As if Milwaukeeans need another reason to resent Chicago...
Sports Illustrated magazine conducted a survey of more than 454 Major League Baseball players earlier this year and Milwaukee and Detroit tied for "least favorite road trip."
The Great Lakes neighbors each garnered 13% of the vote while Chicago was voted "favorite road trip" by an overwhelming 30%.
Milwaukee fared particularly poorly with players under 24. Nearly 31% of those players listed our town as their least favorite stop. You wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the Brewers have the best home record in the majors (45-26) or if players just hate the nightly Sausage Race.
Here are the complete results, which hit newsstands tomorrow:
SI PLAYERS POLL
What is your favorite road trip?
Chicago.......30%
San Diego.......15%
New York.....11%
Seattle....8%
Your least favorite?
Milwaukee.....13%
Detroit.....13%
Washington, D.C. ...8%
New York....7%
Host of “The Drew Olson Show,” which airs 1-3 p.m. weekdays on The Big 902. Sidekick on “The Mike Heller Show,” airing weekdays on The Big 920 and a statewide network including stations in Madison, Appleton and Wausau. Co-author of Bill Schroeder’s “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers” on Triumph Books. Co-host of “Big 12 Sports Saturday,” which airs Saturdays during football season on WISN-12. Former senior editor at OnMilwaukee.com. Former reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
