How Should We Feel About The Tarik Skubal Trade? | Local Hour
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Why did the Tarik Skubal trade spark outrage across sports fandom?
Have you guys, off the top of your head, have you guys found a trade anywhere in sports since, I don't know, LeBron, Wade, and Bosh coming here that ends up echoing to create the conversation that the Scooble trade does where everyone's just like, that's not fair. where the reaction from everybody is a trade happens in sports. And the consensus is that doesn't feel right. That's not something that should be allowed. Can something be done?
I think there were hints of that with Jalen Brown, but we were too busy laughing, and a little bit with Luka too, especially when you consider the reasoning that Dallas gave, which was wanting to be able to depend on Luka's fitness and then acquiring Anthony Davis.
Oh, but you're doing this the other way, though. The way that I'm doing this is not that Detroit didn't get enough. It's that the Dodgers have too much, that the Dodgers shouldn't be allowed to be the one that acquired that any other team. There wouldn't have been this reaction. There's only one team you can trade him to where you get a sport cratering kind of reaction where everyone's like, that's not right. You shouldn't be allowed to do that.
Durant in free agency when he went to the Warriors and they had already been to the back-to-back finals, like being in that spot.
Yeah, but specific to trade, I do think that a big part of this, and look, I'm not going to pretend to know the depths of LA's farm system, but a big part of this is like, that got you Scooble?
Oh, but no, the baseball people are saying that that is a good offer and that somebody could have beaten that offer and nobody did. I'm just – I didn't think that baseball could do one of these. I didn't think that baseball could have a transaction – and I can't even come up with a hypothetical other than this guy to this team – that makes me feel the way that I feel today, which is that everyone is now saying that's simply unfair. It's not even an analysis of the trade. It's just that shouldn't be allowed to happen.
Well, what's hanging over all of this is the MLB is taking out attack ads. and preparing for a labor stoppage and this is awfully convenient and it further galvanizes mlb fans everywhere and a huge part of that attack ad is like man isn't it unfair what the dodgers are doing and then to give that team the prize of the deadline the hot stove season it feels unfair and it's awfully convenient for major league baseball
It feels like the Dodgers were Joe Pesci and Goodfellas where they're like, hey, you want to trade for Tarek Skubal? And they're like, yeah, where is he? He's in this room over here. And then everybody walks in. It's just them. And they're like, wait a second. All of a sudden it goes black. Like, did any other team – I'm not plugged in on baseball, but did any other team have a chance to get him?
Yes, there were other teams that had a chance. And I think the Tigers have a responsibility to take a lesser offer there and not do that to their sport. Like, I legitimately – think that they have to take the second place offer just so that everyone's not looking at them and saying, you assholes, you broke the entire sport.
Well, that's also a different type of collusion, right? But I think the biggest issue here is that they think that the owners and the Tigers were a part of it. Send them to L.A. because it helps our bottom line.
The one trade that I was thinking of in basketball was when basketball stepped in and didn't allow Chris Paul to be traded to the Lakers.
Right. Marcus Sewell was in that trade.
David Stern's dead body was not going to happen. That's what it made me think of. It made me think that Bud Selig should come back from the grave, even though he's still alive, and say, you can't allow this, Manfred.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why did the Tarik Skubal trade spark outrage across sports fandom?
0:00–8:46
2
How does the Dodgers' repeated star acquisitions compare to past sports dynasties?
8:46–17:42
3
Could MLB or the commissioner have blocked the Skubal trade like past interventions?
17:42–24:27
4
What are the arguments that MLB benefited from the Dodgers acquiring Skubal?
24:27–30:47
5
How might the Skubal trade affect competitive balance and calls for a salary cap?
30:47–38:19
Speakers
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