Comments on: Another Party At Fenway

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:31:27 +0000

A match made in heaven: Borges and the Herald. Perfect.

By: Classless Concepts

Classless Concepts — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:38:41 +0000

Maybe Borges will write about Boxing since that is what all the kids watch these days…

By: Research Director

Research Director — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:39:13 +0000

In fairness, he left a PT freelance gig for a full time job. Can’t say I blame him.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:06 +0000

Attitude-wise, Andrew is probably right. But I wonder about the skill-fit. The Globe gave Borges lots of inches to fill. And Borges could fill it with generally interesting stuff (when he wasn’t settling personal scores.) At the Herald, he’ll never have the space he got on Sundays or even in his analysis pieces during the week.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:25:04 +0000

The Borges move to the Herald makes a lot of sense. The tabloid atmposphere of Herald is where he probably should have been all along. Its kind of like when A-Rod went to the Yankees- it made complete sense that the greediest player went to the most gluttonuous franchise. In both cases, the employer and employee are very deserving of one another.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:11:06 +0000

Failed Blogger Joins Herald

“Ron Borges, whose ‘Back & Forth’ blog lay dormant for more than three months, has joined the Herald.”

In other news:
Henry Ford traded his fleet of Model T’s for a stable of horses, Bill Gates announced that he will only communicate by semaphore, Bill James revealed a secret plan to turn the Red Sox into the sacrifice-buntingest, small-balliest, Ecksteinorrifickest team in baseball.

New Herald colleague Steve Buckley rejoiced, saying that having a “familiar face like Ronnie give me the same feeling as old-tyme woolen baseball uniforms do what they rub against my skin.”

By: Beaker

Beaker — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:38:50 +0000

“Hi, I’m Ron Borges. You may know me from such memorable columns as ‘Bill Belichick: Why Won’t Satan Wear a Headset?’ and ‘Bill Belichick: He Lied To Drew Bledsoe As He Lay Near Death.’ Great news! I’ve just signed on to fill one of the coveted spots on the Boston Herald’s sports staff. The scrappy tabloid’s ever-shrinking readership and rocky financial outlook are the perfect fit for my street fighter style. I’ll be shooting from the lip, turning over the rocks, and telling it like it is. I’ll try not to tell it like someone else said it is, which got me into some trouble over at that other paper. Ongoing litigation prevents me from talking about that issue, but let me say that it was a totally trumped up charge and the truth on it will come out someday!!!”

By: Rick Mc

Rick Mc — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:18:47 +0000

I thought Borges was always going on about character, being a standup guy and sticking to your word? Must only apply to people he doesn’t like.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:48:47 +0000

Herald: “Sorry, Pats”

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:30:37 +0000

LOL…my thoughts exactly. I guess when your whole cabal develops a hatred for the Internet, you start believing what people like Jay Mariotti and Woody Paige have to say while ignoring the whole bloody world around you. When (not if) the Herald ceases to exist, will Borges grovel back to the ‘evil’ world of the Internet in search of employment. Every door he knocks on should be slammed back in his face with a loud, ‘We’ve seen this movie before.’