Fear The Chorizo

Gotta cut that off as a single - play right in front of you and youre out by a mile

I will always equate him to be the target for those spoof reels of baseball showcase bros - his onfield antics and demeanor are that of a spoiled kid

Huge scoreless inning there!

Agreed - limiting your offense a bit last 3 at bats on an offensive night seems like a risk if the Cubs keep chipping away

This is a huge inning to try to get through without the Cubs making this a tighter ballgame

That a way to keep a really crooked lead headed to the 6th...keep scoring, please

Im probably too optimistic....but i see Sproat leaning more on that sinker as the summer shows up and the season wears on and turn into a 6+ inning pitcher every turn - like Priester last year. Stuff is more than there - kid just needs to keep building

Corners are now middle middle amd misses are way out of the zone - command is gone.

Gotta get the pen going if it isnt already - also gotta get back in the zone Its like once it gets to pitch 65 in a game Sproat falls apart

This is the perfect way to remind cub fans who havent seen their team lose a game at wrigley in a very long time, and have already had two 10 game winning streaks in the first ~60 days of the season that their team still has a daddy in this division.

Baseball is fun!

Benefit of a low strike 3 call...but that last AB was pure filth out of Sproat with a heater with run, change, and hammer curve. He is settling in quite nicely into the rotation despite a few too many walks for my liking, still.

It's because demand for those products remains high globally, and will continue to do so. The fact the US is once again a large producer of oil & natural gas helps our broader economy weather these storms because O&G sectors reap the benefits of global price increases. That doesn't mean refined products wind up being cheaper stateside, so that does hurt US consumers in the short term. If gas prices get to a point where they themselves crater demand and the ongoing supply concerns with Hormuz aren't yet solved, then the market will be effected. If the supply strain in Hormuz gets figured out before demand craters, expect to see a gradual dip in gas prices despite it being summer over the next few months - when markets then realize there's alot more stability in the global oil markets due to events with Venezuela and the middle east over the past year, $60-$70/barrel of oil will be baked into the global economy despite continued demand increases from predominantly Asian markets and we'll return to $2-$2.75/gallon gas in most states that don't tax the living hell out of it, or are on the verge of intentionally restricting access to it in the next few years. CA seeing its refining capacity diminishing is going to really punish the west coast in the next few years at the pumps regardless of what the price of oil globally drops to. Markets and people's pocketbooks are two totally different things. Unless you're within a couple years from retirement and need to cash out your investments not far off their present value near all-time market highs, stay the course and keep on with the DCA approach. There's gonna be some continued volatility until things stabilize with Iran (not necessarily regime/conflict, but steady flow of oil through the Strait), but I don't think we're going to see an actual "correction" - which at present would be a market dip back below 40K. I posted two months ago when you were nervous about a huge downturn "soon" that March and part of April would likely be rough before the market would bounce back - there isn't yet oil supply stability in the Middle East and the markets did exactly that.

The Brewers are doing Brewer things - which leads to sustained winning baseball. Getting Chourio back is huge to improving the early season OF offense issues, and hopefully Yelich stays healthy. At some point 3b/SS offensive weakness at the MLB level needs to be addressed if this team is serious about a postseason run - whether that's promotions from within or a deadline trade, it needs to happen. Pitching-wise, you gotta hope Priester rounds into form and can be the innings-eater a deep but young rotation needs when we get to the dog days of summer - otherwise they're going to wear down. Woodruff, who knows? Love that Harrison and Sproat have rounded into consistent rotation pieces already. Sproat still has command issues, but you have to keep giving that arm the ball every turn through the rotation.

Logic doesn't necessarily work with pitchers - some are more injury prone than others...but genetic freaks can defy all common sense and odds. Randy Johnson, a tall, lanky lefty with a funky, violent delivery and sidearm release, pitched 22 years in the majors and only had a partially torn rotator cuff late in his career - which was caused by a swing while hitting. His major injuries were back and knee-related. I just think the risk of paying top end rates for the most dominant pitchers is too great knowing how difficult it is to predict if and when an arm blows out.

