Let’s Go Crazy: Prince Fielder’s Showstopping Celebration

Prince Fielder and the Milwaukee Brewers may be in fourth place in the NL Central standings,  but they are tops in something -- the most memorable walkoff celebration of the season.

When Fielder hit a 12th inning homer to beat the San Francisco Giants Sunday, he first untucked his shirt and gestured to teammates to get ready. Then  Fielder seemed to imitate a bowling ball making a strike when he ran around the bases and rolled up at home plate. And his teammates responded in kind -- falling to the ground as if the Power of Prince had singlehandedly, um, bowled them over.

I guess that’s what you have time to do when you are 15 games out of first place -- come up with goofy ways to celebrate when you actually do win a game, even if it’s sure to tick off your opponents.

Baseball is such a traditional sport that the Brewers’ habit of untucking their shirts on the field after a win (inspired by what Milwaukee player Mike Cameron’s father would do at the end of a workday) was enough to inspire the usually-quiet Albert Pujols to complain to USA Today about it:

“I see teams take their jerseys out when the game is over,” he says. “To me, that’s not professional. I don’t care what you do when you get off the field, but don’t do it on the field. You don’t want kids to see negative things.”

No word on what Pujols thought of the Brewers’ latest celebration.

However,  the Giants, who were the victims of the stunt, didn’t seem very happy about it, even if they didn’t say anything overtly about it. Good thing for the Brewers’ sake that none of them paid the same sort of visit to the Milwaukee locker room that Fielder tried to do to the Dodgers’ Guillermo Mota last month!

But the real question is this -what are the Brewers going to do for an encore, now that they’ve done the stunt that launched a thousand ESPN highlights? I have some suggestions for them to have some fun -- and show some civic pride at the same time:

* Fielder and teammate Ryan Braun skip around as they reenact the hopscotch opening of “Laverne and Shirley,” set in Milwaukee:  “”1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8! Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!”

* Fielder, the world’s, err, beefiest vegetarian, runs in Milwaukee’s famous Sausage Race in honor of tofu.

* The Brewers pretend to be in a car at home plate and sing the intro to “That 70s Show,” yelling “Hello, Wisconsin!” at the end of the song.

* Fielder takes Milwaukee mascot Bernie Brewer’s place on the beer slide.

* The Milwaukee slugger jumps the shark, a la Milwaukee greaser Fonzie on “Happy Days.” Come to think of it, he really will be jumping the shark if he keeps up these silly stunts!

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