May 28, 2008
It was cold at the Cubs game
I think it was 40 degrees last night at the game. I was freezing my arse off but what a time.
Wrigley Field is now officially my favorite place to see a game. There was a dixieland type band there and they played Walking In A Winter Wonderland. That's how cold it was. The band had a banjo and trombone, tuba, clarinet, trumpet etc... The fans were on their feet from the 6th inning on. The Cubbies beat The dodgers much to the dismay of my Dad. My friend Gary Hughes left me the greatest seats. Muchas gracias Senor Gary. Tonight I play in Evanston Illinois at The Brothers K Coffeehous.
Tomorrow I am up early to head to Milwaukee to see the Brewers game. I will be one of the sausages in the sausage races! A bit about the Sausage Race: Sausage Races are held at every home game of the Milwaukee Brewers - it's a promotion for the Klement's Sausage Company, which is located in Milwaukee. There are five racing sausages. Their official names are given by the race's sponsor:
#1 Bratt Wurst - a bratwurst and wears green Austro-Bavarian lederhosen
#2 Stosh - a Polish sausage and wears dark sunglasses and a blue and red rugby shirt
#4 Guido - an Italian sausage and wears a chef's outfit
#5 Cinco - a chorizo and wears a sombrero
The foam costumes are seven feet, three inches from the top of the head to the knees. The races begin between the dugout and the baseline around third base. They sprint down the warning track, around home plate and continue toward first base. Probably too much information but wanted you to be informed.
I hope I am the chorizo since I live on the border of Mexico. I get to dress up as a sausage! Then later that night I play a house concert at Wino Krainz house.
Yours in sausage casing,
SjjP
Posted by steve at May 28, 2008 2:01 PM
hahah thats awesome, you better have pictures of you as a sausage.
and that sounds like it was extremely cold. you look warm-ish in the picture.
=)
I'll put 20 bucks on Poltz in the third!
I went to opening day at Wrigley three years in a row in the mid 90's and it was as cold as I've ever been. I've gone ice fishing since I was a little kid and it's never felt as cold as Wrigley on opening day.
I love Wrigley but I hate the Cubs. :)
Have fun in Milwaukee! It's one of my favorite cities.
Travel well
-Otis
Maybe this'll be a warm up for throwing that starting pitch for the Padres!!! and well at least sausages taste good!!!
Meg does not understand.
I'm cold today. It's as cold as it gets in Brisbane, Australia... so how can it be cold in the U.S of A? You're in the other hemisphere. The one we don't talk about here in Oz. You guys should be sweaty like whores in church right now. I just do not understand. Must be that climate change stuff they're always talking about on the wireless.
Oh my. You weren't kidding? You're really going to be a sausage today? Isn't that typecasting? What a wiener.
I meant winner. You will be the winner.
I love Tivo!!
What? No linguica?
Not many Portugese in Milwaukee, I guess.
Say hi to Lenny and Squiggy for me.
HI MEG!!!! :o)
today is 2 for 1 dog day at petco... coincidence?
dood, i'm having SERIOUS deja vu and D-A-M-N if my sausage race pic on photobucket vaporized. c'est la vie.
i must admit that upon reading this, i smiled so big my face hurt.
personally (b/c i know all the sausages), i think you're more Stosh than Cinco....definitely not Guido. i would pay through the nose to see this race along with pre- and post-race wrap-up. can papa smurf stosh deliver?
btw, watch out for players waiting to 'clothesline' a sausage. it *really* did happen.
best
dood, i'm having SERIOUS deja vu and D-A-M-N if my sausage race pic on photobucket vaporized. c'est la vie.
i must admit that upon reading this, i smiled so big my face hurt.
personally (b/c i know all the sausages), i think you're more Stosh than Cinco....definitely not Guido. i would pay through the nose to see this race along with pre- and post-race wrap-up. can papa smurf stosh deliver?
btw, watch out for players waiting to 'clothesline' a sausage. it *really* did happen.
best
Steve,
I just looked at the rest of your site. You truly are outrageous! (You really could pass for someone with ADD AND Bipolar!) (This is from someone who knows from personal experience.)
I wil let my daughter (Lara Coffey)who lives in central Florida know about you. I know she will want to come out to your show the next time you are in the area.
Keep up the great work.
Pat Coffey
Dayton, Ohio
Steve has OD, Oppositional Disorder!!!
