Jay Mariotti Arrested for Hypocrisy

Saturday morning ESPN personality and lead columnist for AOL’s Fanhouse Jay Mariotti was arrested on domestic violence charges stemming from an incident at an LA Bar Friday night.

Mariotti allegedly knocked his girlfriend around after she was allegedly flirting with another man at the bar.

If you don’t know Jay Mariotti’s work, he is one of the most vitriolic writers towards athletes’ misdeeds on and off the field. So it’s not surprising that his sportswriter brethren have put forward their own vitriolic rage at Mariotti and have taken more joy in his pain than they ever have at the players on the field.

Mariotti is not liked and the words of his most recent column have comeback to bite him in the ass. His most recent AOL column about Roger Clemens begins with words that could aptly apply to Mariotti himself.

“It was arrogance that doomed Roger Clemens, raw defiance feeding a blind and reckless narcissism.”

Later in the article “He’s an American pariah, a hopeless buffoon who continues to claim his innocence despite mountains of evidence against him…” and closes with “For that, he deserves to be hauled away in cuffs. Any man who compounds one big lie with 15 others, while under oath, is an affront to humanity.”

While I don’t claim to be an angel but I don’t act holy than though or suggest I am living on a higher moral standard and that will be the downfall of Mariotti. If he never wrote the vitriol towards the athletes that earns him his money, he wouldn’t be the pariah he is now.

ESPN has reserved comment but his main gig at AOL could be in doubt. While there is little doubt that people will read his columns but after his domestic violence allegations, will people believe the words he writes.

Here are some other Mariotti quotes that destroys the credibility of Jay Mariotti.

Moss, Milton Bradley, Corey Dillon and Scottie Pippen. And after Jason Kidd faced a domestic violence accusation in 2002 Mariotti wrote:

“A domestic abuser is not a hero in any arena. When a group of crude, drunken fans in Boston taunted him with chants of “Wife Beater! Wife Beater!” last week, I felt bad that Kidd’s wife, Joumana, and the couple’s 3-year-old son, T.J., had to endure such courtside harassment. Victims of violence shouldn’t be subjected to cruel reminders.

That said, did I feel bad for Kidd?

Not really.

This is the baggage he inherited, the scrutiny that never will fade. “