You lost me at your 6th word.
If you really meant "perhaps", then you don't know who Dan Shaughnessy, sports editor Joe Sullivan and the Boston Globe are.
Understand this:
1) The owners of the Boston Globe hate the New England Patriots. In their minds, they are competition for the Red Sox.
2) The owners of the Boston Globe hate Robert Kraft (whom their hired gun, Shaughnessy, has called "Amos Alonzo Kraft" for over a decade and a half).
3) Shaughnessy, Will McDonough and every hack politician in South Boston (along with the convicted felon Massachusetts Speaker of the House during the 90's) actively muddied Kraft's name to keep a Patriots stadium out of Boston.
Look, I understand some fans don't understand the larger, social and economic forces behind a seemingly inncuous and stupid column by an attention getting whore. But if you think there isn't a bigger agenda at work there........