Yes, Miller Park wore a not-so-resplendent red, white and blue over the last four days as the Chicago Cubs blasted the Brewers clear out of the short-term conversation for the NL Central Lead.

Brewers fans were, in many people's eyes, totally outnumbered by some of Chicago and Northern Illinois' most loyal (and sometimes massively annoying) baseball fans.

How can we get that to change? How can the True Blue Brew Crew lock Chicago out of Miller Park when the Cubs come to town?

Read below this series of links:

Brewers-Cubs Coverage:
• Cubs Fans Charged with Beating Up Brewers Fan
• 11-4: CUB = Cry Uncle, Brewers
• Bill Michaels: Monitor The Next 15 Games
• Jay Sorgi: Keeping Cubs Nation Out of Miller Park
• The Llama Laments: When Did It Get This Bad?

You can't control what will happen when a Brewers fan buys a ticket, whether it's through season tickets, multi-game packs or single seats.

Those can go through scalping (or gifting) to anyone at anytime.

With the close proximity of Chicago to Milwaukee, many Cubs fans would get their tickets that way.

Heck, I even admit inviting friends from Chicago who are Cubs fans to join me for games here.

But in many cases, Cubs nation begin their invasion right through the Brewers ticket offices.

With the manner in which the Brewers offer their packages, a Cubs fan can purchase a "pick-your-game" pack, like a 9 or 20 game pack, and select all Cubs games.

Many even select other games, sell those tickets to Brewers fans, and keep the ones their favorite team will play.

Why the demand in Chicago? The fact you can't find tickets to Wrigley, a small stadium in a market six times the size of Milwaukee.

How Can The Brewers Stop This?

There's only one way to possibly curtail it, and it's a method the Buccaneers taught Wisconsin sports fans in 1997.

When the Packers played at Tampa Bay the year after Green Bay won Super Bowl XXXI, the Buccaneers used source-of-purchaser controls on who could buy tickets.

They basically had to live in Florida to get tickets to that game.

No matter, the Packers still won, but it was a lot more pro-orange and white crowd.  (Nevermind the ugly citrus-colored uniforms they used to wear.)

The Brewers can take that lesson, and perhaps give the five counties still paying the sales tax a break on getting these tickets first.

For example: for the first month tickets are available, if you want tickets to any package involving a Cubs game, whether it's season, 20-pack, nine-pack or otherwise, you must prove (by credit card or other means) that you live in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Washington or Ozaukee County.

Kenosha's not included. Too many Cubs fans there.

Give Brewers fans who live in those areas one month's advanced notice on buying those seats before the grubby Cubs fans get their chance.

Additionally, give those season ticket and multi-pack fans the additional first dibs on buying more Brewers-Cubs tickets before Chicago fans can get them.

That might not guarantee a completely blue-and-gold Miller Park when the North-siders invade, but it could make enough of a difference to at least guarantee a pro-Brewers majority in their own home ballpark.