One of the beautiful aspects of professional sports is that even when your team happens to be down in the dumps, the anticipation of something else always remains. It’s not a stretch to suggest that prospect watching and trade rumors often fill the imagination of any dedicated fan. Dreaming on that hot-shot shortstop who can’t legally buy a […]
Day: June 29, 2015
A Sudden Rise In Brewers Ticket Prices
Ticket pricing isn’t a very sexy topic; it’s one that isn’t readily discussed by the media or even in sabermetric circles, but it remains vitally important. Like so many parts of baseball, ticket pricing is getting smarter. We so often, as fans of the game, prefer to forget that baseball is a business and that the […]
How The Pilots Became The Brewers and the Absurdity of Franchise History
A Lowe’s Hardware store sits in Seattle, Washington, in the space that used to be Sick’s Stadium, home of the Seattle Pilots. Home plate is still there, marked with a plaque, directly in front of the fencing section. The Pilots were a financial disaster. Their attendance in 1969 was not awful — at 677,944, the Pilots sold […]
Brewers Farm Update: Monday, June 29
Colorado Springs Sky Sox: (30-44), 18.5 GB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Col. Springs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Memphis 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 x 9 12 1 RHP Josh Roenicke: (L, 4-4) 6.0 IP, 6 H, […]