Batting Average Leaderboard

Name Team Name BA

Steve Bogue 3rd Sacker Farm .833

Robb Slak Tiny's Terrors .833

Mike Bernhardt Easy Street .800

Eric Dugenske G-Spots .800

Jim Fitzpatrick Sons of Pitches .714

Greg Beaubien 3rd Sacker Farm .667

Jeff Geiger Easy Street .667

Ian Gonzalez G-Spots .667

Mike Grebe Sons ‘A Pitches .667

Don Quiñones Deer Meat .667

Snoopy Abrams Tiny's Terrors .600

James Fitzpatrick Sons ‘A Pitches .600

Scott Foulke 3rd Sacker Farm .600

Chris Grossman G-Spots .600

Thomas Kilbey G-Spots .600

Steve Lendosky Tiny's Terrors .600

Jerry Thornsen G-Spots .600

John Buono Sons ‘A Pitches .571

Chris Fitzpatrick Sons ‘A Pitches .571

David Froehlich Sons ‘A Pitches .500

Craig Geiger Easy Street .500

Dave Giddings Deer Meat .500

Bruce Gilbert G-Spots .500

Brannon Guyette G-Spots .500

Dennis Inderdahl Deer Meat .500

Duane Jackson Sons ‘A Pitches .500

Tom Mark Tiny's Terrors .500

Tim Webber 3rd Sacker Farm .500

Karl Zacharias 3rd Sacker Farm .500

A BIG THANK YOU TO SCOTT ABRAMS and GREG BEAUBIEN

FOR COMPILING THE STATS.

Fantasy Camp StandingsAfter 2 games

W L

Sons ‘A Pitches 2 0

G-Spots 2 0

Deer Meat 1 1

Tiny’s Terrors 1 1

3rd Sacker Farm 0 2

Easy Street 0 2

Tuesday’s ResultsMorning Games

G-Spots - 6 Easy Street 3

Tiny’s Terrors - 2Deer Meat 4

3rd Sacker Farm - 9Sons ‘A Pitches - 10

Afternoon Games

Tiny’s Terrors - 9 3rd Sacker Farm - 4

Easy Street - 7Sons ‘A Pitches - 14

G-Spots - 11Deer Meat - 9

Playing For Derek (continued)

REMEMBERING DEREK

“On Friday I will be burying my 9yr old son. He will be wearing his Bautista jersey and taking a ball you gave him with him.” - A tweet from Steve Lendosky to José Bautista.

For Steve Lendosky, a trip to Fantasy Camp was one of the items he wanted to check off his bucket list before ‘Father Time’ told his body otherwise. It’s the experience he’s been saving four years to have. But that all changed on August 4th, 2013. Now, along with his father Dennis, and brother, John, he’s attending Fantasy Camp in memory of his son. Derek Lendosky, just three days shy of his 10th birthday, was riding with his dad on a UTV shortly before a farm accident took his life. This story isn’t about what happened that tragic day, but about a father’s son and the legacy he left behind. Derek was no different from kids his own age. He was smart, loved math and reading, excelled at the piano, enjoyed doing karaté, and playing with his toy wrestlers and stuffed animals. He also dreamed of being and doing many things when he grew up; a singer; a professional baseball or basketball player. Maybe even helping his dad run Brechler Insurance, the family business. “Derek was a bright and talented 9 year-old who had a joy for life,” Steve said. “He couldn’t make up his mind on what he wanted to be, but whatever he would have chosen it would have been big,” he added. Derek, who was set to go into the fourth grade, wanted to travel the world, get married and have a family. He wasn’t like many kids, though, who look forward to moving out and away from their parents. He wanted his parents close by so they could help him and his future wife with their own family. Growing up, sports was big in Steve’s life. Whether it was him and his brother, John, watching their father, Dennis, play on the diamond until they both were old enough to join him. Sometimes just playing catch or shooting basketball as their father grilled out, they loved sports because of him. “We got our love of sports from our father, and I thank him for that,” Steve said. The love of sports, especially baseball,

