There are a lot of reasons why Phil Mackey sucks, but here is the biggest: He fell ass-backwards into a job and actually gets paid to do what most of us do for free in our spare time anyway, i.e. watch sports and write/talk about them. And yet, in spite of the falling ass-backwards into this job, he thinks it automatically makes him smarter and more knowledgeable about sports than everyone who is not a sports talking head/"writer". He's also the world's foremost expert on playing poker. Just ask him.