Now that the Brewers are facing the Phillies, it's all coming together for this joint Mets / Brewers fan. Or is it?
The Brewers are battling the Phils in the NL Wild Card race -- Houston is in the mix, too, now -- and the first-place Mets need to keep the second-place Phillies at bay, too.
So, when the Brewers take the field in Philadelphia over the next few days, they can make me a happy baseball fan by soundly thumping Philadelphia (I don't mean the town, which I like, but the team, which I don't like).
Ben Sheets faces Jamie Moyer in tonight's match-up and the teams meet again Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
Let's root, root, root for the visiting team, if they don't win it's a shame.
The only major problem with this theory is that if the Brewers win that wild card slot and the Mets maintain their first-place position, the two teams would meet in the first round of the playoffs. Doh!
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
