After the sports and popular culture blog unveiled its LGBTQ+ Pride Month merchandise, a host of detractors swooped in with complaints.
after the share price of Penn Entertainment, the media outlet that owns Barstool, dropped significantly. This prompted comparisons to the Bud Light situation.was fired after rapping song lyricsIn a video podcast, Portnoy hit out at those who have tried to compare the situation to Bud Light and said that they are not the same. He also explained why they shouldn't be compared after Barstool faced backlash from fans for the decision to axe Mintz.
"You can use the Bud Light situation in which they got canceled in the public, they can choose to react," Portnoy said."They can either buy a Bud Light or not buy a Bud Light. That is not our situation. Yeah, the stock went down, but that was on earnings than people reacting to it. "You got to understand, the people who control the licenses with Penn answer to nobody, so you could say this 'hey, regulator... we're not firing him as we think he made an honest mistake' and the public can rally all they want to us, but it don't matter," Portnoy added."It's four to 10 people who answer to nobody who don't like us to begin with."
Portnoy said that they used to have autonomy in how they operated, but since being bought by Penn, the situation is different. "We've always had the benefit of how we operated and it has been like, we can do what we want as our fans and our base will have our backs," Portnoy added."Penn does not have that luxury. That is a humungous difference on how this thing is being handled."
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