Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Why I Love and HATE the Trade Deadline

For those of you following me on Twitter, you've seen all my anxiety tweets about losing Javy Lopez. But I did say at some point last week that if there had to be a move, this one would probably hurt me the least. Here are some of the reactions to this possible trade coming from Twitter:







(I just figured out how to "embed" tweets into my blog, welcome to blogging 101 rookie!)

We can step away from the sadness of potentially losing Javy for a moment and talk about some of the things I like about the trade deadline. Mostly, things get real interesting in a very short period of time with all the potential moves that start getting thrown out in the baseball universe and make everything more exciting, but only when it really has nothing to do with your team. Hearing things like Jake Peavy and Bud Norris both got scratched from their starts today were essentially the highlight of my day. All the anticipation building over where they will end up and what teams are going to benefit from these moves, it's all so exhilarating! It makes another Tuesday at work that would normally be brutal because you stayed up til 1AM playing Monopoly and drinking beer (this is a true story, feel free to make fun of me. I'm making fun of me!) so much more enjoyable! Until tweets like this come around:




So anticlimactic! But entertaining nontheless. I'm really interested to see what happens to Bud Norris. Random fact time: Bud Norris and I had Pre-Calculus together our first quarter at Cal Poly. Him and his buddy Adam always sat by me and my 2 friends and we had a good time chatting every day. I'm really excited to see him pitching in the Majors and I just think his potential is so limited in Houston, my completely obvious statement for the day. I heard Baltimore was the front runner for him earlier so hopefully he ends up in a good situation if he does get traded.

And then there's this whole Brian Wilson in Dodger Blue thing. As I said before, I'm now forced to root for him to fail. It's how I roll. I hate the Dodgers and I will never apologize for that. Him and Yasiel Puig will make quite the pair if you ask me!

With all that, I leave you all to enjoy the rest of this miserable/exciting anxiety filled 24 hours before the dust all settles and we can resume being normal, functioning humans again. A Giants victory would certainly help tonight! Otherwise, you can find me crying in the corner with "Coastin" on repeat until we know Javy's fate.

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