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Vote: Who was the biggest Wisconsin sports villain of 2024?

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Here’s a list of some villains for Wisconsin sports in 20244, but which one do you regard as the biggest of the year? And who would you add to the list?

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Pete Alonso, New York Mets

“Villain” might be the wrong word for Alonso’s contribution to Wisconsin sports-fan misery, but with one swing of the bat, he did find a way to break a lot of hearts.

With one out in the ninth of NLDS Game 3, he took Devin Williams deep and turned a 2-0 Milwaukee Brewers lead into a 3-2 deficit. Milwaukee didn’t recover and lost, 4-2, getting eliminated from the postseason in the process.

Craig Counsell, Chicago Cubs

The shocking announcement that Milwaukee’s favorite son had defected to the north side of Chicago after the 2023 season caused a lot of people to change their opinion on the all-time winningest manager in Brewers history.

He was certainly given a passionate round of boos when he returned to American Family Field in May.

Tyrese Haliburton, Indiana Pacers

The Oshkosh native had a sensational season in 2023-24, taking a leap into the upper tier of NBA players. He also found himself entangled in a rivalry with the Bucks, first as part of a late-2023 game in which a game ball famously became the centerpiece of a postgame dust-up (though that one wasn’t entirely Haliburton’s doing), and also by lightly mocking the “Dame Time” celebration.

When the Pacers eliminated the short-handed Bucks from the playoffs, Haliburton took a shot at Patrick Beverley.

Kerby Joseph, Detroit Lions

The sometimes controversial safety for NFC powerhouse Detroit got into a tiff with Tucker Kraft when the Lions met the Packers for the second time in 2024, and he’s perhaps the spiritual successor of Ndamukong Suh in terms of how the Lions play with an edge, sometimes to a dirty degree.

His pick-six loomed large in Detroit’s first win over the Packers at Lambeau Field.

Jesse Winker, New York Mets

The former Brewers player returned to health in 2024 and haunted his old team in the postseason, then got chatty about it in the wild-card playoff series. Indicating that he’ll “hate the city of Milwaukee forever” certainly added some fuel to the fire.

In fairness, fans were eager to boo Winker even before the antics, commemorating his rough 2023 season in a Brewers uniform.

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