That'd be a foul If you consider that at some point this year FC Dallas started their season, that makes five.
It's also worth considering that there hasn't been a moment in Dallas-Fort Worth sports history that there's been such sloppy play.
The Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars and, now, the Dallas Mavericks are playing really, really sloppy ball and puck.
Penalties, lack of attention to detail, errors, dropped passes, turnovers and everything bad in between has infected our sports teams.
How sloppy were the Dallas Mavericks tonight in their 91-90 home loss to the Memphis Grizzlies?
The Mavs shot 47 percent. The Grizz shot 38 percent.
That just doesn't happen.
The Mavs committed 18 turnovers and the Grizz collected 11 steals, several of which in the last two minutes of the game.
The Grizz also matched the Mavs on the boards (45, each) despite the Mavericks having seven-footers out the wazoo. It killed them in the final seconds when Marc Gasol (who ate the Mavs' lunch all night long) got an offensive rebound around Tyson Chandler and got fouled to take the lead. The Grizz had an unacceptable 14 offensive rebounds.
Then there was the Keystone Cops routine with the final in-bounds that Jason Kidd eventually handed to O.J. Mayo to seal the win.
On paper, the Mavericks look great. On paper, so do the Rangers, Stars and Cowboys. But one's about to be swept in the World Series, another's 1-5, the Mavs are losing silly games to the Grizz at home and the Stars are taking the quick dive to mediocrity.
Don't these franchises hire coaches and managers?
