Email Avalanche
I'd guess the number of anti-Borges emails reaching me are around the century mark now. Here's a recent sample and one I liked because it's honest in its declaration that what really pisses peple off about Borges is the perception that he's anti Patriots.
Last year while tailgating before the AFC Divisional Game, we listened to Ron Borges on the WBCN pregame show. He gleefully listed the myriad ways in which the Colts were going to pound us into the frozen Foxboro turf. My 11 year nephew asked the simple question "What's wrong with this guy?" We had to explain the human sack of misery that is Ron Borges. Please save our future generations from having to listen to this clown...FIRE RON BORGES!!!
P.S. Maybe The Indianapolis Star is hiring
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You are completely missing the point. Folks are not upset with Borges because he is anti-Patriots. Rather, they would like him removed because his bias againt the Patriots coach causes him to be completely wrong in his analysis every time. Other than meteorology, in what profession can an "expert" be incorrect this often?
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Don't listen to this homosexual Charlie..obviously he's one of Bruce's nut washers.
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Using homophobic slurs is just what I would expect from someone holding the opinion Dawgs! does.
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Keep on writing that you Allen dicksucking homo
Nobody cares about the unpaid bloggers like yourself and Brucie..they are useless...as are you
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Here's Joe Sullivan's email response to me:
Ron Borges is one of the best football writers in the country. As the author of "On Football" stories in the Globe, he's paid to have an opinion.
One of his most recent opinions was that Bill Belichick should be the NFL's Coach of the Year. In past stories he has written that as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee, he will lead the effort for Belichick's induction when the time comes. I see no bias in his work at the Globe.
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"Paid to have an opinion" seems to be the fallback for all the Globe's sportswriters. Shaughnessy pens hate column after hate column and then says "I'm paid to have an opinion." Borges' editor does the same on behalf of Borges.
Here's the thing, though: At what point does Sullivan wake up and realize that that's a copout for poor journalism? Many of the Globe's sports columnists write the same thing over and over, spewing their vitriol and then say "hey, it's just my opinion." Well guys, your opinions are wrong -- and mean. And we readers are sick of your nasty and juvenile ways.
Trib columnist Bob Verdi once wrote that it's much harder to have fun with a subject than to make fun of a subject. That's so true. The Globe writers are plain lazy.
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The Ethical Ron Borges, January 6, 2006:
"I know Tedy Bruschi, he won't say it on the record but I know he said it off the record, you know, he, once he got sick, he realized he made big mistakes in how he handled his, his, contract.... two contracts ago when he, he could have gotten twice as much money to go to the Packers, he didn't do it. He stayed here, so, so over time, he can't make that money up."
Truth:
NE Patriots contracts: $10,158,000
Green Bay contract: $ 9,036,000
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Interesting that Jurkowitz picks out the one anti-Borges email that fits his own POV on the anti-Borges sentiment and paints everyone with it. Gotta stick together.
A contrarian for contrarian's sake, Ron Borges is the definition of a hack. He's let petty animosities, jealousies, and personal weakness affect his reporting and it's pathetic. Yes, he's paid to have an opinion but in the course of giving it he's consistently failed to use any sort of facts or logic to back it up. The fact is that Ron Borges' record over the last 5 years shows him to have been consistently wrong about the subject he covers more than any of his colleagues by a large margin.
His work on radio and television is even more reprehensible because this is where he resorts to spewing rumor, innuendo and invective as the "Boston Globe's Ron Borges". His employer should be embarrassed but instead they appear content to allow him to behave like a zoo monkey throwing his feces through his cage bars at the general public.
After all, it stirs interest.
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Mark
You are a hack...Your head is so far up Bruce Allen's ass that you can't see straight. It's sad, it's pathetic, your pathetic. Same with you RRSafety. See how NOBODY outside of the stupid website of yours is writing in. It's you, Brucie, RR, and a whole bunch of you idiot losers who think that your all powerful because someone gives you space on the internet. Get a life, Get a job, and leave the journalism to the big kids.
P.S. There's a reason why your so upset..you'll never get to sniff Brady's jock like you dream of when you nail Borges for being so hard on him...You dream of being a Boston Sports Media Member...and instead your a great big loser.
BSMW - Boston Sports Media Weenies
Makes sense
Loser
Signed Your Friend
Stevey Buckethead
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Nice to see Borges reads this space.
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hey Pontiff, run and get us some coffee, would ya?
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Hey Scott or should I say Brucie's Butt Kisser #67. Why don't you get a job or should I say a life. Even the Commies at the Boston Phoenix think you guys are wacko losers who never get laid and never will. Of course they are completely 100% right so who am I to argue.
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What one should do when they encounter a blogger like those on Boston Sports Media Watch
1 - Challenge them to a face to face meeting...As Pete Sheppard says, "They'll say they hate you over the phone but then they'll run into you and it's 'I love you Pete'" This also is true for the internet geeks
2 - Mock the fact that you get paid and they don't. After all the net geeks are really upset that this is their dream and your doing it.
3 - Say you were at a party with someone famous, can get into Heff's House, played golf with Flutie, etc. Fantasy Camp things you guys get that these idiots want. Laugh at them and their pathetic lives at their pathetic cubicles...Laugh some more.
4 - Ask them to try and get a job in the field. It's not easy....That's pretty clear. Then tell them to try doing it after burning down all the bridges they've burnt down by ripping every member in the field over the last few years.
