Well it must be almost summer.
The 2008 Old Style Fan Cans are in stores now. This years tall boy goes with a blue design and features the iconic Wrigley Field bricks and ivy.
I find it's blue color gives me the calming feelings I need in order to make it through nine innings of Chicago Cubs baseball.
Old Style beer is a key ingredient in being a Delusional Cubs Fan. You need that warm fuzzy feeling that 16 fluid ounces gives you. It also helps me write for my new Cubs Blog, which I started because, well, I'm a delusional fan hopped up on Old Style.
It's been a fun project though and I've learned a lot about using wordpress, widgets and affiliate advertising by putting it together. I just wanted to do something fun and not take it too seriously. Eventually it will get a nice custom design as well, but if I had waited to launch the blog until I had the design finished it wouldn't be done until the Cubs when the world series. Which will be this October by the way. No seriously. Because Kosuske Fukudome is going to be bigger than Jesus.
Now where did I put that frosty mug?
DUH
Feel free to compare it to the 2007 fan can.
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On my first visit to Reggies this weekend, I was happily surprised to find the beer tub stocked with 16 oz cans of Old Style, Pbr, and several domestics. I went with the Old Style fan cans all night...
Hell Yeah! If Reggies has got Old Style tall boys in a beer tub than that place really does know how to ROCK.
The first time I see those cans each year I just have to buy them.
I appreciate the Cans, for sure...it's the beer within I find a tad suspect.
Don't like the beer? Well, granted it may not be the best, especially if you only drink imports and premium domestics. But to me I would really choose it over bud, mgd, high life, pbr and all the other beers in it's category. Maybe that's just because years and years of old style commercials during Cubs games have ingrained it in my head to "think local, drink local" but whatever. Then next warm Saturday I know what I'll be drinking during the Cubs game. And when I feel like upgrading, maybe a nice 312 with a lemon. :-)
what does the "400" stand for?
"400" is the distance in feet from home plate to the ivy covered center field wall of Wrigley Field. If you look for it on TV during a game, you may notice it painted on the wall in yellow. This years Old Style Fan Can is inspired by the ivy colored bricks, thus the 400 makes it's appearance on the can.
For reference, here are the rest of the walls distances from plate:
Left field - 355 feet
Left-center - 368 feet
Center field - 400 feet
Right-center - 368 feet
Right field - 353 feet
For a bunch more Wrigley Field trivia, check out the Wrigley Field History section at Cubs.com.
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