Comments on: A Mixed Bag on Tuesday

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:38:33 +0000

Smells like a little bit of a conspiracy…

By: Classless

Classless — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:01:54 +0000

I think Karen Guregian should apologize for the recycled, pre-planned garbage she’s churned out for the past month. She might be the most underrated worst sports writer in New England.

By: Classless

Classless — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:59:51 +0000

They should apologize for all the wasted ink they’ve used with their tripe articles.

By: mandb97

mandb97 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:57:32 +0000

The Big Lead just hammered Shaughnessy.

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2010/02/09/dan-shaughnessy-furthers-the-demise-of-newspaper-sports-columnists/#comments

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:11:41 +0000

My thoughts exactly Tony. But I haven’t care about Shank for 9 years – his shtick was transparent from the first column I read of his.

I think even DJ Gallo wrote a piece about CHB:
http://www.sportspickle.com/article:610/if-the-players-asked-the-media-day-questions

It’s not my thing to push another site but this is who immediately came to mind with the “controversy.”

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:34:36 +0000

Actually, I rely on Bruce’s recaps of Shank’s work here, for the most part–I don’t read anything he’s writes (unless it’s on a topic about which I think he may actually have a sincere opinion or some actual knowledge). In the case of “Manning is better than Brady,” I didn’t even rely on Bruce’s recap: all I needed to read was the headline to know what the entire column would be like.

Shank’s been around for a long time, and he’s been mailing it in for at least half the time he’s been around at this point–it’s all very, very predictable and it usually follows a formulaic template.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:23 +0000

I want to live long enough to see Harvard/Northeastern in a Beanpot FINAL.

By: Tiki

Tiki — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:21 +0000

Tony I think Dan himself would thank you for validating his job description as a columninst. The fact that you can’t stand the way he treats football/Pats but continue to read and even disect his work shows that he is on his A game.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:43:47 +0000

The “apology” makes me believe even more my original theory that Shank wrote the “Manning is better than Brady” article strictly to tick-off Patriots fans–something that he LOVES to do–and that he really didn’t believe in what he was writing. He really doesn’t even like football. Read any of his baseball books and you’ll eventually come to the parts where he criticizes the game basically as a “non-thinking man’s” sport.

In my view, anything Shank writes about the Patriots or football is all about generating a response from the fans. If it’s about baseball or basketball, two sports he actually likes and knows something about, then there’s a chance that he’s being honest in his opinions.

By: Hieronymous

Hieronymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:23:24 +0000

Anyone else find it curious that both Shaugnessy this morning, and now Albert Breer, have posted apologias for their picking the Colts?

I KNOW it’s out of character for Shaugnessy, but to have both of them now do it seems almost like an editorial decision to me.

Just thinking out loud.