Brewers (Harrison) vs Cubs (Cabrera): 5/20/26, 6:40pm

[edfunderburk]

3 minutes ago, Zad Fnark said:

Seems kind of whizzy to get it on the laces.  Oh, well...  It's the Cubs.

MLB Equipment Managers will be busy tomorrow trimming laces on catcher’s mitts league wide

[homer]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

That one will live in eternity.

 

[Bulldogboy]

If I'm Counsell you gotta bench him don't you? 

[adambr2]

PCA is one of those guys that you only like him if he’s on your team. Like a Ryan Braun.

[BarremlensTSSC]

If there's a player in MLB who  is more in need of a sports psychologist than PCA I can't think who it might be.  At times he's so intense it takes him out of his game and he appears to be developing the yips in CF.

[markedman5]

That has to be one of my favorite plays of the season!

PCA PCA!

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, Bulldogboy said:

If I'm Counsell you gotta bench him don't you? 

If he’s not going to bench him for acting like a piece of crap in the White Sox series he’s certainly not going to bench him for an error.

[Underachiever]

Just now, adambr2 said:

PCA is one of those guys that you only like him if he’s on your team. Like a Ryan Braun.

Lot of Cub fans are turning on him.

Did it look like he kind of jogged toward the ball after he missed it?

[LouisEly]

6 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

I have never been so happy!

DFA PCA 😇

His dWAR is really going to take a hit after that one.

 

[edfunderburk]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

If I'm Counsell you gotta bench him don't you? 

I want to hear Counsell’s postgame explanation of PCA’s lethargic errors in this important series 

[MadScientist]

Just now, adambr2 said:

PCA is one of those guys that you only like him if he’s on your team. Like a Ryan Braun.

I'm not so sure of that.  I don't think Cubs fans like him right now.

[82brewcrew82]

Just now, LouisEly said:

His dWAR is really going to take a hit after that one.

 

Yeah, but his dBAG just keeps climbing.

[HarryDoyle]

"You suck" broke PCA.

[yourout]

4 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

PCA is one of those guys that you only like him if he’s on your team. Like a Ryan Braun.

I don't think I could like him even then.

[Frisbee Slider]

6 minutes ago, homer said:

PCA might cry

I learned today that both of PCA’s parents are professional actors.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

Lot of Cub fans are turning on him.

Did it look like he kind of jogged toward the ball after he missed it?

I couldn’t tell in real time, I’d have to go back and look. My first thought when it got by was that Hamilton was going to score.

[liveforoctober]

They signed him long term. The memes he has given his haters in the last 96 hours are incredible.

[BarremlensTSSC]

2 hours ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

To also be fair, missing Koenig, not having Priester thus far, and having a sort of shell of Woodruff to start the year, plus seeing one of their other primary late inning leftys in Zerba blow out his elbow (likely another WBC casualty) on top of aforementioned issues with Chourio, Vaughn, and Yelich more than equal any injuries the Cubs have sustained thus far.

Cade Horton's injury could be seen 10 miles away coming into this year after how much he pitched for the Cubs last season compared to prior years.  Same song and dance for Steele tearing his elbow early last season after being ridden to hard in 2024.

To me, the reason the Brewers are better than the Cubs despite those long winning streaks in the W/L column is depth.  The Brewers, despite the low payroll compared to the Northsiders, have an unbelievable amount of depth in their organization.  The Cubs are taking an all hands on deck approach to their pitching staff after losing Horton and Steele having a setback - meanwhile the Brewers have also missed two of their 5 perceived opening day rotation options and still have the luxury of shuttling Crow and Gasser between AAA and Milwaukee to give their other young starters an extra day here and there to manage their workload so they're not as burned out down the stretch.

I think this is spot on.  And I agree that the Brewers injuries and the Cubs appear more or less equivalent over the course of the season, although I think the Brewers are healthier currently than the Cubs are.  But depth, and particularly pitching depth, is why the Brewers are in 1st place and are the  better team right now.

[edfunderburk]

Cubs Reddit is in full meltdown mode following the PCA blunder on Bunty’s unexpected line drive to CF

[HarryDoyle]

I can't stop watching this.

 

[82brewcrew82]

Anyone have the Cubs call of that?

[Underachiever]

[markedman5]

That’s the wrong guy to make that mistake on……Hamilton was flying!

[BarremlensTSSC]

3 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

Cubs Reddit is in full meltdown mode following the PCA blunder on Bunty’s unexpected line drive to CF

I mean,  I don't really blame  them for being besides themselves to some degree.  Between the throw out at 3B, the catchers interference and PCA's error for a LL Home Run, that inning was crazy and the sort that leaves the team on the receiving end wondering what the hell is going  on.

[wallus]

PCeh