Jon’s Strange Brew
CB Bucknor's call at first base during last night's Brewer game belongs in the HOF of bad calls.
Let me preface this blog by saying this: I could never be a Major League umpire. I probably couldn't even be a college or high school baseball umpire. Maybe tee ball, but that's probably it. So I acknowledge that it is a tough, and most often thankless job. The problem we have here is that those first two sentences cou...
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Brewers give shortstop prospect, Cooper Pratt, the 5th largest contract in franchise history: 8 years, $51 million.
Wow! Wowwowwowwow. This was a bit of a surprise yesterday. The Brewer farm system is LOADED (#1 in baseball), and Pratt is getting close, but I thought if they were going to hand out one of these kinds of deals, it would have been Jesus Made (#3 prospect in all of baseball) or Luis Pena (#22 prospect in all of baseball...
Mar 31, 2026
It's Opening Day, we haven't even seen a pitch yet and Jackson Chourio is headed to the IL. Fun!
The Brewers haven't even thrown a pitch yet and one of our most important players is headed to the IL, out 2-4 weeks. Fun! Now if you'll recall, Chourio got hit on the hand while playing for Team Venezuela in the WBC back in early March. At the time everyone said he was fine, he played in just about every game for Vene...
Mar 26, 2026
Jeff Levering and Rock with an all-time ad lib as one of their promo sheets flies out of the broadcast booth.
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 prov...
Mar 24, 2026
Beer Case Curling better be at the Olympics in 2030.
Cue the music!^Side note: LOL. I was just looking for an old commercial with the "Real Men of Genius" music, but stumbled upon this parody that is a 10/10. And it sounds like the actually got the guy who does the VO's for the old Bud commercials to do the voicework for this?? Incredible! Anyhoo, curling's tim...
Feb 26, 2026
