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April 09, 2007

Milwaukee Set To Reprise Its Greatest Film Role

Nearly twenty years after its groundbreaking portrayal of the city of Cleveland in Major League, the city of Milwaukee is set to play the role again for this week's Angels-Indian series.

With Cleveland buried under 14 feet of snow, apparently, the entire Tribe-Seattle series was cancelled, and rather than have the California/Los Angeles Angelic Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California spend their entire week twiddling their thumbs in Ohio, the teams decided to give Milwaukee another moment on the silver screen.

A spokesman for the city of Milwaukee says that even though County Stadium (which doubled as Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in Major League) is long gone, the city is ready to pretend to be Cleveland again. "The moment when 20,000 Milwaukeeans pretended to be Clevelanders and screamed for Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughan is probably the greatest thing that's happened to Milwaukee sports in twenty years," he said. We look forward to pretending to cheer for this new batch of Indians as well."

"Is Cerrano still on the team?" he added.

The city of Baltimore, which portrayed Cleveland in Major League II to terrible reviews, was said to be "hurt" by the decision.

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I forgot about the Cleveland-Milwaukee tie in Major League. Good catch!

Not sure why they don't just switch this Angels - Indians series to Anaheim now and their meeing later in the year to Cleveland. The NFL used to do that all the time for cities whose baseball and football teams shared a stadium when the baseball team got into the post-season.

Posted by: Vin | April 10, 2007 08:26 AM

The "Wild Thing" edition of Major League comes out today. Coincidence? Or fate?

Posted by: GreenieGirl | April 10, 2007 09:34 AM

Because our teams really suck we have resorted to using decent film teams. Hey, we have to try something to get tourism up... not everyone likes eating sausage and remembering Laverne & Shirley.

Posted by: cherylann | April 10, 2007 12:46 PM