Adam Kurkjian Defends 'Correct' Report on Gronkowski Trade Talks

Toucher & Hardy

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4.3 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Freelance reporter Adam Kurkjian, formerly of the Boston Herald, joins Toucher & Rich to talk about his tweet detailing the Patriots' Rob Gronkowski trade talks over the offseason. He defends the "correct" information presented in his report, despite the blowback received by it. Kurkjian reported that the Pats had deals in place for a Gronkowski trade and that Tom Brady threatened to retire if the deal went through before Robert Kraft nixed it.

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0:00.0	The games are only half of it.
0:03.0	Hatcher and Rich.
0:04.4	98.5, the sports hub.
0:07.1	Adam Kirchen, who is the maker of that said tweet.
0:10.8	Is he on with us right now?
0:12.0	Oh, there I'm on with you right now.
0:14.1	Hey, what's up, Adam?
0:15.1	First of all, Adam, who do you work for right now?
0:18.1	Right now, I'm just a freelance writer.
0:20.2	I'm doing a lot of stuff stuff for uh you know local high school
0:24.8	stuff uh and and things like that uh yesterday i was covered in a uh or saturday i was covered
0:32.7	a high school softball game and i'm going to high school baseball game today.
0:40.5	So that's kind of what I'm working on right now. Okay, then how do you get this information?
0:44.9	Like where does this come from?
0:47.6	You know, I did cover the paths for several years at the Herald,
0:53.0	and over that time time you build up information
0:58.2	and sources that people come to you with and you don't just sort of go with stuff that
1:08.1	people tell you right away because the trust that you build over time is what, you know,
1:15.2	gave me the ability to sort of know that the information that was being said on Friday was actually correct.
1:28.7	Okay.
1:29.8	A lot of people listening are saying this is somebody who right now covers high school softball and a freelancer.
1:36.8	Why should we take him seriously?
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