00:00It was pretty much expected, which is kind of rare when you have a sort of trade of this magnitude
00:05with a player that is going to be headed west in Tariq Skubal, who now gives the Dodgers an even
00:11better chance to win the World Series maybe than they had 24 hours ago.
00:15You know, there's a lot of, you know, very angry people, it seems, out there.
00:19I'm not sure why anybody is surprised after hearing so much buildup to this.
00:23But needless to say, it definitely gives L.A. another weapon, and, you know, certainly at this point, there's a
00:29reason why they're their prohibitive favorites to win the World Series.
00:32Yeah, I think the anger, though, Craig, is this trade seems like it hardly has anything to do with baseball.
00:39Kind of across the board.
00:42I, look, I don't want to step on toes.
00:46So if at any point I'm wrong, I won't be embarrassed.
00:50You tell me.
00:51But I don't remember a lockout feeling this much a foregone conclusion to the point where I'm starting to think
01:00half of the reason this deal went down.
01:02There's a lot of people like, how could the rest of baseball let it happen?
01:06You can't convince me that half of baseball isn't happy this happened.
01:11Most teams don't think they can win the World Series.
01:14A chunk of teams seemingly are accepting, you can say, not of a lockout of changes, but everyone seems to
01:24believe the lockout's the only way to get there.
01:28So that, like, it doesn't, this isn't exciting, honestly.
01:33Aside from Dodger fans who are convincing themselves that they've always wanted to be the Joker, that they've always, aha,
01:40we're villains, and, like, yeah, it's not that fun, but sure, good for you.
01:44Like, this isn't exciting.
01:46This isn't cool.
01:48This didn't, like, break the internet.
01:50It's a lot of okay.
01:51And part of the reason the deal got done, I think, almost at, you know, nearly midnight.
01:55It's like, all right, yep, he's a Dodger.
01:57I mean, I don't know if you guys disagree.
02:00I'm not saying we can't talk World Series odds and if they'll three-peat, but I'm just, this deal to
02:05me has to do with, hey, enjoy, you know, if you're a Twins fan, this little run might be a
02:15while before you watch Joe Ryan throw again.
02:20Yeah, I see this as a bit of a boring trade, which, you know, I alluded to before, and, you
02:25know, to your point, I think a lot of the league is almost, they don't care that this happened because
02:29sometimes you need to tip the scale so far over in order for changes to be made.
02:34And ultimately, I also find this, you say, an unexciting trade because I want to see another team put the
02:39pieces together in order to beat the Dodgers.
02:42And now the Dodgers are just that much further ahead.
02:44So looking at the NL, is there any future market that you could possibly look to back another team?
02:50Because we're getting to the point in the season, which I've talked to you about before, I like backing the
02:54Dodgers in a capacity, which would be Dodgers to beat the Brewers, Dodgers to beat the Braves.
02:59Is there any NL future that piques your interest at this point?
03:02I'm curious at what point we'll just see to win the NL yes-no markets because the Dodgers have flipped
03:15to that minus price.
03:18So this is the baseball piece of it.
03:21I don't think the Dodgers did the deal in order to go ha-ha to everybody.
03:26I think Dave Roberts might say that at some point.
03:29I'm sure he will, but the Dodgers might actually need a real-deal arm.
03:36Blake Snell's always injured.
03:37Oh, he's coming back.
03:38Great.
03:39That doesn't mean he's going to be healthy.
03:41Tyler Glass now is even more injured than that.
03:44And Shohei Ohtani is not a real pitcher.
03:47I mean, we just do this now.
03:48This is now an every-other-year thing with Ohtani on the Dodgers, where we have this conversation of,
03:55he doesn't need to pitch to be as valuable to you as he can be, but it's what he wants,
04:01so they let him do it.
04:03But there's this world where the Dodgers, in acquiring Scooble, have prevented themselves from going,
04:13do we need to start Eric Lauer in Game 4?
04:18Like, I just, that's why, that was the other piece of, you know, kind of to your point, Craig, of
04:25this being a fait accompli,
04:27is there's a real argument that Dodgers needed Tariq Scooble as much as the next team.
04:34Yeah, you know, look, there's a lot of layers with it.
04:37You know, the first thing that I would add to this that no one seems to be talking about is
04:41it's,
04:42there's a strong possibility that the Dodgers are far from done at this trade deadline.
04:46They could certainly add a lot more players by the time Monday comes,
04:49and that would just get everybody more upset.
04:51Let's do it.
04:51Let's do it.
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