DHL Dan - LXXVIII

When you're unable to shit on the New England Patriots (much) the Boston Bruins or the Boston Celtics (because their last games were all wins), you get the Picked-Up Pieces column:

Picked-up pieces while reminding you that Truck Day is Feb. 4, the day after the Patriots win the Super Bowl . . .

■ Here’s one more thing to like about your World Series-winning Red Sox: They beat the Yankees every way possible this year, including in decency and generosity.

We all know the Sox finished eight games ahead of the Bronx Bombers and wiped out the Steinbrenner AC in four games in the Division Series. Now it turns out that in addition to being losers in the AL East, the Yanks were also cheap and petty.

Cheap and petty - does that remind you of anyone?

In late-season share meetings, when players had to decide how many full shares would be doled out after the playoffs, the Red Sox authorized 66 full shares while the Yankees agreed to only 45. This is life-changing money for support staffers working for a major league team.

And Shank continues to bash the Patriots' division, the AFC East:

■ I love it when ever-sensitive Patriots fans (no slight shall go without vicious reply on Twitter or talk show) try to tell me there is actual competition in the AFC East. No. There is not. The Dolphins, Bills, and Jets stink every single year. Winning the AFC East is like signing up for Facebook.

It’s OK to admit.

It's not okay to 'admit' it when it's complete hogwash. This site has pointed out time and again / ad nauseum that any meaningful examination of total wins by a given division almost always has the AFC East in the mix if not outright winning the most games in a year compared to the other divisions. I was listening to Shank's appearance on Zolak and Bertrand yesterday morning (just past 11:00 AM) that stat geeks were sending him data that supports the position that the AFC East by this measurement (total wins) is not a terrible division (and check out the links above when this has come up in the past). In other words, Shank knows that the data does not support his position but he continues to spread his bullshit in order to keep trolling fans of the Patriots.