Willson Contreras and the Milwaukee Brewers are the newest sports beef. They do not like each other. Part of the issue is that the Milwaukee Brewers keep pitching Contreras inside. Now since the Cubs catcher crowds the plate, he gets hit often. Last year, Contreras was tied for second in hit batsman for right-handers. This is likely due to him crowding the plate, not a vendetta against him. But the Cubs catcher thinks the Brewers are out to get him and due to hitting Brandon Woodruff plus the Cubs’ social media team, multiple people think this way too. After Contreras slugged a go-ahead home run, he told the media after the game that the plan was to hit Woodruff.

“That probably was a mistake by us. Trying to hit the pitcher. I don’t think he’s the right guy to do it…

I think if you wanna hit somebody, it will have to be a position player.”#Brewers + #Cubs = Rivalry #FTC pic.twitter.com/UowSjI89gG

— BREW MATHs (@BREW_MATHs) April 14, 2021

Here’s the thing, I have no problem with what Contreras did around the basepaths. He can showboat. He can bat flip. It is something with baseball that I would like to see more of honestly. My problem is the fact he bitched and moaned about the Brewers for the last two weeks about getting hit. If you’re gonna showboat and talk shit, you have to be ready to face some of the consequences. But even so, the Brewers were not hitting him intentionally because of showboating. He just is too close to the inner part of the plate.

There is no reason why Contreras should play based on this quote. If Nick Castellanos got suspended for two games for an altercation, that should be around the same for the Cubs’ catcher.

Charlie.