Breaking News: The Cleveland Indians Are Prepping To Trade More Players (Again)

According to various online sources, the Cleveland Indians are preparing to start shopping their players for future prospects.

Let the team gutting begin!

Seriously though, why?

The Indians do not have to continue this revolving door of shipping out developed players for more prospects that have to be developed for the future.

Maybe the team should just shop those future prospects before the fans fall in love with them and get some high school talent that will be ready to play by the year 2020.

As this horrible season has continued, many have put the blame on Manager Eric Wedge. After researching many different web sites, it appears that Wedge might not be the problem with the team.

It looks upper management and ownership is the real problem.

Since Larry Dolan bought the team in 2000, how many times has Indians' upper management shipped out fan favorite players for virtual unknowns that need to be nurtured into major-league caliber players? Two times? Three times?

Clevelanders have lost count by now.

Thanks to Dolan, what was once a dynasty in the '90s is now, once again, the butt of almost all jokes in major league.

Maybe Hollywood should come out with another Major League movie starring the Cleveland Indians because when the first film came out, the real-life Indians actually became a contender.

Of course, there is no real connection between the two, but it couldn't hurt.

Indians fans really need to start questioning the decision makers in the front office. There is no reason to start gutting this team to make it competitive again. Only a few changes are needed.

But apparently, the rumored decision is pretty much final.

Even though Cleveland is a middle market team, there is no reason this team cannot make a lot of money once they are a competitive team again. It happened in the '90s and it could happen again, but Dolan is too conservative and keeps telling General Manager Mark Shapiro to cut payroll.

A low payroll may have worked for several teams in the past, but those teams also understood that they had to keep the talent they developed, while developing complimentary talent in the minors.

Nevertheless, the Indians are still talking to other teams that have interest in acquiring Cy Young pitcher Cliff Lee. Interested teams are the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Texas Rangers.

With all the pitching woes the Indians have, one would think that keeping their ace would make sense.

Lee has had many solid pitching outings as of late, but he just doesn't get any run support from the offense. How can Lee be blamed for that?

This move makes no sense, especially since Lee and the team were reportedly in talks to extend his contract, which expires after the 2010 season.

The next reported rumor is going to severely reduce the amount of ladies that attend Indians games.

Grady Sizemore is also being shopped to interested teams.

This is more of a rumor right now than the Lee rumor is, but Sizemore is the face of the franchise.

Shapiro and Dolan must not care about this team anymore, because what was voted as the "Best Ballpark in the Major League" in 2008 by Sports Illustrated fans, will now become a ghost town  for the foreseeable future if they decide to trade Sizemore and Lee.

With a total gutting and rebuilding of the team inevitable, we might as well completely phase out the Chief Wahoo logo, which has been happening slowly over the next few years, immediately because this team is basically going to be an expansion team and might as well give the team a compete logo and uniform makeover too.