Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio knew he had to face the music on Brewers On Deck. Parts of the fan base was not exactly pleased with what Milwaukee did this offseason. It is understandable when you see Yasmani Grandal and Mike Moustakas leave the team along with others. Attanasio still believes in the Milwaukee Brewers and their success. Milwaukee Brewers do have a model that none of us know about and their model since David Stearns’ arrival has done pretty well. Milwaukee’s front office and potentially the players are determined to prove the haters wrong.

I wish Attanasio had not dropped the line ‘Trust the process’ because it could not be more cliche in sports. Additionally, it is from a Philadelphia 76ers team that most Milwaukeeans do not like very much. I get where Attanasio is coming from on trusting the model, but it would have been great if he used another term. Or made fun of the term ‘Trust the process’ then said ‘That’s what we need to do here.’ The comments from Craig Counsell about it being a ‘different soup’ each year was great and put things into perspective.

If Attanasio shot us all straight, he would have said this – ‘Look, we’re going to take some chances on boom/bust guys this season. If they boom, we’re going to be aggressive at the MLB Trade Deadline and make a ton of moves. Now, if we bust, let’s start selling off some of the pieces to begin to rebuild the farm.’ Not one single owner will be that blunt with you.

The question is will Brewers fans buy into this notion? It is going to take some time unless the Brewers start red hot. People will remain guarded that Brewers can do it again for the third straight season. That is very hard in baseball. Not too many small-market teams have done that in modern baseball. It is hard to find a small-market team that has done that in the last decade.

Charlie.