Disciples of Uecker

This has been a spectacularly strange beginning to the season: team streaks, bizarre baserunning, Rickie Weeks on kryptonite, Ryan Braun in full Adam Dunn mode. Like a lot of fans, I tend to place parameters on my hopes for an upcoming season. This season’s boundaries… [More]

If you’re expecting anything big from the 2013-14 iteration of the Milwaukee Brewers, chances are you will be disappointed. But this all depends on how you define “big.” This offseason sometimes seemed like a deliberate effort by the team’s management to lower fans’ expectations. It… [More]

I’m not great at analogies, except when they’re part of a joke. (You know, something something Clint Eastwood scolding a chair, something something Jimmy Stewart in Harvey. Seriously, imagine President Obama as Clint Eastwood’s imaginary bunny friend. Do it.) Even then, I’m not sure that… [More]

I haven’t written anything about the Brewers in months, and not because there isn’t anything to write, but because I only have so much to say about a mediocre, post-fire sale team with only a handful of new faces to get excited about. Look, the… [More]

I really hate when people describe a professional sports team as “disappointing.” Sure, disappointment is an inevitable part of sports fandom, but this makes it sound like the team is a talented but troubled teen you just caught smoking in his parents’ basement (I have… [More]

I’m not sure if there’s an official Spring Training Lull –it’s not the kind of thing people generally like to celebrate, anyway- but either way, we’re in it. We’re less than a fortnight away from Opening Day, and while there are a few clear questions… [More]

Ryan Braun gave a press conference at noon today, easily his most detailed and far-reaching statement on his successful appeal. I want to emphasize that Braun spent a good part of the conference thanking everyone who backed him up, but I was focusing more on… [More]

This post was originally going to be exclusively about Norichika Aoki, because I really needed to focus on something other than Ryan Brain’s once inevitable-seeming suspension via MLB’s seamless and well-oiled drug testing “process”. (This process apparently involves taking urine samples home and keeping them… [More]

It’s almost unfair to be a fan of a professional sports team.  There’s no reciprocity involved, no give and take, no mutual understanding.  It’s just me, this sad bundle of humanity watching helplessly with bug-eyed desperation as better, stronger men fight among themselves for a trophy that… [More]

Well, that was weird. As most of you surely know by now, the Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox performed a beautiful, simultaneous nosedive into the hard concrete of reality, each losing its once seemingly assured wild card bid on the very last game… [More]