To everyone on the board,
I just wanted to apologize for my snippy remarks earlier today on Twitter. Over the last week or so, I've been hit with a number of different personal issues that have weighted heavily on me and I think I let it impact my mood to the point today that it transferred over to my reaction to what I thought was a continuation of a trend in college athletics where all of us involved in it seem to treat drinking and driving with a bit of a light attitude.
Full disclosure: I've lost family members and friends to accidents involving drunk drivers and as I've gotten older, I think it makes me angrier and angrier.
On top of that, the death of Jose Fernandez has brought up some hard memories in the last 36 hours about a situation involving a friend of mine that had been drinking on his boat on Lake Travis a few years ago. Like Fernandez, he crashed his boat at night and it ended up costing a young woman her life and he was permanently brain damaged. Couple that with some other issues I've been dealing with and it created kind of a perfect storm of emotions.
As I've thought about it all day, I realized that I was actually angry when I made that Tweet and I should have stepped away from the keyboard, rather than releasing that anger for all to see. I wanted to be mad. I wanted to release it.
Point blank: There are better and more effective ways of communicating my thoughts that being a smart-ass. There are good versions of ourselves and bad versions of ourselves, and I'd venture to say that when I'm angry and emotional, the best can lose a fist-fight with the bad.
Anyway, I'm probably going to take a day or two to kind of get my soul right and seeing my wife and twins for the first time in a week tomorrow will probably go a long ways towards achieving that.
Like Baby's father in Dirty Dancing said to Johnny, "When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong."
I was wrong to lash out in the manner I chose and I apologize for doing so.
Let those you hold dearest to you know you love them every chance you get. I hope everyone has a wonderful night.
I just wanted to apologize for my snippy remarks earlier today on Twitter. Over the last week or so, I've been hit with a number of different personal issues that have weighted heavily on me and I think I let it impact my mood to the point today that it transferred over to my reaction to what I thought was a continuation of a trend in college athletics where all of us involved in it seem to treat drinking and driving with a bit of a light attitude.
Full disclosure: I've lost family members and friends to accidents involving drunk drivers and as I've gotten older, I think it makes me angrier and angrier.
On top of that, the death of Jose Fernandez has brought up some hard memories in the last 36 hours about a situation involving a friend of mine that had been drinking on his boat on Lake Travis a few years ago. Like Fernandez, he crashed his boat at night and it ended up costing a young woman her life and he was permanently brain damaged. Couple that with some other issues I've been dealing with and it created kind of a perfect storm of emotions.
As I've thought about it all day, I realized that I was actually angry when I made that Tweet and I should have stepped away from the keyboard, rather than releasing that anger for all to see. I wanted to be mad. I wanted to release it.
Point blank: There are better and more effective ways of communicating my thoughts that being a smart-ass. There are good versions of ourselves and bad versions of ourselves, and I'd venture to say that when I'm angry and emotional, the best can lose a fist-fight with the bad.
Anyway, I'm probably going to take a day or two to kind of get my soul right and seeing my wife and twins for the first time in a week tomorrow will probably go a long ways towards achieving that.
Like Baby's father in Dirty Dancing said to Johnny, "When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong."
I was wrong to lash out in the manner I chose and I apologize for doing so.
Let those you hold dearest to you know you love them every chance you get. I hope everyone has a wonderful night.
