McGrory channels his inner Shaughnessy

By adamg on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 6:31am

Yes, it's time for the Globe metro columnist's annual fantasy-sportswriter camp, and this year, the focus is on how much he hates the 2012 Sox.

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So sick of this....

By anon on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 9:28am.

Seriously, 75% of the team is the same team everyone was excited about loved last spring. They had a horrible month and missed the playoffs. They've lost 4 of 5 games...3 of them to a VERY good team. How about laying off the hysteria and letting them play a few games before condemning the entire team. It's funny, if they win that last game in Baltimore and lose in the first round of the playoffs, is everyone still freaking out.

I'm a native bostonian and cried in October of '86 when the ball rolled through buckner's legs, but Boston fans now are so negative and ridiculous it's obnoxious. Every article in the Globe/Herald and every talk radio buffoon is looking for "who to blame" for every loss. Sometimes teams lose. The best team in MLB will lose 60 times this season!

Hate to agree with the CHB, but on this one McGrory is right

By Bluto on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:21am.

Read the actual Shank piece today, about Tito declining an invitation to attend the 100 year anniversaray. As in, "Yeah, we completely reamed you on the way out last year. But here in the Nixon White House, I mean Fenway front office, we'd like to invite you back--so we can make more money off existing good will you generated here with two World Series..."

These guys (Henry and Luchino) are horrible, horrible people. I got out of my annual Sox commitment of twenty-plus years, after watching how they screwed everybody they could last year.

Thanks anyways.

Patriots Day Game En Espagnol On WWZN-AM

By laurence_glavin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:26pm.

While WWZN-AM 1510 usually airs subsidized progressive talk shows most of the time, they've worked out a deal to broadcast Major League Baseball, I mean Red Sox games in Spanish. On Patriots Day, this means there would normally be no Stephanie Miller Show that morning. However, as they say in all those cable TV offers "but wait!"; now the Stephanie Miller show is simulcast on Current TV, which I added to my cable TV lineup last summer to watch Keith Olbermann's show. (I even got my cable rate LOWERED for a two-year agreement.) OK, KO is gone, but Stephanie's presence is lagniappe enough.

Whether you agree or disagree...

By Jack on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 3:30pm.

...with this column (and he tends to overdo it in the hyperbole department), McGrory has an interesting point. All of this negative hullabaloo has had a definite impact on ticket sales minus season ticket holders. He quotes the Sox exec in his column, but have you noticed how much ticket hawking is on NESN these days, especially in the scrawl at the bottom of the screen during pre- and post-game? They advertise every year (I assume for free) but it definitely seems like there's more of it this year. Regardless of what's happened so far, nothing is going to get Sox management's attention more than that -- that's why they're worried about the PR impact of Tito skipping the Fenway 100th celebration. Hard not to sense a bit of panic creeping into this organization from a business standpoint.