But the Patriots are not the Jets. The Patriots are the Nixon White House of sports. They see demons everywhere. They bash dissent, deny the obvious, and rely on a silent majority of loyalists (including some credentialed media) to pledge allegiance.I think you'd have to go back 10 years, or more, to find an example of Shank asking a keen question. I will agree that the Patriots training a camera on the press pool is creepy and, yes, Kremlinesque.
The Patriots have a Kremlinesque video camera trained on the assembled media during Bill Belichick’s press conferences. (Think they’d send me a highlight tape of myself eating cookies and asking keen questions over the last 10 years?) I’ve always wondered whether there is some in-house lackey responsible for logging the tapes and identifying enemies.
Throw in a Red Sox reference in a column ostensibly about the Patriots, and you have another of Shank's templated columns.
UPDATE at 2:25 PM - Tom Brady doesn't want to talk about his contract extension, either. Soviet Premier Belichickov got to comrade Bradovsky somehow...
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In Shank We Should Faithfully Trust?
In his piece today, the Shank admits to knowing how to “play the game”, that he understands the ground rules and then he broadcasts that his shtick is all about selling!
“fascinating game we all play” … Shank is in the ring
“bash dissent, deny the obvious, and rely on a silent majority of loyalists (including some credentialed media) to pledge allegiance” … The Shank’s MO
“distrust and arrogance are a tougher sell when you don’t have the same talent and experience” … sell by propagating distrust and arrogance = THE SHANK
What a piece of work this Shank … always promoting his righteousness … inevitably losing relevance on many fronts.
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You should also give some publicity to Bruce Allen's challenge to Shank on the front page of BSMW in response to this same column.
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