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  Milwaukee Brewers President Rick Schlesinger understands $600 million is a lot of money. He also understands American Family Field is running out of money, quickly. Schlesinger didn’t downplay the cost to taxpayers after Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol introduced a plan to spend $600 million over the next 25-plus years to maintain and upgrade the Brewers’ ballpark. “It is a lot of money,” Schlesinger told The Center Square. “Unfortunately, it is not inexpensive to keep a ballpark of this size and this stature in the condition it needs to be through the next generation.” The latest ballpark funding plan would have $400 million coming from the state, another $200 million coming from Milwaukee and Milwaukee County, and $100 million from the Brewers. Rick Schlesinger was clear, however, that none of that money is going to the team or its owner Mark Atanasio. “The money is not going to the Milwaukee Brewers baseball club. It is going from one or more governmental en...

The latest plan would tax the ballplayers, both from the Brewers and other teams, to pay for about $400 million in repairs. Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is getting criticized in Wisconsin for his reported plans to boost his investment in an English soccer club. The BBC reported that Attanasio is looking to increase his stake in the Norwich City club to 40%. Attanasio bought a 16% stake in the club last year. Attanasio didn’t comment in the BBC piece, or in a follow-up in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His decision to spend more on Norwich City comes as he is asking Wisconsin taxpayers for hundreds of millions of dollars to repair the Brewers’ ballpark, American Family Field. https://twitter.com/meganjnovak/status/1699115214757659120 “And at the same time begging Wisconsin taxpayers to bail him out for lavish stadium upgrades...? Weird,” Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin Director Megan Novak said on social media Tuesday. “Also – the Brewers paid half a million...