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i go to sleep.....our offense was a soft sweet lullaby since now.

didn't know if watch the game or go to sleep and watch it tomorrow. it appears i should just go to sleep and NOT watching it tomorrow! come on guys i need a wake up call!

the JS tells the talks stopped. as much as i'd like to have greinke i would be very careful on investing 20M per year on a pitcher (whoever he is) for more than 3y

if anyone has a copy please contact me via PM. i need a computer file becouse of the PAL NTSC diffrences.

edit: can't upload the photo ( ) me (left) and the zebra! thank you again, i really needed your support. i was doubtful when i posted my story becouse it might be marked as too self centered and personal, but now i am happy i shared with you my emotions and i know there are others who have been (or are) through something as though as this or simply can understand the way i feel.

thanks guys for the support and a special hug to thebruce44 last things i gave to the zebra were a beast mode shirt sent me by insomniakross (milwaukeeshirtguys) and a brewer ball and glove pin sent me by hawing. brewerfans were already supporting even without knowing!

i use the ps3 and the picture is awesome there are all the mlbtv features exept for the condensed games.

I just want to share with you some feeling I have for this ongoing 2012 season, moderators feel free to move this topic, and to correct my English which isn’t by any measure perfect. 2011, a season I will never forget The offseason was great: Doug Melvin picked two great starters in Greinke and Marcum, the Prince stayed put and so did all the other pieces, me and “the Zebra” were full of hopes for the season that was about to begin. The Zebra was a baseball rookie, he began to follow the Brewers after being stabbed in the back by the relegation of U.C. Sampdoria, one of the two soccer teams of my city, Genova. During long sundays on my green sofa, he started to understand the essence of baseball, which is very difficult for any Italian grew up with bread and soccer, and, as always happens with this wonderful game, once you start to understand it, you’re in, there’s nothing you can do about it, it gets under your skin. Of course he owned me one, he was in this cult for me, I wouldn’t let him choose another team: he became a Brewers fan in a natural way. The day he asked for my mlbtv password I knew he was skrewed, just like me. (of course I didn’t give him the password because it is strictly personal, I gave him the link to purchase his own pass). We were together to watch opening day in the Queen City, and it wasn’t the prologue of a great season: Ramon Hernandez blew on Axford save, and if anyone would have said to us that was the last we would have seen until the playoffs we would have called an ambulance to bring that crazy man away. In the first month or two we just keep the pace of the division, we were focused more on the Reds that on the Cardinals without Wainwright, knowing that the Pirates woulddisappear sooner or later. Zebrone is “all in” he calls me to talk baseball, he hates Loe because he think he doesn’t perform and most of all because he looks like me (true, but without snakes) he loves Yuni… I know he’s not yet ready for bullpen misuse, OPS, OBP, range, WAR but during the season I understand that his knowing of the game gets better and better and little by little our conversation jumped to another level. I started to talk to him of the story of the baseball in Milwaukee, the Braves, the failure of the Pilots and the rebirth of the Brewers, I tell him about the 82 team, Yount motorcycle entrance from the County stadium (Yes, the one in Major Leagues movie!) bullpen, we even watched together the Harvey Wallbangers DVD, Nieves no-hitter, and he was locked in, one of us. It happens also that the Zebra in the last five years as made several trip to the “disabled list” in and out from the hospital where he had a cancer chirugically removed a couple of times, with all the chemotherapy and stuff you all may know, in a way or the other, well. For this fact, it happens more than not that he doesn’t go to work, he can watch all the games, that usually start at 2 a.m. in Italy, in a sense I envy him. His poor wife Mary, who, you can understand, sleeps with an eye open, is woke up every night by the Zebra, screaming for a Braun HR or for a Yuni-to-Rickie-to-Prince double play. Every morning he calls me at 11 a.m. “Did you watch it?”. If I say “yes” we comment the game, if I say “no” he always, always says a phrase, a word, a single sound that spoilers me so I tell him “tell me how was the game, I don’t have the time to watch it today…” Then in August I went to China (yes, China!) and I impose radio silence, “I don’t want to know a thing, when I come back I will watch every game!” After 20 days it is clear I ain’t gonna make it, I write him a text message “Brewers?” After less the a second he gets back to me “it was twenty days I waited for this message, the guys are kicking everybody else’s ass!” In a few messages he delivered the magic to me, and I thought “how in the world something happened 3 billion miles away that you didn’t even witnessed makes you so happy, c’mon man, you’re 37!” I was in a bus that drove me from Guillin to Yungshuo and I was the happiest man of the world. From that day on he acted like a personal MLB AT BAT app, there was one time in which I doubted him and the whole story, the brewers were playing in Pittsburgh and I got a dozen sms for brewers hits in an hour. when I read “narveson doubles” I thought for a while “this is a joke” No it wasn’t, you all know. When I got back to Italy the Brewers are leading the division, it’s all true, we are postseason bound again after 2008! The first night I woke up at 4 a.m. due to the jet leg and I wrote him, “tomorrow Rosanna goes to her parents, come because I’m gonna watch ALL the games”. His answer was “ok”. In 4 days we watched all the games (like 18 hours a day on a sofa when everybody else was at the beach…) we laughed at Narveson double at PNC park. In September he was sick again, but he only changed the scenery, with the Ipad he was teasing the other patients instead of his wife and daughter. He was the veteran leader of oncology he could do whatever he liked, he lived the night and slept the day, just like a modern James Dean! He took thousands of pills, intravenous, drainage tubes, pipes all over him, but the only things I heard him lament on was the mlbtv connection! The end of september came with two news, one fabulous: the brewers won the division and were about to go vs the Dbacks for the NLDS, the other was dreadful: the doctors told Zebra’s wife to prepare herself, her family and us friends, for the worst, the cancer had taken the liver, it was a question of time. We watched most of the playoffs together, we were hugging and screaming in front of the TV when T-Plush send us to the NLCS, we were together after game 6 against the Cards, the last game of the season, the last game with him. “Wasn’t it a great ride?” he told me. “sure it was mate!” The Zebra died the 2nd of march of 2012, today it’s opening day for me and the Brewers, we play the damned Cards again, in that Miller Park I will visit this summer with my soon-to-be wife. I hope this season will be for the Milwaukee Brewers even better that the last one, that 2011 season I will never forget. Happy Opening Day Guys! In memory of Andrea Gagino 1972 - 2012 I miss you

