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14 rows from the field, just beyond first base ($55 off stub hub) for Saturdays game.

I agree with your observations. A few bad apples on both sides, but all in all the majority were behaved.

The ice on the cake was coming home yesterday to watch the replay. There is a shot of Carlos Villanueva’s reaction as Sori hits the homerun and I could see myself pretty clearly in the background. I was going nuts!

It bugs the hell out of me when Cubs fans respond in kind. I think I’m more sensitive to it than a lot because, like you, I’ve got rooting interests on both sides of the state line.

Not everyone from Wisconsin is a fat yokel and not everyone from Chicago is an arrogant jackass.

Nice post.

I always like readiing “fan on the scene” accounts like this. Were I a Brewers fan, I’d be a little concerned about how well the Cubs have played in Miller Park over the last year or so.

I am heading to the game on Mother’s day with my family. Never been to Miller Park, interested to see how it looks. I’ll have to try to convince the family tailgating would be a great idea.

Six of us tailgated for an hour or so before the game… we brought a grill, had a nice spread including grilling some nice strip steaks. Including beer the cost was probably around $20/person and we didn’t come close to eating all the food. Tailgating is a great way to enjoy the pre-game and you can get good food and not pay an arm and a leg.

I had the same comment in the 8th, that the Cubs somehow needed to get a guy on base so Soriano would be able to get an atbat and potentially others in the top of the 9th. Great ending to what was a very frustrating game in innings 1-8.

I really don’t appreciate mouthy fans on any team — and we have more than our share, to be sure.

And in any case, this is far more informative and constructive than the meta-FanPost rubbish that’s been clogging up the site lately.

I posted one of these last year from Kauffman, and will do another one when I visit the “New” Kauffman in two weeks. Great review. I’m a UW graduate and absolutely love Miller Park; we did plenty of party buses and tailgating in Miller’s parking lot during my tenure in Madison. Great stadium. I think the fans are usually pretty jolly and banter back and forth; I’ve never had a problem being a Cubs fan in Milwaukee.

Dan

It just dawned on me that you could have titled this:

“Weekend at Bernie’s”

(Brewer)

a meaningful post
commenters rejoice, give thanks
more trip reports, please

Great post. I had pretty much the same experience this weekend.

Live in Madison, headed into Milw for the Sat & Sunday games. Upper deck seats for Saturday night, right on top of home plate. I was in a really pro-Cubs section, so it was nice. Funny, great minds must think alike, because as Fontenot had his great, 13 pitch at bat in the 8th, I commented “He needs to get on, because then Sori will definitely come up in the 9th.” And when Sori went yard……WOW. That was awesome. Marmol looked great as well, its so much funny to watch him buckle the knees of guys like Fielder and Braun, especially looking from overhead. Just nasty stuff.

Sunday was a great game as well. I was actually in what felt like a Brewer heavy section (231), there happened to be a huge Cubs contingent in the sections to my left, near the left field foul pole and in the LF bleachers. Incredible catch by Reed Johnson, I think everyone thought that Fielder hit one into the 3rd deck w/ how high that one got, and how loud the stadium got. We were ALL amazed by Reed Johnson. The Brewers fans had one last chance to get excited in the bottom of the 9th, w/ Fielder as the tying run, but it was so sweet to end the 2nd game in a row w/ Princely K!

Great weekend for our favorite team!!

Took my wife and her sister to Miller Park last summer. We had nosebleed seats in the second row from the roof. The Brewers fans behind us began using the worst profanity imaginable. I warned them, then eventually went down the catwalk and complained to management. They gave us three seats in the 200 level in front of the press box behind home plate!

Get to our seats and discover a group of four already in them. I figure oh well, there’s four open seats anyway, let’s just sit down. An inning goes by and we start chatting with the group when the girl next to me casually states her company has season tickets and it’s her first game. Well, the opportunity was too great to pass up, so we reply that it’s ironic since, well, you’re sitting in our seats. She doubts us but an inspection reveals us to be correct. They apologize immediately but I tell them it’s fine as long as nobody comes for our seats. She obviously felt really guilty cos about half an inning later they get up to leave…which began a two-team ordeal of finding exactly where section 134 really was.

I also vowed to my friend that, should I catch a foul ball, I would rip open my button-up shirt to reveal my BCB shirt underneath. It didn’t come to pass, but I was ready.

I’ve never been to their park. I lived 3-4 blocks from County Stadium and used to snooze at Brewers Doubleheaders in the left field seats. I really need to head up there. My Dad is buried right near at the Nat’l Cemetery. I was driving from Chicago to MN and caught the Friday game on WGN. We had nutty people at County Stadium back in the day when the White Sux were in town. I hear the new generation of fans at Wrigley aren’t too polite either.