longhornsk57

Blasphemy!!

Born and raised in Houston. There's only one good thing to ever come out of Wisconsin, and he got his ass to Texas where he belongs!

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RayClay

And, all teams plan their parade routes in advance anyway. Hmmm. Was he grasping at straws?

I sometimes wonder if posters have actually followed this team, or do they have amnesia?

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RayClay

Oh yeah? Well I think it's a lack of respect to put that on his twitter site, and so does Vince Wilfork!


Se ya Sunday.

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longhornsk57

I'm confused. Vince Wilfork thinks it's disrespectful for Foster to put something one of your writers said on his twitter avatar?

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RayClay

And someone told him Schaub said something about his mama.

Unconfirmed yet...

What? This is the biggest A hole in this town, haven't you read the thread? An actual local football beat writer was making fun of him on video. Shank has never been a football beat writer. He's a clown.

Also, after the last game, i don't think your players can afford to spend time on twitter, especially Foster.

15-46 3.1. ouch.

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BradyFTW!

He also writes mostly about the Red Sox, and there's no group of people who hate the Patriots more than those who rely on the Sox to stay relevant. There was a time when the Sox were relevant 12 months per year, and that made goobers like Shaughnessy quasi-sorta-almost relevant year-round as well. Now, the Patriots have swept the Sox aside and made them basically irrelevant for 4-6 months per year. And for the other 6 months, the Sox are an exercise in futility to watch, as they alternate between sucking, throwing each other under the bus, and lying to their fans about how bright their future is.

Shaughnessy hates the Pats because they've made him and his ilk completely irrelevant.

BradyFTW!

Dan Shaughnessy is not one of "our writers". We hate the guy even more than you do, and I'm willing to bet that everyone in the Pats organization has even less patience for him than any of us. You nailed it in your original post - the article was disrespectful to both the Pats and the Texans. Whoever wins on Sunday will have beaten a very good football team, and the Patriots all know that.

longhornsk57

I doubt Arian Foster spending time on twitter is realistically going to affect his performance.

We all know the Texans lost the match up last time, saying "ouch" as if it didn't happen a month ago is rather comical. I see you trying to bait and get some acrimony going but you're going to have to try a bit harder than that.

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longhornsk57

That's why I said you'd think the Pats would even tell this guy to shut his mouth.

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BradyFTW!

I'm sure they have, and he doesn't care. It's not like the Patriots can realistically threaten him with anything - he doesn't have any access or sources to lose; I'm pretty sure the Pats would never knowingly let him within 20 miles of the stadium. There's a weird dynamic with the Boston sports media, which I don't expect that you'd know of coming into this, being that you're not from this market (just like I don't know of whatever quirks Houston has).

Anyway, the long and short of it is that Dan Shaughnessy doesn't write about the Patriots. He doesn't know anything about football, and doesn't care. Tom Curran (an actual Patriots beat writer with actual connections in the organization) was harping on exactly that when he responded by saying that Shaughnessy couldn't name 5 Texans, and couldn't name 10 Patriots either. The average poster on this forum knows more about the Patriots than Dan Shaughnessy does.

Shaughnessy is a baseball writer, and a spectacularly bad one at that. He's the guy who invented the "Curse of the Bambino", since it helped him sell books. He's just awful. I've literally never met anyone who doesn't abjectly hate the guy, which makes me wonder how he manages to keep such a high profile, to be honest.

The regional dynamic that I mentioned earlier is that, in general, baseball writers around here hate the Patriots. They hate them because Boston used to be a baseball town, so they used to be the #1 sports 'journalists' around, and were relevant year-round. Ever since Kraft took over the Pats, though, they've become a well-run, quality organization (in stark contrast to the Red Sox), and that fact, combined with the fact that football is simply better and more interesting than baseball, has combined to turn Boston into a football town.

Some people will dispute that, but the numbers don't lie. The Patriots own New England, and have for some time now. Assclowns like Dan Shaughnessy can't quite come to terms with the fact that they're now considered second-rate on the local scene, and as a result you see a ton of garbage like this published about the Pats through obsolete, dying outlets like the Globe and the Herald. When things are going even slightly badly, they pile on and write Belichick's obituary. When things are going well enough that they can't realistically do that, they write crap like this article so that, in the event that the Texans do beat the Patriots, they can pile on extra hard.