Here's local Ottawa sports radio host Steve Warne offering a weak justification for Team Mud (as we're calling the Ottawa's NHL entry) and their galling scoreboard gaffe on Saturday:
"I don’t believe this was a case of bad judgement at all. No one sat back and said, “Okay guys. Show of hands. Who thinks we should play this video, even after what happened to Bob Gainey’s daughter?” Had someone made the connection, the video would have been burned and trampled on the spot.' "
Fair enough. Just for fun, here's part of the Oxford Canadian Dictionary's definition of judgment:
Judgment (also judgement)
1. the critical faculty; discernment (an error of judgement)
2. good sense
Let's see. If no one had the critical faculty or was discerning enough to appreciate the optics, consequences, fallout of showing a video of the Senators mascot chasing a Montreal sweater-wearing fan off the deck barely a month after Laura Gainey was lost at sea, it's bad judgment. If no one had the good sense to realize it, then it's
bad judgment.
Sorry, but if no one asked that question, it's proof of bad, terrible, firing-offence-worthy judgment. It's kind of like the scene in Clerks II where Randal Graves uses a racial slur and tries to cover his ass by saying he didn't realize it was a racial slur. Only this time it isn't funny. Actually, Clerks II wasn't funny either, but that's another column.
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