"I don't think the Dodgers ruin baseball. I think every other team has had opportunities to go out get Blake Snell, to get a Tarik Skubal." Eric Hosmer shares his thoughts on the Dodgers acquiring Tarik Skubal 🗣️ (via Pat McAfee)

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow "Every other team has a special TV deal that gives them a free extra $60,000,000+ a year, stop whining"

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow The Dodgers traded for a long term asset. Any other team would have been trading for a 3 month rental.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow this is what they've said 3 cy young winners ago. they and the gutless commish have destroyed the integrity of the sport. the lockout is desperately needed.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Absolutely flawed argument…teams with less $ need their prospects a hell of a lot more than the Dodgers do. Lower market teams aren’t spending $500-700m to get superstars. They have to draft and develop them

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Actually the rest of us end up paying players like you Hoz

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Yea but the Dodgers are deferring a hell of a lot of money which is ruining baseball imo

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow I'm so tired of this lazy narrative. LA has a rotation that costs more than 19 other MLB team's payrolls. They have an equal amount of money deffered compared to all other MLB teams combine. They're exploiting the system. There will be a lockout. There will be a cap. And a floor.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Easy for a former big market player to say

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow I can’t wait for a long work stoppage as the game is fundamentally broken

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Yeah man just like every other team can also defer 70 million a year for the next 10 years to get the best player of the century for 2 mil a year

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow @TheRealHoz35 is a mouthpiece now. What an embarrassment of a human

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Gomer Hosmer demonstrating he doesn't have the background facts...

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow I always knew Eric Hosmer was a Dodgers homer deep down this whole time!!

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow It's amazing how dumb even folks in baseball & media are. This narrative is so stupidly untrue it's not even funny

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Players/Former Players only say this because they don’t want a salary cap even though they all know what the Dodgers are doing is destroying the game. But go on

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow He may be a good pitcher, but, obviously from these comments, Skubal is drinking the kool ade because he thinks it will end up getting him a more valuable contract. Anyone who doesn’t think this is bad for baseball is a Dodger fan.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Your not gunna see a single current or former player say anything other than “everyone could have done this” because they don’t want to be seen as possibly supporting a salary cap as a solution.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow The lockout will cure much of what is wrong with baseball. Good for those small market teams for not mortgaging their futures, on a rental player. What makes anybody think that either of those teams could sign him in the off season?

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow No deferring 1.1billion in contracts is what is destroying baseball

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow He's got a point. Other teams have the resources they just choose to spend differently.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow The Dodgers have a tv contract that allows them to have 1.1 b in differed deals. What other team can have Tyler Glasnow as a bullpen arm for long relief. No other team can tell Snell to take 5 months off and be ready for late August?

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow I don't know why we can't say the Doders are a great organization, but they also benefit from a huge tv arrangement that was awarded to them. There is a middle ground that people simply choose to ignore

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Brewers offer was better and rejected. He wanted to go to LA. What’s the point of this?

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow The Dodgers are spending like this because it’s not coming from the owners’ coffers. They have the biggest sweetheart media deal in baseball that insulates their ownership from caring how much they give out in contracts or how much salary it takes on.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Skubal- the guy that quit on team USA, went 6 innings in most important games as a Tiger / ALCS and had his agent stop negotiating with the Tigers in 2024. Before he even one a CY. 🤡🤡🤡

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Hmmm. He kinda sounds like a former player.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow I don’t think having more money makes it easier to buy more things. I think other people with less money can buy them too.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow LOL Hosmer is a freaking idiot. The Dodgers gave Snell a $52m signing bonus, which is not taxed in Washington where he lives. Thinking any team can just give out $52m checks as guys are walking out of the meeting makes you an idiot.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Ah yes Every team could have given their top prospect for a guy who would quit on them like he did team USA to protect his free agency Just the guy I want to mortgage my future for

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Former player will say anything to try and avoid a salary cap

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Not even fund the deferrals the dodgers do, let alone payroll. It will be refreshing once a single player stops being idiotic and actually speaks the truth.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Well that's a wild take lol

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Facts!

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow Opportunity is not the issue. Three other teams offered packages for Skubal, but the Dodgers still got him.

@TheRealHoz35 @PatMcAfeeShow You cant ask this question to players they obviously will say this BS. The media people will say the same bc they know they won't gave a job during lockout.