Come on Albert, get real and lighten up!!

I saw more helmet smashing and called-strike whining by the Cards last night than anything else. It’s funny how perspectives change when a team like the Cards realize it’s not going to happen this year. Sorry guys.

I know Puljos likes to hand out life lessons like he is Jesus, it’s very entertaining. He has both a lot of talent and money, but has turned into quite a baby. No one likes getting beat, especially to the Brewers. They’ve been a punching bag for years. But facts as they are, this is a good year for them. Everyone should be used to it by this point in the season. As for Al, I hope more pitchers go inside on him to back him away from the plate, makes the game more fun. Yes he will take offense to it, because Pujols is very Pujols.

I didn’t like when Braun was hit, that was too bad. I keep hoping every year that Tony will get past that sort of nonsense. I give Ned Yost a lot of credit for not hitting Pujols later in the game. They should be happy Braun’s back didn’t get re-injured, Pujols would have taken a 99mph Seth McClung fastball to the face.

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An open letter to Albert Pujols,

Let me first clearly state that I am a lifelong Milwaukee Brewer fan. Having stated that, I also wish to make it clear that I’m a baseball fan that enjoys the best that the game has to offer. That enjoyment has included watching the greats in the game play the game. Albert, I have always considered you one of the great ones in the game. I have always seen you as a class act and an ambassador of the game.

I must though tell you that your actions last night were uncalled for. I just don’t see how you can justify your actions against Carlos Villanueva after the 7th inning when your very teammates were disrespecting the game. Where was your angst against disrespecting the game when Glaus and Mather threw their helmets in disgust over failing to get a base hit? Why weren’t you in Glaus’s face when he kept complaining about the strike zone and when he threw his bat and helmet in disgust after striking out (which he should have been ejected for)?

You call Villanueva’s pumping his fist after getting out of a bases loaded jam disrespect, and you feel you need to tell him how he is supposed to conduct himself. But in the very next inning your teammates do the very same thing but you feel no need to police your own house. Glaus’s reaches second base after driving in the go ahead run in the eith, claps his hands and pumps his fist in approval. Where were you? Why were you not out of the dugout pointing a bat at him and letting him know there is no place for that in the game of baseball. He apparently was showing the same emotion that Villanueva showed earlier yet apparently it was OK for Glaus to demonstrate that emotion.

Later in the same inning, Glaus comes home at a play at the plate, slides, then gets up and signals himself safe. Why were you not in his face? Why were you not informing him that it is the umpire’s job to make the call, not Troy’s? Remember Albert, you supposedly respect the game and you apparently have appointed yourself as baseballs official conduct policeman. If you feel the need to police, start in your own house.

You have shown contempt for the Brewer’s tradition of pulling out their shirts after a victory. You feel it is an in your face slap at the team they just defeated. You believe you were slapped 10 times this season by that tradition. Did you ever take the time to understand why they do that? It isn’t an in your face action. It is a tradition that Mike Cameron has done after every win since he has played in the majors. He does it to honor his father. His memories of his father as a child were seeing his dad come home from work and pull his shirt out and relax after a hard days work. The Brewers adopted that as a team to both honor their fathers the same way and to celebrate a hard days work.

Albert, you showboat and admire every homerun you hit. Disrespect for the game isn’t it? You signal to the heavens giving thanks and paying respect to your personal beliefs every time you get a hit, yet the Brewers do something after a win and you take it personal. Your teammates disrespect the game in your words by clapping their hands or pumping your fists and you do nothing. But an opposing player does it and you take exception.

Albert you are seen by many as a class act in your profession. Stay that way. Stop feeling that others disrespect the game when they don’t If you are going to police the game, clean up your act, and the acts of your teammates before you start your crusade across baseball.

This “journalist” seriously compared the actions of the 2008 Milwaukee Brewers to that of Ron Artest. Ron Artest plays basketball. He’s a maniac. He once jumped into the stands and attacked a fan. He also once beat up a woman, starved dogs, and made a freaking rap album. SOMEHOW HE AND ANY EFFING MEMBER OF THE 2008 BREWERS HAVE THINGS IN COMMON?

As a Brewer fan, it pains me to see someone actually post a Jim Rome-like comment regarding Josh Hancock. There’s no call for that. None. THAT is classless, and you certainly do not represent the thoughts of other Brewer fans. Idiot.

