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  1. Bring Back the Stein
    He'll be fine, he'll be fine . And the Packers will score on the last possession against that Broncos defense. And Big Dog will hit that 11-foot jumper. And Gorman will launch one out against Sutter. And...I'm going to go get that Lexapro prescription I've been meaning to get.
  2. Bring Back the Stein
    So true. Look at what some of the other contenders are going through with post-break injuries and I will speak no evil of Mr. Melvin.
  3. Bring Back the Stein
    Among the sins committed by the Journal Sentinel, the sour mewlings of a hackneyed beat writer phoning it in and bewildered by a new technological dynamic are among the least of them. That said, what's the remedy and what are the damages? The clown Howard is in a death's grip with the reporter, so he ain't going anywhere. And the offended dude is literally talking about a civil action (!). Maybe some scream therapy for TH is in the works, but I'm more peeved at his unoriginal paint-by-numbers reporting. I don't bother e-mailing the paper because it marches only to the beats of the Sykeses and Wagners of the world. That and I don't want TH to come punch my dog.
  4. Bring Back the Stein
    What's being debated are institutions, in which everyone in the area has a stake. Just like the museum or the zoo. I may not be there every day, but it's something left for us by city fathers. The fact that the Journal Sentinel is so bad is bad for the people of Milwaukee. The Brewers are an entertainment, supported by taxes, that bring a sense of identity to Milwaukee and cheap thrills to generations. It's not as important as, say, what happens to public schools, but I'm not too quick to diminish the value of a sports franchise to a city, especially a proud city whose brightest days are (sadly but likely) behind it. Debate away, I say. The only truly useless things are those that come out of the mouth of a Cubs fan.
  5. Bring Back the Stein
    Yost said it in a taped interview with MLB.com three days ago, too. I'd link to it, but I'm lazy.
  6. Bring Back the Stein
    I do those things. None of it helps.
  7. Bring Back the Stein
    Talk about having turned a corner. I expect to return to Miller with a winning road trip to the West Coast. How times have changed.
  8. Bring Back the Stein
    "Hands in His Pockets: The Passion of Alan "Bud" Selig." My three-act play, in rehearsals. Kidding, but all my hatred of him was seriously diminished by the way he marked, but did not venerate, the Barry Bonds abomination. It was especially poignant given his relationship with Henry Aaron. (I also like the way he's resisted the Cult of Pete Rose). I'm bent up about his obeisance to the Steinbrenners and Reinsdorfs of the world when it comes to revenue sharing and then there's the Molitor thing, but for people of the Braves generation, I can see how holy a man would be that brought big-league baseball back to town. (One of the few fights I ever got into with my step-dad involved this quibble.) The way that he lied to the public, at the same time he was using money that could have gone to payroll and instead was retiring the equity of the minority owners of the team, thus seriously enriching himself, is a story that's never been told properly or fully. It's a particularly shabby narrative. But whatever. We have short memories. He's a (definitionally) scumbag used-car salesman who has been not particularly more or less moral than any other owner, and has made some inspired decisions along the way.
  9. Bring Back the Stein
    I guess I can't get worked up about him any more. He's an old hack at a breathtakingly mediocre paper, lazy on his beat and unable to come to terms with this newfangled blogging thing, a duty which I'm sure was foisted on him as he kicked and screamed. It's like making peace with the bonehead comments and foul smell of the soiled drunk at the end of the bar. Nothing to be done but move along.
  10. Bring Back the Stein
    Technically, they're correct. However, their outfielders are merely seeking safety in dodging the trash the Cubs fans throw on the field after a win. Or a loss.
  11. Bring Back the Stein
    Technically, they're correct. However, their outfielders are merely seeking safety in dodging the trash the Cubs fans throw on the field after a win. Or a loss.
  12. Bring Back the Stein
    Technically, they're correct. However, their outfielders are merely seeking safety in dodging the trash the Cubs fans throw on the field after a win. Or a loss.
