Comments on: Friday Ramblin’s

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15:59 +0000

so what happened to John Dennis?

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:59:23 +0000

if it was an editorial I would say yeah. But everytime a Globe writer writes a sports business story you need to drag up that the company that owns the globe was part of the Red Sox ownership. Seems pretty distracting from the story at hand, unless it is a story about the Redsox ownership it does not seem any more relevant than the fact that the Celtics used to own EEI, or the Bruins/Red Sox ownership of NESN, or any other of the many media sports overlaps.

Chad Finn media articles are not really supposed to be any more objective than a movie review it is what he thinks about what is happening in the media with a few bits of information. The other article was a fairly dry one telling of the ESPN/Kraft partnership I did not see any slant to it from the writer.

The NYT stake in the Sox is pretty much public record and has been mentioned in a multitude of stories and columns over the years it is hardly hidden. They own a lot of real estate too should they mention that in every real estate story as well?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:09:25 +0000

The fear over at WEEI is what happens to the number of listeners if the Patriots continue to struggle. There also can’t be an over-abundance of optimism for the Red Sox. For the fringe suburb areas that struggle to pull in WEEI before the sun comes up and after it goes down, 98.5 is turning into more than a ‘we’re not worried about them’ competitor.

By: Classless

Classless — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:51:33 +0000

I agree. Just because Garbage is on a different radio station doesn’t mean it’s tastier Garbage. Mazz is a top 5 hack in this town.

By: ben

ben — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:22:17 +0000

Thought it was interesting that Jenn Abelson did the story as, until recently, she has covered retail for the the Globe. As such, she has crafted story after story touting the Krafts retail project to the point where it appeared that the Globe was carrying water for the Krafts in order to generate ad revenue from the project and/or access from the Pats.

The fact is, the media members may be trained to be objective but the business model puts them into conflict. Look at today’s Globe and boston.com. Not only a story on a new Asian market in Burlington but a video as well?? Has to be an advertising angle (or the hope of such). No way should it command that presence in and of itself. With the decline in ad revenue, i’m sure there’s more and more pressure to employ the Phantom Gourmet model to “news” coverage.

By: Boston Dan

Boston Dan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:51:37 +0000

I’ve quit WEEI completely, but Tony Mazz still sucks. He’s just as much as a no nothing know it all as the hacks on WEEI. Tony has been telling us all along that they would never in a million years bench Varitek in the playoffs. Whoops!

And just yesterday he was going on and about how Beckett’s prior postseason performance would be the biggest thing Tito, Theo, Farrell and scouts would look at before making the obvious choice of Beckett as playoff Ace. Whoops again!

It’s just like last season when the idiot sportswriters were telling us the Tampa Bay Rays would flop completely in the playoff because of a lack of so-called playoff experience.

Were corrections issued all around? Not that I’ve ever heard.

Their entire base of knowledge is nothing but cliched bullshit. Tony is one of them.

By: Rick Mc

Rick Mc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:35:50 +0000

I agree with Bruce and would go further. The Kraft Group has agreed to provide a business service for ESPNBoston.com. But The Boston Globe is supposed to objectively cover the Red Sox. And, in what I think is a more relevant comparison, where are the Globe’s statements about their interest in covering NASCAR, BC sports, and other events that Fenway Sports Group, or whatever the name is, has a finger in?

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:00:06 +0000

You so nailed this, KF. I’m sure they’ve promoted it as a Big Show visit from a long-lost friend, or something lame like that. If neither Stearns nor Dickerson are working on TV tonight, there’s was no reason why one of them couldn’t have appeared with Ordway this afternoon.

The whole mix-up method reminds of when I was a kid listening to the radio. Whenever the morning deejay would take a week off the midday guy would fill in for him and then the sub would take the midday shift. Guess it was like throwing the midday guy a bone so for a week more people would hear him. And anyone remember the April Fools Day stunt a few years back when Sajak & Trebek switched places hosting ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and ‘Jeopardy’?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:49:30 +0000

Perhaps not, but by not acknowledging their own, greater conflict of interest/relationship with another team in town, the Globe submarines their own credibility on the matter. What else aren’t they telling us? It’s a slippery slope. Better to just acknowledge it, and then weigh in on the Patriots/ESPN matter.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:48:44 +0000

Is there really any point to bringing the Red Sox/Globe conflicts into a Patriots story? It is not as if it was a conflict of Chad Finn’s making and it does not make his opinion of the ESPN/Patriots set up any less valid.