Not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but his whole problem with Deflategate was not that he thought it was a big deal but that he did think the Pats were lying. He and Felger thought the Wells Report In Context site, in particular the “Deflator comment was in reference to Dorito Dink losing weight” argument, was mendacious and undermines everything else.Shank also says Deflategate was real.
Here, we all know Shank as a troll but in a baseball context I think it doesn’t help the Red Sox to have a Spink award winning (ie, Cooperstown Hall of Fame) journalist making this argument.