Brewers On Deck delivers for us baseball nerds

Yes folks, Wilber's Way got to meet our favorite Brewers player yesterday. The smile only came off when I came to work today. But only briefly! I'd say my first trip to Brewers fanfest was awesome.  A little bit more of a hurry up and weight style event than I'd prefer, but hey, it was good to see the guys and see over 10,683 of my friends. Haha.


But really, Casey McGhee was the final player left in the building but was still a great guy. He stayed and took pics with everyone that asked, including me. Was all smiles too, which made it better. I know some of us fans can be a bit much sometimes, but hey, the guys hung with it for the day.
Of course the day started with a visit to the Jody Gerut stage. Had to say hi to the guy I literally cursed at every time he stepped to the plate. I was nice, he may be a cool guy but he sucks at baseball. R.J., however made sure to give a line of the day candidate "I wouldn't have been in this line in July." Bahahaha!


Yes I ran into my adoptive parents because they are big-time Brewers fans. Shared some laughs and hit up the Doug Davis press conference. That is where Doug Melvin delivered two great lines.
With Davis answering a question on whether or not he felt a return trip to Milwaukee said. "I know they were looking for a lefty in 2008 and I was close." Which led Melving to jump up to the mic and say "I got one." Well, yes he did. That wasn't the quote of the presser though. Melvin was dealing nothing but praise toward Davis so one of the reporters asked, "If you are so hi on Doug, why did you trade him?" Melvin's response "I've been known to make some bad trades. Look at Johnny Estrada." Hahahahaha. The whole crowd watching got a chuckle. Good stuff Dougy!
I will also add, that since V is above (You may remember him from such blogs as Vaughan's Way! Haha), he got to meet one of his favorite people in the world in bench coach and former NY Yankee Willie Randolph. I could tell he was moved by it and that is awesome. Happy for you buddy!

The lines at this thing were a little ridiculous as I mentioned, but I did manage to get a few autographs. Randy Wolf, Casey McGehee, Jody Gerut, Josh Butler, and of course Mitch Stetter and John Axford. Had to say hit to the guys. I'm planning some framed display for Wolf, McGehee and Stetter's cards. Should be up in the next couple weeks!


There was not a line, however by where the Diamond Dancers were hanging out early in the day. So we went over and said hi and got a poster and a photo. Have to say in the massiveness of Miller Park they get drowned out, but they're pretty cool.


The Nussie Hunter would like to apologize. First, it was discovered that Miss Wisconsin, Kristina Smaby, is on the Diamond Dancers. Well, we couldn't find a photo worthy enough for this space. Apologies. So we went with a Dancing with the Stars hottie. She's actually a former Man Show Juggies dancer and has posed for Playboy a couple times. I give you Joanna Krupa!