"Game Of Shadows" Authors – Respect – Work Ethic – Investigative Skills – Actual Threat Of Jail + Douchebaggery = Mariotti!

It was with considerable amusement that we read Jay Mariotti's column in the today. (Yes, yes, Jay, by writing about you, we're just making you more famous. It is our curse!) Mariotti writes in defense of San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, who will face a judge in about half an hour and could end up being sent to jail. A good cause, we think … but Jay just can't leave himself out of it, aligning himself with the journalists and their profession though, as Jay The Joke points out, the guy hasn't interviewed an actual human in one of his columns in months. And then he tries to turn on fans, saying the reason they hate journalists is because they talk bad about the home team, a long time self-justification for why he himself is…