Mariotti: Hawk jinxed Garcia perfect game

[Pringle]

Not quite sure what to think of this column:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay141.html

 

[Chi City 81]

I was gonna post this, but I didn't want to do Jay the service of giving him more publicity. I wish Hawktard would just beat the **** out him and get it over with.

 

[joe]

About as logical as dumbass TV basketball announcers mentioning that a guy is 8-for-8 from the line tonight and then saying, "Oh, we probably just jinxed him there" as if there's a direct cause-and-effect relationship. Makes me want to go Elvis on the TV every time I hear that ****.

 

[Starman]

Not quite sure what to think of this column:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay141.html

Oh, I know what to think of it.


To quote Vincent LaGuardia Gambini: "Your honor, everything that guy just said is bull****. Thank you." : :

 

[markvid]

I never thought I'd ever side with Hawk on anything.
Today might be it.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Hey, what else are you gonna write if you're too gutless to get within a 500-foot radius of the clubhouse?

 

[bigpern23]

I wouldn't devote a column calling anyone out on it, but you don't talk about a perfect game unless you are tying to jinx it.

And yes, I'm silly and superstitious. I still don't step on the foul lines when going out on the field to do interviews. Stupid, I know, but oh well. Flame away.

 

[slappy4428]

Not quite sure what to think of this column:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay141.html

Oh, I know what to think of it.


To quote Vincent LaGuardia Gambini: "Your honor, everything that guy just said is bull****. Thank you." : :

I laughed out loud at that... and so did this ****in guy...

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Flame away.

If you insist ...

 

[slappy4428]

I laughed at that one too...

 

[busuncle]

I'm no Mariotti fan, but I actually agreed with this column. Hawk is such a clown, such an embarrassment to baseball, it's painful to watch.

 

[Starman]

The players in the dugout or on the field, aren't listening to Harrelson during the game. It doesn't matter if he screams "PERFECT GAME" 23,387 times on the air, either it's going to be a perfect game or it's not, and what Harrelson says has nothing to do with it.

In fact, the announcers on the broadcast have an obligation to their viewers/listeners to SAY it's a perfect game in case they've tuned in late or haven't had a chance to listen from the first pitch.

It's called "professionalism" and "doing your job," concepts of which, Mariotti of course has only the remotest acquaintance.

 

[Gold]

Jay Mariotti:

This is the stupidest thing anybody has written in a long, long time. Hawk is awful and I wrote about him on another thread, but this might be the one instance where he shows a shred of integrity.

That "superstition" has been eradicated by any thinking person long ago. Red Barber derided this in the 1940s, as do most announcers who have any sense of journalism or caring about their audience.

As Bob Murphy, the long-time Mets broadcaster, once said.. "If we could affect what happens on the field, we would be paid a lot more money."

Jay, you embarrassed yourself.

 

[TwoGloves]

I hate it when somebody talks about a jinx. Hockey players are the worst. So if somebody predicts a championship for a team and they win it, does the person who predicted it get the credit. Jinxes are ridiculous and so is Mariotti.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Old story.

How can you take sides?

 

[Starman]

If "jinxes" were real, "Jay Mariotti Gift Sets" consisting of a voodoo doll, a pair of knitting needles, and 100 push pins would be runaway best sellers.

 

[tommyp]

I seem to recall in both '98 and '99, Yankee announcers mentioned throughout both David Wells' and David Cone's perfect games, that they were pitching perfect games.

 

[SF_Express]

I'm no Mariotti fan, but I actually agreed with this column. Hawk is such a clown, such an embarrassment to baseball, it's painful to watch.

With every game at our disposal in this office, the guys around me all LOVE Hawk, and they're not even White Sox fans. So I have to endure him all the time. I've just learned to tune him out.

 

[mpcincal]

Mariotti is the only guy on Earth that could make me sympathetic to Harrelson, and he just did it.

Are you kidding me? How can you not mention it if a perfect game is in progress? Hell, I was watching on the Angels broadcast and they mentioned about the sixth inning. And I don't think they were trying to jinx it, either; in fact, in the seventh and eighth, I think they were damn near rooting for him.

I've seen my share of near no-hitters in progress on TV, and on every single one of them, the announcers made it very clear what was going on from about the fifth inning to where it was either broken up or the game ended. So how about it, Jay, is AP also to blame Wednesday because they put up no-hitter advisories? Are the Angel fans, made obvious by their wearing of red, to blame because if they were there cheering for Garcia in the last two innings, obviously they let the cat out of the bag?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Well, if he interacted with baseball fans once in a while, instead of writing holed up in
the ol' ivory tower, he might understand that. But, noooooooooo . . .