Hamilton & Frolik Interviews on FAN960

[Fire]

Originally Posted by Parallex

I've always thought that was a really unfair criticism. I only saw him do that once and he tried to dodge the question several times but they kept on pushing him for a Yes/No answer and he'd have been crucified had he said "no".

Bob McKenzie asked Treliving a similar question in his interview and Brad smartly answer something like "There are no guarantees in this business". A much better answer.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by hockey.modern

Maybe if we somehow got him in the scouting management?

I think he was good at managing people but I'm sure even he would agree that player assessment isn't his area of strength. Unless you mean more like Button's role which to me wouldn't make much sense either since Button has decades of experience and quite a good recent track record as well.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by Fire

Bob McKenzie asked Treliving a similar question in his interview and Brad smartly answer something like "There are no guarantees in this business". A much better answer.

Did Bob McKenzie not accept that as an answer and then ask again and again?

Feaster tried to give a "blahblahblah" answer like that... twice... they kept on pushing for the hard statement. TSN basically forced him to either throw the team under the bus or make the gaurentee... so he made the guarentee which was easily the lesser of the two evils.

[Hackey]

He's a lawyer he should know how to handle questioning.

[Hack&Lube]

What about Hamilton & Frolik? What did they say in the interview?

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by Hackey

He's a lawyer he should know how to handle questioning.

He was a corporate lawyer not a trial lawyer (and that was 25 years ago).

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Did Bob McKenzie not accept that as an answer and then ask again and again?

Feaster tried to give a "blahblahblah" answer like that... twice... they kept on pushing for the hard statement. TSN basically forced him to either throw the team under the bus or make the gaurentee... so he made the guarentee which was easily the lesser of the two evils.

The correct answer in such a case: ‘Look, if you want a guarantee, go to Canadian Tire. There are no warranties on hockey teams.’

I don't entirely fault Feaster for eventually cracking and giving a stupid answer to the stupid question. But he was definitely ditherington where he should have been clixby.

Originally Posted by Douglas Adams

A 'clabby' conversation is one struck up by a commissionare or cleaning lady in order to avoid any further actual work. The opening gambit is usually designed to provoke the maximum confusion, and therefore the longest possible clabby conversation. It is vitally important to learn the correct, or 'clixby' (q.v.), responses to a clabby gambit, and not to get trapped by a 'ditherington' (q.v.). For instance, if confronted with a clabby gambit such as 'Oh, Mr Smith, I didn't know you'd had your leg off', the ditherington response is 'I haven't....' whereas the clixby is 'Good.'

—The Meaning of Liff

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by Parallex

He was a corporate lawyer not a trial lawyer (and that was 25 years ago).

I was joking around. I'm just glad we have Brad who in my opinion does everything better than Feaster.