By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch

John Tomase’s Monday night appearance on Comcast SportsNet was, as expected, the next in his multi-platform redemption tour that began with May 16’s non-apology, apology for his role in the Boston Herald’s Spygate coverage.

Appearing for the first time on CSN since April 24 on the 10 p.m. edition, Tomase joined regular host Mike Felger and fill-in co-host, Sean Grande as well as Scott Zolak, and mention of Spygate did not come until the B Block, a full 12 minutes into the show.

The three-minute discussion of Tomase’s role in the matter took place between Grande, Felger and Tomase (Zolak was benched for that segment). It was not the bloodbath Felger teased about, but it did include some reasonably tough, insightful questions - mostly from Grande - and a contrite and remorseful Tomase admitting that he has some major work to do in order to gain the readership’s trust back. It will never be enough for the Tomase Tormenters, but it was about as good as could be expected on a show where Tomase has been a long-time contributor.

In true Belichickian fashion, Tomase even uttered the words, “We’re moving on.”

. . . Tomase inexplicably brought up the name of a fellow lightning rod football wreter, Ron Borges. Whatever it was he was trying to say about Borges (he was using him as an illustration of how fervent a fan Tomase was growing up), it was surely time that would have been better served with a different, less controversial example.

. . . The night’s poll question was intended to be about Manny Ramirez but would have applied a few weeks back to Tomase: “Should he be suspended?” (Results were 76-24 in favor of suspension for Manny, although no total vote count was noted.)

. . . While I can agree agree the A Block should have been led by the Sox, I would have liked to have seen CSN put the Tomase discussion also in that first 12 minutes. It wasn’t necessary to use all that time for Sox talk and getting Tomase’s side would have been a more genuine approach to the appearance that was heralded a bit during the day on Monday.

. . . NBCSports.com’s Tom Curran was originally scheduled for the show, but was replaced by Zolak. It’s fair to wonder whether that was a Tomase-related defection by Curran, or if he simply had a scheduling conflict. [We have sent an email to the CSN spokesman seeking clarification and will post his response here when received.] NOTE: Curran appeared on the 6:30 p.m. show and was not - despite information from CSN to the contrary - scheduled for the 10 p.m.

• A source inside Morrissey Boulevard is once again indicating that baseball writer Gordon Edes is finally ready to cut the cord and make the jump to Yahoo! Sports. There has been no word on the status of Edes’ appeal of his Globe buyout rejection, but for a saga that has dragged on (like Tomase’s) since April, it is about time that Edes either fish or cut bait. We’re told to expect Edes to be gone from the Globe by the All-Star break. A potential start date for his long-discussed Yahoo! gig as a national columnist is not known at this time.

David Scott writes from a seaside shanty on the shores of Hull, Mass. and can be reached at shotsATbostonsportsmediaDOTcom.

Scott’s first book, with Memphis Coach John Calipari, is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2009.