The worstest baseball column.

"Santa Claus probably never got a wish list from uberagent Scott Boras. Otherwise, he would have gone out of business a long time ago."

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"Boras suckered Rangers owner Tom Hicks into giving Alex Rodriguez $252 million for 10 years, the richest -- not to mention dumbest -- contract in pro sports."

Oh, please.

I could probably think of 100 worse pro sports contracts off the top of my head.

Steve Francis, Allan Houston, Juan Gonzalez, Darren Dreifort, Eli Manning, Adam Archuleta, Ed Belfour, and ARod's teammates Carl Pavano, Randy Johnson, Jason Giambi, Rick Helling, and Chan Ho Park.

What about Chan Ho Park? Certainly, Chan Ho Park's deal was worse than ARod's:

"Then he talked Hicks into an even worse deal, $65 million over five years, for Chan Ho Park."

So, Alex Rodriguez's deal was the dumbest, but Chan Ho Park's deal was worse.


I think we need to review the meaning of the suffix "-est."


You've got three degrees of comparison:

You start with the absolute: "dumb."

Followed by the comparative: "dumber."

After that, the superlative, and there can only be one superlative: "dumbest."


This exercise may help:

Dumb.

Dumber.

Dumbest.