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Most of the blogosphere has been waiting with baited breath as we imagine a world where Jay Mariotti has no place to type or blather for our annoyance. That day has finally come, as Mariotti has been suspended indefinitely by his employers ESPN and AOL Fanhouse after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend Saturday morning near their apartment complex. We can finally bid Jay’s smarmy face adieu from our television screens and make fun of Bill Plaschke’s inability to pronounce simple words in peace like I’ve always dreamed.
Says an AOL Fanhouse representative to SI’s Richard Deitsch, “We are continuing to gather all the facts. In the meantime, we have suspended Jay Mariotti and are not featuring any new work from him.”
From Sports By Brooks comes more news:
Mariotti was arrested and charged with felony domestic assault in L.A. on Saturday morning after an alleged altercation with his girlfriend. The police report from the incident has not yet been made public by the Los Angeles Police Dept. Sources told me today that the Around The Horn panelist appearance schedule is drawn only a week in advance.
That said, I’ve been advised that Mariotti’s legal troubles were indeed relevant to his not being assigned to the show next week. Meanwhile, the move by AOL Fanhouse comes in light of website commenters posting indelicate reactions to Mariotti’s arrest on many of his archived columns on the website.
So there you have it! Jay Mariotti has finally done himself in. And to think I always thought it’d happen because he’d get killed by an unruly bar patron pissed off by how much Mariotti was lurking on people. And hey, who knows; he could still be playing Around the Horn in jail. Unfortunately for him, the rules are going to be quite different, if you know what I mean.
Ozzie Guillen is just surprised that this faggot had a girlfriend.
I grew up in Chicago reading him, and hating him, yet on ATH I did enjoy his presence as someone with some kind of fire versus the other bland cuntbarfs. I feel for him, I see him as a sad lonely dude, and I wish him well as yelling about sports was his only outlet to humanity as he is such a goof in reality he has no friends or people to talk/relate to. Best wishes Jay, I don’t root against anyone in life, it’s far too short and a waste of precious time, if you learned this you’d be happier as well and feel more fulfilled. Now Jim Rome, that miserable faggot can catch a load of Magic Johnson’s hiv juice in his sloppy cunt
Wayne took the high road. I, however, am not so noble.
This piece of chicken shit deserves every bad thing that comes his way. I hope he goes to county and someone from the “City of Weak Shoulders” shows him just how weak his rectum is. Fuck you, Mariotti.
You can put it on the parole boooooooard……….YES!!!!!!
I did enjoy seeing Ebert so happy about Mariotti’s arrest, I bet Roger had a huge smile after hearing the news, I mean if he could
i am not a mariotti fan but roger ebert can go fuck himself too. hes made a lot of money by trashing other peoples work. he didnt have the talent to make movies himself. screw ebert.
During the Ricky Williams 30 for 30, a clip of Mariotti tearing into Ricky like Ricky had punched his girlfriend or something like that. Calling him the lowest form of human being. Now Mariotti would have to jump real high to reach the bottom a low human being!
I always thought Jay was wishy-washy. I also thought he as more wrong than right and on Around The Horn, you can watch him glance to the side or down while reading stats. I think that he took Around the Horn much more seriously than the other sports writer. I am not sorry for him, because if he did beat his girlfriend then he deserves the punishment that goes with it, to include losing his job. I guess he gots so wrapped up in sports, he started to imitate some of the athletes behavior. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t bat .300, he doesn’t have a 90MPH fast ball, he can’t dunk, he can’t run a 4/40. Therefore, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt, you get fired. He wanted fame and now he has it.. Icarus flew too close to the sun also (my Dennis Miller moment).
@enrico pallazzo. Spoken like a greasy wetback.