>> A triumphant city of Milwaukee poured into the streets once again for the celebration parade and rally for the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday.

The scrappy small market team won the World Series for the first time after clinching the title Wednesday night in Tampa.

The victory was sweet and historic, especially for people like retired Journal Sentinel reporter Tom Haudricourt, who covered the Brewers for 36 years, including the last time the team made it to the championship but lost in 1982.

Did you believe this day would come that the Brewers would win the World Series?

>> I hate to say it.

Use the word inevitable, because how can somebody that took 40 something that took 44 years be inevitable?

But it just started to get that feel after a while, as they marched through the postseason that they are that it was inevitable they were going to win.

But to go from getting swept by the Dodgers last year to sweeping the Dodgers this year, I don't know if there's ever been a more dramatic flip.

>> So the Brewers mantra is win our way.

What does that mean?

>> They don't hit a lot of home runs.

And we're sort of in an era when home runs are like King.

They I think they were last in the league in home runs.

They sort of scrap and claw, steal bases, bunt, play like what's called old school baseball.

And and then they just bullpen you to death.

They just do it in a team concept that's I'm telling you, not that easy to do.

Over 162 games.

And then 13 more in the postseason.

>> How even sweeter is it that the Milwaukee Brewers are Major League Baseball's smallest market team?

>> Yeah, I mean, it's something to take pride in.

You know, Tampa Tampa Bay was is a small one too.

So two I don't know how it happened, Frederico, because small market teams just don't make it to the World Series.

There's sort of a model franchise right now.

Everybody's going to look at the Brewers and want to emulate them.

You know and and they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Right.

Well, there's a lot of teams that are going to take a good, hard look at what the Brewers are doing and see if they can do it that way.

Also.

>> So what is it like to see the city of Milwaukee kind of erupting over this win?

>> Yeah.

Well, you know, how can you not be happy for the city.

You know they they've waited for this a long time.

You know Milwaukee's a really good baseball town.

Rodriguez.

They they they annually draw in the top half of attendance despite their small market.

I think they averaged like 34,000 this year.

Just just just Wednesday night.

Let's do the math.

It looked like they had about 25,000 people at the game.

That's crazy.

I don't know how they all got down there and got tickets.

But it was like a home game for them.

So 25,000 there.

Then like 35,000 in AM fam for a watch party to watch it on a big screen.

But then I don't know how many people can squeeze into the Deer District, but it looked like a few thousand, right?

So add those all together along with the people watching on television.

And this is an extraordinary volume of people watching the same event.

Both live in person and on TV.

It's I mean, it's, it's just incredible, absolutely incredible.

Milwaukee is just a very good baseball town.

Let's not forget, you know, the it's not a lot of people left who are Braves fans in the 50s.

But that team was extraordinarily successful and drew very well for the market.

So.

And considering how long they had to wait to get to the World Series, you know, a lot of fan bases might have just thrown up their hands and said enough, but this one never did.

And all they've ever wanted is for the team to be competitive.

In the last decade, they've really been competitive.

And then once you get competitive, you dream of that next highest step, getting to getting to the World Series.

And let me just be frank about getting to the World Series.

It was as huge as an accomplishment as that was to get there.

After 44 years.

If they wouldn't have won it, it people were going to be devastated.

You know, when you don't get there very often when you get there, you gotta win.

Blizzards can't shut down the Milwaukee public school system.

But the Brewers winning the World Series can I find that extraordinary?

So just party like it's 1982.

I know they well, I know they already will.

I asked somebody today if there's any beer left in Milwaukee.

And the beer is kind of what invented that city.

But this party's going to go on for a while, isn't it?

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