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Bautista boycotting Sportsnet?

?If Sportsnet had?ve paid for the suit, it could have given the appearance of having too cozy a relationship with Travis and the Blue Jays,? she said. ?It?s a lot fuzzier than out-and-out paying for news, but Sportsnet and the Jays already have the same owner, so there?s the perception already that they?re too close, that there?s an ethical conflict or there could be some threat to journalistic independence. So it just looks better if he pays for his own suit.?
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Good thing our Prime Minister doesn't have a campaign bus that you have to pay to be on to have the privilege to ask him pre-approved questions...
 
L K said:
?If Sportsnet had?ve paid for the suit, it could have given the appearance of having too cozy a relationship with Travis and the Blue Jays,? she said. ?It?s a lot fuzzier than out-and-out paying for news, but Sportsnet and the Jays already have the same owner, so there?s the perception already that they?re too close, that there?s an ethical conflict or there could be some threat to journalistic independence. So it just looks better if he pays for his own suit.?
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Good thing our Prime Minister doesn't have a campaign bus that you have to pay to be on to have the privilege to ask him pre-approved questions...
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Yeah I really don't think anybody would have cared if Sportsnet paid for the suit. I just assumed it would have came completely free from the store considering the publicity given.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Yeah I really don't think anybody would have cared if Sportsnet paid for the suit. I just assumed it would have came completely free from the store considering the publicity given.
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On Deadspin I think they put it pretty well where they said that every second of a Blue Jays game that Rogers airs is more or less a violation of the same principal and nobody cares.
 
Something that is really telling is that it is August 26th and we are just having a story written about this today from something that has been going on for 3 months.  So for all of that journalistic integrity crap, the Sportsnet reporters have been awfully silent.  I'm pretty sure we can dig up a few articles of them ripping on Kessel over the years for not being available to the media.
 
Sorry but the cost of this suite to Batista is less than a cup of coffee to one of us. If he wants to stand up for Devon then buy him the frikken suite and stop crying like a baby about it. A little to much principle on this one.
I think he will be traded after we win the World Series :)
 
So dumb, I don't know why Bautista always seems to be pissy about something. Publicly pissy too. Pick your battles and stay out of the extra curriculars. Sportsnet is also dumb to allow it to continue over peanuts.

Did I mention this is dumb?
 
cabber24 said:
So dumb, I don't know why Bautista always seems to be pissy about something. Publicly pissy too. Pick your battles and stay out of the extra curriculars. Sportsnet is also dumb to allow it to continue over peanuts.

Did I mention this is dumb?
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How is Bautista being "publicly pissy" about something he's not commented on and which no one has known about for 3 months until Brendan Kennedy with the Toronto Star found out about it?
 
From what I've read, Bautista has been keeping this quiet the whole time and merely 'confirmed' the TorStar's interpretation of events.

GotStyle confirmed that they had Travis pay, giving him a 50% discount (~$2000 down to ~$900 CAD). Yes, that is a pittance compared to Travis' paycheque. Consider how much that is relative to Sportsnet's/Rogers' margin.

Travis was used by his new employers, and was forced to pay to be used.

What's dumb is turning this story into a Bautista-bashing opportunity when he's defending a younger teammate.
 
herman said:
What's dumb is turning this story into a Bautista-bashing opportunity when he's defending a younger teammate.
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I don't think we need to be super-selective in deciding what's dumb about this story.
 
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
What's dumb is turning this story into a Bautista-bashing opportunity when he's defending a younger teammate. SportsNet.
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I don't think we need to be super-selective in deciding what's dumb about this story.
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That should cover it.
 
Frank E said:
Travis is a victim here?
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Victim's probably too strong a word, but, I guess that depends on how things played out. If SN came to him and said "we want to do a feature on you, what are you doing today?" and he said "I'm going to buy a new suit!" then they were right not to pay. If they went to him and said "we want to do a piece on you buying a suit," they took advantage of him a little by not paying. If it was their idea, they should have taken care of all the expenses.
 
Sportsnet saying that buying the suit would violate some kind of ethical conflict is an extremely weak argument especially considering the opposing points raised by other poster's above.

But overall I view this is as a non-issue (or at the very least an overblown one) that reeks of click bait considering the Jays' new found success, popularity and increased media coverage. No one found it important enough to report on 3 months ago when the Jays were languishing in mediocrity.
 
http://m.thestar.com/#/article/sports/baseball/2015/08/26/blue-jays-jose-bautista-ends-sportsnet-boycott.html

Derp.
 
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