which Dennis handed down to his sons, was shared by Steve to his family. Derek loved baseball. Derek loved the Brewers. Derek loved José Bautista. Derek’s love for the Brewers and baseball ran deep, so much that it drove his mom Brandee crazy, but made his dad proud. Derek’s bedroom was decorated to show off his passion for baseball. If it was baseball-related, Derek was doing it. From setting up mock-games with his toys to having his own fantasy baseball draft with family and friends, he was all about baseball. Like many baseball card owners, he’d alphabetize them, then go back and rearrange them based on teams. He also kept a notebook with stats about everything, and would draw a fi eld with the players and their positions. He loved to sit with his dad watching games and comparing stats on players. “It was part of who he was, and I loved every ounce of it,” Derek’s dad said. In 2009, Steve picked up Toronto Blue Jays rightfi elder, José Bautista, to join his fantasy baseball team late in the season. Thanks to Bautista’s fi ve homer, 10 RBI tear in the last week, he won the league championship. That was Derek’s fi rst taste of who Bautista was. It wasn’t until the following year, that Bautista became Derek’s favorite player. When the video game ‘The Show 2010’ came out, Derek, six years old at the time, would choose Bautista in the Home Run Derby every time he and his dad would play. That same season, the real José Bautista, would go on to hit 54 homers during the 2010 campaign, and catapult him into idol status in Derek’s eyes. From then on, Derek would help his dad draft his fantasy roster, making sure to draft Bautista in the fi rst round. When the Blue Jays came to Milwaukee in 2012, Derek got to see Bautista up close, and even caught a ball thrown to him by his favorite player. On Wednesday, August 7, 2013, on what would have been Derek’s ninth birthday, Steve sent out the tweet to Bautista about burying his son because he thought Derek would want his idol to know. On Friday, August 9, 2013, nine year-old Derek Stanley Lendosky was buried wearing his José Bautista jersey, along with the ball the outfi elder threw to him. Not expecting any response from his tweet sent two days earlier, little did Steve know that his words and the power of a social media #JoseBautistaGameForDerek campaign, would reach Bautista, asking him to dedicate that night’s game in Derek’s memory. “As I got in my vehicle, after burying Derek, I turned on my phone and it just went crazy. I had over 100 messages,” Steve said. “I had already received thousands on Facebook and texts during the week, so I thought nothing of it, until I noticed it was all on Twitter.” Among the numerous messages Steve received, one stood out. It was a tweet from @JoeyBats19, aka, José Bautista.

“There are no words to express my deepest sympathy for your loss. Tonight’s game is for Derek.”#GameForDerek #DerekRIPmyfriend

“I was in complete shock,” Steve said. “We could not believe that a pro athlete would do something that probably seemed insignifi cant to him, but (it) brought a small town together and spread joy to all who were grieving.” With the game dedicated to Derek, Bautista, with #DEREK written on the side of his cap, went 3-5, including a home run deep into the night. “Tears started fl owing everywhere. Twitter erupted with comments,” Steve said. “The actual home run was just the icing on the cake for us.” Following the game, kids from all over the small town of Fennimore, population just under 2,500, bought Bautista jerseys, and on the fi rst day of school over 50 kids remembered Derek by donning the jersey of Derek’s idol. Shortly after Derek’s death, a former classmate of Steve’s who wasn’t able to attend the funeral, posted online that she would do a random act of kindness on Derek’s behalf, by giving money to a random person. That one random act of kindness, spawned fi ve 8th grade girls from the small town to create the ActsOfKindnessForDerek Facebook page. The Facebook page, where people post about

receiving a random act of kindness or have given one in Derek’s behalf, has snowballed and has over 11,500 ‘likes’. One post on the Facebook page read:

On Friday night we were in drive thru at Dairy Queen in Baraboo and paid for the order in the car behind us. We explained about acts of kindness for Derek. We didn’t know Derek but he is a true angel. God bless. - Ann Lankey Random Acts for Derek have popped up in 29 states and 9 countries, ranging from a bone marrow transplant donor to save a person, to paying for adoption fees at a local pet shelter. The Milwaukee Brewers organization was also part of

the Random Acts for Derek. The Lendoskys, who planned to hand out ten $100 gift certifi cates to be used anywhere at Miller Park, contacted the Brewers, and the organization offered to match the family’s $1000. On September 20, Steve and his son, Lucas, handed out fi fteen $100 gift certifi cates to families at Miller Park, while the other fi ve where handed out in the parking lot of Miller Park by Brewers players hand-picked by the Lendoskys, including Scooter Gennett, Tyler Thornburg, Jonathan Lucroy, Carlos Gomez, and Aramis Ramirez.

“It is a humbling and overwhelming feeling,” Steve said. “The best part of doing these things is the feeling of doing something for someone else and expecting nothing else in return.” The Blue Jays were scheduled to play the Twins in Minnesota on Saturday, September 7, and Steve, his family and friends wanted to make the trip to hopefully meet Bautista and thank him for his kind gesture. Bautista, who kept in contact by direct messaging Steve through Twitter, agreed to meet everyone before the game. About 30 people, including Steve and Brandee’s son Lucas (9) and daughter Peyton (6), took the 4 1/2 hour trek to Target Field in Minnesota on that Saturday, all carrying signs and wearing their Bautista jerseys. Before the game, Derek’s idol was spotted walking toward their seats on the right fi eld line with teammate and pitcher, Esmil Rodgers. “We noticed José’s head down the entire way (and) when he got up to us he lifted his head and said he was sorry for our loss,” Steve remembers. “He was choked up.” Everyone thanked Baustista for dedicating the game to Derek, and presented him with a Derek’s Acts of Kindness campaign shirt and bracelet. Bautista then presented Steve and Brandee with the cap he wore that August 9th night. After hugs, pictures, and talking some baseball, Bautista, who was on the DL at the time, walked back to the dugout.

