Whenever the Globe covers the Red Sox, readers should remember that the two entities share an owner, and that the team's success is good for the paper. (The Globe's online store, for example, features 60 pages of Sox merchandise.) As Sunday's Globe exposé and a tough Tuesday editorial show, that doesn't mean the Globe is in the tank for the team. Still, the awkward fact remains: the security-staff firings, and MLB's subsequent investigation, only became news several months after the fact — and only after journalists from outside the Globe's sports department got involved.
Maybe the Globe's sportswriters simply didn't know this stuff was going on. Maybe they did, but wanted to protect Jerry Remy, who's currently fighting lung cancer and is on indefinite leave. Or maybe they didn't think that digging into possible PED use by Sox stars was part of their job. Whatever caused this story to slip through, it was a costly whiff by the hometown squad.
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