Sausage Race

From Wiki Gonzalez

Sausage Race is a popular between-innings event held at Brewers home games. It is a live-action enactment of the dot race. It easily is more entertaining than most Brewer games (or at least it was until 2007).

The Sausage Race has five people in mascot-type costumes race around Miller Park. There are five contestants, representing the different types of meat available at the concession stands: hot dog, Polish sausage, bratwurst, Italian Sausage, and chorizo (new in '07). The contestants wear semi-appropriate costumes: the hot dog is in a nondescript baseball uniform, the Polish sausage seems to be wearing some kind of golf apparel, with sunglasses, the bratwurst wears lederhosen, the Italian is represented as a mustachioed chef, and the chorizo is a mustachioed character wearing a sombrero.

The Sausage Race gained national attention in 2003 when Randall Simon decided, for no apparent reason, to hit the bratwurst with a baseball bat as the sausages ran by the Pirates' dugout. This resulted in a two-link pileup and a media furor that is nowadays reserved towards steroid users.

Unfortunately, it took Primates way too long to come up with the "Beat on the Brat" jokes - granted, the obvious nature of the "Randall Simon made contact?" jokes were a bit of a distraction.

The Sausage Race is the source of the handle for occasional Primer poster The Polish Sausage Racer. He always roots for the Polish sausage, even though he himself is of German ancestry. He finds the Polish sausage tasty.

References

• In the Primer Lounge of May 12, 2004, DeJesusFreak fondly recalls his visit to Miller Park in September 2003, where he "ate for the cycle," enjoying all four sausages at a Cubs-Brewers tilt, plus the Brewers' complimentary angioplasty.
• Hot Doggin' It: A Peek Inside the Sausage Race Factory (http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2005/09/hot_doggin_it_a_1.php) - Jay Jaffe recounts his experience as a Sausage Racer. (September 15, 2005)