There are worse beers
DMZ · May 9, 2006 at 12:20 am · Filed Under General baseball
Reader Chris sent us a heads-up on this. Go to this page for Northern League transactions. Scroll down to 5/1:
Assigned the contract of RHP Nigel Thatch (Rookie) to Fullerton of the Golden Baseball League in exchange for 1 pallet (60 cases) of Budweiser beer.
I wonder which M’s players we could get a pallet of beer for.
That’s cold. Even if I were a lousy semi-pro pitcher, I’d want to be traded for at least real beer. Being traded for Budweiser… man, I’d never live that down.
I would love nothing more than to be traded straight up for Budweiser-The Official Beer of The Corcoran Clan
Nigel Thatch is the actor “Leon” from the Budweiser commercials, so this is even funnier, or weirder, than it originally appeared.
http://tinyurl.com/z4zqo
Pretty darn funny. More interesting (“interesting” == “depressing”) is the list of Mariners that we COULDN’T get a pallet of beer for right now, i.e., a team wouldn’t just assume the contract.
Bud ain’t the worst. You know you’ve hit bottom when you’re traded for a pallet of Lucky Lager, and the GM of the team getting the Lucky gets all excited because he’ll finally know how to solve all the bottlecap puzzles.
Sounds like a better deal than this one:
At least they were fresh.
“There are worse beers”
Like what? Bud Light? Budweiser is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Worse beers: Busch, Milwaukee’s Best, Natural Light, Keystone, Ginny Light, etc. Trust me, I know. I’m a college student.
Don’t forget PBR, college boy.
Lucky Lager, “Beer” beer, Keystone Light, PBR, Shaefer, Schmidt, Natural Light, and Miller High Life are all far worse than Budweiser.
None of this makes Bud a “good” beer, just the best of the bad.
Things you will never see in a commercial #476:
“Bud — the best of the bad”
With all the great microbrews in our corner of the country, we should be looking acquire players for our beer, not dump players for midwest swill. Hell, Auggie the Fourth ought to give us Pujols just for the RECIPE of a decent beer.
DMZ wrote:
“There are worse beers”
A highly dubious proposition.
pdb wrote:
“Bud ain’t the worst. You know you’ve hit bottom when you’re traded for a pallet of Lucky Lager . . .. Lucky Lager, “Beer†beer, Keystone Light, PBR, Shaefer, Schmidt, Natural Light, and Miller High Life are all far worse than Budweiser.”
I have and would again drink any of those beers, with the possible exception of any light beer (which shouldn’t be compared to Bud, but to Bud Light) over Bud. At least Schmidt, Schaefer, PBR, Lucky Lager and “Beer” (generic) beer are priced according to the quality you get, and in the case of the latter two you get those interesting puzzle caps to entertain you when you’ve consumed other inebriants. In addition to not being very good even among the bad, one should not partake of Budweiser if only for its anti-competitive, semi-monopolistic business practices which make it difficult for truly good beers to grow a market. Boycott Bud!
All this talk is making me thirsty. Boy, could I go for a Genny now. Er, not.
As Churchill noted, this player is the actor who plays Leon in the commercials, which makes this thing smack more than slightly of a marketing/publicity stunt (though seven games and three starts is probably more than a publicity stunt):
http://www.flyersbaseball.com/team_news/full_story.asp?ID=204
“April 25, 2006
SCHAUMBURG, IL- Nigel Thatch, the actor best known as ‘Leon’ from the highly successful Budweiser television commercial series, has been traded by the Schaumburg (IL) Flyers to the Fullerton (CA) Flyers of the independent Golden League. In recognition of the marketing partnership between the Schaumburg Flyers and Anheuser-Busch, Schaumburg will receive a pallet of Budweiser beer (60 Cases) in return for Thatch’s playing rights.
Thatch put an accomplished acting career on hold last summer to sign with the Schaumburg Flyers and pursue a baseball dream in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. He drew national publicity to Schaumburg by making the club and pitching in seven games, including three starts, over the course of the season. The right-hander posted an 0-3 won-loss record.
‘Nigel really gave us a unique presence in the sports marketplace last summer,’ said Flyers President-Managing Owner Rich Ehrenreich. ‘This opportunity puts him just a half hour from his home in the Los Angeles area. In the true spirit of “Leon Time”, we’ll have a cold one courtesy of Fullerton and thank Nigel for his time here.'”
Shame they didn’t score Budweiser Select. Tabbed with the slogan “Just good enough.” by my associates.
There was a soccer/association football team in Poland last year that transferred a player in exchange for sausage. Can’t find the article.
