Hey, PeteGammons

[LittleClarkie]

Are you the same Pete Gammons who writes for ESPN, or did you just take his name for a nickname? The name rang a bell because you said you were from Boston, didn't you?

Just wondering, because if it is indeed you from ESPN, it just dawned on me where I'd seen that name before. Here is one article I found on ESPN:

"Thing called love

We have been led to cynically believe that many politicians are disingenuous and generally phony, but few will ever beat Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. This man, who changed his middle initial to be JFK and at an anti-Vietnam rally threw someone else's medals into the water, made a self-promotion appearance with Boston talk-show maven Eddie Andelman and claimed he was a big Red Sox fan from his days growing up in Groton, Mass. And at the promotion he said Eddie Yost was his favorite player.

The problem with that is just the simple fact that Eddie Yost never played for the Red Sox."

and again here, in a column from July 20:

"So who puts the bug in candidates' ears about seeming what they are not? John Kerry last week professed to be a big fan of "Manny Ortez," then re-emphasized the phoofery by correcting it to "David Ortez." No, that was Dave (Baby) Cortez and "The Happy Organ." A few years back Kerry went on a Boston station with Eddie Andelman and said "my favorite Red Sox player of all time is The Walking Man, Eddie Yost," who never played for the Red Sox. Kerry is going to sweep New England. He's going to get 70 percent of the vote in Massachusetts. He doesn't have to be a Red Sox fan, all he has to do is not be John Ashcroft.

Mr. Gammons appears to have some kind of bug up his butt about the good Senator.

Now, I know I've read profile articles from before Kerry even announced his candidacy (everyone knew he would at that point though) where he's asking an aide if he will be home in time to see the Sox game. So I KNOW he was enough of a fan to at least watch the game. Why would it be such a stretch for a man from Boston to be a Sox fan, even in passing.

Do you know I got called pathetic for buying a Sox hat just before the convention because of that column?

Those blurbs better not be more bogus "green tea" type stories, that's all I gotta say.