It is sad. I see a child in the street wearing one of those awful Blue Jays hats and I think "poor kid...he has no idea." There are years of tears and confusion to come for sure but even in the short term why do this to any young person? Just consider the latest from the Blue Jay's spring training:

"Maybe that didn't come out right," Gaston told reporters in Dunedin, Fla. "It's kind of like regrouping. "Nobody likes to use rebuilding. That's a bad word. We're not really rebuilding. We're getting ready for 2010."

And what then? Once again the realization that you are battling Baltimore for fourth?