#Boston GlobeSox

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Might John Henry Sell STAT to the New York Times?

Might John Henry Sell STAT to the New York Times?

Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry’s sports shopping spree is apparently not over yet. His Fenway Sports Group – which includes the Boston Red Sox, the Liverpool Football Club, Fenway Sports Management,50% of RFK Racing, and 80% of NESN – added the Pittsburgh Penguins to that roster last month. Now Henry is looking to drop an NBA franchise into his cart, as Justin Leger reported at NBC Sports…

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Boston Globe Whiffs Again on Alex Verdugo's Past

Boston Globe Whiffs Again on Alex Verdugo’s Past

In his Sunday Baseball Notes column, Boston Globe reporter Peter Abraham had this to say in one of his bulleted Red Sox observations.

▪ You can, and should, hate the Betts trade. But Sox fans are clearly warming up to Alex Verdugo.

Verdugo had an .875 OPS through his first 38 games, but it’s much more than that. He plays with passion, and after a few fundamental flubs early in the season has…

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Boston Globe Story a Free Ad for Fenway Advertiser

Boston Globe Story a Free Ad for Fenway Advertiser

From our Boston GlobeSox desk

A sharp-eyed Two-Daily Town reader posted this on Facebook last night.

Wow, the Boston Globe has a story about a Red Sox commercial partner — a casino, no less — entering into a deal to put an ad on the left field wall (I refuse to call the edifice by its brand name.) And it comes with a picture of the new logo. Imagine that. How ever did the team owners convince the…

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Labor Unions Blast Boston Globe in Boston Globe Ad

Labor Unions Blast Boston Globe in Boston Globe Ad

Contract negotiations between Boston GlobeSox owners John/Linda Henry and the Boston Newspaper Guild (the employee union for The Boston Globe) have been limping along for two-plus years, thanks in no small part to the hardball tactics employed by law firm Jones Day, which is to unions what bowling balls are to tenpins. As a result, three local unions – the Greater Boston Labor Council, the…

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John Henry to Boston Herald: Drop Dead

John Henry to Boston Herald: Drop Dead

Sure, David Ortiz’s Fenway Swan Song turned out to be (Not So) Sweet Caroline as the Sox lost five of their last six, but at least Big Papi got a sweet sendoff in the local dailies. Sunday’s papers were a Papipalooza of congratulatory ads, with both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald publishing special Commemorative Sections. Their front pages gave you a good idea of who was going to win the…

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Boston Globe Won't Reveal Groups That Got Free Ads

Boston Globe Won’t Reveal Groups That Got Free Ads

As the hardreading staff noted the other day, the Boston Globe’s GRANT program, which is headed by Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry’s wife Linda Pizzuti and which “enables readers to support New England’s non-profits by choosing which ones are given free advertising space in The Boston Globe,” has always struck us as more sizzle than steak. After its launch two years ago, the program pretty much…

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The Boston Globe's Come-to-Jesus GRANT Grant

The Boston Globe’s Come-to-Jesus GRANT Grant

As the hardreading staff has previously noted, there’s something hinkey about the Boston Globe’s GRANT program. GRANT – which stands for Globe Readers And Non-profits Together – “enables readers to support New England’s non-profits by choosing which ones are given free advertising space in The Boston Globe.” The initiative debuted two years ago with this full-page ad in the stately local…

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Useless Boston Herald AWOL on Globe Meltdown

Useless Boston Herald AWOL on Globe Meltdown

The hardreading staff has been thoroughly flummoxed by the Boston Herald’s recent abdication of its sacred duty to pummel crosstown rival Boston Globe on any and all occasions. And what an occasion the stately local broadsheet has presented in its current inability to deliver its print edition to vast swaths of home subscribers. An inability, by the way, the lately local broadsheet is now kind of…

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Globe Cries 'Uncle', Goes Back to Old Distributor

Globe Cries ‘Uncle’, Goes Back to Old Distributor

Rule #1: Don’t trust anything Boston Globe executives say these days. Exhibit A: Here’s what Globe CEO Mike Sheehan said on WGBH’s Greater Boston Monday night: Mike Sheehan: Part of those options we’re considering are dividing up those [undelivered] areas and bringing in some other distributors to help and getting this solved very very fast. Jim Braude: You couldn’t undo this and just go back to…

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Track Whacks Globe Over Non-Disclose

Track Whacks Globe Over Non-Disclose

Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry gets batted around in the Boston Herald’s Inside Track today, thanks to this Eric Wilbur piece on boston.com.

