What Sucks? This: Stroman Tears ACL. Out for Season 2015


News broke this afternoon that something shitty happened that AA was going to announce. And boy, was he not wrong. Marcus Stroman, Sunshine of Our Lives, tore his ACL doing a bunting drill and will be out for all of 2015. All of it.

And now everything is terrible.

Twitter did its thing.



Ugh. Boy was tweeting about going out to dinner with the one he calls "Papa Buehrle" last night. Apparently Buehrle failed to do whatever voodoo on Stroman that keeps Buehrle himself off the DL year after year.




Bunting. It had to be bunting. This, by the way, was going to be the Donaldson reference on the blog today.



Wilner tweeted it earlier. Rolen is up there as one of my favourite Jays ever. I don't even know why Rolen is in camp, I would like to imagine he thought it would make me happy. I appreciate the effort Scott, but I should know better than to expect baseball to make me happy.


 I had hopes that the news of a bad news announcement was going to be something like this:

My initial reaction to the news was this:


Not because I think pitchers shouldn't be practicing bunt fielding, but rather I just want to do away with bunting. Forever. That and the Wave. And the Red Sox.


Right? The news is rough because not only is Stroman a major part of the rotation, but the kid is right on the cusp of being something great.


Cespedes Family BBQ agrees


Stroman himself tweeted about the news.


And several in the media tweeted quotes from Sanchez and Norris, about how sick and sad it made them.


This dude wins idiot tweet of afternoon.
HAVE YOU EVER ACTUALLY WATCHED BASEBALL?


 Sympathy from a White Sox fan (and Buehrle aficionado.


Sympathy from a Yankee fan (who I like even though she's a Yankee fan)



This is the point people started to move out of the anger part of grief, and more into a combo of bargaining and denial.



God bless Drew Fairservice.
Or not.

Gibby the best.


And that's basically what it comes down to. Someone needs to step it up. Norris and Sanchez (who I think know can safely be considered a part of the starting rotation) need to fill in. Luckily, they have the talent to do so. But this sucks. Hard.



So pull yourselves together.