Batting Average Leaderboard

Greg Beaubien - Latin Connection - .900Tim Webber - Coooop - .714

Scott Finkelmeyer - Latin Connection - .700Randy Rautenberg - Gets Some - .692

Robert Slak - Gets Some - .692Jim Plaisted - Catch-22 - .667

Dave Pangallo - Coooop - .643Erick Scott - Coooop - .643

Paul Camacho - Buy a Vowel - .636Terry Jannsen - California Quakers - .636

Jim Stephenson - Gets Some - .636Brannon Guyette - Catch-22 - .615

David Gillette - Coooop - .600Ron Quiñones - Coooop - .583

Steve Bogue - Gets Some - .545Rick Casselbury - California Quakers - .545

Bob Garvin - California Quakers - .545Steve Hepp - Buy a Vowel - .545Thomas Kilbey - Catch-22 - .545

Mike Zimmerman - Latin Connection - .545Matt Pruitt - Catch-22 - .533

Snoopy Abrams - Buy a Vowel - .500Gary Anderson - Gets Some - .500Joel Ehrendreich - Catch-22 - .500

David Froehlich - Gets Some - .500Bruce Gilbert - Buy a Vowel - .500

Frank Hanford - Catch-22 - .500David Lonsdorf - Gets Some - .500

Bruce Meyer - Buy a Vowel - .500Pete Parker - Gets Some - .500

Matt Varney - Buy a Vowel - .500

A BIG THANK YOU TO SCOTT ABRAMS and GREG BEAUBIEN

FOR COMPILING THE STATS.

You just never know who’s going to drop in at Fantasy Camp. Yesterday morning and afternoon campers were treated to appearances by three present-day Brewers and two Hall of Fame legends. Mark Rogers, who will be battling for a spot in the Brewers’ rotation this Spring, celebrated his 27th birthday with Marco Estrada and Chris Narveson by

stopping in to greet the campers, sign autographs and pose for pictures. The excitement didn’t end there as Bob Uecker and Robin Yount dropped in later in the day to chat with many of the campers and sign memoribilia. A big thank you to Rogers, Estrada, Narveson, Yount, and Uecker for taking the time out of their day to make another Fantasy Camp memory for everyone.

Brewers Stars... ...And Brewers Legends

Wednesday Morning Results

Catch-22 - 17Coooop - 7

Gets Some - 4Buy a Vowel - 3

Latin Connection - 2California Quakers - 1

Wednesday Afternoon Results

Buy a Vowel - 8California Quakers - 7

Gets Some - 15Catch-22 - 8

Coooop - 13Latino Connection - 8

Fantasy Camp StandingsAfter 4 games

W L

Gets Some 4 0

Catch-22 3 1

Coooop 2 2

Buy a Vowel 2 2

Latin Connection 1 3

California Quakers 0 4

Game Day ScheduleThursday Morning Games

Team 3 vs Team 1 Team 2 vs Team 6Team 5 vs Team 4

Thursday Afternoon Games

Team 4 vs Team 2Team 5 vs Team 3Team 6 vs Team 1

For the Love of the Game (cont.)

For the Love of the Game

2013 camper Joel Ehrendreich’s jobs have taken him all around the world, and the one thing that goes with him where ever he goes, is his love of baseball. “Baseball has been in my blood since childhood. I love everything about it,” he said. Joel, a diplomat since 1994, is currently the Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy Manila. His posts have taken him to the Philippines, Singapore, India, Japan, Australia, and Togo, West Africa, as well as Washington, DC. In 2007, while in New Delhi, India, Joel led the Embassy’s Little League program. It’s during that time he met a local baseball coach who ran a program for about 100 kids and noticed one thing; “They loved the game.” While he got the local kids included in the Embassy’s Little League program, he knew someday he’d be leaving India; so he decided he needed to do something to get the local youths established in their own program. As you might imagine, baseball equipment is nearly impossible to fi nd in India, mainly because cricket is the country’s sport of choice. But that didn’t stop Joel; he asked his friends for help. “I got in touch with my baseball friends from high school, who enthusiastically collected about a garage full of equipment,” he said. “Major League Baseball also was generous in helping us. Word spread, and soon I was getting a few donations from people I had never met.” Before he left India, the local club had grown to about 500 participants and is still going. Joel says he’s been involved in baseball at every post, and “right now I’m trying to get some equipment to give out here in the Philippines.” One of the nice perks of Fantasy Camp is getting autographs of our favorite Brewers. But Joel has collected a uniquely eclectic array of autographed baseballs during his travels. “The best thing about my job is the people I get to meet,” he said. My prized possession is a baseball signed by the Dalai Lama. When he signed it, he said “I’ve never signed a baseball before”, so at least at that time it was the only one in the world.”

