Jeff Levering and Rock with an all-time ad lib as one of their promo sheets flies out of the broadcast booth.

First things first: The boys are back baby! We’re not sure what channel they’re going to be on on Thursday or what cable providers are even carrying them, but we’re back! We’ve still got 52-ish hours to figure the details out! Don’t worry about it!

Second things second: Just a fantastic ad-lib here from Levering and Rock after their read-sheet flew out of the booth during one of the final games in Arizona. Tremendous on-the-fly (golf swing) comedy, great work by the camera crew to get the clean zoom-in on the promo, A++ all the way around. A moment you know would have made Bob Uecker smile*.

Now back to the first thing: Watching the Brewers/MLB fumble around with TV rights in a post-FanDuel era has been fascinating. They announced they were cutting ties with FanDuel on JANUARY 9TH! At that time they told fans that they would let them know how to watch Brewer games “when we get a little closer to Opening Day.” Welp, Opening Day is literally two days away, and this was the announcement yesterday:

Still no resolution on March 23rd! When the FanDuel relationship was dissolved in January, the promise was that if you watched Brewer games with your cable or satellite subscription, you’d still be able to watch them with that same subscription, just on a different channel. So far? No official announcement on what providers they will be on and what those channels might be. I’ve read on some different Brewer post boards that some people are starting to see a “Brewers TV” channel pop up, but the channel number varies greatly depending on where you are, and what you use to watch TV (AT&T, Spectrum, DirecTV).

As for me and my fellow app users? We’ve known for months that we need to download the MLB app and pay $99 to watch games for the season. And I have to say, so far, so good. I’m pretty sure the FanDuel app used an old Angelfire website as its host server, so there was nowhere to go but up, but the MLB app is roughly 1,000,000% better than what we have endured for the last three seasons.

*If that piece of paper would have been the fake Bob Uecker letter than Pat Murphy wrote I would have sh–.

PS: I honestly think the channel/cable provider problem is more of an MLB “thing” than a Brewer “thing,” but I do sort of feel bad for President of Business Operations, Rick Schlesinger lately. Every single time that guy gets in front of a microphone he’s getting grilled about what channel the Brewers are going to be on. And people are getting angrier and angrier the closer we get to Opening Day. Live look at Brewer Twitter Facebook anytime Schlesinger tries to promote a bobblehead giveaway: