They have become a punch line….less than a week after resigning as a reporter for ComcastSportsNet, Jess Moran and Red Sox Manager John Farrell are a joke, literally!<\/p>\n
In an story about how Boston’s winter teams are enjoying success, Dan Shaughnessey quips “The Celtics’ and Bruins” seasons might last longer than John Farrell as Red Sox manager.”<\/a>\u00a0 Now granted, much of this analogy might have to do with the Sox won\/loss record but ever since word of the “relationship” surfaced, people are wondering (aloud) “just how long will ownership put up with this (two year) affair”<\/p>\n I can’t imagine that either Farrell or Moran intended get to this point but so they have and it says here, they have no one to blame but themselves …<\/p>\n “I’m just so damned disappointed”, said Jackie MacMullan<\/a>, just recently on WEEI Sports Talk Radio’s Dale and Holley Show…”this can’t happen, it’s unprofessional”…<\/p>\n Some might call it unethical as well…At a recent Boston University sports journalism seminar on race and gender I asked Dr. Kyoung-yim Kim<\/a>, of the Boston College Sociology department,\u00a0 when athletes say they shouldn’t be considered role models are they just trying to avoid responsibility ?…”That’s if you assume they have<\/em> responsibility”…a telling answer…<\/p>\n I talked with a freelance sports journalism friend of mine and she at first her reaction was “Doesn’t she understand what she was risking?”…But later as she thought more about it she asked me “Are we holding her more responsible than him?”…Since Moran resigned, perhaps it seems that way in the short term…Farrell refuses to comment on the liaison and with each day’s passing, the situation moves to the background of the news cycle…<\/p>\n