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Brewers and Pirates in German Uniforms
The Milwaukee Brewers honouring the large German population in their town donned uniforms featuring their team name in German this afternoon and their opponents, the Pittsburgh Pirates, joined in on the fun.
Here are pics of the uniforms worn today, first up the Milwaukee Brewers / Milwaukee Bierbrauer:
The Pittsburgh Pirates / Pittsburgh Piraten:
Both teams are already offering the jerseys for sale, with the Pirates one considerably cheaper than the Brewers — you can get the Pittsburgh Piraten jersey here or the Milwaukee Bierbrauer jersey here.
This is the second time the Pirates and Brewers have played the language game in Milwaukee, on July 10, 2010 both teams wore Spanish language jerseys.
The Brewers have now worn three different languages on their jerseys this season, todays German version, the regular English edition and the gold Spanish “Cerveceros” jersey.
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Fox
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 17:58"Interesting to note: This is the first time the Pittsburgh Pirates have worn anything other than their city name on their road grays since the 1989 season, first time on the grey button-ups since 1970." If that is true, then was this jersey never worn? http://sportslogos.net/logo.php?id=ps2rc4z5t3suu4a77nggjh0xk
Chris Creamer
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 18:15@Fox: You're right, forgot about that one -- good catch
Alexandre Bourcier
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 21:42When in french ? À quand en français ?
RockFreeler
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 22:41I like it that a team is acknowledging a culture other then Spanish.
LIVEfrom718
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 01:56I really don't get the Pirates wearing a German or Spanish jersey. The Brewers have cool looking translations for each language but the Pirates only have the change of ONE letter for each. Piratas in Spanish and Piraten in German. Is it really worth it??? Here in NY we have Los Mets but that's because there's no translation for Mets in any other language.
Stefan
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 09:11i'm from the Netherlands and Pirates in Dutch is also "Piraten". I'd love to have that jersey. But 160 dollars?!?! Do people actually buy these jerseys at these prices in the times we're living in now?
Jeff T.
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 15:12It's nice to see some of these major league teams having fun with their uniforms and logos. It gives it more of a minor league feel - not taking themselves so seriously.
b
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 01:07how about somali jersey knight
Eric
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 13:38Are the Pirates the only team to wear a corresponding alternate language visitor's uniform?
Jackmac
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 16:57Didn't we fight an entire war so we wouldn't have to speak German?
Chaaz
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 00:12In Spanish we call the Mets the same, Mets or sometimes Metropolitanos.
Alex T.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 03:56I'm ambivalent about the Brewers themselves, but they do celebrate the fact beer is awesome in any language.