Ozzie Guillen Is Playing Schedenfruede At Second Over Jay Mariotti’s Departure From Chicago

For those who haven’t had the displeasure of reading ex-Chicago Sun Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti’s work, just imagine the ramblings of a drunk uncle combined with the ramblings of a guy who thinks he knows everything mixed in with a little Tim McCarver and put it in print. So the fact that he recently quit his column at the Sun Times has plenty of people in chi-Town extremely happy. However, no one may be happier than Ozzie Guillen who, regardless of helming the most successful franchise in Chicago since the Jordan-era Bulls, has felt the wrath of Mariotti on an obscene level.

”Am I enjoying this? Yes, because he tried to make my life miserable. He did everything in his power to make my life go the wrong way, but he didn’t make me miserable because I don’t believe him. Maybe if somebody else wrote that stuff about me, then I would put attention on it. And that’s what he wanted. He wanted attention.

He has to thank me because I gave him a lot of [stuff] to work with. I know I helped him the last four years to make his money, and, obviously, he did not help me at all to make my money.”

Oh, don’t look at it that way, Ozzie. Sure you’ve got a competitive spirit, but everyone needs a jerk to show up. It just makes blinding them with rings a lot sweeter.
Sox on Mariotti’s split: ‘It’s about time’ [Chicago Sun Times]
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