Mustard and Johnson axed by WEEI

[Sean Smyth]

On Sun, 8/31/08, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:
> Right now there is an elephant standing in the corner with
> Boston
> sports media and his name is Jay Mariotti who just quit at
> the Chicago
> Sun Times and walked away from 500K.
> 
> Boston is his rumored destination but where?
> 
> His loud mouth would be a natural for WEEI and WEEI.com but
> I doubt
> they can afford him.

Only way he comes here is if ESPN The Mothership pays his freight and puts him on a station here (and I doubt it'd be 890). The Herald never would pay a columnist like him that money. 

Then again, Mariotti kind of is the sports version of Howie Carr. Maybe I shouldn't say that so quickly.