Brewers on Deck = Brewerfest?

The Milwaukee Brewers reworked Brewers on Deck this year. It will now be held in January instead of the week before the season. It will also be at the Midwest Airlines Center instead of Miller Park. There will be a fee to get in the door (Adults are $15 in advance, $20 at the door) and some of the autographs will cost money as well.

At first I felt the idea of charging money was terrible news, but then I started thinking about the great times in my childhood when I went to Brewerfest at the MECCA and did this:

Similarities between Brewers on Deck and BrewerFest:

Both are held in the area that was the MECCA and is the MAC

Both have entry fees

Both are held in January

Both have opportunities to get autographs

Both have Q and A sessions

Both have booths to buy baseball memoribilia

Differences between Brewers on Deck and BrewerFest:

Once you were in Brewerfest, all the autographs were free. I still have my Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, and like 6 BJ Surhoff autographs and those were big names. I wouldn’t have been able to shake their hand as a kid if it would have cost an extra $25.

Only 250 will get autographs at Brewers on Deck

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A portion of BOD will go to charity…Brewerfest might have had a portion go to the MAC fund or something, but I was too young to care remember.

As you can see, past the initial anger that autographs are limited and will probably have to pay for anyone who starts, this new Brewers on Deck might be a chance for many of us to relive our childhood while a new generation starts some memories of their own! or it might not live up to my childhood memories and I get depressed and watch Major League for the millionth time.