Trevor Bayne/Daytona 500: Cheering in the Press Box

so you stayed in the quarantine trailer with him and the other two guys for three weeks? Must have been crowded.

 

It wasn't too bad. That was before NASA started letting bloggers in.

 

I called one of my coworkers at my old shop the Black Widow for the same reason. And it was absolutely a compliment.

 

I will say this, after thinking about it some more:

This doesn't even rank in the top five most ethically wrong things done during the course of a race weekend.

 

What was his answer? How I wish it would have been, "Thank you. Do you have a question?"

 

Did anyone in the Phoenix press box stand up and cheer today?

 

There is absolutely no excuse for any sports media person to cheer in any press area regardless of sport covered. None.

 

And, Tom Bowles loses his job over it.

http://www.frontstretch.com/tbowles/32940/


And the post-race column he penned.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tom_bowles/02/20/five.things.daytona/index.html

 

I have a freelancer here I affectionately call the Rally Killer. it might take overtime (or double OT, or the lights going out, or a helicopter at midfield ... all have happened since Labor Day), but he does his job effectively. And I thank him for it.

 

If that's ALL he lost his job for, that seems a bit excessive.

His column, which I thought was rambling and not especially well-written, raises more questions than answers.

He owns his own auto racing website already?

How could SI allow that?

Was he full-time with SI or a stringer?

What's SI's take on it?

Was he fired for clapping or was he fired for defending it on Twitter?

I think there's an awful lot more to this story that we don't know.

 

He said in that blog posting that he was on contract with SI. And I thought he said in there he "purchased the assets of" frontstretch.com a couple years ago, but I just skimmed it and it didn't jump out at me. But I read that somewhere.

The rest of it I don't know. Was just throwing it out there.