Milwaukee Brewers + sexy colleague Phyllis Newman
Posted on May 23rd, 2007 – 3:14 PMBy Michael Rand
Thanks to BPar for the heads up on this story about four Milwaukee Brewers players making their soap opera debuts. From the AP (bold type from us, and commentary coming at the end):
“The Young and the Restless” is a good way to describe the Milwaukee Brewers, who are in first place and baseball’s big surprise this season.
So it seemed fitting that shortstop J.J. Hardy, center fielder Bill Hall and pitchers Chris Capuano and Jeff Suppan taped their acting debuts on the top-rated CBS soap opera of the same name Tuesday.
The players’ scene involves them visiting the office of Jack Abbott at a photo op during his campaign for Wisconsin state senate. His sexy colleague Phyllis Newman bursts in and is agog at finding four Brewers in her presence.
Before Abbott’s campaign manager yanks her out of the room, she gushes over each player’s achievements on the field.
“Can I get her name and number?” Hardy asks in the scene.
The soap opera’s casting director sought out the Brewers for the appearance since the show is based in Genoa City, Wis., a real town outside the resort area of Lake Geneva.
“I was a lot more nervous doing this than I would be going out and facing Roger Clemens,” Hardy said. “I lost some sleep last night thinking about the lines.”
Some thoughts:
1) This sexy colleague, Phyllis: Is she under the age of 60? Then why is she named Phyllis.
2) Would anyone really be agog to find four Brewers in their presence?
3) How much better would this scene have been if you replaced the four players with the four sausages, and Jack Abbott with Randall Simon? What would sexy Phyllis Newman have said after the predictable mayhem ensued?
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