00:00I was kind of shocked that it happened on Saturday because I thought, you know, school ball going anywhere would
00:07have been one of the later, you know, today, even in the later hours, if it was going to happen.
00:15And, well, we learned Saturday night, which is kind of crazy to me.
00:20And I don't know if that's did they think this was the best offer they were going to get?
00:25Did they? I'm not quite sure what the rush was with Tariq Scooble, especially to the Dodgers.
00:32But I guess it was more than enough for Detroit to say, yeah, sure.
00:36No problem. He's on the way here.
00:40But, of course, that's just given everyone, you know, 48 to 72 hours to stick a fork in Major League
00:46Baseball and declare it dead now, as if Scooble guarantees them to win another World Series.
00:53That's a lot more can go wrong than go right. I don't care who's on this team.
00:58And by the way, I mean, are they barely 500 since July 1st?
01:03So I would slow the horses on automatically giving them the championship.
01:08You know this, Craig. Anything is part of it. There's a lot of baseball left to be played.
01:13But I didn't understand the rush to hurry up and get it done on Saturday.
01:18I agree. And with virtually all your sentiments, the other thing that I would say is that if you're ever
01:24thinking about betting on any other team to win the World Series outside of the Dodgers, your window is now
01:30open here for a couple days.
01:32You know, like this is this is it. The worst thing you could do right now is to take the
01:35Dodgers.
01:35The best thing that you could do is just take everybody else because their odds are getting hurt by these
01:39silly people thinking that one player is going to win a World Series for them.
01:43I really don't have a full explanation for it.
01:46What I do know is that people who said that, oh, they traded him because he wanted to go there
01:50and get extended.
01:51We know that's not true. We know that's not true.
01:54He's going to free agency. He's got Scott Boris. The most ridiculous statement you could ever make is that.
01:58And then the other thing that you could you could wonder is that you're you're right.
02:03Why Tampa? Why Milwaukee? Why some of these other teams didn't go a little bit deeper in their form system
02:10to get school bowl?
02:11Well, I would ask you this. Milwaukee is not quite done.
02:15I don't know that they've done enough necessarily to get over the top.
02:17But would you say that you'd be happy with what Milwaukee got?
02:20I think that you would say potentially. Yes. Hold on.
02:25I think we may have another trade here. So let me put the glasses on here.
02:27Oh, there it is. So let me let me tell you.
02:32Oh, OK, so there you go. All right. So. So Robert, I'm not taking credit for these.
02:38OK, I'm not taking credit for these. I'm not going to do that here.
02:41I'll take credit. So Robert Murray says, as expected, Joe Foster Griffin has been traded and he's going to Cleveland.
02:51So that's my point. Cleveland, Milwaukee, Tampa Bay.
02:56They did not get school bowl. But it seems like they all did pretty good without getting them.
03:02So and I'm not saying that these guys are school bowl, but the the prospect capital that those teams, the
03:11lower market teams, they can't afford to give up those kind of players for a guy to pitch two months
03:17on a whim to maybe win the World Series.
03:20Like the Dodgers were simply in the best position to win. This is like the cherry on top.
03:27So, I mean, the stupidity of people thinking that, oh, anybody, even school himself, I'm sorry, coming out today and
03:35say, oh, anybody could have gone for me and anybody could have not not in this collective bargaining agreement, not
03:41the way the payroll disparity is.
03:43No. How could whatever Cleveland gave up double it to give up school bowl and then watch Cleveland in the
03:50next two years be behind the twins in the standings?
03:53Did they want to do that? No. So now they get Foster Griffin, who is not school bowl.
03:58OK, not close, but he's pretty good. He's going to throw six, seven innings for you.
04:02It seems like every time. Yeah, I'm sure what they gave up, they're comfortable in giving up Washington.
04:06As I said, they're going to wait right to the end. Here they went till 534 Eastern.
04:11And that's the dynamic that we're living in in Major League Baseball.
04:14It doesn't mean that the world is crashing down. And Joe, you said, made the best point of all.
04:18It doesn't mean that the Dodgers are going to guarantee to win the World Series.
04:20No, it guarantees them getting in. It guarantees them probably winning the first round.
04:24It's going to be impossible probably to beat School Bowl and Yamamoto and these guys in the first round.
04:28But you're telling me in a seven game series, you'd be shocked that the best home team in baseball, Milwaukee,
04:35beats L.A. three times?
04:36I wouldn't be shocked. It's baseball. It's sports. March Madness. The best teams don't win. It's a tournament.
04:42It's the same thing here. So it kind of makes me crazy to see this sort of stuff.
04:49But I don't think a season gets canceled because of it.
04:52And I don't think this drives any point home or anything like that.
04:55The Dodgers are doing a great job operating how they're supposed to.
04:58And so is Cleveland. And so is Milwaukee. And so is Tampa Bay.
05:02They're being responsible about how they're operating.
05:04Joe, Joe, can those three teams predict if there's going to be a cap on the floor next year?
05:07We think so. But do we know?
05:09No, of course.
05:10No. Yeah. And, you know, to your point, the idea that teams were how can teams just let the Dodgers
05:19do?
05:20There's only a handful of teams, one of them being the Yankees, who really had no need for Scooble in
05:27any way.
05:27They had other needs.
05:30So there's only a handful of teams that actually could have offered up enough to compete with what the Dodgers
05:36were going to offer.
05:38But I'll say this, Greg, I think this had a lot more to do.
05:42And I mentioned it last week to you.
05:44To me, this was more about he's not going anywhere to pitch against us in a seven-game series.
05:51We would rather give it up, you know, give up the talent in our farm, which they have plenty of.
05:58But we'd rather go that route so he doesn't have to pitch.
06:02We don't have to beat him three times in a seven-game series.
06:05We don't have to beat him three times.
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