I hate it when I come to Deadspin hoping to see a Haisley posted soccer gif, or a Jamboroo and wind up spending 30 minutes reading a well-written, longform article that causes introspection.

No snark: Thank you for this piece. Masterfully reported, incredibly well-written, utterly important.

Goddamn, this is both outstanding and tragic.

What a well written article about a truly tragic story. Thanks for this.

It’s hilarious how Deadspin mocks the people who say “stick to sports”

You didn’t get the memo, The Concourse is now Neo-Gawker. HamNo needed some place to publish his woefully simplistic and in no way realistic socialist screeds.

The correct view of an employer as monopsony is that it is difficult for you to quit and find another job, so in the short term your current employer is the only one buying your services. This applies to any employer, not just big ones; in fact, “sharing economy” services like Uber break the employer’s monopsony hold,…

You didn’t get the memo, The Concourse is now Neo-Gawker. HamNo needed some place to publish his woefully simplistic and in no way realistic socialist screeds.

Here we have an article about monopsony where the author doesn’t bother to define the term and probably doesn’t know what the term means. It means the market has one *buyer* for a particular good, the counterpart of “monopoly” where there is one *seller* for a particular good. (It is not “monopoly-lite, when one…