The Brewers Wednesday announced details for fans interested in buying single-game tickets to potential playoff games at Miller Park.

Beginning at noon Wednesday, September 7, fans can register for a lottery system at Brewers.com.

Some further details from the team announcement:

• Registration will begin at noon (Central time), Wednesday, September 7 and will close at noon, Wednesday, September 21, 2011.
• The Brewers will conduct a random selection of winners from the pool of registrants for each of the three Postseason series. The N.L. Division Series (NLDS) winners will be selected on or around September 22 and will have the opportunity to purchase up to four (4) tickets to one (1) game of the 2011 NLDS.
• Winners for N.L. Championship Series (closes Friday, September 30) and World Series (closes Monday, October 10) will be selected from the same of pool registrants at later dates. Registrants (including winners of previous drawings) will be eligible for each drawing.
• There is no charge to register for this opportunity, and additional rules and information are available at Brewers.com.

Inventory is expected to be extremely limited.

"In 2008, we had over 220,000 fans register for a similar opportunity and we were only able to accommodate fewer than 5,000 of them," said Rick Schlesinger, Brewers Chief Operating Officer. "The simple reality is that the demand for tickets far outpaces the supply."

Fans can guarantee postseason tickets by placing a deposit on 2012 season tickets and existing season ticket-holders are reminded that Tuesday, Sept. 6 is the deadline for payment on 2011 playoff tickets.

Fans who purchase a full season plan for 2012 will be given the opportunity to purchase tickets to all 2011 playoff games at Miller Park, including the World Series. Those purchasing a 20-game package for 2012 will be eligible to purchase tickets to all NLDS and NLCS games at Miller Park.

For more information on 2012 season ticket plans, contact the Brewers ticket …

The Brewers announced today that they have sold 3 million tickets for the season for just the third time in franchise history. I'll have more on that in a full story tomorrow but for right now, just a quick thought on the matter.

Before the season, I talked to Brewers Vice President of Business Operations Rick Schlesinger about the team's attendance goals and he was quite candid that three million is certainly a goal – and the sign of a successful season.

However, what stood out for me during that interview was the fact that Schlesinger would like to see the day where that "magic number" becomes more of a benchmark for the franchise.

"My goal is frankly for 3 million fans to not be a news story," Schlesinger told me during the Brewers' annual Arctic Tailgate event in February. "I want us to feel like that's expected. I know we have a lot of expectations for ourselves. I know our fans have a lot of expectations for the team.

"From my perspective, I'll tell you: 3 million is where we want to be as a team this year. I want to keep setting attendance records so really, it's 3 million-plus."

The "plus" part shouldn't be a problem. With the team expected to lock up the NL Central in the next few weeks, sellouts (the Brewers have 27 already) should be the norm. Heading into tonight, when the Brewers open a three-game series with St. Louis, the team is ninth in all of baseball with 2,453,617 fans passing through the turnstiles.

As for making three million a regular goal, well ... it's not out of the realm of possibility, even in baseball's smallest media market. They'll need to keep winning, that's for sure, but with many key players locked up for the next few years, it's fair to think that the numbers will stay high.

Only time will tell.

I'm putting the finishing touches on my weekly Brewers Notebook but wanted to take a moment to share a few short observations on the first-place Brewers.

Greinke – Slowly but surely, Zack Greinke is looking more and more like the big-time, lockdown ace right-hander the Brewers traded for last winter – especially at Miller Park.

Greinke is 10-0 so far at home; about as dominant as a pitcher can be.

Talking with Greinke after games is a chore but he probably doesn't enjoy it very much, either, so I guess we can call it a wash. Still, watching him deal is a fun experience. When he's on, and he has been for the most part lately, he's tough to beat. This could end up being the best move of Doug Melvin's career in Milwaukee.

Prince – I'm still trying to figure out what more people expect Melvin and Mark Attanasio to do when it comes to Prince Fielder. There are some very important things to keep in mind here:

• As has been mentioned frequently, Fielder has had every opportunity to stay in Milwaukee. The team has put together some pretty impressive and expensive packages and he's turned them down. The ball has been in his court for a long time now.
• Scott Boras doesn't like his clients to sign extensions. Notice he was nowhere to be found last week when Jered Weaver signed his deal. Weaver went against Boras' wishes. That's not his style. He wants his guys on the open market. He wants to play suitors against each other. He wants top dollar. He doesn't care about hometown discounts or where a player is best suited for success ... it's all about the money.
• Players don't like to negotiate contracts in-season. Yes, it has happened before but how many times do you hear a player say "I'm not doing any more contract stuff once the season starts." Especially now, with the Brewers trying to lock down a playoff spot, you won't hear much on the extension front.

It's easy to sit there and say "oh, Doug and Mark should offer him this, this and this and get a deal done be…

Pardon the self-indulgence for a moment, I'd like to share a little bit of my life. I guess, if nothing else, it's a form of self-therapy, but it's a story I'd like to share.

Christina was one of my closest friends. We had a relationship that, to this day, I've been unable to match. There was friendship. There was attraction. There was romance. There was trust. There was love. It was a special bond formed through the years because of our mutual participation in a German folk dance group.

She was the first girl I ever asked to dance, on a Sunday afternoon in 1990 at the old MECCA. Even at 12 years old, I knew she was special. I dug up whatever courage a pre-pubescent boy can muster, walked up to her, looked her square in the eye and asked.

She paused for a second, cracked half a smile and replied "no." That moment was the start of a special friendship.

We had our "Labor Day Weekend" fling (each Labor Day Weekend, our groups would attend a national convention/festival). We were the "it" couple for a weekend and for the next few years, we talked all the time – at least, as much as we could in the pre-Facebook/free long distance cell phone days.

We wrote letters. We instant messaged each other. When we could talk on the phone, we'd spend hours talking about everything and nothing at all. We spent a week together when the Badgers played in the Rose Bowl in '99. She wore my Wisconsin hat and jacket, hung out with my friends and adopted Wisconsin as her team.

For two people who saw each other but once a year, it was an incredibly close and personal relationship. One that had a lot of promise ... but we'll never know.

Ten years ago today, she was killed, brutally, accosted by three punks and left to die in the mountains near Asuza, Calif.

I was living in Oshkosh, in the middle of a normal Saturday night. My friends and I were at French Quarter, about to make our way to another campus haunt. Earlier in the day, I had broken my phone and was using a loaner provided …