I was venting after sitting through four hours of that overly-dragged-out spectacle, just to see him follow up trading with the perennial team-to-beat by not even giving us one shiny new thing to be happy about. Obviously, it shouldn't (and clearly didn't) actually factor into his decisions. Still, somebody in the war room, even Beane himself, had to acknowledge that fans were really going to hate him after that (for the night, anyway.)
Now, we (fans) get to see what he does with it. The results, which won't be seen for a while, are all that really matter. In the moment, at 12-something in the morning, it was a hard pill to swallow.