I just wanted to clear some of this stuff up because it's something that was used in the media, relying on people not having the facts, to implicate Brady's guilt. Brady knew and talked to Jastrzemski often in the locker room. Jastrzemski also had Brady's phone number, but they had not spoken on the phone since the previous summer sometime.LuckyBen said:
Brady knew McNally as "Burt" (instead of his real nickname "bird"), and must have seen him around the locker room, but their actual personal interactions are unclear. Brady not knowing his actual name, or correctly knowing his nickname, make it seem like it was limited at best.
The phone calls have served as the basis for a lot of people believing something shady was going on, and it's often reported that Brady was the one doing the calling or that Brady spoke to McNally the next day after never having talked to him on the phone. These are both untrue or misleading -- Brady only talked to Jastrzemski on the phone, and while Brady did call him, it was only after he missed (or ignored) 2 or 3 phone calls from Jastrzemski and then called him back. Brady never spoke to McNally on the phone, but it has been implied that Brady called McNally and spoke for 30 minutes and therefore they're guilty. Never happened!
The media being lazy and playing tricks like this has really gotten to me with this whole investigation. Because nobody knows who McNally and Jastrzemski are, they are often reported nameless or their identities conflated, such as by making it sound like Brady called McNally or that Brady had never talked to Jastrzemski before. It's just patently false, but nobody cares enough to correct it.
As for the duration of the phone calls, who cares? 30 minutes is not that long. There's been something like 6,000 Moby Dicks worth of posts written about this whole thing here, I can easily imagine Jastrzemski relating a Kensil interrogation (including all of the incredulous repetitions of "what? really? so he thinks you...") taking 10 or 20 minutes.
