Jay Mariotti resigns

[shotglass]

He could buy and sell 98.7% of us.

 

[Dickens Cider]

He could buy and sell 98.7% of us.

Mizzou?

 

[shotglass]

Did I say 100%? Did I?

 

[Dickens Cider]

Well, plus your post was sorely lacking ellipses.

 

[shotglass]

Well-played ...

 

[Boognish]

He apparently came home from Beijing pissed off -- about what, I don't know. He's got fewer and fewer fans every day.

He had fans? I'm from the Chicago area, and I can honestly say I've never heard anyone say anything positive about him.

Of the 10 comments under that clip that came in the past 10 minutes, all were celebratory.

 

[Mahoney]

Please let this be the end of him on Around the Horn too. One TV's always on ESPN in my studio, and I hate having to see that jerk's face for even a few stray glances per day.

 

[Write-brained]

Around the Horn is still on?

Why?

 

[slappy4428]

 

[Clerk Typist]

"Now let's go to Jay Mariotti, joining us today from his basement."

 

[Dickens Cider]

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Well done, slap.

I shudder to think what your reaction would be if The Dwarf resigned.

 

[slappy4428]

Gotta love the Trib story and the comment from the editor...

Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti resigns

By Jim Kirk | Tribune staff reporter
9:39 PM CDT, August 26, 2008

Jay Mariotti, the opinionated and polarizing sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, told the Chicago Tribune he resigned on Tuesday after 17 years with the paper.

Just back from Beijing where he wrote about the Summer Olympics, Mariotti said in a phone interview Tuesday night that he decided to quit after it became clear while in China that sports journalism had become "entirely a Web site business. There were not many newspapers there.'' He added that most of the journalists covering the Games were "there writing for Web sites.''

Mariotti, whose public battles with fellow staffers, team owners, and rival columnists are legendary, didn't disclose any specific plans except to say he will continue doing his regular stint on ESPN's "Around the Horn.''

He said that he "is talking with a lot of Web sites'' and added that the future of his business "sadly is not in newspapers.'' Mariotti said that he sent a resignation letter to Cyrus Freidheim, Sun-Times Media Group Chief Executive and Sun-Times Publisher. When asked via email by the Tribune whether Mariotti had resigned, Sun-Times Editor Michael Cooke responded, "You're kidding?''

Cooke didn't reply to further requests for comment.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-080826mariotti-resigns,0,1339701.story

 

[slappy4428]

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Well done, slap.

I shudder to think what would your reaction be if The Dwarf resigned.

Vapor lock. (Although it would depend WHY he was resigning)...

 

[DanOregon]

That's really a weird thing. It's not like the webs didn't exist three weeks ago. Now watch him show up and do a radio show in New York.

 

[pseudo]

That's really a weird thing. It's not like the webs didn't exist three weeks ago. Now watch him show up and do a radio show in New York.

Mike and Mariotti?

The mind boggles.

 

[slappy4428]

Mike and Munster...
Mad Dog and Munster
Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Mike and Mike and Munster

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

AtH is the dumbest show on the network. No value at all.

So Mariotti yuks it up in Beijing for two and a half weeks, with the rest of the paper's "team" on a troubled company's dime, and calls it a career in print.

 

[TyWebb]

He apparently came home from Beijing pissed off -- about what, I don't know. He's got fewer and fewer fans every day.

He had fans? I'm from the Chicago area, and I can honestly say I've never heard anyone say anything positive about him.

Of the 10 comments under that clip that came in the past 10 minutes, all were celebratory.

I was kind of confused as to why they would even allow comments on something like this. It was like the higher-ups were saying "Get in your last shots now."

Oh ... now I get it.

 

[hwkcrz1]

The Tribune should just hire him and get it over with.

 

[slappy4428]

Actually, that's the kind of move that Zell would pull off... you should be shot for being so open about it.