The topic of Prince is ceratinly worth discussion, and the downturn of the last several weeks ceratinly brings the idea of trading him sooner rather than later to the fore. That said, there is no way that the Brewers can trade Prince any time before next year's trade deadline without completely sabotaging the past few years of goodwill they have banked with the team's fans. Not the hardcore that you find here at BF.net, but the casual fans that turn 20,000 attendance into 40,000 attendance. So long as the Brewers don't mess that up, they will be able to strive for sustained competitiveness. If they lose the fans, it will be very easy for team to slip back to struggling with Pittsburgh near teh bottom of the division. If/when Prince goes, it will probably be over the winter so that fans have time to digest the trade and prepare to welcome the new guys. If Prince does go at the deadline next year, it will likely only be because the Brewers are sufficiently out of the race