Wow, I think I just found a new hobby: trashing brain-dead sports writers!

by Malachi V on May 13, 2009 12:51 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

I was joking when I posted on my prior post that for my next trick I was going to pick on Armando Salguero, but then I read his latest masterpiece:

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2009/05/ill-be-the-first-to-admit-that-i-often-view-the-draft-through-the-prism-of-what-the-player-is-likely-to-do-or-not-do-for-the.html

That's just a fantastic idea, let's grade our draft on the players that we didn't pick. Doesn't he get the point that those players don't just succed due to their talent, but to their SURROUNDING TALENT as well? Is he so brainless to believe that if Nicks has a great career than maybe it's because Nicks has a better supporting cast? Did he forget that our more pressing need was CB and not WR? IS HE STUPID!?!?! I think the answer is yes to all three questions. Here's a reader comment that just gave me the giggles:

Armando
I think I read just about everything you write but this may have been the dumbest thing I have ever read and I believe I'm stupider-er for having read it!
So by your logic when NE got brady in the 7th round that made every other team in the NFL's draft a bad draft! Because everyone picked before him pails in compairison?!?! I should be able to go on and on here but my brain just went numb from trying to figure out your logic for this!

Posted by: Joe c | May 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM

Oh...MY....GOD!!! Here's an idea: let's all rush the Miami Herald, drag out Salguero and Cote (we'll leave the other sports writers for now, they haven't pissed me off yet), strip them, tar and feather them, kick 'em between the legs then break their computers/typewriters/pencils/hands to make sure they never write again.

Then we kick 'em between the legs again... each person one kick... I get two, since it's my idea.

Alright, that's enough out of me. Two rants within two days: I'm just surpassing myself. Let the hilarity commence.

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by NJDolphan68 on May 13, 2009 1:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Does the Glory Hole

have to be cut bigger because of your big hairy balls? I can’t believe I started going down this path again. But I’m posting thru tears of laughter, even as I type I have to stop to cackle.

Just when you think Armando has said the stupidest thing, he comes up with an even stupidder post. I think he needs a hat, cause the Florida sun is baking his brain right down his part.

What a moron. What a stupid-ass moron. And he r-e-a-l-l-y thinks he has superior knowledge, in writing, and in sports info.

He stupifies.

by Alpha6 on May 13, 2009 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

As much as I don't like Armando

I don’t have an issue with what he wrote. We all as fans do this type of thing all the time. On this site alone it is done almost daily. Right before the draft when we were discussing the possibility of getting Boldin from the Cards, how many people wrote that they were shocked that the phins took Eddie Moore at 49 in ’03 instead of Boldin (who went 54 to the Cards)? Its the same thing that Armando is saying.

Every bad draft pick made by a NFL team gets evaluated by fans with “we could have had so and so who was still on the board”. I don’t see the big deal.

by ct1361 on May 13, 2009 2:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs