I’m sure that was at least part of it. Comments there went down shortly after his number was posted.

I remember when Deadspin used to have comments.  Good times. 

That’s weird, the comments work here. 

‘Faces of Death’ looked so real back in the day

Stick to people crapping on the floor of chain restaurants

Re: the Deadspin meltdown, here’s the Google cached version of the since-removed post the other day apologizing to readers for the autoplay video content.

and they are handling things with far more grace and class than the turds at splinter did.

That was not the lone dispute among management and staff, which is unionized. Management removed posts on the site telling readers how to complain to management about the auto-play videos that had become prominent on Deadspin in recent days.

I’m presuming everyone else was in suits? 

“We have plenty of other sites that write about politics, pop culture, the arts, and the rest, and they’re the appropriate place for such work.” — G/O Media bigwig Paul Maidment, ignoring the obvious fact that he just killed their dedicated politics site a couple weeks ago. Fuck that guy.

Where have you read about the sports-only edict?  

Where have you read about the sports-only edict? (nm.. just thought to google ‘deadspin sports only’)

Ironically, or I guess not, their “sports-only” site is useless, basically not covering sports at all.  That site was my entre into the Kinja world and it was the perfect blend of exhaustive sports and non-sports content, but at the moment it’s just crap.  I hope they work something out and stop sucking. 

Is it just me or is Deadspin pretty much on its last legs? It used to be the go-to place for breaking sports news, and at the moment (Tuesday, late pm) the lead story on mobile is still about a forgettable play that happened in an NFL game 28 hours ago. World Series game 6 had a controversial call that I’m reduced to…

White chocolate is actually not bad. The question is why they’re both stuffing bars into the same kids’ bags. 

I have this fantasy where I meet Mitch McConnell, exchange pleasantries, say “Merrick Garland” and punch him in the fucking face. 

“Staff is fleeing for the exits, what should we do?”
“We have old shit we can recycle, right?”

He said that they wouldn’t hire writers unless they were willing to be part of the production team.

I loved the two episodes detailing the night before the battle with the white walkers, and the battle.  The series could have ended right there and I’d have been happy. 

I’m going with a simple “nope” on this.