Brewers (Sproat) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 5/18/25, 6:40pm

[Jim French Stepstool]

5 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

Stop making fun of Greg Cowsill.

[BarremlensTSSC]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Stop making fun of Greg Cowsill.

[Jim French Stepstool]

14 minutes ago, MadScientist said:

Fitting that the last out was a tough chance for Oritz.

Yes. He was extremely solid tonight.

[yourout]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Stop making fun of Greg Cowsill.

Hey....the Cowsills were pretty good. Their dad was a sick bastard though.

 

[Fear The Chorizo]

Watched the game with a college buddy Cub fan who is reasonably knowledgeable (ie, not a Cob fanboy)...

"Where the hell did they get Drohan from?"

Me: "Boston - for Caleb Durbin, Monasterio, and a comp pick"

Him: "wow what a steal - is he a free agent after this year?"

Me: "he is a rookie"

Him: "****"

Me: "you know, the Brewers also got Harrison in that trade and have him through at least 2030, right?"

Him, while checking stats on Harrison :  "you're kidding, right!?!?"

Me: "at least the Cubs dont have to face him tomorrow - good luck against Miz though"

 Him: "I wish the Brewers stayed in the AL"

 

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 minutes ago, yourout said:

Hey....the Cowsills were pretty good. Their dad was a sick bastard though.

 

They were. But personally I'm an "Indian Lake" guy.

[liveforoctober]

Having Drohan and Patrick in the pen has unlocked something. 

[yourout]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

They were. But personally I'm an "Indian Lake" guy.

Werent we all.

Plenty of good times at the Indian Lake in northern Dane County.

Edited 1 hour ago by yourout

[BarremlensTSSC]

11 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Are my eyes deceiving me, or did Bauers not only hit his home run off of the scoreboard, but he hit it off of his name on the scoreboard?  Or was it a little lower than that?

I can't quite pick it up on the replay.  It's very close if it didn't hit his own name.  Regardless, Bauers absolutely has The Natural vibes going on right now.  He's hitting everything hard, getting some weird outs (like that fly out that from exit velocity and launch angle should have gone 400+ feet and didn't even get close to the warning track against the Twins), so nailing his name on a scoreboard seems on brand right now.

[folly412]

Drohan and Harrison for:

• Durbin, hitting .165 and getting benched for a call-up.
• Mona.  Nice man to have at the end of the bench, but out of option flexibility.
• Siegler, still in AAA.
• A comp pick that would complicate our bonus pool.

Scammed Boston hard on that one.   Though they did make us take Bunty.

[BarremlensTSSC]

36 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Ty Black doing good work for the Cubs tonight.

Not as good as Drohan for us, but still.

I kept waiting for someone to take him all the way to 8 seconds on the pitch clock before looking up to try to slow him down, but no one ever did.  He was throwing with almost 10 seconds left.

[wibadgers23]

Imagine this bullpen with a really good Uribe and Megill. That would be sick.

[willie key]

Great start to this series.   Need to find one more

[willie key]

Just now, wibadgers23 said:

Imagine this bullpen with a really good Uribe and Megill. That would be sick.

I think Megill will get it together and be the closer which would make uribe the set up man.    I think they both would be better in those roles.  

[brewmann04]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

As much as I’d like him to prove otherwise, until he can, Sproat is a 4 inning guy.

He needs a way to find that big extra 

[edfunderburk]

28 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

Cubs reddit is mana from heaven. 

Link please

[Jim French Stepstool]

6 minutes ago, wibadgers23 said:

Imagine this bullpen with a really good Uribe and Megill. That would be sick.

I am SO hoping Patrick can remain in the pen. It would flesh things out wonderfully.

[edfunderburk]

15 minutes ago, folly412 said:

Drohan and Harrison for:

• Durbin, hitting .165 and getting benched for a call-up.
• Mona.  Nice man to have at the end of the bench, but out of option flexibility.
• Siegler, still in AAA.
• A comp pick that would complicate our bonus pool.

Scammed Boston hard on that one.   Though they did make us take Bunty.

What an incredible nickname for Hamilton … Bunty! 🏆

[liveforoctober]

Bunty Hamilton is incredible.

[nate82]

34 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Are my eyes deceiving me, or did Bauers not only hit his home run off of the scoreboard, but he hit it off of his name on the scoreboard?  Or was it a little lower than that?

On the radio they said it hit the score board and bounced out of the park but hard to tell on the replay as the quality isn't the greatest due to the compression of the video on the usual social media sites.  

 

The radio call:

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[BarremlensTSSC]

10 hours ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

The nature of my baseball fan psychosis:  I will 100% turn this game off (and that's true for the rest of this series) if it starts to go sideways. 😂

I'm pretty good at this point just enjoying the ride when it comes to MLB regular season fandom, but there's too much of the bitter little 10 year old left in my psyche to stick around and watch the Cubs do well against the Brewers.  Too much latent "trauma" from watching childhood friends who were "Brewers fans" become Cubs fans once WGN started broadcasting the Cubs nationwide via cable in the late 70's.  I know that sounds bizarre to anyone under 50, but if you ever wonder why you run into random Cubs fans north of Madison/Fondy/LaCrosse who don't have family ties to Chicagoland and who say their "Dad is a Cubs fan, so..." dollars to donuts that's why.  I was more than happy to listen to Uecker on the handheld transistor radio that ran through batteries like water but a LOT of folks in the part of small town Wisconsin space-time continuum in which I grew up became Cubs fans between 1978 and 1984 because they could watch the games on TV.  (Many briefly came back and acted like they never left in 1982, and then pretended they'd always been Cubs fans after 1983.)  

Let's Go Brewers!  (clap-clap-clapclapclap)

Got to watch all of that one!

[StearnsFTW]

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[StearnsFTW]

1 hour ago, Bulldogboy said:

A friend of mine is a Cubs fan. He can’t believe they haven't had Priester all year. Insane he says. Horton out is killing Cubs

They abused Horton horribly last season.

[StearnsFTW]

1 hour ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

I get that.  Pretty widely held opinion, but since I'm not a fan of the powder blues (literally everybody had them when I was a kid) I think the jersey alone with the gray pants is why I sort of like them.

I'm with you.  I hate the powder blues personally.

[StearnsFTW]

I couldn't see on the replay, but did PCA try to catch Bauers' dinger?