It’s 2005. The outlook for the Milwaukee Brewers has been bleak for a long time - the franchise hasn’t had a winning season since 1992 and hasn’t been to the playoffs since another 10 years before that. Even after the opening of a new stadium in 2001 (and the addition of the five-county stadium tax that’s still being paid by taxpayers to this day), patrons were rewarded with a 106 loss team in the season immediately after. It’s no wonder that with the Brewers’ drought and the Packers’ successes during those years that many say that the state of Wisconsin essentially lost a whole generation of potential baseball fans.
Fielder, Weeks, and a New Era of Brewers Baseball
