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Originally Posted by mdchiefsfan
 Is there something I am missing here. Like a background to this Jim Johnson stuff? I saw this in the game threads too. My roommate and I have one for a Royals player actually.
Billy Butler, he hit Brad Bergesen with a liner up the middle a few years back. He was our best pitcher at the time and looked to have real potential. He was out the rest of the year after that. Bergesen came back, well the shell of Bergesen came back the following year. I haven't seen him since that fateful day that he was hit by a batted ball.
So to this day, we refer to him as God Damn-Billy Butler. |
It stems from ChiefsandOs fan saying earlier this year that Johnson was an elite closer on par with Rivera, Kimbrel etc. and clearly better than Greg Holland.
Antagonism with O's fans goes back farther than that, though...
It's really started based on stuff that happened over the offseason, when Orioles fans were making stupid trade offers (on this board and especially on others) about Billy Butler and Wil Myers.
At one point, someone was trying to peddle Arrieta OR Matusz (not both, just one), Xavier Avery, Pedro Strop for Butler.