Jay Mariotti is Writing a Column Again (It Appears)
Jay Mariotti last seen getting arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, is writing again. Chicago Side, a new-ish website, posted a lengthy screed Monday by the former ESPN talking head/Sun Times columnist. The accompanying photo features Mariotti sitting in a chair, wearing a shit-eating grin, and clutching an empty glass. The backdrop is a parking lot. Palm trees are in the distance. It is unclear if this was taken before or after the Moby concert he famously attended.
Mariotti’s diatribe is maybe 3,000 words long, and the focus is on the Bears and Jay Cutler. It comes four days after the Bears lost to the Packers, which might as well be three months in internet time. It touches on all the Chicago teams! Bulls, blah, Cubs, blah, leadership, blah, Cutler sucks, blah, blah, blah. Mariotti is still a one-trick pony who screams and rants with zero substance. [Chicago Side]
Previously: Jay Mariotti Might Have Been Spotted at a Moby Concert in Los Angeles
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September 18th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
/farts
September 18th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Oh if that isn’t the douchiest picture I’ve ever seen..
September 18th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Simply the best. Come back to ATH Jay!
September 18th, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Took a lot of effort I’d imagine to unseat Phil Mushnick but by god they’ve done it
Writing a Bears column from LA makes sense for him since he was always afraid to confront the people he was shitting on…mentioned a few times back in the day how he feared for his safety in the White Sox clubhouse as if Frank Thomas was going to do the world a favor and take a few swings at his head
September 18th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Do you care? No? Figured.
I care just barely enough to post here and ask why you give Mariotti pageviews.
Also, A Bearish Dispatch sounds like a gay porn caper.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
sad.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Maricon
September 18th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
He appears to be drinking alone in a parking lot, so doing well I suppose.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Looks like the photo was taken in one of the parking lots that runs parallel to Venice Beach. If that 7 foot Arab dude with the roller blades and electric guitar was behind him, I could confirm that.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
+1 iconic image
September 18th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
that is perfect.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
mentioned a few times back in the day how he feared for his safety in the White Sox clubhouse as if Frank Thomas was going to do the world a favor and take a few swings at his head
Better RH hitter? Man-Ram or the Big Hurt?
September 18th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Good piece and wouldn’t have stumbled on it without the feature here. Thanks TBL.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Coolest parking attendant ever.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
I could waste all afternoon digging into this
September 18th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Manny. Him and Bonds were the two best hitters of the 90′s.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Better name for a sports blog than Sports On Earth, I’ll give him that much.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
You’re the best.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED i tell you, that Lima liked a Mariotti column.
/sun rises, spencer smokes weed, mole likes buttsex, mullet likes gymnasts, ballz likes irrelevant cycling
September 18th, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Having seen each play a # of times I’d say Big Hurt. I also am anti PEDs. Thomas was so freaking intimidating.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
This is my favorite Mariotti picture. The hairline is mystifying.
September 18th, 2012 at 11:57 AM
/sun rises, spencer smokes weed, mole likes buttsex, mullet likes gymnasts, ballz likes irrelevant cycling
Mole’s a power bottom?
September 18th, 2012 at 11:57 AM
I forget what the numbers involved were in terms of consistently hitting certain benchmarks but it was the Big Hurt and Ted Williams who did all of them in like 10 straight seasons…he was a machine, thinking I should get out to Cooperstown when he gets enshrined
September 18th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I played Big Hurt baseball on SNES all the freaking time
September 18th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Can’t wait to read J-Mac’s feature on Mariotti.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
At the old Municipal Stadium it was a monster shot to put a HR in the uppder deck down the lines. Thomas and the Bash Brothers were the only guys I saw do that consistently in some BP displays.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
HE’S JUST AT THE BAR SHOOTING THE SHIT. JUST LIKE ME OR YOU.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Manny all day. Not to discount BH, though.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
forget what the numbers involved were in terms of consistently hitting certain benchmarks but it was the Big Hurt and Ted Williams…
Well for 2B’s it was Honus Wagner and Carlos Baerga. Then… COCAINE. Baerga just fell off a cliff around the ’95 ASB.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Winner winner chicken dinner!
I hate Mariotti, so it is with great shame that I admit…that that was a pretty good column.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
frank thomas could die today and the world would be a better place.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
How does this man get paid to write?
