Wisconsin's Weekend Morning News
Mark Kass on the Documentary about the 1982 Brewers
It's really cool to be here. >> I'm Libby Collins on Wisconsin Week and morning news short show today only here until nine o'clock this morning. Speaking of the Brewers after the game last night, there's only one movie the Brewers fans want to see this week and I talked with Mark Cass from Team Lammy. >> We had nine of the players actually in for the opening night earlier this week on Wednesday out in Brookville at the Majestic Theatre and it's like it's been 42 years since this World Series. But there's still rock stars to fans. Fans lined up early. We filled out all of our tickets quickly for the event. There were over 300 at the premiere but we brought them out for a photo with the Michigan and they're still rock stars. Everybody wanted to see them. Everybody wanted autographs. They wanted photos. They wanted to talk to them. It was just an amazing thing. We sold out. We added an overflow screen for that night for another 100 people. So then we added a preview the next night on Thursday sold out that in like three or four hours. We had 180 people for that and now the movie itself has started on Friday and on Friday we actually had to add 20 additional screens just because of the demand. It actually originally started with 63 showings. We added 20 more showings so there were 83 showings of the movie on Friday alone just because of the demand. >> All right. Now for those of us who weren't able to get to the premiere, maybe didn't get there here the last couple of days, where can we see this film? >> Only in the Marcus theaters. There are Marcus theaters throughout the state. So it's in Appleton. It's in Green Bay. It's in La Crosse. It's in Wasa. It's in the Milwaukee area, you can go to the bridge in New Berlin, you can go to down in Oak Creek. It's a couple of our movies. It's about this documentary. It's about the documentary. They're like, oh, okay. It's that documentary. It's no narrator. It's just interviews with these players. They got to virtually all of the major players who played on that team along with Bob Euchar and Commissioner Sealy, who was the owner of the birds at the time, just interviewed them about the season, about the playoffs, about the words. So remember, Libby, I don't know if you remember that, it was a crazy season. You know, about 60 days in or so it was early June, they fired their manager. They actually hired Harvey Keene. Then they went on this great run and they won all kinds of games, but they got down to the end of the season and they were up three games, heading into the last four games in Baltimore. They lost the first three. Had to win on Sunday to make the playoffs and then one on Sunday to make the playoffs. They hopped on a plane after a huge party, went out to Anaheim and actually played the Angels in the playoffs, lost the first two out in California. Had to fly home, win the next three and then won the next three to make it to the World Series. Went up in the World Series three, two, everybody thought the birds going to win the World Series, but unfortunately it didn't happen, hopped on a plane to fly home after the World Series thinking, "Okay, it's over." And they were told, "We've heard that there's going to be a parade for you guys." And they were like, "Yeah, what do you mean we've lost?" And they were like, "Okay, I mean, there'll be no big deal." Well, it ended up being thousands and thousands of us and I was actually one of them who lined Wisconsin Avenue and then filled the stadium to welcome this team home and they were shocked. They talked about how it was one of the greatest things they ever saw. They actually thought that they had won the World Series and it was actually a larger parade than what happened in St. Louis for the Cardinals. Think about that. The team that won the World Series had a smaller outing than they did in Milwaukee. Oh, just an amazing story. And again, the film, just a bit outside, about the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers. It's playing now at all the Marcus theaters around the state. Mark Cass, it is always great to have you here. My son is now made. You know, I'm going to just have a smile all day because I got to talk to Libby and all their listeners. But I would just encourage him to go see this movie. There are some stories in there that you've never heard before. You're going to learn a lot about this team we all loved.