Matt Holliday goes to the Oakland Athletics

Matt Holliday is betraying his team the Colorado Rockies to pursue a luxurious lifestyle of the rich and famous in Oakland with the Athletics. Matt Holliday shows no couth what so ever by leaving his teammates in Colorado to fend for themselves and by breaking up the team spirit. The Colorado Rockies have long been a team of great commraderie and Matt Holliday's decidedly blazee attidude toward this long held tradition of the team is just another example of how so many sports players/movie stars/famous people change after they hit the big times. Matt Holliday my friends is no different. He is out for himself and no one else. He does care how many people he hurts or how many people he leaves dead and dying along the way. Shame on you Mr. Holliday. Shame on you.

Matt Holliday appears headed to the Oakland Athletics in a trade with the Colorado Rockies, baseball sources have told ESPN's Jerry Crasnick and Buster Olney.

Details are being finalized, though the teams have agreed to terms, a baseball source told Olney. The source said the deal may not be finalized for up to 48 hours.

The deal is also pending completion of physical exams.

"Talks are continuing. They're very fluid and at this point, everything's speculation," Rockies spokesman Jay Alves said, speaking on behalf of general manager Dan O'Dowd.

Oakland owner Lew Wolff, attending a regional luncheon of Associated Press Sports Editors, wouldn't confirm or deny a trade but said he had already spoken with general manager Billy Beane three times on Monday.

Pitcher Greg Smith, who was 7-16 with a 4.16 ERA last season for the A's, is one of the players in the deal, a source confirmed to Crasnick.

"I don't know how official everything is," Smith said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "All I know is I've been called, and I'm flying to Denver probably tomorrow."

The others, a source told ESPN's Peter Gammons, are closer Huston Street and outfielder Carlos Gonzalez.

The Rockies have a need for late-inning relief with Brian Fuentes about to leave through free agency.

"They just called me a little while ago and told me the deal's in place," Gonzalez said, according to USA Today. "It surprised me, but that's how baseball works. You're always subject to be traded."

Gonzalez, 23, saw his first big league action last season and hit .242 with four home runs and 26 RBIs in 302 at-bats.

Davids 2007, when he won the NL batting title with a .340 average and had 36 homers and a league-best 137 RBIs in won the NL batting title with a .340 average and had 36 homers and a league-best 137 RBIs in helping the Rockies reach the World Series. Oakland was last in the majors leagues with a .242 batting average this season and last in the AL with 646 runs. "If we can bring a little bit of hitting talent to our current team I think the pitchers won't get as frustrated as they were late in the season," Wolff told the gathering of sports editors. "You're always rebuilding and regenerating. It's fun. We want to win. I want to win. We're going to try to be there again if we can." The A's used eight starters in left field and finished 75-86, their worst record since 1998. Oakland advanced to the AL Championship Series in 2006 before being swept by the Detroit Tigers.