“Without knowing Derek, Mr. Bautista chose to dedicate that game to Derek, a small town boy from Fennimore, Wisconsin that for some reason fell in love with him as a player. What he didn’t know was that it pulled our friends, family and town together for weeks. It healed a small section of my husband’s broken heart, but more than anything it gave us hope. Good things can happen even amidst tragedy. Derek was sending us a message that he is okay, but his work is not done. To know that for one moment Mr. Bautista gave of himself to support strangers shows what a true role model is. I think kids need true role models these days. After what the Brewers organization and the Blue Jays organization have done for our broken hearts, I’m proud to tell my kids and their friends, and Derek’s friends about how people can do things in small ways (and giant ways if they so choose) to impact people in positive ways. Overall, this experience has made me want to do more, as a wife, mother, grieving parent and person, to take myself out of circumstances and fi gure out what I can do to help someone else. To fi nd a way to live to honor Derek, and his message of a joyful life in everything I do, no matter how much it hurts and how much my heart aches at his loss, when I do things for others simply because it is the right thing to do, or I teach my children how to be the better person, Derek’s spirit grows. As a parent, who wouldn’t want to be a part of that? We made our children so the world could be a better place, now we actually have to do the work to keep it going. Mr. Bautista showed us the human side of professional sports, and he helped us believe we can continue to pay forward Derek’s story for the good of others.” - Brandee Lendosky.

#RIPDerek #ActsOfKindnessForDerek #ThisWeekIsForYou

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Sons ‘A Pitches and G-Spots2-0 Feels Sooooo Good

The 2014 Fantasy Camp season got off to a go-go start for two teams, a so-so start for two teams, and a oh-no start for two teams. Sons ‘A Pitches, coached by Tom Trebelhorn and Greg Vaughn, scored 24 runs on 33 hits in the two games, highlighted by a 10-9 come-from-behind extra-inning tilt versus 3rd Sacker Farm in the morning. In the afternoon game, the Pitches found that hitting came quite easy for them as they pounded Easy Street 14-7, on 22 hits. The G-Spots, skippered by Jim Gantner and Charlie O’Brien, got hits in all the right places yesterday as they won their two games 6-3 and 11-9. After handing Easy Street their fi rst loss, the G-Spots pounded out 22 hits in their 11-run coaches pitched afternoon game. Deer Meat, headed by Jeff Cirillo and Rob Deer, recorded their fi rst victory of the season by defeating Tiny’s Terrors 4-2, but took it on the chin in their afternoon two-run loss to the G-Spots. After fi nding themselves hanging out

to dry after their morning loss to Deer Meat, Tiny’s Terrors, coached by Mike and Mike, Caldwell and Felder that is, put the scare into 3rd Sacker Farm by knocking out 19 hits in their 9-4 victory. “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” is a well-known saying. And it was so true in 3rd Sacker Farm’s morning game. After going up 9-0 in 1 1/2 innings of play, the Pete Ladd and Don Money led team fell asleep at the tractor wheel. By the time the Farms awoke for their half of the fi fth, the Pitches had tied the game at nine apiece, sealing the win with another run in the extra frame. It didn’t get any easier for 3rd Sacker Farm, as they lost their afternoon game too. Misery loves company, and Easy Street is 3rd Sacker Farm’s roommate at the bottom of the standings after day one. Easy Street, coached by Jerry Augustine and Cecil Cooper, hit some gridlock and were doubled up in both games. Last season, the two teams that

The Offi cial Newspaper of the 2014 Milwaukee Brewers Fantasy Camp Wednesday, February 5, 2014Volume 8, Issue 4

TODAYA fi rst look at the Camp standings, yesterday’s game results, and batting average leaderboard.

• REMINDER: The color edition of the Fantasy Camp Newsletter can be seen daily by visiting www.brewers.com/fantasycampAlso, images of camp can be viewed atFacebook.com/fantasycampTwitter.com: @BrewersFanCamp

TOMORROW• An interview with a former Brewer who played in the Mexican League and the Chinese Professional Baseball League last year.

Snapshots of OPENING DAY

Snapshots of OPENING DAY