00:03all right so look uh terrick scoobles back in detroit he's pitching for the dodgers
00:09what and i'm i'm accused at times of overthinking some things
00:18but um i put a lot of thought into this one here we go and and well do you want
00:23to go first and
00:24what your emotions are or your thoughts on this return i i i don't feel like this is as big
00:30a
00:30deal as i thought it would be a couple weeks ago okay i think we've kind of we're at the
00:34point now
00:36you know this team is is in the doldrums you know they're they're just not a very good baseball team
00:44right now they're not good enough anyway to where you'd say oh they can make this run and it's not
00:48been entirely because they missed the two starting pitchers they traded i mean the the hitting is
00:54going away green got hurt dingler isn't hitting i think those are two huge factors those are two
01:01big factors i think that also by the way and i mentioned yesterday that i said that i would if
01:06i were to tigers i would strongly consider waving glaver torres uh just because doing him a salad
01:12let some other team pick him up glaver torres hasn't done anything for his team the last couple
01:15months either i mean since he got healthy in july he's hitting like 219 um it's so that's it's not
01:21very good for him and i think he's a really good player but you know i don't is he affected
01:27because
01:28he wasn't moved to the trade deadline is is he is he down because he's missing an opportunity to play
01:33in the postseason i'm not doing it for his sake i'm doing for the tiger's sake because max anderson
01:37deserves to be brought up at some point um and some point may have been a month ago but my
01:42feelings on
01:43scoogle they really kind of remain unchanged i i've always been pretty open-minded about him i in that
01:51i i get upset that he of course he could say anything he wants because he ultimately controls
01:56his destiny it's not scott boris he does i think he's weak letting boris do all the talking for him
02:03and then towards the end he was a chatterbox he started opening up and saying all types of things
02:08and he was saying a lot of it was was good stuff but in the end we still know what
02:12the result is
02:12you're not going to sign here no matter what you say um but i i remember him as being a
02:19cy
02:19young pitcher and he still is he's great he's fantastic i wish he were a tiger but he's not
02:25and i would have traded him in the offseason uh but the tigers waited until the trade deadline and
02:31that's that's fine and they do whatever they're going to do but i'm not if i were going as a
02:36fan
02:36tonight i would not boo him i would probably give a light applause let him tip the hat to the
02:41crowd
02:42because he gave us some amazing years here two times cy young award winner but i don't have to go
02:48crazy about it it can just be a respectful hey how are you um and then move on i have
02:53i had way
02:54stronger feelings about verlander when when they moved him because he didn't want to go he wanted to
03:01stay here and it didn't happen they traded him at the 11th hour and you know when he came back
03:08it
03:08was a different thing it was like oh we missed jv and then he went out and won a world
03:11series and
03:12feel good for the guy uh and now he had the situation this year which is kind of ironic but
03:17yeah i don't i don't feel i'm kind of in the middle on this it doesn't bother me with the
03:22whole
03:23school situation of him not why i get it it's a business decision fine but i'm also not going to
03:28go
03:28crazy and be too effusive of the praise for him because he could have done something about it
03:36so for me it's it's kind of complicated because i think it's part of a bigger issue that i have
03:42with the sport of major league baseball i'll start with this his goal of hiring boris to be his agent
03:48and capitalizing on the market and what big money franchises can do is not a technical foul
03:56i don't look at that as you know he was out of line doing that i've documented and talked a
04:03lot
04:03about how the boris personality rubs me the wrong way and his little limericks and his games i think
04:08is toying with fans emotions but there's another factor here and that is scoobal is a player rep for
04:14the mlbpa and someone in the agent world was telling me that they believe boris is really trying to
04:21aggressively set the tone for the players in this negotiations and even blow it up and try and
04:28make it even more in players favors and i think there's a chance that scoobal is a co-conspirator
04:35with boris on this that he wants to have this contract and this you know be part of um you
04:43know
04:43making mega deals more possible not less possible which are the owners are after and i think that they
04:48are going to be hardline negotiators for that reason in you know he is a player rep and you know
04:55there's nothing wrong with representing your side and trying to get what's best for your group that is
05:01not a flagrant foul either but scoobal's in the machine now right he's with the evil empire and i'm
