Chicago Tribune Creates Unofficial Jay Mariotti Inbox
OUT OF RIGHT FIELD — ... As the silly newspaper war continues on, the Trib has made a makeshift message center for those who would like to comment on Jay Mariotti's writing on the Chicago Tribune website. You have to keep it to 300 characters, but you would also have to read Mariotti in order to comment on something. So why is the Trib giving Mariotti free advertising and publicity? ...

Chicago Tribune Gives Mariotti Haters a Voice
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... . No comments on his columns, thanks. For a brief time Friday afternoon and evening, though, the Chicago Tribune came up with a solution for disenfranchised Mariotti commenters: their own message board on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site. However, that board is gone as of this morning, leaving a “Server Error” behind. Proof of the board’s brief existence ...

You can't comment on Jay Mariotti's columns ... [Jay Mariotti]
Deadspin — ... You can't comment on Jay Mariotti's columns on the Chicago Sun-Times site, so now you can at the Tribune's. [Chicago Tribune] ...

Welcome to the Jay Mariotti mailbox
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. — ... Still, this is hilarious: The Tribune has opened up the Jay Mariotti mailbox, a not-at-all-subtle jab at the Sun-Times‘ recent decision to outlaw reader feedback on Mariotti’s columns. (That way, no one can challenge Jay’s authoritah!) Readers can put whatever comments they’d rather have put under Mariotti’s byline on the Tribune’s site, and can thus have their feelings made known to the world. Little do they know, they’re only making Jay more famous. Whoops! ...

It’s heating up in the Chicago dailies
Randball — ... The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times do not have the reputation for enjoying a friendly competition. It’s old-school in Chi-town, with bitterness, cheap shots and barbs traded back and forth all the time. But this (via Deadspin) is a little extreme: It seems the Sun-Times has suspended the comment features at the end of pieces by their sports columnists, most notably the rather incendiary Jay Mariotti. So the Tribune has taken the liberty of setting up a place where readers of the rival paper can vent about Mariotti on the Tribune’s web ...

Welcome to the Fuku Dome: Jay Mariotti Rips Off CSTB Today
Can't Stop The Bleeding — As long as Gerard brought it up, on a day when I was content to retire my #14 Trib rant, yeah, Kerry Wood did have a lousy day. For whatever reason, the Man With The Glass Arm is our closer and Caros Marmol his set-up man. So be it. At least when losses start to pile up on blown saves, even goat-worshiping Curse fans won’t be able to blame the supernatural when they’ve got Kerry Wood. Or so I thought, until I read Jay Mariotti’s column, devoted entirely to breaking the spirit of Kosuke Fukudome with talk of voo doo in Wrigley. (CSTB mascot Tanner Boyle, on hearing he was traded to Jay Mariotti’s column today) But there was a pause in ...

Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “I Know What I’m Doing” Edition
Hire Jim Essian — ... The Bright One stopped allowing comments for Jay Mariotti articles, so the Tribune responded by taking your comments. Awesome. ...