You may remember Mariotti’s hissy fit of a resignation a few months back, obviously, followed by what seemed like waves of missives from his former co-workers about how they won’t miss him. It’s pretty clear when your paper features a subscriber who returned because you left (along with allowing the beat writers and columnists to trash you), people aren’t really that fond of you.
I know it’s only encouraging him, but I’ll probably read Mariotti’s debut at AOL for the same reason I read Whitlock at Fox Sports: just to see how blatantly wrong and off-base he can be, while getting paid for it.