Counties Pay, Owners Profit (Milwaukee Edition)

"You can't be sentimental in this job. You have to be rational." - Bud Selig

I was born in 1966, the same year the Braves skipped town for Atlanta. I didn’t live through it. I didn’t feel that loss. But I knew Milwaukee had already been burned once. And when the Brewers started pushing for a new stadium in the '90s, I could smell where it was headed.

Bud Selig wanted a ballpark. Not just any park, a monument. Something with a roo…