Talk:Milwaukee Brewers/Archive 1

Untuckem

I tried to add a section about the team un-tucking their jerseys after a win, but it was pulled down right away. I think it's important and should stay. It seems like the start of a tradition for the team and is similar in concept to the Anaheim Angels Rally Monkey.Jimijames (talk) 20:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seattle Pilots

There should be some more info here on the Seattle Pilots. All that there is now is a brief history of the move to Milwaukee. Also, the link to the Seattle Pilots article is simply a redirect to this page. Perhaps the creation of a new article is called for. --Theaterfreak64 03:08, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

ALso, it doesn't talk about if this team had any notable season... did it?

Yes, just about every year from 1978-1982, but 1982 is the most notable. 1992 was, too. --WikiFan04^{ß 1:16, 18 Jun 2005 (CDT)}

Tommy Phelps

Tommy Phelps was born in Seoul, South Korea, but is he Korean? I can't find any information in my available sources - including the Brewers' 2005 Media Guide - which provide a certain answer. I do know this much: he has a Western/Anglo name, he doesn't look Korean in his photographs, he lives in the US and does not appear to have ever played baseball in Korea. My hunch is that his father and/or mother were in the US military stationed in Korea and he was born on an American base. If this is the case, I don't believe it would be appropriate for his name to be accompanied by a Korean flag in the rosters. --Veronique 07:37, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I-94 Series

I made a redirect page for the I-94 Series, linking to the Brewers-Cubs series (also changing the reference on the List of Major League Rivalries). There's a mention on the Interleague play page calling the I-94 series the Twins-Brewers rivalry, but a Google search generates not one instance of this, while at the same time several examples of the name referring to the Brewers-Cubs series. Thoughts on this? Is there another name for the Twins-Brewers? -- GreenLocust 18:33, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Technically the Twins and Brewers are also connected by I-94, literally, in fact, as the highway goes pretty close to both ballparks. But since the Brew-has switched to the NL, the Twins seldom play them, and whatever rivalry there might have been there is almost not worth mentioning. If you want a *real* I-94 rivalry, though, the Twins and White Sox would fit the bill, better than the Brewers and Cubs do. Wahkeenah 21:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the Minnesota rivalry shouldn't be mentioned. After looking at attendance records, it's clear that Minnesota doesn't generate much (if any) additional fan interest in Milwaukee, nor vice versa. I think for a rivalry to be legitimate, it has to at least motivate fans to go to the games (see the Cubs series for an obvious example). That said, I don't think the Twins-Chisox qualifies either, for the same reason. The only reason I even brought this up was the presence of an "I-94 Series" wikilink on the Brewers page (meant, I believe, to refer to the Twins, since it was in addition to the Brewers-Cubs series link), along with two mentions of the Twins rivalry in other articles, plus one just added to the Brewers page by somebody. I'm going to go ahead and delete those, since I don't think it really qualifies. -- GreenLocust 23:14, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and drop it. I don't know about in Chicago, but the critical games with the Sox the last couple of Augusts and Septembers were very well attended here, compared with the normal Dome situation. Of course, it was the heat of the pennant race. I wouldn't say the two teams really have a long and stored rivalry by any means. The one team that really brings the bodies into the Dome is the Yankees. But that's true almost everywhere. Wahkeenah 23:26, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

When the Twins come to town in Milwaukee there is an increase in fans at the games. They are always well-attended games. They don't play often thanks to the the difference in leagues, but inter-league play helps keep a Minnesota-Wisconsin rivalry going. Is it a huge rivalry? No. It is a rivalry though. Grassferry49 23 August 2005 (UTC).

- Here's the 2004 game log. The three Twins games (a weekend series in June) drew 29, 37, 34K. The next home weekend series, against Cincinnati, with whom there is definitely no rivalry, drew 31, 44, 32K (ignoring the Thursday game, for the purposes of comparison). Given that they play only one home series against the Twins all year, I would expect a bit more evidence of this rivalry to show up in the attendance figures. You can see a similar pattern in the Twins log. I'm from Milwaukee, so I'm sympathetic, but I think it's more of an "armchair" rivalry -- GreenLocust 19:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is anecdotal, but they should know: I have heard Bert Blyleven and Dick Bremer, their TV announcers, talk about how there "used to be" a lot more interest in this series before the Brew-crew switched to the NL. This is not like Vikings vs. Green Bay, where Twin Cities fans make pilgrimages to Lambeau to buy tickets from scalpers. Wahkeenah 19:37, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, there could be a "rivalry" with the Reds now since they are in the same division. A distinction needs to be made between a "momentary" rivalry and a "traditional" rivalry. The former is situation. The latter is long-term, and is as much geographical as it is situational. But both factors have to be in play. The Twins and the Brewers are still as geographically close as they once were, but they play few games together and those games don't really mean much now. Wahkeenah 19:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since the Brewers went into the National League, the rivalry was instantaneous with the Cubs simply because of travelling Cub fans. county stadium and then Miller Park were overwhelmed by cubs fans who either coudn't get tickets for Wrigley or the drive north was shorter than the drive south. Most Brewer fans who encountered this, myself included, developed a quick disdain for Cub fans who were very derogatory not only to the Brewers, but to city of Milwaukee. Having gone to Brewer games since the lat 70's, I think this is definately a great rivalry now. Especially since the games and series have been very close. Even Bob Uecker got into the action by changing the Cubs version of "take me out to the ballgame" singing, "root, root, root, for the Brewers" instead of "cubbies." brooktroutman

Actually, if a remember correctly, last season the attendance for the Twins-Brewers game was higher than the Cubs games. Also, it is true that the Brewers DO play the Twins every year, as part of the whole interleague rivalry thing. I think it is still mentionable. Cheesehead Fan 03:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the milwaukee brewers of the current national league era have one and only one rival: the chicago cubs.--Maximilian77 05:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]