WASHINGTON -- The Brewers' contingent didn't exactly arrive at the All-Star Game presented by Mastercard as conquering heroes, having flown in on owner Mark Attanasio's Gulfstream V after becoming the first team in a dozen years to be swept in a five-game series, capping a road trip in which they dropped seven of eight games to the sub-.500 Marlins and Pirates.
It was a brutal, painful, exhausting, pick-your-pejorative kind of week, especially since it came at the end of a stretch of 21 games in 20 days. But after arriving in the nation's capital for the All-Star festivities, Lorenzo Cain & Co.