Stay classy Mariotti

He was there. Saw him sitting next to fellow AOLer Blackistone. Have no idea when he filed. He was still there when I staggered out.

 

that guy's a fucking weasel. It even comes through on TV

 

Re: BCS

Interesting that neither Blackistone nor Mariotti had a dateline. I wonder if anyone edits these columns. (I'm guessing not.)

Blackistone's piece showed it was filed at 9 a.m. the next day. It might be that if they tweaked it after posting, it shows the updated time.

 

Mariotti traveled a lot for a big time columnist. The games he skipped were the ones at home.

 

I understand your point, but Jay is a long way from being Lupica. He travels a lot. I'm not going to defend a columnist who rips someone one day and then doesn't show up the next day to face everyone, but there are a ton of columnists who don't show up unless they're writing and on some level I understand that.

I'm sure he's done it, but Jay never struck me as a "writing from the couch" columnist the way some are.

 

Not a "writing from the couch" columnist, but not a "reporting from the clubhouse" columnist, either.

I'm more bugged by that trait -- not doing your own legwork or dealing with people who might make it tough for you -- than I am the notion of making yourself an easy target after the fact. No writer who has work elsewhere, or a day off coming, should feel obliged to just "show up" so a column subject can personally confront him or her.

If the writer is doing the job right, he can say he did his fact-finding up front and then was dealing in opinion. And his work will invariably bring him back around to the same folks for future topics. But showing up "the next day" as a pinata? Gimme a break.

 

Uh, uh. . . but his record in dealing with the White Sox on their turf tells you all you need to know.

One-way mutha' . . .

 

I've always gotten the sense that very, very few Chicago columnists go to White Sox games on a consistent basis.

 

It remains a delight how Eddie got caught consistently and repeatedly on the wrong side of the South Side in '05.

 

That's just not true. Remember, Ozzie and Lou are around to fill the notepads.

 

You can't get great quotes from Ozzie, you're comatose.

 

Mariotti = tool.

Actually, an entire 52-piece toolbox from Sears.

Mariotti can't carry Ebert's laptop.

They're alike in one way: Neither one works the locker room.