MORE BOTTA DRIVEL
by: Art Feeney
by: Art Feeney
Try as we do to ignore some of what Chris Botta writes, we can not let pass the nonsense he posted today on his site.
Botta interviewed a number of Islander players asking them if Scott Gordon is the cause of the Isles performance. SURPRISE! All the players not only said Gordon is not responsible but praise their coach.
The only way interviews like this are a story is if a player or players rip their coach. That did not happen but Botta wrote the PUFF PIECE OF PIECES and prevented it as news.
Worse, Botta takes a shot at respected NHL coach Joel Quenneville for "making a lame excuse" for not coming in to interview for the Islander coaching job. Of course, Botta does not mention respected hockey men like Shero, Sutter and others who refused to interview for the Isles GM job because they would not work for Charles Wang.
For your information: Recently, Mr. Botta objected to our criticisms (his being soft on Mike Milbury and Charles Wang) and sighted his long relationship with me as one of the reasons for his disappointment. He may have had a point there because for a long time I thought there was there was a relationship. However, after Botta was ousted by the Islanders and we contacted him numerous times with our concern about him and his family and the only response was silence, we came to believe there was no relationship whatsoever. That view was solidified when Botta finally did contact us....twice. Both times he complained about something we had written.
I want to clarify one thing for Chris Botta. The fact that I apologized for posting something on Islandermania regarding him and Mike Milbury, was just that apologizing for WHERE I posted my view.not for my opinion. In fact I stated in that "apology" that I would restate my opinion when I restarted The 7th Man and I did just that.
I did post that Botta had the wrong site for the August 4 meeting, but the next day I posted that he was on target and that I blew it. I mention this only because Mr. Botta accused me of only pointing out when he was wrong and not giving him credit when he was on target. If Botta likes, he can look back in The 7th Man archives and see that we often gave him credit for his reporting. He seems to be good at looking back through our archives. Although, thus far he seems to only look for where we disagree with him.
Two final thoughts. I believe Mr. Botta should understand that when someone says "I'm sorry for how you feel about what I wrote.", they are not saying they are sorry for writing it.
Secondly, the last thing Botta said to me, as he ran off toward his car, was "I never had to apologize for something I wrote." Based on articles like today's maybe he should start apologizing to his readers. Better still, he should start apologizing to people who he says he has a "relationship" with after he ignores their good wishes.
Personal note to K.G.: Alan Hahn and Chris Botta are big boys and they can read, but if you must alert them to what I just wrote.....feel free.
Botta interviewed a number of Islander players asking them if Scott Gordon is the cause of the Isles performance. SURPRISE! All the players not only said Gordon is not responsible but praise their coach.
The only way interviews like this are a story is if a player or players rip their coach. That did not happen but Botta wrote the PUFF PIECE OF PIECES and prevented it as news.
Worse, Botta takes a shot at respected NHL coach Joel Quenneville for "making a lame excuse" for not coming in to interview for the Islander coaching job. Of course, Botta does not mention respected hockey men like Shero, Sutter and others who refused to interview for the Isles GM job because they would not work for Charles Wang.
For your information: Recently, Mr. Botta objected to our criticisms (his being soft on Mike Milbury and Charles Wang) and sighted his long relationship with me as one of the reasons for his disappointment. He may have had a point there because for a long time I thought there was there was a relationship. However, after Botta was ousted by the Islanders and we contacted him numerous times with our concern about him and his family and the only response was silence, we came to believe there was no relationship whatsoever. That view was solidified when Botta finally did contact us....twice. Both times he complained about something we had written.
I want to clarify one thing for Chris Botta. The fact that I apologized for posting something on Islandermania regarding him and Mike Milbury, was just that apologizing for WHERE I posted my view.not for my opinion. In fact I stated in that "apology" that I would restate my opinion when I restarted The 7th Man and I did just that.
I did post that Botta had the wrong site for the August 4 meeting, but the next day I posted that he was on target and that I blew it. I mention this only because Mr. Botta accused me of only pointing out when he was wrong and not giving him credit when he was on target. If Botta likes, he can look back in The 7th Man archives and see that we often gave him credit for his reporting. He seems to be good at looking back through our archives. Although, thus far he seems to only look for where we disagree with him.
Two final thoughts. I believe Mr. Botta should understand that when someone says "I'm sorry for how you feel about what I wrote.", they are not saying they are sorry for writing it.
Secondly, the last thing Botta said to me, as he ran off toward his car, was "I never had to apologize for something I wrote." Based on articles like today's maybe he should start apologizing to his readers. Better still, he should start apologizing to people who he says he has a "relationship" with after he ignores their good wishes.
Personal note to K.G.: Alan Hahn and Chris Botta are big boys and they can read, but if you must alert them to what I just wrote.....feel free.
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fart feeney blows.
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