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I guess I have a different take on it. I get concerned when someone can be "taken off his game" that easily. He's obviously sensitive to criticism. Now that there's blood in the water, I can see the media going after him if he doesn't perform or gets nicked up. He's shown a vulnerability that people love to exploit. He should have laughed it off, plugged his charity, and just not go on there again. He has to have known that people have been talking about his injuries. He has to be more professional than that.
A few things:
- There may have been a pre-arranged agreement that there would not be questions about the injuries and Jones violated.
- The interview was not live on the air and was an interview that was pretaped hours before the show (common for many player interviews for night time shows like The Adam Jones Show). Kaufmann doesn't say that in his article. Amendola may have figured that if he just hung up the interview would never see the light of the day. It wasn't like he hung up while live on the air. He might not have been rattled at all, but figured he could stop this interview from ever happening by hanging up.
Personally, considering Amendola was doing this for a charity event and the interview was pretaped and not live on the air, the right thing for Jones and Kauffman to do would have been to never air it or say anything about it. Or at least until after the event happened.