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Spotlight on Jay Mariotti
"...he spent 16 years at the Chicago Sun-Times, he was known to a national audience via ESPN's show Around The Horn where participants were brought on to spout nonsense and get into shouting matches—"
"...Dan LeBatard called Mariotti, in a Big Lead column that somewhat defended him, a "cartoon caricature" of sports pundits and said he was "loud, judgmental and wagging a parental, castigating and for-profit finger at the behavior of all those beneath him.
*gsgs comment- Jay M would fit in with many who are at FOX right now.*
Article title-
JAY THE RAT
- Roger Ebert
August 28, 2008
Dear Jay,
"What an ugly way to leave the Sun-Times. It does not speak well for you. Your timing was exquisite. You signed a new contract, waited until days after the newspaper had paid for your trip to Beijing at great cost, and then resigned with only an email."
"Times are hard in the newspaper business, and for the economy as a whole. Did you only sign on for the luxury cruise? "
"You managed to stay here through the dark days of the thieves Conrad Black and David Radler. The paper lost millions. Incredibly, we are still paying Black's legal fees."
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/jay-the-rat
March 6, 2015
Jay Mariotti joins The San Francisco Examiner as sports director and columnist.
2010
A domestic abuse incident and accusations of stalking his ex-girlfriend made Mariotti disappear from the sports media grid, leading him to lose his ESPN gig and getting suspended from AOL.
Why did he plead no contest ?
Jay M is saying good-bye to Los Angeles and Sports Talk Florida.
How does Jay M feel about President Obama ?
*gsgs comment- WTF is this nonsense ?*
"Obamacare has become such a tragicomical farce that actor Zach Galifianakis, in some semi-coherent form, was used to educate young people about signing up."
Jay M quotes Rand Paul
“The first African-American president ought to be a little more conscious of the fact of what has happened with the abuses of domestic spying.”
-Rand Paul
"Yet the various crises of his job didn’t stop Barack Obama from spending a portion of his presidential work week with an NCAA tournament
"Do you know the names of Arizona’s two best players? I knew only one, Aaron Gordon, before thinking hard and remembering Nick Johnson. The President of the United States knew their names."
"Was he prepped by an aide? I wish I could say yes, but the man watches this stuff, studies this stuff, bones up so much on college basketball and all sports that his passion begs a question."
"Shouldn’t the POTUS be devoting his time and energy to more urgent matters?"
"Never have we seen an American President so immersed in sports. That might not be relevant if Obama, in the eyes of many Americans, also wasn’t among this nation’s most ineffective and inert leaders. "
"It’s one thing to invite championship teams into the backyard to honor them, quite another to know enough about North Dakota State to forecast a second-round upset of Oklahoma."
"Didn’t he (President Obama ) have more important things to do than watch me yell at Woody Paige for flubbing a name?"
"A president should have hobbies and diversions from a hellish job, I realize. But during his two terms, Obama sometimes has seemed preoccupied, if not obsessed."
"I met Obama when he was a junior state senator in Illinois and I was a Chicago sports columnist. I also might be one reason why he has his current job. At one point, he faced a daunting race against a Republican challenger named Mike Ditka. "
(Speaking at the grand opening ceremony in North Dakota’s Oil Patch, Ditka said the "biggest mistake I’ve ever made" was not running against Obama for Illinois' Senate seat in 2004. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/mike-ditka-obama-biggest-mistake_n_4073270.html)
"No one is more popular in those parts than Da Coach, but one day, knowing how sleazy politics can be (particularly in that state), I wrote a column urging Ditka to reconsider based on lies and embellishments that might be spread about his private life. Days later, Ditka bowed out. Instead of losing and fading away, Obama won."
"So blame me for President Sports Geek."
http://www.sportstalkflorida.com/barack-etology-where-are-obamas-priorities/
Mariotti joins the San Francisco Media Company, which owns both the Examiner and SF Weekly, who is not-so-secretly shuffling its deck behind the scenes. They fired SF Weekly editor Brandon Reynolds in January and are now also dealing with the departure of food editor Anna Roth on Friday.
