BrewHoop: Kohl meets with Suns VP

In a piece of outstanding covert reporting, Frank at BrewHoop got and confirmed a tip that Senator Kohl recently met, and I assume had lunch with, Suns VP David Griffin at Elsa's in Milwaukee.

That should come as encouraging news (along with the fact that we are not hearing Doug Collins name or the name of any retreads). It seems the Senator is getting serious about bringing in someone serious who can rebuild what has become of our once proud Milwaukee Buck franchise. The hire would be in the tradition of, if not exactly parallel to, the Packers watershed hiring of Ron Wolf, which I wrote about a week or so ago.

We need a new direction

I made this point in the comment section one time, and I'll remake it here. For many of us who grew up in Wisconsin, there was a time in the 80s when the only sports team we had to be proud of in this state was the Milwaukee Bucks. Look at the situation we are now in. Every single sports team -- college and professional -- has bypassed the Bucks, and it makes me sad and a little angry. The Packers, the Brewers, Badgers hoops, Badgers football, Marquette hoops... they're all looking up... and the Bucks are in shambles

As Bunk once said to Omar in one of my favorite scenes on one of my all-time favorite shows, "It makes me sick, m#th#rf###er, how far we done fell!" The same sentiments, I am sure, have to have come across the minds of long-time Bucks fans. Maybe the situation is changing. Call it my "audacity of hope", I guess.

Footnote: If you're going to Brewhoop, don't type "Brewhoops". You get one of those annoying misdirect websites. Who are the deviants that waste their time developing those sites?

Footnote2: As some of you know, I also have a Brewers blog... which I have been shamefully neglecting. I'm considering combining that one with this one and making the two into one new blog. It would be a combination Brewers/Bucks/NBA/MLB blog. I'll post my plans on both blogs... if anyone cares.