Mariotti's latest.... wow

[goalmouth]

Strange, my Brit friend just told me it's tish-tosh.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Maybe there's regional variation? . . . I'll ask another of 'em, at a saloon, tonight, and report back.

 

[Ace]

Here's a list of demands and crimes against poor Mr. Munster from yesterday's column... I feel so sorry for him because everyone is picking on him...

I have to chuckle at some people -- including some writers -- using this opportunity to blame me and tell lies about how I do my work. Would people like to explain what I've done here, other than my job? To cut through some of the b.s. I've been reading, hear this: I have nothing against locker rooms and clubhouses as long as they're civil. Again, if Guillen wants me to join his nightly OzFest charm sessions before games, he and Sox management will have to address and apologize for a history of threatening and unprofessional episodes. It's certainly not about fear. It's about dignity, couth, professionalism and a refusal to lower myself to laws made by jockdom.

One incident involved Guillen himself on a night in Baltimore when he stood naked behind me in the clubhouse and -- how do I put this? -- pretended to have sex with me. If that happens out on the street, he gets arrested for lewd behavior. A screaming Carl Everett, mean guy, confronted me outside the Sox' clubhouse last October. Oh, and before a playoff game, while I joined a live ESPN "SportsCenter'' segment on the field, Guillen yelled at me from the dugout, "Get off our field before I kick your ass!''

So, do you want me on your field, Ozzie, or do you not want me on your field? Can't have it both ways. I'm confused.

There have been incidents involving Frank Thomas and a bat he wanted to put up my butt "sideways.'' There was a disturbing 15-minute standoff with a screaming Tony Phillips. Aaron Rowand always yapped about wanting a piece of my hide. Hawk Harrelson blathers on in that drawl about some bird, and all it does is enflame fans who make threats on e-mail and voice mail.

Yes, and as others have said, we should refrain from calling Mr. Mariotti various parts of the female anatomy. He wouldn't last a week if he were a female sports writer. Not nearly tough enough.

 

[Bubbler]

My vacation ended with this? THIS!?

Jay, why do you hate sportswriting?

God, imagine my horror when flipping through the channels in my hotel room on Monday and I see Jay "Keeping A Low Profile" Mariotti bitching on CNBC worse than my under 5-year-olds whine about an argument over their toys. I couldn't stand it, I forking switched it to Son-In-Law for crissakes!

Go in the forking locker room, you embarassing piece of self-absorbed crap. Anyone with half a shred of integrity goes and faces those they criticize. In my job, I'm in the occasionally uncomfortable position of being a being a beat writer and writing columns chiefly about my beat. I've criticzied those I cover and faced the music for it.

For the most part, even those you criticize come to respect you if you face them after the fact. When you hide in a cowering Tora Bora of your own making, they tend to think you have the balls of a gnat.

And has your ego careened so far off Lake Shore Drive that you think people actually give a shirt about your personal slights?

This is instructional for all on SportsJournalists.com to hear regarding just about any media vs. media customer issue, so here goes: NONE OF OUR READERS/VIEWERS/LISTENERS GIVES TWO shirtS ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS! Apply that advice to just about every reader interaction you have.

And, Jay, that probably goes double for those who appear comfortable and catered to on TV. And that goes TRIPLE for butting heads with a World Series-winning manager in Chicago, daft and crude though he may very well be.

They don't like you because you're a loudmouth on TV, they resent you for it. There probably really are 1,000 people in Chicago who could go on ATH and bellow and howl with more conviction, intelligence, and insight that you or anyone else on that show or any like it.

You live down to every perception those not in the industry believe we are. You're almost as cartoonish as the reporters they portray in those dumb ass movies-of-the-week you see on Lifetime or something.

Michael Gee is right. There have been far better columnists that have been suspended or canned for far less than this silliness.

Quit the bullshirt.

 

[Dignan]

Mariotti is not only a pussy, he's a liar.

When he was on Mike and Mike last week, he said the furor over the Ozzie comment "wasn't about me."

Give me a break, Jay. It was all about you, and your bitchy column just proved it.

I have no respect for this guy. He has no credibility and, worse, no gonads.

What a pussy.

 

[FantasyAlliance.cm]

Least important, he didn't appologize to me, which breaks my heart.

That has to be the funniest thing I've ever read in a column.  I can't believe he actually wrote that.

 

[pallister]

Spell check.