/reads Jose Canseco column on Vice.com
//Converts to Islam so I can fuck shit up
September 18th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Jason – did you read the column, or just assume the quickest way to ingratiate yourself to us would be to rip Mariotti? I’m interested in how there is such disparate views on it.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
frank thomas could die today and the world would be a better place.
I’m curious in this sentence.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
How sure are you all that Thomas didn’t take PEDs? On a scale of Pedro to McGwire, he’s a few notches below Bagwell and Jeter, somewhere near Griffey, right?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Big Hurt and I Eiffel Towered his mom in front of him on his eighth birthday.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:09 PM
somewhere near Griffey, right?
You bite your tongue!!
September 18th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
he managed to be both a diva and a quitter simultaneously…something only keyshawn johnson managed to do with greater aplomb.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
frank thomas could die today and the world would be a better place.
I’m curious in this sentence. Peer
PeerLess is Frank Thomas.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Him and Bonds were the two best hitters of the 90′s.
mark grace opens bloodshot eyes, lights a marlboro red and slurs
“i led the fucking 90s in hits”
September 18th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
No puff pieces without hot scoops. We have standards at USATSDP.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Griffey is the bottom of the scale. Does anyone actually think he used PED’s.?
/Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on N64 changed my life.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Thomas had an amazing first 8 years of his career, and very similar to Williams, in terms of consistently ridiculous OBPs.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomafr04.shtml
Too bad Pujols came along when he did, because if he is clean, he has crazy numbers too. His career worst in each category from 2001-2010 would still be an MVP-caliber season in non-PED years.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
something only keyshawn johnson managed to do with greater aplomb.
keyshawn’s adidas shoe was cool
September 18th, 2012 at 12:12 PM
had a pair of these
September 18th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
You’re the worst thing that’s ever been or ever will be
September 18th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
aplomb
Excellent word. Bravo to you.
/Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on N64 changed my life.
The team I had was incredible. Stacked trades.
/once beat dad on a walk-off with Omar Vizquel
September 18th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Pedro is the bottom of the scale. He’s still bitter about the kinds of seasons he’d have had with steroid testing 1998-2001. Though I would put Griffey down there too, at least Jr. Keep in mind though, his dad probably ate greenies for breakfast/lunch/dinner back in the 70′s, so it’s not impossible…
September 18th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Manny’s career numbers are slightly higher. Frank Thomas had a higher peak run.
Manny Career (8244 AB): .312/.411/.585, 2574 H, 555 HR, 1831 RBI
Thomas Career (8199 AB): .301/.419/.555, 2468 H, 521 HR, 1704 RBI
Manny OPS+ Best Eight Year Run: 167
Thomas OPS+ Best Eight Year Run: 182
September 18th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
craig james.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I’m interested in how there is such disparate views on it.
because i’m gonna go out on a limb and say that jay v and tbl are vastly different sorts of human
September 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Should read “On a scale of Pedro to ‘everyone on the 1970′s Steelers’”, anyway.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
That article was okay. Nothing terrible. If you want to mock him for hiding in SoCal and pretending he’s plugged into the CHI sports scene, that’d be one thing. It’s as if he’s trying to say “Look at me, look at all this perspective I have now that I am
having all my ideas declinded and failing at my 2nd careerin California.” Maybe trying to lay claim to that cagey outsider perspective.Fact is he’s at a 2nd rate rag that obviously lacks anybody with editing skills. Welcome to the new media. Just more of what’s out there.
Who should I follow for the best commentery on Chicago Sports?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Guilty as charged, Mariotti doesn’t deserve any better
September 18th, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Hawk Harrelson
September 18th, 2012 at 12:19 PM
I would throw a decent (for my cheap ass) amount of money down on a “Pedro juiced while on the Mets” prop bet.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Piazza, Griffey, Giants OF, Thomas, McGwire. Who else were the all 10 guys?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
I like. I keep. You can visit every other weekend.
Sounds just
!!!
September 18th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
because i’m gonna go out on a limb and say that jay v and tbl are vastly different sorts of human
True. Jay has seen Bob Weir 500 times and McIntyre probably has no idea who that is.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
I’d say Griff Jr. used for sure. But I’d really like to avoid all those discussions today.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
I assume you are talking about recently-acquired-for-Kelly-Shoppach Pedro Beato.
