Sedar Rules!... and other weird Brewer observations

Here are some random observations I jotted down watching the Brewers game last night:

Mary Katherine Yost?

Has anyone else noticed when the Nedly stands in the dugout with his arms crossed he has a habit of sticking his fingers under his pits like the old Molly Shannon SNL character Mary Katherine Gallagher? I wish they would keep the dugout camera on him when he does that. How great would it be if he pulled his fingers out of his pits like they were stuck, put his fingers up to his nose, inhaled, and then turned to the rest of the dugout and said "Supahstah!"?

He got Bette Davis eyes

They say Ted Williams was such a great hitter because he had 20/10 vision. I think I have figured out the secret to Brewer rookie Ryan Braun's incredible hitting success. His eyeballs are, like, two inches closer to the pitcher's mound than a normal hitter's would be. Have you ever noticed that? Those things bulge out. It can be really disconcerting when you're watching him do an interview. It brings to mind Jeff Goldblum in the movie The Fly. Or, of course, actress Bette Davis. Could she hit?

Mench 1138

Has anyone else noticed that, when the Brewers are wearing their home white uniforms, and they show a dugout shot of LF Kevin Mench with his hat off, he appears as though he comes from George Lucas' Orwellian vision of the future? Perhaps he does. I mean, did anyone actually see him play in Texas before he came to Milwaukee? If he ever gets apprehended after the game in the players' parking lot by android security guards, we'll know for sure.

I heart Ed Sedar

Has there ever been a bigger beauty to don the Blue and Gold Brewer colors than 1b coach Ed Sedar? I love this guy. He looks like some random who came to the game dressed in a Brewer uniform, threw back a few too many Milwaukee's Beasts in the parking lot, and then decided to sneak out onto the field. If he were dressed in street clothes, I defy you to distinguish him from anyone parked in the Harley lot. I love when they have him miked up too. He's always asking strange questions of the umpires ("now lets say the pitcher fakes a throw to third, the guy takes off, then the pitcher executes a half motion..."). His best moment, however, came earlier in the season when there was a rain delay in Philadelphia. Brewer TV's Craig Coshun was killing time by interviewing Ed, and during that interview he asked him what the team does in the clubhouse during a rain delay to keep themselves prepared. Sedar said "Well, I was eating a cheese steak, but I'm sure that's not what the other guys were doing". Sedar House Rules!