AndyJohnson

I typically find him arrogant and annoying, but one thing he is is reasonable. His typical attitude is the 'conspiracy theorists' are morons, and everything is pretty much what it seems to be.
This morning I was listening to him talk about Donegy.
To paraphrase he said something like:

What do you expect. The guy had it made, and the league kicked him out. He is bitter and 'throwing a hand grenade into the room hoping some people get hit'. He said the guy had the life, now he has nothing, and he wants to strike back, so he creates some type of potentially believable story, and throws it out there hoping to damage the league, because of his problems. He is a disgruntled former employee who is vengeful. He used the analogy that if you worked in the White house for 20 years, were a loyal employee, then did something and got fired, what would you do? What until the eve of the election then drop some bombshell at exactly the point it will get themost attention. Truth doesnt matter, you want attention, and revenge.

As I listened to it Ithought, if you changed Tim Donegy to Matt Walsh it is exactly the same thing.

Why has no one really picked up on discrediting Matt walsh as a disgruntled employee who was fired from his job so he waited until the day there would be the most coverage, and took a potshot at his former employer, who fired him, for revenge?

I just found it funny how there is a mounting effort to say Donegy is just making things up because he pissed at the league, and the coverage about walsh has not come close to including comments about how he was FIRED, and FIRED employees have a habit of trashing the company that fired them and trying to exact revenge.

jbb9s

Bill Simmons made the same analogy in his piece today for that worldwide sports agency.

The difference is that people learned their lesson from Walsh and now are treating this x-ref with skepticism. If the two events occurred in reverse order, Walsh would have no traction and the Patriots would be in better public light.

Pats Fanatic

I think that problem is with the NBA. Their Refs are bad, period which is root of the conspiracy theories. The league better get a hold on it, they are destroying what can be a great game.
Look at the Finals now Phil Jackson complaining that they wee getting the call now last game presto they are getting the call. That looks bad it really does. Personally I liked it better when that only had two refs, the games ran much smoother.

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jmt57

As annoying as Cowherd's style can be, he can make good points. He was one of the very few associated with espn that didn't take the easy path of trying to increase ratings by making spygate appear to be something more than what it was, and called out those that were making wild accusations.

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Rob0729

There are several reasons why the media have not trashed Walsh in any way shape or form, but laid into Donegy:

1.) First and foremost, the media hates Belichick and visa versa. Belichick has had a contentious relationship with the media dating back to his days as a head coach with the Browns and it has only gotten worse. There are a lot of people in the media who want him to fail.
2.) The storyline sells better if Walsh is played as the poor innocent whistleblower rather than the disgruntled employee. Donegy's story sells better if he is the rouge ref who is caught up in this huge gamble sting. News is entertainment today and positioning the story to make it more interesting to the public.
3.) An off shoot of the last point, the media needs to put a face on their villian. Donegy and Belichick are better faces than Walsh and the entire NBA.
4.) The media knows that the NFL can survive the Spygate scandal. That can't be said of the NBA if they are exposed as rigging games. ESPN and other news outlets have too much of a financial investment in the NBA to have it turn into a fringe sport like boxing did when it went from a PPV giant to an afterthough after it was exposed for cherrypicking heavyweight contenders.

PatsDeb

I know I am probably in the minority (esp. since I am a woman), but I find most of Colin Cowherd's rants hysterical. I'd rather listen to him than almost any other sports talk show host.

spacecrime

To me, the difference is the way the media was led into their responses.

Stern: He is making stuff up.

Goodell: If this is true I will punish the Patriots further.

Rob0729

Well, considering the whole new scandal with Donegey stems from Stern's decision to sue Donegey for a million dollars, I think Goodell may have handled the situation better than Stern.

I'm sorry, but I think Stern's response is going to hurt the game of the NBA for far longer than people think. If there is one sport that needs an investigation it is the NBA because the refs are horrible and biased towards home teams and superstars.

Spygate is over except for a fringe few in the media. The shadow of whether the refs fix games will hang over the NBA for a long time. People are already asking how in game 2 of the finals the Celtics didn't get many penalties at all and the Lakers got a ton and then in game three the exact opposite happened. People already assume the fix is in with the NBA.

Eugene Chung

I think one of the critical differences between Donaghy and Walsh is that an NBA ref has a much larger impact on the game than some guy who cuts video footage. Having the higher-ups tell the "impartial" referees to fix a game is just as bad as point shaving. It completely mitigates all of the NBA's statements regarding the legitimacy of the game. While Spygate was bad, I think people were more concerned with the legitimacy of the Pats; not the NFL.

Also of importance is the fact that Donaghy was doing this because of legal troubles; you can't randomly say things to attorneys to bring down a former employer. Walsh was doing his thing because of some axe to grind.

Nonetheless, there are a lot of troubling parallels between the two men and their claims.

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Sean Pa Patriot

Not to reahash old crap, but Tomosee and Spinctor ,were the chosen ones who brought up spy gate, Walsh was just the focus part of it.. Wow its been a month since we heard that name matt walsh.. That thud you heard was him falling off the face of the earth..


I do like Colin Cowheard, the most reasonable personality on espn radio..

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