[NU Sports] Mariotti web site

Tue Jun 27 15:32:13 CDT 2006

Ozzie is just one of a long line of folks who have succumbed to the
temptation of mud-wrestling with Jay Mariotti.  Mariotti has made a
lucrative career out of calling people out and then running for cover when
they respond.  It's the same sort of "look at me" marketing that has worked
so well for everyone from Madonna to TomKat.  

Jay makes money selling newspapers. Controversy sells newspapers.  So if Jay
doesn't have any controversy to report on, he is happy to create it by
making something up.

The downside of all of this is that because of people like Jay, truly
colorful characters like Ozzie can't continue to speak their mind.  I think
Ozzie knows that he will likely suffer the same fate as Ditka and will
eventually get run out of town by the media.

We don't, after all, ask our heroes to post public statements of their
political opinions.  We just expect them to win.  Ozzie (unlike his
northside counterpart) has figured out how to do that. For that he will be
worshiped in Chicago because Chicago loves winners.  Unfortunately, just
like Ditka, Chicago will also seek out his opinion on everything else.  The
problem is that the public will have the same expectations that his opinions
on race relations somehow are going to be as enlightened as his opinions on
relief pitching.  He will eventually express enough opinions to upset enough
people that those that worshiped him for his success on the field will
condemn him because he doesn't share their political views.  It will no
longer matter how many baseball games his team won.  He will no longer be
welcome in Chicago.

As far as your misplaced loyalties, I will refrain from criticizing the
masochistic fetish that is being a Cub's fan.  Chicago is slowly discovering
that there is a difference between soap opera and baseball.  Though I doubt
that those addicted to the Cubs will ever recover, you've already discovered
that the next generation of baseball fans prefer the Sox.  When attendance
finally reflects that fact, the transformation will be complete.  Only then,
when the cash cow has died, will the Cubs be forced to make winning rather
than whining their first priority.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:20 PM
To: 'Ben Adler'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site

No, Ozzie bought "jaythe[something you can get in trouble for calling
someone].com".  :) Honestly, I had heard snippets about a Guillen-Mariotti
feud over the past few days but never heard what started it.  I did a little
research today and found out.  Two interesting points I noticed from the
blog entries (deadspin.com and jaythejoke.com):

1)  It seems that most of the public hatred is being directed at Mariotti,
when he was the target of Ozzie's outburst.  People don't seem to be as
riled up about what Ozzie said as I might expect.

2)  Here's an excerpt from a Phil Arvia column in the Daily Southtown:

"In the span of 102 seconds, Guillen leveled 25 words one generally cannot
read in a family newspaper at the Sun-Times' Jay Mariotti.

For those scoring at home, there were 14 variations of the f-word, five
s-words, three a-words, a b-word, a G.D. and the straw that broke the
camel's back, a three-letter reference either to Mariotti's sexuality or
British slang for a cigarette."

Is no one complaining about the other 24 vulgarities?

Because the White Sox are the natural enemies of both my AL team (the Twins)
and my NL team (the Cubs), of course it follows that they are my least
favorite team and I root hard for them to lose all of the time--the single
exception being in last season's World Series, in which I wanted them to
uphold the honor of the AL Central--and Guillen as manager makes it that
much easier.  FWIW, one of my four-year-old son's favorite playmates
(probably his favorite) is the four-year-old son of one of our best NU
friends (my wife's former apartment-mate and sorority sister) and her
husband.  Both parents grew up in a town southwest of Chicago, and live in
that vicinity now, so unfortunately we only get to see them a couple of
times a year.  They came to visit us for a long weekend last month, and my
son's friend showed up wearing *gasp* a White Sox cap.  I still let my son
play with him, though, and allowed their family to stay at our home anyway,
despite some personal discomfort (he did take the hat off inside the house).
Just to let you know how magnanimous I can be.  ;)

-Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Ben Adler
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:46 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site

Did Ozzie Guillen buy the domain name?

Jonathan Michael Hawkins <spiritu at northwestern.edu> wrote:  LOL!

Here's the Trib article that let the city know about this incredibly amusing
web site:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-0606270164jun27,1
,1156673.story?coll=chi-sportsnew-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Jonathan

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, MHRJGScott at aol.com wrote:
> Dedicated to the hatred of all things Mariotti:
> jaythejoke.com

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