Failed Brewers trade addition takes shot at Milwaukee while riding Mets' coattails

While Milwaukee Brewers fans are still stinging from the team's loss in the first round to the Mets, one of the lasting memories from the series is the drama between Willy Adames and Jesse Winker. Winker clearly held some animosity from getting hit by a pitch in the regular season, took those frustrations out on Adames and the Brewers by yelling at them while running the bases, and Adames took exception to it.

The rest of the story we know. Winker basically challenged Adames to a fight on the field, Adames told him to meet him in the parking lot, and Winker was unsurprisingly a no-show as actually fighting an opposing player in the parking lot after a playoff game is generally a bad idea.

With the Mets giving the Phillies everything they can handle in the NLDS, Winker still found the time to go on the record with the NY Post to say that he will "hate the city of Milwaukee forever.”

Jesse Winker saying that he will hate Milwaukee forever is both mutual and just sad

It is fair to say that Brewers fans feel the same way about Winker especially given how they reacted to him taking the field as well as how poorly he performed when Winker played for the Brewers. For a guy that has exactly two hits this postseason and is, at best, a very flawed support player for New York, Winker seems to make enemies everywhere he goes.

Winker maintains that Frankie Montas hit him on purpose at the end of the regular season, did not come close to apologizing for his role in the fracas between himself and Adames nor does he have any intention to, and also took issue with Brewers fans booing him in the 2023 postseason where he didn't perform. Injuries played a role in Winker's struggles last season and he feels as though fans didn't appreciate what he went through. Nevermind the fact that it isn't the fans' fault that he didn't perform after Winker was traded to Milwaukee. Logic is not in play here whatsoever.

In a lot of ways, this is just sad. Here is a guy that was a promising playing in MLB at one point and how has had to settle as a bit player on a team in the middle of a playoff run that rarely makes news except when he starts talking. Winker is certainly feeling himself with the Mets making a nice playoff run and after having his moment in the sun against the Brewers. What he doesn't seem to get is that his proclamation that he hates Milwaukee now means about as much as a fourth string wide receiver declaring a team his sworn enemy: entertaining, but ultimately meaning very little.

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