Empty Notebook

I love the internet sometimes. If you’d like to fill your Jay Mariotti needs, then head to these sites.

Boise Wants Jay
Jay The Joke
Deadspin
Foul Balls

That’s right Jay… I’m blogging… right now. Are you scared? Is everything I’m writing false, just because this is a blog?

It’s press like you that make life for me in the “blogosphere” miserable. It’s guys like you that have the shortsightedness to want to deny interview requests to blogs and only give them to traditional media. It’s the Mariotti’s of the world that run to the blogs to get a scoop and then pretend like they have an inside info. You realize that your daily column with the Chicago Sun Times, is no different than a lot of blogs, right?

Yesterday, Jay, you talked about your fear of Olympic blogging, and how the athletes can’t be trusted to not start controversy from their blogs. Come on, Jay, people like you live for it, just so you have something to talk about on Around The Horn. I would think that blogs would help you come up with something more original than what I normally hear on ATH. Then again, maybe you are just following company policy. As Sports Media Watch pointed out in this article.

I deal with crap like this from FSU too, Jay. You’re not alone in your old-school-protect-thyself-from-the-big-bad-bloggers mentality. Sure bloggers aren’t traditional media, but then again, wise-cracking SportsCenter isn’t either. Neither is PTI or Around The Horn. What was the old saying? He’s got a face for radio? Mariotti, you’ve got a voice for print, buddy. Stay off the airwaves an let Woody Paige or J.A. get some more face time.