That is not to rip on Reali, at all; clearly, he brings something to the table that others don't. The guy is 29 years old, and has a different mentality. Someone's obviously listening. And it's not just because he's pals with Kornheiser.

It sure beats researching facts on "Two Minute Drill."

So: Do you like the Tony Reali? Do you not like the Tony Reali? Let us know.

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We enjoyed the countless emails we received yesterday informing us that "Around The Horn" host Tony Reali — an affable fellow whom we imagine being ultra intense about rec league softball, for some reason — yelled out "don't take my Deadspin away from me" at the end of the program yesterday. (Shockingly, we didn't watch the show. Really!) But we actually enjoyed more Jay Mariotti's rant that led to the comment. Basically, Mariotti was saying that athletes blogging from the Olympic Village next year is a terrible thing because, apparently, the mere act of blogging will turn them into vampires out to suck the soul of an unsuspecting populace.

Jay, we've been over this with you before, but let's do it again ... slowly. Blogs themselves are not inherently negative creations; they are simply a new — not all that new, actually — medium for communication. The reason you think they're negative is because you only read what blogs say about you. And that's always negative. Why is that always negative? Because they're talking about you. Because you're Jay Mariotti, and there is nothing positive to say about you. (OK: We kind of like your eye shadow. That's positive!) If there were another medium as easy for people to communicate as blogs, it would be used to say negative things about you as well. It's not a problem with the medium, Jay; it's just you.

But there we go, just making Jay more famous again.

You Need Jay Mariotti On That Wall [Deadspin]

(We're pretty certain this video's gonna be taken down by noon, by the way.)

The final two? You can probably guess. Stuart Scott vs. Skip Bayless. Bayless just hung on to defeat Stephen A. Smith in the Final Four, while Scott cruised past "Around the Horn"'s Tony Reali. We'd do a handicapping post on this, but, honestly, in a contest like this, everyone's a winner.

This One's For All The Marbles [Braves Beat]

· Skip Bayless. Hammered Larry Bowa, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler. In the Final Four, faces ...
· Stephen A. Smith. Destroyed Michael Irvin. No small feat.
· Jay Mariotti. Somehow beat Dick Vitale.

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The Road From Bristol [BravesBeat]