Good times on the internet.

MLBtraderumors.com is usually a great place to get your daily intake of bullshit. A few days ago, Justice wrote something about how Wigginton and Valverde were likely to be traded. From the comments section, tomahawk368 writes:

It must not be a whole lot of fun to be an Astros fan. Your GM keeps trading away all your good players. The most obvious problem with the Astros is the pen. So instead of trading one of your many great hitters for some 7th ant 8th inning help, you trade your closer. Good luck Astros fans.

What?

It must not be a whole lot of fun to be an Astros fan.

Nope. Haven't made the playoffs since 2005. Our farm system is the worst in the league. And Drayton isn't going to spend like the Yankees or Red Sox or Cubs to make us really competitive. So Ed Wade will have to cobble together something.

Your GM keeps trading away all your good players.

Ummm.... no. Ed Wade has, in his time here, mostly just traded away what little we had in the farm system for Tejada. His one trade involving a star player was Lidge. I wouldn't consider that "trading away all (our) good players."

The most obvious problem with the Astros is the pen. So instead of trading one of your many great hitters for some 7th ant 8th inning help, you trade your closer.

What? The Stros' bullpen was their strongest part. Ed Wade constructed an outstanding corps or relievers out of Valverde, Brocail, castoffs from other clubs, and the dregs of the Astros' minor league pitching system. For relatively little, the Astros had one of the best bullpens last season.

And since when did the Astros have "many great hitters"? This isn't 2001, you know. We don't have a strong farm system churning out great middle relievers and journeyman hitters. We've got a system that has shat out Hunter Pence and nothing else. Outside of Carlos Lee, Lance Berkman, and Ty Wigginton, the Astros didn't have a good offense last season.

Seriously, it's amazing that this dude hasn't killed himself yet. The world is an astoundingly dangerous place, and one would expect someone that stupid to have, by now, choked on a corkscrew or something.