Isn't that terrific? Jay Mariotti, perhaps the most hated man in sports, quits his job, and the next day, the paper runs a huge banner advertising his departure and exhorting people to subscribe because of it. The very next day, your paper's most famous name leaks an open letter to Mariotti with an emphatic and scathing thumbs down.
If you compare this to a baseball team, it's as if A-Rod had opted out of his contract last year and the Yankees had run a campaign asking people to come back to Yankee Stadium because there would be no more errors at third and weak grounders to short in clutch situations.
Incidentally, there's nothing better than watching a baseball game with a Yankee fan and having A-Rod come to bat with the bases loaded in a close-and-late situation. You try to bet the Yankee fan that A-Rod will ground into a double play. No Yankee fan in his right mind, of course, will take that bet. But the look on their face when the inevitable happens and the ball starts rolling weakly to the shortstop is almost as good as the money. Almost.
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