Miller Time Fun for Fans

The truest baseball fans revel in the type of game played in Milwaukee today. A pitcher's duel, a triple play, multiple Web Gems-worthy defensive plays, extra innings and a walk-off homer. Does it get any better? For the Brewers and their faithful, no. For the guys on the other side -- a Giants team scraping and scratching and clawing to make the postseason -- well, let's just dig out an old but very useful cliche and call it a heart-wrenching loss.

It would have been such sweet sweeping at Miller Park, where the Giants have had their share of troubles. And Colorado capitalizing with a win over Arizona made defeat even tougher.

OK, so the pain is short-lived -- for some, it may have vanished during the postgame spread, but surely for everyone it will subside today, when the Giants return home to face the lowly Padres.

Tip of the Cup. The triple play was -- literally -- a stroke of luck, but Prince Fielder's mighty cut on the game-winning homer was not. A secondary tip to Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki, who became the second youngest player to reach 2,000 hits -- mind you, this is a guy who was a 27-year-old rookie only eight years ago.

Warning: Danger ahead. The Brewers' home-plate celebration was amusing at first, but it made me think later that it's going to open up a whole new can of worms. I, for one, don't want to see baseball become a circus akin to what the NFL became some years back with its mock-boxing, Sharpie-carrying, cell phone-calling touchdown celebrations. Baseball would be wise to take caution and not let things get out of hand.