Last modified: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:29 AM EDT Tedy Bruschi takes some time to chat with the media before a golf fund-raiser. (Staff photo by Drew Pillsbury) FARINELLA: More tid-bits from Tedy Ponderous thoughts I was pondering as the first week of summer began my personal five-week countdown toward the end of my summer, otherwise known as the beginning of the Patriots' training camp: - One of the more mirthful comments by Patriots' linebacker Tedy Bruschi from his appearance at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital golf tournament Monday at TPC-Boston unfortunately didn't make it to the print edition on Tuesday because the story was just getting too long. It was a small group of media members that gathered with Bruschi before the golf event - myself and Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe were the only two print reporters present when Bruschi talked, with bad weather delaying Dave Heuschkel of the Hartford Courant en route - and as a result, it was a much more comfortable and personal conversation than the sort we have during the football season, when 30 television cameras race to a player's side the second he utters his first syllable. We had been talking about how special it has been for Bruschi to spend his entire career with the Patriots, and how he had taken a brief shot at free agency in 2000, just as Bill Belichick was assuming the coaching reins, but decided that departing would be the easy way out. "It's easier to jump ship than to right the ship," he said. "I've had opportunities to go somewhere else during times when it wasn't during this era ... and that would have been the easy way out. Why not stick it out where you are and try to fix the problems and make it better? That's the philosophy I've stuck with my whole career. I wanted to go somewhere and establish something, and I think a lot of us in this organization have that feeling." At that point, with the golf tourney beckoning, I threw in one last question. "Not to rush you or to get ahead of things," I said, "but when your playing days are over, do you see yourself putting down permanent roots here?" Bruschi, who grew up in San Francisco, paused for a second and then laughed. "I'll cross that when I get to it," he said. "But my children are in school here and my wife is used to the winters, which is amazing ... let's just say that my wife likes it here, and what does that mean?" It probably means that Heidi Bruschi will be calling the shots on that one. - Also funny was Bruschi's reaction to Reiss' late arrival to the interview, also caused by the thundershowers that had cropped up all over the region Monday morning. According to the veteran linebacker, the late arrival to a meeting would have cost Reiss more than $1,300 if he had been a player showing up late at the stadium. - We were also easily reminded that these guys live in another tax bracket when we saw backup quarterback Matt Cassel emerging from the TPC-Boston pro shop with two brand new intermediate-range fairway woods costing more than $200 apiece. - Latest word is that training camp will start at Gillette Stadium on July 25. Practices are open to the public, but be sure to check the Patriots' Web site (www.patriots.com) for practice-time updates, because they are subject to rapid and short-noticed change. - Why is it that I get the feeling that no matter how much he says he's OK with the idea that he may have thrown his last pitch in the majors, Curt Schilling will still have to be dragged kicking and screaming off somebody's roster before he's really done? - New King Philip Regional High boys' basketball coach Sean McInnis was the driving force behind one of the truly outstanding "fan" Web sites for high school basketball when he was the girls' coach at Weston High. His site would track all of the teams in eastern Massachusetts (both boys and girls) and allow coaches and sportswriters a hint of what the tournament pairings might be long before they were finalized by the MIAA. Catch a look at it at westongirlsbasketball.com. Memo to fellow Blue Ribbon Daily staffer Danny Crandall:Danny, I feel your pain over that messed-up ticket to the Belmont Stakes that you wrote so well about in last Saturday's paper, and so, apparently do many other readers. Some have asked me to pass along heartfelt condolences for the situation that took $3,415 out of your pocket because a teller at the local track gave you tickets for the wrong race, and I dutifully do so. Shameless Plug Dept.: The latest edition of "The Blog Show" over on our blog site is entitled, "Why My Glove Needs Some Love." In it, I make an impassioned plea for readers and viewers to let me know where I can get a baseball glove re-laced without having to send it across the country. I own a beautiful, 36-year-old Wilson A2000 that would be in absolutely pristine condition if not for the fact that its laces have dried out and broken, and I'd appreciate any suggestions (to the e-mail address or phone number below) about how I can get the glove re-laced. Check out the blog, and all six episodes of "The Blog Show," at thesunchronicle.ning.com. - A word of warning to visitors to the Cape, specifically the area from North Falmouth to Mashpee on Route 151; those giant bugs that are bouncing off your windshields and crunching under your tires are members of Brood XIV of the 17-year periodic cicadas, emerging from Massachusetts in a swath all the way to Ohio and Kentucky. They're harmless and basically clueless, and you don't need to panic if one lands on your hands or your steering wheel. MARK FARINELLA may be reached at 508-236-0315 or via e-mail at mfarinel@thesunchronicle.com. Read Farinella's blog, "Blogging Fearlessly," at thesunchronicle.ning.com.