Well, you know it is a formal affair when Brewers Extra Innings host Dan O'Donnell shows up in a suit.  Although that was partly because he went to yet another wedding and less to do with the first playoff baseball game being played in Milwaukee in 26 years.  Since I have been at the ballpark since lunch time I have had plenty of time to kill.  My text message box has been blowing up all day so I thought I would ask some of my friends what their first playoff baseball game experience is like.

My friend Brenden Augustine, of bringing a porta potty to Opening Day and charging five bucks for its use fame, told me how the parking lot had that Opening Day part deux feel.  "Every Phillies fan gets a good booing," he wrote me.  "It is like my second Super Bowl!  People are annoyed the roof is closed."

How was the tailgating going?  According to Augustine, "Too many games of bags and not enough washers.  Tons of booze, babes, food, and good times."

He's not complaining considering he never thought he would live to see this day and the guy is still in his 20's.  "Never thought I would see the small market Brewers playing with the big boys.  Hey, even down 0-2 is not that bad."

It will not ruin his experience if the Brewers lose.  "We are doing something that people in New York and Minnesota wish they were doing.  Playing ball in October."

Another good friend of man, Chris Schlieve got tickets to the day that some of us thought would never come.  "Feels like a dream man almost unbelievable," he texted me from the Giants lot.

If Milwaukee has to wake up from this dream, there is at least some solace this town can take, "The Cubs are almost out, so there is a God," Augustine pointed out.