Are you ready for some more thrilling National League baseball? OK, I know, NL baseball cannot be thrilling by its very nature because pitchers batting is not even real baseball. But it’s all we’ve got on this Friday night and as the Brewers and the Dodgers begin their NLCS, the angle for Birdland is that Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop are on opposite sides.
To the rest of the world, this is barely even a relevant storyline to mention. Schoop, unfortunately, has hardly even been playing for Milwaukee lately - not that he’s been playing well enough to deserve it, but he was an Oriole and we like him, so it’s still a strike against the Brewers that Schoop sits.