If you have ever been to a Milwaukee Brewer's Major Leage Baseball game, or even seen one on TV, you are most likely familiar with the racing sausages. Even if you haven't done either, you may well have seen the silly races on social media because they are, frankly (heyo!) hilarious!

These slapstick sausages strap on their running shoes and take to the field in the sixth inning of the ballgame, and it is as absurd as it sounds. 

Human runners, wearing 7-foot-tall foam costumes with goofy faces and colorful features depicting a Bratwurst, Polish, Italian, Hot Dog and Chorizo, race each other around home plate on the warning track. The comedically top-heavy sausages, which can easily topple forwards into the dirt, temporarily take center stage as the baseball players gaze on in amusement from their dugouts, sometimes wagering on the outcome.

The first race took place in 1993, and while the fans went crazy loving the goofy spectacle, the home plate umpire was not. He felt that this was disrespectful to the sport, and turning it into a joke.

Well, the joke is on him though as more than half the teams in the league have their own versions of the mascot race – for example salmon in Seattle or presidents in Washington, D.C. – and Milwaukee’s famous five have been featured twice in commercials for ESPN’s SportsCenter show. In one, the sausages spoofed Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls, chasing panicked employees through a narrow office corridor.