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I hope you're sitting down when you come to this article. According to the Boston Globe,

McDaniels: Healthy Gronkowski would have impact on game plan

I know, I know - shocking.

I wonder if the presence or absence of Brady would affect the game plan, too...

Don't have time for the full rant...

...but wanted to note this anyway. "Wins" are a lousy metric for evaluating starting pitchers. Here's just another little nugget of evidence.

On two consecutive nights, the Red Sox starting pitcher allows five runs in five innings. And the game stories in the Globe aren't even similar.
Thursday:

Wakefield handed an 8-5 lead to the bullpen.

Friday:

Miller was better this time, allowing five runs in five innings. But that was far from good enough.

Boston Globe - Varitek’s battery recharged

You can trust the Boston Globe and the rest of the mainstream media because they have all of those layers of fact-checkers and editors...

Varitek still has not given up on the idea that his time as a starting player has come to an end.

Hmm... I don't think that actually says what he thinks it says...

When you've lost the Boston Globe...

... you need to stop looking for victory and hope that you can get to defeat with dignity. At least, if you're a public sector union...

THE PROPOSAL by public-employee unions in Massachusetts to reduce health insurance costs for cities and towns may be a good-faith gesture, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Half measures can’t control soaring medical costs for public employees, which threaten to degrade basic municipal services for taxpayers across the state.

In a tacit acknowledgment that municipal health costs have become unsustainable...

I would never, ever have expected to read this editorial in the Boston Globe. Even if the Globe's editors can see the light, we may well be at the dawn of a new day.

Quote of the day (so far)

Steyn:

Pity the poor Democrats. It's so easy to "misjudge" [the electorate] when you read The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Herald endorses Brown, sun rises in east...

There seem to be some people excited about this endorsement of Scott Brown by the Boston Herald:

If you love what’s going on in Washington, well, then by all means vote for Martha Coakley. She’s a perfectly nice person, and she won’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the balance of power in Washington.

But if you’re not happy with the status quo, if you think the way business is being conducted on Capitol Hill today is a disgrace and an affront to taxpayers, then you probably agree it’s time for a change.

Scott Brown can single-handedly deliver on that kind of change and the Herald is pleased to endorse his candidacy in the race for U.S. Senate.

It's nice, I suppose, but essentially meaningless. The Herald's not the Globe. This is a "dog bites man" story, as will be the Globe's eventual and inevitable endorsement of Coakley. It doesn't hurt anything, but it doesn't help anything, either. The only possible endorsement which could impact this race at all would be if the Globe endorsed Brown, which isn't going to happen.

Rules to die for

From the Boston Globe, Rules to die for:

In the spring of 2001, Wellesley College freshman Molly Thompson attempted suicide for the first time. Neither she nor the college informed her parents in Rhode Island, nor did they say that Molly had spent the Mother's Day weekend in a psychiatric ward...What stands between the parent and the child's well-being are two vast thickets of legal undergrowth: FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and the better-known HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

A sobering read for those of us with college age, or approaching college age, kids.