MLB Trade Deadline

So yesterday was supposed to be one of the more exciting days on the Major League Baseball calendar- the non-waiver trade deadline day. This year was shaping up to be a year to remember with many big time names getting tossed around and the hope of some major deals taking place.

Unfortunately for baseball fans yesterday's trade deadline was about as exciting as this year's Canadian Idol competition.

Perhaps most frustrating for this baseball fan was the fact that the Toronto Blue Jays sat around and did absolutely nothing. You're in the middle of a playoff race, with a legit shot at a playoff spot; you've just lost 5 of your last 7 ball games on the west coast and you have two huge series coming up right after the deadline against the Yankees and White Sox. So how do you give your team a much needed boost for the final two months of the season? You do nothing.

You do nothing to address your obvious need for bullpen help. You do nothing to address your obvious need for middle infield help. You do nothing to combat the great moves the Yankees made.

I had high hopes for this Jays team at the start of the year and it is very disappointing to see them come this far and not do anything to strengthen a couple of weaknesses. The players were available to plug the holes- almost every team that needed bullpen help was able to get it and almost every team that needed middle infield help was able to get it.

This Blue Jay fan thought the whole purpose to opening up the wallet to add players like Glaus, Burnett, Ryan and Molina was so that they could win now. Not five years from now. So why hold on to guys like McGowan and Accardo when they're clearly not going to help you win this year, next year or possibly even the year after that?

If I'm the veteran guys on that team I feel extremely let down by JP Ricciardi's inability to give them the last couple pieces needed to really make a run at this thing. These guys have played hard all year long and the GM owed it to them to do whatever it took to get that one, two, three or however many guys needed to put them over the top.

You can say all you want about some of the other team's who did nothing at the trade deadline but in my opinion the Jays are the biggest losers because one or two trades could have been the difference between a long post-season run and another off-season of second-guessing and finger-pointing.

On another note- did my eyes deceive me or did I read yesterday that the Red Wings have brought back Domink Hasek . . . AGAIN!!!!!!! Is it too late for me to start cheering for the Leafs? Absolutely brutal signing. I'd rather see a youth movement in Motown then to see this waste of space wearing the red and white again. First Yzerman retires, than Shanny signs with the Rangers and now Ken Holland brings back the Dumbinator. Bad times for us Red Wings fans.