I don't know about any other White Sox fans out there, but I'm getting sick of hearing this guy Chicago Sports Reporter Mariotti trash them any chance he gets. What is it with him?
If you have heard Mariotti expound on all things, he takes small breaks from his politically liberal pounding of Bush, Rove et al. to make equally uninsightful insipid sports commentary. Apparently he did not appreciate his prior Chicago experience before slithering onto the national ESPN stage. So Chicago get the same as the President from him and his irritation with the city exudes from his being. As best I can tell, that would seem to be what this is about.
Ya, Mariotti makes his living out of manufacturing controversy. They've got paper to fill and its easy to cry and moan about an umps "blown call." Then whenever the fans dog him by email, he insults us further by insisting that fans should ignore him and watch the team.
Really, no body I know reads him. He's just the loudest of the squeaky wheels that make up the chicago baseball sports rags.
I'm thinking all this caviling will only hurt the Angels. Umps didn't do anything wrong and the Angels crying about the ump's "mechanics" (hand signals) is completely laughable. The catcher admits he never heard AJ "called out." But the manager and others insist he motioned a strike--funny thing is no way the catcher (a former Sox player) could see the motion. He assumed the call--and you know what happens if you assume.
Hey Mariotti, na na na na, na na na na, Sox win one, u lose.
Those of us who are Cub fans don't like him much, either.
Mariotti is about 4' 8, a good example of a person with a Napoleanic complex, and a moron. You know damn well he got his ass kicked all over the school yard back in the day.
Besides, he writes for the Sun-Times.