National League
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The Milwaukee Brewers' Unlikely Position
The Milwaukee Brewers’ schedule advantage over the Chicago Cubs appears poised to loom large over the season’s final months. Read more
Gotta Beat Those Stinkin’ [team name]! The Joy-in-a-Sweep Index of 2016 Brewers Opponents
With a team not expected to contend this year (and maybe fora while afterward), Brewers fans are going to need to learn to find pleasurewhere they can. One of the great things about baseball is that, for anyparticular string of three or fo.. Read more
Rough Road From Start to Fermisht
The great Gene Pitney sang it best in the '60s: “It hurts to be in love.” Especially, as any sports fan knows, when the object of devotion is a team that's struggling. The Brewers, though battered and bruised... Read more
Milwaukee Brewers: 2011 NL Central Champs
This picture of Nyjer Morgan from FS Wisconsin is too amazing not to share. Some fun Deja Vu tonight.Braun hit the home run to beat the Cubs on the final day of the season in 2008 to clinch the NL Wild Card.In 2008 the Brewers beat the Cubs .. Read more
John Axford, record setter?
After saving all three of this weekend's games, John Axford became the 2nd Brewer ever to record 40 saves in a season.Axford is in just his second season as the Brewers closer and baring some ridiculousness, should be for at least a few more year.. Read more
Are the Brewers peaking too early?
Having won 22 of their last 26 (yes, they've had just four losses in the month of August), the Brewers are undeniably the hottest team in baseball.It seems unlikely the team can keep up this torrid pace, though we did say that when they started t.. Read more
Fielder or Braun for MVP?
Tom Verducci of SI thinks so. He's got Prince and Braun as #1 and #2 in his midseason ballot.Check out the whole thing here NL MVP1. Prince Fielder, Milwaukee2. Ryan Braun, Milwaukee3. Jose Reyes, New York4. Matt Kemp, Los Angeles5. Roy .. Read more
Brewers announce Bobblehead dates
4/24 John Axford5/22 Casey McGehee6/12 Zach Greinke7/10 Racing Sausage Hot Dog8/14 Craig Counsell also German Heritage DayBrewers will be wearing special uniforms and the bobble will be dressed in a "bierbrauer" uniform.9/25 Randy WolfSome.. Read more
All-Star Voting - Vote Brewers and Royals
You'll remember that last season I proposed a deal between Brewers fans and Royals fans to facilitate our small-town players in getting All-Star votes.Well I'm a bit more on the ball this year and All-Star voting started before the first month of .. Read more
Dear Seth McClung:
When did you start worrying so much about the guys on the bases? Notonly has it severely affected your ability to find the plate, but it’sslowing down the game considerably and really starting piss me off.Sincewhen are you more concerned with p.. Read more
We have liftoff!
I know Opening Day for a lot of people was yesterday, but we Milwaukeeans had to wait til today. But finally, we have baseball!!! So far, Suppan had a better outing than I'd imagined he would (thetriple early was a good pitch at the knees, so I .. Read more
Your Monday morning pick-me up
There's a whole gallery here on the Tribune website, complete with snarky commentary. Remember last week when everyone was making fun of the Dodgers since their record was worse than .. Read more
Oh Corey
It's late, I've been all over town looking for Packers gear and I have a long 2 days to come, but I was just reading over at Brewer Fan and poster cracklins has coined the best term for Corey Hart's at bats:premature e-bat-ulationClassic.Also, whi.. Read more
Stats to back up my rants
Since September 6th, Corey Hart's stats: Batting Average: .132 On Base Percentage: .159 Slugging Percentage: .197 On Base Plus Slugging: .356 Of course, the most shocking numbers are for Rickie Weeks. Sure, his botched routine play at.. Read more
Bench Corey Hart
After Hart's inning ending groud-into-double-play (GIDP) is there any excuse Sveum can give to justify Corey not only being in the lineup but batting 6th? Anyone who was driving home from work, as I was, and listening to the radio - did you h.. Read more
Defense wins (and loses) championships
Once again, lack of offense and shoddy defense were the Brewers downfall last night. Yovani Gallardo struggled in the 3rd inning, but the Brewers had 3 differnt opportunities to secure the third out and failed to do so. Once he got out of that.. Read more
Playoff roster and lineup
1. Mike Cameron CF 2. Bill Hall 3B 3. Ryan Braun LF 4. Prince Fielder 1B 5. J.J. Hardy SS 6. Corey Hart RF 7. Rickie Weeks 2B 8. Jason Kendall C 9. Yovani Gallardo RHP against LHP Cole Hamels ___ .. Read more
You Gotta Believe!
I literally just walked in the door from today's Brewers game that started 5 hours ago. The game was only 2 hours and 25 minutes long. About 25,000 fans sat in the stands and watched the Mets game on the JumboTron and then we watched the team cele.. Read more
Cubs Conspiracy?
Over at Brewed Sports they unearthed a possible conspiracy theory on a Cubs fanboard that basically suggests the Cubs should play their hardest against us in order to prevent us from reaching the playoffs, thereby lowering our monetary intake and .. Read more
