Game 29- Greetings from Iowa

S235 R3S8 5/25/09





Red Sox "fans", you owe the people of Milwaukee a great deal of gratitude.

You see, while the fact that you Iowans all come to town in your Wal-Mart bought Ortiz jerseys and pollute the Dome air with your fake ass chants of "Let's go Red Sox" is a pain in the ass, it could be worse. You could be Brewers fans.

Yes, it's true. Studies show that 80% of all Red Sox (and Yankees but this is another post) "fans" who visit the Dome each year are from...... Iowa!

This really bugs me, because before 2003 you couldn't find a Red Sox fan. Now thanks to Matt Damon, Jimmy Fallon, and steroids the Red Sox are a household name and a dairy farmer's delight.

I could understand how an Iowan rube could fall for the Cubs, since they have a lot of exposure nationally thanks to WGN and a AAA club rooted in Des Moines. The same argument could be made a few years ago for Atlanta with TBS. The Twins are the closest team geographically, and if I was a kid I would be rooting for them, if only because thats my best shot of seeing my favorite team live.

Front running Iowan assholes bug me, but this past weekend sure put them in perspective. Thank God for Brewers fans.


COMPANY: Wife (6)
Food/Bev: Sprite (1@$4.50)
Attendance: 27,636 (59.3% full)
Seat Cost: $3.08
Parking cost: $2.00
Total Spent: $9.58
Season Total: $336.11 ($/11.59/gm)

Twins CF Carlos Gomez doubled to start the sixth, but he made a lot more contact than that. Gomez took a home run from Jason Varitek with a jumping, back-against-the-wall catch to end the top of the third. Then he sprawled forward to make a sliding grab of Dustin Pedroia's line drive in the sixth. And before the game, Gomez needed two stitches to close a cut on his forehead when he banged it on a revolving door on his way in.