I was 16 years old during the summer of 2008.
I was still somewhat of a fledgling baseball fan, first really getting into the game in 2005 while spending most of the break between seventh and eighth grade playing MVP Baseball at my friend’s house on his Playstation 2. But whether we start at the outset of my fandom, or go back even further to the beginning of my life, I had never seen the Milwaukee Brewers make the postseason.
Fans even older than I was at the time were faced with the same truth. The Cream City had gone an entire generation without a playoff berth and our local nine had taken us through some dark times.