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MILWAUKEE -- A bus driver was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence while transporting the Pittsburgh Pirates from Chicago to Milwaukee for their weekend series with the Brewers. Illinois State Police said the driver was traveling away from officers seeking to escort the bus on its trip to Milwaukee late Thursday night. Troopers said they observed more erratic driving and eventually stopped the bus on the right shoulder of Interstate 94 in Chicago. Police said the driver was arrested after they observed “multiple signs of impairment.” The driver isn’t a Pirates employee but was contracted to drive...

One of the only things that can ruin hitting a home run is watching your ball fly over the fence and hit a car, but that made things even better for Milwaukee Brewer Mike Moustakas on Sunday. Moustakas slammed one into center field in the eighth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates that broke a 2-2 tie and landed on the roof of a Toyota Rav4. It wasn’t parked there by a clueless owner but was part of a promotion to give it away if a Brewer hit it with a ball, which Moustakas learned after the fact."I didn't know that I actually...

Racist, homophobic and misogynistic tweets that Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader sent in 2011 and 2012 surfaced as he pitched in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game at Nationals Park, turning his appearance into an embarrassing stain for Hader and a public-relations nightmare for Major League Baseball. After Hader surrendered a three-run homer in the eighth inning, several Twitter users — starting, it seems, with an account named MLB Insider Dinger — found and retweeted messages Hader sent as a 17-year-old. The tweets included numerous uses of the n-word and an allusion to “white power” next to an emoji of a closed...

Portable toilets might pinch hit at Brewers opening day Portable toilets or waste-pumping trucks might be pressed into service for the Brewers' opening day game at Miller Park if sanitary sewer line problems aren't resolved in time for the first pitch of the 2007 season, officials said Wednesday. More tests of Miller Park sewers on Wednesday confirmed at least one pipe coming from private suite bathrooms is hooked improperly to a storm sewer draining to the Menomonee River. As the testing continued, state environmental officials discussed options to prevent ongoing pollution of the river if the problem cannot be fixed...

Right now, in the real world, so-called, Mike DeJean would have - at minimum - a few days' unpaid R and R whenever it pleased him to be, so long as it was not the Milwaukee Brewers' clubhouse, dugout, or bullpen. That is what you or I would get if we had resisted or refused the boss's orders absent a verifiable breach of ethics or conflict of interest. Especially if we had chosen anyplace except behind closed doors to tell the boss off while we were at it.Some dare call DeJean's Wednesday night whoop insubordination.DeJean came in to pitch the...