Deadspin

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:19 pm

Drew has to quit too right? I’m thinking he is the final nail and they have something planned. But he just can’t stay.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:08 pm

I do wonder if they’re staging it so the ones with families can avoid walking. Different world.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:11 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:08 pm I do wonder if they’re staging it so the ones with families can avoid walking. Different world.

Drew needs to quit. He has plenty of other employment opportunities (assuming no non-compete contract clause - do those exist in journalism?)

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:19 pm

Where is his health insurance though? He’s racked up a ton of medical bills in the last year - he may not be immediately able to move off that if his insurance is through the deadspin gig as opposed to one of his side hustles or through his wife.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:23 pm

Yup. Idealist me versus “I can’t ruin my family on principle” me.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:24 pm

That Barstool scumbag Portnoy was taunting Magary on Twitter. I shouldn’t be this juvenile but I couldn’t help myself.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:57 pm

"Dave Portnoy reminds me that I don't have to go to PornHub to see a gaping asshole on the internet."

Copy/paste that.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:44 am

Magary is out.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:48 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:52 am
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:25 pm
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:51 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:36 pm
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:11 pm I don't know where any of those people went. I don't know who Joe Posanski writes for right now. I wouldn't know how funny Ray Ratto was if hadn't shown up on Deadspin a while ago. The platform is huge.
Pretty sure Joe Pos is at the Athletic now.
So I subscribe, visit daily, and didn't know. That's bad for a writer, I'm guessing. Also bad for me, but that wasn't part of the premise so shut up.
I even went and double checked the site for both Joe Pos and Ratto, just to make sure this wasn't just some Ryan comment trickery meant to make me look a fool (which I need zero help with).
And Ray Ratto is on the most recent Puck Soup podcast that is sort of an Athletic thing.

Just listened. Really enjoyed this episode.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:53 am

rass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:44 amMagary is out.

I may buy the Postmortal in solidarity.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:57 am

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:53 am
rass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:44 amMagary is out.
I may buy the Postmortal in solidarity.

I bought The Hike at some point. It was pretty good!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:01 am

rass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:57 am
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:53 am
rass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:44 amMagary is out.
I may buy the Postmortal in solidarity.
I bought The Hike at some point. It was pretty good!

Yeah I enjoyed it, too.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:03 am

Just deleted the bookmark from my Chrome toolbar. Had given it a couple of muscle memory clicks the past couple of days and don't want to do that anymore. Fuck them.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:10 am

My two favorite "sports" blogs leaving bookended the baseball season. Poor me, the real victim in all of this.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:47 am

It's like the time my favorite sports message board completely alienated me by enabling tweets and then nobody could communicate in not tweets anymore.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:49 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:47 am It's like the time my favorite sports message board completely alienated me by enabling tweets and then nobody could communicate in not tweets anymore.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:59 am

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:03 am Just deleted the bookmark from my Chrome toolbar. Had given it a couple of muscle memory clicks the past couple of days and don't want to do that anymore. Fuck them.

Same here.

Kinda sad.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:05 am

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:53 am
rass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:44 amMagary is out.
I may buy the Postmortal in solidarity.

Its good! Kinda fell apart at the end, but the premise is really interesting.

The Hike was good too. I wasn't sure where it was going, but the ending pretty much floored me.

The Deadcast that came out last night/this morning was pretty weird. Clearly, they knew it was 95% going to be their last one.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:08 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:47 am It's like the time my favorite sports message board completely alienated me by enabling tweets and then nobody could communicate in not tweets anymore.

I went out of my way to not post a Tweet in the irony thread yesterday.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:11 am

Thank you, Rass. You also created that nice tweet transcription thread for me. You're good.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:13 am

This is brilliance.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:41 am

So good.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:46 am

Motherfuckers.

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb/viewtop ... f=2&t=2377

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:45 am

2 latest stories now are about Pro Wrestling. If that's intentional, yet another funny move.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:00 am

I forget. What's the reason you can't see tweets? Are you not able to swamp from mobile?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:34 pm

https://drewmagary.kinja.com/this-is-ho ... 1839505029

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:49 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:34 pm https://drewmagary.kinja.com/this-is-ho ... 1839505029

But, like Gregg Williams’ coaching career, the spirit of Deadspin strangely cannot be killed.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:12 pm

Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:00 am I forget. What's the reason you can't see tweets? Are you not able to swamp from mobile?

Fidelity blocks all social networking sites. I can but I'm not going to give in to the man like that.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:14 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:12 pm
Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:00 am I forget. What's the reason you can't see tweets? Are you not able to swamp from mobile?
Fidelity blocks all social networking sites. I can but I'm not going to give in to the man like that.

Ah. The Air Force does the same on their network. However, I am allowed to log into Facebook.

You're totally missing out!

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:50 pm

Bryan Curtis at The Ringer on the latest murder:

https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/31/20 ... orts-media

This week, Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley described the growing class of “zombie” publications: “Trustworthy brand-name publications are being hollowed out and refilled with unpaid ‘community’ contributors or low-paid, less experienced professionals who don’t have the stature to challenge editorial imperatives or productivity quotas that generate useless, often-inaccurate content.”

Without really trying, a reader can access a whole zombie content library. In addition to Deadspin and SI, Newsweek, Playboy, LA Weekly, U.S. News & World Report, The Hill, and newspapers like The Denver Post all exist in varying states of catatonia. The Los Angeles Times and Texas Monthly narrowly missed joining the list. To honor the company that gutted SI, we can call this process the Mavening. The Mavening is the way media overlords taunt readers by forcing them to watch as they drag around the corpse of a beloved friend.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:48 pm

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:00 pm

Hmmm, I was leaning warren but this is causing me to re-look at bernie...

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:29 pm

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:36 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:29 pm

I hate using the terms the kids are but holy mother of ratio'd

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:04 pm

Was it this?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:14 pm

He's already quit.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:20 pm

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:58 pm

Awful Announcing has a post on it.

edwzipper · Post by **edwzipper** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:49 pm

Our FRONT PAGE was the template for a lot of these motherfuckers. The one guy that went from his own hysterical Sunday Football column to Yahoo (Shutdown Corner, I think it was) did give us credit for getting him started.

I WOULD GLADLY START WRITING FOR THE FRONT PAGE AGAIN

I felt this way when the National stopped publishing.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:46 pm

The Funbag has been posted on Vice: What Is the Most Thrown Away Food?

Also...the guy who issues the 'stick to sports' mandate? He resigned...

G/O Media's editorial director resigns after fall of Deadspin

Last week, Deadspin's editorial staff resigned in the wake of a "stick to sports" mandate handed down to them in a memo. On Tuesday, the person whose name was on that memo — Paul Maidment — announced that he has resigned from his position as editorial director of G/O Media, Deadspin's parent company.

Maidment said in a note to staff Tuesday that he was pursuing an "entrepreneurial opportunity."