Mariotti re-ups with Sun Times

[suburbia]

Sorry if this is a DB...

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mariotti/1009921,jay061708.article

 

[slappy4428]

Eddie Munster re-ups, everyone else upchucks...

 

[Joe Williams]

Telander ought to resign in protest tomorrow.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

What did the readership do to deserve this?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

What did the readership do to deserve this?

They read him every day. :D

 

[Screwball]

get a load of this quote from Jay, in the story linked above:

"The Sun-Times provides for a strong base from which to connect with readers while I continue my television work and branch into other broadcast and Web ventures."

 

[WaylonJennings]

Yeah. Why would they want to keep on board somebody who A. Sends the Web hits skyrocketing like a pinball machine B. Writes four times a week, without fail, never mails in a column and travels all over the place and C. Is all over national television for a half-hour every day?

Look, some of the **** the guy writes infuriates me, as well. But to act like he doesn't have value to the Sun-Times - which isn't, by the way, exactly The New Yorker to begin with - is crazy. He's their franchise.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Yeah. Why would they want to keep on board somebody who A. Sends the Web hits skyrocketing like a pinball machine B. Writes four times a week, without fail, never mails in a column and travels all over the place and C. Is all over national television for a half-hour every day?

Look, some of the **** the guy writes infuriates me, as well. But to act like he doesn't have value to the Sun-Times - which isn't, by the way, exactly The New Yorker to begin with - is crazy. He's their franchise.

Don't unfairly abuse the Sun-Times. Their local news coverage has historically beaten the living crap out of the Trib with awesome regularity. It's a tragedy what Connie Black did to that paper.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/1011244,CST-SPT-jaysep18.article

The Web staff had some fun with the blog links on this one...

 

[Ben_Hecht]

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/1011244,CST-SPT-jaysep18.article

The Web staff had some fun with the blog links on this one...

They surely did.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

 

[Joe Williams]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

 

[WaylonJennings]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

I don't know. Couch seems like Jay Jr. a lot of days. Rip, rip, rip, rip. Fire, fire, fire. Shred, shred, shred. I think he's a little more surgical with it, obviously. And he takes on some issues with a little more nuance.

 

[WaylonJennings]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

All the way to the bank, it will. They'll have driven the Sun-Times out of business within five years with their free RedEye tab.

 

[Joe Williams]

Couch gets major props and a lot of slack from my Chicago sources because of his work on the Cubs' ticket-scalping scandal.

Mariotti gets zero slack and utter disdain from those same folks. And they're working class South Siders, right in the Sun-Times' wheelhouse.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

I don't think the Trib has ever fully recovered from the Michael Holley and Skip Bayless experiments. I like Holley a lot and even if you don't like Skip, he's rarely boring.

They never found an adequate replacement for Bernie. Morrissey is an outstanding writer, but columns aren't his strength. Missy never should have been writing columns either. Downey is nowhere close to as good as he was when he was in LA.

A paper that size needs a must-read columnist and they haven't had one in quite some time.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

I don't think the Trib has ever fully recovered from the Michael Holley and Skip Bayless experiments. I like Holley a lot and even if you don't like Skip, he's rarely boring.

They never found an adequate replacement for Bernie. Morrissey is an outstanding writer, but columns aren't his strength. Missy never should have been writing columns either. Downey is nowhere close to as good as he was when he was in LA.

A paper that size needs a must-read columnist and they haven't had one in quite some time.

Downey's on cruise control. He can write . . . he's a pro . . . but the passion's wholly absent.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

I don't think the Trib has ever fully recovered from the Michael Holley and Skip Bayless experiments. I like Holley a lot and even if you don't like Skip, he's rarely boring.

They never found an adequate replacement for Bernie. Morrissey is an outstanding writer, but columns aren't his strength. Missy never should have been writing columns either. Downey is nowhere close to as good as he was when he was in LA.

A paper that size needs a must-read columnist and they haven't had one in quite some time.

Downey's on cruise control. He can write . . . he's a pro . . . but the passion's wholly absent.

I thought it was an outstanding hire when they made it. Now, not so much.

 

[WaylonJennings]

I'll take Couch over Jay or Telander 90 percent of the time.

But Jay is the franchise. Count me among those who prefer the Sun-Times to the Tribune any day of the week.

Shouldn't that sort of assessment -- and I'm not disagreeing with it one bit -- make the folks (left) at Tribune Tower feel pretty stupid? Considering the disparity in resources, space, staffing, etc.?

I don't think the Trib has ever fully recovered from the Michael Holley and Skip Bayless experiments. I like Holley a lot and even if you don't like Skip, he's rarely boring.

They never found an adequate replacement for Bernie. Morrissey is an outstanding writer, but columns aren't his strength. Missy never should have been writing columns either. Downey is nowhere close to as good as he was when he was in LA.

A paper that size needs a must-read columnist and they haven't had one in quite some time.

David Haugh should be their columnist.

 

[The Granny]

David Haugh should be their columnist.

Agreed. I enjoy his work. And no, whilst I wish I was David, I am not.