tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post115462540638640569..comments2024-03-27T21:22:03.495-04:00Comments on Dan Shaughnessy Watch: Walkoffs! [insert cliche here]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154785775436664562006-08-05T09:49:00.000-04:002006-08-05T09:49:00.000-04:00"Wonder why traffic is so bad around Fenway after ..."Wonder why traffic is so bad around Fenway after the games? Because nobody ever leaves the ballpark, that's why."<BR/><BR/>This makes no sense at all. If all the fans are still in the ballpark, where is the traffic coming from?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154769789808015092006-08-05T05:23:00.000-04:002006-08-05T05:23:00.000-04:00Seems the heat is getting to be a bit much for you...Seems the heat is getting to be a bit much for young Jenny as she labors through Elementary Composition 002.<BR/><BR/>You offer something for public consumption, you take what comes with public consumption. But then why do you read Shaughnessy (and obviously you go tearing into the paper or Web site to see if his column is in that day) if he upsets you so?<BR/><BR/>Jenny would seem to apply "If you don't like it, don't visit it" only to others; she obviously is an eager reader of Shaughnessy, if only to find a way to rip him.<BR/><BR/>Game. Set. Match.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154653595719678632006-08-03T21:06:00.000-04:002006-08-03T21:06:00.000-04:00Its not hard to be lazy when you know that your jo...Its not hard to be lazy when you know that your job is never in danger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154646118754377392006-08-03T19:01:00.000-04:002006-08-03T19:01:00.000-04:00Hi all,I haven't actually read Dan's last two colu...Hi all,<BR/><BR/>I haven't actually read Dan's last two columns. It was Jenny, not me, who wrote today's entry. <BR/><BR/>I was at last night's game too, and Beth is right: fans were walking out after Hafner's homer.<BR/><BR/>What should be noted was that the Sox didn't plan to keep Andruw Jones; they were going to flip him to Houston for Roy Oswalt.<BR/><BR/>Also, if The CHB has a skill, it's finding the single negative seam in a linen factory full of positives and then driving a truck through it. The Sox are playing well ahead of last year's playoff team, and yet Dan acts like it's quiting time.mike_b1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03887169120483500989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154643498141663282006-08-03T18:18:00.000-04:002006-08-03T18:18:00.000-04:00chief, you know i support your site in general and...chief, you know i support your site in general and that i agree with 99% of what you're pointing out. but my criticism of this particular post is that the first several comments are purely subjective and ones i happen to disagree with. also, there WERE people leaving the ballpark last night--i was there! <BR/><BR/>anyway, i think you have much more of a platform with the fact that dan cannot stand to be positive for more than a few paragraphs and instead descends into his familiar short-sighted negativity with the paragraph that ironically begins with "at the risk of being negative..."<BR/><BR/>THIS is exactly why his columns infuriate me so. apparently he'd rather we'd traded away jonathan papelbon and jon lester for andruw jones. apparently he preferred the yawkey years (which i actually believe he did...it meant better sales for his book). either that or he doesn't *get* what the FO is trying to do this year. <BR/><BR/>or, if we are to be completely cynical about it, he'd be wading into a similar morass of negativity if we *had* made a trade, all about the damage it will inflict on the team. he might even have used the same "day the music died" phrase. i wouldn't be surprised.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154642077183066162006-08-03T17:54:00.000-04:002006-08-03T17:54:00.000-04:00The best CHB quote of yesterday actually happened ...The best CHB quote of yesterday actually happened when he was talking to Tina Cervasio on the pre-game.<BR/><BR/>He was talking about how it's normal for a guy to lose 10-15 pounds of weight in water on a hot night (!) and that a guy like C. C. Sabathia could afford to lose some weight. I am not in any kind of a medical field, but based on the fact that one *GALLON* of water weighs 8 pounds (http://science.howstuffworks.com/question227.htm), I have to believe this is an astonishing crock of crap. Even if he did lose that much water weight, hopefully he's putting the same amount back on by drinking Gatorade every single time he comes back to the dugout on a really hot night. If he really lost a gallon and a half of water, I can't believe he'd not have keeled over from dehydration. <BR/><BR/>The best part about it was, the "fact" served no purpose to his point whatsoever.Ezrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768543629114555536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154638828243052892006-08-03T17:00:00.000-04:002006-08-03T17:00:00.000-04:00Hey "anonymos" aka:CHB. If you don't like the sit...Hey "anonymos" aka:CHB. If you don't like the site, then don't visit, and go back to writing you craptacular coluns about why you wish you were The Epsteins Gorilla suit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154635214504896082006-08-03T16:00:00.000-04:002006-08-03T16:00:00.000-04:00He's not being asked to predict the future. He's b...He's not being asked to predict the future. He's being asked to be fair to the subjects on which he writes, and to stop rehashing his old work.<BR/><BR/>And let's be real: the Globe is in business to sell newspapers. Nothing else.mike_b1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03887169120483500989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154633590383524612006-08-03T15:33:00.000-04:002006-08-03T15:33:00.000-04:00The presence of this website is shocking to me. I ...The presence of this website is shocking to me. I am certainly no Shaughnessy fan, but this is flat-out pathetic. Nitpicking through every word he writes to find tiny things that he ended up being wrong about is not fair. No one can predict the future. Shaughnessy is paid to write what he thinks about the present. If you disagree with him, great -- in fact, most of the time, he wants you to.<BR/><BR/>That's what you don't realize. This whole website, while on the surface ripping Shaughnessy apart, is actually doing exactly what he sets out to do. The Globe hopes Shaughnessy will get people talking about the Red Sox. That's what any good sports columnist does. And he clearly does that to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17263668.post-1154630429455775602006-08-03T14:40:00.000-04:002006-08-03T14:40:00.000-04:00This column has all the signs of being written bef...This column has all the signs of being written before the comeback, which forced CHB to write the awful prose that starts the column. It is interesting to note that his default mnode is to pump out outdated song refences in order to fill space. How tired.dbvaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313968008498094004noreply@blogger.com