10-11-2013, 12:26 AM
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#121
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
Botchford is not getting fired or shut out of any locker room scrums. That just won't happen..
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Why not? I know a guy who was shut out of a locker room for less then this. This isn't Bob McKenzie, it's a very small media member. If he was booted no one would notice.
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10-11-2013, 12:37 AM
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#122
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Why not? I know a guy who was shut out of a locker room for less then this. This isn't Bob McKenzie, it's a very small media member. If he was booted no one would notice.
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Tell that to his fans in Vancouver.
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10-11-2013, 12:46 AM
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#123
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
Tell that to his fans in Vancouver.
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I'm sure he has fans but that doesn't change anything or really mean a darn thing. Botchford is a low end local sports guy, he could be gone tomorrow and it might be a story for a day (because of this story) but it would be soon forgotten. The Sharks don't have to let him into their locker room next time they're in town and I don't think he would ever do this in the Canucks room because he knows full well he wouldn't be welcome again.
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10-11-2013, 12:48 AM
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#124
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
Tell that to his fans in Vancouver.
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He'll make it some story about how edgy and cool they are and call it a day.
Everybody wins, he gets his 'new age' reporting and makes a comment every time he can't get into a SJ locker room... and SJ doesn't have to have him in their locker room.
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10-11-2013, 12:52 AM
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#125
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackWallStreet
Wow he should go back to high school. I'm 20 and more mature than that
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- A tool with no sense of humor.
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10-11-2013, 12:55 AM
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#126
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I'm sure he has fans but that doesn't change anything or really mean a darn thing. Botchford is a low end local sports guy, he could be gone tomorrow and it might be a story for a day (because of this story) but it would be soon forgotten. The Sharks don't have to let him into their locker room next time they're in town and I don't think he would ever do this in the Canucks room because he knows full well he wouldn't be welcome again.
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Only commented on your "no one would notice" comment. All I'm saying is that some would. He's not the nobody that you think he is. He's far from a media "superstar" like a Mckenzie, but he's not some blogger or writer for the free papers you get at the Skytrain stations(all due respect to those people of course).
Time will tell as to how this effects his work in the rooms and relationships with players, but I gotta believe this will blow over pretty quickly here.
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10-11-2013, 01:49 AM
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#127
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Franchise Player
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Be funny if TSN ends up blacklisting him like ESPN did with Jay Mariotti after his incident with his wife a couple years back. Completely different situations obviously, but Lebrun and Johnson didn't seem to take kindly to Botchford's opinion.
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10-11-2013, 01:53 AM
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#128
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trackercowe
Be funny if TSN ends up blacklisting him like ESPN did with Jay Mariotti after his incident with his wife a couple years back. Completely different situations obviously, but Lebrun and Johnson didn't seem to take kindly to Botchford's opinion.
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Former player turned analyst Jeff O'Neill was going nuts on TSN 1050 Toronto. He hated what Botchford did.
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10-11-2013, 03:17 AM
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#129
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And I Don't Care...
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The land of the eternally hopeful
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
Former player turned analyst Jeff O'Neill was going nuts on TSN 1050 Toronto. He hated what Botchford did.
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As he should. There's lines you don't cross and Botchford should have known it. Eye-D-ten-T. 
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10-11-2013, 07:40 AM
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#130
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I'd do the exact same thing. The man needs a statue erected of him. Thank you Joe, for being you.
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Fixed your post
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10-11-2013, 08:23 AM
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#131
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: NEBRASKA
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I greatly enjoyed the comment. Self effacing and direct and edgy and funny. This only offends the sensitive ones or ones who think he is immature. It is not sexist, racist, homophobic, it truly only reflects on Joe, which is great.
Should it have been reported no, but thank you. My concern is I want to know if the people I watch and enjoy and support were to say something that would offend the public is that being reported? My guess is no and that is whats wrong.
I would want the reporter to be honest. How many people are offended by the comment. So who cares if it was reported. Does Joe care that it was reported, how has he been hurt by this report.
"joe did you say this?"
Yes
"Why"
"Cuz its true"
That's why he said it, and why he did it to twenty people, and that's why its reported.
After wards is when all the BS starts. Who has been hurt and why does anyone care. Reports about stuff that hurts people that's not necessary for public opinion should be protected. If this guy asks Joe care if I quote you he says no is my guess.
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10-11-2013, 08:50 AM
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#132
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nickk382
- A tool with no sense of humor.
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His joke wasn't funny bro, you probably laugh when someone farts to, grow up kid
get some class while you're at it
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10-11-2013, 08:54 AM
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#133
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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What I don't fully understand is why Botchford wouldn't have just walked over to Joe Thornton and asked "Can I print this?".
That alone is why I think Botchford was breaking the "code" and that it should never have been printed.
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10-11-2013, 08:58 AM
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#134
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Uncle Chester
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackWallStreet
His joke wasn't funny bro, you probably laugh when someone farts to, grow up kid
get some class while you're at it
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Farts are always funny. That's a universal truth.
Some day you will see that young man.
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10-11-2013, 09:01 AM
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#135
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Media
Join Date: Aug 2004
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If Thornton did not say it directly to the reporter. Or address the scrum directly, then it should never have been made public. Further to that, one has to question the decision by the individual to go public.
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10-11-2013, 09:02 AM
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#136
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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I really don't understand why he reported it. It sure as hell wasn't news. it was a joke.
Was it just done to embarrass Thornton in public? What's purpose in that? He'll be lucky if he doesn't get all reporters banned from the Shark's dressing room. Want to interview someone? Wait outside and we'll get him.
Its been done before by other teams.
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10-11-2013, 09:04 AM
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#137
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackWallStreet
His joke wasn't funny bro, you probably laugh when someone farts to, grow up kid
get some class while you're at it
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Umm yes it was funny, and farts are just as hilarious.. I hope I get to fart around you someday.
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10-11-2013, 09:06 AM
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#138
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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You're never too old for genital humour.
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10-11-2013, 09:09 AM
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#139
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Lifetime Suspension
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Is there anyone who isn't a bigger fan of Joe Thornton after this? If there is, I don't want to know them. No idea why anyone would be upset that this got published, it doesn't reflect poorly on Joe or the Sharks, quite the opposite... it's just an awesome quote.
The fact that there's any blowback at all about this being printed is part of the problem for me... Hockey should embrace these kinds of things getting press. Oh good lord, the star players actually have personality? In hockey? God forbid.
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10-11-2013, 09:18 AM
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#140
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SportsJunky
Farts are always funny. That's a universal truth.
Some day you will see that young man.
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Even my 2 year old and 4 year old son knows this.
When you fart. You laugh and blame it on mom.
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