COMMENTARY
We will forgive them this sometime soon, once they offer a couple platitudes and/or the Patriots do literally anything to change the subject. The carpetbaggers who, in Dan Shaughnessy’s December 2001 words in the Globe, “don’t know Fenway Park from Jellystone Park” and weren’t to be trusted.
After 18 years, four championships, and something like $3 billion in payroll, we understand and will forgive John Henry (who owns Boston Globe Media Partners, including Boston.com), Tom Werner, and their partners based on experience. Because for as unbelievably lucky as we’ve been, so frankly have they.