Milwaukee Brewers star Christian Yelich is watching his team from the sidelines as they get a chance to clinch the playoffs tonight in Cincinnati. Brewers used the Yelich injury as a rallying cry around their team to motivate them into the postseason. Yelich sat down for a long interview with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt. There are some great nuggets in there about Yelich and fully would recommend it. Yelich discusses falling in love with the City of Milwaukee and explaining how the injury opened his eyes to how many people in this city love and adore him. As for the looming contract for Yelich, it sounds like he would like to be here until his career wraps up.

It’s a place that I’d really love to play for a long time. I genuinely mean that. I really enjoy this city and it’s somewhere that I’m very passionate about. It’s somewhere that, if I were to finish my career here, I would not mind that at all. There’s other factors that go into it; some are out of your control. It all has to work out from a business standpoint. But if it could and that was a possibility, then I would love to play here for a long time.

This is obviously what you want to hear as a Brewers fan. Is it something to get overly excited about? Probably not, there is a long way to go before Brewers and Yelich are talking about contracts. But there is a clear future possible with Yelich and the team. That’s extremely exciting to see the possibility of Yelich being here for the duration of his career. Many things can happen from now until then, yet, there is a reason to believe that Yelich could be the next Robin Yount of this organization. That is otherworldy praise for him, but I mean it, he would be seen in such a wonderful light if he ended up staying here long-term. And if it all falls apart, we’ll always have these memories.

Charlie.