winter 1977 and adorned Brewers caps for the 16 greatest seasons in club history. The logo was selected among more than 2,000 entries from both professional and amateur designers in an open contest in October and November 1977. Tom Meindel, an Art History student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, designed the logo and earned the $2,000 first prize. The logo combines the lower case letters "m" and "b", the club's initials, to form a baseball glove.
09/30/2008 13:57 - connie
At the beginning of the season, the store at Miller Park was selling pinstripe bathrobes with Prince's name and number on them. They showed Prince wearing one in the dugout. Does anybody else remember that?
09/30/2008 14:14 - Markmotown
Greg: That's hilarious! I really shouldn't have said anything to begin with, since I've only rarely done that, and even then under the least of sober circumstances. I'd at least have the common decency to let you know if I was in town, since I'd prefer not to have that association, like Teven Tegal as "Cоckpuncher" in the Onion Movie. (That was an awful movie, by the way, but it all started in Madison, so you gotta support it, right?) Thanks Connie for the logo info, and thanks to Bernie for posting the video!
09/30/2008 20:21 - Cousin Jon
Here's my line up of jersey shirts: Old School Hardy, New School Navy Kendall, Villanueva, Estrada, and Parra, New School Road Prince, New School Home White Weeks, and NY All-Star Sheets.
10/01/2008 06:14 - connie
Cousin Jon-- you could probably give that Estrada jersey shirt to Good Will or the Salvation Army. He didn't really want to do such a great job catching (or running to first base)when he was here, did he?
10/01/2008 12:23 - GrantK
I vividly remember being in one of the cafeterias back at UW-EC, and one of the workers (dishing up chicken patties and mac 'n cheese that day, the caf's attendance equivalent of a Brewers-Cubs series) saw my hat and related the origin of the Glove logo. And all the while I kept thinking, "Why the hell are you telling me this?" And now I know: for moments like these. Also, I'd like to put in an order for a Gorman Thomas jerseyT with faux-sweat stains all over it.
