What’s Going On Eviscerates Jay Mariotti

By Kevin Schroeder
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Updated: September 2, 2016

I wasn’t going to blog this originally because I didn’t have a ton to say about it and figured I could get the point across in a few tweets, but then I decided that the best possible thing to do here was to use this as blog material, so here it is. Thursday night, noted woman beater and guy who hasn’t been relevant in years Jay Mariotti tweeted this out:

Yo, bloggers:
We make millions. You make nickels.
We make intellectual impact. You serve stoners and bankrupt web goofs.
We write. You type

— Jay Mariotti (@MariottiSports) September 2, 2016

This is some of the smarmiest yelling at clouds I’ve ever seen. Doofus continued:

As bloggers fill my notifications tank — I don’t read them — be advised that you are a part of an experiment for my book.

— Jay Mariotti (@MariottiSports) September 2, 2016

See the problem there? Well then, you’re not alone.

@MariottiSports So you’re going to take them from your notifications tank, unread, to the remainder bin, still unread?

— Matt Terl (@matt_terl) September 2, 2016

@MariottiSports How the fuck are you gonna write a book about our replies if you don’t read them?

— John Malloy (@JMall95) September 2, 2016

Then the moron played himself one more time.

Book experiment: “A Night With Twitter Trolls”
Serious issues, fun stories, tributes — moderate interest.
Blogger criticism — off charts.

— Jay Mariotti (@MariottiSports) September 2, 2016

Mariotti’s “serious” articles don’t move the needle because most people figured out he’s a dope long ago and have quit paying attention to him. That is, until he goes on Twitter and begs for people to call him a dope. Jay Mariotti hasn’t been relevant since he left Chicago, and good riddance there. Mariotti was the biggest clown to ever pollute Chicago media, and that’s saying quite a bit considering some of the morons employed by the city’s traditional media outlets. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Chicago’s the greatest city in the world. Chicago is the greatest sports city in the world. But man, we have some real idiots in the sports media here. And here is where blogs come in: traditional media has become mostly a series of hot take factories. Today, it’s blogs that are providing the most substantive sports analysis. Mariotti’s claim that “real journalists” make intellectual impact is only not a load of crap because a negative impact is still an impact. There are a handful of quality sportswriters here (Mark Potash, Chris Kuc, Patrick Finley, and Mark Lazerus to name a few off the top of my head), but as a whole, when comparing the quality of content, the blogosphere is ahead and it’s not close. To put a bow on things:

.@MariottiSports you’re slightly more popular than butt finder dot com and way less popular than a poop sending site pic.twitter.com/4nO3hyvdwH

— Dave Septemberkowitz (@davelozo) September 2, 2016

@MariottiSports you have to be the least self-aware person on the internet. And that’s saying something.

— Sean Coyle (@seanpcoyle) September 2, 2016