Kurtz wrote:YogiStewart wrote:so let me get this straight:
you have a guy making $14 mil USD/year complaining that his teammate, making $500 000 USD/year, had to pay up to $5000 for a suit to a store that likely pays (tens of?) thousands in sponsorship dollars to Sportsnet a year.
and I, the viewer, and the TV reporters, who get paid nowhere near anything that the Rogers executives or baseball players get paid, get screwed out of interviews for this all-around money grab shell game. reporters can't do their job because a **** suit wasn't comped. and Jose takes a stand against Sportsnet, instead of paying for his teammate's $5000 suit.
let's talk about this story again when the next strike/walkout happens so i can remember to feel zero empathy for the players and the teams.
So let me get this straight, you see a friend of yours get ripped off by his employer, and instead of taking a stand against this employer, you just cut your friend a cheque?
let me get this straight. and i will put this in common folk terms.
i get paid $1.6 million a year. my friend gets paid $50 000/year. he's asked to do an orientation during his first year at work. there's a miscommunication and he has to pay for his $500 suit/shoes that were part of the orientation. I wasn't involved in the planning of the orientation, but this really rankles me.
but wait one second.
in real life, i just worked a job where i needed to buy a new wardrobe. i spent over $1000 on new pants, shoes and shirts. no one reimbursed me for that.
but back to the story....
after this orientation, other companies will probably find my co-worker/friend to be really endearing. it got him exposure. all the sudden, companies are taking out for free lunches, paying him to do some work on the side, etc. That $500 suit that he paid for? that probably should have come for free from the suit company? it's paid for itself.
but this still really rankles me. a guy's gotta feed his family and $50K isn't going to make someone rich.
so i say "you know what? I've made $1.6 mil last year, i'll be making more than that next year, $500 is nothing. nothing." i give my friend a $500 gift certificate to a Harry Rosen's for his "birthday" and i look like a hero.
the last thing i'd do? complain that the company CEO did something wrong and stick my nose in someone else's business and then tell my company "I'm gonna show up to work and not talk to anyone in the HR department. give them the silent treatment." because we all know that if i did that, i'd look like a dick.
do any of you guys stop talking to your parents because they bought your sibling a crappy birthday gift? or a better analogy: you stop talking to your nieces and nephews because your grandparents gave a crappy Christmas gift?
this is none of Jose's business and he's taking a stupid, stupid stand. you translate this action to Jose of last year, yapping about balls and strikes repeatedly and i really wonder if the dude needs to learn how to be a professional. when to talk, when not to talk. yap to the ESPN guy, maybe. or maybe yap to the Royals about their manager's lack of class. all this yapping about lack of class and you're seeing a trend. yap yap yap. in the end, will he be remembered for these petty stands or for not being classy and finding a less fractious way to resolve things that bug him (and probably shouldn't bug him).
i can't stand Dion Phaneuf. but Bautista should pay attention as to how Phaneuf carries himself when the media has been **** on him for years. turns the other cheek. no one's dropping any deuces on Bautista. he's the golden boy. so the least he can do is learn to be more professional.
