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July 21, 2009

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What's up, doc?

When you have the best player in the game, never trade him.

streisand oneal

Do whatever possible to keep the player in your roster and you will sell tickets, because fans will want to see said best player play.

Even if it means shoving all the profits from your ridiculous iPhone sales -- not to mention the bank-draining data packages and carrier contracts -- to the team in order to keep the best player in baseball playing in your self-named ball park. Do it.

When you're in a league where salary cap doesn't really matter, and you've got all that iPhone and data money, spend it. Even though the world around you is recessing slowly-but-surely into global welfare, spend like it's 1999. Spend like you're George Steinbrenner. Especially when you're coming to the end of a 5-year rebuilding cycle, and you still have the best player in baseball who doesn't want to go through another rebuilding cycle...

This chance comes once in a half-century or so...that you actually draft and develop the best player in baseball. The best player needs to take that next step, to pitch in the playoffs. Make that happen for him. Not by trading him, by buying everyone available.

Oh screw it, here's the deal:

Roy Halladay is the best player the Toronto Blue Jays have ever had. The City of Toronto hasn't had a winning sports team since 1993 (with apologies to the Argonauts, but who are we kidding?) If the Blue Jays trade Doc for a bunch of up-and-comers to help them with their next rebuilding cycle, then the attendance at the Skydome (ahem) will fall even further than it's fallen since 1993. There will be no point. Unless the ownership calls it like it is and sells tickets for $5 flat as the Blue Jays become the Washington Generals of baseball, hosting every team that will be better than them, admitting that our home team is just a little exhibition stop for the real teams in the league...

Why would trading Halladay be a good thing? So that in another 5 years when one of those prospects becomes one of the best players in baseball, and HE wants to play in the playoffs, they trade HIM too for more prospects because the Jays are still no closer to the wild card...??

Stop the cycle. Keep Halladay. Or trade him and just fold the tents. Because fans will not show up if there isn't a hope in Hades of the Jays being a winning team. And don't blame the uneven schedule or playing in the same division as the Yanks and the Sox or the injuries... there's only one way to win in baseball and you're either a spender, or you're an exhibition team.

That is all.

Thanks and good luck.

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