Milwaukee area professional baseball club has multiple openings. Great opportunity. Seven months a year, winters off. (An occasional October, perhaps every 30 years or so.) A wonderful work environment, spring in Arizona, summers around the country to virtually every major city. While in Milwaukee you have an option of a roof, depending on the weather.

We can all sleep better tonight with the realization a deer is helping our kids cross the streets. Last time I checked most deer ended up on the front of a bumper when they tried to cross a highway or street. Perhaps we'd be better suited to follow a badger or lemming across the road, you hardly ever seem them as a heaping blemish on the street.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda: the epitaph for the major Wisconsin teams this past weekend. Or perhaps it was coulda, shoulda, woulda. The Brewers’ season ended with the Phillies’ 6-2 playoff victory at Miller Park. The UW Badgers slugged it out with Ohio State but fell at Camp Randall, 20-17. And the Packers dropped a 27- 24 decision to the Falcons at Lambeau Field. Once again the Observers conferred by phone, with Frank visiting family in Philadelphia and Artie amid the mourners in Milwaukee.

With two of the four remaining playoff teams being in colder weather cities (Boston and Philadelphia) it would only take one rainout to move a world series game into November. So, it's possible that I'll actually have something more exciting to watch than the paint-drying like experience of this presidential political race. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the hometown newspaper of each of the four remaining playoff teams treats the upcoming presidential election online.

Miller Park-It's a Sunday morning in October. Yes, there is a playoff game in Milwaukee, the second in fact, in almost 3 decades. Of course this is something you already know or you're getting far too much fresh air riding your bike on the lakefront. white Brewer towels waved in each section. The fans in Milwaukee did their part, even if the fans in Chicago could not. As if it couldn't get any more warm and fuzzy, the owner's father sang the National Anthem.

As the bank crisis spreads and George W. Bush continues to push for a bailout it seems fitting that we in the sports world could turn this into a bracket. At this point it looks as though Bush and the Republicans are a lot more like the USC basketball team of last year's tournament than the Trojan football team any year. I'm not trying to blame this on the right either. Charles Rangle and his comrades also have a lot of culpability in this mess by passing legislation that allows anybody who can make and "X" to get a home loan.

Way back in July the Shepherd's own Art Kumbalek and Frank Clines predicted that the Brewers would prevail based on numerology, or as Artie would call it "numberology." In this article "It's a Lock Bye Gosh" they called for the Brew Crew to be where they are right now...poised to take the pennant.

Another Sunday, another day of frenzied channel-changing by the Observers-this time in two cities. Artie manned the home front as the Brewers reached the playoffs for the first time since 1982 and the Packers fell to 2-2. Frank was in New York as the Mets got eliminated by Florida and Brett Favre had a terrific day for the Jets. When they conferred by phone, baseball ruled the conversation.

Thousands of fans gathered at the Summerfest Grounds yesterday to celebrate an event 26 years in the making: a Milwaukee Brewers postseason. Watch our exclusive interviews with teammates Ryan Braun, Bill Hall, Jason Kendall and more from this historic celebration in Milwaukee sports.

A while back I slammed the Brewers for their meltdown against the Cubs and Mets. I referred to them as 'pretenders' and was certain the only playoff games they'd be involved in would require a television. Contrary to what you might think, I'm extremely happy they made the playoffs. Like a guy who discovers he likes opera, I think I've found I'm a bit of a fair-weather fan. Let me try to explain...