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To the trained eye, his handiwork was clear
By adamg on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 9:25am
Bruce Allen reads that Rolling Stone piece about Aaron Hernandez and reports he can point out the exact paragraphs that were written by professional Patriots hater Ron Borges.
Ed. note: I am not such a keen observer of the Boston sports media scene as Bruce, but the nitpicker in me is dying to know: Where's the strip club in South Boston the article claims a Patriots security honcho monitored?
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Southie strip club?
Adam,I was wondering about that Southie line too. Borges has his anti-Belichick agenda, but he's not stupid. So my guess is that the other guy who wrote the story inserted that line because "Southie", you know, movies, tv shows,etc. and Borges didn't catch it. It makes you wonder how much of the rest of the article is BS.
BS= Borges
BS=Borges
Southie Strip club
Yeah that one had me scratching my head. Also, calling Belichick the "grand wizard of the greatest show on turf" shows a writer who isn't familiar with the St. Louis Rams at the turn of the century.
Irony
The irony is that it was the "greatest show on turf" that got beat in the Super Bowl thus beginning the Patriots Dynasty. Belichick was the grand wizard that STOPPED the greatest show on turf.
not to mention the weird
not to mention the weird KKK-imagery that brings up.
Weed in Brockton
Not only are there no strip joints in Southie, but I can't think of one single "weed spot" in Brockton either. No one in Brockton buys or smokes weed. LIES!!!
Weed spot?
What the heck is a "weed spot" anyway? A vacant lot? A poorly maintained garden? Never heard the term before.
South End = Southie
Possibly a case of mistaking the Theater District for the South End, and then confusing the South End for Southie. Non-locals are always thinking the south end is southie. Or yeah, just some bullshit to generate buzz.
Which would raise the same question, though
Since there aren't any strip clubs there, either.
Maybe the dude meant South
Maybe the dude meant South Providence...........
Unless the writer thinks the
Unless the writer thinks the south end extends to La Grange St. Its really only a few blocks away, its possible. For example, the shooting last summer took place in the South End, a few block from Rumors, which is itself a few blocks from la grange. They correctly placed Rumors in the theater district earlier in the article, but who knows.
But reading the article it sounds like they were throwing out generic sketchy spots in boston, and came up with one that doesn't exist.
Who is Hernandez? Why should I care?
What? Sketchy guys are playing college and pro sports? Some use recreational and/or health enhancing drugs? Shocking!
Google is your friend
You might try it sometime, would probably take less effort than posting what you just did.
You missed the point
I know who he is, but don't care. Others just might feel the same.
So you wasted your time telling us you don't care?
Bravo!
You wasted time responding?
Its just Hernandez fatigue. Rolling Stone printing plagiarism is newsworthy, so good for you on that. Another angle could be how desperate Rolling Stone is to run tainted stories and seek out over-hyped stories to feature because not so many people care about rock music anymore, or enough to buy their magazine and keep them in business.
Shoulda said that in the first place
Then you wouldn't have wasted everyone's time dancing around the actual point of your ire and trying to be snarky at Adam's expense.
Also, I doubt they hired Hunter S. Thompson just to "keep them in business" a la Rolling Stone has been more than just rock music for quite a long time...and successfully so. But then, we covered that during the whole Tsarnaev cover story thing. You were probably too busy off scoffing your unconcern blithely to yourself at the time to remember.
Got bored with excess Tsarnaev coverage also
So, yeah, I missed half the discussion. RS has as rosy a future as ... The Boston Phoenix.
I know who he is, but don't
I'm sure plenty of others feel the same, and they didn't bother to post. Don't you have some bike lanes that you should be whining about?
Southie strip club was on Necco Place at the old Channel
That part of the Rolling Stone piece referred to the history of former Patriots security chief and retired MSP Trooper Frank Mendes who began working for the team in 1990. He reportedly would get tips from troopers and local officers about what the players were up to. In the early 90's, the wiseguys (not sure if Irish or Italian) made an effort to convert the old Channel nightclub into a strip joint. It didn't last long but that's the place I thought of when reading it. Mendes wasn't referring to Hernandez or anything current as Belechick fired him years ago.