When The Wife last year agreed to let me blog for 24-hours straight leading up to the Trade Deadline, she was making something of a sacrifice.
You see, her birthday is July 30.
So, while I was obsessively opening and closing tabs, reading Tweets, writing posts, and tearing my hair out, she was turning 29. I think I might have gotten her a cake that she probably ate by herself.
Sorry about that, dear.
Once again, here it is, her birthday – it’s a big one this year – and I’m holed up in the office pecking away at a keyboard while she takes care of the Little Girl. While I can’t rightly neglect my duties here, I can use this platform to share just how much I appreciate her partnership, her support, and her love. For so many reasons, I am lucky.
Without her support, I couldn’t be doing what I do here at BN, let alone a 30-hour Blogathon over her birthday. She’s as important to the existence of BN as I am, or as any of you are. I consider her the sole member of the Board of Directors of BN. So, I reckon she deserves a thanks not only from me, but also from anyone who likes this community we’ve created on the back of her flexibility (that didn’t sound right).
Happy Birthday, Wife. You are the best, and we all appreciate it. Maybe next year MLB will move the Trading Deadline to mid-August.
(If you haven’t figured it out already, this is your birthday card, which I didn’t have time to go get. Best. Husband. Ever.)
Happy b-day Brett’s wife. 30 sucks, you were better off celebrating still being 29 before you actually turned 30. When I turned 30 my wife threw me a surprise b-day party on my actual b-day, only problem was I decided to send 29 off with a bang the night before and was so hung over my party was a bust. No Regrets.
Happy Birthday Mrs.Taylor
Justin Germano – One Start, One Win
Chirs Volstade – 5+ Starts, Zero Wins
I despise Volstad. I’m not even sure if that’s how you spell it, but I dislike him so much that I really don’t care.
How do you feel about Barney the purple dinosaur?
Happy Birthday, Brett’s Wife, Now you know that the secret to not go beyond 30 is to count backwards. Next year you”ll be 29.
Reed Johnson leaving the game!!!!
Reed coming out! Trade time!
Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat
Reed Johnson shaking hands with players in #Cubs dugout.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Taylor! You are a real trooper putting up with Brett for our benefit. Brett, you should consider putting a donate button on this post for us to chip in something nice to thank her for being such a good sport.
reed and dempster to the giants for prospects
Source?
Happy birthday to ms bleacher nation! This was my 3rd year of celabrating my 25th birthday!
Thanks for everything Reed! Go get yourself to the playoffs!
Im assuming Reed Johnson for Dylan Bundy until I hear otherwise
funny
Positive thinking. I like it.
Reed has been a teriffic player. definitely a classy guy. we all love you reed
A Reed Johnson Trade ?
Bring up Sapplet.
Umm Jed, you do know the Cubs have 0% chance of making the playoffs and we have about 10 tradeable players on our roster including the era leader? Ummm Kay, thanks. This is worse than Hendry
really dude?
reed johnson classy guy now there’s a guy i will miss. hope dumpster goes with him.
we finally have a ball player RIZZO
Congrats to your Wife Brett, can I capitalize wife since I don’t know her name? Also if she’s turning 30 I hope she’s taking it well, my wife’s bday is in 4 days and she’s about to be 30. She’s been kind of depressed about it, maybe its the 6 month pregnancy hormones kicking in. My wife btw doesn’t really care about baseball but I’ve been obsessing so much the last month over trades she asked me “hey what happened to Ryan Dempster trade thing?”. I was like ugh it’s not over yet.
A buddy of mine took a tour of Wrigley,said Reed had a pix of Ty Cobb in his locker. Will miss one of my fav Cubs
What is going on? I’m twitter and facebookless.
Theo and Jed are getting ready to drop a bunch of hammers and they don’t want them leaked.
Kinda disappointed, lot less rumors and posts during the blogathon then i thought there was going to be. pretty slow day, hopefully the cubs got a lot going on but are being tight lipped
Happy Birthday Mrs Taylor. Brett is a very lucky man to have such a great wife. The Cubs just scored 9 runs in the 5th inning for your birthday present. The Cubs never scored 9 runs on my birthday. (That might be because my birthday is in December). I hope you have a very happy birthday Mrs. Taylor
It’s pretty obvious after the Dempster-for-Delgado fiasco that leaking trades to the media too soon can negate the trade. That leak obviously came from the Braves organization, not from ours.
Maybe you could find a way to let contributors and members here get more involved, you know, making their posts and comments more prominent on the website so you’re not the only one doing the boatloads of work. Just my two cents. I sympathize with you for putting yourself through this 30 hour mayhem, and hope the results are fruitful. But really, spend time with your wife, a little bit. Appreciate her and everything she does with what time you have.
And wish her a happy birthday from all of us at BN.
Happy Birthday to Wife Taylor!!!!
If she were turning 40 instead of 30, we could safely assume that her name is Jennifer.
Thanx The Wife for supporting BN!
….and happy birthday of course! Looks like Garza and Soto were also born in 1983… neat huh?
So, Kapman mentions that Garza is in play after clean MRI in the same tweet as the Johnson trade? Hmmm…..
Happy birthday, Missus Ace!
Thanks for being so understanding, Mrs Ace, and Happy Birthday.