Seldom has a sports writer generated the kind of animosity that seems to have developed around long time Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy.
Here' the thing:I like Shaughnessy's columns - and I don't care who knows it. True, with the financial problems the Globe is dealing with, it's hard to justify them spending big bucks on sports reporting, let alone sports opinion columns. But from "pass the Jim Jones kool-aid" to " it would be hard not to imagine Carl Everett head-butting customers as he walked down the aisle of Section 25." I find him to be a reasonably good writer who makes me laugh. I find him to be far more literary and well-informed than a typical newspaper reporter, let alone sports reporter.
And I like his writing. So popular opinion be damned, Dan Shaugnessy is one of things I'll miss most if we lose the Globe.
Here' the thing:I like Shaughnessy's columns - and I don't care who knows it. True, with the financial problems the Globe is dealing with, it's hard to justify them spending big bucks on sports reporting, let alone sports opinion columns. But from "pass the Jim Jones kool-aid" to " it would be hard not to imagine Carl Everett head-butting customers as he walked down the aisle of Section 25." I find him to be a reasonably good writer who makes me laugh. I find him to be far more literary and well-informed than a typical newspaper reporter, let alone sports reporter.
And I like his writing. So popular opinion be damned, Dan Shaugnessy is one of things I'll miss most if we lose the Globe.
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