Re: The secret life of "Butch on the Cape"

["Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>]

Richard writes:
> On his web page, writer Mark Sullivan posts a year-old _Hartford
> Courant_ story about legendary talk-show caller "Butch on the
> Cape", who turned out to be a gambler, con man, and informer who
> played the marks, the bookies, the cops, and the wise guys for
> fun and profit.
>
> I didn't know any of it before, but for Sullivan, it's a
> cautionary tale of how you never really do know somebody just
> from his media image.
>
> http://mcns.blogspot.com/2002_09_22_mcns_archive.html#82166407

Read this when it first came out last year. Butch used WEEI for his own
personal agenda, and WEEI used Butch for great, free programming. I guess it
worked out for both, right?