Comments on: Approval Ratings - Stephen Harris

By: fornetti

fornetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:44 +0000

I do not believe this

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:34:39 +0000

Next poll will be Brookline High’s own beat writer whose parents don’t even have a photograph of him.

This is getting ridiculous.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:13:35 +0000

He doesn’t matter, like many hockey writers. Please bring on the main courses.

By: Ken Fang

Ken Fang — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:19:15 +0000

That’s not just disturbing, but the guy should be locked up for life.

By: Bill Bleak

Bill Bleak — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:43:36 +0000

I give Harris an APPROVE with 2 thumbs up…good writer and he doesn’t walk around acting like his Bleep don’t stink….. As opposed to STEVE BUCKLEY, TONY MAZZ, SEAN MACADAM, SHANK SHAUGNESSY

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:05:37 +0000

I cannot WAIT till you get to P-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-t (aka John Tomase). Talk about a ‘guy’ (quotes used for emphasis) who’ll get literally strung up.

As for Mr. Harris, if you toil in anonymity, you have a good chance of being APPROVED!!

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:55:39 +0000

I don’t know who this is and wasn’t going to vote until I saw Tony’s post. I vote approve of Stephen Harris….and Tony.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:47:36 +0000

Thanks Sluggo.

No, I’m not Tony Mazz! I for one would NEVER defend ANYTHING that Grady Little did while he was manager of the Red Sox–Mazz probably STILL thinks he made the right move leaving Pedro in Game 7 in 2003, and he’s probably STILL talking down to the Red Sox fans that disagree with him.

Yes, that 25% salary giveback was a huge kick in the jewels for the B’s, because they had a pretty good team coming out of the 2004 season, despite blowing the 3-1 first round series lead to Montreal, and they opted to break it up because they felt that the post-lockout environment would leave them in a better position than all other teams if they only had a few players under contract.

Still, O’Connell simply was overmatched in that job. Hopefully Chiarelli will play the cap smartly, draft well, and the B’s will eventually return to the top of the NHL (given the level playing field the salary cap has created, spending “too much” money should no longer be a concern for them, right Jeremy?)

By: Sluggo

Sluggo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:25:20 +0000

Was not even going to vote until I saw Tony’s comment. He convinced me to vote APPROVE. (Tony, you can’t be Tony Mazz because you know too much about hockey!) I haven’t been reading Harris a while, partly because the whole Herald sports page is SO DEPRESSING. First of all, the whole paper seems thin with all the cutbacks and buyouts. And the stories just don’t add much to the overall knowledge base. I’ll read Bradford, Silverman and Buck on baseball, but Mazz is a lecturing, hectoring, crap-stirring hack who is not informative in the least. On football, Felger is a look-at-me joke and Tomase is a pariah for his irresponsible Super Bowl Saturday stunt. Not much of an NBA fan. So I have not been visiting the bostonherald.com much at all and have missed Harris’ reportage. But his observation, recounted by Tony, is astute, as T. Sarandis would say. (Plus the NHLPA stabbed Jacobs in the back with the 25% salary giveback, which enabled teams with players under contract to keep them at lower pay. JJ. Harry and MO’C were looking for a flooded market of cheaper quality players, and that didn’t happen.)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:18:58 +0000

I am thirsting for the blood of Pete Shepard.