Trade Annoucements

[David Yun]

Dee is trading:

DeAndre Hopkins
Giovani Bernard

Joel is trading:

Rob Gronkowski

[David Yun]

Dee accepts

[Zeke]

Accepted

[trebuchet]

Is this trade going to be posted on ESPN for the rest of the league to review and vote on before it goes through?

[David Yun]

It's posted here for review. I've sent plenty of emails and notes for people to pay attention. And I thought we were over vetoing trades except in the case of clear collusion (which has yet to happen).

If you feel you need to vote no, kick off the discussion right here.

[trebuchet]

No need. Just wanted make sure the other owners were aware of what was going down.

[David Yun]

Yeah, I didn't want to use the system to make the transaction until our draft was done. I've already had to fix several roster errors I made. I was going to do it manually, but you had a point. We conducted the transaction via the ESPN site mechanics.

[David Yun]

For the record (mostly for the newcomers), we don't vote on trades. Each time it happened was a needless fiasco. Examples off the top of my head:

-Andrew Luck for Aaron Rodgers. We forced the person giving up Luck to throw in Larry Fitz. Inconsequential.

-A swap involving Fred Jackson for CJ Spiller. Fred-Jax outproduced Spiller down the stretch I think, reversing the objection. Either way, soooo didn't matter.

-I traded DeMarco Murray away for Reggie Bush, trying to make a single year playoff push. I thoroughly lost that deal in the long run (and I'm 0-fer in playoff matches), even though the fuss was about me "trade raping" my trade partner.

We're all big boys and girls, and able to make our own decisions. We all have different valuations, and are subject to the whims of fate regardless. The only reason for us to step in and quash something, is if it's CLEAR that the league is deliberately being wrecked.