In honor of the last Out of Right Field post this season, I've arbitrarily decided on my own what I think the best parts of our Out of Right Field posts have been over the course of the season to create one big, super "best" of post. Yes! — Jared
Shortstop: Alright, let's stop adding insult to injury. — Bryan - 9/11/09
Taste of Tailgating:
The Breuben — I love brats. But I also go to a lot of Brewers games and a lot of grilling functions over the summer. By August, when I'm downing my 673rd bratwurst of the summer, they just don't pack the same punch. So, I try to mix it up a little. My newest change up on the standard grilled brat is a little something I call the Breuben. It's the tasty love child of a grilled brat and a reuben sandwich. All you need is brats, some rye bread, sauerkraut and thousand island dressing. I grilled my first breuben earlier this week and I give it high grades. It's a nice change-of-pace to keep your taste buds on edge as we ease into the prime brat-crushing months. And that Leine's Light in the picture? That washes it down well. — Jared - 5/1/09
Tailgating Music: Elliott "Song in the Air." Assuming you're of the portion of humanity who enjoys carnal privileges from time to time, nothing gets your girl's internal thirdbase coach frantically waving you home like some mood music. The last full-length from this Kentucky band will provide an ambient, spacey audio backdrop to whatever loving may ensue. Or if you'd rather just watch the game after dinner, blast Fugazi "The Argument" like you probably should all the time anyway. — Tyler - 7/13/09
Handy Heckle: I guess Juan Pierre has a pretty tiny head for an adult man. — Tyler - 7/10/09
The next home opponent is the Colorado Rockies. You almost feel bad making fun of anyone in the NL West short of the Dodgers. Well, we shouldn't. We, as Brewers fans, spent enough time looking up on the rest of the division. First, the obvious: The Rockies are in last place in the division, 12 games under .500 and 15.5 and a half games behind the Dodgers (going into play on Thursday. Do me a favor and focus on Garrett Atkins as I wasted a draft pick in fantasy on him. Atkins has been a huge disappointment and pretty much a waste of place batting .188 with an OBP of only .264 and slugging percentage of only .273. He's lost playing time to Ian Stewart. Don't forget they have Cubs throw-away Matt Murton - whose pubic hair is almost certainly fire engine red. — Joe - 6/5/09 - Joe singlehandedly inspired the Rockies to not suck for the entire rest of the season, and kick the Brewers asses this week!
Half Pint: Ruben "Buddy" Flores. Buddy was the return in the Bill Hall trade. An A-ball pitcher, I just hope Flores ends up doing ANYTHING for the Brewers at some point, as the Brewers are still paying much of Hall's salary this and next season. I doubt he will. Can you tell I didn't agree with DFAing Hall? — Tyler - 8/21/09
Blatz from the Pabst: John Jaha! How have we not mentioned him yet? - Tyler - 6/12/09
My first choice is Chris Bosio, but apparently he's been taken... twice. I'm going with Eddie Perez. I know he doesn't really count as he played with the Brewers in 2003, and it's also a horrible choice because he was really unimpressive and only played with the Brewers one year, but let me defend myself. OK, I can't defend the pick. For some reason I had this totally unjustifiable hard-on for the guy. I have a blind respect for just about all catchers, so I'm sure that's about 95 percent of the reason. He was super slow (that's the other 5 percent... he made me feel better about myself) and had middle-of-the-pack numbers, but he was my guy. Eddie left Milwaukee for Atlanta after the '03 season and hasn't been heard from since his 38 at-bats in 2005. I miss you Eddie. Alright, not really. — Joe - 7/10/09
Art:
Beer-Throwing Cubs Fan Douche Throughout Time - Jared - 8/14/09
Mini Cooper - Tyler - 8/7/09
Stetter Off Dead — Tyler - 7/24/09
Craigy McCounsell - Jared - 5/29/09
All Your Base Are Belong to Russ - Jared - 5/1/09
Alternate Uses for RFB Shirts:
1) Condoms. It's worth a try. — Tyler - 8/7/09
2) Very thin short sleeve sweater. — Tyler - 4/24/09
3) Guinea Pig hammock. What better gift to give to your favorite annoying, yet incredibly cute rodent? — Joe - 5/22/09
4) A towel for Shane Victorino (after Cub fan douche beer-throwing incident) — Bryan - 8/14/09
Friendly Fire: You know what drives me nuts? People who play catch with a football while tailgating. I know, its completely unjustified. I guess I'm just an angry person. I think I automatically associate those people with people who wear Packers jerseys to Brewers games, and I think many people have an inner hatred for those people. This is summer. Baseball season. If you must play catch, use baseball gloves and a baseball. Now that I think of it, I've actually seen very few people who can actually throw and catch a baseball while tailgating. Nevermind. Just use a damn football. At least you're less likely to hurt some innocent person. — Joe - 7/24/09
P.S. - There's hardly any Bryan stuff on there and not much Joe either. Joe disappeared from Out of Right Field posts a month or two ago so that helps explain that, but I know Bryan has contributed a lot more funny stuff that I'm missing. I'm just too lazy to go through anymore posts. So, I challenge you readers and (more likely) the other RFB guys to nominate other stuff to include in the Best of.
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