Right.  There’s no way he could continue to do good work for the Blue Jays. 

There’s no way that, after word of trading him leaked, he could, like, pitch a 1 R, CG against one of the elite offenses in all of the game. No way whatsoever.

This is just soap opera crap from moron writers who are too stupid to write about anything besides ‘All My Children’ nonsense.  Halladay is a proud competitor and has been very loyal to the Blue Jays.  It’s very possible that he’d like to be traded, but whether he is or he isn’t, you can bet that he’s going to continue to give his best effort.  Therefore, comments like this are totally meaningless.

I believe it’s commonly spelled “verklempt.”  Google leads me to believe it’s from the German verklemmt which fits with my memory. Publicizing the sentiment that you’re emotionally gone is fairly common practice among european soccer players who want their teams to sell their rights to another team. In theory if you make it known you’re unhappy where you are you weaken your teams bargaining position and drive down the price that an interested team would have to pay to acquire you, thereby (possibly) making it more likely that you will be transferred. Maybe Halladay is trying a similar tack here.

I just gotta say news breaking on Twitter is already done.

re: the new deadline
It’s so that other supposed trades could be made/arranged before the deadline. If Halladay goes there’s gonna be a huge effort to clear away salary…as much as possible.