Richard Deitsch · @richarddeitsch
19th May 2011 from Twitlonger
Says Tony Kornheiser, via @espnbook, of Mike Tirico:
"Look, I know that Mike Tirico is smart and funny and as quick if not quicker than I am. I admire and respect him, but it killed me that he had none of that for me.
After many conversations, I came to believe that he had little respect for sportswriters and remembers all the sportswriters who wrote bad shit about him. He loves it when sportswriters get something wrong. And I felt he put me in that group, because I'm part of them.
It wasn't that I was right and he was wrong. We just couldn't agree. I had a lot of conversations with [Jay] Rothman and [John] Walsh and some even with Norby [Williamson], and I'll admit I would get upset. I said, "He's killing me, and it keeps happening." They would say, "We've talked to him, and it's going to get better," but it never did.
He was doing it deliberately; anybody with eyes could see it. He just wouldn't engage me."