In the age of Twitter, it probably wouldn't hurt to be a little more pragmatic. It's not hurting anything as is. Not yet, anyway. Again, read your sig.
What the hell are you even complaining about? He hasn't refused the trade, it's very unlikely he refuses the trade; why would this bother anyone? How is it not "pragmatic" for the guy to be annoyed that the whole thing came out like this?
Lee didn't want to be traded and refused a trade...Dempster is OK with a trade, but is annoyed/hurt/whatever that he heard it via the media instead of from his FO first.
Blindsided? He's been on the block for over a month. This was his 2nd choice. Just 3-4 days ago a trade with The Dodgers was supposedly near completion. How much less blindsided could he have possibly been? Just because you act like this is a video game doesn't mean it actually is.
We were comparing Stewart's "good month" to Valbuena's "good month" simply because I'm wondering what people who think Stewart is a "bum" see in Valbuena. I don't really have anything against either player; they've both been rather middling this year. Nobody's actually picking sides between the two except for idiots. And their salaries are irrelevant.