Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun-Times just went on Baseball Beat with Charley Steiner on Sirius XM Radio (MLB Home Plate XM 175) and compared the swift and sudden departure of colleague Jay Mariotti - whom he had feuded with in the past - to that of an enema. And there were parties in the streets of Chicago last night:

There were celebrations in the White Sox locker room that was described to me as being like the final game of the 2005 World Series. At our own paper, people were high-fiving. In press boxes, people were high-fiving. I called the paper and the first thing someone said to me was ‘ding-dong the witch is dead’. I am not selecting people that just didn’t like Marriotti. I am talking about this as a professional matter as someone who could undermine so much that can’t even believe it.€

In the earlier interview with a Chicago radio stadium, Mariotti seemed surprised to see his name at the top of the most-viewed and most-commented box on the front of the Sun-Times website. Dude, they’re laughing at you, not with you. And we’re told Telander confirmed on air that Deadspin’s story about Mariotti storming off in a huff because he couldn’t write about Barack Obama was true.

ED. SHOOT! We forgot the best link in Mariotti history. Must-read. Must-bookmark.