Former Fox NFL Analyst Brian Baldinger: Ines Sainz Was 'Asking For It'

More and more people are voicing their opinions on Ines Sainz, the female reporter who was allegedly harassed in the New York Jets locker room on Saturday.

Former Fox NFL analyst Brian Baldinger discussed the situation Thursday morning with Tony Bruno on 97.5 the Fanatic in Philadelphia.

The former NFL player said Sainz, who recently explained what happened on the day of the alleged incident, was "asking for it."

"If you come into the NFL dressed the way that she is dressed you are just asking for it," Baldinger said. "I think she brings it upon herself. I don't know how you let her on a practice field (looking like that)."

Baldinger went onto say that Sainz's outfit was not appropriate for the locker room.

"Listen, these are painted on jeans. She's got a shirt that is just glued to her body," he said. "If you want her to walk up there and do an interview with Mark Sanchez, put her in a room with Mark Sanchez. Don't take her through the locker room."

Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis also expressed a controversial opinion on Sainz earlier in the week. Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett mocked Sainz on Twitter.

You can listen to the entire interview with Baldinger here. The interview was transcribed by Sports Radio Interviews.

Comments

[Mr Man]

09:33 PM on 10/14/2010

I am sorry, But I feel that some of these comments are being made to mitigate the fact that she was in the Men's locker room and dressed inappropriately. When you go to a job interview, you dress for it, by wearing business attire. You don't go into the interview dressed as though you are going to the bar, with hopes of getting laid! The whole thing is cause and effect. Now, she is considered to be attractive; and she knows this. If she wanted to be taken seriously, then she should have changed her attire. You appearance/demeanor is what sets the tone for any meeting or gathering. Now, the fact is that women do not belong in the men's locker room where the athletes can be found in a state of undress!!!!! And she also, contributed to the alleged occurrance.

[DishNetworkAZ]

01:34 PM on 09/22/2010

Reversely, the players should sue the station for sending a female into a male locker room. Their career is not private but their bodies are. If a male went into a female dressing room, what would happen?

[babydoll12912]

11:20 PM on 09/22/2010

Guess what? MEN DO GO INTO WOMENS LOCKER ROOMS. Why has no one done their research?

[babydoll12912]

11:21 PM on 09/22/2010

Guess what? Men ARE allowed to do interviews in women's locker rooms!

[DishNetworkAZ]

01:31 PM on 09/22/2010

Let's get down to business. She must know that her employer hired her because of her looks and sends her out to all sporting events because she will get preferential treatment. She will get the opportunities male reporters won't get.

[Vernondelray]

07:11 PM on 09/20/2010

OK, I'm going to be all over the place on this comment. First, I have NEVER understood why media are allowed into locker rooms where the players are undressed. Male or female, this just sounds a bit weird to me, and trust me, I'm not a prude. Even when I was young and had a nice physique and didn't mind displaying it, I still would have felt a little weird having people milling about when I come out of the shower. Hey reporter, want to watch me "drop some friends off at the pool" too?

Second, Baldinger is a first rate bonehead, and while I know that's a put down to second rate boneheads everywhere, the proof is in the man's work, not just this comment. I think Baldinger went into sports broadcasting so that HE could see athletes in a state of complete undress.

Third, his comment here is obviously one of the things a PROFESSIONAL broadcaster should know NOT to say.

Fourth, he works for Fox, so, whattaya expect? OK, their sports department is better than their news department (it is, apparently, a real, professional broadcasting department, whereas their news department, not so much).

And finally, my last point. Yes, she dresses provocatively. Doesn't matter. Whether or not I or anyone else agree, courts have defined harassment, and if the NFL and/or the individual teams don't offer guidelines, they're culpable. My employer requires sexu@l harassment training annually, so if someone crosses the line, they're on their own.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

08:56 PM on 09/21/2010

f/f Love the bonehead remark...it's spot on. A broadcaster who says something so outrageous is just asking to be fired...and if he's not...I'm asking them to fire him.

[jamilk99]

12:34 PM on 09/20/2010

No Way. These athletes engaged in locker room behavior while they were in their locker room???

[andejoh]

08:53 AM on 09/20/2010

Something else to consider. I'm for equality in the workplace. I believe that women should be allowed to do jobs traditionally held by men, but I also believe that men should be allowed to do what was traditionally women's jobs as long as their qualified.

I'll tell you were it will lead. The end of women's professional sports. If a woman can try out of the NBA, then why not a man for the WNBA? If a woman can try out for a PGA event, why not a man for the LPGA?

Then let it filter into the other professions, like fire fighter. If you need to be able to carry 200 pounds, what difference does it make if your a man or woman?

[andejoh]

05:29 PM on 09/19/2010

The anti-discrimination laws that allowed women into the locker room in the first place are discriminatory. That's why there is a reasonable man and a reasonable woman standard.

Anti-discrimination laws didn't mandate that people be treated the same. It was written to outlaw material discrimination. At my job the women can wear anything that a man can wear, but they have other attire options that men don't have and the men have more requirements, such as wearing a tie. The courts probably would not find this burdensome on men.

I've been reading the blogs and have seen the justifications that women have given for having access to the locker room. They need to get immediate reactions that they wouldn't get if they had to wait. Where is the raw emotion in a practice. Does keeping her out of a locker room during practice seem like material discrimination?

I've read that women need unfettered access to the locker room to build the same comraderie that their male counterparts can. This might sound old fashioned, but you don't build trust if you don't first respect the people your interviewing. If they feel uncomfortable, doesn't that sound counterproductive?

On the other habd the players knew what their contracts stipulated. If there is a problem have your union negotiate something different.

