Comments on: Lester Falters Again in Loss to Twins

By: Arnold

Arnold — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:25:22 +0000

“If it bleeds, it leads.”

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:10:02 +0000

Part of the problem is that some people in the media are obsessed with negativity. About a year ago, the ESPN alternative to the Big Show had the consensus opinion that the Pats losing the Super Bowl was a bigger story than the C’s winning the Championship. I honestly believe if you polled some of these clowns on the best moment in Boston sports history, you’d get the 2008 Superbowl, Bucky Dent, too many men on the ice, Magic’s sky hook, Buckner, Glen Wesley missing the open net, Grady’s brain fart, etc etc…

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:07:21 +0000

He and a lot of his “old guard” brethren over at the “17 percent” shop still haven’t accepted the fact that football (i.e. The Patriots) has either caught or surpassed baseball (i.e. the Red Sox) in popularity, even here in this “baseball town” with the “lyrical little bandbox of a ballpark.”

Remember the fit that Shaughnessy, Ryan and a bunch of other Globies threw back in 2004 when the Patriots’ Super Bowl win over the Rams was voted as the greatest moment in Boston sports history in a Globe online poll, ahead of the Red Sox 2004 World Series win? They were fit to be tied and accused a small legion of Patriots fans of “stuffing the ballot box” in order to rig the outcome.

It’s a pure fantasy world over there on Morrissey Blvd.–a world where it’s always October 1, 1967, and Yaz is batting with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th against Dean Chance.

By: Butch

Butch — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:45:54 +0000

I rarely read Shaughnessy at all anymore (just too annoying) but I most definitely don’t read anything he writes about the Patriots. I don’t know what his problem is but he can’t write a column about them without throwing in several wise ass remarks. Come to think of it, I’ve seen him throw in wise ass remarks about the Patriots when the column is about THE RED SOX. The guy is an irritant, like a pesky fly at a cookout.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:21 +0000

There MUST be repercussions to Shaughnessy’s comments: ‘it’s rare when anybody at Gillette grants an interview of substance without cash changing hands.’ What a charge! Just because no one speaks to Shaughnessy doesn’t grant him some license to dream up the reason why. He needs to be taken out, literally or figuratively. Either way is fine by me.

By: Boston Dan

Boston Dan — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:15 +0000

“”I think, for the most part, when you look back, it can come down to one pitch,” manager Terry Francona said. It’s almost the same thing as Seattle.”

Lester = shades of Beckett in 2006. Tito issued this quote after nearly every start and he finished the season with a 5.01 ERA and 36 home runs allowed in 33 starts.

By: DaveR

DaveR — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:02:08 +0000

I wish everyone would stop talking about Mauer. One of two things will happen with him:

(1) He will decide that he wants to stay in Minny, and will reach an agreement with the Twins before he ever hits the market; or

(2) He will decide that he wants to get paid, in which case the Yankees will offer DOUBLE whatever the Red Sox offer him.

There is no way — NO WAY — that Joe Mauer is coming to Boston. Period. I am 100% confident that the Yanks will pay whatever it takes — $30M/year, $40M/year, $50M/year — to keep him away from the Sox and put him in pinstripes.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:55:56 +0000

You gotta love Shaughnessy sometimes. Here’s the ultimate media whore complaining that “money has to change hands” for the Pats to grant interviews “of substance.”

The scary part is that he doesn’t even realize the level of his own hypocrisy.