Since York's tweet apologizing to the fans after the 9ers lost at home to the Seahawks toward the back of Harbaugh's last season, he's clearly stated a ton of times that his policy is that he won't talk to or engage with media during the season, but will do during the off-season.
It's funny because since then TK trolls him during the season for NOT talking to the media, and then trolls him during the off-season FOR talking to the media.
I listened to the podcast, and in context I don't think York's comments came off as bad. They were platitudinous, but an owner saying anything but platitudes is almost always a bad thing.
What Kawakami leaves out is that Peter King asked him about Harbaugh, and if he had any regrets about having fired Harbaugh. Here was the full response:
“I don’t know if ‘regret’ is the right word. We had a lot of success together. We tried several times to get an extension done with Jim and, for whatever reason, those didn’t culminate. And ultimately, as successful as he was here, I think Jim is very happy. He’s doing an unbelievable job at Michigan.
“We obviously didn’t have success after Jim left — I don’t know if we’d be sitting here with John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan if something happened. And I don’t know if it would have worked in the long-term if we did get something done.
“I regret how we performed the last two years. I regret that the relationship was frayed between me and a coach that did a lot of great things for this franchise.
“I actually talked to his brother John briefly at the owners’ meeting and he said, ‘You know, you guys need to get together some time and have dinner,’ and I said, ‘I’d love to do that.’ I’d love to get together. And I think enough time has kind of passed where you can let whatever issues were there be buried and just truly be thankful for three great years when nobody expected us, certainly in 2011, to beat the Saints the way we did, to get close and, you know, be two muffed punts away from going to a Super Bowl in ‘11. Just all the things that happened.
“I’d love to sit down with Jim. Not in front of cameras, not in front of anybody else, but just share an evening with him and truly say thank you and wish him the best of luck. Not obviously when he plays Notre Dame, but for the rest of the season, wish him the best of luck.”
So, I absolutely agree that Jed York is a twit and I absolutely agree with Kawakami that Harbaugh isn't eager to have a meal with Jed York, but for as much of a twit as York is, I think he handled the answer to this question well. The twit-thing to do would be to still be petty or to try to fully defend everything that went down. Instead, York did the adult thing which was to be magnanimous and extend an olive branch that likely won't ever be picked up.
