rude of the email of the week to make me cry tbh.

I am a huge fan, Drew, and I hate sports. I know I’m not Deadspin’s target demographic because I’m a woman in her 40s who doesn’t give a flying fuck about sports, but I came here for you because I think your writing is fantastic, and that led me to other articles and writers whom I would never have found if it wasn’t…

This is not that. Drew Stuck To Sports™ in this post like a good boy.

I came here to say, if there’s any investors who are either readers, or who are eying this situation, I would totally be down to pay a subscription to Deadspin 2.0 or UnDeadspin. Actual human dollars, and not just ad revenue. And I’d like to think I’m not alone in that thinking, either. Let someone else’s fuck up be…

Another question for the Funbag - is there a charitable way to interpret what seems like crossing a picket line to post this today?

Seconding the relationship with the site and also that promise. You just know something’s gotta give, the corporate morons up top have made it clear they won’t stand for the shit the writers pulled yesterday - which by the way is absolutely, 100% in keeping with what we’ve come to expect from this team, and what we…

I’m 100 percent in support of the entire Giz family resigning and creating their own independent publication free from Great Hill’s bullshit, and would do everything I could to help out. And a paywall would totally be worth it if it keeps everyone safe from vulture capitalists.

What else are you going to do?  Work?  

Wearing a John Rocker jersey is the same as wearing a MAGA hat.

Hey Drew. You’re the best, and good luck with the brain and everything.

I suspect a lot of us would express similar sentiments. I don’t want my ad revenue going to Great Hill any more, but I also have an incredibly hard time letting go of Deadspin and the writers I love. Hoping the next few days will present a better course of action for the commentariat crew 

A question for the Funbag: why should I keep reading anything on this website after Jim Spanfeller and Paul Maidment went to the lengths of firing Barry, like cowards, for the dumbest of reasons?

I want to support the writers here—this is both the best website that exists, and has ever existed, and the best sports…

I remember in like 2006 when there were already stupid “stick to sports” takes in the comment threads (that weren’t an ouroboros of satire and actual business practices around here), someone was bitching about a particular blog and “why it doesn’t belong on a sports site.” One of the wise old leaders of the…

Sticking to sports is a recipe for boring, low traffic articles.

Honestly, this blog post has far too much sports-adjacent content, IMO. Needs less sports.

You guys are awesome. It is not hyperbole to say that this site often gets me through the day. Keep up the good work, and for the love of god do not stick to sports.

A good part, although not all, of the vitriol toward Xhaka, was the fact that he was having a nice little stroll off the pitch when being substituted instead of running off. Would it have made a difference, no, but geez, make the effort at least.

Arsenal fans, probably because they are unfamiliar with managerial change, have yet to fully turn on the manager, and instead have made Xhaka—a damn good player whom Emery does no favors with the team’s playing style and line-up decisions—the focus of their ire. The players, however, are less blind and reportedly are…

Oo, oo, since you guys can’t inject any political nuance into your articles, I’ll do it:

Arsenal’s lackluster play is all a part of Stan Kroenke’s long game. Ladies and gentleman, give a warm round of applause to your 2020-21 Los Angeles Goooners!