Decider.com Review
By: Steven Hyden - decider.com

The biggest question of Friday night’s sold-out Brewers Winter Warm-Up at Riverside Theater wasn’t “How will the team cope without C.C. Sabathia?” or “Will the Crew make a return to the playoffs in ’09?” but, “Which bachelorette should go home with J.J. Hardy?” The answer was Kate Armitage, a Milwaukee woman (and former Decider staffer) who beat out three other local ladies vying for the boyishly handsome star shortstop in a Dating Game spoof called Hot For Hardy. So it went during a night that split the difference between pre-season pep rally and old-timey vaudeville comedy show. The Brewers hold events like this for baseball-hungry fans every winter, getting the faithful properly primed for another year by re-visiting the previous season’s highlights and promising even better results for the campaign ahead. Winter warm-ups aren’t normally quite like this, though, and they aren’t Read More...