It will also bring the 2002 All-Star Game to Milwaukee, assuming no one pulls the trigger of the gun pointed at baseball's dense head by creating a work stoppage. It won't improve the climate during what we in Wisconsin wistfully call spring. Instead, it will make the weather irrelevant, which is just as good for people planning to go to a baseball game. Especially people from faraway places like Superior or Eagle River, who aren't partial to riding buses to rainouts. It won't be cheap.
Prices are up from last year in just about every ticket category.
This always happens when teams change addresses, and when you figure Miller Park was the most expensive construction project in Milwaukee's history, it shouldn't surprise anybody. The second-biggest construction project in Milwaukee's history, by the way, was repairing Miller Park when the crane fell on it. In many ways Miller Park is just a building, and there's only so much you should expect from bricks. But then, bananas flambe is just dessert. In 75 days you can decide for yourself.