I personally couldn't agree more with this, Shaughnessy often writes to make himself part of the story which I just find annoying. His smugness doesn't help either, he's talented as heck, but come on, so is A-Rod. Mad props to the Phoenix for this.
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The Boston Phoenix this week
has identified the most hated man in Boston,
and its Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy. Sports blogs across Red
Sox nation are talking about Dan Shaughnessy’s controversial segment in
the March 26th Globe regarding Curt Schilling’s
personal blog. Shaughnessy’s work has caused uproar and backlash in
the sports world. Adam Reilly’s response to that article comes out
in this week’s Boston Phoenix, explaining why we shouldn’t listen
to him this time.
View the complete story here: http://thephoenix.com/Article.aspx?id=42259&page=1
I have to admit, that when I wrote the above I wrote it as fact. However, over the past three years I've come to really embrace Shaughnessy and his writing style. If everyone wrote in the perfect journalistic formula reading about baseball sure would be boring. That's why I seek out his articles now, I never know what I'm going to get, and often am entertained.
So yeah, this was most likely anger towards him ca$hing in on the whole "curse" thing - but DS has my respect now.
Posted by: SawxBlog | July 28, 2010 at 03:50 PM
Just to reiterate, I have lots of respect for Mr. Shaughnessy now, this Phoenix cover, much like his writing, was made to garner attention.
Posted by: Derek Hixon | May 03, 2011 at 09:30 AM