Josh Donaldson and Russ react to the Dodgers "ruining" baseball - GIDL Ep. 13

Well, first of all, I just, I don't think it makes any sense.

Um, you know, you, you wanna get angry at somebody that, uh, they're, they're really good at developing players.

They're, they're obviously good at, you know, drafting.

Um, so they have the pool that's, you know, available to, to other teams to, to pick from when they wanna make their trades if, if, you know, when, when that time is.

Um, I, I just, I just don't understand it.

Um, you know, they, and at the big league level, the way they prepare for games and, and they, they're just, they're just doing things right on a lot of levels.

And they're just, they're spending the money to, to, to build a winning team.

And then they're, they're willing to do that.

So, I don't know.

It's, it's kinda, I don't know.

It's, it's coming from a perspective where like, "Oh, those, the, the team's too good." It's like we're handing them the World Series before it's even, it's even won.

Mm-hmm.

Um, you know? I, I don't, I don't get it.

I'll, I'll say this.

I, I did hear, like, an interesting conspiracy theory, uh, uh, the other day talking about how this trade that happened for Scubal, it's not, I'm not blaming the Dodgers for doing it, but they're kinda saying how the MLB owners are in on it together to say like, "Hey, we need a salary cap.

We need all of these things.

Let's go ahead and give the Dodgers the best pitcher in the game so they win three in a row to further our case of like, 'Oh, we have no chance against the almighty Dodgers.'" And to your point, Russ, yeah, I love the fact that the Dodgers are trying to win and they continue to do what they're doing.

And they've been more creative than all the other teams, and have been willing to spend more money than all of the teams.

So my hat's off to them, but the other side of the coin is like, let's play, uh, the victim here, all 29 other teams, while the mighty Dodgers get their third World Series in the r- in a row.

And, "Oh, we couldn't match this trade offer." From my understanding, the trade offer wasn't even that good.

I don't know who the three guys are that are in this, uh, trade, but you know, none of them are major league caliber players at this moment, to my knowledge.

Um, so yeah, I, I, can see both sides of it.

I don't think that the Dodgers are trying to break baseball or ruin baseball.

I think they've outsmarted most of these teams.

Um, and I also think that, uh, the other teams are kinda using the Dodgers as the scapegoat in this.