Let me clarify this from the very beginning.   I have no evidence of this.  I have not talked to anybody with evidence of this.    As far as I know this is just a rumor.  But it is a rumor that has everybody buzzing in Boston right now.    And with Jason Varitek filing for divorce it has only fanned the flames of this thing.  Now I first heard about this roughly a month or two ago.   And I’ve probably gotten 1 email a week about it since then.  It’s always the same thing every time.  “I know an insider who told me Varitek is plugging Heidi Watney, so trust me it’s fact, blah, blah, blah.”  But whenever I ask for proof they have nothing.    So I have ignored this for two months because I wasn’t going to print something based on some anonymous tip from a guy whose only proof is that he supposedly knows somebody on the inside.   But having said that it seems like more and more unrelated people are now saying the same thing.    And I’m a firm believer that where there is smoke there is fire.  But I can’t stress enough that this is strictly gossip at this point until somebody comes up with something concrete.   

So why did I post this blog then you ask?  Because if I had to bet on whether this rumor was true or false I’d bet on true.  And that’s good enough for me and good enough to get published on the Stool.  Because unlike mainstream media outlets, Barstool Sports doesn't pretend to always be based on facts.  It can be, but it’s also based on opinions, rumors and gossip.  We won’t publish something that we know is false just to create controversy like lots of places. But if I believe in my heart of hearts that something is true than I will publish it.     So for me this would kind of be like if E! News speculating that a couple is dating or something to that effect. 

And if this rumor is true I wonder what that means for the future of Heidi Watney?  Because the way things are going right now, I don’t think there is any doubt that Heidi is way more valuable to the organization than Tek.  Listen catchers who hit .140 grow on trees.  Chicks that look like Heidi Watney are 1 in a million.

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