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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mariotti: Ozzie talks about quitting? Crybaby can’t take the heat

YESTERDAY a teenage rebel! TODAY a mad-dog slayer! TOMORROW a bloodthirsty zombie badmouther! SEE “CRY BABY KILLER”...TODAY!

Like the spitball-shooting, booger-nosed jerk in junior high, Ozzie Guillen can dish out the abuse but can’t take it. It was easy enough last week, in all his First Amendment glory, to fire a new load of F-bombs at his targets. Oh, how good he felt when he zinged White Sox fans for their demanding standards, the Chicago media for supposedly adoring the Cubs and Lou Piniella—I still can’t get over this one—for being “[bleeped] up.”

Yet when it was time for his targets to react—Sox fans pleading for silence, clear-thinking media urging him to get a life, even his national defenders voicing disgust about Ozzie Fatigue—the poor babe huddled with his wife on the phone and talked about taking his official MLB-licensed straitjacket and going home.

“I’m done with this job after this season,” Guillen said to himself.

What the man-child wants, apparently, is a one-sided dialogue with the world. He’d like a system in which he speaks his mind rudely and crudely while the rest of us nod our heads and accept his every perverse, idiotic comment as gospel. Needless to say, if civilization began and ended with Guillen, you’d basically have what Will Smith found in “I Am Legend.” Except Ozzie, after badmouthing the bloodthirsty zombies, would start running when they attacked him.

Repoz Posted: May 14, 2008 at 11:30 AM | 19 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Tricky Dick Posted: May 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM (#2780144)
official MLB-licensed straitjacket

The only think I found funny in the column.

Something tells me that "Ozzie Fatigue" could be accompanied by "Mariotti Fatigue."
   2. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: May 14, 2008 at 12:52 PM (#2780151)
What's a "booger-nosed" jerk? Who among us isn't "booger-nosed?" Are there some of us whose bodies can't manufacture snot and are non-booger-nosed? This feels redundant.
   3. dcsmyth1 Posted: May 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM (#2780159)
He means that the boogers are visible to others. We've all seen people like that. Eew.
   4. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: May 14, 2008 at 01:09 PM (#2780168)
clear-thinking media urging him to get a life

Clear-thinking what now?
   5. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: May 14, 2008 at 01:14 PM (#2780176)
"What the man-child wants, apparently, is a one-sided dialogue with the world."

No, Jay. It's just that, like all clear-thinking people in any walk of life, he doesn't want to have to talk with you.
   6. jwb Posted: May 14, 2008 at 01:34 PM (#2780200)
"What the man-child wants, apparently, is a one-sided dialogue with the world."

When did Mariotti start referring to himself in the third person?
   7. hscs Posted: May 14, 2008 at 02:03 PM (#2780240)
What the man-child wants, apparently, is a one-sided dialogue with the world.

Yep, still no comments at the bottom of Jay's column, and a generic Sun-Times email address that probably goes nowhere.
   8. spike Posted: May 14, 2008 at 02:56 PM (#2780309)
You'd think it was impossible to turn Ozzie into a sympathetic figure, but I guess I misunderestimated the power of a Famous Upstairs Journalism School graduate.
   9. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: May 14, 2008 at 03:20 PM (#2780348)
Seriously, why does Mariotti have a job? He's not interesting, insightful, funny or entertaining. Is there something else that he actually does that warrants a paycheck?
   10. Smiling Joe Hesketh Posted: May 14, 2008 at 03:37 PM (#2780385)
Things Mariotti calls Ozzie in this article:

Crybaby
spitball-shooting, booger-nosed jerk
poor babe
man-child
a wayward patient on a couch
skin thinner than a hot-dog wrapper
the Blizzard of Oz
a crazed, bitter man

Holy smokes. Who's the crazed bitter man again?
   11. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: May 14, 2008 at 03:49 PM (#2780407)
#### Mariotti. I'm canceling my neighbor's Sun-Times subscription.
   12. RobertMachemer Posted: May 14, 2008 at 03:51 PM (#2780408)
Just make it clear when you cancel that it's because of Mariotti.
   13. The Piehole of David Wells, Depends Salesman Posted: May 14, 2008 at 04:26 PM (#2780442)
see, this is the problem with the internet blogs and forums. there are no editorial standards and you people can write anything you want about scrupulous, hard-working, morally upright, intelligent and insightful mediots. jay mariotti has been vetted by the media machine and we should bow down before him.
   14. Jimmy P Posted: May 14, 2008 at 04:31 PM (#2780444)
Seriously, why does Mariotti have a job? He's not interesting, insightful, funny or entertaining. Is there something else that he actually does that warrants a paycheck?

You read the article? There you go.
   15. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: May 14, 2008 at 04:31 PM (#2780446)
You read the article? There you go.


No, I learned long ago not to click on Mariotti suntimes.com links. I did read the blurb at the top of this page.

Needless to say, if civilization began and ended with Guillen, you’d basically have what Will Smith found in “I Am Legend.” Except Ozzie, after badmouthing the bloodthirsty zombies, would start running when they attacked him.


Sentence 1: Ozzie would be one of the zombies found by Will Smith.
Sentence 2: Ozzie would be Will Smith getting attacked by the zombies.

The premise really wasn't that complicated.
   16. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: May 14, 2008 at 04:48 PM (#2780471)
Ozzie Guillen can dish out the abuse but can’t take it.

Jay Mariotti. Said this. Jay Mariotti. Holy.
   17. Earvin 'Gold Stars' Johnson Posted: May 14, 2008 at 04:58 PM (#2780479)
Crybaby
spitball-shooting, booger-nosed jerk
poor babe
man-child
a wayward patient on a couch
skin thinner than a hot-dog wrapper
the Blizzard of Oz
a crazed, bitter man


Read it and weep, Buzz.
   18. hscs Posted: May 14, 2008 at 05:44 PM (#2780526)
True story: Jay also blamed Ozzie Guillen for D'Antoni signing with New York.
   19. Petuniaviles Posted: May 14, 2008 at 11:00 PM (#2781030)
I knew when I saw this headline that there'd be some good material in the comments. I love this website.

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