Haha! In a "nutshell," no pun intended, Dan Shaughnessy nicknamed Carl Everett "Jurassic Carl," in a column, because Carl doesn't believe dinosaurs existed. The next day when Everett was asked about the nickname, he referred to Dan Shaughnessy as the "Curly-Haired Boyfriend" of fellow Globe beat writer Gordon Edes, because he hated him too. Curly-Haired Boyfriend was then shortened to CHB, which is Shaughnessy's nickname to this very day...
Never thought that highly of Shaughnessy's writing. He seemed allergic to original thinking. If he loses his job
it wouldn't bother me. Bob Ryan, on the other hand...
Ryan won't let personal biases affect his writing.
A huge percentage of what I know about basketball came from reading his stuff when
he was the Globe's Celtics beat writer. The man knows his baseball too,
though what I've seen of him on TV gives me the impression
that his social skills have room for improvement.
Those columns will definitely be worth reading, complimentary to Henry or not.