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Carlos Delgado Has a Mature Agent

Mets reporter Dan Graziano of the Newark Star-Ledger reported on Sunday that the Florida Marlins are paying $4 million of Carlos Delgado’s $16 million salary for this season, as a condition of the trade that sent Delgado to the Mets in 2005. Of course, this would mean that New York is responsible for $12 million of Delgado’s 2008 salary.

David Sloane, the agent for the Mets first baseman, sent Graziano an email yesterday telling him that the report was inaccurate. When Graziano asked Sloane to idenfity the mistake he made in the article, Sloane simply replied with the following email: “Ask your unreliable sources to look it up again.” And heeeere we go.

Click the link for the full email exchange between the two, but what essentially followed was a scene from your local elementary school’s playground. Sloane ended up playing the part of the third-grade bully:

“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?”

Uh huh. An agent for a Major League Baseball player wrote those three sentences in a message to a newspaper reporter. Anyways, this is how the conversation ended:

Graziano: “That a joke too? You’re a funny guy.”

Sloane: “So’s your Mom.”

Oh snap! Sloane then stated that Graziano’s mama is so stupid, she sat on the TV and watched the couch.

Kudos to Graziano for egging Sloane on during the conversation, and leading the agent into a brilliant trap: By the end, the only comeback Sloane could muster up was an unfunny “Your Mom!” line. Sloane also gets poor marks for his “short bus” joke — seriously dude, those disses wouldn’t even piss off an eight-year-old, much less a professional journalist.

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