A Letter to Pat Monahan (A Retraction)

I'm a very emotional person so every so often I get out of hand and jump to conclusions I really shouldn't. In the pre-facebook and twitter days when I would rant in my livejournal, they were be very locally see. Did it piss off people? Yes but it wasn't on a grand national scale. It was minor and really didn't affect anything or anyone in the long run outside of my inner circle.

Well Sunday, I exploded and pressed send without thinking about it twice. After Mandy had a bit of a breakdown after Summerfest on Friday night, I did what any good husband would do, attacked the source of the pain. I then wrote what in wrestling would be known as a shoot. I attacked the band Train and mainly, and most importantly, Pat Monahan. I accused him of picking on Mandy because of her size and simply forgetting about her when he promised her a picture. In the moment it seemed like the right thing to do. I was angry and it was the only way I knew to take care of the problem.

Then two things happened. First I got a tweet from a fan:

Then me and Mandy found video of the Don't Stop Believin performance in question on YouTube last night:



Jump to 1:15. That's when Mandy gets on stage.

After watching, it wasn't nearly as bad as Mandy thought. The facts are that Pat treated her great, even gave her a hug. The experience was alot better than she remembered because of how the end of the night went.

So for the first time in all the years of blogging, I am retracting my blog. I also want to apologize to the band Train, Pat Monahan himself and all the fans of the band, so I'm sorry.

Also if this did indeed reach Pat, which I would assume it did, I'm sincerely sorry. My wife is an uber fan and has turned to your music for years through the good and bad times. This will not change.

Thank you.