  13. Bring Back the Stein
    I have a friend, an awsome old-timer whose father made him leave Larsen's perfect game in the 7th to miss the traffic and who wrote the definitive profile of Willie Mays for the Washington Post (he ended it with a devastating anecdote about Mays, as casino greeter, getting a early morning freebie on the Boardwalk "Of course I get free waffles. I'm Willie Mays."), who has since retired and is a Nats season ticket holder. Has forgotten more about baseball than I can remember about my childhood. Or something. Anyway, he's a big fan of the Brewers and I've been in touch with him through this series. The Nats have played a lot better, but, quoth Bart, "The Brewers are a big league team. I like their chances." So that made my day....
  14. Bring Back the Stein
    I think it's because Branyan has a rib problem, in that there are no good places to get Memphis-style ribs in Milwaukee.
  15. Bring Back the Stein
    Maybe this is like when your neighbor hurts his back shoveling the snow, or getting some afternoon delight from his Dress Barn plus-size wife, and it's just rude to ask about it. I don't know how to do the blue thing, obviously.
  16. Bring Back the Stein
    A rib fracture or some kind of ligament damage would be easy to detect and I can't imagine the Brewers would hide it. But, say, the Jenkins broken pelvis, or whatever, lends some credence to the idea that the Brewers aren't forthcoming about injuries. Forthcoming or not, I can't help but be worried, given how much torque there is in Braun's swing. Please, someone with medical chops put me at ease here so I can get on with my day....
  17. Bring Back the Stein
    "Blanco's Walkoff." Has the ring of "Abe Vegoda's Nobel Prize in Chemistry."
  18. Bring Back the Stein
    The odds are Rusch-like, and we remember what happened there. Man, I need a Braun-type slapdown, because I still feel doom walking around as a Brewers fan.
  19. Bring Back the Stein
    That happened because of a certain idiot sheriff. I'm still embarrassed.
  20. Bring Back the Stein
    Agreed. Now more than ever, I need the Brewers. If they crash and burn, they might find my body under the viaduct beside a bottle of Boone's, my ragged copy of "Leader of the Pack" clutched in my cold dead hands.
  21. Bring Back the Stein
    1. Braun (chiefly because he tends to peeve Cubs fans the most. I look forward to him posing at Wrigley) 2. Prince (his biggest bombs are ahead of him) 3. CC (we can be heroes, if just for one half) 4. Branyan (named his son after Johnny Cash) 5. Rivera (probably would be my Number One, but that would be outlandish. Anyway, he's the player I would most like to emulate: gets paid a lot for not a lot of work, no one can say a bad word about him because he produces and stays out of the way.)
  22. Bring Back the Stein
    This does not have the ring of truth. Are you saying they brought extra shirts to change into in case the Brewers lost or were losing? That makes no sense, but whatever. In terms of embarrassment, I think an entire century of losing is exponentially more so. And as for the homophobia, that's unfortunate and I know that no one here condones it. Stack that one anecdote against the mountain of boorish behavior from Cubs fans and we'll talk. At any rate, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what happens in Wrigleyville when the competing tribes mingle. I lived on Addison, east of Halsted, and remember seeing a fist fight break out at the El stop on the day of a Gay Pride Parade when a group of typical Cubs fans, suburban, fat, white and privileged, started heckling some gay leather men. I left the platform to see the leather men beating the stuffing out of the drunken bigmouths. Karma works wonders.
  23. Bring Back the Stein
    I think they should put portable tolls and DUI roadblocks on southbound I-94 after the games, all proceeds going to retire the Miller Park debt. Be gone by 2010.
  24. Bring Back the Stein
    Maybe he needs to have the portrait with the life-like eyes of his dead race car driver friend, whom he told Rick Sutcliffe sometimes taunts him after Brewers losses, removed from his office? Or see a priest? (I apologize to anyone who did not see that bizarre aside on ESPN the other night, but it certainly left my jaw slack. Perhaps the lest said about it, the better.)
  25. Bring Back the Stein
    Skaalen has instituted the "look fastball, react breaking ball" approach, to quote a friend.
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