Mariotti vs. the Sun-Times sports staff

More hideous than Ben Seaver · Jun 10, 2008

PHINJ said:

He recently ran the headline on the front page backwards. On purpose.
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Are you serious. What was it?

PHINJ · Jun 10, 2008

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003792371

JackReacher · Jan 1, 2015

Simon_Cowbell said:

JackReacher said:

Writers criticizing other writers on his or her own staff is effing stupid. I'm pretty sure writers can do their job without bashing a co-worker. I'm almost positive it can be done. Can't it?
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Zzzzzzzzz.
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Yeah, pissing contests between writers is very productive and serves the readers. Hard for me to take a writer seriously when this happens.

gingerbread · Jun 10, 2008

Michael Cooke used to be editor-in-chief of the NY Daily News. He's also a Fleet Street veteran. It's not uncommon for British/Australian journos to take the piss out of each other, in print. It makes for a good read, according to Fleet Street mentality.
But geez, it has to go both ways.

Simon_Cowbell · Jan 1, 2015

JackReacher said:

Simon_Cowbell said:

JackReacher said:

Writers criticizing other writers on his or her own staff is effing stupid. I'm pretty sure writers can do their job without bashing a co-worker. I'm almost positive it can be done. Can't it?
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Zzzzzzzzz.
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Yeah, pissing contests between writers is very productive and serves the readers. Hard for me to take a writer seriously when this happens.
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It's about what readers want.

And they definitely want conflict, wherever they can find it.

Smasher_Sloan · Jun 10, 2008

And it's not like this is some anonymous office spat being played out in public. Marriotti is on radio and TV so much that, like it or not, he's become a "personality" in the market.

So, yeah, I do think readers would have an interest in this.

Starman · Jun 10, 2008

21 said:

August 2003, from the Chicago Reader...wish we still had that thread here:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030808_1.html

As a rule, life is calmest in Sun-Times sports when Mariotti and Telander are covering separate events in separate cities on separate continents. But on June 22 both were watching the White Sox battle the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Telander approached Mariotti, who was sitting in a radio booth at the rear of the press box. "He'd been sending me e-mails and phone messages, and I wanted to talk to him in person. That's how I do things," says Telander. "I figured a public place like that should be OK."

Telander was in a state of great agitation. Voices rose. "It was a yelling match," he says. "Somebody should have come in with a fire hose, maybe blasted me first." Someone who was not -- I repeat, not -- at the scene but is in the loop tells me Mariotti was heard to say, "I would love to punch you," and Telander to answer, "That would be the saddest day of your life."
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It would be the last day of his life.

Telander was an all-Big Ten defensive back at Northwestern. Mariotti was the snot-dripping punk who never got picked in fourth-grade kickball games.

Twoback · Jun 10, 2008

Starman said:

21 said:

August 2003, from the Chicago Reader...wish we still had that thread here:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030808_1.html

As a rule, life is calmest in Sun-Times sports when Mariotti and Telander are covering separate events in separate cities on separate continents. But on June 22 both were watching the White Sox battle the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Telander approached Mariotti, who was sitting in a radio booth at the rear of the press box. "He'd been sending me e-mails and phone messages, and I wanted to talk to him in person. That's how I do things," says Telander. "I figured a public place like that should be OK."

Telander was in a state of great agitation. Voices rose. "It was a yelling match," he says. "Somebody should have come in with a fire hose, maybe blasted me first." Someone who was not -- I repeat, not -- at the scene but is in the loop tells me Mariotti was heard to say, "I would love to punch you," and Telander to answer, "That would be the saddest day of your life."
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It would be the last day of his life.

Telander was an all-Big Ten defensive back at Northwestern. Mariotti was the snot-dripping punk who never got picked in fourth-grade kickball games.
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So you're playing the "He never played the game" card?
Shouldn't that be banned on here????

