Comments on: It’s The Bay State Now

By: MarkB

MarkB — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:33:57 +0000

Talkin’ talkin’ Manny talk!

By: media-tor

media-tor — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:08:10 +0000

Have to ask after reading Callahan’s column–is by definition a columnist allowed to have it both ways, or perhaps more specifically all ways?

I don’t necessarily have a problem with Gerry ripping Manny the way he did, but should Jason Bay go 0-for his first ten Boston ABs with the bases loaded, can he come back and write another column saying he doesn’t care how nice a guy Bay is, he needs to hit better in the clutch?

Even for a columnist’s job it just doesn’t seem right to me they should be able to do that without any sort of repercussions.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:50:02 +0000

Not soon, but nice work jumping to conclusions. If you chose to ignore the work of Gordon Edes or Rob Bradford or any of the other beat writers who covered this story plenty straight, that’s your loss.

If the public would stop talking about the awful work submitted by columnists who are paid to get people talking, your issues would magically disappear.

By: mandb97

mandb97 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:29:26 +0000

Next up Jason Varitek (Don’t worry about the local media, they always find somebody to hammer.)

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:29 +0000

It’s sad and frustrating to have to read the national press to honestly know what happened with Manny. While local columnists write things to get people talking about them, they lose more credibility for the papers they write for. I guess it’s the Tomase/Borges syndrome.

News delivery is changing and the newspapers will be the last ones to figure it out and then it will be too late. How soon before Reiss can’t handle a loss of credibility by being associated with The Globe?