Joel also worked in the White House Situation Room for a couple years, and has a signed-ball from every president since Ronald Regan. While working at the White House one day, “President Bush had all the living Hall of Famers over, and a Secret Service friend allowed me to sneak in and I got a ball signed,” he said. Joel was lucky enough to get a ball signed by 14 Hall of Famers, including Robin Yount. Other signed-balls in his collection include Olympians Carl Lewis and Michele Kwan, Pele, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Lech Walesa, and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. Joel, 49, currently lives in Manilla, Philippines, with his wife of over 22 years, Rachel, also a diplomat, and they have two boys, Cooper and Cal. As you might have guessed, the boys’ names are steeped in baseball history too. Cooper, 19, is named after Cooperstown, the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and his brother, Cal, 16, is named after Cal Ripken Jr. If you know what uniform number Joel is wearing this week, you don’t have to look further than his sons’ middle names for the source: Jack and Robinson. (Jackie Robinson wore #42). He says his wife condones is love affair, or as he says “obsession” with baseball. Although Ehrendreich and his family live overseas most of the time, they do have a place in the USA to call their home—you guessed it: Cooperstown, New York. Joel, who has been a “die-hard” Brewers fan since 1970, ranks seeing Robin Yount’s 3,000th hit from the standing-room only section at County Stadium as his favorite Brewers moment, and his favorite Brewer of all-time is Lenn Sakata. While Fantasy Camp brings us all together this week to honor our beloved team, Joel views the game he loves like this. “I’ve found baseball to be a connection to people from around the world.” Nicely said, Joel.

Keep On Winning...Finally Winning After Tuesday’s games, Gets Some and Catch-22 were undefeated, while the California Quakers and the Latin Connection were toiling at the bottom without a victory. By the end of yesterday’s slate of games, one team pulled ahead to stand alone atop the leader board, while another is lonely at the bottom. In the morning session, Gets Some was in for a battle as they took on Buy a Vowel. Both teams were scoreless going into the bottom of the fi fth when Gets Some put up the fi rst two runs of the game, highlighted by RBIs from David Froehlich and Jim Stephenson. Buy a Vowel answered in the top of the sixth inning with a run-scoring double off the bat of Bruce Meyer. After a scoreless bottom of the sixth for Gets Some, Buy a Vowel took the lead with two runs in the top of the seventh, one run on an RBI single off the bat of Scott Abrams. But Gets Some’s ‘it ain’t over ‘til it’s over’ attitude launched a come-from-behind win, capped off by a walk-off RBI single from Pete Parker, driving in Robert Slak who had tied the game earlier with an RBI of his own. Unlike the close game Get Some pulled off to keep their undefeated season alive, Catch-22 had a much easier road to stay on the winning end of the standings. Led by

Brannon Guyette’s 3 for 3, 4 RBI day which included a third inning grand slam, Catch-22 pounded out 15 hits in the 17-7 romp over Coooop. The fi rst fi ve hitters in the batting order were a combined 9 for 18, with 12 RBI. Batting leader Jim Plaisted couldn’t keep his 1.000 average intact, but still had a very productive game, going 2 for 3 with 3 RBI. Only one thing was certain when the California Quakers met the Latin Connection in the morning game: One team would get off the schneid. The Latin Connection scattered seven hits and scored only two runs, but that was all they would need to defeat the Quakers 2-1, and join the ranks of four other teams with at least one victory. Dennis Johnson and Sara Miller each drove in one run to give the Connection their 2-0 lead. Bob Zuckerman cut the lead in half with an RBI single to draw the Quakers within a run, but that’s all they could muster, and remained winless. On the other end of the standings spectrum, Gets Some met Catch-22 in the afternoon, each with their eyes on a 4-0 start and sole possession of fi rst place on the line.

Before Catch-22 knew what hit them, Gets Some was up 8-3 after 4 innings of play. After scoring two runs in the fi fth inning, Catch-22 made it interesting by scoring fi ve runs in the bottom of the frame to draw within 2 runs at 10-8. Gets Some scored two runs in the sixth and three in the seventh to pull away and win 15-8. In the victory, Gets Some smacked out 21 hits, with Randy Rautenberg leading the way with four. Eight other batters had two hits each in the win, and Anthony Peltier along with David Lonsdorf each knocked in two. In the other two games of the afternoon, Coooop had fi ve players with at least three hits, highlighted by a 4 for 4 and three RBI performance by Tim Webber to help power his team to a 13-8 victory over the Latin Connection and hand them their third loss of the season. The Quakers almost got their fi rst victory, but couldn’t hold a three run lead, giving up four runs in bottom of the sixth for a 8-7 loss to Buy a Vowel. What will today’s games hold? Will Gets Some keep getting them all? Will the Quakers fi nally taste victory? Does it get any better than this?

The Offi cial Newspaper of the 2013 Milwaukee Brewers Fantasy Camp Thursday, January 31, 2013Volume 7, Issue 5

TODAYDon’t forget, if you see one of your fellow campers, or coaches for that matter, do something that is KANGAROO COURT worthy, write it down and put it in the box located outside of Tony’s offi ce. All cases will be heard tonight, so don’t forget to bring your money in case you have to pay a fi ne. And for those interested, Poker will be played tonight at Happy Hour. Remember, all proceeds raised tonight will go to charity.

