The Brewers "included a series of questions" about LF Ryan Braun in a "comprehensive survey made available to season ticket holders on the team's website," according to Tom Haudricourt of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. The survey "includes a wide swath of questions that polls fans on their interest level in the team, personnel changes made over the off-season, expectations for 2014, ownership’s commitment to being competitive and the Miller Park experience during games." But "deep in the survey is the series of blunt, multiple-choice questions about Braun and how fans feel about him after his PED scandal." Brewers COO Rick Schlesinger said, "We wanted to do a fairly detailed and comprehensive survey, asking a lot of questions about fans’ views of the team, the state of the team, the ballpark, the experience. For us to not ask questions about Ryan, in our view just didn’t make sense. ... Frankly, we need to know as an organization what people think about us. If we’re asking fans questions but not asking about Ryan Braun, what are we doing as an organization?" Haudricourt notes the Brewers now are "trying to take the 'temperature' of their fans to see if they think Braun has done enough to atone for his mistake and subsequent actions." Schlesinger: "If we get some information that is useful, we will talk about it with Ryan. But I haven’t talked about it with (principal owner) Mark (Attanasio) and we haven’t decided what level of information sharing we will do with this." Haudricourt notes the Brewers recently "reintegrated Braun into their marketing and promotions for the 2014 after a period of exclusion." Schlesinger: "We haven’t exclusively focused on Ryan in our marketing in the past. We aren’t doing it currently and we’re not going to do it in the future" (JSONLINE.com, 2/26).
