Not sure what the point of today’s column was except that he had to write about something. A basic rehash of the Red Sox loss, with no analysis at all (unless catcher Josh Bard’s apparent difficulty in catching the knuckeball was somehow responsible for Tim Wakefield’s getting shelled).
His sendoff -- "Might be time to panic. First Foulkie. Now Bard. And the Sox are one out in the loss column. How soon before somebody says they're playing for the wild card?" -- is hopefully a bit of sarcasm, but with the CHB, who knows?
Man love: Josh Beckett is again referred to as "stud starter." Let's hope that Shaughnessy learns to keep it in his pants around the kid. Pedophilia is a crime, even in Massachussets.
And are we going to be subject to daily updates on Johnny Damon? It's not like he's the first guy ever to leave the Red Sox.
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You let him off the hook on this one, dude. First off he takes a shot at somebody (I'm assuming Bellhorn) when he says that Hasselman doesn't have to yell at Loretta to get back on pickoff throws. Am I missing something there? And since when did Theo and the rest of management decide that it wasn't important who caught Wakefield. If I remember correctly, Mirabelli was traded before Theo had returned. It may be semantics, but technically Theo didn't trade Mirabelli, so technically Theo didn't decide what was and wasn't important to Wakefield. This might even be more important if management's disregard for Wakefield were even true. It was documented before and at the beginning of spring training that Wakefield was going to have major input in deciding who his catcher was going to be. But I guess that's too far back for Ronald McDonald to remember. And finally, his multiple digressions in this column is laughable. He goes off out of nowhere that Beckett is pitching thee home opener and that nobody should be worried about him being overwhelmed. Thanks for the reassurance, but I don't recall anybody worrying about Beckett being overwhelmed for the home opener to begin with. And who cares about his or how Damon did last night? The column was supposed to be about how things went bad last night for Wakefield (I think). How would Damon have affected Wakefield differently last night. Does he think Damon should be Wakefield's personal catcher? This is one of his worst coulmns ever. I can't believe how bad it is, even for him.
Well I called it semantics because I don't think anything was done without consulting with Theo over the winter. But that doesn't change the fact that the claim in his column is wrong on its basis. I can't say enough how brutal this column was.
To jk9898- Get back Loretta - Words from a Beatles song, nothing to do with Bellhorn, just a little joke.
Ah yes, another CHB staple: The cultural reference few under age 50 will grasp.
That column was Shanktastic. A shot at talk radio when he is suggesting the same point. Random digressions (Beckett, Damon) that do nothing except fill his column. Quotations used to fill space. And, ultimately, no F-ing point at all. A waste of space.
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