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Ozzie Guillen hates Jay Mariotti. Jerry Reinsdorf hates Mariotti. Andy MacPhail hates Mariotti. Dan McNeil has gone head-to-head with Jay. Charles Barkley has called Mariotti "a loser." Everyone at JayTheJoke.com certainly hates Jay Mariotti. Now it seems that even Jay's co-workers are hatin' on Jay - and you probably would too if he called you his "soft colleagues," who "fear Guillen's wrath, enjoy how he rips me, work for one of the Reinsdorf-controlled broadcast outlets or are afraid of getting on the chairman's bad side." Even worse, "I ignore what they write and say about Guillen, and I'd advise any reasonable person to do the same." Oh, snap.
Teddy Greenstein writes today about the intra-office soap opera that is the Sun-Times sports desk. When Mariotti slighted his colleagues (intentionally or horribly short-sightedly) by implying he was the only one in the market with the cajones to take on Ozzie Guillen, Chris DeLuca fired back and so did Rick Telander—even though no one ever got to read Telander's article. Editors wisely nixed the piece; yes, even if you really, really want to talk shit about Jay Mariotti, dirty laundry should stay in-house.
It would be one thing if Mariotti actually had a point for once—we get it, he thinks Guillen should be fired. But with the Sox and Cubs both in first, who does he think he's fooling? Ozzie's here to stay through the season, and no hurt feelings on Jay's part will change that. As for the Sun-Times, if the S-T sports department was a Vietnam platoon, Mariotti would be Douglas Niedermeyer. And we remember what happened to Niedermeyer, don't we?
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the part about him being too shook to go into the clubhouse is the icing on the cake. how can he be so blatantly contradictory? what a jackass. OZZIE OWNS YOU JAY.
Given the Sox' play in the week since Mariotti called for his firing, he pretty much gave up what teeny-tiny shred of credibility he had. I'm glad to see even his S-T colleagues hate him as much as the rest of us do.
The media hate him, the fans hate him, the players hate him and his own colleagues hate him. Yet, apparently people read him. STOP READING HIS COLUMNS. Why else would the Sun Times keep him?
Mariotti vs. the Sox has started giving me unwelcome feelings of sympathy toward the South Siders. I'm a big Cubs fan, so let that speak to how much I loathe Mariotti.
It's like gapers block (the condition, not the site): you slow down the closer you come to the wreck to check it out. The scary thing is that sometimes Greg Couch (who' a good writer) completely mimics Mariotti's style.
Anyway, this stuff with Mariotti is nothing new; Michael Miner wrote once of a time at Wrigley where Jay - in a rare visit to a ballfield - and Telander had to be kept apart by Chris De Luca. De Luca was later chastised for not letting Telander at him.
i do enjoy Hawk v. Jay...they're both blowhard morons and they deserve each other.
in fairness, slezak and cowley are on the same level as mariotti