The Milwaukee Brewers typify this philosophy. Where but WI would record numbers of suckers pay religiously to see a team that has never won a championship and never will? The Brewers are in perpetual "rebuilding" mode, which is double talk used by scum bags who have no intention of ever fielding a winning team. They know it's enough to field a serviceable team because most WI fans are gullible and believe what they're told. Like, "We're rebuilding."
The running excuse for Milwaukee's 47 years of mediocrity is that it's a small market team that can't compete with the deep pockets in New York and L.A., but that's b.s. St. Louis is a smaller city than Milwaukee, yet somehow manages to win the World Series almost every other year! Need more evidence? The Brewers released Chris Carter, the 2016 home run champion, this offseason--a dumbfounding move never before committed by any major league team in the history of the sport! Who releases the home run champion?! Lest you think that was a fluke, last year the Brewers released Khris Davis, who proceeded to hit 42 home runs in 2016 for the Oakland A's. Oh, right, they're rebuilding...
If ever a baseball team shat on its fans, this was it. The modus operandi in Milwaukee is: "Heey... this guy is really good! Let's get rid of him." That the Brewers can put one over on WI fans year after year says something about the intelligence of those fans. There may be other factors at work too. Over the past three+ decades, Milwaukee has plummeted from the 16th largest U.S. city to 31st, due in part to white flight, and is now one of the most segregated cities in Amerika.
One thing is certain: Too many members of the UW-Madison community are getting fubar'd instead of educated or enlightened. UW's supposed motto of "sifting and winnowing" is another sucker play--a chronic joke perpetrated on state residents by University of Wisconsin administrators, just as Brewers' management is pulling the wool over the eyes of the state's baseball fans.
