Comments on: Dan Pompei on Boston Herald, Spygate.

By: Corner Blitz

Corner Blitz — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:42:09 +0000

Frank hits the nail on the head. Again. The sad thing about Felger is that at one time he was one of the best at debunking the popular line and taking on the cows he now grazes with. Brady-Bledsoe, he was one of the few that nailed it early on and predicted success for the Belichick regime. He took shots from McAdam over Garciaparra, (the Mr. Baseball crack) and again was proven correct. He then took a verbal thrashing from Peter Gammons over Manny, resulting in great soundbites followed by a weak mea culpa from the Sleepy One when it was shown that he wrote a column months earlier that echoed Felger’s comments to the letter. He has crossed over to the Dark Side now, having learned at the feet of Ordway that it doesn’t pay to hold truth in high regard.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:25:19 +0000

And that is exactly why Felger has pretty much become a joke in the eyes and ears of most sports fans around here.

His contarian, ratings driven view coupled with the Callahan type of cocksure, smarminess exemplifies all that is wrong with Boston media.

They think they are the story and people really care what they think. I imagine Sirius subscriptions owe a dept of gratitude to Felger, Callahan and the rest of their media whores with inadequate microphones.

By the way doesn’t this adjective define Felger??

Smarmy:

smarmy

adjective
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; “buttery praise”; “gave him a fulsome introduction”; “an oily sycophantic press agent”; “oleaginous hypocrisy”; “smarmy self-importance”; “the unctuous Uriah Heep”; “soapy compliments

By: MarkB

MarkB — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:25:52 +0000

Felger spent all afternoon suggesting that there WAS a tape of the Rams walk-through, but somehow Walsh’s dog ate it or something. Sports reporters have to look up to see a used car salesman’s belly.

By: EC

EC — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:38:08 +0000

One interesting sidelight. If, as Pompei states in his article, the Herald was not the only outlet that had the information it printed Feb. 2, the day before the Super Bowl, then the other media outlets know whether Walsh’s attorney is telling the truth when he claims that Walsh was not the Herald’s source. If that’s the case, then shouldn’t these other outlets tell us who their source was? The public has a right to know whether Walsh’s attorney is telling the truth or lying. Seems like the media knows the answer but isn’t disclosing it. Why?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:18:16 +0000

Hear! Hear! The sports media cabal in Boston is WAY too big. Indeed, a career that requires nothing more than an interest in sports, free travel, and free food is bound to attract the, shall we say, ‘lesser talents’ on planet earth. So we have Wal-Mart door greeters disguised as TV anchors (hello, Butch Stearns); radio hosts (hello, John Dennis); and newspaper hacks (hello, John Tomase). Too many flies around too little garbage, so they all bang into each other. So, what to do? Invent stuff, embellish stuff, shout louder, and generally act like you know more than everyone else. That sort of MO gets people into trouble, as people like Borges et al now know…and Tomase soon will.

By: EC

EC — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:15:44 +0000

OTOH, Harvey Araton (you may remember him as the author of a book in which he claims that Red Auerbach was a racist) has the following incomprehensible article in today’s NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/sports/football/09araton.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=c65800f0ec50350f&ei=5087%0A

He apparently believes that the Walsh tapes warrant a year’s suspension by the NFL. Why that is is harder to decipher.

By: DaveR

DaveR — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:55:21 +0000

Kudos to Dan Pompei for the most sensible article about this subject in months.