Travel & Visitors Guide - June 8, 2008
Northwoods League offers baseball around state
If the Brewers' struggles in May have you looking for an alternative baseball fix, try the Northwoods League. Action started this weekend in the NWL, a summer college baseball league which features five teams in Wisconsin.
Tags: northwoods league, baseball, eau claire express, green bay bullfrogs, la crosse loggers, madison mallards, wisconsin woodchucks

Sports - May 9, 2008
The Big Apple's basic baseball debate
Yankee Stadium (pictured) and Shea Stadium, which will be replaced glistening new facilities next season, each have rich histories and fervent fans, but our author thinks that one stands above the other.
Tags: yankee stadium, shea stadium, new york city, baseball, citi field

Kids & Family - March 31, 2008
The roar of the crowd
I can think of a lot of good ways to spend a day, but I can hardly think of a better one than sitting at Miller Park with my boy close by my side, laughing, talking, eating, watching baseball and getting the occasional hug.
Tags: baseball, Miller Park, Brewers

Music - Aug. 23, 2007
Milwaukee Talks: Sigmund Snopek, 2007
Sigmund Snopek's "Baseball" CD has become very personal for the Milwaukee musician and composer. In some ways, he's been working on it for 30 years.
Tags: snopek, violent femmes, gano, ritchie, baseball, piano, robin yount, classical music, prog rock, opryland

Sports - Aug. 7, 2007
Before you start screaming at the ump...
Parents and coaches are more focused on winning and perfection, rather than letting their kids play and enjoy the game of baseball.
Tags: little league, angry parents, baseball, umpire, bad call

Sports - Oct. 5, 2008
My First Playoff game... pt. 1
So, after buying tickets from Stub Hub and forking several hundred dollar over for some pretty sweet seats, I found myself in the thick of the largest sports related party in Wisconsin.  First, the parking situation brought me down.  I was never notified or saw what the parking situatio...
Tags: Brewers, sports, playoffs, baseball, Milwaukee

Sports - Sept. 3, 2008
Is Rickie Weeks Blackmailing Ned Yost?: Why Rickie Should Sit.
I actually am starting to think that Rickie Weeks has something in his possession that Ned Yost doesn't want anyone to know about. Maybe its a picture of Ned with a teddy bear asleep in the clubhouse. Maybe its Yost at a party in a Cubs jersey. Maybe Ned Yost owes Rickie Weeks a favor because R...
Tags: Baseball, Brewers, Rickie, Weeks, Ned Yost,

Sports - July 9, 2008
TPS 20: Favre, Sabathia, and The Feelings of the Fan
Hello out there in reader land. I was going to do something special for TPS #20, but instead I'll save it for #25. I just have to write about these two topics. For those of you who don't care about these topics stop reading. This blog might end up being long, I'm not sure, but I have to get it ou...
Tags: brewers, favre, packers, sports, baseball, football, sabathia, CC,

Sports - May 23, 2008
Abbott an Inspiration to All
“Daddy, do you like your little hand?” With that question from his then 4-year old daughter, former Major League pitcher Jim Abbott was suddenly facing what he now says was the toughest speaking engagement of his life. Having entered that preschool class room as a triumphant suc...
Tags: disabled athletes, Jim Abbott, Baseball

Sports - May 19, 2008
Gwynn as DH???
Tony Gwynn as DH? That is the last straw. Fire Ned Yost. That move makes no sense. I have been a supporter of Yost for a while. Why? I don't know. When you continually trot out the same starting eight and NEVER bench anyone, you give me little hope. I've been to four games this year (decent), b...
Tags: Brewers, baseball