And guess who helped write the jokey copy for the pop-up asking you to turn off your ad blocker on this very site? That was me. Don’t turn that shit back on. We need the money to replace Marchman.

You’re fired. No disrespect.

I’d gladly sacrifice Cash’s Hurt if it gets rid of the 5,000,000 other acoustic covers that are out there, all of which are shit.

“turn off location tracking on your phone if you already have it on, and say “wow, yeah, those things are weird, wonder how that turned off? lemme fix that, is it working for you now?””

Never been a huge fan of Nirvana, yet the Unplugged album is one of my top 5 albums ever made. I could listen endlessly on a loop.

Stopped reading the article to mention Nirvana, happy to see I am not the only one. Literally one of the best unpluged’s of all time......Fight me.

Nirvana’s version of “Man Who Sold The World” from MTV Unplugged is fantastic.

Drew, are you including acoustic covers, or only same band? Because if you are, you’ll have to answer for Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt”.

I’ll stick my head out here...

In his defense, I’m sure ESPN would hurl some gotcha questions at him, like “Which team do you want to win?” and “What sport is this?”

Um, Barry, you got a slight error here.

Vikings appear to be the best team in the league, with one glaring issue: a quarterback playing above his level for months.

At least half of my star is for the handle.

Statistically Mariota’s worst season as a passer to other players. Statistically Mariota’s best season as a passer to himself. And no one can take that away from him...

anything to keep him out of the broadcast booth

IMO we need the computers back. I don’t like everything being decided by a committee.

Finally, someone listens!

It’s extremely hard for me to comment on something like this without sounding cynical or jaded. And maybe that’s because I’m more cynical and jaded that I should be. Somewhere inside me, there’s a little part of me screaming for hope, that all is not lost!

This really fucking selfish and wrong with him. If more people did this, it would be the end of businesses as we know it.

What kind of industry allows talented young recruits to express their preference for a future place of employment and doesn’t collude to railroad them to their most dysfunctional operations?

.... I…

What a great performance by LeBatard, but his Deadspin HOF candidacy is tainted by the era in which he works at ESPN.