Remember when NFTs were a thing? Non-Fungible Tokens? It was an image, available only digitally, that was treated like art hanging in a gallery.
It’s an image that only exists on a computer screen. Not a painting or a sculpture or photograph or a work of a master. It’s a PDF. But people paid millions of dollars for the right to have that image on their computer. It was an investment. It was a scam.
The whole silly ordeal came crashing down when people finally came to their senses and said, “Wait, we’re paying millions of dollars for what?” That whole silly time in modern history came to mind last night while watching MacKenzie Gore pitch for the Rangers. One can’t help thinking, “Wait, they paid what? For that?”
Gore is the NFT of pitchers. The Rangers emptied their minor league prospect bank for Gore. They traded five players for him, including their recently picked first round choice in the 2015 draft.
A king’s ransom for a mediocre five-inning pitcher who bleeds earned runs like a hemophiliac. Five prospects for a career 4.17 ERA pitcher who strikes out a lot of batters in between all the runs he gives up.
The Rangers are stuck with Gore just like those poor saps who paid millions of dollars for the “right” to have a digital image on their computer are stuck with a silly PDF they can’t really show anyone, and nobody wants to see anyway.
At least with an NTF, you’re not forced to open the file every five days and remind yourself of the money you poured down the drain for it.
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