There are no innocents in this and that includes the Jets organization.

[stilett0s]

03:32 PM on 09/19/2010

Men (and the idiot women) who think this way make me sick. Blame the victim, and don't scold the perpetrator for being an animal. Riiiiiiight.

[an]

05:04 PM on 09/19/2010

i don't think she's actually a victim, as i don't think anything really happened to her. i don't know, don't you think there is such a thing as taking victimhood too far? this to me, is the type of case that gives liberalism and political correctness a bad name (and i am very, very liberal). this to me is like the case of the woman who sued mcdonalds for hot coffee, which became a poster child for conservatives wanting to limit corporate litigation. coffee is hot. human beings have a sex drive. sorry, it's just a fact. a woman dressing like she's dressing, with her endowments, going into a locker room with a bunch of burly naked men is going to cause problems. it's just a fact of human nature. just as men going into a locker room with a bunch of naked women athletes would be problematic. we are sexual beings. and i don't think having members of the opposite sex in locker rooms is appropriate. to me this argument comes from the same reality as christian who want to preach abstinence in high school, and make it illegal for teens to get condoms. not reality.

[babydoll12912]

11:29 PM on 09/22/2010

Sexual harrassment and objectification of women isn't human nature. Not saying shes a victim, because she's made it clear she doesn't want to be percieved that way, but every one of these men are capable of controlling what they say or do. Your analogies are incorrect. Coffee is hot if its been warmed up, sure. But its not beyond a man's power to not say lewd things to an attractive woman while in a locker room. I's just sad and ridiculous that people think so. No one has a problem with sexual attraction, thats natural for sure. But how you express it and treating others (trying to do their jobs) with respect is important. Locker room or not, anything related to the NFL requires them to behave like professionals as well.

[andejoh]

06:06 PM on 09/19/2010

I agree with you in principal, but there is something known as fighting words. It acts as a mitigating factor. If a person were to yell racial slurs at another, he deserves to be hit. Verbal abuse in relatiionships is just now being recognized as abusive behavior. We think we know how she looked. We don't know what she said or how she acted.

Remember in the Lisa Olson incident, the players complained weeks before that she was standing around ogling them and not asking any questions until they were all about to leave. She claimed that she was waiting for a particular player. Logic dictates that if you are looking for a player, who is not in the locker room, you exit the locker room or possibly face the enterance.

The media and the NFL's solution was to have her boss accompany her and monitor her behavior. Since she didn't misbehave, they assumed that she didn't the week before. How would people think if all discrimination complaints were habdled this way. If you don't misbehave in front of your boss, your innocent. What happened to basing your decision on interviewing people?

One possible problem is that if the players complain about sexual harrassment, it won't be taken seriously and it should be throughly and completely incestigated as with any other employee.

[chris87654]

03:19 PM on 09/19/2010

I'm still curious about what was asked during the interview - I heard this woman talk a bit and she seemed to have the verbal skills of Sarah Palin. I don't think she was hired for her reporting ability...

[chris87654]

03:05 PM on 09/19/2010

Dumb chick. There are plenty of good looking female reporters with class, but this one pushed the envelope, got expected results, then whines about it - very unprofessional. Grow up. This is why women should be banned from locker rooms.

[KHCaliforniagirl]

04:15 AM on 09/19/2010

Saying "she deserved it because of what she was wearing" is like saying "someone deserves to be robbed because they are rich."

[JustBeingMe]

10:31 AM on 09/19/2010

Please. Bottom line: She is supposed to be a professional reporter...so, she should carry herself like one. Dressing professionally is not a whole lot to ask. Her tight clothes and low cut tops are a disgrace to the many people who fought for equal rights in the workplace and society for all people (which obviously also includes women).

[babydoll12912]

11:30 PM on 09/22/2010

Maybe the men should behave professionally too. Working for the NFL is their job, you know.

[Used4Commenting]

12:58 PM on 09/19/2010

No, the more approrpiate comparison would be like saying someone walking through the worst neighborhood in LA with $100 bills sticking out of their pockets was surprised when they were robbed.

[youngblood]

06:04 PM on 09/18/2010

I agree she was asking 4 it and lets stick up for the home team and not some flake who bills herself as the hottest sports reporter in the World, wears jeans so tight that you can see everything she owns and did nudity on a cover of a magazines with 3 kids and a husband. I wonder what her children think about that one?!!

[Leona101]

03:35 PM on 09/18/2010

Judging from what other female reporters wear on camera for TV Azteca, small, tight clothes seem to be the dress code and being drop-dead gorgeous is the job requirement. Even if that isn't the case, it's not much to expect professional atheletes to behave themselves like civilised people and not apes at a zoo. We've been down this road too many times not to have learnt by now that mocking and harrassing women for what they wear is thuggery for which there should be no attempts at justification, and blaming women for the things men do was debunked a long time ago as the hateful, disgusting apologism for violence it is.

[reading2009]

05:47 PM on 09/18/2010

THANK YOU!

[babydoll12912]

11:31 PM on 09/22/2010

AMEN

[houseofd]

03:01 PM on 09/18/2010

The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football. I read this maybe 10, 15 years ago. Still works.

http://www.amazon.com/Stronger-Women-More-Love-Football/dp/0380725274

[DG3]

02:43 PM on 09/18/2010

That's spanish-language television for you. Every female host, whether it be a morning show or kid's program, always dresses like a street walker.

[SKMojo]

03:36 PM on 09/18/2010

Since I understand only a very few Spanish words, there's gotta be another reason I love watching those channels. Hallelujah for attractive women, regardless of ethnicity!