Prior to the 1998 season, the Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers were familiar foes battling in the American League East division. With the Twins picking up a pair of World Series titles in 1987 and 1991, and the Brewers struggling outside of an American League pennant in 1982, Minnesota usually had the upper hand with their neighbors to the east.
While the rivalry was never all that intense, things really got relaxed when the Brewers moved to the National League during that 1998 season. As part of interleague play, the two teams occasionally saw each other, but it was more of an excuse for the two fan bases to meet up, have a couple of beers and attempt to eat a hot dog, bratwurst, Italian sausage and Polish sausage in the same game (A feat I like to call “eating for the sausage cycle.