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Bless his heart, indeed"good lord but you are dumb. bless your heart."
That was a comment from Mac Engel's column on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's webpage. Titled "The Rangers better sell a lot of T-shirts to make up for the 6 yr deal for Yu," it is by far the worst piece of sports journalism in Dallas-Fort Worth over the past ... let's say five years. In a town with Jean-Jacques Taylor, Tim McMahon and Tim Cowlishaw, that's saying something.
To be honest, I've never given Engel much thought. Frankly, he's better known as "Jenn Floyd's husband." "Innocuous" is a pretty good adjective for him. "Bland" is another.
With his wife's departure to FOX Sports, Mac is stepping up to the big boy table. Yes. Mac Engel is abrasive and in your face.
It's also very desperate. In fact, he sounds mildly retarded.
In an earlier column, he said the Texas Rangers should never, ever deal with Scott Boras because he's just such a shyster and ... well, a sports agent. Nevermind that Boras represents a lot of good players. And that the Rangers deal with Boras all of the time, including the Adrian Beltre, Ryan Spilborghs, Prince Fielder and Kevin Millwood.
Also, forget that never dealing with Boras would put you squarely behind the eight ball in free agency and the MLB Draft, where the Rangers have made their name.
In the Yu Darvish column, Engel got so into being abrasive and over the top that he forgot that merchandise sales goes to Major League Baseball, not the Texas Rangers (Engel apparently teaches journalism at TCU ... his first lesson: Ignore fact checking. It's gay).
He concludes by stating that the Darvish deal is risky and not one that he would have made. He writes:
From a baseball standpoint, this deal only works if the Rangers win the World Series and he is a contributing member to the cause. Yu has to be a celebrity ace that this team currently lacks.
Umm. What? That's the most idiotic way to look at free agency. In theory, is every major contract given to a professional athlete only worth it if the franchise wins a title?
He might have a fucking point here. Or not. If Engel is right here, then 99 percent of all contracts are complete wastes of time. Miami should have never gotten Lebron James. Cleveland should have never had tried to keep him.
On the other hand, the Dallas Mavericks are genius at giving Brendan Haywood $55 million. The Baltimore Ravens' addition of Trent Dilfer was clearly the best of all time. Meanwhile, the Texas Rangers utterly failed by adding Adrian Beltre.
So, the lesson here is either to not spend in free agency or to spend in free agency and win a title. Mac Engel should be a general manager.
Instead, he's an abrasive journalist! Get this guy on TV!
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