“All Praise to My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ”

[badinage]

We will never have to hear this again at the end of a Wizards game.

[Jay81]

Such a dumb thread. Delete

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[closg00]

Take it to a street corner with a bull horn

[daSwami]

We will never have to hear this again at the end of a Wizards game.

Is that what he was mumbling? Maybe I ought to give this Jesus Christ thing a go. Seems to have worked for Brad so far.

[DCZards]

Please lock/delete this thread mods.

[AFM]

Badinage going crazy?? LETS GO!!!!

[daSwami]

Mods, please don't lock this thread lest you re-awaken the Curse.

[montestewart]

I want people to be able to vent about the trade, but please try to be respectful. I’ll wait for Nate to weigh in, but I think discussions like this could go into the Beal trade thread. I’m fine with locking this thread.

[BEEFBROTHER]

Trade had to be made- Curse lifting moment

I'm atheist Thank God

[Halcyon]

I remember at least one time he forgot to say it, but he was consistent otherwise.

[Benjammin]

I don't see anything positive or constructive about this thread fwiw.

[badinage]

I don't see anything positive or constructive about this thread fwiw.

Perhaps not.

But venting is constructive, I think. It gets you — it gets some of us — to the next place.

This is fandom, right? Fandom is not about being rational. Fandom is about being emotional. Living and dying with a team. Caring about it more than we know we should. Vowing to give it up when that team, like this one, doesn’t love you back — yet being unable all the same to cut the cord.

This is a moment of hurt.

A moment of reckoning with the fact that I and many others placed too much hope and belief in a player. Invested too much. Cared too much.

It’s a feeling of being jilted.

There are positives here.

Among them: Getting rid of an albatross of a contract. Starting fresh with new management and a new approach. Having a lot of flexibility under the cap.

On a smaller level, not having to watch the bad body language anymore, not having to see the sulking on court and to the refs, not having to watch a guy lead without leading — these, too, are positives.

And for me (maybe not for others, but for me), and admittedly it is a small thing in the larger picture: but not having to experience his smugness and sanctimony — this, too, is a positive.

[montestewart]

I don't see anything positive or constructive about this thread fwiw.

Perhaps not.

But venting is constructive, I think. It gets you — it gets some of us — to the next place.

This is fandom, right? Fandom is not about being rational. Fandom is about being emotional. Living and dying with a team. Caring about it more than we know we should. Vowing to give it up when that team, like this one, doesn’t love you back — yet being unable all the same to cut the cord.

This is a moment of hurt.

A moment of reckoning with the fact that I and many others placed too much hope and belief in a player. Invested too much. Cared too much.

It’s a feeling of being jilted.

There are positives here.

Among them: Getting rid of an albatross of a contract. Starting fresh with new management and a new approach. Having a lot of flexibility under the cap.

On a smaller level, not having to watch the bad body language anymore, not having to see the sulking on court and to the refs, not having to watch a guy lead without leading — these, too, are positives.

And for me (maybe not for others, but for me), and admittedly it is a small thing in the larger picture: but not having to experience his smugness and sanctimony — this, too, is a positive.

Maybe change thread title to switch from the narrow focus of Beal’s religious preface to post-game comments to general venting over trade. Less provocative and more inclusive. The Official Beal trade venting thread, or similar.

[nate33]

I locked it. No need to attack Beal's faith.