We actually feel kind of bad for John Tomase of the Boston Herald.  In February, he wrote the H-bomb article regarding the allegation that the hometown Patriots cheated the St. Louis Rams in connection with Super Bowl XXXVI.

Tomase, like other writers, had been chasing former Pats employee Matt Walsh ever since a review of the relatively small list of former Pats video employees after Spygate I revealed that Matt Walsh was a person who might have useful information.

It was generally believed among the folks chasing Walsh that Walsh would say that he videotaped the Rams’ final walk-through practice.  The only problem is that Walsh wouldn’t actually say it into a tape recorder or other equivalent sound preservation device.  Our guess is that Tomase and/or the Herald were reluctant to run with Walsh’s claims absent Walsh going on the record.  That stance apparently changed on February 1, when Walsh finally decided to talk on the record, vaguely and incompletely, about his role in practices that might constitute cheating.

And so the “Pats Cheated In The Super Bowl” article ran the day before Super Bowl XLII, which was supposed to be the final act of a 19-0 season.

After the Giants pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, Pats fans turned their venom toward Tomase and the Herald.

And, to their credit, the Herald continues to allow reader venting via the comments feature appended to Tomase’s articles.  Consider, if you will, the comments on Tomase’s latest offering, a round-one mock draft.

Things will only get worse for the Herald and Tomase if Walsh’s May 13 meeting with Commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t result in corroboration of the controversial February 2 report.