/puts fingers in ears
//Pedro never was on the Mets, he retired after 2004
September 18th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Anyone who doesn’t root for the Packers despite being a Sox and Bulls fan.
/shots fired
September 18th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
New media? This windbag was born in the late fifties has been a sports columnist since the early 80′s. The medium does not make it new if it is the same old bullshit.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Who should I follow for the best commentery on Chicago Sports?
sc and sg on twitter
September 18th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
again, if we’re debating best hitter in the 90s, who probably didn;t juice unless there was gin along side, it’s grace
the best hitter gets the most hits, or can stats guys poke holes in that logic?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Best hitters get on base and hit the ball far…no one would suggest Ichiro was a better hitter than either Manny or Hurt just because he slapped at everything
September 18th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
I’m confused. Why would anyone give a shit about Chicago sports, if they don’t live there. I can understand being interested in world politics even if you don’t live everywhere in the world… but I’ll be damned if the Seattle Mariners beat writer is going to clog up my time and brainpower debating the relative merits of Jay Buhner and Raul Mondesi. I even unfollowed Tom Boswell on twitter for saying too much crap I don’t care about.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:28 PM
I don’t live in Chicago….
September 18th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
I don’t even live in Illinois
Go Sox
September 18th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Answer your own question.
Martin Prado has 174 hits this season. Matt Holliday has 163. They’ve played the same number of games. Is Martin Prado a better hitter than Matt Holliday?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
New media? This windbag was born in the late fifties has been a sports columnist since the early 80′s.
Right. This gasbag fits in with a lot of the guys who cant write but have their names floating on there as some pseudo media power player. Calm down and quit being so argumentative.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Tony Gwynn had about 40 less hits than Grace in that decade. So stop right there with your Mark Grace nonsense.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Live there/fan of the team, sorry. I didn’t think ms621 had much affiliation to the Bears, living in the great Hous-cago metro area.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
How heavy is a rock?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
/Scripty thinks I’m a woman?
//Stands defiantly on his law
September 18th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
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September 18th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Best hitters get on base and hit the ball far…no one would suggest Ichiro was a better hitter than either Manny or Hurt just because he slapped at everything
hitters make hits > hitters make outs
do they call you out when you slap at a ball and it arrives safely between fielders?
September 18th, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Vez, Absolutionist for the Bible, the Constitution and Hitting in Baseball.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:41 PM
i’m just fucking around. of course i’d rather have gwynn than ramirez
September 18th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Piazza, Griffey, Giants OF, Thomas, McGwire. Who else were the all 10 guys
Thome. Hard to think back that far. Bench was full of up and comers in the game that became eventual studs.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Mark Grace made a lot more outs than Hurt or Manny…I like the guy but he’s not close to being the top hitter of the 90s
September 18th, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Sadley the early discussion was just RHB Manny vs Big Hurt. All your choices are invalid. You are therefore eliminated. May God Have Mercy on your soul. You are awarded no points.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:46 PM
I’d say Griff Jr. used for sure
Dead to me.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Griffey made the single greatest defensive play I ever saw; he was majestic before he negative karma’d his career with his crybaby bullshit.
September 18th, 2012 at 12:55 PM
THome is the only clean slugger
September 18th, 2012 at 12:55 PM
When he grabbed that line-hopper barehanded to gun the runner down off that turf. Whoa. I was really young but holy amazing.
/Screw you, MLB advanced media.
September 18th, 2012 at 1:01 PM
this was 94 when his legs were still good. played up real shallow in a late inning. liner over his head. He just turned and raced back and got the catch, pivoted and threw a strike to third. all 1 clean motion. I was standing out on the home run porch in left in CLE.
September 18th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Scripty
Awesome. Wish I could see things like that, seeing as I was really young at that time. He was my favorite growing up. Stepmom even fought a lady for a bullpen jacket in 95 for my Christmas present one year. Not a M’s fan but I loved Griffey. That’s why I hate what MLB is doing with video.
September 18th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Next he will pretend the empty glass is his girlfriend, do an Eastwood on it, then slap it around.
September 18th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Well, Bayless hasn’t done anything stupid yet today, so this is a placeholder post.