Sources tell Eater that the Weekly had become an "increasingly toxic environment." In October, the SFMC shuttered the Bay Guardian after 48 years of publication.
http://sfist.com/2015/03/07/terrible_human_being_jay_mariotti_h.php
"...he spent 16 years at the Chicago Sun-Times, he was known to a national audience via ESPN's show Around The Horn where participants were brought on to spout nonsense and get into shouting matches—"
"...Dan LeBatard called Mariotti, in a Big Lead column that somewhat defended him, a "cartoon caricature" of sports pundits and said he was "loud, judgmental and wagging a parental, castigating and for-profit finger at the behavior of all those beneath him.
*gsgs comment- Jay M would fit in with many who are at FOX right now.*
Article title-
JAY THE RAT
- Roger Ebert
August 28, 2008
Dear Jay,
"What an ugly way to leave the Sun-Times. It does not speak well for you. Your timing was exquisite. You signed a new contract, waited until days after the newspaper had paid for your trip to Beijing at great cost, and then resigned with only an email."
"Times are hard in the newspaper business, and for the economy as a whole. Did you only sign on for the luxury cruise? "
"You managed to stay here through the dark days of the thieves Conrad Black and David Radler. The paper lost millions. Incredibly, we are still paying Black's legal fees."
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/jay-the-rat
March 6, 2015
Jay Mariotti joins The San Francisco Examiner as sports director and columnist.
2010
A domestic abuse incident and accusations of stalking his ex-girlfriend made Mariotti disappear from the sports media grid, leading him to lose his ESPN gig and getting suspended from AOL.
Why did he plead no contest ?
Jay M is saying good-bye to Los Angeles and Sports Talk Florida.
How does Jay M feel about President Obama ?
*gsgs comment- WTF is this nonsense ?*
"Obamacare has become such a tragicomical farce that actor Zach Galifianakis, in some semi-coherent form, was used to educate young people about signing up."
Jay M quotes Rand Paul
“The first African-American president ought to be a little more conscious of the fact of what has happened with the abuses of domestic spying.”
-Rand Paul
"Yet the various crises of his job didn’t stop Barack Obama from spending a portion of his presidential work week with an NCAA tournament
"Do you know the names of Arizona’s two best players? I knew only one, Aaron Gordon, before thinking hard and remembering Nick Johnson. The President of the United States knew their names."
"Was he prepped by an aide? I wish I could say yes, but the man watches this stuff, studies this stuff, bones up so much on college basketball and all sports that his passion begs a question."
"Shouldn’t the POTUS be devoting his time and energy to more urgent matters?"
"Never have we seen an American President so immersed in sports. That might not be relevant if Obama, in the eyes of many Americans, also wasn’t among this nation’s most ineffective and inert leaders. "
"It’s one thing to invite championship teams into the backyard to honor them, quite another to know enough about North Dakota State to forecast a second-round upset of Oklahoma."
"Didn’t he (President Obama ) have more important things to do than watch me yell at Woody Paige for flubbing a name?"
"A president should have hobbies and diversions from a hellish job, I realize. But during his two terms, Obama sometimes has seemed preoccupied, if not obsessed."
"I met Obama when he was a junior state senator in Illinois and I was a Chicago sports columnist. I also might be one reason why he has his current job. At one point, he faced a daunting race against a Republican challenger named Mike Ditka. "
(Speaking at the grand opening ceremony in North Dakota’s Oil Patch, Ditka said the "biggest mistake I’ve ever made" was not running against Obama for Illinois' Senate seat in 2004. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/mike-ditka-obama-biggest-mistake_n_4073270.html)
"No one is more popular in those parts than Da Coach, but one day, knowing how sleazy politics can be (particularly in that state), I wrote a column urging Ditka to reconsider based on lies and embellishments that might be spread about his private life. Days later, Ditka bowed out. Instead of losing and fading away, Obama won."
"So blame me for President Sports Geek."
http://www.sportstalkflorida.com/barack-etology-where-are-obamas-priorities/
Mariotti joins the San Francisco Media Company, which owns both the Examiner and SF Weekly, who is not-so-secretly shuffling its deck behind the scenes. They fired SF Weekly editor Brandon Reynolds in January and are now also dealing with the departure of food editor Anna Roth on Friday.
Sources tell Eater that the Weekly had become an "increasingly toxic environment." In October, the SFMC shuttered the Bay Guardian after 48 years of publication.
http://sfist.com/2015/03/07/terrible_human_being_jay_mariotti_h.php
Obama would have wiped the floor with Ditka. I guess if Ditka had really wanted that spot--after Obama moved on--he could have paid Blagojevich, who BTW, is still serving a 14-year prison term. 
