Borges: Extra prep time pays dividends as Patriots start to look familiar | Boston Herald
Borges excerpt:
While Borges is accurate about the booing early and cheering late, as an objective observation, I don't get the comment "Of course, paying customers are seldom realistic."
As if the act of buying a ticket makes someone unrealistic, Borges comes off as an arrogant lout because he is always realistic and is so omniscient he never has to pay for a thing.
Of course.
What, precisely, is the point of backhanding the 60,000 people who pay the freight?
In Borges' mind, it must be that the great unwashed, who somehow have the wherewithal to pony up between $125 to $300 per ticket, are unable to discern what is transpiring on the field. The reporters and suits in the boxes who sit silently know best, and in time will enlighten those who dig deep to attend a game.
Of course.
Borges is a poor reporter. Somewhere along the way he came to believe that just reporting the facts is never enough. If he just said that attendees were restless early and delighted late, and let us draw our own conclusions about the atmosphere, that would have been plenty.
Instead he has to demean the fans which, in a subtle and insidious way, renders their (our) opinion inaccurate about the game, him and his reports. The great ones take pains to describe in detail the facts and trust their readers to draw their own conclusions.
Borges chooses to insult us and preach from his self-appointed position of flawless insight. Of course!
