Jay Mariotti

Now eva since I can remember, I’ve been poppin’ my collar. -Three 6 Mafia

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go! Anatomy of a story:  Flipping around looking for Around the Horn.  On comes Woman’s Golf.  Ughhh.  Wait!  Who’s this little bunny on the 13th hole?  Gulbis is all I get.  Go to my job.  Immediately Google Gulbis.  Natalie Gulbis.  Got it.  Next step, hit images, Natalie Gulbis.  Bingo.  A guy from work walks over.  Who’s that?  Natalie Gulbis.  He now goes to his cubicle and promptly YouTubes her.  Finds this.  Comes back.  Tells me she goes out with Big Ben Rothlisberger.  So naturally, I Google Gulbis and Rothlesberger.  I get this.  All the proof I need.  Now I’m free to write anything I want about these two.  I never have to leave my basement.  I can be as nasty as I want.  What do I care?  I’ll never see them.  I won’t have to face them.  What difference does it make what I say?  This is how Jay Mariotti works.         

His own co-writers hate him. 

• Chicago Sun-Times writer, Rick Telander:   “What Guillen kept bringing up was his old-school feeling that something is wrong with the world when a writer, to wit,  Mariotti, can write at times personally hurtful commentary about Ozzie and his team without ever being physically present in front of them.”  
• Michael Wilbon:  “Ozzie [Guillen] owes no apology to Jay , my friend for 16-plus years, and someone I like very much. Jay can say all he wants that he’s not welcome in the White Sox clubhouse…When you write tough, critical pieces, you show up the next day…This isn’t debatable. It’s not optional. It’s mandatory. Go to the locker room, period. And Jay doesn’t live by the code. And now, understandably, the White Sox are on his butt…Athletes respect people who are right there, available and accountable. And if you aren’t, you get what you deserve.” 

This is why Ozzie was pissed.  This why he called him a faggot.  Very poor choice of words.  Agreed.  He did not mean the comment literally.  He meant coward.  Unfortunately that’s the term Ozzie uses.  But Mariotti is a coward.  If I had 1/2 the chance to actually talk and ask questions to the guys I write about, I would jump at it.  This guy hinds behind a rock.  I wish Ozzie had chosen better words, but it in no way absolves Jay.

Side Note:  Doesn’t Ozzie Guiellen sound more and more like Ozzie Osborne every day.  Both mumbling incoherent, vulgarity laced rants.

Having said all that, let the bashing begin!!

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!

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