Brewers’ New Racing Sausage
Chorizo will be the newest addition to the Milwaukee Brewers’ racing sausages. Both Jessica McBride and Peter DiGaudio think it’s the result of political correctness.
You can’t call it “pandering” unless trying to get more paying customers to come to the ballpark is pandering. The Brewers have a simple equation: more fans at the ballpark means bigger budgets to spend on better players who will hopefully bring more wins and championships. Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is a very rich man, but he won’t bankroll a team unless it makes good business sense. Hispanic American money does just as good a job paying Ben Sheets’ salary as German American money.
Adding another ethnic sausage accepts the reality of Milwaukee’s growing Latin American community. With Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker heavily pitching this weekend’s Germanfest the team certainly isn’t sacrificing one ethnic group for another. Once upon a time Italians and Poles were Milwaukee newcomers. Klements is smart to make chorizo, the Brewers are smart to tap an untapped market, and I’m hoping they sell chorizo at Miller Park so I can down one or two in between brats.
“¡Hola, Chorizo!”
I love Chorizo. They should add Andouille Sausage to the race as well.