Kevin Pritchard's Open Letter To Blazer Fans

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  1. BGrantFan

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    Could not have said it any better.
     
  2. Mediocre Man

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    I also pick door number 3. Classy letter from KP, but he did something to generate the angst against him.
     
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    Differing opinions can both be true. How I perceive a situation is how I perceive a situation. As I said, binary thinking.
     
  4. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Based upon limited, if any, knowledge of the situation, though.
     
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    Regardless of the circumstances of the letter and why it was written, it is still a class act from a guy who showed nothing but class threw this whole ordeal. PA maybe should have done things differently but were all getting our information from the media and sources that most likely have no clue what really went on. So i'm going to say that KP did a very classy thing with this letter and he will be missed.
     
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    That's why it's an opinion. I do know that Paul Allen treated Pritchard like shit by publicly humiliating him with the seating situation, though, which forms part of my opinion.
     
  7. barfo

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    Sure, you can perceive that 2+2=359, and I can perceive that 2+2=4. But it isn't the case that both are true.

    barfo
     
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    Maybe KP decided on his own not to sit with Paul?
     
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    I liked this comment

    Sadly, no.
     
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    I believe this letter is both sincere and also necessary for his future. I believe in what he wrote, but also he had to write it from a P.R. standpoint. I think we need to stop assuming we know the entire story and as I have said, as much as I appreciate the job he did, he did do something to deserve being fired. I feel fairly certain he did not get fired for nothing.
     
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    I too agree with the "where's PA's letter" comment.

    Thanks, KP. You will be missed.
     
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    I'm guessing KP got a nice severance package.
     
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    This is a joke.....right?

    All-in-all, it was a nice letter. No sense trying to parse the language or read between the lines.
     
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    A classy letter, indeed. Good luck to KP in the future!

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    That's because one is a fact, and one is an error. Opinions aren't like that, but whatever. At this point, I don't even know what your point is, other than to say my opinion can't be correct because Kevin Pritchard put something in a letter, which is ridiculous.
     
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    Right. Some things are merely opinions, and some things are facts.
    What happened to get KP fired is a matter of fact, not opinion. We don't know the facts, but that doesn't mean that it is a matter of opinion.

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    No, the fact is that Pritchard was fired. I'm sure many in the organization have differing opinions on why that happened, let alone those of us outside of the team. Binary.
     
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    I love you Barfo.
     
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    Yes, many of you have differing opinions about why it happened. But those that disagree with reality are wrong. There is an actual reason, or set of reasons, why he was fired.

    barfo
     
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