STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

One thing I would really like to know...

Why do sports figures - especially managers and coaches who have compiled a long and successful career -- come to the Dallas area and go completely crazy?

Case in point No. 1.

Bill Parcel is hired to coach the Cowboys, bringing in a legacy of championship teams and Super Bowl trophies he has won. His first year he takes a team nobody in this world believes will have a winning season and gets into the playoffs with them.

Now this year, with all the fans expecting an even better performance, the Cowboys are the laughing stock of pro football.

The starting quarterback is 41 year old Vinny Testaverde who has a tremendous completion record when he is throwing to guys in the other color uniform -- and this is happening quite frequently.

The Cowboys are now out of it with no chance to have a winning season and Parcel is still doggedly holding onto Testaverde as his No. 1 quarterback.

Sitting on the bench is Drew Henson, whom the Cowboys mortgaged the farm to sign. He has started one game, was pulled at halftime and the Cowboys will go into summer camp next year without even the foggiest idea as to whether he will ever be able to be the quarterback.

Parcel says it could ruin his career to put him in the lineup and see his confidence destroyed.

Back when Troy Aikman was a rookie his confidence really took a beating -- the Cowboys won one game and lost 15.

Aikman retired as one of the best in the game.



Case in Point No. 2

John Hart comes to Texas with a reputation of being an outstanding general manager who has build several successful major league baseball teams.

Despite the Chan Ho Park disaster the Texas Rangers build a promising young team and last season were in the middle of a pennant chase until the last hand full of games.

The Rangers need a right fielder -- hurt Brad Fullmer who played that position last year had a very anemic batting average and a slim home run total.

At first base is Mark Texiera, who can play any position including right field. Waiting in the wings is Adrain Gonzales a promising first baseman who in a brief trial last year hit major league pitching better and with more power than he did AAA pitching.

So why not move Tex to right and bring up Gonzales?

Too simple -- instead lets spend $5 million on Richard Hidalgo whose record indicates he is Juan Gonzales incarnate.

The Rangers still need a DH and who is Hart going after but John Valentin who hit a whopping .216 last season and was cut by the Chicago Whtie Sox.

Duh!

Since you have already blown 5 mil on Hidalgo how about making him the DH and making the above mentioned moves with Tex and Adrian?

Maybe we can workout a package deal -- make up a package of Hart and Parcel and ship them to the University of Texas in exchange for Mack Brown and two assistants?