WD's email spreads

WD, for your sake I hope this is legit (not assuming any malice on your part, just maybe that there is more to this than you know). If not, the media's need to turn everything into a witch hunt just swallowed you alive.

 

I disagree with everyone saying that the email should not be reported. It's more information, and information is good. I would rather reporters write about things and let me, the reader, decide whether to believe it. Caveat: the reporter does need to properly contextualize the information so I know how much to believe. I'm not sure the reporter does in this case. Then again, it's from the yardbarker network, which is about as much information as I need to know whether to believe it. 

I heard one of the talking heads on radio, I believe Doug Gottlieb, quote this blog post last week.

WD is just another example in a long list of reasons (Snapchat, Ariana Grande, etc.) why teenagers are poised to take over the world.

Could anyone submit an FOIA request to see whether this email is real?

Though it masquerades as a fake question, I mean it sincerely.

Not a lawyer, but I can't see why WD would be in trouble. It's message board fodder. Shouldn't the "reporters" running with this story be in the proverbial fecal laced creek without the necessary means for propulsion? Also if this thing turns out to be true there are going to be a lot of you eating the sediment of aforementioned creek. Let's see how it plays out before we start the flogging.

I beleive in order for there to be a Libel lawsuit, the plaintiff would have to prove damages.

 

Even if you want to ignore that the actual target of the libel suit would probably be ESPN or MSN for running with the story, (and because they actually have deep pockets), if Brandon didn't send the email, he can simply say "I didn't send the email".  At which point, how has he been damaged?  Clearly he won't lose his job over an email that he didn't send, and people will pretty much forget the entire incident.

 

I obviously am not a a lawyer.  But if made up,  this seems to only rise to "douchy internet message board post" level, not libel. 

 

If I remember correctly, Southwest Airlines's CEO sent a similar response to a woman complaining about the 'inappropriateness' of jokes during safety instructions, etc. She threatened to never fly Southwest again and the CEO supposedly responded with, "We'll miss you" - a more polite way of saying, "Go find another team to root for."

I'm really curious to see what the original e-mail said that would prompt DB to go this route but it wouldn't surprise me if it was an ultimatum of some sort in which case, rude or not, I'm okay with the response. 

FWIW, Dave Brandon is a public official, making any libel claim much harder to prove. The courts generally require famous people or public officials to have somewhat thicker skins since they are offering themselves into the public eye. I would be utterly shocked if DB sued anybody over this. Plus, truth is the ultimate defense if push came to shove.

That being said, I've always been skeptical of the veracity of this email for the reasons everybody already covered. Time will tell though.

God, I miss the days when we actually talked football. Not saying this thread is totally irrelevant. I'm just saying I miss the days when a thread like this was totally irrelevant. Sigh.

 

 

First off, I hate Brandon with a passion. And I don't need an "e-mail response" to accurately characterize what kind of an out-of-touch, douchebag he is.

I'm very socially-oriented, very good at reading people, and I can tell immediately from his body language, tone, and general ass-hatery what kind of dirtbag he is. To say nothing of all 4+ year hyper-corporate seige laid on the atheletic department brought to us by Chobani. The guy is a very special kind of tool.

With that said, it's like, a complete microcosm of "what the internet is" and "how irresponsibly, inaccurately, and willfully-distructive/we're-still-just-monkey's-with-glitzy-tools" we are that NEARLY EVERYONE ignores the CONTEXT of what this response is to.

His response could just be a witty reply to an insane fan's (god's knows they exist) indecipherable e-mail rant that she went on.

But, it could have been a very well-thought, balanced original message to Dave Brandon, we don't know.

And that's the point: NOBODY knows.

But:

EVERYBODY has an "opinion" about it.

An "opinion" about something that may not even exist.

And yes, it DOES MATTER that you withhold judgment, because you DO NOT KNOW what the context is.

In no way do I want to live in a world where everyone thinks "their opinion", because it most certainly DOES NOT.

Of course, I hate DB. And I mean, hate, like really hate him and his CEO-types. 

But I can't just BELIEVE and CRIMINALIZE him for this, just because it further proves my own point", biases, and hatred.

Due process is a great thing.

For the record, I HOPE it was him, becuase it is incredibly damning, I would love nothing more than to see him get run out of town. But, I cannot in good conscience just ASSUME it is his actual reply, that's too selfish of me, just "see what I want to see" in it. And the fact that our nations "journalists" and "news sources" are actually reporting this, is only a mindfvck of just how stupid our current situation really is (internet and all). Oh lord we have the tools. But we erecting a NEW TOWER OF BABEL.

We're headed for the dark ages, real soon, or, better but, the BRIGHT AGES, the BLINDINGLY BRIGHT AGES..../rant

 

my apologies. forgiveness please.