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[thekfish]

Help! Help!

What's the deal with Carfardo? He's clearly a Yankee apologist / fan man. He's usually ballwashing fatass clemens, but today he turned on his boy, saying mussina would have been a better choice to start against the Mariners. Well, hello. In hindsight, maybe. And I'm just ranting abouy his tv 'work'; his Globe stuff isn't a hell of a lot better.

I noticed this as soon as I subscribed to directv in June. Gawd, he's unbearable. Get him out of here. Call him a cab, just get him gone.

Edited by thekfish, 03 September 2007 - 10:35 PM.

[URI]

He's not a Yankee fan or apologist. He is a football writer that is completely out of his depth covering the Red Sox and loves Roger Clemens.

[dcmissle]

He's not a Yankee fan or apologist. He is a football writer that is completely out of his depth covering the Red Sox and loves Roger Clemens.

And a pretty good football writer at that. I assume this is attributable to a mandatory rotation policy based on a concern that beat reporters not get too close to the teams they cover. The Globe would do better focussing on the animus of some of their columnists.

[LMontro]

And a pretty good football writer at that. I assume this is attributable to a mandatory rotation policy based on a concern that beat reporters not get too close to the teams they cover. The Globe would do better focussing on the animus of some of their columnists.

I think Borges said that Nick got sick of dealing with the non-information that comes from Belichick/the Pats and asked out. Who knows if there is any truth to that.

[Spelunker]

There really isn't a better illustrative point about the Globe Sports Section's fall from grace than the fact that Gammons' Sunday Notes baseball column is currently helmed by Nick Cafardo.

[ngruz25]

Cafardo.

Cafarto.

He's turned the Sunday Baseball Notes into a joke. Not entirely his fault (the giant box of nothing in the middle of the page doesn't help), but God does he suck.

[pedros hairstylist]

He knows less than I do. I wish Gammons would do a Bud Collins-like drop-in every week for that column.

[thekfish]

Not being fortunate enough to love - or live, for that matter - in the Northeast, I pull his stuff off the web site, and read it that way. So, although I remember seeing the paper on occasion when Gammons did the notes, I don't see it much anymore. Seems ol' Nicky often has diarrhea of the keyboard.

On the NESN shows, he's beyond brutal. Of course, most of the Globies are. But he seems to want to impress with his knowledge of the mys. Seems to care more about them, too. I really believe it shows in his reports.

Edited by thekfish, 04 September 2007 - 06:26 PM.

[GriffinDoerr]

Cafardo's unabashed manlove for Clemens is well-documented and has gone beyond embarassing and into ludicrous. He also admitted a month or two ago on NESN that he was rooting for the Yankees.

Another funny thing about Cafardo - he loves veteran baseball players and loathes rookies. That's part of what makes watching guys like Pedroia, Buchholz and Ellsbury excell; I'm just waiting to see Nicky's head explode as he's forced to cover them.

[thekfish]

Cafardo's unabashed manlove for Clemens is well-documented and has gone beyond embarassing and into ludicrous. He also admitted a month or two ago on NESN that he was rooting for the Yankees.

Another funny thing about Cafardo - he loves veteran baseball players and loathes rookies. That's part of what makes watching guys like Pedroia, Buchholz and Ellsbury excell; I'm just waiting to see Nicky's head explode as he's forced to cover them.

The sooner his head explodes, the better. He's a turd.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

I think you guys have a lot of this backwards.

Cafardo is a baseball writer first. That's how he started, and IIRC he worked the Red Sox beat for a number of years. He asked to be switched to the Patriots beat because he wanted to travel less as the baseball seasons gradually wore on him.

Of course, he was an awful football writer because he couldn't get over the structured media access BB and the Pats have in place. Anyone in football who bothered to return his calls was called a good guy; Nick killed several forests praising the Bills' Tom Donohoe because Donohoe would talk to him.

Eventually he gave up and asked to be returned to Sox coverage because he prefers the daily bullshit sessions with players. As noted he does an awful job (there is nothing worse in the Globe than his "5 thoughts apropos of nothing" bit on Sundays) and carries Clemens' water. I don't see the rookie loathing; I just see the same pattern of praising the usual suspects for talking to the press.

I don't think Nick himself is actually a bad guy or an asshole, unlike Borges. I think he's just a lazy hack.

[Paul M]

I remember reading him when I was in junior high school and I delievered the Patriot Ledger--is that paper still in business--and Nick wrote for it. This was back in 1988 I think. I think he's a baseball writer, but is just not very inspired. He's probably got his tenure and will retire in 10 years.

[MidnightC]

I don't think Nick himself is actually a bad guy or an asshole, unlike Borges. I think he's just a lazy hack.

Wasn't Cafardo the Globe reporter who last year, when talking about David Murphy's draft slot, listed him with a bunch of superstar players that weren't actually part of that draft? IIRC, he did it as means of demeaning the Sox's scouting department by making it sound like Boston chose Murphy over the likes of Travis Hafner in the draft.

