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The Thursday Thinker: Celebrating The Overcycle
Writing about Richie Sexson this morning made me think of something I kick around from time to time. The cycle is one of baseball's most notable individual performances, but in most cases it's something of a freak occurrence. Getting a single, double, triple and home run in the same game is...
The Thursday Thinker: Brewers From Unusual Places
If the Brewers sign Norichika Aoki, he'll be the sixth player in franchise history born in Japan. That seems like as good a reason as any to dust off and update this quiz: How many of the 20 Brewers born in unlikely places can you name in seven minutes? The rules remain the same: Post your score in...
The Thursday Thinker: A T-Giving Edition
Happy T-Giving, everyone. While researching for this post, I found something that surprised me: Among the hundreds of Brewers/Seattle Pilots who have either appeared in 100 career games or pitched 100 career innings (or both), there have only been 24 whose first name and/or last name started with...
The Thursday Thinker: Know Your 2011 Brewers
This week's theme is probably as simple as any we've ever done: 48 players appeared in at least one game as a Brewer this season. Given one clue per player, how many of them can you name in ten minutes? The rules remain the same: Post your score in the comments but do not comment on any specific...
The Thursday Thinker: Yuniesky Betancourt's Lone, Incredible Skill
As I started work on this post last night, I stumbled across something I thought was incredible. In an unfathomable demonstration of how many times one can touch something before they realize it's burning them, the Brewers allowed Yuniesky Betancourt to play 149 games at shortstop in 2011. He's one...
The Prince Week Thursday Thinker: Brewer Iron Men
We've got a lot of stuff on tap today, so instead of trying to cram it all into this afternoon I decided to move the Thinker up a bit. I'm still working on the Mug and it'll likely run sometime around 10:30. - KL When Prince Fielder appeared in his 162nd game this season, he became just the fifth...
The Thursday Thinker: On John Axford And Dominance
Now that the Brewer offseason is underway, it's time to bring back one of our longest-running BCB offseason series: the Thursday Thinker. Each week about this time we'll post a new Brewer-related Sporcle quiz for your enjoy, get frustrated by or simply scroll past. I know we all hoped we'd be...
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