Quiz: Does Your Bullpen Suck?

Bullpens can be a very delicate issues. Relievers come and go and have good and bad seasons. That's why it's always smart to never sign a reliever to a contract longer than two years. They're way too unpredictable. Take Jeremy Affeldt for instance. Affeldt was so good in 2009, he was given an MVP vote. Yes I wish I was joking. Affeldt since 2009 has stunk up the place and blew the lead last Sunday.

That's the nature of the beast that comes with a reliever and bullpen. Unless your name is Mariano Rivera, relievers usually have a couple of great years followed by years wondering what happened? Why did a certain relievers career go from great to mediocre. It's a mystery that Sherlock Holmes can't even solve.

So in honor of Down Goes Brown, here's a quiz to determine if your bullpen sucks or not.

When a certain reliever enters the game, what feeling do you get? 
A. A sense of doom
B. A sense of feeling sick all of a sudden
C. A sense of anger
D. A sense of depression

When a reliever blows a lead, what feeling do you get?
A. You laugh because you knew it was going to happen.
B. You cry because you know your season hinges on how well your bullpen preforms.
C. You curse your manager's name in vain.
D. You start drinking hard alcohol and wait for your football team to depress you even more.

What would you like seen done with your bullpen? 
A. Would love to see a new closer
B. Wish your team would fire the manager regardless of how well the bullpen preforms.
C. Wonder aloud why your manager uses certain relievers and not others.
D. Wish the entire bullpen would disappear and never return.

When Jonathon Papelbon or Francisco Rodriguez enter the game, what feeling do you get? 
A. You're glad they're not your closers
B. Hope they fail
C. You just laugh because you know your closer is better than both of those guys.
D. Become bitter because they're still better than the shit you have in your pen.

Do you wish a bullpen even existed? 
A. Sometimes
B. Yes, but I wish we had different relievers.
C. Yes, but I wish our manager would use a certain reliever in certain innings.
D. I haven't wished bullpens existed since Albert Pujols hit a home run off of Brad Lidge that landed on Pluto.

If you answered all these questions, you're a fan of 
A. Braves or Cardinals- Who's bullpens are alright, but they have closer problems.
B. Athletics- A's fans are bitter about everything, but more so right now over their reliever problems.
C. Giants- The bullpen doesn't necessarily suck, but I've seen all these reactions over at McCovey Chronicles. Then again, people over at MCC are a little high strong.
D. Astros- When your bullpen sucks as badly as the Astros bullpen, you would forward to football season as well.