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The_Hater wrote:The best part of the article is how poor Devon Travis only makes $500k a season therefore can't afford to buy an expensive suit.
Professional athletes often lose all sense of reality with the salaries they receive vs the rest of society.
PurplePJs wrote:The_Hater wrote:The best part of the article is how poor Devon Travis only makes $500k a season therefore can't afford to buy an expensive suit.
Professional athletes often lose all sense of reality with the salaries they receive vs the rest of society.
People get so fixated on the money... it's the principle.
AthensBucks wrote:Lowry is done.
Nurse is below average at best.
Masai is overrated.
I dont get how so many people believe in the raptors,they have zero to chance to win it all.
PurplePJs wrote:The_Hater wrote:The best part of the article is how poor Devon Travis only makes $500k a season therefore can't afford to buy an expensive suit.
Professional athletes often lose all sense of reality with the salaries they receive vs the rest of society.
People get so fixated on the money... it's the principle.
Fairview4Life 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.
This is the worst thing you have ever written.
bballsparkin wrote:Fairview4Life 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.
This is the worst thing you have ever written.
He has 20,000 posts. Worst ever? Give the man a little more credit than that. I'm sure he's written worse. ;)
Duffman100 wrote:And I know Bautista didn't mean for it to go public, but you have the rest of regular shmoes, making under 100K, listening to two players making a lot more than us complain about a $900 suit.
Like Hater said, there's a disconnect from reality here and I'm not sure why us, as fans, who spend tons of money to support these players and organization, really should give a damn.
Rhettmatic wrote:Smokescreen. He just doesn't want to talk to Barry Davis.
#Raptors are 7-1. In 6 of the past 10 seasons, a team that has started a season 7-1 has gone on to win an NBA championship.
— Sportsnet Ticker (@SportsnetTicker) November 12, 2014
trick wrote:Rhettmatic wrote:Smokescreen. He just doesn't want to talk to Barry Davis.
Thank you. Thread should have ended right here.
Bautista believed Travis should not have paid for the suit himself — since it was Sportsnet’s idea to do the TV special — and that he needed to stand up for his younger teammate.
Melissa Austria, owner of GotStyle Menswear, where the TV segment was shot, told the Star on Wednesday that Travis was given a 50-per-cent discount for his ensemble, which included a Ted Baker suit, shirt, tie, belt and boots. Austria said he paid $900.
“We were asked to do this story,” she said. “I asked (Sportsnet) if they wanted us to gift it, they said ‘No.’ They said, ‘Just give a discount.’ We gave a discount that I think is more than fair.”
Austria said she regularly provides free clothes or gift certificates for charitable or publicity reasons. Another Jays’ player, Kevin Pillar, for instance, received a complimentary suit for participating in one of the store’s own events, she said. GotStyle also provided a $1,000 wardrobe to a Toronto Star reader as part of a makeover contest in July.
But in this case she said she was following Sportsnet’s lead.
Austria said she has a $60,000 yearly advertising contract with Sportsnet, but the store does not provide clothing in exchange for advertising. She often sells suits to Rogers’ company stylists, and she said she will occasionally give discounts for bulk purchases.
She said she would rather give free suits to people who need them, referencing True Patriot Love, a charity that supports Canadian veterans.
“So I’d love to do a challenge with (Bautista) that for every game that the Blue Jays win, we’ll donate a suit to True Patriot Love and he’ll match it. It’s such a silly conversation. Let’s turn this around and do something more positive.”
props to Turbo_Zone