Dear Lilly King;

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/i… - not representing this as his best ever (that was the late 90's at the Star) but it’s not AllTakesMatter either.

No, he’s a lot of things, but a bad writer isn’t one of them. A lazy writer sometimes (don’t see any of that on Deadspin huh?) but a good writer.
When he and Poznanski were writing for the KC Star it was one of the best local sports sections in the country.

Counterpoint: Whitlock is actually an incredibly talented writer but has some glaring personality and ego issues (not unlike other successful writers!) that have contributed greatly to the failure that was his tenure at The Undefeated and almost every other platform.

I see what you mean with point b), but you’re also a smart person/editor, so you’re more likely from the start to smell something fishy about a sentence like that.

Try to keep this straight. You’re supposed to have read Mein Kampf so that you can recognize passages from Mein Kampf. That way you don’t unwittingly retweet Hitler’s ideas. Okay? Now that you’ve read Mein Kampf, you are a fascist or a sympathizer.

Am I just being contrarian if I say that this seems like a sort of entrapment/gotcha exercise? Why would one immediately suspect they’re reading Hitler’s words when presented in the guise of a young, aspiring sportswriter?

I agree with 99% of what you had to say here.

Men’s Swimming Olympic Gold Medals since 1896:

‘Suicide Squad Sets Box Office Record Because We Don’t Deserve Better Movies’

i actually feel bad for that unnamed worker - there wouldn’t even be teeth left to try and identify him.

Fun fact: in 1985 the DoD set off almost five thousand tons of ANFO on purpose, equivalent to 4,000 tons of TNT . The test, code named “Minor Scale”, was to simulate a small nuclear explosion.

“The Winter Soldier will fucking kill you”. The guy was basically a child soldier and did the dirty work that even cap couldn’t do. But without watching i’ll assume Grayson wins because... Batman.

Winter Soldier would be back in cryogenic sleep by the time they DC universe could even get NW’s funeral planned

Here’s the thing:

We are all half centaur.

2028: “A-ROD THIS IS YOUR AGENT TOM SIZEMORE. TWO OF YOUR HOMERS NO LONGER COUNT SOMEHOW, THREATENING THE SANCTITY OF ‘MR. 700' FROZEN YOGURT AND SAVINGS & LOAN.”

Looks like the Yankees decided to put A-Rod out to pasture. That idiom works for centaurs, as well as horses, right?

Prostitute 1: You're not into that weird stuff, are you?