Jason Ross

The thought of 2am Denny's now a days gives me heartburn no Tums could control.

I have cats. I only get to hug those idiots on their terms. (Those terms are always at 2am, when I am dead asleep and they think it's breakfast time. It is, in fact, not breakfast time at 2am. Ever.)

Ya'll know me real well. I rarely get frustrated, if ever, at baseball. I enjoy to get excited, and stow away the anger and the negative feelings. It's just so rarely worth them. But tonight? Tonight I am frustrated.

That is straight up an amazing PA by Kelly.

1-1 fastball over the plate. Hard to blame a hitter there. Nico was going to get another chance.

Babip, that.

I like it better when the other team watches clear strikes for strike three.

The Brewers pitch Aaron Ashby every game, we have Civale who pitches every inning.

Ashby is a goober. Get him Pete.

You don't have to have an entire bullpen of guys who have to pitch every night, but the Cubs pen is in a weird place where you can only hop so many landmines at once. And I say this as someone who's been pro-Miller. 1. He got bombed on his second go of a back-to-back and he barely pitched the first game (one hitter). 2. If you need to pussyfoot around Miller's usage, it helps if you have a bullpen you trust. It's pretty hard to avoid Miller on back to backs, while also avoid Caleb Thielbar or Trent Thonrton outside of curated spots, while also having three longmen who aren't really leverage arms, while also figuring out when to throw Zef and Palencia... It's a quagmire and right now, it's probably best to give Miller a few more days while you hope a few of these guys right the ship before you bring up Steele and Miller who will add in a lot of other usage questions.

I can live with 40 pitches through two innings.

Effectively 0-0. If Peterson can match Miz, that's a pretty good outcome.

Ugh. Two well hit balls, but two balls that just found a way down, too.