As for the Cardinals, Yadier Molina is one of the most emotional players in the game, along with guys like Carlos Zambrano and Carlos Marmol. He’s a punk, plain and simple. For the Cardinals to call out Villenueva was priceless….and Albert Pujols is the pot calling the kettle black.

Tony LaRussa is a good manager, but he’s also one of the dirtiest, and the first to point fingers at everyone else. You think Braun wasn’t drilled on purpose? Please. But it’s OK if the Cards do it, right?

Villenueva was out of line. I don’t like his antics anymore than I like Pujols’, Molina’s, Zambrano’s, or when Bill Hall cadilacced it after beating the Cards with a dinger a few weeks ago.

But the Cardinal fans need to quit being so hypocritical.

And finally, Bernie. Comparing the Brewers to Ron Artest? Can you be serious? How, as a “journalist”, can you be so cavalier and irresponsible? That is absolutely ridiculous.

And you cry about the Brewers’ arrogance while clearly showing yours by claiming that the Brewers have no right to be arrogant since they hadn’t won since 1982.

My God, you are a pitiful excuse for a journalist, and but a good excuse for a fan that has drunk way too much kool-aid. You know, the kind Tony LaRussa makes.

I can’t believe the St. Louis Dispatch stands behind this. This is complete sensationalism to the 10th degree. It’s obvious Bernie that you are auditioning for Pat O’brien’s spot on Inside Hollywood.

Also Bernie,

Rumor has it that Molina hasn’t picked up his catchers gear yet, it’s still sitting at homeplate in Miller Park. Forgot how classy that was.

Folks, take it from someone that spent a couple years in Milwaukee. These are fat, disgusting slobs that have never seen a successful baseball team. They try to create rivalries with STL and CHC b/c they so desperately want to be cared about. They gave up their top prospect (despite what they will tell you) to rent CC. He will be on a coast next year, and Sheets will be in Houston or St. Louis. This is their one chance to matter. Funny thing is, the best they can pull is a WC berth. They will not win this division anytime soon, and if they took a step back, they’d realize the Cubs and Cards are setting themselves up to own this division for at least 5-10 more years, while this is their shot.

Enjoy the rotation of a rehabbing Gallardo, Parra, and Suppan next year folks. If you can’t win it this year, I can confidently say you never will.

By the way, haul your FAT butts down I-55…their are ten flags hanging out in right field. What happened in the only other year the Brewers were relevant? Thats right, we made them irrelevant. And please, tell me not to live in the past, because I know you FAT F***’s have been basqueing in 1982 more than we did…AND YOU GOT BEAT!

You’ve always been losers, you always will be. You will go back to being our doormat in 2009 and we’ll make sure to take up all the good seats at that carnival you call a baseball stadium. You and your FAT, DRUNK friends can grab the bleacher seats and dream of the glory days…of when we beat you in ‘82.

And please tell me how great Milwaukee is. It’s a sh**hole in the shadows of a real city, and you still haven’t gotten over it. Fielder and CC do their best impression of Wisconsinites…FAT SLOBS.

This sounds like sour grapes to me Mr. Mislasz. Should Carlos Villaneuva done what he did, certainly not, but to label him a “chucklehead” or “journeyman” because his emotions got the best of him on one occassion is certainly uncalled for. What’s happening here is a town, their fans, and the teams beat writers looking for something out of nothing. The Brewers took down the Cards 10 out of 15 times this season, several of them in the final at bat. That leads to frustration among the aforementioned individuals and they make mountains out of mole hills. Many, many pitchers get excited when they get a big out in a big moment. I’ve seen many-a-players (including some on the Cardinals) stand and watch a home run (Pujols included). The fact is the Cardinals got their butt’s handed to them this season by the Crew, something they are not used to. Now it seem’s more important to make a big deal out of pulling out their jersey after a win. I don’t hear any other teams fans or teams beat writers making any issue out of what the Brewers fans are doing, including several teams that the Brewers dominated like St. louis. The main problem here is that St.Louis is not used to looking up at the Brewers in the standings. From the perspective of a Brewers fan, get used to it. SCOREBOARD!!!

And Bernie,

Keep on writing. That hack Haudricourt would jump on your job the first chance he got…what’s it like covering a real team, with history, tradition and TITLES???