Bob Uecker had a pissin’ good time celebrating the Brewers’ NL Central title.
“I peed my pants,” the famous Brewers radio announcer said before being doused with champagne after Milwaukee clinched the NL Central title for the second straight season Wednesday.
Uecker, 90, is known as “Mr. Baseball” and is synonymous with Brewers baseball, with this season marking his 53rd season calling games for the team.
The Hall-of-Fame broadcaster even played for the Brewers for two seasons from 1962-63 before he began calling their games in 1971.
It’s hard to think of the Brewers without thinking of Uecker, and that’s why manager Pat Murphy made sure to include Uecker in the fun after Milwaukee became the first team to clinch a postseason berth.
Milwaukee actually had things wrapped up before they walked off the Phillies, 2-1, with the Cubs’ loss during the afternoon, giving the Brewers their third division title in four years.
As his players waited to kick off the festivities inside the home clubhouse at American Family Field on Wednesday, Murphy summoned Uecker to his right to honor him with a speech.
Players chanted “Ueck” as Uecker, who famously played Harry Doyle in “Major League,” came center stage.
“There is no one who epitomizes a champion the way this man does right here,” Murphy said, as captured by MLB.com. “There is no one out here — what an example for us to be with every single day, Bob Uecker. No doubt about it, champion.”
Uecker and Murphy received a small alcohol shower before Uecker said how he had peed his pants, and one player then leaned in to give Uecker his own shower as Murphy chuckled about the off-cuff line while misquoting him.
“I think I crapped my pants,” he said while looking at Uecker and laughing.
With the division locked up with 10 games left in their season, the Brewers now will be playing for their seeding with the top three teams in the NL separated by just three games.
The Phillies (91-61) are one game ahead of the Dodgers (90-62) for the NL’s best record and the Brewers (88-64) need a late run to pass them.
Milwaukee won the NL Central and earned the No. 3 seed last year before being swept by the eventual NL champion Diamondbacks in the wild-card round.
“Party it like whatever you want till midnight. Party till midnight,” Murphy said in the clubhouse moments before popping a champagne bottle. “And then decide, make the choice, that you’re going to believe there’s a reason this group ended up first place wire to wire. Make sure you understand that.”
