Dave, thank you for doing this. From our conversations, I have a sense of how much time you spent on this. I believe your aim was true and your heart was pure. As I read this, I am both angry and sad. Sad for what happened to my friend. Angry that I only knew of her condition after she had passed, when it was too late…

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.

Sadly, I was able to make an armchair psychologist diagnosis of “bi-polar” before the story reached that point. The signs were all there. Some of our smartest, most brilliant minds suffer from this horrible mental illness. It can help them achieve great things, but at too great of a human cost. Please, if you take…