Adrian Gonzalez on Monday. Carl Crawford on Wednesday. In between those acquisitions, we had Bill Belichick and Tom Brady (best record in the conference) blistering the Blowhard Jets on “Monday Night Football’’ and a Celtic edition (best record in the conference) with four or five Hall of Famers dismissing the Denver Nuggets on ESPN.In other words, forget everything I've said about these teams in the past few months! There's no better example of Weathervane Dan than this column.
This is New England professional sports in December 2010, and it is downright ridiculous. It’s a glut of talent, success, and celebrity, and no American city has seen anything like it.
Onward for more statements with expiration dates:
I take back everything I was thinking about John Henry losing interest and commitment after buying a soccer team. I hereby purge “run prevention’’ and “bridge’’ from my laptop. I shall mock NESN no more. The Red Sox once again are hotter than Jonathan Kraft’s temper and might get ratings for PFP (pitcher’s fielding practice) come late February. Truck Day can’t come soon enough.The over / under bets start at 4 months.
Shank finishes off his column with a few predictions, which should make all of us nervous:
No more crying about the Yankees. Your team has become the Yankees. Sit back and enjoy it while you wait for the Patriots in Super Bowl XLV and the Celtics and Heat in the Eastern Conference finals.
Gads, as soon as Shank pens this piece Brandon Spikes gets suspended for the rest of the regular season - if the Patriots fall to the Bears, we'll have to blame The Curse Of Shank.
ReplyDelete" No more crying about the Yankees. Your team has become the Yankees. Sit back and enjoy it while you wait for the Patriots in Super Bowl XLV and the Celtics and Heat in the Eastern Conference finals"
ReplyDeleteanother LAME Shank ploy. (even though he's being patronizing) say that all the teams are great and going to win their championships. Then if they fail it will be so much easier for him to tear them down....Shank is such a dink
Perhaps I missed it but when did the Sox break away from their "no long term contract" mantra.
ReplyDeleteI believe that was the true story that should have been explored.
Why did Theo + Company change course?
I'm sure Nomar is asking the smae question. How will Pedroia and Youk feel about getting shorter deals? Kinda like Arroyo signing the "home town" deal?
Instead of developing a story and bringing us insights, Shank leads the cheerleading squad.
To me, something doesn’t seem right at Camelot.
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So much for concern about the Patriots at Chicago - what cliches will Shank recylce to describe how dominant the Patriots are right now? I can't wait for the "Not even the 1985 Bears could beat this Patriots team."
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