TOMORROW• A Q&A with a 1966 graduate from Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon.

• Recap of Kangaroo Court and Poker Tournament

Come around and talk it over/So many things that I wanna say/You know I like my girls a little bit older/I just wanna use your love tonight/I don’t wanna lose your love tonight That’s the fi rst verse of The Outfi eld’s’ ‘Your Love’, the song that would introduce former Brewer and 14-year Major League veteran Frank Catalanotto as he would stroll from the on-deck circle to the batters box. For me, because of its crowd participation, Cata-lanotto’s at-bat song is a classic. But there’s one that goes down as one of the all-time best, and it started with four gongs of the bell. When you heard those bells ring in 2009-2010, you knew it was Trevor Time. “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC shook Miller Park and made the crowd go wild every time future Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman was called on to save the game. Since this is Fantasy Camp, I thought everyone should enhance the vision of what it would be like to step to the plate as a real big-leaguer and asked what songs Fan-tasy Campers would want played when they entered the game. I asked for two answers: one for when they were in their prime, and one for now. Here’s a sampling of what I received broken up into both categories.

IN YOUR PRIME AT-BAT MUSIC:Steve Hepp - Rock & Roll - Led Zepplin

Matthew Pruitt - December, 1963 - The Four SeasonsSara Miller - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - StarshipDave Maruska - Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - CherTerry Jannsen - Don’t Stop Believin’ - JourneyJim Stephenson - Don’t Change - INXSJack Ohringer - Call Me - Al GreenThomas Kilbey - Jailbreak - Thin LizzyBob Garvin - Rock the Casbah - ClashKenny Myers - Eye of the Tiger - SurviorMike Keith - The Grand Illusion - StyxGary Anderson - Unglued - Stone Temple PilotsDave Pangallo - Me So Horny - 2 Live CrewScott Finkelmeyer - Don’t Stop - Fleetwood MacDennis Johnson - You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DCMalcolm Hatfi eld - The Victors - Louis ElbelSteve Bogue - Zoo Station - U2Tom Thompson - Let the Good Times Roll - The CarsJeanie Hatfi eld - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat BenatarRon Quiñones - Long Time - BostonJim Plaisted - Ramrod - Bruce SpringsteenRandy Rautenberg - Schools Out - Alice CooperChad Swoboda - Sweet Child of Mine - Guns & RosesSpencer Block - The Victors - Louis ElbelMichael Polacheck - Real American - Rick DerringerPaul Camacho - Celebration - Kool & The GangJoel Ehrendreich - Fantasy - Earth, Wind & FireKen Head - Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad - The Grateful DeadJim Canes - Don’t Stop Believin’ - JourneyBarry Riskin - Cowboys & Angels - Dustin LynchPete Miller - Run’s House - Run DMC

NOW AT-BAT MUSIC:Steve Hepp - Panic Switch - Silverson PickupsMatthew Pruitt - How To Save A Life - The FraySara Miller - A Little Bit Of Love - New EditionDave Maruska - Time For Me To Fly - REO SpeedwagonTerry Jannsen - No Surprise - DaughtryJim Stephenenson - Seven Nation Army - White StripesJack Ohringer - Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed PeasThomas Kilbey - Smile - Uncle KrackerBob Garvin - Should I Stay or Should I Go Now - ClashKenny Myers - Free Your Mind - En VogueMike Keith - Where The Streets Have No Name - U2Gary Anderson - Click Click Boom - SalivaDave Pangallo - Me So Horney - 2 Live CrewScott Finkelmeyer - Thunderstruck - AC/DCDennis Johnson - Bad Company - 5 Finger Death PunchMalcolm Hatfi eld - Magic Summer Nights - CascadaSteve Bogue - Wheels On The Bus...- “I Have Kids”Tom Thompson - I Gotta Felling - Black Eyed PeasJean Hatfi eld - Viva La Vida - ColdplayRon Quiñones - Touch of Gray - Grateful DeadJim Plaisted - Make Some Noise - Beastie BoysRandy Rautenberg - Help - The BeatlesChad Swoboda - Animal I Have Become - Three Day GraceSpencer Block - The Victors - Louis ElbelMichael Polacheck - Imperial March - John WilliamsPaul Camacho - Fantasy - Earth, Wind & FireJoel Ehrendreich - I Gotta Felling - Black Eyed PeasKen Head - Hotel California - The EaglesBob Zuckerman - Won’t Get Fooled Again - The WhoJim Canes - Tornado - Little Big Down A late entry for Robert Slak has this for his ‘Prime’ song, I’m Coming Out by Diana Ross, and for his ‘Now’ song, I Know What Boys Like by The Waitresses. There you have it. You know what your teammates like to hear. The rest is up to you.

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