Professionalism: Something You Won't Get From Carlos Delgado's Agent

There was once a time when I briefly thought about being a sports agent. I'm not sure why. Maybe I was drunk or something. After all, it seems to take a special kind of jackass to be a sports agent, see Drew Rosenhaus.

But as bad as Rosenhaus is, there are apparently agents even worse than him out there, like Carlos Delagdo's agent, for example.

This weekend New Jersey Star-Ledger reporter Dan Graziano got into an email firestorm with Delgado's agent, David Sloane, who was disputing the terms of Delgado's contract as written in a Graziano story. Sloane, who's known to be, uh, sort of unprofessional, didn't disappoint.

[Sloane] "Apologize this retard, he's making 16 this year WITH an option for next year @ 16 or a buyout @ 4. Nice research by you but then I guess that whole concept of fact finding escapes you huh? They didn't teach that on the short bus did they?"

[Graziano] "That a joke too? You're a funny guy."

[Sloane:] "So's your Mom."

Oh snap! They're meeting at 3pm behind the school to settle the score.

Actually Graziano wasn't all that bad in the email exchanges, but Sloane was. Sort of makes you wonder how he has any clients.

But then again, why should Sloane pay any attention to what other people think? Carlos Delgado's sucked harder than a turbo-charged vacuum cleaner for the last 3 years and yet he seems to think he's still worth $16 million. These two idiots were made for each other.


[HT: Met's Blog, Fanhouse]