Minnesota 2008 with Joey Kanz

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Mike, Joe and I were all wearing the same jerseys (the Cool Base batting practice pullover style ones) but we all had different players names and numbers on the back. Can you guess who is wearing which player? I'd give you time to think it over, but since there are 3 of us and 25 players on the roster, it could be any number of them. But I'm guessing that you are between a casual to die hard Brewers fan (since you're on my site) so I will give you a hint - they are the 3 most popular Brewers. More hints. Mike is wearing the jersey of the NL Rookie of the Year in 2007. Joe is wearing the jersey of the large Veggie Eating home run bashing slugger. And I wore the jersey of the sexiest Brewers player who all of the ladies swoon over. I know you figured it out, but for those still in the dark, Mike was wearing #8 Ryan Braun, Kanz was wearing #28 Prince Fielder, and I was sporting #7 JJ Hottie... I mean Hardy. It had been a long day, but now it was time for us to go to bed so we could wake up and do it all over again.

It was just a small beer, and it was some local red lager brew that I had never heard of, but it was free, and that was all that mattered. It really wasn't half bad, but I was a bigger fan of the free popcorn and this hot chick Sarah that I talked to for a half hour. If I wasn't a visitor in this city, I totally would have asked her out. Luckily I am, so I didn't have to sit around and listen to her turn me down.

There is this bar across the street called Bullwinkle's (yes, like the cartoon moose that your parents used to watch when they were young.) Even though Mike and Katie and all of their friends were quite comfortable hanging out at The Corner Bar, I was lured into Bullwinkle's by the promise of free beer. You just have to present your ticket stub, and they give you a free beer. It's that easy. When crossing the street, I coaxed a free RedBull from the RedBull chicks, but I didn't hover around like this creepy Tim Burton Circus performer reject from the Batman movies. He would've fit in on the streets of Gotham City, but he looked out of place here. But who cares, I got free RedBull.

Just in case the clothes didn't give it away, I mentioned that we were from out of town, so she suggested that we go across the street and check out the Town Hall Brewery. They brew their own beer there, and I must say that it was rather delicious. We sat and chatted with the bartender, and he made us one of the best White Russians that I have ever had in my entire life.

One of Mike's favorite hangouts while he was up here in college and post-college life is The Corner Bar. I know that it has a very generic name, but it is what it is. It's a bar on the corner. One of 7 corners actually in the 7 Corners area of Minneapolis. It's a pretty cool bar, and there aren't as many DB's there as there are on Water Street, or else that was just my observation. Kanz and I got a couple of LandShark Lagers, and he showed me the proper way to mix the lime with the beer. Oh that Kanzy...