Reader Email:

I sent Dan Shaughnessy the picture that Chisholm took, except I used the title "Excellent picture that could be used in a Red Sox article" so that he would read it and I left contact info off the bottom of the email (its my work email).  So I just got off the phone after a 4 minute 48 second phone call with The Curly Haired Boyfriend himself!!!  DAN SHAUGHNESSY JUST CALLED ME, 3000 miles away, in California, because I sent him a picture of himself watching himself on TV from your website and he is not a happy camper.  He said that he was there to do a benefit for some sick kids upstairs and he just wanted to watch a segment on NESN about his new book.   He then went on to try and guilt trip me by saying that next time he would just have to tell the kids that he couldn't do it.  I think Barstool Sports just saved the lives of some sick children, keep up the good work.

PS - He flat out denied that he would ever write anything about Schilling if he ever caught Curt doing the same thing.  I smell a rat.

PPS - He called Chisholm a chickenshit for taking his picture without him knowing about it.

-Matt

First of all, let me just say this.  If I’m ever on a TV show and happen to be in a bar when the said TV show comes on, I’d push little kids and grand mothers into oncoming traffic to get close to the TV to watch it.  So I actually don’t have any problem with Shaughnessy pulling up a chair to watch himself.    Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was a funny blog and funny picture, but I can’t believe Shank has his panties in a bunch about this.  I mean everybody already knew he was full of himself anyway.  More importantly, who the hell calls back people who send them hate email?   If I did that I’d be on the phone 24/7 dealing with all the feminists and Superfan crybabies who hate my ass. I don’t have time for that type of shit.  I’ve got blogs to write. Regardless, this is a 180 from a guy who said he never heard of us 2 days ago.  I mean one second we don’t exist and the next second he’s calling Chisholm a chicken shit and saying he won’t help sick children anymore because the paparazzi (Chisholm) is stalking him with his camera phone.     Anyway, it sounds like the Stool is getting ready for a showdown, Anchorman style.  

Email #2 From Matt

Stoolies,

I did a little investigative research after my previous email and I guess his book that he was promoting is actually a non fiction book about his son, Sam Shaughnessy, and high school baseball.  I went to check Amazon to see if this was true, and this was an actual review from the website.  Here is the description of the book;

In Senior Year, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sports writing talents on his son’s senior year of high school, a turning point in any young life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Using that experience, Shaughnessy circles back to his own boyhood and calls upon the many sports greats he’s known over the years—Ted Williams, Roger Clemens, Larry Bird—to capture that uniquely American rite of passage that is sports. Sam Shaughnessy was born a natural hitter and quickly ascended the ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonishing ability to hover between success and failure in everything he does, Sam is finally a senior, and it’s all on the line: what college to attend; how to keep his grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether or not his final high school baseball season, will end in disappointment or triumph. 

Here is the actual review on the website (You better sit down); 

"I feel bad about disliking an 18 year old kid, but man that kid was an arrogant, self-centered, and spoiled. To be honest, he really didn't seem like a very good baseball player either. A one tool player in the northeast. Not someone I would I take a chance on-let alone someone with "character issues." I think Mom and Dad in the book liked to be the "cool" parents and let the kids get away with too much. On the flip side, I know I don't know these people but I could not get past how annoying these people are."

HOLY CRAP, can you get any better than this?!?!!?!?!?  Sounds like he raised the boy in his own image.  And it’s good to know that Dad isn't the only one in the family that no one in baseball wants anything to do with.

Here is the link to the site.  Did one of you guys do this?

Ok, here is my reaction to part #2 of this email.    First of all the book review has to be from somebody who just hates Dan Shaughnessy.   But that’s not really here nor there.  More importantly I’ve never seen Sam Shaughnessy play baseball but I can guarantee that he sucks. I mean his dad clearly doesn’t have one ounce of athletic ability in his body.  There is no way his son can be any good.    Also, let’s cut the shit with the “3’-2” nickname.  Nobody calls him that.  That’s just an impossible nickname.    Clearly Shank made it up and everybody who knows his son puked when they read that.   And for anybody who thinks we shouldn’t be making fun of an 18 year old kid, my answer to that is then don’t write a book about him.    

As a side note, I can’t believe Shaughnessy wrote a book about his son’s high school baseball career and I didn’t know that.  It just seems like something I should know.