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Post by timholycross on Feb 9, 2018 15:22:16 GMT -5
For those that don't know who he is, he wrote football and boxing for the Globe for years and got canned for plagiarism about 10 years ago.
Has carried around an agenda against the Pats and Belichick long before that. For example, right before he got canned he wrote a piece for a national publication that said that Adalius Thomas was the prize of that year's free agent crop; when the Patriots signed him a few days later his Globe article trashed the signing (after the first two seasons, turned out he was right, but that's kind of besides the point).
So today, he published a story about how Tom Brady would hold out until he got the same $ as Jimmy Garoppolo just got. Said he got it from multiple sources, most notably Brady's agent, Don Yee.
Well, it turns out that "Yee" was a fake; Borges got hoodwinked by someone, didn't have a second source; and ran the story anyway. Then the fake Yee revealed himself to WEEI. The story got retracted (at that point it was online only) and Borges, I would imagine, is in deep doo-doo.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 9, 2018 16:30:28 GMT -5
Unfortunately far too many in the press, and elsewhere, hear something that fits their agenda/narrative and run with it.
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Post by Tom on Feb 10, 2018 10:52:14 GMT -5
For those that don't know who he is, he wrote football and boxing for the Globe for years and got canned for plagiarism about 10 years ago. Has carried around an agenda against the Pats and Belichick long before that. For example, right before he got canned he wrote a piece for a national publication that said that Adalius Thomas was the prize of that year's free agent crop; when the Patriots signed him a few days later his Globe article trashed the signing (after the first two seasons, turned out he was right, but that's kind of besides the point). So today, he published a story about how Tom Brady would hold out until he got the same $ as Jimmy Garoppolo just got. Said he got it from multiple sources, most notably Brady's agent, Don Yee. Well, it turns out that "Yee" was a fake; Borges got hoodwinked by someone, didn't have a second source; and ran the story anyway. Then the fake Yee revealed himself to WEEI. The story got retracted (at that point it was online only) and Borges, I would imagine, is in deep doo-doo. At least he's consistant
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