Hey, they are with you guys!
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God damn it. Stick to sports and stop talking about the MLS!
Wow! This is a great post about sports, sports only, and nothing else besides sports!
Plus 20,000 Barry Petcheskys
May I suggest a new Deadspin mascott, Sticky; The Stick-to-Sports Stick. Sticky lives in Jim Spanfeller’s butt.
It doesn’t get much better than this, Luis.
Sticking it to powerful people who are fucking up a good thing with disingenuous pleas to “avoid controversy” and “stick to sports” is a good thing.
*chef's kiss*
In lieu of flowers for Barry or emails for Jim, I suggest calling Spanfucker’s bosses directly: https://www.greathillpartners.com/contact-us/. Someone answered the phone right away when I called!
This is a true story: When I was in my dirtbag 20s, my friends and I used to hang out at a crappy bar because we loved the main bartender and the culture there. Then the scumbags who owned the bar fired the bartender we loved. He went to work at another bar and we followed him there. The first bar is closed now.
HamNo isn’t even being subtle about suggesting as much:
If Petchesky were to start a GoFundMe for NotSportsSpin or some other similarly named website, I would kick in $50.
Well, shit. I’m going to miss this place. It’s a good group of writers and commenters and I don’t have the desire or energy to seek out someplace similar online. I guess I’ll just start doing my actual job instead of spending so much time on here...
This is the fucking worst. They’re doing it. They’re killing Deadspin.
How great would it be if the other blogs all started covering sports today?
Can you let me know when you will be returning to sports coverage so I can go back to checking in once or twice per day? I have a lot to do today at work and all of these posts about non-sports topics are distracting because I Must Read Every Single One of Them. Whereas with the sports stuff I really only care if its…
Triggered!
So much talent pissed away.