the only think i asked the brewers is for my girlfriend running in the italian sousage!!! i decline the tickets for the HD section because the game i was offered is my first game and i don't think i would be so laid back to enjoy the atmosphere, the food etc... i think my first game will be going to MP as early as i can and just be mesmerized like an idiot for the next few hours... if the tickets were for one of the other games i probably would have accept the change. @homer:starting from tonight i will have nightmares of me throwing the first pitch to marcus hanel the way carl lewis did..

yesterday i bought the lonely planet guide, here's what it starts with about milwaukee "milwaukee is a wonderful city but nobody dares to say it" with your help and the guide i think i will be ok. the brewers kindly wrote me if i wanted to change my tickets for the 16th of august to go to the Harley Davidson section (i asked about all inclusive areas). what it is like?

i enjoyed reading "the boys of summer" by Roger Kahn thogh it was a bit difficult for me to fully understand the language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_of_Summer_(book) also liked the forementioned "the glory of their times" and: "Baseball Eccentrics": A Definitive Look at the Most Entertaining, Outrageous and Unforgettable Characters in the Game by Bill "Spaceman" Lee (Author), Jim Prime (Author)

I bought the tickets for the PHI e CHC series in mid august. 7 games in seven days 8/16 to 8/22 i get married on the 2nd of june hope not have to divorce the 23rd of august...

i am so upset with this marco scurati. i posted the news in a italian board, i hope not to be envolved in this mistake fix. "birraioli" was so much better!

Tim Kurkjian via Twitter: "Prince Fielder loved playing in Milwaukee, but I've never seen him happier than he is this spring" maybe you didn't see the brewers too often ,Tim. i mean, in italy all we can see on TV is espn2 (here is called "espn america") and with its baseball tonight so i listen to those guys every single day (not that i don't like it") i know i am not the one who must tell to you MIL isn't exactely the most covered of all the franchises, but i feel this tweet is mostly insulting for all the brewers organization which treated Prince like a king (...) and for Prince himself (is he happy because rather than 15 M guaranteed now he has 216?). to quote braun txt to tom hardicuourt "this is b.s." edit: dozens of errors fixed, some others not!

just to say: "birraioli" is not the right translation to Brewers, a "birraiolo" is much a person who loves to drink beer. "birrai" "people who brew beer, would have been better.

just thinking: last year the heritage game was beerbrauer Vs piraten. i just saw that the 1st of july the diamondbacks will be in town. "schiene di diamante" sounds very silly ahahah

nooooooooooooooo i want it i want it!

i just sent the email to the brewers. thanks to everyone

"According to Dan Patrick, the collector bypassed 2 open Fed Ex and then went to a 3rd and it was closed. So he went back and stored it. He is a Cubs fan, and during the appeal proccess they asked him to state his name, and it took 37 seconds for him to respond. They asked him to identify Braun, and couldn't look at him. Braun also passed a lie-dector test."

http://www.foxsportswisconsin.com/pages/livestream he s saying the right words, man did he had a long time for reharsals!

i m not very much into renting a car, unless it is necessary (it is? - i've never driven a car without the stick btw) i m planning to daytime visits when there are night games, and "nightlife" after the day games. and of course the first couple of games i imagine i'll go to MP several horis before the start to capture the whole spectrum of sensations, like seeing BP, wanderig through MP etc...

ok, 7 games is a lot, but think it is once in a lifetime. think it as 7 games in a lifetime! i know it's not that romantic, that you don't see Milwaukee depliant between aruba and hawaii when you go to the travel agency, but the week in milwaukee will be in the middle of a month spent in the US, and all the other places will be more "politically correct" for a honeymoon. last year she made go to china for a month, so i think i deserve 7 Miller Park trips!

thank you guys, my head is spinning now! i know it's a 7months away but by now i am excited like i have the plane within an hour! i will collect all suggestion and sure i will write in this post to beg a tailgate invitation. that will be truly-truly brewers fan!

this would be my 3rd time: i ve been in NYC, florida and three days in los angeles.

this summer my dream will finally come true: i'll come to miller park. in this topic i seek your help for any suggestion i may need, such as 1) best way to get to MIL from abroad 2) where to sleep 3) things to do 4) how to explain to my wife i'll attend 7 games in 7 days (PHI e CHC series in the middle of August) during our honeymoon 5) seats to buy (i'd'like to have every day a "different experience" in MP) 6) things to eat at MP 7) places to visit in the MIL area (especially woman-oriented, i need to use diplomacy, you sure understand) 8) any other suggestion you may give thank you!