Climbing Tal's Hill » Norichika Aoki http://climbingtalshill.com A Houston Astros Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 24 May 2013 03:11:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The N.L. Central Farewell Tour: Milwaukee Brewers Edition http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/02/10/the-n-l-central-farewell-tour-milwaukee-brewers-edition/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/02/10/the-n-l-central-farewell-tour-milwaukee-brewers-edition/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:45:13 +0000 Greg Thurston http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=3101 The next stop for our virtual tour bus is America’s dairy land. Milwaukee Wisconsin is home to the sausage races and some of the most dedicated baseball fans in the country. In 2007 scores of Brewers “bucket heads” pledged to pee their pants if the Brewers ended a 25 year drought by making the playoffs. [...]

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]]> The next stop for our virtual tour bus is America’s dairy land. Milwaukee Wisconsin is home to the sausage races and some of the most dedicated baseball fans in the country. In 2007 scores of Brewers “bucket heads” pledged to pee their pants if the Brewers ended a 25 year drought by making the playoffs. The Brew Crew came up short that year but won the wildcard in 2008. Last year Milwaukee won their first ever N.L. Central Division title. The Brewers moved from the American League East back in 1998. No team has switched leagues since, but the 2013 Astros will end that streak.

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In the late nineties Bud Selig (owner of the Brewers at that time) got taxpayers to chip in more than $300 million to construct a state-of-the-art baseball facility. Miller Park opened in 2001 and also served as the Astros home away from home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008. That is a sore subject and I refuse to elaborate any further. Former Astro Wade Miller must have thought the park was named after him. Miller compiled a 6-1 record and a 2.00 ERA in eight starts there.

 

Brad White is our special guest this time around. Brad is the newest staff writer at Reviewing the Brew, a great site for comprehensive Brewers infotainment. Brad has agreed to climb the hill  with us and answer a few questions about the 2012 Brew Crew. In an attempt to properly initiate Brad, we tried to come up with some hard-hitting questions that only a real Brewers fan could handle.

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