SEATTLE MARINERS  Sold out the next several seasons in exchange for the illusion of winning baseball in 2006 via veteran players with leadership skills.
That, to me, is the weirdest trade of all.
Stop knocking Bud! It’s a palatable, very light tasting American lager. It has no real character. Even for an American lager there are others I like a better, but really it’s pleasant enough on a hot day.
It’s way better than that Harp shite, which they make where I come from.
And don’t even get me started on Tennants…
I’m pretty sure we can swap WFB for beer, but it would have to be one bottle of O’Douls, but since he is no longer “red hot” we’d be lucky to settle for a single beer nut.
I’m going to go with the others and say that compared to beers such as busch, keystone and natty, bud is actually drinkable (there’s a ringing endorsement if I’ve ever heard one).
A-B has stakes in Redhook and Widmer. They’re minority owners but given that they control the distribution of both brands they’re effectively running the show, and some of the dollars you might spend on your Winterhook or Widmer Hefeweizen are going into August IV’s corporate pocket. So they could give Seattle its own microbrews back in exchange for players (not that those players would be able to hit in Busch stadium either… or Coors field, for that matter).
Lucky Lager and “Beer†(generic) beer are priced according to the quality you get, and in the case of the latter two you get those interesting puzzle caps to entertain you when you’ve consumed other inebriants
But, alas, they haven’t made stubbies of Lucky for maybe five years, and generic “beer beer” is no more. The Full Sail brewery recently got permission from Miller to use the stubby bottle design for Session Lager, but they’re they only one using the 11 ounce bottles.
As joser implied, A-B has stakes in Redhook and Widmer — why do you think those tend to be your microbrew stadium choices? Because A-B dictates what must be poured with Bud if one wants to pour the U.S’s most popular beer. As someone who is involved in the management of a local microbrewery, I can tell you that is FACT from personal experience.
But it’s also worse than that. Some of those beers mentioned by pdb as “worse” than Bud? Owned at least in part by Bud — including all the aforementioned Natural Light, and all Michelob products (in addition to companies like Widmer and Redhook). This kind of consolidation is not healthy for the brewing industry or good beer drinkers — it is only healthy for A-B’s bottom line and for promoting the sale of its #1 brand.
revbill — I guess my age is showing. I loved those stubbies (even though the beer wasn’t really any good).
Mmmm. Oly Stubbies!
Damn You, SABMiller!
I miss the whistle. And, in fact, I miss the beer. The stuff made in Milwuakee now (only available in cans) isn’t nearly the same. Different water, ya know!
I bet Willie Bloomquist and cash could get us a case of Pyramid Hefeweizen.
I bet Willie Bloomquist and cash could get us a case of Pyramid Hefeweizen.
You mean by giving Bloomie some cash and telling him to run across the street? Willie Bloomquist–MLB’s best 25th man and official beer bitch of the Seattle Mariners.
YES! GREAT idea, Mat. Bavasi, reassign Willie, plz.
What?!?!? The stubby is no longer merely an icon of a bygone era, but someone’s “intellectual property”? What’s next, trademarking every simple slogan, like “12th Man?”
Oh . . . . never mind.
“Why don’t we trade Matt Lawton back to Pittsburgh for Craig Wilson and a pallet of Yuengling?”
Heh. Most of the M’s right now have the value of 3.2 beer.
Which, technically, under Oklahoma state law, is not intoxicating. Of course, if you slam a 12-pack and blow .08, you’re still going to get busted.
24 – How much Lucky would you have to drink to be inebriated? Like 20 cans?
Though, all this talk of beer has me craving something…
…maybe a Hoegaarden.
Evan — As I was the one who was quoted discussing inebrients (se #14), let me say, uhh, that I wasn’t referring to the beer.
Other inebriants. Got it.
Apparently I’ve had too much Hoegaarden.
Mmmm Hoegaarden. Great summer beer. On tap across the street from my apt (no driving is a good thing). Though if you want to have fun with imports go to Prost! up in Greenwood and work your way through their Hacker-Pschorr taps. They have a couple TVs and the M’s game wil be showing if it is on. Of course you can go to Brouwer’s Cafe but the fratboy quotient can get rather high some nights (and they don’t show M’s games).
But with that and all the great brewpubs around (the Jolly Roger and the Big Time are among the best for watching games over good food and great beer) I really don’t know why anyone would bother with fizzy yellow corporate water.
The best beer ever to grace the inside of a stubby bottle was Regal Select. On the label, it said “one of America’s two great beers.” It didn’t way what the other one was.
Um, Regal Select Lite?