What happened to the Brewers’ home run cheesehead?

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MILWAUKEE — The Brewers’ residence run cheesehead has been returned to the cooler — at the very least for now.

Fans’ pleas for cheese have been heard since final week in Washington, the place Tyrone Taylor homered within the Brewers’ series-finale loss to the Nationals, and in contrast to each different Milwaukee residence run hitter for months, he went the size of the dugout with out being anointed by the froth cheesehead that had change into this workforce’s trademark celebration.

Willy Adames claimed ignorance.

“You’ve got to go ask the right people,” he mentioned.

“Make your own determination,” he mentioned, smiling.

It seemed like a query for Christian Yelich, who finally confirmed that the Brewers’ season-long custom had been paused. He declined to say precisely why — what’s determined within the clubhouse, stays within the clubhouse, in any case — nevertheless it simply so occurred that change occurred throughout a tough collection in Atlanta, the place the Brewers scored seven, 5 and 6 runs — solely to get swept by the highly effective Braves.

So did the cheesehead, the primary time round.

According to Cheese Culture Magazine (I’m severe), the froth cheesehead hats have been created in 1987 and took off in reputation after Brewers outfielder Rick Manning was photographed carrying one within the dugout. Manning took to “awarding” a cheesehead to any batter who struck out 3 times in a sport — a hat trick, get it? — and forcing the recipient to put on it across the clubhouse for a day. That’s one strategy to encourage placing the ball in play.

Now, maybe one other cheese spree has come to an finish.

“It could be the end of an era, we don’t know,” Yelich mentioned wistfully.

“I think it’s kind of nice rolling without it,” mentioned rookie Sal Frelick, who homered in Monday’s rout of the Rockies. “I think you see a lot of the teams now, a lot of the ones that have something [to celebrate home runs] might not be in first place in their division. So, we were having fun with it, but it took a little brief exit from the dugout. I don’t know if it’s coming back or not.”

So, don’t completely despair.

There could possibly be some holes on this no-cheese coverage, it appears.

“I wouldn’t say it’s gone,” Yelich mentioned. “It’s just questionable to return.”