He did it! Milwaukee's own Prince Fielder won the 2009 State Farm Home Run Derby. I didn't get a chance to catch it live, but I did catch the highlights. Hey, my take on that is that it saved me from all off Chris Berman's lame ass "Back, Back, Backs" He threw out all night. Terrible!
I was all over Twitter and Facebook tracking the Derby throughout the night and can say I was damn happy to see the Prince had come through.
Maybe it is the small-town feel that Milwaukee has and how everyone around here seems to rightfully take ownership of the team and players. It's a great feeling to watch Prince, using one of Ryan Braun's bats bash homer after homer out of Busch Stadium.
I loved the celebration Prince and Brauny shared after he bashed the winning shot, which is why I posted the pic above. For a team that is down right now, he certainly picked things up.
The way Prince hit the longest two home runs of the night, measuring 503 and 497 feet made it clear he was the deserving choice.
One thing that did come up when I simply Googled "Prince Fielder Home Run Derby" was a PETA story promoting the fact he's a vegetarian.
I also think Tom Haudricourt's Journal-Sentinel story with Fielder wining the derby was pretty good.
Like I said, I was in La Crosse following the derby on Twitter and he became the No. 1 item in the Trending topics. It was super. Here's a look.
I promised an All-Star edition of the blog today, but when I was doing my daily reading for the day, I realized it was the 10 year anniversary of the day "Big Blue" collapsed at Miller Park. I listend to an interview with Tom Haudricourt today on 540 ESPN Radio in Milwaukee today and it was powerful stuff. Found this video that documents the event. Not my usual cool stuff, but it's just too powerful to see it. happen.
The collapse happened the day after the 1999 Boston All-Star Game and the Brewers played days later at County Stadium.
It was a sad moment in an otherwise great accomplishment for Bud Selig and the Brewers to get a stadium and stay in Wisconsin. Haudricourt said in his interview that he went with Selig to Seattle that day to open Safeco Field and Selig had to fight to keep it together that day because he felt so bad about the accident. It surely tainted the opening of what is one of baseball's greatest parks.
Now to some more positive notes to close out for today. I'm sure by now you've seen the news Tony Romo has broken up with Jessica Simpson. Sure it's a said day for her, as instead of celebrating her 29th birthday with her Barbie themed party, she stayed home and Twittered with her family. Well, one man's loss is another man's gain. My opening is now. I picture Jessica like she was back in Duke's of Hazzard days (below). She's one of my faves and rank her high on the list. She seems to have the complete package if you ask me.
The pic is courtesy of Amy who sent me the link within minutes of me mentioning that was what I was going to run today. Leads me to think she had one on standby :P Haha.
Oh, I figured I'd include the video of this, too. She's too hot to pass up.
OK, that's all for me. Time to run and go watch the All-Star Game. I'll likely have comments on Obamma throwing out the first pitch tonight and how he did as well as the highs and lows of the game. If you find anything on the Web, be sure to send it my way be E-mailing wilbersway@gmail.com.
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