Does anyone like this Jay Mariotti guy?

April 6th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Just picked up this interesting tidbit from the good folks over at Deadspin. Looks like Cubs president Andy MacPhail and White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf co-authored a letter to the Chicago Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank regarding the world’s most notorious columnist, Jay Mariotti.

Mr. Mariotti ripped Bud Selig’s supposed slow response to this whole steroid business in a recent column. MacPhail and Reinsdorf fired back saying that Mariotti ‘has made no effort to be the least bit informed on this important subject.’ And later, ‘If Mariotti would ever trouble himself to make a phone call, maybe he would get the story right.’

It may be a little difficult to side with MacPhail and Reinsdorf for defending baseball’s response to steroids, (and after reading their facts and evidence it’s pretty convincing the burden rested on the Player’s Association and not on Bud Selig) but either way, it’s nice to see the Cubs and Sox can at least agree on one thing – their hatred for Mr. Jay Mariotti.