26 year wait

So this weekend, I got to experience something that hasn't happened since I was 2 years old.... playoff baseball in Milwaukee. The last time the Brewers were in the playoff was 1982 with the likes of Yount, Cooper , Gantner, Molitor and Fingers.

I have been a Brewer's fan for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of watching the Brewers on TV and listening to them on the radio. I have witnessed many many years of extremely bad baseball, but the last couple of years, you could see that things were starting to click.

The last two years, as it has looked like there is a possibility that they could make the playoffs, the Brewers have made a small number of playoff tickets available for people who enter into an online drawing. Well, last year, even though my entire family put their names in, nobody got drawn. Well this year, I got drawn for the division series. Through a slight misunderstanding (my screw up) I bought tickets for Home Game 2 (Game 4), which after the Brewers lost the first two games in Philly were looking a little doubtful. But Saturday night the Brewers won game 3 and I was off to Wisconsin.

So, I left Indiana at 10:30PM Sat to drive to Wisconsin for the 12PM game on Sunday. The atmosphere at the game was awesome, nothing like 40,000 Brewers fans (maybe 20 Philly fans) screaming and banging inflatable "thundersticks" for 9 innings.


Unfortunately, the Brewers couldn't make it two wins in a row and their season was over. So, back to Indiana I drove making it back at 10:30PM on Sunday.

So, 24 hours, 600 miles, 18 gallons of gas, 4 hours of sleep, 4 homers by the Phillies, 2 runs by the Brewers, 1 new hat and 26 years of waiting all added up to one awesome experience that I hope to repeat next year.