Edit: Link.

It WAS Cafardo. So yeah, I'd have to agree with that "lazy hack" part, at least in this instance.

The '03 draft produced Rocco Baldelli, Mark Teixeira, Jose Reyes, Joe Mauer, Miguel Cabrera, Justin Morneau, Johan Santana, Travis Haffner, Hanley Ramirez, Rich Harden, Lastings Milledge, Brandon Wood, Nick Markakis, Chad Cordero, and Rickey Weeks.
When one thinks of it in that context, Murphy hasn't measured up, but the journey isn't over.

He later changed this paragraph in the article without acknowledging his clear mistakes.

Edited by MidnightC, 05 September 2007 - 02:25 PM.

[JimD]

The inclusion of Johan Santana in that list should have gotten someone suspended at the Glob.

[thekfish]

I think you guys have a lot of this backwards.

Cafardo is a baseball writer first. That's how he started, and IIRC he worked the Red Sox beat for a number of years. He asked to be switched to the Patriots beat because he wanted to travel less as the baseball seasons gradually wore on him.

Of course, he was an awful football writer because he couldn't get over the structured media access BB and the Pats have in place. Anyone in football who bothered to return his calls was called a good guy; Nick killed several forests praising the Bills' Tom Donohoe because Donohoe would talk to him.

Eventually he gave up and asked to be returned to Sox coverage because he prefers the daily bullshit sessions with players. As noted he does an awful job (there is nothing worse in the Globe than his "5 thoughts apropos of nothing" bit on Sundays) and carries Clemens' water. I don't see the rookie loathing; I just see the same pattern of praising the usual suspects for talking to the press.

I don't think Nick himself is actually a bad guy or an asshole, unlike Borges. I think he's just a lazy hack.

If he's going to continue to wash Clemens' and the mfy balls, who needs him? He is an a-hole. If I wanted to read that sh*t, I'd spend more time on the ny paper sites. I can't believe the high majority of readers in the northeast want to read about mfy crap and ballwashing. I don't even want to see the mfy highlights on nesn (I know. That's a bit extreme.)

[GriffinDoerr]

If he's going to continue to wash Clemens' and the mfy balls, who needs him? He is an a-hole. If I wanted to read that sh*t, I'd spend more time on the ny paper sites. I can't believe the high majority of readers in the northeast want to read about mfy crap and ballwashing. I don't even want to see the mfy highlights on nesn (I know. That's a bit extreme.)

All I ask is that EEI keep freakin' John Sterling's "an A-bomb for A-ROD!" calls off the radio. They make my ears bleed.

As for Cafardo, he was classic a couple of days ago on the NESN pregame. It was a couple of days after A-Rod had hurt his ankle, and the Yankees had sent him for an MRI before the game. I caught a bit of the Yankees' post-game on the tube and A-Rod appeared a bit befuddled over having to go to the hospital, saying he felt OK.

So then, here's Nicky the next day, practically glowing over A-Rod: "He went for an MRI! And then he played! Most players would miss the game - miss more than one game! - with an injury like that!" An injury like what, Nick?

Does anybody at the Globe or NESN have enough brains to tell Cafardo to tone it down, at least a little?

Edit: typo

Edited by GriffinDoerr, 08 September 2007 - 10:58 PM.

[thekfish]

Agree EEI should stop playing that sterling kaka. I think they nod and smirk whenever someone says it makes their ears bleed or just plain PISSES THEM OFF.

And Orsillo just keeps feeding Cafardo those meatballs. "What about alex rodriguez?"

I'd really like to see drill him in the ribs - rodriguez, not cafardo; oh, what the heck, cafardo too - his first time up Friday night. It's going to be gross for those of us not in the northeast next weekend. NESN Friday, the bad fox-espn combo the next two days. It won't even be safe on XM, which probably will have snoremaster dan schulman (or whomever) doing the games instead of giving us the rko/eei casts. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

My head will probably explode by Friday anyway. F'in mfys.

Edited by thekfish, 09 September 2007 - 09:14 PM.

[E5 Yaz]

Bump for this from today's baseball notes:

I had the pleasure of meeting Yankees public relations intern Matthew Wasser in New York not long ago. This wonderful young man, 22 years old, was respectful and courteous of others and was destined to do great things, but he was tragically killed in a traffic accident last Sunday morning in Waltham following Game 6 of the ALCS. He was a passenger in a cab that was hit by a person charged with operating under the influence of alcohol. Our deepest sympathies to his family . . . Happy 46th birthday, Bob Melvin.

Now, the desk should have saved Cafardo here and put the obligatory and lame birthday greetings BEFORE the tragedy, but he should have said to himself that ending on an apparently heartfelt sentiment would have made for a better finish to the column than shifting moods so unitentionally funny.

It did bring to mind the classic from the providence Journal, which used to have a "Good Morning!" logo over a refer to an inside story.

Good Morning!
Thurman Munson dead, page 1B

Edited by E5 Yaz, 28 October 2007 - 01:50 PM.