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The main advantage to Anderson is that he and Schroeder work well together in the booth. It is possible that Anderson will leave, although he might stick around for at least the summer in future years. There is plenty of work for announcers in April-May, but baseball season dominates in June-September and Anderson will still need a baseball job if he wants to have work the whole year. He doesn't have the personality to become a host like Matt V.

Not sure if this was mentioned before, but... 2013-14 Milwaukee Bucks: 15-67 2014 Milwaukee Brewers: 15-5

The 2013 Pirates have been reincarnated as the 2014 Milwaukee Brewers.

I originally thought 5 games for Gomez but upon closer inspection it doesn't look that serious. Maybe a couple games at most. I'm guessing Maldonado might get suspended also? In previous years we might have went 0-4 in that series, but this team somehow found a way to win. Astounding.

Went for a 90-minute run after the Pirates took the lead in the 8th...still back in time to see the end of the game!

A week? a Game or two tops. he got one game for the incident with McCann last year and that was worse than this Instigating a brawl and then throwing punches? It's going to be 5 games. It doesn't matter what Cole said, Gomez started the fight.

This team already can't hit and now we're going to be without Gomez for a week. Stupid.

Lowrie nailed it after the game: "Why is it OK for you to shift down seven but it’s not OK for me to bunt?"

They already have virtually no infield depth, how is getting rid of Weeks going to solve anything?

Most frustrating best team in baseball ever.

That Braun guy is kind of nice to have on the roster.

Sales tax in Milwaukee is 5.6%. If the stadium tax is retired, sales tax will be 5.5%. It doesn't really make much of a difference. Isn't the sales tax in Ohio like 7-8%?

I've got to seriously disagree with you here. Wisconsin may not quite be on the level of Colorado, California and Oregon, but there is a huge amount of great beer in the state. Tyranena, Lake Louie, Ale Asylum, Oso, Potosi, Lakefront, Central Waters are all fantastic brewers and that's only scratching the surface. New Glarus is the 18th largest brewery in the country and it only sells within the state. It's larger than many significant national and regional brands like Founders, Anchor Steam, and Great Lakes. This is a pretty amazing accomplishment. The state is seventh in the country in total craft brewers. Oregon might be heaven if all you want is IPA, but I'll take the balance and selection here over pretty much any state other than Colorado and Michigan. Agree with you on the distributorship law. Crony capitalism at it's worst, but this isn't really the proper place to discuss that. The selection has more to do with who's name is on the stadium than the availability of good beer in Wisconsin. I save my beer drinking for the parking lot in any case, because I don't really care to pay stadium prices. I haven't heard of half those craft breweries so I guess things have changed somewhat since I left the state. I agree that Wisconsin has amazing beer, it just seems that law prevents it from being distributed as widely as other places. Miller Park does have a somewhat questionable beer selection but I agree that it's overpriced anyway. It's probably off-topic to continue this... Anyway, it's clear that if the Brewers wanted to put restaurants and other stuff in the parking lots, they could make a fortune. But it's to their credit that they allow the tailgaiting tradition to continue. Accessibility is important since a huge portion of their weekend attendance drives in from outside the Milwaukee metro area.

Wisconsin has that pointless "Miller law" which has squashed microbreweries. As a result, Wisconsin has a terrible selection of local brews compared with many other states. So really there aren't really that many beers to choose from in Wisconsin. 41st St. (Miller Park Way) is full of businesses that did not exist before Miller Park. I'm not sure how much of that has to do with the stadium construction. It's surprising that there isn't a hotel yet. Any destruction of parking lots (to be replaced with parking garages) will be highly controversial.

I assume they will pitch for about $200 million of public money. They need to decide if they are going to upgrade the convention center also. I'm usually opposed to public money, but with so many cities begging for an NBA team, getting a ~50% privately funded arena is a bargain. It should also be enough to turn the public in favor of financing. I would also like to see a portion of the funding going to upgrade sports facilities at county parks and schools. I would be surprised if the arena is anywhere but downtown Milwaukee. Miller Park isn't really a viable option. The Potawatomi site isn't that great either, unless the tribe were to contribute $50 million to the project. That seems unlikely. So it will probably be near the BC. This is a long shot, but they could even put it on the BC site. The Bucks have been drawing so poorly that they could use the US Cellular arena for a few years.

Never, as long as they keep the facilities up to date. As of right now, Miller Park has everything that a brand new facility like Marlins Park has. This is because the contract with the stadium district allows the sales tax to help pay for the improvements and repairs. The only thing that becomes an issue at some point is that it will need some more significant repairs--likely to the roof, parking lots, and maybe the seating bowl in about 10-15 years. I believe that after the stadium tax is retired, the Brewers may have to fund these improvements--but I'm not sure about that. The BC hasn't received most of those improvements so they have tens of millions worth of maintenance that should have been done already. Not much about the BC has changed since the early 1990s. The footprint of the building is also too small for a renovation--something that is not an issue for Miller Park. The other issue that has spurred new MLB stadiums is location (such as in Atlanta), but that doesn't seem to be an issue for Miller Park.

The irritating thing is that we all knew that the Cards would counter Milwaukee's aggressive approach by throwing garbage. It's just common sense really--you don't throw strikes to the team that is just about last in MLB in walks. This series didn't reveal anything new. We are behind the Cards and that hasn't changed.

Just tuned in. The Internet Gods have given me the Cardinals' announcers tonight. Not going to be tuned in for long.

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He reminds me of a little of Axford with that flat fastball. His changeup looks awesome--if he can locate that he should be fine. I suspect RR was just carefully choosing his debut and we will see more Wang in the near future.

It just seemed like Lynn knew how the exploit the Brewers' weaknesses--as usual.

Even BA makes a Wang pun!

Wang sighting!!!

It's the red glove guy! How is that legal?

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