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What's the worst sports trade of all time?
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whatsinaname
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Madrid selling Makelele...
(Bayern selling Kroos in recent times.)
(Bayern selling Kroos in recent times.)
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The '46-'95 Cleveland Browns for the '99-Present Cleveland Browns.
Randolph Freelander
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I would like to inform the NBA that I am willing to take far less to do nothing.
Adam Silver, you have my number.
Ninja Scooter
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The Titans traded for a bunch of shitty draft picks in exchange for the opportunity to draft future Hall of Famer and all around hunk Jared Goff.
JinjoUnchained
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As a Dodgers fan, this one hurts the most personally. "Hey, we still have the best Martinez brother and Delino is hitting pretty well."
Logic like that is how you go 15 years without a playoff win.
Randolph Freelander
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It's not like the 65-95 Browns were all that.
Although we all remember the times they got jobbed by Elway and the Broncos.
I'm going to go with a trade that doesn't seem that important, but was just another trade that benefited the Cowboys.
Charles Hayley being traded from the 49ers to the Cowboys. Hayley was a damn good outside linebacker and the 49ers traded him in the prime of his career.
This trade, combined with the Cowboys drafting due to the Walker trade, set them up for 3 Super Bowl titles in a 4 year span (and very easily could have been 4 in a row if not for the 49ers beating them in 94).
The seeds that won the Ravens first Super Bowl were being setup in Cleveland. There very easily could have been a Lombardi trophy in Cleveland had the franchise not moved.
Charles Hayley being traded from the 49ers to the Cowboys. Hayley was a damn good outside linebacker and the 49ers traded him in the prime of his career.
This trade, combined with the Cowboys drafting due to the Walker trade, set them up for 3 Super Bowl titles in a 4 year span (and very easily could have been 4 in a row if not for the 49ers beating them in 94).
The seeds that won the Ravens first Super Bowl were being setup in Cleveland. There very easily could have been a Lombardi trophy in Cleveland had the franchise not moved.
This might be the strangest revisionist football history I've seen in a while. Yeah, Ashley Cole might have be great left back but only calling Gallas relatively decent is BS. Dude was a starter for years for the best national team in the world and was one of the best defenders in the EPL for 9-10 years. Also claiming this trade was a reason for Arsenal not winning trophies is laughable
Thornton Reed
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Torres to Chelsea
boxoctosis
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Leeds selling Eric Cantona to Man U for £1m.
Obviously the best deal of all time if you're a Man U fan.
Obviously the best deal of all time if you're a Man U fan.
Carl2291
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Huddersfield Town sold striker Marcus Stewart to Ipswich Town during the 99-00 Division 1 season and sacrificed the chance of reaching the Premier League for a quick profit. Ipswich gained promotion through the playoffs thanks to Stewart's goals while Huddersfield missed out.
The following season, Ipswich finished 5th in the Premier League, with Marcus Stewart scoring 21 goals during the season while Huddersfield Town were relegated to Division 2.
Disaster.
The following season, Ipswich finished 5th in the Premier League, with Marcus Stewart scoring 21 goals during the season while Huddersfield Town were relegated to Division 2.
Disaster.
Lakershead22
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When Lakers dumped Kwame Brown and got Pau Gasol. One of the worst for Lakers haters. Mark Cuban's tears were delicious lol
TheSecondSpitter
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What I learnt from this thread: English people don't know the difference between a sale and a trade.
ViperVisor
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Not the Harden trade.
They got back Kevin Martin to take over the points off the bench role for 1 year. He did that fine. And a 1st Round Pick that turned into Steven Adams.
They got back Kevin Martin to take over the points off the bench role for 1 year. He did that fine. And a 1st Round Pick that turned into Steven Adams.
rootbeerafloat
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Patrick Chung for Matt Cassel
Lazy vs Crazy
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Joe Barry Carroll and Rickey Brown for Kevin McHale and Robert Parish has gotta be up there.
Skellig Gra
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Was gonna say that, yikes
Doctor_Thomas
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Trades aren't really done in the football world though so you'll have to forgive people for talking sports they know. It's generally sales because there's no wage caps or anything like that.
Ninja Scooter
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Washington had their only good/exciting season in like 20 years and probably sold a shit load of jerseys so I think that ended up being a good trade for them even if RG3 was made of glass.
CosmicQueso
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The Herschel Walker trade is the right answer.
But, for some awful baseball trades:
- Montreal sends Pedro Martinez to Boston for Tony Armas Jr and Carl Pavano
- Boston sending Jeff Bagwell to the Astros for Larry Andersen
- John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander
- Mets sending Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi
- McGwire to the Cardinals for 3 scrub pitchers (but he was going to bail in FA anyways, so this one might not be so bad)
But, for some awful baseball trades:
- Montreal sends Pedro Martinez to Boston for Tony Armas Jr and Carl Pavano
- Boston sending Jeff Bagwell to the Astros for Larry Andersen
- John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander
- Mets sending Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi
- McGwire to the Cardinals for 3 scrub pitchers (but he was going to bail in FA anyways, so this one might not be so bad)
JinjoUnchained
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Martin filled Harden's old role, but Harden should have had a much bigger role. Imagine if the Thunder had ditched Scott Brooks and hired Steve Kerr or Mike Budenholzer to run Durant/Westbrook/Harden in a motion offense line up of death, along with Ibaka and [insert replacement level guard]?
That's a championship level core right there. Poor management and coaching screwed it all up.
