Nope, all eyes are trained on one man soft tossing at Legends Field. The man who owns a record five Cy Young awards. The man who prepares for each season by jamming his arm through a barrel of rice.

It's just not fair.

This trade reeks of all that is wrong with baseball. A star player, under contract, demands a trade to a contending team. Never mind that his team won 88 games last season--four short of a post season berth.

Stuck with this contract demand, Blue Jay GM Gord Ash shopped Clemens around to the handful of teams that can offer fair trade value and afford his salary. The latter was far more prohibitive--just ask Astros GM Gerry Hunsicker.

After a while, the market dissipated for all except for one team--the Yankees. Steinbrenner has the money and the moxie to sit tight and wait for the opportunity to throw around his bucks.

Lo and behold, Ash made Yanks GM Brian Cashman an offer that Cashman said "made my knees buckle."

Cashman did not deliver any of his prized prospects in Columbus for this deal. But rest assured, if an act of God has the Yankees needing players mid-season, the checkbook will come out again.

It's a luxury few can afford to do. Sure, give Stick Michael and Cashman credit for assembling the roster, but it's cold hard cash that keeps the players there. It keeps a contending team intact.