SHOTS RESPONDED

• Holy Cow! Did John Henry get a Queer Eye makeover? He cleans up nice, don’t he?

Nice touch with the surprise entrance and the suave sit-down. But the soft-talking was a drawback and he was clearly self-conscious about it.

He was also hyper-aware of the “national audience” that was tuning in and sensitive to the Lucchino-bashing.

• Is someone using a typewriter in the background? What is this, 1955 or 2005.

• When Theo asked “So What’s your question?” it was the first, early sign, that this was much larger than a sports story and that nitwits from the news (and other divisions) were in the house.

• Basketball Bob Ryan seemed to be getting into it a little bit with Theo – sort of the “Hey, enough of this Shaughnessy crap. I’m THE columnist of this paper.”

And he’s right, you know?

Theo really ran a nice room, you’re dead-on Sully. Nice work, Kid. Now back in to the gorilla suit.

• I’m 35 and Mazz covered UMass when I was there and I recall him being a bout four years ahead of me.

• ABC5 cut away from (dumped out of) the presser about 1:15, returning to the network soap that featured a brunette lass named Amanda saying, and we quote: “. .. (they’re) my ‘play doctor pills’ that go along with my ‘play doctor panties’ that I’m not wearing right now.”

Memo to Sully: next week we blog on that Soap with Amanda. Trust me. There must’ve been hundreds of phone calls to ‘CVB from angry MILFs needing to see Amanda and her hunky significant other.

It’ll be a whole new demographic for both of us. And maybe Mandy will play doctor with us afterward.

. . . ESPN dumped out at 1:30 for NFL Films on Red Grange.

• I’m not sure if Shaughnasty was there or not – I’m awful at identifying voices except for the Baritone, McAdam.

• “I blew it” - Henry; Think the Herald will use that one?