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Following last week’s flooding at Miller Park, a lot of us said “man, that was a bunch of rain.” Vinnie at Yellow Chair Sports, however, said it in far more erudite terms than you ever could. Just a quick note: Vinnie uses the term “recurrence interval” in his post. For that reason I was going […]

Via BTF, a story about the Brewers expanding their fans’ entertainment options: The Milwaukee Brewers baseball club held a brainstorming session a while back to see what would happen if movies were linked with a baseball venue. They came up with Miller Park Movies. In early June, the Brewers unveiled drive-in movies in the parking […]

One of the cool things about baseball is that despite how small our world has become, how nationalized, standardized, commoditized and sanitized everything insists on being, there are still healthy pockets of localization. Things teams do and things that fans think that don’t instantly make the mainstream. It’s far less prevalent than it used to […]

In this week’s edition of Lost in Transactions, we applaud the Mets for picking up Wily Mo Pena. The Brewers look to turn fortunes around with Trevor Hoffman returning and Andrew Miller hit the DL for the Marlins.

Most likely owing to the start time, Catholics in Milawaukee are not quite as bent out of shape about the Brewers’ Good Friday home opener as those in Detroit, but in some ways their suggestions as to how to properly combine baseball and religion are even more extreme: Milwaukee’s soon-to-be-departing, but still current Catholic Archbishop […]

If you thought “Official Luxury Car of the New York Yankees” was too much, get a load of what they’re doing in Milwaukee: Every Milwaukee Brewers fan knows what Bernie Brewer does after every home run: He slides down a slide. But in an era where everything is for sale, the Brewers have managed to […]

Will the 2009 Crew get drunk with glory, or just gloriously drunk?

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Spring training is finally here! Now we get six weeks of watching pitchers throw gently off a mound and the scrubs get face time on the television networks. While there are still plenty of quality free agents unsigned, they’re starting to concede the economic climate as we’ve seen with Adam Dunn and Braden Looper signing deals.