Latest Mariotti article is right on..

[YearofDaCubs]

http://suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay28.html

[gflore34]

Indeed it is, one of rare occassions Mariotti makes sense and a good point.

[swordsman]

Jay makes a lot of assumptions and paints alot of pictures there that he really doesn't support with any facts. He does a nice job of making himself look good by juxtaposing his bout with hate mail and the media's telling of Dusty's. You can be sure that if someone else had written an article about Jay's hate mail the story would not have been told as he did.

 

I still don't see the copout or the whining or shirkingof responsibility the rest of you and Jay do in this stroy line. I must have missed a meeting.

 

Please be clear, I think Dusty should not be the manager of Cubs.

[MustangMike]

http://suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay28.html

 

Does he have a word minimium in his contract for the following words when writing about the cubs:

 

billy goat

98 years of futility

cubdom

 

 

I can't stand Jay...don't care what he writes about.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

It is a very rare, but well-written article by Mariotti.

[swordsman]

It is a very rare, but well-written article by Mariotti.

 

Well-written or true and correct? I'm not sure i agree with either, but I'm just curious which you meant.

[ToupeeOnFire]

http://suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay28.html

 

Does he have a word minimium in his contract for the following words when writing about the cubs:

 

billy goat

98 years of futility

cubdom

 

 

I can't stand Jay...don't care what he writes about.

You forgot: "Tribster".

[CUBZ99]

It is a very rare, but well-written article by Mariotti.

 

Well-written or true and correct? I'm not sure i agree with either, but I'm just curious which you meant.

 

All of the above. Dusty loves to play the whole "us against them game" whenever things are going wrong. He did it with the announcers the other year and this year he is trying to make everyone feel sorry for him about his hate mail.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

It is a very rare, but well-written article by Mariotti.

 

Well-written or true and correct? I'm not sure i agree with either, but I'm just curious which you meant.

 

I'd say both. I don't often agree with Mariotti, but I definitely think he has a grasp on this situation. I think his article would have been stronger if he had left his personal experience out of it, but I think he did a nice job with the topic.

 

I think he's interpreted Dusty's motives in this issue very well.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I have now enjoyed reading Mariotti twice in one season. I feel dirty.

[swordsman]

It is a very rare, but well-written article by Mariotti.

 

Well-written or true and correct? I'm not sure i agree with either, but I'm just curious which you meant.

 

I'd say both. I don't often agree with Mariotti, but I definitely think he has a grasp on this situation. I think his article would have been stronger if he had left his personal experience out of it, but I think he did a nice job with the topic.

 

I think he's interpreted Dusty's motives in this issue very well.

 

The notion of Dusty's motives here, I guess, is important. Did I miss an article or report that showed that Dusty shopped this story around until he found someone who would tell his tale of woe? It seems just as likely that the story grew more organically than that and that it isn't a case of Dusty "making excuses" but rather just answering questions and a writer trying to tell accurate facts in a compelling, provocative and interesting way.

 

If a reporter had asked Jay M "Hey Jay, did you ever get any response from fans about that whole Ozzie calling you a [expletive] thing?" and Jay responded exactly as he did in his article...

 

"I was subjected to national attention after Ozzie Guillen, the White Sox manager, referred to me as ''a [bleeping] [expletive]'' in late June. My mailbag, so to speak, was a hodgepodge of reaction. There was a fair share of hatred, mostly from Sox fans who defended their maligned manager and weren't sophisticated enough to grasp what Guillen had done wrong. A handful of goofs stooped low and fired homophobic and ethnic slurs. But refreshingly, I found the majority of non-Sox fans to be focusing on Guillen's ignorance -- and questioning why some members of the Chicago media would defend him."

 

You can bet the writer would focus more on the "hatred from Sox fans" than the "majority of non-sox fans focusing on Guillens ignorance" and we would all be pointing and laughing at "crybaby Jay".

 

That would not be an accurate or reasonable reason to hate on Jay M either especially when there are so many other more compelling and acurate reasons to do so...kinda like Dusty.

[frostwyrm]

Dusty gets no sympathy from me if he is trying to play the race card to save his job. He ought to remember that his race is the only reason he still has his job because his comments re hot weather and black/latin people would certainly have gotten a white man fired.

[NCCubFan]

I have now enjoyed reading Mariotti twice in one season. I feel dirty.

You can atone for that by not enjoying any of his columns next year. :D

[soccer10k]

There was a fair share of hatred, mostly from Sox fans who defended their maligned manager and weren't sophisticated enough to grasp what Guillen had done wrong.

 

I love this line.

 

And I think this was a well written article as well.

[Andy]

Dusty gets no sympathy from me if he is trying to play the race card to save his job. He ought to remember that his race is the only reason he still has his job because his comments re hot weather and black/latin people would certainly have gotten a white man fired.

I don't know, I think Dusty's rep would have kept him there. Note Fisher DeBerry, who also was a tenured coach with a track record of success.

[Yeti]

am i the only one that noticed that mariotti is really lobbying for lou Piniella?

[stitchface]

we try to ignore the stupidity part of the article.