Controversy sells. Every time this douchebag hack says something like this (usually something anti-Patriots), it gets talked about. It becomes call-in fodder for WEEI (and now the Sports Hub). It becomes talked about in football threads on the Innerwebz. And people click on the links, giving him more and more hits on the sites with them and making his editors and paycheck-signers happy, which makes them give him MORE money and let him write MORE things. And, all the while, he sits back like Emperor Palpatine, moaning, "Yessss.... I can feel your anger... It is goooooood..."
The best way to snuff out a Borges is to ignore it. It will wither and die on its own.
This is what I sent back:
Ron,
I am not looking at someone else's writing in comparison. I'm considering my
own feelings on the matters you have written about recently, and I am
certainly not looking for the worst in concerns of your writing. I have read
a couple of your articles recently, and was actually shocked by them to be
honest. I really don't have any previous bias against you or anything.
I have always thought the Patriots are handling the uncertain financial
future very well. As far as the article on Brady's knee? Maybe YOU are the
one looking for the worst and hence spinning a negative, when everyone else
is breathing a sigh of relief. So what if he threw a few high balls, didn't
step into a few throws, and has been operating out of the shoutgun often?
No one was expecting him to be perfect after basically not playing for 18
months since SB XLII.
I'm not trying to come off as a jerk or anything, so if I am, I apologize. I
just want to know why it seems you are so negative? Why don't you write an
article about some of the positive, instead of the being the Herald's
resident contrarian bringing in angry Patriots fans for page hits? (Thanks guys)
It is easy to look at it that way. I want to see a positive spin out of you for once.
Andrew