Don't Wack Our Weiners!!!

For those of you who know me, you know that baseball is my favorite sport. With pitchers and catchers reporting this week, I will post a Brewers preview later on in the week. But for now, I thought I would post something fun to get everyone ready for the baseball season.

So, these are the Klement's Racing Sausages. I figured I would review the seasons they had last year, and make a prediction for the finishing order this year. These stats are pulled directly from the Brewers web site to ensure accuracy. The standings are based upon the number of first place finishes from the 2007 MLB season. The Racing Sausages have become one of the most fun things about attending a game at Miller Park. They race after the bottom of the sixth inning and they start near the third base dugout and race around behind home plate and they run past the Brewers dug out on the first base side. Back in 2003, in an attempted prank, Randall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates took a bat and hit the Italian Sausage in the head. The poor sausage went down and took the Hot Dog down with her. Apparently, Simon didn't know what happens when you attack an Italian, and he is now swimming with the fishes in the bottom of Lake Michigan.

Finishing in first place 23 times last year was the Hot Dog, or Frankie Furter as his friends call him. He is the favorite of my friend Bryan. The Hot Dog of course has an advantage because he is the lightest of the sausages. I predict he will have a strong season again, but I don't see him repeating. I predict a second place finish in the final standings for Frankie Furter.

The Polish Sausage won 20 races last year. This sausage was given the birth name of Stosh. I think this sausage will finish fourth place in the final standings.

The rookie sausage last year was the Chorizo which is a Mexican sausage for those of you not familiar. The Chorizo, who also goes by Cinco, had an excellent rookie year finishing with 16 first place finishes. He had an excellent rookie year finishing in third place in the middle of the pack. I see him hitting a sophmore slump this year, and finishing in fifth place in the standings. His name coincidently happens to mean five when translated to Spanish in case you where wondering where I got this prediction from.

Finishing the 2007 season with 14 first place finishes was the Italian Sausage. This sausage donned in a Chef's outfit goes by the name of Guido. This is my favorite of the sausages because of my strong Italian background. I really think that Guido will bounce back this year after a poor performance last year and I think he will have the most first place finishes in 2008.

The last of the sausages is the Bratwurst. On the street, this sausage is called Brett Wurst. He finished with a measly 10 first place finishes in 2007. After seeing the Bratwurst's offseason training regimen, I think he will improve on his standings and finish with the third most first place finishes in 2008.