taken from the reference to MacDaddy, which he isn't. MattDaddy is a blogger who talks about his kids, being a father/husband, technical stuff, and the Boston Redsox
A MattDaddy is someone who is devoted to his family, a good father, and a good enough husband for the wife to tolerate his sorry stinkin butt.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)