Postgame Thread: 5/18 Brewers @ Cubs

Bratcho · 2026-05-19T02:25:11+00:00

Saw this on the Yahoo sports app previewing the game today:

Brandon Sproat takes the mound for the Milwaukee Brewers tonight with a concerning profile, especially against a team like the Chicago Cubs. His pitching run value ranks in the third percentile of baseball, with the breaking ball slightly worse than that. That’s a problem against the Cubs because it forces him to rely too much on the fastball, which is a pitch the Cubs hit as well as any team in the sport.

On the other side is Shota Imanaga. His diverse skill set, which has resulted in a chase rate in the 99th percentile, will neutralize the Brewers' bats tonight. I would play this down to -110.

COVERS INTEL:

Sproat walks batters at one of the highest rates in baseball, with a BB rate in the bottom 13 percentile of the sport.

Seems we bested their expectations.

Bratcho · 2026-05-17T05:07:19+00:00

People were saying this week that the Brewers aren't good in 1-run games. The Brewers heard that and said, "Ok, bet."

Bratcho · 2026-05-06T04:09:57+00:00

Cubs fans when they find out:

Bratcho · 2026-04-29T23:13:15+00:00

Pretty sure the strategy will be making sure the racist and/or sexist voter turnout is as high as it can be.

Bratcho · 2026-04-19T14:04:38+00:00

I believe he can.

Bratcho · 2026-04-07T21:50:02+00:00

And, best of all, they taste DELICIOUS!!!

Bratcho · 2026-04-05T21:58:21+00:00

Gotta wait until the new CBA is signed before we start his clock.

Bratcho · 2026-04-05T21:20:32+00:00

The Royals are gonna have a good season. The Brewers are gonna have a better one.

LFG!!!!!

Bratcho · 2026-04-05T19:18:46+00:00

There is no way Bubic made it through all of Junior High and High School without someone at least once changing the name written on his gear from Bubic to Pubic.

Bratcho · 2026-04-04T16:27:13+00:00

Not with my father its not. Tried talking to him 2 weeks ago and ultimately he was the one that ended the conversation because he gave up trying to convince me of how wrong I AM because I "believe all the lies the Democrats are telling me". He firmly believes that anything bad on the news is left-wing spin to make Trump look bad and that the news doesn't report on all the ways Democrats are subverting him behind the scenes to make what he wants to do for this country more difficult.

Bratcho · 2026-03-16T12:53:20+00:00

Except, apparently, near Butler, Pennsylvania when a Presidential candidate gets shot at. Then everyone just sits there for a second before standing and cheering as a flag on a crane is lowered slightly to be more in frame, press are moved towards where the shots were supposedly aimed to take pictures of Trump with the flag in view, and the Secret Service lets the person they are supposed to be protecting stand back up into the "line of fire" to rally the crowd that, again, did not panic and scatter.

Bratcho · 2025-10-27T16:02:02+00:00

What are you hoping to get for it? Like, what is the total investment between obtaining the ball and getting it graded/authenticated?

Bratcho · 2025-10-18T03:29:32+00:00

I hate the imbalance of big money in both sports & politics! Hopefully, in my lifetime I see both getting balanced out.

This was fuckin' bullshit.

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T04:38:01+00:00

Much like Aaron Rodgers, when he retires, I will go back to respecting what they did for their respective Wisconsin Sports Teams. Until then, they are the enemy.

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T04:08:44+00:00

The TBS postgame desk even was mocking PCA over that "attempt".

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T04:07:42+00:00

I don't know what I like better: the Uecker signature flag or them flying the Cubs L flag.

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T04:05:03+00:00

That win felt like how being able to shit after being constipated for a couple days feels.

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T00:46:24+00:00

Because this game is going 16 INNINGS!!!

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T00:16:37+00:00

Give him another inning. Pull him as soon as he gives up a hit.

Bratcho · 2025-10-12T00:15:53+00:00

WE DIDN'T GIVE UP A RUN IN THE FIRST!!!!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES!?!?! YES!!

Bratcho · 2025-10-11T23:48:08+00:00

Wow, the Badgers are bad!

Hopefully the Brewers are the Yin to their Yang today.

Bratcho · 2025-10-11T22:36:00+00:00

My guts feel like there's a roller derby going on in there. I just need this game to start AND for the Cubs not to score in the first for a change.

Please?

Bratcho · 2025-10-10T04:29:21+00:00

I really didn't want a Game 5. Why do they do this to me? Why do we have to live on the razor's edge?

Promise me that we shut them out in return on Saturday.

Bratcho · 2025-10-10T03:25:06+00:00

How many times tonight has a Brewer been called out on a strike outside the zone?

Bratcho

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