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[quote]Originally posted by Becks910:
<strong>Fan Loyalty should be diminished when a team trades away a player that has been with the team at least 4 years and </strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not sure about this, some players are just disliked by a lot of people (i.e. John Rocker) and others just don't get a lot of attention and therefore once they get traded, people don't notice. For instance, I believe that at the beginning of last season, the Cubs traded to get Bill Mueller. I'm pretty sure that the people in San Francisco didn't stop supporting the Giants because Mueller (a 3B with 4 years of experience w/ the Giants) was traded away.

[quote]Originally posted by Becks910:
<strong>, should be hurt even worse if the player is good,</strong><hr></blockquote> Carl Everett is a pretty good player in spite of his temper, but how many people in Boston do you think will miss him?

[quote]Originally posted by Becks910:
<strong> and should be hurt even worse if they trade a good player who has been with the team at least 6 years.</strong><hr></blockquote> Same as above.

Okay, in spite of what I said, I think its a damn good idea. I just think that there needs to be a fan favorite rating. I forget where but we had another string about this I think. Most players should be a normal rating but with a few who are fan favorites e.g. Mark McGwire, Mark Grace (I'm from chicago, got to put in an ex-cub...we still love him). Then there should be some like Carl Everett and John Rocker who are just disliked.
Then if fan favorites are traded it could slowly affect the team revenue and fan loyalty, if normal rated players are traded then they would need to have spent a good amount of time with the team or it would have a smaller effect on it...much smaller. If the hated players (good or bad) are traded away it could have a small increase or no effect at all.