As the sports world continues its Foundationsesque 2007 pattern of building me up just to let me down, I’m going to continue in my happy world of denial by presenting the Complete Home Run List For Players Primarily Known As Bubba:

• Bubba Trammell, 82
• Bubba Phillips, 62
• Bubba Morton, 14
• Bubba Crosby, 4
• Bubba Carpenter, 3
• Bubba Church, 3
• Bubba Floyd, 0
• Bubba Harris, 0

HAIL KING BUBBA!! (image courtesy of beisbolprofesional.net)

(It should be noted for posterity’s sake that Mssrs. Church and Harris were pitchers; Bubba Church is the All-Time Winningest Bubba, with 36 career wins. Harris had six.)

What inspired this bit of escapist lunacy? Bubba Trammell’s 36th birthday (which I actually missed by about half an hour, but what can you do?). Happy Birthday, King Bubba.

This post is wholehearted sponsored by Earth Chief Bubba!!  Or it would be, if I knew how to ask him.  I’m sure of it.  Pretty sure. (image courtesy of news.cornell.edu)

Things’re gonna turn around one of these days.