On 05 Aug 97, after being hired as WNBA commissioner, Ed Grinnell said:
 TM>> How on earth are you making a distinction between the two?
 EG> 
 EG> Harold Baines has been traded several times but always as someone in
 EG> demand or as I said, "Traded For."
And "Traded By."  You can make the argument that several teams wanted to get 
rid of him.
 EG> There have been several players that have been with multiple teams over
 EG> their careers due to trades. Some were the primary focus of the the 
rade
 EG> (Traded For) and others have been throw-ins (Traded By).
Whether they were the primary focus or not, they were both traded FOR and BY; 
you can turn it into a positive or a negative, depending on how you want to 
phrase it.
 EG> She happened to have been the reason for the trade, thus "Traded For." 
f
 EG> she doesn't work out and the novelty wears out in Minnesota, she'll
 EG> either end up as "Traded By" or "Released" but for now, she's "Traded
 EG> For.":-) 
Sorry, your 'logic' doesn't make any sense.  To say someone is traded FOR, 
suggesting a positive, simply because they were the primary focus of a trade, 
but were traded BY, suggesting a negative, if they weren't the primary focus, 
doesn't make any sense.  
As I said previously, every trade is both FOR and BY the same player, and an 
argument can be made in every case that one team wanted to get rid of them 
and one team wanted them.  
So trades are a wash, in terms of positive or negative reflection on a 
player, though players that are traded a lot tend to raise a bit of suspicion 
that maybe there is something wrong with them.
... Kansas City Chiefs - the AFL's all-time winningest team!
--- JetMail 0.99beta23
---------------