For the second time in as many Chicago Cubs games I saw fans using a fist beer koozie (officially named Tuff Glove).  You know the one: it looks like a gigantic hulk-sized fist that holds your beer.  The perfect beer koozie, right?  Huh, wrong.  For the second straight game, the Tuff Glove has been implicated in two major beer spills causing the users to not only look like a moron but also lose their beer.

On Monday, a woman at Mullen’s on Clark was carrying her beer in the koozie and continued to spill it as she walked through the crowd – granted, her drunkenness may have been the main cause but you have to be drunk to wear one of these stupid hands.

Today, a man using the Tuff Glove was in the upper deck box of Wrigley Field.  As he walked up aisle 429, he missed a step and spilled about ¼ of his beer on the gentleman sitting across the aisle from the Ultimate Sports Wife and me (this picture was taken several minutes later after the beer had dried from his back).

These two “incidents” made me realize there are two main issues with the Tuff Glove – especially bringing it into the ballpark.  First, it is cumbersome – making your hand much bigger than you are used to.  Second, if you happen to trip with a beer in “hand” (the fake hand) you will lose control of your beverage much easier than you would if you were holding the beer with your real hand.  These are small but important details especially if you are drunk.

Now, the man who spilled his beer did follow proper fan etiquette by buying the victim a beer immediately.  But who wants to pay a tax on using a beer koozie.  My advice: keep it simple and safe.  Drink your beer with two hands and stick to your rally cap.

Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs
It was another beautiful day for a baseball game in Chicago – a rarity for an April afternoon.  In what is hopefully not a rarity, the Cubs scored four times in the bottom of the 8th to complete a comeback win versus the Brewers.  Ryan Theriot and Kosuke Fukudome each had two-run singles in the inning against Latroy Hawkins.