Attanasio embracing Brewers' plan to rebuild

"If [returning to the postseason] takes a few years, it takes a few years," said Brewers owner Mark Attanasio. (AP)MILWAUKEE -- Three months after he bought the Brewers in 2004, Mark Attanasio approved a trade that brought Carlos Lee to Milwaukee. As Attanasio said Sunday, "we went right at it."

Year after year, he kept going at it. Now, Attanasio and the Brewers are in the midst of a big step in a different direction, which made Sunday's "Brewers On Deck" event at Milwaukee's downtown convention center so different from years past. Since the same event one year earlier, the franchise has a new general manager, a new field manager, and so many new players that Attanasio found himself…