Talk about your all-time back fires. Jay Mariotti, who is predominately known for his appearances on ESPN's Around the Horn was arrested in Los Angeles at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday the 21st.
Mariotti is one of the loudest mouths in sports journalism. He is known for his wild rants and calling people such as Michael Vick and Tiger Woods out for their actions. Looks like all that smack talking finally came back around his way.
An unnamed source that was picking his girlfriend up at an apartment building just down the street from Mariottis managed to get the inside scoop. The source said the two were yelling back and forth in the street in front of their apartment. Mariotti was boxing the woman out and trying to make her avoid getting in the apartment. When she finally got around him and got into the lobby he chased her down and they had a physical altercation in the lobby of the apartment.
Apparently, the apartment is glass and it is easy to see right in. This is when the on looker saw Mariotti throwing papers and ripping things off the wall, he then grabbed his girlfriends hair and launched her into the elevator. The source said he had enough and called police.
The source had this to say. "She punched her code to get into the lobby of her building...and when she did that he fired the door open and followed her in..and that's when it began. Lucky for me her lobby was a giant glass one so i could continue to see everything that was going on when they went inside."
Mariotti has always come across to me as a smart mouth fire cracker. The guy has a temper that escalates as soon as someone else has something to say that he doesn't agree with. Knowing ESPN and the way they have handled scandal in the past. The "mouse ears" will surely have none of this and you can bet that you wont be seeing any of Mariotti on ESPN again.
Mariotti is due in court September 17th. Around the Horn is not filming this week but will start new episodes next week.
