The saddest part about the MLB is that they’ll regurgitate literal trash. Let’s face it Weaver is done and has been done. Coming from a once MiLB pitcher. There are monster arms down here. Don’t let the MLB fool you. They’d rather keep an old fart around than bring a young guy up and lose their rookie year and…

Padre time is undefeated

maybe you should take a couple plays off big fella

It's all a matter of opinion, I suppose. In the end if you enjoy what you do and you feel good about the work you've done then you just shrug off the critics and whatever negative labels they might be tossing in your general direction.

That is the most inane defense I've ever read.

Sorry, Clickbait has a defined meaning to most people, and it's patently obvious from the article that the real issue is that Mr. Marchman doesn't like people saying things to him in a flip and dismissive fashion, which is laughable.

That's the whole point. The whole point is that Mr. Marchman works for a place that routinely employs rhetoric in the same manner that he is imploring people not to use it in. There's nothing strawman about that statement. It's a fact that Gawker blogs, Deadspin included, routinely engage in criticisms of the…

I wasn't arguing that those things were clickbait. I was arguing that those were examples of derisive and mean criticisms, which is where my reference to Gawker writers comes in. I think Gawker engages in clickbait far less often than say, Buzzfeed, but I also think that they engage in the same form of criticism in…

That would apply if I called him a hypocrite in a factual argument, such as if I called Mr. Marchman a hypocrite for wearing a shirt that said 1+1=3 while arguing that 1+1=2, but that's not what we are doing here at all. Mr. Marchman is appealing to people to stop behaving in a certain way, and reasonable people…

It's only ad hominem if it's not related to the discussion, but it is. Mr. Marchman and Co. routinely engage in the same behavior he is criticizing.

Almost everyone uses the term that way. Tim Marchman is just whining.

Because that's how words with definitions work.

Except it's not. Clickbait has long had a very specific meaning of a very non-mundane headline masking a very mundane article.

You misinterpreted what context I was using that statement in. The context I was using that argument in is related to the fact that Mr. Marchman doesn't want people using that particular criticism because it is derisive, dismissive & blithe, not because I think he writes clickbait.

Oh look at you Mr. Discourse Police. Please don't arrest us!

Writer has no idea what Clickbait is, spends entire article defending tabloid reporting, never once actually mentioning the process of clickbait or real clickbait.

Or you could just say it's clickbait.

Gawker promoting an article saying "shut up about clickbait" - hilarious.

So you, a journalist, get to sum up the content of your speech in a pithy but possibly misleading fashion for the sake of expediency, but people on the internet don't?

You're making no distinction between journalism, headline writing, and re-posting a link to a video of some trash you know will go viral. Tim, you guys do some amazing journalistic work, as you were careful to point out above. You also post clickbait. Likewise, (some) newspapers do great journalistic work alongside…