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Boston.com - Total fraud. I hate to be the fly in the punch bowl here, but yesterday’s lovefest involving Nomar Garciaparra and the Red Sox was truly nauseating. If Nomar had been hooked up to a polygraph, the machine would have exploded. Truly unbelievable. There was Nomar, seated between Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein, telling us how much he always loved the Red Sox, how much he loved the Nation. “We needed to talk about how unhappy Nomar was,’’ Lucchino recalled in December of ’04. “Was there anything that could be done to change his mental state of mind, his approach to the organization, the city, and the game? We basically concluded that there was no way we were going to have a happy Nomar Garciaparra for the last couple of months of the season.’’ So Epstein made the deal, sending Garciaparra to the Cubs a week later. And then the Red Sox turned things around and won the World Series. Off the field, he did charity work, kept his mouth shut, and interacted well with fans. He was one of the three great shortstops of his era, alongside Alex Rodriguez and Jeter. In good times and bad, Garciaparra was unnecessarily difficult in all interactions with the media. Garciaparra is the one who had a red stripe put down in front of lockers in the Sox clubhouse. Woe was the scribe who crossed Nomar’s line of death.

Everybody is sending me this article from Shank today. I didn’t feel like I had to talk about it since what I wrote yesterday pretty much corroborates everything Shank wrote today. But whatever, I’ll get Shank’s dick hard and talk about him for a couple seconds. Like I said this article pretty much sums up exactly why I love him and why everybody should love him, but Shank is just too stupid to even realize he made my case for me.  From Shank;

“Off the field, he did charity work, kept his mouth shut, and interacted well with fans. He was one of the three great shortstops of his era, alongside Alex Rodriguez and Jeter.”

Don’t forget he never took a play off, an at bat off or an inning off.

But yet Shank still hated him and thinks he is a fraud. Why? Well let Shank tell you himself.

“In good times and bad, Garciaparra was unnecessarily difficult in all interactions with the media. Garciaparra is the one who had a red stripe put down in front of lockers in the Sox clubhouse. Woe was the scribe who crossed Nomar’s line of death.”

So basically playing hard, keeping your mouth shut, being good with fans but hating the media makes you a fraud. Okay….And my favorite part is how he threw in a One Eyed Bandit quote for good measure. That’s what I was talking about with the Smear Campaign after he left.   The new ownership was so petrified of public bash lash they just made shit up about him and leaked it to the press.   And as I said on The Power Hour the way Lucchino smashed Nomar after his departure was the beginning of the divide between Theo and Larry.

Essentially the only thing Shank got right in this article is that Nomar was pretending to get along with the One Eyed Bandit yesterday. I’m sure he hates his guts and rightfully so. I’m also pretty sure it wasn’t Nomar’s idea to sit next to him at the press conference and pretend they were best buds. If he wanted to retire a Red Sox where he had his best years and show how much he loved the fans he had no choice.

Bottom line is this when deciding who is right about Nomar. I don’t know Nomar. Never met him. Just watched him play. Fell in love with his style, appreciation of the game and the way he treated the fans of this city. Shank couldn’t get an interview with so he has a vendetta and hates his guts. Who you going to believe is giving a fair representation?

PS – I honestly can’t believe I just dignified this garbage with a blog.