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Word from the Tribune late Tuesday ended any speculation that former Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti might be joining the city's other major newspaper. While talks did in fact take place, they fell apart due to the Sun-Times lawyers threatening to sue the pants off Mariotti and the Trib. Said Mariotti, "[they] threatened me with a lawsuit in 64-point type." Jay the Joke also said of the Trib, "It's not your father's Tribune...I enjoyed dealing with them. I think they have a great future.'' Huh. We thought Jay left the Sun-Times because newspapers were a dying industry.
So with his flirtation with Zell and his paper now over, will Mariotti be packing his bags and taking himself to a city not yet sullied by his hatred for everything and everyone? Or will he remain in Chicago to build some new non-dying media empire?
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Right...I'm sure the reason the Tribune bailed had nothing to do with the number of columnists threatening to resign if Mariotti came on, and was solely based on not wanting to pay a little more for him to get out the non-compete clause that writers break routiely.
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That picture still cracks me up.
Mariotti really fucked himself with that "print is dead" line. Can't imagine how he could work for anything but online.