I think Tom’s point is that this is an example of bloggers and reporters being treated differently. The suggestion in the story is that the Phillies blogger got slammed last year for questioning whether Raul Ibanez, while the Toronto reporter didn’t for suggesting the same about Jose Bautista this year:

Morris was hauled onto the ESPN show "Outside the Lines" and pummeled by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal. Nothing much happened to Cox except a few bloggers griping. So why were the two posts greeted so differently?

Firstly, I don’t think this is quite accurate as Cox’s story caused more than “a few bloggers griping”, with him getting slammed by other reporters including his own colleague Richard Griffin. Don’t know where this story’s author Jason Fry is based, but it looks like somewhere in the States and not sure how plugged in he is to stuff up here. Along the same lines, it has to be said that Philadelphia would be a market that would get much more attention state-side than Toronto, and that right there would account for why the Ibanez story might get a bigger reaction in the US that the Bautista one. Such is life with the Jays.