The biggest sports story this week wasn't Tour de France winner Floyd Landis' failed drug test. It wasn't NFL training camps nor even Sir Charles Barkley possible run for governor of Alabama. Nope. The biggest sports story this week comes to us from the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. At a press conference yesterday morning, Brewers general manager Doug Melvin introduced Chorizo, the newest addition to the popular racing saugages. Chorizo will be joining Bratwurst, Polish Sausage, Italian Sausage and Hot Dog for a race on "Cerveceros Day" - - that's "Brewers" in Spanish for you gringos -- following the sixth inning of Saturday's Brewers-Reds game at Milwaukee's Miller Park. Chorizo will then be sent to the Minor Leagues for more seasoning, pun intended. If everything goes well in Major League Baseball's approval process for new mascots, the Sausage Race will officially become a five-weenie contest beginning on opening day of the 2007 season.
During the press conference yesterday, Chorizo, a spicy pork sausage, signed a contract and was presented with a jersey reading "Cerveceros" across the front. The Brewers will pay tribute to Hispanic baseball at Saturday's game by wearing uniforms that read "Cerveceros" across the chest instead of the English translation "Brewers." I just hope nobody grabs a baseball bat and slugs Chorizo like one of the Pittsburgh Pirate players did to the Italian sausage in a race a few years ago.
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