DHL Dan LXVI - The One About Yawkey Way

Passing on the predicted slew of Robert Kraft bashing columns, Shank instead cranks out a Picked Up Pieces^TM column, his first in eight days. The end of the Winter Olympics can depress you for a while and probably put a good dent in your willingness to write about sports. He's still banging on about renaming Yawkey Way:

■ Spoke with Yawkey Foundation chairman John Harrington about the controversial proposal to change the name of Yawkey Way back to Jersey Street. This is some of what he said: “I was very happy with the money we put in the bank [after selling the Red Sox to John Henry]. It’s Tom Yawkey’s money. So when the Red Sox today try to separate the Yawkey Foundation from Tom Yawkey — you can’t do that. It’s Tom Yawkey’s money that we’re investing. And it was his investing that started all this goodness that’s going around the city. They [the Red Sox] are just trying to separate the issue because it’s to their benefit to do that.’’

This is an unusually good PUP column, partly because he refrained from referring to next year's Patriots opponents as tomato cans and other signature Shankisms. The Pitino & Calipari bashing sealed it for me! I recommend it for full reading, and I don't do that often.