This time of year teams that know they are out of it will listen to other teams offers.  Every once in a while, a team becomes desperate and over pays for an established player. 

The latest rumor is that the Blue Jays would be happy to send All-Star starter Roy Halliday to Chicago for Gordon Beckham, Jordan Danks and Aaron Poreda.  You know, the Sox top three young players.

While the chuckleheads who call Ranger Ronge on the post game show would make this deal, anyone with a modicum of sense would not.  To mortgage your future for a 32 year-old starter who is prone to lackluster second half is ludicrous.  Especially when you realize that these three players will be the core of your team in 2011.

In addition, the Sox are not so desperate for pitching that they want to disrupt the offense that Beckham is providing.  Lately, he's help energize the bottom of the Sox lineup, allowing Ozzie to hit and run and play some smallball.  To trade away a player with so much potential along with two other really good ones seems silly.

Now, if Toronto wanted Poreda, Clayton Richard and Josh Fields and/or Brian Anderson, I'd think about making that trade.  But no one is going to give you an expensive shirt for your bag full of dirty laundry unless there are similar shirts in your bag.

Kenny, please, slowly back away from the table and go in a different direction.