Ichiro to Leave M's?

Jon Heyman wrote an article talking about possibly trading Ichiro. While it seems a far fetch right now, it may not be too bad of an idea. He makes $17 million per year for the next four years, so he's a bit expensive. The $17 million could be used on a couple good offensive players instead of one. With Sexson and Ichiro gone, the Mariners could spend money on actually improving their team. They could trade Ichiro and Bedard to get really good prospects, and then trade them to get really good players. Still, at age 34, he might be getting a little too old to spend quite so much money on. However, no one really looks down the road anymore, so there would be plenty of takers (Braves? Cubs? White Sox?). The advantage would be for Seattle based purely on baseball, but with the bad PR and loss of popularity from Seattle, they probably won't do it. I mean, if Ichiro's not there, why go watch?