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Brett Favre

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Sports Fever Hits Big, and it's Wisconsin's Time

While Wisconsin sports teams are showing us a good time right now, it's important for us to remember it's all about the game.

I’m watching the Brewers play St. Louis, second game of the league championship series. The Brewers are taking it on the chin.  It’s currently seven to two.  But "hope springs eternal" as the poem (Casey At the Bat) says. The Brewers have an explosive offense, so "it ain’t over ‘til it over."  I believe that one was Yogi Berra.  The series started badly for me. My clock radio awakened me from a deep sleep yesterday morning with the DJ quoting a Brewer saying something not nice about one of the St. Louis players. My tendency is to take that sort of hearsay with a grain of salt. First of all, "boys will be boys." Wikipedia lists thirteen citations for that quote. It must have originated with Eve. On second thought, she would have said, "Boy …

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