93Devil · Jun 10, 2008

Twoback said:

Starman said:

21 said:

August 2003, from the Chicago Reader...wish we still had that thread here:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030808_1.html

As a rule, life is calmest in Sun-Times sports when Mariotti and Telander are covering separate events in separate cities on separate continents. But on June 22 both were watching the White Sox battle the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Telander approached Mariotti, who was sitting in a radio booth at the rear of the press box. "He'd been sending me e-mails and phone messages, and I wanted to talk to him in person. That's how I do things," says Telander. "I figured a public place like that should be OK."

Telander was in a state of great agitation. Voices rose. "It was a yelling match," he says. "Somebody should have come in with a fire hose, maybe blasted me first." Someone who was not -- I repeat, not -- at the scene but is in the loop tells me Mariotti was heard to say, "I would love to punch you," and Telander to answer, "That would be the saddest day of your life."
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It would be the last day of his life.

Telander was an all-Big Ten defensive back at Northwestern. Mariotti was the snot-dripping punk who never got picked in fourth-grade kickball games.
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So you're playing the "He never played the game" card?
Shouldn't that be banned on here????
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If one guy is tough enough to sit at Rucker Park for an entire summer and then organize a group of kids to play hoops in Bed-Stuy, play or no play, he's tougher and braver than most folks.

Starman · Jun 10, 2008

Twoback said:

Starman said:

21 said:

August 2003, from the Chicago Reader...wish we still had that thread here:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030808_1.html

As a rule, life is calmest in Sun-Times sports when Mariotti and Telander are covering separate events in separate cities on separate continents. But on June 22 both were watching the White Sox battle the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Telander approached Mariotti, who was sitting in a radio booth at the rear of the press box. "He'd been sending me e-mails and phone messages, and I wanted to talk to him in person. That's how I do things," says Telander. "I figured a public place like that should be OK."

Telander was in a state of great agitation. Voices rose. "It was a yelling match," he says. "Somebody should have come in with a fire hose, maybe blasted me first." Someone who was not -- I repeat, not -- at the scene but is in the loop tells me Mariotti was heard to say, "I would love to punch you," and Telander to answer, "That would be the saddest day of your life."
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It would be the last day of his life.

Telander was an all-Big Ten defensive back at Northwestern. Mariotti was the snot-dripping punk who never got picked in fourth-grade kickball games.
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So you're playing the "He never played the game" card?
Shouldn't that be banned on here????
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No, I'm playing the "a guy who's in the physical shape of a rancid marshmallow better not be the one to threaten physical assault on a guy who has participated at high levels" card.

I never played college sports, but I sure as flaming hell don't walk around saying "I would love to punch you" to people who did. And if I did, I would expect to have my head handed to me.

Simon_Cowbell · Jun 10, 2008

Twoback said:

Starman said:

21 said:

August 2003, from the Chicago Reader...wish we still had that thread here:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030808_1.html

As a rule, life is calmest in Sun-Times sports when Mariotti and Telander are covering separate events in separate cities on separate continents. But on June 22 both were watching the White Sox battle the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Telander approached Mariotti, who was sitting in a radio booth at the rear of the press box. "He'd been sending me e-mails and phone messages, and I wanted to talk to him in person. That's how I do things," says Telander. "I figured a public place like that should be OK."

Telander was in a state of great agitation. Voices rose. "It was a yelling match," he says. "Somebody should have come in with a fire hose, maybe blasted me first." Someone who was not -- I repeat, not -- at the scene but is in the loop tells me Mariotti was heard to say, "I would love to punch you," and Telander to answer, "That would be the saddest day of your life."
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It would be the last day of his life.

Telander was an all-Big Ten defensive back at Northwestern. Mariotti was the snot-dripping punk who never got picked in fourth-grade kickball games.
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So you're playing the "He never played the game" card?
Shouldn't that be banned on here????
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The defensive reaction to that "card" is hilarious.

It is a legitimate criticism in as many cases as it isn't.

SockPuppet · Jun 10, 2008

I would pay to read Telander's spiked columns.
I would pay double to see Telander spike Marriotti's face.

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