Sarcastico
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Barcelona trading Samuel Eto'o plus 46 million euros for Inter's Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
ryutaro's mama
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And that shit, along with Dan Gilbert's tears, ultimately fucked us out of CP3.
Randolph Freelander
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If being so bad that they got to draft Ray Lewis counts as a seed, then so be it. But 5 years is an eternity in the NFL (Ravens won SB 35 after the 2000 season), and there were a lot of moves to be made over that time.
For that matter, only 2 members of the last Browns team were even on the Ravens' roster.
Going to go ahead and say the counterfactual 2000 Browns would probably not have achieved the same results, as they wouldn't have made the same moves.
XGRaViSmOrSX
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We're done here folks.
Violence Jack
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The title should include "aside from the Herschel Walker trade" because nothing will ever top that.
But the Nets/Celtics trade ensured the future for the Cs, and Nets will be horrible for many years to come.
The Falcons trading Favre and the Oilers getting rid of Gretzky was some dumb shit as well.
And growing up in Atlanta, the Hawks lost me as a fan when they traded Dominique Wilkins for mediocre players.
But the Nets/Celtics trade ensured the future for the Cs, and Nets will be horrible for many years to come.
The Falcons trading Favre and the Oilers getting rid of Gretzky was some dumb shit as well.
And growing up in Atlanta, the Hawks lost me as a fan when they traded Dominique Wilkins for mediocre players.
The Herschel Walker trade can't be beat.
I will say one that I thought was particularly bad (not for us) was the Greinke-Cain trade. The Brewers got Zack Greinke and Yuniesky Betancourt. The Royals got Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar, Jake Odorizzi, and Jeremy Jeffress.
Greinke and the Brewers went to the playoffs that following year where he kinda shat the bed. The next year, he got traded to the Angels.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo Cain and Alcides Escobar are both All-Stars, both post-season MVPs, and they helped lead the Royals to a World Series win in 2015. Esky is also a Gold Glover and Lorenzo has the most winningest smile in baseball.
I will say one that I thought was particularly bad (not for us) was the Greinke-Cain trade. The Brewers got Zack Greinke and Yuniesky Betancourt. The Royals got Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar, Jake Odorizzi, and Jeremy Jeffress.
Greinke and the Brewers went to the playoffs that following year where he kinda shat the bed. The next year, he got traded to the Angels.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo Cain and Alcides Escobar are both All-Stars, both post-season MVPs, and they helped lead the Royals to a World Series win in 2015. Esky is also a Gold Glover and Lorenzo has the most winningest smile in baseball.
I said there could have been, not that they would have. Had the Browns not moved, they still could have taken Ogden at 4 and they had the 26th pick by trading with San Francisco (which was the pick that took Lewis, and happened before the team moved). Taking not one, but two Hall of Fame players in the first round of a draft rarely happens. That's a solid core to build around.
Obviously, things would have played out differently had they not moved. Things were trending upwards for the franchise even if they didn't move, especially with Ozzie Newsome in the front office.
As a Spurs fan I remember being pretty pissed at the time, George Hill was really good on team. Guess that's why I'm not a GM.
Ninja Scooter
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George Hill became a solid, above average PG, and there's no guarantee Kawhi would have developed the way he did away from SA's organization. It's a regrettable trade for sure, but far from the worst and defensible in context.
Cespedes for Lester was also regrettable.
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DiscoJer
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The funny thing about that trade is it happened because the Cardinals had to move Gary Templeton who flipped out a fan after being heckled for not running to first on an out and Ozzie Smith apparently was in a contract dispute with the Padres (almost mirroring the Steve Carlton trade)
OTOH, Templeton was still a very good player
BaltimoreLarry
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Orioles trading Pete Harnisch, Steve Finley, and Curt Schilling for Glenn Davis who was hur the whole time.
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BoogieWoogie
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I'll defend RG3 until my dying day. He carried the Redskins into the playoffs on his shoulders. Shanahan and Snyder wanted him to stay in the game even though it was clear he was fucked up, he took about three bad hits in a row and he was never the same.
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Ricky Williams for an entire draft and more
Ron Mexico
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It's the Herschel Walker trade.
Somewhere down the list, although it might be a bit controversial to include, would be the '01 Chargers-Falcons deal. Atlanta traded up from 5 to 1 to get Ron Me...I mean Mike Vick. SD got LaDanian Tomlinson at 5 and Drew Brees in the second round.
Before I get killed here-- I thought Vick was the most electrifying athlete I've ever seen play live. His game at Lambeau during the playoffs was one of my favorite moments as a Falcons fan. The biggest problem with that trade is nobody knew how the hell to get there best out of him and with his injury history (in part because he was always running for his life), there wasn't a Vick backup that gave you anything approaching his skill set.
So as exciting and entertaining as he was, I'd take the 2 hall of famers and watch Vick as a Charger.
Somewhere down the list, although it might be a bit controversial to include, would be the '01 Chargers-Falcons deal. Atlanta traded up from 5 to 1 to get Ron Me...I mean Mike Vick. SD got LaDanian Tomlinson at 5 and Drew Brees in the second round.
Before I get killed here-- I thought Vick was the most electrifying athlete I've ever seen play live. His game at Lambeau during the playoffs was one of my favorite moments as a Falcons fan. The biggest problem with that trade is nobody knew how the hell to get there best out of him and with his injury history (in part because he was always running for his life), there wasn't a Vick backup that gave you anything approaching his skill set.
So as exciting and entertaining as he was, I'd take the 2 hall of famers and watch Vick as a Charger.
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Washington professional football team trading for RG3
