April 19, 200421 yr Here's the link: Mariotti And he concludes with this: If this had happened at U.S. Cellular Field, as White Sox radio host Dave Wills pointed out Sunday, there would be a civic outcry. Granted, we haven't seen a drunk rush onto the field at Wrigley and attack a coach or umpire, but maybe the day is coming. For that matter, if rookie Sox manager Ozzie Guillen had screwed up a double switch, wouldn't we be crucifying him? ''If that happened to me, oh, my God, I would be fired tomorrow,'' Guillen said over the weekend in Florida. Like it or not, a double standard exists in Chicago baseball. Five outs from a World Series last fall, the Cubs are expected to contend for a championship this season. So far, the task seems too big for them.
April 19, 200421 yr Can a leopard really change its spots? Or maybe Mariotti had a moment of clarity.
April 19, 200421 yr "we haven't seen a drunk rush onto the field at Wrigley and attack a coach or umpire..." NO, WE'VE ONLY SEEN ONE ATTACK A CUB PLAYER, RANDY MYERS, YOU DUMBf***!!!! f***ing selective memory makes me sick...
April 19, 200421 yr "we haven't seen a drunk rush onto the field at Wrigley and attack a coach or umpire..." NO, WE'VE ONLY SEEN ONE ATTACK A CUB PLAYER, RANDY MYERS, YOU DUMBf***!!!! f***ing selective memory makes me sick... Thank you Critic - you said what I was just thinking.
April 19, 200421 yr "we haven't seen a drunk rush onto the field at Wrigley and attack a coach or umpire..." NO, WE'VE ONLY SEEN ONE ATTACK A CUB PLAYER, RANDY MYERS, YOU DUMBf***!!!! f***ing selective memory makes me sick... And start a melee with the Dodger bullpen...
April 19, 200421 yr That is pretty damn amazing! I cant believe that ass cown said anything negative about his flubbies! wow.
April 19, 200421 yr If you remember, he was all over our bandwagon on Around the Horn when we were in first last year. He is just a bandwagoned asshole.
April 19, 200421 yr I appreciate the sentiment from Mariotti, it's quite a bold statement to say "there is a double standard" and the Ozzie quote is quality. But forgeting to mention the fact that Cubs fans 1. have also gone onto/gotten into fights on the field before as well, and 2. Cubs fans have been partly responsible for the Comiskey Park incidents that have given White Sox fans such negative press, means that Mariotti still is applying his said "double standard".
April 19, 200421 yr I've always believe Marriotti to call em like he sees them. IIRC he also slammed Sosa at times last season.
April 19, 200421 yr Maybe he's trying to get fired? He works for the Sun-Times, not the Cubune. Get fired from where and how?
April 19, 200421 yr Even if he is ripping the Cubs, he still takes time to take a jab at the White Sox and their fans with the rushing the field comment. I wonder if he even knows he has made a mistake with that comment. He is completely clueless and never listens to anyone else's opinion. He thinks his opinion is always correct and the only one that matters. He is a smug little dirty prick.
April 19, 200421 yr Even if he is ripping the Cubs, he still takes time to take a jab at the White Sox and their fans with the rushing the field comment. I wonder if he even knows he has made a mistake with that comment. He is completely clueless and never listens to anyone else's opinion. He thinks his opinion is always correct and the only one that matters. He is a smug little dirty prick.
April 19, 200421 yr I wonder if he even knows he has made a mistake with that comment. He is completely clueless and never listens to anyone else's opinion. He thinks his opinion is always correct and the only one that matters. He is a smug little dirty prick. which of about 100 posters here are you talking about
April 20, 200421 yr Even if he is ripping the Cubs, he still takes time to take a jab at the White Sox and their fans with the rushing the field comment. I wonder if he even knows he has made a mistake with that comment. He is completely clueless and never listens to anyone else's opinion. He thinks his opinion is always correct and the only one that matters. He is smug and has a little dirty prick. Sounds like he is talking about Tex
April 20, 200421 yr Here's the link: Mariotti And he concludes with this: Damn, I give props to Jay for coming out and calling it out and "telling it like it is". Man I love that Simpsons episode
April 20, 200421 yr That was an interesting article. SOme of you may not agree, but I sometimes find Mariotti enjoyable to listen to on the air. Maybe it's his "disgruntled about everything sports fan" ideal, but it certainly is better than listening to my geometry teacher yam on and on about math.
April 20, 200421 yr That was an interesting article. SOme of you may not agree, but I sometimes find Mariotti enjoyable to listen to on the air. Maybe it's his "disgruntled about everything sports fan" ideal, but it certainly is better than listening to my geometry teacher yam on and on about math. He isn't too bad on Around the Horn. Comes of much more knowledgable. Part of it is that he is paid to write columns that stir up some friction and such. So he'll do things that rile people up.
April 20, 200421 yr Sounds like he is talking about Tex Typical, you run and hide behind your or And this from a man who has posted 15,000 times how right he is . . .
April 20, 200421 yr Hello people! He's got a radio show on the Sox flagship! He even makes mention to Dave Wills. He may be "calling it like he sees it." But do you honestly think that without his radio show on 1000 he would have written this same article? Yeah, maybe, but he NEVER would have put in the part about the Sox. He's a Cub fan through and through. There's no change of heart here. He's just warning them to not give us fodder to criticize them with.
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