Boston is Still a Red Sox Town Even if Tom Brady is King

Who rules Boston: the Red Sox or Patriots?

Ultimately, there is no clear front-runner in the debate over whether Boston has ultimately become a football town, or if it maintains its long-time…

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Boston.comedy: Boehnheaded Post Is Double Trouble for Globe Media Website

Boston.comedy: Boehnheaded Post Is Double Trouble for Globe Media Website

Boston Globe Media Partners should launch a new vertical – maybe Clux.com? – to house all their apologies for the Globe’s kissing’ cousin, Boston.com.

You’d think – after the t-shirt hit the fanthe other week – there’d be some kind of moratorium on Boston.commentary down at Morrissey Boulevard. No such luck. Yesterday one of the Boston.comics posted a piece with the headline “Would Anyone Have…

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GlobeSox Owner John Henry Buys Boston Herald!

GlobeSox Owner John Henry Buys Boston Herald!

The hardreading staff was cruising through the Boston Globe Sports section this morning and amid the final final farewells to the irreplaceable Number Two, Derek Jeter, Number 2 (but not at Fenway Park), when we came across this full-page ad.

    Our first thought: Yeah, thanks suckers.

Our second thought: Wonder if Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry ran the same ad in crosstown rival Boston…

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John Henry Flirts with Boston Herald - Again!

John Henry Flirts with Boston Herald – Again!

As the hardreading staff noted a couple of weeks ago, Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry is having a fling with his crosstown rival in a series of email exchanges with Herald sports scribe Michael Silverman.

First he used the frisky local tabloid to dopeslap his star sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy over his dismissal of Red Sox Nation’s unswerving devotion to the Olde Towne Team.

Yesterday, Henry

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John Henry Uses Herald to Whack Globe's Dan Shaughnessy

John Henry Uses Herald to Whack Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy

The Boston Herald’s Michael Silverman got an email interview with Boston GlobeSox owner John Henry, which, of course, was Page One news for the feisty local tabloid.

    The email exchange between Silverman and Henry was pretty much what you’d expect.

Henry takes stock of perplexing Sox

The Red Sox are genuinely perplexed.

Barely more than two weeks ago, principal owner John Henry was told by…

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More Slop on the John Henry/Marty Walsh Hand-Holding in the Boston Globe

More Slop on the John Henry/Marty Walsh Hand-Holding in the Boston Globe

So, to recap for the umpteenth- hell, just see here.

The question is this: How did Marty’s Mash Note to the Boston Public Schools wind up as a full-page ad in last Wednesday’s Boston Globe?

    On Friday, CommonWealth Magazine (which came late – but smart – to the party) reported the issue thusly:

THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION donated a full-page ad in Wednesday’s newspaper to Boston Mayor Marty…

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Wait! Boston GlobeSox Owner John Henry IS Gettin' Cozier with Marty Walsh

Wait! Boston GlobeSox Owner John Henry IS Gettin’ Cozier with Marty Walsh

To recap one more time again:

Last Wednesday, this full-page ad appeared in the Boston Globe:

    That got the headscratching staff to wondering who paid for Marty’s Mash Note to the Boston Public Schools. So we sent a note to the Boston Globe Foundation (see lower left in the ad) asking just that: Did Mayor Walsh (read: Boston taxpayers) foot the bill? Did the Globe Foundation? Did no one?

And…