...but the constant trade rumors are annoying.  It seems to me that any press corps has a sort of "sewing circle" element to it, no matter how hard they try to convince us that they're professionals.  This sewing circle will harp on rumors about people they've never met, on teams they no little or nothing about for the sole pupose of perpetuating a story or character that has been developed by the very same press corps.  Manny Ramirez is a prime example...a fantastic hitter who has been labelled "ghetto" and a "a space case" in no uncertain terms and has never won an MVP award despite having some of the most incredible stats of our time.  Now Tejada has had his own story developed for him by the bards of the game...that he is unhappy on our crappy team and always 10 seconds away from being traded.  Now don't get me wrong, the sports press is like any other profession, you have good writers, bad writers and a whole lot of mediocrity in between.  But in a profession where someone with the talent level of Peter Schmuck has lifelong tenure, it's good to take the musings of the press with an enormous grain of salt.

Tejada has said he's fine staying. The O's have said they want to keep him. So where's the fire to go with the smoke? The O's aren't going to trade Tejada for pennies on the dollar (I hope) and that seems like what other teams are offering, so there won't be a deal. The constant rumors are because Tejada is arguably the biggest name out there that has even a chance of going anywhere, even if its only a 1% chance.

Is a downer on this club. He's not the role modle this team needs, if you're going younger then you need a guy who runs out balls, shows up on time and plays with fire in his heart. This was Miggy, but not anymore and too say it's because he's mad and tired of losing well miggy did you do all you can? Stop bitch and start working the kids.