Disciples of Uecker

“Winning a seven-game major-league baseball series is much more a matter of luck than inherent ability.” –Eric Wilson, Winning Baseball These words frighten me sometimes.  They reek of a sort of sports nihilism, of the idea that there isn’t a solid core of truth to… [More]

Now is the time when every honest-hearted fan of a plucky, surprisingly good small market team starts to panic.  Which is another way of saying that I’m panicking hard, like it’s my job.  I think I may have actually woken up panicking about the Brewers… [More]

Nyjer Morgan makes me uncomfortable.  Well, that’s not exactly right.  Everyone else’s reactions to Nyjer Morgan make me uncomfortable. Morgan is many things.  A fast, above average fielder who makes some great plays, but also occasionally bungles a tough play spectacularly, magically transforming, say, a… [More]

I have this theory.  Well, it’s not a theory so much as a hunch on the verge of becoming a hypothesis.  If the Milwaukee Brewers win the World Series, they’ll do so with the worst defense between second and third of any champion team in… [More]

Hey, look!  The Brewers are nearly in the playoffs now!  Nyjer, Prince and Ryan are on the cover of Sports Illustrated, bouncing like Ritalin’d teens at a Big Time Rush concert.  Or like Big Time Rush themselves.  Milwaukee (Wisconsin even!) is really excited and the… [More]

The Brewers look odds on to win the Central Division this year –barring some awful Yostian collapse—and I can’t help but feel, well, odd about the whole thing. As a matter of introduction, I’ve been a Brewers fan my whole life, or thereabouts.  My dad… [More]