[PajamaTruthMafia]

You may want to Ping your Howie list RR.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

FYI.

[mainepatsfan]

I heard about this on WEEI this morning. It doesn't look good for Borges.

[johnny7]

The Boston Globe is a very, undemanding newspaper... serving a very, very, undemanding audience.

[6SJ7]

Plagiarism seems to be a recurring theme with the Left/MSM. I wonder if it has something to do with their collective mindset? After all, if there is only the group, then ideas don't 'belong' to individuals and can be freely borrowed.

[NonValueAdded]

Not meant as a defense for Borges in any way, but just how many ways are there to report some of this stuff? When writing about stats, it is all going to sound the same unless you really mess with the phrasing. You figure most stuff by reporters is formulaic, especially after they get used to it all being edited into a template. Editors will dumb it down to the level of their caricature of a sports section reader so you know it will all sound the same. Pretty soon you adjust your writing to match that template. It becomes one big feedback loop.

That certainly explains a one time or occasional match but here there is a long string. Still, similarities are bound to exist. We'll see.

[ClearCase_guy]

Say it ain't so!

[Moosilauke]

The double treatment of the Adalius Thomas signing is more reprehensible (and more typically Borges) than the copying of lines reciting someone's stats for the season. He writes one story for the MSNBC web site praising Thomas as the greatest value in the free agent market (and this before the signing takes place). Then for the Boston Globe he trots out this purported executive to bad mouth Thomas and question the wisdom of the Patriots in making the signing.

Recall that the week before the AFC title game Borges wrote an optimistic "big teams win big games" kind of article praising the Pats chances of going back to the championship game. Then on Sunday in the Globe he wrote the "Pats aren't that good anymore, can't possibly win" article. The bottom line seems to be that the national web site won't pay him to use their space just to trash the Patriots and so he writes the column they want. (This is the explanation I've heard him give in a personal interview.) Meanwhile, back at the Globe nobody has the guts to give him orders so he does what comes naturally--to find the gray lining in every Patriots cloud.