The Sunday Cycle, , , ,

The Brewers are red hot, folks. Fresh off a 6-1 home stand, which included winning three of four from the NL East leading Atlanta Braves, the Brewers will enter their last week of play before the All-Star break with a 54-36 record and a 1.5 game lead over the Cubs in the NL Central. It’s July, the Brewers are in first place, and this team  continues to prove day in and day out that they’re a contender. It’s about to get really really fun these next couple of months.

One of my favorite parts about the limited number of competitive seasons the Brewers have had in my lifetime (sad), has been enjoying all of the attention, banter, and social media interactions that come along with a Brewers run to the postseason. The Brewers don’t get a lot of attention from the national media during the first half of the season. If they’re close to, or leading the division, that all starts to change around the All-Star break, when writers get to break from the daily grind of a 162 game season and take a look around baseball to find the story lines that will carry them through the remainder of the summer and into August. The smallest market team in all of baseball making a run at their first ever World Series will always be a story line, and the Brewers are going to be getting a LOT of attention through the rest of the season.

Personally, I think the attention is exciting – you tend to get well produced pieces like this that are only made possible by insider access and bigger production budgets. That said, when you watch a team day in and day out, it becomes very obvious when outsiders start rolling into Miller Park to talk about a team that they haven’t given as much as an afterthought to, until their bosses informed them they were heading to Milwaukee. These guys and girls don’t have time to care about all 30 teams – they spend their time where the money is: big markets like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.

While it’s fun to see my beloved Brewers get the attention they so deserve, I far prefer the company of my local Brewers experts. I often write about what I’m hearing in the Brewers community – whether that be written articles, sports talk radio, or various social media outlets. There’s one medium, however, that stands above the rest for all of my baseball news: Twitter.

Twitter is my absolute favorite way to get a constant feed of all things Brewers on a daily basis. Over the past decade, I’ve tweaked my Twitter timeline ever so carefully to give me all of the Brewers updates and opinions I could ever want. In my opinion, there’s no better way to watch a baseball game than to have an extended feed of baseball fans that are both watching the game with you, and putting their hot takes out for the world to see. It’s fun, informative, and at times it can even be controversial – but there’s nothing better. Heading into what I believe will be the most exciting three months to be a Brewers fan since 1982, I’m going to give you a list of 10 accounts you need to follow on Twitter. While I obviously don’t endorse everything this group puts on the internet, I can say that following their banter during the next three months will enhance the playoff run experience substantially for any Brewers fan. Toss all 10 of them a follow, myself included, and start refreshing that feed the next time you watch a game – I promise you won’t be disappointed.

The Writers: The people who’s job it is to cover this team.

Rob Petrie (@RPetrie10): What ulterior motive?

Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy): It’s official when McCalvy says it’s official. Adam will always have great insight into the Brewers because, well, he’s employed by Major League Baseball. Adam also tweets out great stats (likely from the Brewers stat teams) that tend to make their way to the TV broadcast during their next game.

Tom Haudricourt (@Haudricourt): The man, the myth, the legend. My dad used to get mad at me as a kid for stealing the sports section so I could read Tom Haudricourt’s recaps of the prior day’s games. He’s got a lifetime of knowledge and credibility, coupled with just the right amount of (earned) arrogance that occasionally comes through in his tweets. He also isn’t afraid to publicly dismantle the worst fan takes that come his way.

The Brewer Nation (@BrewerNation): I think this guys name is Adam, but I honestly can’t find it and got tired of looking. Regardless, Adam (that’s what we’re going with) is a fellow Senior Writer who’s been covering the team since 2006. He’ll have the scoop as soon as everyone else does, but my favorite thing about him is that he will interact with fans frequently during the game. I’ve tweeted him countless times and he always tweets back – he’s an expert of the game who covers the team from a fan’s perspective.

Kyle L. (@brewerfan28): If I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would probably be Kyle. He does a great job researching and outlining some of the more advanced stats and leveraging them to take down uninformed fan tweets. He puts a lot of content out there. He’s knowledgeable, funny, and a great follow.

Tim Muma (@Tim_Muma) Tim is a great follow because he’s a baseball lifer – he’s played and coached baseball at many different levels. He understands the game in a way that the average fan can’t. He’s a story teller, often goes against the conventional thinking surrounding this team, but definitely a die hard fan. Twitter expanding it’s character limit to 280 was good for Tim.

The Fans: It’s hard to summarize a season’s worth of content in an article like this. With fans, you have to follow them to understand their humor, their brand, and their opinions on this team. Instead of a short bio, I’m just going to give you my favorite tweets in recent memory from each of these guys. Follow them all – you won’t be disappointed.

Kyle, Mayor of DDC Fan (@kyleinmke):

Derek (@strongtakes):

Regular Travis (@travis_mke):

askschaaf (@akschaaf):

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