Respectfully, I think you're missing the (rather kind of obvious) point, which is that there were a bunch of extremely newsworthy sports stories yesterday (and every day) that Deadspin didn't cover, and you cherry-picked one that supports your pre-formed conclusion that the site makes editorial decisions based on…

Ha!

Huh. That's a pretty good one. I usually go with "buy any old damn thing I land on the first couple of times around, get frustrated, ask if we can switch to playing hearts, lose big, go six more years before trying Monopoly again."

[surfaces from used-diaper-strewn hellscape dotted with derelict toy trucks]

Believe it or not, it's actually common editorial practice at ESPN to make changes to people's biographies. For example, they added "Sports Television Personality" to Skip Bayless's biography where it would have read "Killed On Live Television By The World's First Rectal African Driver Ant Infestation" if there were…

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Ha!

That's great. +1

Nice.

"Look, I don't care who you are: everybody loves a little free hog, right?"

You'd be surprised the impact individual sports figures can have on stock. A popular athlete like Jeremy Lin can send it rocketing up and down like a roller coaster, while a media member like Jason Whitlock can drop a tab of Alka-Seltzer into it and call it "beef soda."

This is a classic Echo comment. That's a compliment. +1

Ah, jeez. Forgive me, I'm sleep deprived and half in the bag.

Abso-goddamn-lutely. There is literally not one song in that entire film that I will not defend.

I'll stand up behind that. Great fucking music in that film.

That's the stuff right there. +1

This is funnier than it has any right to be. +1

Hilarious. +1

Yeah, that's what they say, but they don't really mean it.

YOU SAYIN' I HAVE A GIANT PENIS, YOU SON OF A—