Build me a better supporting cast or I'm out of here!

Alright, I love sports and I love trades, but athletes are starting a trend that I'm not happy with. Demanding trades.

Guess what, Miguel Tejada? When you left a contending Oakland team to sign with shitty Baltimore, you should have known you weren't going to be on a great team. When the Orioles have to give you a large percentage of its payroll to get you, it's going to be harder to get a good supporting cast around you.

When you sign a contract to play with a team, you need to not be an ass and stir up the clubhouse by demanding a trade. Tejada probably could have survived on $7 million a year or whatever Oakland could have afforded to pay him, but you wanted bigger money. That's fine. There is nothing wrong with wanting more money if someone will give it to you, but then you need to lay in the bed you chose. Have the forsight to understand that you're going to a team with Sidney Ponson as their ace. Of course, you're not going to be very good.

My office has only two marginally good looking women in it, but you don't see me asking to be traded to the Tempe branch, do you? Nope, I'll take my free cable and like it.

Now Tejada says he doesn't want to be traded. What the hell? Were you just trying to waste hours of trade discussions and hard work from executives? Or maybe he's just tired of Baltimore's high std rates. Regardless, if you really want the Orioles to get better, restructure your contract so your making less than $10 million a year so a decent pitcher can be signed. Otherwise, just play and shut up.

J.H. Naners