I wasn't sure what kind of response I would get to my post, but since I have sparked some interest let me add some more.
The latest:
3/5/2001 11:29:04 PM
Ellis Burks moves from the Cleveland Jedi Knights to the Arizona Titan Force Active Roster

Luis Gonzalez moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

Bobby Chouinard moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

Mike DiFelice moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

Andy Fox moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

Paul Quantrill moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

Marc Wilkins moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights Active Roster

The Cleveland Jedi Knights Round 2 Rookie pick moves from the Cleveland Jedi Knights to the Arizona Titan Force.

The Cleveland Jedi Knights Round 2 Free Agent pick moves from the Cleveland Jedi Knights to the Arizona Titan Force.

The Arizona Titan Force Round 2 Rookie pick moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights.

The Arizona Titan Force Round 4 Rookie pick moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights.

The Arizona Titan Force Round 8 Free Agent pick moves from the Arizona Titan Force to the Cleveland Jedi Knights.
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On the face it doesn't look so bad. But if you look at both teams you will see this is:
Gonzalez and 5 cuts for Burks, FA2, RK2 (the #1 slot of course). How many of us wish we could trade 5 cuts for a RK2 and FA2?
How may times do you see a trade involving 10+ things? I know it isn't that rare, but in this thread the frequency and player combinations it certainly is curious. And of course, as pointed out before (Nomo, Gonzalez, Alomar), we have a player (DeFelice)just acquired YESTERDAY being traded right back to the same team. Admittedly he has limited value, but again curious...
4 days before cuts Cleveland now has 39 players. Despite knowing they had the #1 pick in the draft since, what, mid Feb Cleveland never submitted a draft list. As of 2pm yesterday still no draft list. I guess you could argue they knew all along they were going to trade the picks? I wonder what kind of offers they could have received if they had posted the intention to trade.
As for those of you who are responding "oh well- that's the game sometimes" -- I would encourage you to take more time to imagine this happening to your team, a team you originally drafted and spent thousands of hours nurturing along agonizing over trades that hurt as much as they helped- your closest rival in your division making 10+ player trades with the same team raising PB value from mid 70 to 120+ and record from 59-101 to 115-45 in 2 yrs while the other owners abandon the teams and "disappear" (PB values 75 and 62) . Think about it. And better yet- what can/should we do so it doesn't happen again? Assuming that nothing can be done about this current "curiosity"...