That’s about right.
(Tip o’ the pixel: The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages)
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September 11, 2012
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Funny, Valentine Gives Exclusive to Herald Edition
September 8, 2012Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, who sometimes seems to be only half there, gets half the Boston Herald’s front page today (via The Newseum):
Inside, Steve Buckley has the scoop:
Bobby V plans to be back
Choosing to whistle past the Fenway Park [map] graveyard, a defiant Bobby Valentine said yesterday he plans to be managing the Red Sox [team stats] in 2013.
“I expect to be, of course,” Valentine said late yesterday afternoon at Fenway Park before the Sox’ series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays. “Until I’m told that I’m not, why would I expect otherwise?”
Valentine, who is signed through 2013 and will earn $2.5 million next season, said he doesn’t “see any reason that I wouldn’t be in uniform, other than that they figured there’s someone better to do the job than I’m going to do here. Then maybe I’ll be in another uniform.
See your local bookmaker for the odds of that.
The hardreading staff’s favorite Bobby V pronouncement, though, appears in the pull quote:
As good as I am, I couldn’t even create this kind of mess.
Crosstown at the Globe, meanwhile, they seem to have already kissed Bobby goodbye. The broadsheet is all about John Farrell, the one that got away to the equally miserable Toronto Blue Jays. Michael Vega’s game report from the print edition (which led with a focus on Farrell) has largely been replaced, while a thumbsucker devoted to Farrell was added to the website today.
Back in the Herald, John Tomase says Farrell should stay put.
Farrell’s a keeper
No way Blue Jays should let Sox take their manager
The Red Sox [team stats] want John Farrell. Let there be little doubt of that. But here’s a question: If you’re the Blue Jays, why on earth would you give him to them?
The Red Sox are in disarray. Bobby Valentine is 99.9999999999999999999 percent certain to be fired, probably within hours of the season ending. If you’re Toronto, grasping for the tiniest thread of hope in the AL East, this is it:
Let the Red Sox keep flailing.
With Bobby V at the helm, there’s little doubt that’s just what will happen.
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Red Sox Front Page Doubleheadline Edition
August 25, 2012Its rare that the Boston Globe and Boston Herald feature the same story on Page One (the Herald, with a minuscule home-subscription base, designs its front page to maximize newsstand sales; the Globe, whose circulation is largely home-delivered, doesn’t bear that burden).
But today is an exception, proving that the current Red Sox squad is a uniter, not a divider. They’ve united the town in dislike for them.
First pages first (via The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages):
Advantage: The Herald, hands down.
Now to the battle of the headlines.
Globe page C1:
Dealing with problem?
Red Sox on the verge of a trade that would send Beckett, Gonzalez, and Crawford to Dodgers
Herald page 30:
Sox poised to blow it all up, start anew
Bold first step in erasing foul stench
Advantage: The Herald again.
And finally, the all-important Number of Godfather References.
Globe: None.
Herald: One.
Whether or not the deal goes down, we now have beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt proof that Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington is prepared to make like Michael Corleone taking out the heads of the other four families in his own clubhouse.
Advantage: Take a wild guess.
At post time, both papers had announced the completed deal on their websites. The Herald (around 10 am) seemed to beat the Globe (12:29) by a good couple of hours.
Advantage: That’s right. The Herald.
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Pesky Funeral Edition
August 23, 2012The Boston Herald is decidedly not happy with the turnout for Johnny Pesky’s funeral by current Boston Red Sox players.
Or lack of turnout, to be precise.
It starts at the top of today’s front page (via The Newseum).
Next up: Joe Fitzgerald’s column.
Shame on Red Sox players
They’re the slowest-moving targets in town, easy to ridicule as they stagger to the merciful end of this dreadful season, but the Red Sox [team stats], as a team, could have hit one out of the park just by showing up at Johnny Pesky’s funeral.
That’s all they had to do, even if they didn’t feel a personal urge to show up, which might have been the case for many of them . . .
All they had to do was show up.
What a shame they didn’t, not for Johnny, but for them.
Not to get technical about it, but four current players did show up, as the Track Gals (and Megan!) pointed out in this item that had Sox management on the defensive.
Lucchino defends players who skipped Pesky funeral
Red Sox [team stats] president Larry Lucchino this morning defended his team for the small turnout at Johnny Pesky’s funeral earlier this week, saying it was “unnecessary to focus on that issue.”
“I think the people who knew Johnny best came to it,” Lucchino told WEEI’sDennis & Callahan.
Lucchino told the station that the team had more than 100 mourners at the service including front office staff, ownership, current players, staff and former players.
“It was a very impressive turnout,” he said.
But among current players only David Ortiz [stats], Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Vincente Padilla and Clay Buchholz were in the pews for Pesky’s final farewell. (Manager Bobby Valentine was also there.)
The Gals finish off the item (and the Sox players) with a flourish: “Despite the small turnout at Pesky’s final farewell, most of the team turned out that night for Josh Beckett’s annual Beckett Bowl and concert at Lucky Strike Lanes and the House of Blues that night.”
To be sure, the Beckett Bowl is for a good cause, but ouch!
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Paul Ryan, Paul the Time Edition
August 13, 2012After Mitt Romney (R-How You Like Me Now?) announced his choice of running mate Saturday morning, the Paul Ryan Express roared through the news media, very much including Boston’s dailies.
Sunday’s Boston Herald front page (via The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages):
The local tabloid devoted its first 10 news pages to Romney’s Veep Leap, along with one editorial and three – count ’em, three (here, here, and here) – op-ed columns.
Crosstown, the Boston Globe gave three broadsheet pages to the story, along with one editorial.
(Just for scale, the Globe’s kissin’ cousin New York Times featured four-and-a-half broadsheet pages, plus one Sunday Review piece.)
The Paul Ryan Express just accelerates from here.
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It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 