Ulice Payne

Agreed. This is a good game to try to make something happen.

Renfroe rolls into third! That was great!

Nice that we can have these expectations. All those years of just hoping to not be last--hopefully those days don't come back for a long time.

On base Jace. Let's get something going here.

I remember wanting Milwaukee to sign Cobb. Glad they didn't, but he's looking good so far tonight.

We cancelled the DirecTV. Until Ballys get their app worked out, these odd games are the ones I can see. It's ok, in 2020 I discovered there's other things besides baseball happening in the summer, haha

Had to get the antenna working for this one. Glad to see a game while I wait for Bally to get Roku sorted.

Agreed. But the Brewers have a chance to draft and trade well. They don't really have a chance to build a team through free agent contracts. Better for them to play the game they can win, and let the chips fall as they may. Certainly we don't know if it's enough. That's why we watch the games.

I could see this argument. Going with a Marlins type strategy of focusing all the talent into one season; borrowing from the future. If the team really believed that signing all these guys would lead to a WS win, even if they would be looking at 5-10 years of mediocre baseball thereafter, they'd have to consider it. When the Brewers traded for Sabathia, I didn't care what it cost. The team HAD to get back to the playoffs. The 28 year wait was just way too long. In my opinion, constant talent turnover is a better long term strategy than going for broke in one year. Sure, it worked for the Marlins, but how many other times has it not? It's a hard question to answer, as the times that strategy failed produced forgettable teams.

I'd like to see the Brewers continually recycle the talent by embarking on a series of winter trades over the next few seasons. If they were to choose two players to sign to long term contracts; say Burnes and Hader, they'd be choosing to run their team like the Angels. The Angels can argue that they have the two best players in baseball, yet they can't put a complete team around them. Setting the Yelich deal aside for the moment; if Milwaukee signs their own free agents, they'll paint themselves into the same corner with the Angels. Even if they choose the right players to sign & those players perform well, there's just not enough resources left to finish out the roster. The reason they have the pitching they have now is due to smart trading and fortuitous drafting. Free agency, even with their own players, will not be a good strategy so long as the economic situation remains. Part of the appeal of following the Brewers is the fantasy baseball element. Every winter, fans get to play along with Stearns, trying to determine how to create a winner. It's like playing Monopoly with your little brother & spotting him Boardwalk & Park Place, then still having to figure out how to beat him. It's ok if Burnes, Hader, Woodruff, et al, move on. Thery'll be new players to replace them, and the games will be entertaining. The team will either be winning or playing the youngsters-- both of which make for compelling baseball. What is not compelling is paying everyone what they're worth, then playing a team comprised of big salary veterans and economical journeymen on their way to a 76 win season; and that's what we'd most likely get with an Angels-style team.

Umpire louder than usual on this broadcast.

The City Connects. Glad I don't like them. Less gear I have to buy

I've been missing the games since we dropped DirecTV; still waiting for Ballys to be on Roku. Wasn't hard to log in to Apple. Nice to see a game again. Of course, they're wearing those ridiculous uniforms, haha.

I attended the Sunday afternoon Futures Game with my then 5 year old son. Teams were split up USA vs the International Team. My son brought an American flag to root for the home team. Even though I explained it to him, he didn't fully grasp that this was a prospects game; he was SURE he was at the actual All Star Game. He might still think so.

And this is exactly why we barred politics from the site in the first place.

Deleting opposing views is not a good look. It'd be interesting to see what the site's political views are. Didn't realize a baseball site would have any.

It's your site; you own it; do what you want. But yesterday this site was about baseball. Today, it's about baseball and Brock's political views.

We used to allow political / religious discussions, and it always ended bad. It's your site and you can do what you want with it, but the decision to move away from incendiary non-sports topics was a good one. This was really the main cause of the problem. Everyone felt strongly about different causes an in different directions. There was fun banter to an extent, however, it always devolved into tiresome, circular, parallel rants that went nowhere. The argumentative tone then spilled over into the rest of the discussions. Allowing political discussion on this baseball site is a bad idea.

Does this already work on Roku? I was under the impression that it was a phone app only to start with, and Roku was coming in July. Was waiting to sign up until the Roku portion was working.

This has happened before. Maybe in 2005 (?) the original site name; brewerfan.com, expired and was immediately snagged by some internet vulture and held for ransom. We considered passing the hat to pay the ransom, or changing the name. That's the day brewerfan.net was born.

Looks like the brewerfan.net domain name needs to be renewed.

The article states Brewers will wear a sleeve patch advertising a different local tavern each time they wear the CC uniforms.

I bet the best part of retiring from MLB is leaving a world where at 35 you are an old man, and going back into regular life where at 35 you are a young man again

Cancelled DirecTV yesterday. Took the dish off the roof.... so I've crossed the Rubicon on this one, haha. Hope Bally's comes through on that streaming app; I'm a radio guy until they do.

When the 90's logo came out, I bought the hat. The logo was meh, but it seemed to me to be a good thing to move on from the 82 team logo, as the team was really focused on living in the past. At the time I appreciated the use of green in the logo, and was hoping it would lead to the three state teams all featuring green in some fashion. That hat is long gone from my closet. It was fun to get something new, but glad that's over.