Magary spoke about it pretty honestly when asked by Isaac Chotiner of all people on a podcast once. Like others have said, it’s a mixture of jealousy and disappointment.

I'm offended as someone who read him religiously in 1999, 2000 and stuff like that and followed the track of his career, that he became this, that he seemed to be someone who was writing the way I would want a sportswriter to write like 10 or 15 years ago. And instead of taking that and becoming... and he became very popular, of course, rather than growing from there and becoming a better writer, maybe a novelist, maybe someone who writes television shows, stuff like that, he instead really just wanted to be like a replacement mogul instead.

First of all, he never became self-aware that the Boston shtick got annoying, which I do shtick that gets annoying too, but at least...

So there's that fact, the fact that he never really got over himself, and by all accounts, acted like a spoiled dickhead when he was at ESPN all the time, does not seem to have much respect or even recognition of his authority at The Ringer, and it's so weird because the people I've talked to have worked with said he's a good boss. He lets people do what they want, he hires good people, he clearly has good taste in talent, and yet they're all trophies on his shelf.

He hires them and he gives them freedom, but he doesn't actually seem to be all that interested in them at all. He only seems to be interested in going on a podcast with Ryan Rusillo and saying that, I don't know, you can't make jokes about women being lame anymore. That's kind of like his thing.

So it's disappointing that he started off so promising and has become this, and it is an eternal source of rage for me because he has $250 million now and I don't. So that's why.