Miller Park capacity is 41,900. I took that number and multiplied it by 305, for the brats, which comes to 12,779,500 bratwursts. I then divided the jackpot of 768 million by the 12+ million brats and came up with a price of $60/brat.
That couldn't be right. I decided to figure out how much taking the lump sum would be ($477 million) as well as after federal and the state tax of Wisconsin was accounted for. Luckily, I found an article on this very story and the total after all was paid, the winner would pocket $264,019,500...
$264,019,500 (lump sum Powerball winnings after taxes) ÷ 12,779,500 (41,4900 fans x 305 brats) = $20.66 (price per brat)
I took this new number and figured the price per bratwurst would still be over 20 bucks per sausage (above). I still feel that this price is too high and this lottery director isn't very good with numbers and, I don't know, shouldn't you be an expert at numbers when you work at the lottery? I'd think you'd want to boost your numbers as director which in turn would sell more tickets. I'm calling Miller Park later today and I'm going to find out what a bratwurst costs there. I'll let you know of my findings in a later update. At least baseball is back.
***UPDATE***
I was able to speak with a very helpful representative from the Milwaukee Brewers. A standard bratwurst is $6.50. However, I'll give Ms. Polzin the benefit of the doubt because the "Bratcho" (is that not the best name?) comes in a large helmet as a novelty item and it's about $22.
This has been a welcome and entertaining distraction today. Perhaps it's time to head north and bring home a new Brewers novelty helmet since mine has been missing in action for a year now. Mine came with cheese fries, though, and not the Bratcho, which I have to try now.
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