Round 2: The Douche Fights Back? It looks like Jay Mariotti has some fight in him (when no one's around) after all. The Sun-Times columnist we all love to hate struck back at critics and sent another shot across Ozzie's bow during an interview with WTTW-11's John Callaway.Mariotti: "Are the local media now brainwashed that every time Ozzie goes off it's 'Ozzie being Ozzie,' or are we dealing with one of the great crackpots in the history of professional sports? I happen to choose the latter."What would you call someone with an inflated sense of worth who refers to himself as Osama Sox Laden or threatens to punch and sue The Hawk?
Callaway: "That's what people would say about you."
Mariotti: "Not me."
Mariotti also had words for his Sun-Times colleagues and accused them of not fighting for the paper. He accused Joe Cowley of "[having] "issues" and writing "a 'pathetic' column after the Sox's blowup-doll controversy".
Rick Telander got some too.
"...Don't sit here and stereotype me. That's just a smear campaign from a guy who … if he calls me angry, I call him bitter and old. This is a fellow who needs to examine the newspaper business, where it is right now, where the Sun-Times is in this market and maybe get his act into gear and help us win this battle …"Can't you see Mariotti fighting all enemies of the newspaper business at Medieval Times in Schaumburg? His long, flowing mullet hanging out of his helmet. He's so Wallace. We can't wait until he starts referring to himself as the Paper Savior. He's a martyr like Gandhi and MLK. What exactly is he doing to help the Sun-Times "win the battle"? Bringing his personal, self-created beefs into the public spotlight? Passing off hyperbole as fact?
Check out Jay the Joke. They've been following the most recent back and forth including Mariotti's admission that he wouldn't take his comments up with Telander. Typical from probably the biggest coward in sports journalism.