And finally why everyone should laugh at the bloggers like Boston Sports Media Watch
1 - In a few weeks people like Pete Sheppard and Glen Ordway will broadcast live from media row at Super Bowl XL in Detroit and they won't.
2 - Pete Sheppard and Glen Ordway were ON THE FIELD after the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series
Also on the field during the Postgame
- Kelly Barons
- Jimmy Fallon
- Greg Dickerson
- Bill Burt
- Jeannie Zelasko
According to them, Barons was only there because she gave Dr. Charles head, Fallon has no talent, Dickerson wears more makeup than Liza Minelli, Burt is a clueless loser, and Zelasko a blonde blimbo. Of course they all are far more qualified, or at least FEEL that way. Just another example of the bitter throwing stones for others who are actually accomplishing what they want to do in life.
3 - In a few weeks Steve Silva of Boston Dirt Dogs will head down to Spring Training and actually file reports for BOSTON.COM. A website with an actual purpose in the world of Sports Media. Meanwhile Pats67 will cry out that Dennis and Callahan's Manny Ramirez Spring Traning coverage is unwarranted thinking they know something about what the people really want to listen too. Obviously they haven't seen the ratings books lately.
4 - Despite a recent email attack to get Ron Borges fired, Ron Borges not only has his job but has a job writing for MSNBC and is still on the Patriots Pre and Post Game Shows. Throw some drive time on ESPN Radio's Drive Time with Michael Felger and Borges is laughing all the way to the bank. Even Felger who would go toe to toe with Borges on Channel 4's Sports Final in the past came to Felger's defense telling the web geeks to "get a grip".
5 - After that failed attack the webgeeks on the Boston Sports Media Website went back to calling it's critics "chicken$%#%ers" and mocking Glen Ordway on the day when WEEI announced the highest ratings they've ever gotten in the history of the station.
6 - Even in the failed media coupe Allen and the BSMWers couldn't even get the support of the ultra liberal Boston Phoenix Media Blog. If you can't win the freebie paper that's endorsed by the Commies, you ain't winning any battles with the big boys.
7 - Bruce Allen and his Internet Geeks trash sports caller personallities like Al From Everett and Frank from Gloucester for being suck up's and pathetic get a lifers. Man it really takes one to know one doesn't it. The only difference is that Al From Everett owns a successful Boston buisness that benefits from his time on air and that Frank is the most popular man at WEEI events, even moreso than the hosts themselves. The fact that he's about 80, retired and his life consists of calling into sports talk radio and going to strip clibs, I believe that it's pretty damn clear that this is the life the low life pathetic net geeks only dream about.
8 - Allen actually believes he's unbiased completely supporting the Dale Arnold Show while completely ignoring the fact that he's getting a paycheck directly from the Boston Bruins organization. Notice how the man refuses to blame Sinden, O'Connell and Jacobs for the teams problems instead focusing directly on Hal Gill and Pete Sheppard. When it comes to hockey, yes...Pete Sheppard is right on the money when it comes to being objectionable. Which is hard for those at Allen's Sports Media Site to believe because they all think he's a moron.
9 - It's not like Curt Schlling is offering opinions and seeking advice on the site. He does that on Sons of Sam Horn. Bruce Allen is still very upset that Schilling and John W. Henry converse on these sites and still they aren't given credibility as a sports source. "But if you go to one forum, you have to do them all" says Allen crying like a little baby that just wet his Pampers. He still hasn't gotten over that fact, never has and never will. That isn't to say that the folks on Sons of Sam Horn have credibility as they flat out refuse to knock Schilling for anything since the day they lured him to Boston. Still though, that site unlike Allen's made a difference and he can't get over it.
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I didn't know Sheppard could type.
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So, the great stevey buckethead/jake the pontiff thinks that threatening to beat people up is a good way to quash criticism?
So, using that "logic", Manny Ramirez should pound Shaughnessy, Thornton should bury KPD and BB should put a whuppin' on Borges?
Stevey, a couple of things...what you are failing to see here, besides Borges' ethical lapses, is that the day of print media (and to some degree broadcast media) is rapidly coming to an end. The Boston Globe is a dinosaur, and once Boston.com goes to paid access only, that fact will be even more glaring. There are too many alternate ways for people to acquire information and opinion now, and at least on most websites, the bias is well-known in advance.
Your other major misconception is in thinking that most bloggers would like to write for a living. That's highly unlikely. You, and Mr. Sheppard, and it seems, Mr. Jurkowitz, et alia, seem to think that the raison d'etre for bloggers is to become "professional" journalists. Au contrair, mon ami! Most of us are ACTUAL professionals, who have either higher education, professional licenses, or both. What licensing board is there for flashboy/loudmouth on 'EEI? What license does one need to work for the Globe?
Most blogs and messageboards should be seen, rather, as if they were virtual livingrooms, or perhaps, barrooms, where like-minded individuals get together to discuss things of interest to them. They are self-selecting (which is why you aren't a member) and work better that way.
Now, it is likely that you haven't gotten this far due to the polysyllabic words, the absence of invective and complete lack of homophobic bile. It's a shame, because the next time you made a pot of tea for one of your betters, e.g. "the big boys", you might be able to sound intelligent.
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Mark,
You may want to rethink venturing into sports-country. This is like Friday night (late) at a Dot-Ave tavern. Good luck keeping political junkies, even if they are (like me) sports fans. Yikes!
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What's up with the slams against Jurkowitz? From what I have seen, he's taken a neutral stance in all this. Saying that his mentioning the BSMW posting "should not be construed as an endorsement" isn't the same as saying "this is stupid."