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Of all the Jay Mariotti moments we've chronicled around these parts, our favorite was when he complained to Wikipedia about all those negative words about his page. He is a very sensitive boy.
We also enjoyed Mariotti's appearance on "Costas Now" last week, ranting against sports radio as if it failed to meet the stringent intellectual standards of a Jay Mariotti column. But we don't want to stack the deck; that's a job for these guys.
We will never get enough of this picture, though.
So: Do you like the Jay Mariotti? Do you not like the Jay Mariotti? Let us know there.
Comments
First 100% disapproval rating? Someone should throw him a pity vote so that he doesn't complain to Will
Me thinks Billy Packer is about to get some company at the bottom of this list.
Oh man...this should be a bloodbath.
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
@BigTenObsession: We can make this happen if we all work together! Do it for Ozzie Bleepin' Guillen!
His hair looks like joke poo you can purchase at Spencer's Gifts.
some bullets on this guy? What'd he do?
Fire!
Now there is a haircut you can set your watch to.
-Barry Melrose
WTF?!? Who voted to approve? Show yourselves!
Seriously, doesn't he look like the kid in 1st grade who would eat his boogers and smell like pee?
nice teeth
Well, this should be a real nailbiter ...
@Chamomiles Davis: Yeah, no shit. My guess is he had his interns come vote.
Apparently his stylist voted for him.
I can hear Jay Mariotti's ghost vacuuming the apartment above me on Saturday nights. His fluent stroke and purposeful rhythm are comforting in a time where blogs are ruining the art of writing.
Disapprove, I suppose.
He's fucking Ben Affleck.
@Chamomiles Davis: His mom.
100% disapproval, plus Stat Guy just hit the Mute button, too.
He looks like LeBatard with a mullet and less sports knowledge. Which is difficult.
Four approvals so far. Has to be Jay, Woody Page, Stat Boy and Stat Boy's teeth.
gasbag on parade.
Disapprove
I look at that picture and hear him singing "Sunglasses at Night".
Good luck making it through this round, Jay.
Disapprove because he can't identify with a drunk, single, 26-year old guy rolling out of his bed to listen to sports radio.
I'm pretty sure I got so excited at the prospects of disapproving of Ol' Jay the Joke that I accidentally hit approve. So one is one me, I apologize.
Hey, this is hard work, all differentiating between words and shit...
His appearances on Around the Horn are used to torture insurgents in Baghdad.
Right now, Mariotti's running around the Sun-Times newsroom voting on every computer he can find ...
wait, did I say "running"? Scratch that.
Like I have to provide a reason for disapproval.
@sba:
Could be the next generation Rick Roll.
I know you have the power to make it so.
Stop voting "Approve." You're just making Mariotti less famous.
Did this post even need an Approve option? I'm not one for Russian elections but I think in this case it's apt.
@JFKFC: You voted in Palm Beach in 2000, didn't you?
He comparatively makes me look good. Approve.
And as I clicked on the "disapprove" button, a shiver ran down my spine as I realized, this wasn't about Mariotti.
This was about every asshat who appears on "Around the Horn".
/Mariotti-ized
The worst. THE. WORST.
"Last time I saw mouth with lips like that it had a hook through it."
Just another sportswriter Will is trying to get fired.
How should I vote? I hate his writing and his tv work, but damnit do I love that picture. I laugh every time I see it.
Looks like his dad has voted 15 times.
Five bucks to the first stated approval
I could have sworn we have voted on Mariotti before.
Looks too much like Jay Sherman.
It stinks!
Disapprove.
@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Why yes, you are correct. And not surprisingly, I am a retired orthodontist from Yonkers named Herschel Lebowitz. I love Boca this time of year...
Whoever votes approve should get their commenting privelages revoked.
@Suss--: Clearly he has naked pictures of you gangbanging a mexican minor.
@sba: Yes, it should. It really should.
@Christmas Ape:
How it go, Ape?
Approve. I find his columns insightful and thought provoking. A great read all around and a beacon to modern sports journalism. - Buzz Bissinger
21 people (and counting) have been paid by Mariotti to vote approve.
@EditorOfTheDailyFaberian:
I hope that's where the approve votes are coming from.
Ozzie Guillen has voted twenty times in the affirmative? What a jokester.
@Doyle McPoyle: +1
Especially when he does that stupid finger swipe chalk-one-up move. I wish I could vote disapprove 1000 times for that alone.
He's a fag.
Dissapprove
//In my country, you call someone something like that and it is not the same as it is in this country."
@JFKFC: Well you better get going, you've only got about two hours until the buffet line opens.
The Good: Possibly didn't start the AIDS epedemic.
The Bad: Everything else.
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: I know a chimp who would say otherwise.
@RachelRayIsTheDevil: The awkward part is they were taken by Clemens.
@Master of Karate and Friendship: He has also read all of W.C. Heinz's work.
@TheStarterWife: that would be Dan "Miami Marrioti" leBatard
Unless Joeseph Goebbels gets nominated for the media approval ratings, I don't think we'll see a lower mark.
Only I could mis-spell Joseph.
@MoBot: Way to evoke the feeeling of what it's like to place a vote. W.C. Heinz would be proud.
The 25 people who have voted "Approve" should start wearing their helmets to bed.
@Schluby: Jhospeh would be the approved misspelling for the day.
Ranks a shade below Mike Lupica on the all-time most annoying journalists countdown. In other words, the second-worst of all time.