The Brewers have no business extending a high end pitcher at market rates a few years beyond free agency - maybe if Miz is ok with 1-2 years beyond his current UFA year at $35M per with escalating amounts in what would be his arbitration years, but I doubt his agent would advise for that. We were sad to see Burnes walk, and he promptly blew out his elbow. The Tigers are paying Skubal ~$30M this season to rehab after a minor elbow surgery and miss most of his last year with the team. The Peralta deal was perfect for the Brewers, but i think it wouldn't make sense for Miz at this juncture even if the extension amount was dramatically higher. Call me a cynic, but I just don't see the point of giving any current MLB talent a longterm extension during this season, knowing there's a darn good chance there may not even be a 2027 season and the financial playing field may be dramatically different whenever the incoming lockout/strike ends. Offering impact prospects long term extensions makes alot more sense to me with the upcoming labor strife - giving them some financial certainty through this storm that could impact the first few years of their pre-arbitration team control (and in turn push their free agent years back longer than normal) seems like the smarter play longterm for the organization. Truth is that teams can field quality pitching staffs without having to shell out massive veteran contracts - the Brewers have proven that, and I think the injury risk is too high for any impact arm to pay them huge $$$ to spend large chunks of time on the IL.

Really good 2 strike approach ties the game

Didnt cost him...but yeah you gotta challenge that

Gasser and Priester are going to be options, too.

That is incorrect when it comes to solar panels, unless you want to spend a lot of dirty energy in a heavy industrial setting pulling the layers apart that make up a panel in an attempt to recover those materials. Currently the cost to recycle a panel outweighs the value of all the recovered materials roughly 2x1. Most of a wind turbine can be recycled besides the mountain of concrete dumped into the ground to hold each one up, however fiberglass blades are a problem unless you are ok with using roughly the same amount of energy using fossil fuels to break them down and repurpose the material they would have generated during their operating lifetime. Thats why there are growing windfarm boneyards of blades piling up wherever theres a big plot of flat land to stockpile them. I work with renewable developers often for work, and its a huge concern for them that isnt a recent epiphany. Reusing old solar panels for other applications may be viable in some cases, but not nearly all. Li battery storage is a great option for renewables....as long as you dont worry about what it takes to process Li in the environmental risk assessment globally. I'm about through with a chicken little argument about the world burning up because of a compound that we breathe out and plants need to live. Not when more than half of the developing world's manufacturing industries operate like the United States did 125 years ago in terms of emissions controls, so people in the United States can buy all the stuff they make and feel good about reducing their carbon footprint much more than they actually are by not factoring how much of their impact has simply been shifted overseas. Its NIMBY mentality, but unfortunately the entire planet should be viewed as our backyard and it isnt.

....can we have a stretch of games at some point where it doesn't come down to Joey O knocking in runs? Please Brewers? This is a pretty putrid stretch of offense this last week - get some damn bats in the lineup

Send Rengifo packing with these atrocious city connect uniforms that have an abbreviation for the state with him. Have Perkins help him pack and Ortiz drive the trio far enough away where they aren't playing in Milwaukee tomorrow.

I'm done with lineups that have all of Rengifo, Ortiz, Perkins, and Lockridge in them. These guys play four positions in the field that are generally viewed as spots you can get plus offensive pruduction from. Chourio and Vaughn are sorely missed. And yeah, Perkins cant stay on this roster

That would make the most sense if they want to continue using the space for solar - the old panels would likely get landfilled. The aluminum racking would be the only thing recycled or re-used. Its the panels that are full of layered metals and silica that carry the potential for leaching contaminants once they are destroyed/broken apart and placed in landfills. At the moment, recycling solar panels isnt viable - im hopeful technology changes that, otherwise it's a mess for that industry in 10-15 years. Much of the racking on developments may not be set in concrete if geotech allows for it, and they are simply driven in - particularly if farmland may be returning to that use after the 1st solar farm lease expires.

Hydro is economically viable on its own and has demonstrated reliability to produce renewable energy - but its reach is limited due to impacts to watersheds. New Hydro developments are few and far between because of that. Solar and wind are simply not economically viable to the scale they would need to be developed in order to be considered "mass produced" in my opinion. They've gotten closer, but still not there - and both of those options havent yet begun dealing with end of cycle decommissioning costs on a large scale when the panels stop being efficient and wind turbines reach their operating lifespan. Unless people are fine with still calling them green when most of the elements of decommissioned wind and solar farms get tossed into landfills and replacing with new panels/components requires more materials mining and manufacturing. I dont consider nuclear /fission "green"because of the waste it does generate that is a headache to deal with...but i do think its the longterm solution to cleaner energy from a generating capacity standpoint, and think the world did itself a disservice turning away from more nuclear development for power over the past few decades. Hydrogen as a fuel is the holy grail, but we're not close to that even being a longterm goal.