tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post115064930501293600..comments2024-03-27T21:22:03.495-04:00Comments on Dan Shaughnessy Watch: Sh*t Hits at FansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150835000955737662006-06-20T16:23:00.000-04:002006-06-20T16:23:00.000-04:00Forget what CHB wrote. How the hell did he get ch...Forget what CHB wrote. How the hell did he get chosen for the assignment in the first place is what I want to know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150813263256289402006-06-20T10:21:00.000-04:002006-06-20T10:21:00.000-04:00*yawn**yawn*mike_b1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03887169120483500989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150812883930721082006-06-20T10:14:00.000-04:002006-06-20T10:14:00.000-04:00This entry reaches a new depth in moronic. Sixtee...This entry reaches a new depth in moronic. Sixteen years after looking at Boston sports fans, he does it again and *compares* it to his earlier observations.<BR/><BR/>Let's see. In 16 years, the Celtics and Bruins have gone from contenders for the NBA and NHL finals to not making the playoffs while the Patriots have won multiple Super Bowls and the Red Sox have actually won a World Series. Three of the teams play in new facilities and the third plays in a park that has had substantial changes made. Three of the four teams have new owners and the only person who has remained a factor in any of the organizations now is Harry Sinden (depending on how much they're listening to Red these days, of course). We saw Rick Pitino, Dave Gavitt, Dan Duquette and Bill Parcells arrive with great expectations (read: World Championship dreams) and leave without capturing the big prize. Duquette and Parcells were replaced by someone who accomplished the near impossible.<BR/><BR/>And you think that after all these changes in the sports landscape, not to mention the coming of age of one generation and the passing of just about anyone who remembers Enos Slaughter, George Preston Marshall or Eddie Shore, that comparing fan attitudes toward the teams then and now and comparing the teams' appeal is a cut and paste job? <BR/><BR/>Why the knee-jerk attitude toward anything Shaugnessy writes? And especially, why are you yourself using the cut-and-paste approach to criticizing what he writes, recycling petty complaints and cliches and making the absurd claim of recycled columns when this magazine piece (which is not intended to read like a sports column) was decidedly not cut-and-paste, but was instead a look at how things changed over 16 years compared to the perspective of the past.<BR/><BR/>It just gets more and more pathetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150755424538872972006-06-19T18:17:00.000-04:002006-06-19T18:17:00.000-04:00A match made in hell: Shank & Callahan. *shudderin...A match made in hell: Shank & Callahan. *shuddering*The Couch Potatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306471068767167452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150724099870312602006-06-19T09:34:00.000-04:002006-06-19T09:34:00.000-04:00I appreciate the parenthetical slam at the Revolut...I appreciate the parenthetical slam at the Revolution the day after more than 16,000 showed up to watch them play. But I've come to expect that from every sports columnist hack, not just the Shank.Mitch Krpatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15987162934932391765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1150722154467073602006-06-19T09:02:00.000-04:002006-06-19T09:02:00.000-04:00>Ever heard of summer, Gerry?Er, not to mention th...<I>>Ever heard of summer, Gerry?</I><BR/>Er, not to mention that you're looking at 160 games played, which makes it hard enough to keep up with your own team let alone look for other teams to watch, versus 1 game of football per week that's engineered to overlap with as few out-of-town games as possible... Totally a bad comparison.Ezrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768543629114555536noreply@blogger.com