Dan Shaughnessy writes harsh words about the Nomar Garciaparra retirement:
Great player.
Total fraud.
Welcome home, Nomie.
I hate to be the fly in the punch bowl here, but yesterday’s lovefest involving Nomar Garciaparra and the Red Sox was truly nauseating. If Nomar had been hooked up to a polygraph, the machine would have exploded.
Truly unbelievable. There was Nomar, seated between Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein, telling us how much he always loved the Red Sox, how much he loved the Nation.
Gag me. This was like watching Paul McCartney holding hands with Yoko Ono, telling us how much he always loved John Lennon’s wife — in a pathetic effort to sell some product, of course.
Once in a while Dan’s cynicism works really well.
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March 11th, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
Wow. Even manages to throw in a steroids accusation. Maybe Curly Haired Boyfriend should look in the mirror before telling someone else how hated they are.
March 11th, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
What JR says. Hilariously, a number of posts on Sons of Sam Horn yesterday predicted the content of CHB’s column practically point by point.
If Shaughnessy hates modern athletes and sports so much, why does he continue to work in the field?
March 11th, 2010 @ 1:39 pm
If Shaughnessy wants to see where some of the 2003-2004 era bitterness between Garciaparra and Boston came from, maybe he should check a mirror? That is, if he shows up in mirrows; I wouldn’t place money on it.
As much as it’s putting a nice face on some ugly bygones, it speaks better of Garciaparra and the Red Sox that they’d like to move on than it does of Shaughnessy that he’d like to cling to the dying embers of a feud that you’d think two World Series Championships would have helped put behind everybody.
March 11th, 2010 @ 2:00 pm
In the words of the Dude: “You’re not wrong, you’re just a ***-hole”. Yes, that was a huge bit of phoney PR moves between Nomar and the Sox bigwigs, and reports are that Larry Lucchino was against the whole thing and had to be convinced by John Henry.
That said, as usual, Shaughnessy chooses to comment this in the most horrifically slimy way possible, thus undercutting his perfectly sound point.
It seems that CHB has reacted to criticism by actively becoming and relishing in being the Most Hated Man in Boston. He has taken upon himself to “turn heel” and his columns have become grotesque and predictable hodgepodges of cheap shots, egotism, and uninentional (?) self-parody.
March 11th, 2010 @ 3:10 pm
And also “I hate to be the fly in the punchbowl”
A) I think he meants ointment, there’s something else way more unpleasant in the punchbowl.
And
B) Of course he wants to be the “fly”, that’s his whole schtick.
March 11th, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
What’s that line enemy fans yell at opposing players? “Overrated!”
That’s the way I feel about Shaughnessy. Or maybe he thinks of himself as the David Broder of sportswriters: the Dean of Conventional Wisdom. If so, he should look in to how widely Broder is mocked.