Where are the Boos?

BrewCityChampion — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:53:29 GMT

It takes guts to win a world series.

And in sports fan terms, it takes guts to demand more from your baseball team. To demand the best, to demand major league spending, and to demand consistent attempts to compete.
Milwaukee Brewers fans need to shed their blind, tailgate happy feelings for meiocrity and start exhibiting some guts. Evidenced by last night's pat on the back to Milwaukee's favorite runner ups, I don't think we have any guts.....

Enough with the articles, enough with the looking backwards, enough with Tom Haudricourt's book, and enough with the '82 Brewers.

I was 6 when the Brewers made their October run in 1982, and even as a youngster and fringe fan memory I loved that team like no other, but when you break it down......they lost. It's a Joke. It's a horrible precedent to set as an organization.

Where is Milwaukee's head at? Based on reports from last night's (losing effort, mind you) game, there were great ovations not only for Yount and Molitor,....but for Bud Selig and Ned Yost.
Let me repeat that,...."Bud Selig and Ned Yost."

I almost think Jeffery Dahmer operating the big blue crane would have gotten a standing ovation based on that. Maybe even Gary Sheffield.

How can Bud and Ned get props out there? Bud drove this franchise into the ground over the course of ownership, lied to fans, lied to taxpayers and then profited greatly from the sale of the team to Mark Attanasio.

Ned, for all us Retro Glove hat wearing crazies, has guided the Brewers to a 38 win, 47 Loss record after May 9th (when the Brewers sat at 24-10).38-47........clap....clap..clap.....

So let's raise a glass to this all, grab another brat and enjoy the good weather. I'll start setting out traffic cones on Wisconsin Avenue today for the parade in October when the Brewers potentially fail to qualify for the playoffs. Maybe, one day, we can have "Remember '07 night" in 2032, and have an old Prince Fielder back in town to receive an applause for failing as a Brewer once again.
Until we develop guts and demand more from them as fans, like Major League towns do, and not blindly cheer a losing organization, the only thing we have in the win column as a Brewer fan is that one of the Sausages is guaranteed to get it done each night.

Let's put '82 behind us, forget about it and move on to forcing the issue and putting pressure on this organization to win and win now.

As fans, let's let out a boo here and there.....and show some guts.

The Problem with the Milwaukee Sports Fan

BrewCityChampion — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:33:19 GMT

Now, admittedly, I would take a bullet for the Brewers. Every bit of my spine tingles when I hear the old Brewers jingle on the radio, "keep turnin' up the heat," and I wear my retro Brewers cap with pride around town.

...and, I'm part of the problem.

What fan base in Major League Baseball (or sports) for that matter rallies around a 25th anniversary for being the runner-up in the world series?Do the Buffalo Bills have a 5 disc DVD set of failed Super Bowl attempts, much like our "Harvey's Wallbangers" DVD?Would the fans of the title-hungry, Phoenix Suns run out tomorrow and grab bobbleheads commemorating this season's crushing loss handed to them by the Spurs?

Is this making sense to anyone here in Milwaukee?

I am constantly perplexed by the fanaticism surrounding the Milwaukee Brewers in this city. I have never seen a more popular team at the turnstiles that underperformed, lied to fans, had a weak and conservative MLB payroll, and failed to qualify for the playoffs for 25 years? Are we baseball fans here, or just fans of drinking in a parking lot in the warm weather?What do want to be known as? The mythical, "Great Wisconsin sports fan" may be just that. A myth.

A great WI sports fan would not only buy bobbleheads and retro caps, but would also pay attention to the herculean effort and big market spending being done by a mild mannered Senator on 4th street.The truth of the matter, is that the WI sports fan ignores the "Big League" approach of the Milwaukee Bucks and favors the anemic, small-time goodwill of racing sausages and nolstagia.How can attendance have dropped at Bucks games and there is no outcry to support our NBA team here with a much needed new building, when just 6 short years ago the Bucks were a shot away from the NBA finals?How can there be apathy with the Bucks, when they have consistently spent New York and LA sized dollars while the Brewers are still 20 million behind our competition in payroll? How is it, with the youngest roster in the NBA and massive rebuilding, the Bucks have qualified for the playoffs in 2 of the last 4 years? This after mounting an Eastern Conference run that featured the league's 5th highest payroll, and the highest paid coach in all of sports?

Mind-numbingly, I know the Bucks must win big to garner any of the attention locally in our fair-weather sports consciousness in Milwaukee, but we need to step back and appreciate Milwaukee's true "Big leagues" in the Milwaukee Bucks.

The sad truth may be that short of winning an NBA title, the Bucks may never draw in Milwaukee. We'll be too busy posing for pictures with a man in a Chorizo suit, while Michael Redd scores 60 in a game, and Larry Harris goes out and signs multiple players away with big league money to really try to bring an NBA title to Milwaukee.

All the while we'll remark that, "well they signed Suppan." And, we'll continue to look backwards and get fired up over the same Robin Yount footage where he tears around the warning track on a motorcycle.

The truth is, the Milwaukee Bucks will be in the playoffs and contend before the Brewers do.

See you at the Bradley Center in 07-08.......I hope.

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