05:08not sure there's a a proton torpedo that can get down an exhaust shaft for this for this evil empire
05:14and you're not going to shoot some womp rat for practice no um and and i feel like everyone
05:21should hate the dodgers and it's because the dodgers local tv deal is a massive competitive
05:28advantage because of a bankruptcy court ruling that team will shield more than 1.3 billion dollars from
05:36revenue sharing over 25 years how is the second biggest media market in the country have a baked in
05:42accounting mechanism it's straight madness to me and so my opinion of this entire storyline is part
05:51my personal raging against the machine i i'm mad at the machine as that produced an environment where
06:00scoobal was never going to sign here or probably anywhere and going to get to the open market now not
06:07to the extent where i would boo tarik scoobal tonight right i mean it he's just part of a bigger
06:13picture and then i think this is a three-pronged rochambeau for detroit fans part one is we lose
06:20tarik scoobal i mean a dominant dominant back-to-back cy young award pitcher that's part one rochambeau
06:29rochambeau too the tigers the organization collectively treated scoobal with great care
06:38right in detroit there's no question that detroit pays very close attention to pitch limits to try
06:47and preserve a pitcher's longevity a longevity that they now won't get to use the dodgers are getting
06:54to use it you know the tigers have had twice this year started over 105 pitches paul skeins has done
07:01it nine times and skeins might be starting to show the wear and tear of that but the tigers treated
07:06scoobal in such a way to try and get longevity out of them that they're never going to see
07:12and maybe that was foolish but rochambeau number three is all of this we're probably getting a work
07:17stoppage anyway so you know i that's why i say it's complicated for me because it's the business
07:25side of the game and i'm afraid we're about to enter a dark time for major league baseball because
07:33people say that there might not be baseball next year and that and i think boris scoobal and the
07:40like are headlining a we're going to be hardline on the player side and the owners say they're never
07:45been more committed to a salary cap than they are now and this could get ugly and that's why my
07:50emotions i see a player in another uniform in the machine the evil empire that is indicative
08:00of how bad the situation is in major league baseball and the storm that's coming
08:06like i said for me it's complicated yeah well it is complicated it's not an issue that the
08:12simulator i was doing yesterday no i'm never going to do that simulator for fun i like to do turbo
08:17tax
08:18oh dog i can't believe you like that game i can't believe you like hey it was fun see different
08:25outcomes but i mean like you get to also look at issues that baseball has and baseball has a lot
08:30of
08:30issues and like i don't want to go into the whole cba thing because it's awfully complicated i've got
08:35really strong opinions on it that you know aren't going to help anything out here on august 28th
08:40but suffice it to say you know the dodgers i think dodgers represent everything that's wrong
08:47with the sport and and it's kind of no fault of their own they were allowed to do it right
08:53hey we're
08:54just going to try to see if we can push this deal through with the media deal and baseball didn't
08:59have
08:59an issue so it went through hey we're going to keep paying these ridiculous salaries out there because
09:05we know we have the revenue to back it up we've got the money coming in it doesn't matter oh
09:08yeah we can
09:08give showy otani a 700 million dollar contract doesn't matter you know kyle tucker wants to make
09:1360 million dollars a year here you go buddy we got that for you yeah we'll trade for school we'll
09:17give
09:17up a few prospects not our top prospects but we got enough guys here i hate everything about the
09:23dodgers but they're doing everything within the rules of the game it's kind of it's like they can
09:27hold up their hand say not our fault you know i mean people want to come here play for us
09:31because
09:32we do everything we can to try to win and in in some degrees that's in some areas it's a
09:37lot
09:38to be praised for but in the end all of those reasons are are going to contribute to a potential
09:46work stop okay um look people people are going to be in a stance tonight there's some debate over
09:54what the reaction is going to be i personally don't expect there to be booze but it was funny
10:00talking to tom millican who produces the morning show he came out uh during a commercial break and
10:06said they're getting an undercurrent that there might be and it might not be a few people and i
10:13don't want to misrepresent what detroit fans are thinking which is why we open up the phone lines
10:18and talk to you what are your emotions with terrick scuble coming back to detroit 248-539-9797
10:25it's carson anderson 97 one
