I admit it...

[PenFoe]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

At that point, people were being sarcastic, as I was, when I said I was butthurt about the Juan Cruz trade.

Ok, that's not true. I was actually butthurt and I still am.  

Are these actual people who said this trade was painful and sad, or is this like when SKO invents people with contrary viewpoints so he can argue with them?

[Eli]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

[SKO]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

Sterling's just trying to ease Andy's pain by ruining everything that was ever good about Luis, the Cubs, comedy, and America so that he won't be as sad about losing these things.

[Slaky]

I don't understand what's so hard about this.

[Tonker]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

REED FUCKING JOHNSON, BITCHES.

[PenFoe]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

REED FUCKING JOHNSON, BITCHES.

I'm still waiting for the Bobby Scales Xavier Nady Comeback Tour.

[SKO]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

REED FUCKING JOHNSON, BITCHES.

I'm still waiting for the Bobby Scales Xavier Nady Comeback Tour.

Long, long before y'all knew me I carried a torch for Julio Zuleta.














I still do, Zoo. I still do.

[ChuckD]

I don't understand what's so hard about this.

Seriously. How can you not like a guy who bat-flips a two-run single? This shit is not complicated.

[Quality Start Machine]

...I really don't understand Cubs fans' Valbuena fever.

Cheap guy who got on base and hit homers and played good defense WITH flair to boot. Yeah who needs that.

Yeah, I don't know what's so hard to understand about it.

There were fans upset that they traded Emilio Bonifacio and someone doesn't understand people being sad to see an actually good (albeit expendable) player go?

Hell, Apex was upset they traded Kevin Hart Juan Cruz.

Fixed.

But your point is valid.

No, I get he's a useful player.  But so is Fowler.  Calling this trade "painful" and "sad"?  That's what I don't get.  Painful and sad is when a pet dies, not when one useful player is traded for another one.  I don't think it hurts to lose Luis Valbuena.

If we're being super literal in explaining this, at some point two seasons ago Valbuena took on a sort of ironically-mythical persona led by (I think) Andy. Other people glommed onto it to some degree. Sort of like Hank White did a while back. Except Valbuena was actually good, but that's besides the point.

Everyone has their half-joking folk heroes. Apex had Kevin Hart Juan Cruz. I had Matt Murton. Andy had Valbuena. So it goes.

REED FUCKING JOHNSON, BITCHES.

I'm still waiting for the Bobby Scales Xavier Nady Comeback Tour.

Long, long before y'all knew me I carried a torch for Julio Zuleta.














I still do, Zoo. I still do.

I still think Bill Bonham can win 20 if he can keep his slider down.

[Wheezer]

... I internally conflated Tammy Baldwin with Tammy Duckworth until I finally became confused about the Wisconsin angle.

[Tonker]

... I knew before I clicked on this that I would have no idea.  Wheezer and the "I admit it" thread: the perfect storm of incomprehensible.

[Yeti]

... I knew before I clicked on this that I would have no idea.  Wheezer and the "I admit it" thread: the perfect storm of incomprehensible.

Well, this one actually makes sense. Both are politicians. Both first name Tammy. One is missing legs. The other is from Wisconsin

[Tonker]

... I knew before I clicked on this that I would have no idea.  Wheezer and the "I admit it" thread: the perfect storm of incomprehensible.

Well, this one actually makes sense. Both are politicians. Both first name Tammy. One is missing legs. The other is from Wisconsin

All his posts make sense.  He's probably the most rational, logical, cerebral person any of us knows.  They just don't make sense to me.

[CBStew]

... I knew before I clicked on this that I would have no idea.  Wheezer and the "I admit it" thread: the perfect storm of incomprehensible.

Well, this one actually makes sense. Both are politicians. Both first name Tammy. One is missing legs. The other is from Wisconsin

All his posts make sense.  He's probably the most rational, logical, cerebral person any of us knows.  They just don't make sense to me.

I get worried when Wheezer's posts make perfect sense to me.

[Quality Start Machine]

SKO's Bryant pic creeps me the fuck out.