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Old 10-11-2013, 06:05 PM   #253
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina View Post
You work in radio - the mic picks up all sorts of stuff that isn't fit for air.
Did he technically have the right to go with it? Sure. I guess. But he had to do so knowing the long-term price he would pay in terms of losing the trust of the players.
Just a bad decision that 99% of the media wouldn't make.
Again the comment alone makes it pretty damn clear that it wasn't "on the record".
I agree with you on everything here outside of the last sentence.

Thornton assumed no one would run with it. But in this day and age of every word being dissected thru social media and other outlets, he shouldn't have.
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