Since we need new thread topics here on the forum, I figured this might amuse some people. I got an email a little while ago, the contents of which read:

First: I've never talked to the guy, so his sales pitch needs work. :lol:

Second: let this be a lesson to you. If you steal Universaldraft's hard work and get exposed on Armando Salguero's blog, you too will be stuck selling football tickets during a lockout.

 

I am 99.999999999% certain this is the same guy. :evil:

 

Do you need his contact information? I didn't include it in the quoted excerpt, but… :shifty:

 

A couple of years ago, in response to the Sun-Sentinel's Universaldraft segments in Dave Hyde's column, the Miami Herald found a guy named Chris Cordero, an amateur talent evaluator who was looking to get his name out there in order to get hired as a scout. He got space in Armando Salguero's blog and wrote up his evaluation of the incoming draft class. At one point, he copy-pasted a table of player rankings from a Universaldraft column, rearranged one or two of the player rankings, and published it in Salguero's blog as his own work.

The UD guys caught it immediately. A crapstorm ensued as Salguero and the Herald initially ignored, then halfheartedly defended Cordero. Eventually it became nothing short of obvious that Cordero had simply ripped off the UD guys' work. Without announcement, retraction, or apology, Cordero's articles in Salguero's blog disappeared and he was never heard from again.

Now he's reappeared in the equivalent of football purgatory, selling tickets during a lockout. The ticket sales office is not quite the scouting job he wanted. :lol: