This constant caterwalling about Merriweather not being anywhere close to Ed Reed, to me, is a shot both at the fans who might be starting to think that the kid is becoming a very good player, and at the man who drafted Merriweather in the first round: Belichick is Austin Powers to Borges’ Dr. Evil (or is it the other way around?), in Ronnie’s mind anyway…you can bet that BB doesn’t give a rat’s ass what that cranky, discredited, plagiarizing jackass thinks of him, and that drives Borges even crazier.

Re: “Where is Ron Borges to scoff and remind us again that Meriweather is closer to Donna Reed than Ed Reed?”

I’m sure you didn’t intend this as a trivial dig at Borges, Bruce, and on a site dedicated to Boston sports media it’s actually quite trenchant. I think we can all agree that Reiss is the new gold standard for sports writing in Boston. But it’s not simply that he does his homework, sticks to the game, and treats his readers with respect. It’s also that he never wastes time going out of his way to take totally gratuitous shots at the professionals whose work he gets paid to cover. In eschewing snarkiness for smartness, he is slowly but surely leading Boston sports writing out of the long, foolish era of the CHB and his cohort who eagerly sacrifice insight and analysis for a chance at a clever line that draws attention to themselves, as in: “Hey look at me, I get to write and ridicule jocks who make more money than any of you shmoes reading me ever will.”

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/massarotti/2009/10/root_root_root_for_new_york.html

Probably better to ignore it. The media around here are truly awful.