Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!
Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.
By adamg - 7/26/19 - 8:37 am
It's ancient history by now, of course, but way back in June, Tomato Can Dan got his knickers in a bunch when an American team ran up the score against an opponent. That's just not fair, and it's so unseemly, he thundered about the US women's soccer team. This morning, Rev. Laura Everett wonders: Read more.
By adamg - 6/16/19 - 11:04 pm
Yesterday, Dan Shaughnessy doubled down on his tomato canning to get on his high horse (or as Dan Shaughnessy Watch put it, get on his Shetland pony) to bitch about women athletes daring to celebrate a blowout win in the World Cup soccer competition. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/19 - 11:03 am
Rajeeve Martyn compares bostonglobe.com home pages from Dec. 17 and today.
Of course, Globe Senior Hater Dan Shaughnessy led the doom train in December: Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/18 - 6:31 pm
Dan Shaughnessy Watch has the blow-by-blow in which Bill Simmons irritated the pearl that is Dan Shaughnessy, and all without mentioning him specifically.
By adamg - 1/9/17 - 12:09 pm
If you're one of those people who just can't quit Shaughnessy, you might be thinking he's using the phrase "tomato can" a lot more these days. You might even think he's getting carried away with it and maybe should find another way to say "loser."
You'd be plum right. Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/16 - 11:47 pm
"There's a lot better writers than Dan Shaughnessy," he says, responding to curly complaints about UConn womens' basketball ruining the sport.
Via Fox Sports.
By adamg - 9/28/15 - 10:28 am
Dan Shaughnessy Watch notes Shank has a new Curse cliche, maybe one he can turn into another book.
By adamg - 9/1/15 - 11:31 pm
The Globe's appended this to Dan Shaughnessy's column about Orsillo:
Clarification: Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this story made reference to signs being confiscated at Fenway Park. The reference has been removed because the Globe could not independently verify that any signs were confiscated at the ballpark. ...
Via Dan Kennedy.
By adamg - 3/26/15 - 8:44 pm
David Ortiz writes a long piece about the PED accusations and how they haunt him to this day. And, of course, the Globe's own Shank is right in the middle of it all:
By adamg - 1/25/15 - 9:45 pm
USA Today thinks Dan Shaughnessy is an arbiter of the Boston zeitgeist, and that we're all depressed because of Deflategate and that somehow has made us sour on the Olympics.
By adamg - 6/23/14 - 8:23 am
The other day, our local crank shook his fist at a cloud and wrote how he hates soccer. Yawn. What's interesting is the Deadspin report that chronicles how he's written pretty much the same exact column about soccer for 25 years now, right down to the part where he complains about how soccer players can't use their hands.
By adamg - 12/18/13 - 7:47 am
On the front page of the Globe today, Dan Shaughnessy whines that he deserves to be treated like a real journalist even though what he writes about doesn't really matter. With obligatory sneer at the Internet and reference to a 20-year-old movie.
By adamg - 5/9/13 - 9:51 am
Specifically, in not finding the nearest dumpster and tossing a certain Globe columnist into it headfirst after said columnist (one guess which one) accused him of taking steroids because, after all, he's old and Dominican (yes, he went there).
By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:46 pm
Boston Sports Media Watch dissects the latest column by a Globe sportswriter about how those damn kids have no respect at all, not like in his day.
By adamg - 2/19/12 - 9:55 am
Our resident ubercrank declares he won't be happy until he can personally apply a paddle to the behinds of every sin
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