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Monday, September 13, 2010

Mountain... Molehill

Randy Moss plays right into Shank's hands with his post-game press conference.

FOXBOROUGH — It would be overstating things to claim that we’ve never heard or seen anything like this before. We have, after all, seen Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch, and there was the night in Miami when Billy Sullivan yanked coach Chuck Fairbanks off the field before the start of a game. We watched Roger Clemens set himself on fire in Oakland and Don Zimmer make a bull rush for Pedro Martinez.
The only thing that's overstated is Shank's reaction to it. To compare this presser to Tom Cruise jumping on a couch is absurd, as are the Oil Can Boyd / Manny Ramirez comparison. The column drips with lame metaphors and subtle (and not so subtle) digs at the Patriots organization. I cannot take this column as seriously as Shank would like us to. His agenda is pretty obvious.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I find this line particularly disingenuous: "He was asked about his behavior at the Patriots’ annual charity event (Moss wore his headphones throughout and did not interact with anyone). He said he didn’t want to get into that, adding, “my music was whatever I wanted to listen to.’’"

He was asked???? I watched that, I recognized Shanks voice asking that question ... why not say "I asked"?