Fallen Sausage
 

Quote of the day:

"I'm just a sausage running a race."

LMAO

I was supposed to be at that game (it happened at Miller Park). The assorted sausages/mascot race is a fun tradition and I think he was just playing around with her. From what I hear he bumped the top part of the outfit (they are at least ten feet tall). I saw the clips of it and I still think it's hilarious and even the girl that it happened to is fine with it. Hell she's getting free tickets and an autographed bat?!

I'm glad that she wasn't hurt...but I guess as the saying goes, "It's all fun until someone loses an eye".


Fallen Sausage...I was thinking that this was a spinoff of the James' "Missing Penis" thread. LOL

I always thought the quote was "It's all fun and games 'till the dog catches fire."

But when the dog catches fire, then it's just fun.

I can't believe you people, the dramatic fallen sausage - its like the falling of the Berlin Wall - its a major event in history! This is the most press the Brewers have gotten all season!

Seriously though, as a huge Brewer fan and witness to many, many sausage races, I think it was hilarious. If you watch the video closely, the Italian Sausage is just starting to tumble as Simon boinks her on the melon. But, the boink is hardly a boink, it was more like a tap. The 8 foot Italian Sausage, guaranteed to be top heavy, was going to fall no matter what. The fine he received was bogus, but I guess procedure is procedure.

"And the Italian Sausage crashes in turn two taking the Hotdog with her"

Eh, it's really not that big of a deal. At first I thought it bad conduct, but after thinking about it more I don't think it was that bad. In the long run it's cool for the girl cuz now she gets free tickets, media attention, and autographed bat, and 15 minutes of fame. I think the reason this story is so big is because it's easy to make a lot of jokes about it. Especially on SportsCenter

I saw the girl in the sausage costume on GMA this morning. She was laughing and having fun with it. She seems to be enjoying the attention. As long as she wasn't hurt, it's cool.

lol there was all kinds of fun stuff about this story last night.. esp. on the late night talk shows!

and yes my friends... the basball player who did the "tapping" was a Pirate... go Pittsburgh!

This is the most exciting thing to happen to Pirates' baseball in ages.

The Pirates have their own similar thing- except instead of a sausage race (which, btw, just sounds sick) it's a pierogie race.

Let me tell you, as much as Pittsburghers really don't care about the Pirates, they'd be pissed as all hell if someone did that to one of our pierogies!!!!!!!!!

Man, and people make fun of the south? Who's the ones that race encaced meats? ;)

LMAO at...

The title of this thread.

The quote of the day.

:D Too funny!!!

LMAO!!!! Me too :p

Obviously, this has gotten serious airplay on the local stations in both Milwaukee & Pittsburgh. My personal viewpoint is that the newscasters are loving the idea of talking about beating the meat in public!














(did I really say that?!)

In Milwaukee it's "wack the weiner" get it right... :)


And a sausage race sounding sick? Nonsense, don't hate on our sausage...

This whole thing is hilarious -- we were talking about it in class yesterday and had no idea, until I watched CNN yesterday, that it was national news.

And I agree with damasa. Stop hating on the sausage; yall are just jealous.

Mr. honeychile lives in Chicago, so I've been to many a Summerfest or otherfest. I think you have to grow up eating the sausage to really appreciate it.

I was just quoting the local newscasters!

Now THAT'S the quote of the day!!! :D

The Sausage Race is a Wisconsin tradition right up there with Summerfest, the Packers, cheeseheads, and drinking Miller. It is my favorite part of Brewer games, and I am dismayed at the lack of respect shown by this "Pirate" character. The pierogies, whatever they are, better watch out.

Don't wack our wiener!

I am glad that the sausage girl is okay and didn't have any hard feelings for the Pirate who hit her with the bat. It is irony she wants a the bat that he hit her with autographed as a souvenir.

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While I'm Glad the girl is all right, I just wonder if it's worth getting a $482 fine plus a three game suspension for this? The Fine I can understand, but the suspension is a bit too much. Randall Simon has apoloigized and sent a autographed baseball bat, but I guess it wasn't enough.

They're tasty little dough packets stuffed with either a mashed potato/cheese mixture or sauerkraut. :) They'd get along very well with any sort of sausage, I daresay.

I don't know exactly why, but your calling her "the sausage girl" had me ROFL!!!

Are they kind of like a Hot Pocket? I've heard the name before, but I didn't know what they were.

Me too . . . Oh where oh where can my . . .

No, they're more of a slightly large ravioli. You can boil them, or you can pan-fry them. Generally don't put sauce on them though (although I have). They're usually cooked in butter and onions.

Hmm...they are not sounding up my alley. Are they Polish?

Yep! Hence why they're so big in Pittsburgh.

I not a huge fan of them when they're cooked in onions, but they're actually pretty good. This is inspiring me to pull out my Mrs. T's frozen pierogies (they're SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better when you get them made fresh from little old Polish ladies usually through their church).

It's funny, Pitt's dining services would have them on a fairly regular basis. None of my eastern-PA friends really knew what they were, but once they tasted them, they were hooked! They'd get so damn excited when it was pierogie day

All this talk of pierogi reminds me of when I brought my now-husband home to Pittsburgh to meet my family. My Polish grandma made her incredibly yummy homemade pierogi in honor of the occasion and I will never forget the look on the poor woman's face when John (a total, total WASP) doused his with catsup! That's simply not done! lol

Killarney Rose, that is TOO FUNNY! A couple years ago, I went through some intense tummy problems, and went about 30 days without eating anything solid (that would stay down). I finally told my (Southern WASP) mama that I had been able to hold down a potato piergogi. She was very happy, then paused and said, "I'm trying to think how you had a pierogi in your house?"

The joys of WASP-dom!

LOL, Honeychile! :)