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Just to confirm: The end of the rainbow leads to Miller Park.

Chicago Third Grade Travel Team “Big Red” Playing at Miller Park

Credit: Kim Michelson

WATCH OUT everyone, Ryan Braun has his own energy drink.

Or something.

It’s called Limelite Fusion Drink and Braun is just one of several athletes who are sponsoring this low-calorie, low-caffeine energy beverage. Also sponsoring the drink are six more Brewers, a handful of other baseball players, plus, Ken Griffey Jr., Reggie Miller, and two champion fighters of some sort.

According to the website, it’s currently being sold at your local Piggly Wiggly, Festival Foods, Woodman’s Markets, and some other places that I’m pretty sure are made up.

Their marketing strategy is flawless, too. With a tag line like “a healthier, alternative, premium fusion drink with great taste,” I’m already sold. AND, u kno Limelite is hip wit da kidz cuz it’s spelled with an i-t-e at the end, yo!

I haven’t tried it yet, but let’s be honest — it looks like the Reno of energy drinks.

But you tell me. Has anyone tried Limelite Fusion Drink yet? Does it taste like Diet Mountain Dew and strippers?

And more importantly, are they selling it at Miller Park yet?

“Bud Selig is my hero.” —Hank Aaron at yesterday’s unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Bud Selig statue at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wis.

P.S. - Rollie Fingers, are you seriously still rocking that mustache??

Hey everyone — That’s the best photoshop of Bob Uecker I’ve ever seen. It’s also Milwaukee County Stadium and not Miller Park. Not that that really matters; just thought I’d point it out.

UPDATE: Apparently this is Miller Park and I’m just a douchelord.

Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wis.

Someone was feeling entrepreneurial when they built this.

Farm Aid concert coming to Milwaukee

Milwaukee will host Farm Aid’s 25th anniversary concert Oct. 2. This will be the first time the event will be staged in Wisconsin.

Nelson and event co-founder John Mellencamp will release more information about the concert on Farm Aid’s website Monday morning.

Willie Nelson’s website called the country music legend’s slip of the lip a “WillieLeak.”

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, this one conjures up just one for me: TOTALLY FUCKED.

It’s a photo taken by “Chopper Four with power zoom” (emphasis added) of a Friday sailboat ride through Lake Michigan. The discolored water extended past the breakwater; and while the contents are supposedly unknown, everyone knows it’s shit.

Evidently, the sewerage district dumped an unprecedented 4.6 billion gallons - enough to fill Miller Park 15 times over from its base to its retractable roof - of raw sewage this month, exceeding any annual dumping tally since the deep tunnel system opened in late 1993.

“That’s more than any sewage treatment system in the country could handle,” said Kevin Shafer, the district’s executive director. The dumping “is something we have to do if we want to minimize and prevent basement backups,” he said.

Yikes. Considering the number of times I typed the word ‘dumping’ in the past five minutes in relation to Milwaukee, I bet it smells great in my hometown right about now.

Milwaukeeans were pissed after Atlanta’s Jonny Venters plunked Prince Fielder in the back last week.

And apparently, our Brew Crew batters get hit by pitchers far more than anyone else in the National League.

LAME.

But in the opinion of Michael Hunt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, there’s another way to look at the Venters/Fielder situation:

“As far as many around here are concerned, Venters might as well have earned his four-game suspension for, ahem, mistaking Adam Dunn’s shoulder blade for the inside of the plate.

Huh. Okay.

I would have said it’s because Fielder has been looking more and more like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers every time I see him, but hey, whadda I know? I’m not much of a golfer.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Brewers will be the subject of a one-hour documentary on ESPN on Tuesday night entitled “The Homestand - Milwaukee,.”

The show was shot over a six-game stretch at Miller Park in June and taped players as well as Brewers owner Mark Attanasio. Producers were allowed in the clubhouse and executive offices as well as players’ homes, while the players and team officials were miked up at various points during the week.

I think if someone were to play Attanasio in a Hollywood movie though, it would have to be Richard Lewis.

Milwaukee Brewers Top 5 All-Time Home Run Leaders:

1. Robin Yount, 251
2. Geoff Jenkins, 212
3. Gorman Thomas, 208
4. Cecil Cooper, 201
5. Prince Fielder, 182

Listen, I know that Rollie Fingers wasn’t on that list, but he looks cooler.