There are three living, breathing reasons why most baseball fans should throw their cellphones into the pool between now and the July 31 trade deadline.
They are Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz.
All three pitchers were shuffled to the hinterlands because their teams stopped thinking about tomorrow.
All three changed their new teams forever.
Smoltz helped Atlanta win its first World Series and launch a string of 14 consecutive division championships.
Martinez gave Boston a heart transplant and boosted the Red Sox to their first World Series title since 1918.
Johnson, with Ken Griffey Jr.