Brew Crew
The big news out of Milwaukee yesterday? CC Sabathia coming to town to pitch for the Brew Crew!
The Crew dealt top prospect Matt LaPorta and three other young players to the Cleveland Indians for reigning American League Cy Young Award winner CC Sabathia, a lefty who will slide into the Brewers' starting rotation tonight for a run at the franchise's first postseason berth in 26 years.
"We're going for it," Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said.
Wow! Ben Sheets, Manny Parra, Carlos Villanueva, and now CC Sabathia. And once Jeff Suppan comes back from the injury list, the Brewers bull-pen will be loaded!
With J.J. Hardy, Ryan Braun and Corey Hart all hot with the bats right now, once Prince and others come around I really feel the Brewers will have what it takes to make a very long hard run in the Hunt For October!
At our last Brewers game that Mary and I attended, they handed out baseball cards to our section. I took them home, dug out my collection that I haven't looked at in years and discovered something on the inside cover of one of my baseball card albums.
Do you remember that bumper sticker!? I don't. I don't even remember how or where I got it as a kid. I grew up in Stoughton and lived in Footville for a short time. It's possible one of my parents got it somewhere in the "Janesville area" prior to us moving up north.
A couple things caught my attention:
1). That WJVL was once called "FM 100". I'm not sure I ever knew that. And who decided to change it? Much easier as an announcer to say "FM 100" rather than "ninety-nine point, nine, W-J-V-L."
2). That the Brewers were once broadcast on WJVL (now on sister-station AM 1230, WCLO).
Any long time WJVL fans remember either of these?
Anyway...I'm really excited about the Brewers chances going head-to-head against the Chicago Cubs for a National League Championship this year and a run for the World Series. I know it's not the All-Star break just yet and anything can happen, but I'm excited just the same.
Jul 10, 2008 at 2:57 p.m.
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I believe ray is right. As WCLO PD, I can tell you the Brewers have been on WCLO since at least 1986 when I came to work here. Prior to WJVL's switch to country, it would have been good sense to put the Brewers there as a drawing card for audience as there was not a huge audience when WJVL was beautiful music.
WJVL was FM100 through about 1986 or 1987 -- and again, ray is right -- when digital radios were "new", telling folks to go to 100FM sent them right past the station.
Jul 8, 2008 at 7:07 p.m.
Jul 8, 2008 at 6:57 p.m.
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i remember WJVL being called fm 100, i know it was changed to 99.9 to sometime in the late 80's when the dials on most radios were changed to digital. as for them being a brewers stion i beliver it was prior to 1982 when the format was changed to country. Im sure Bob Dailey or Al fagerli can pinpoint the exact dates.
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