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What's the story behind Stu Scott and Daulerio? Nevermind, I just found it. He literally looked over his shoulder and read his text message and made a giant assumption about what it pertained to. Wow. BackInTheUSSR fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 26, 2011 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:What's the story behind Stu Scott and Daulerio? He went to the Super Bowl for Deadspin, basically stalked Stu at a bar, and allegedly saw Stu sending a text to some cheerleader about meeting up later, which obviously means that he was trying to gently caress her. I'm not kidding that is the whole story. Apparently this was a big deal to him. It is basically everything dumb about Deadspin in one sentence.
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Aug 26, 2011 19:07
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Wait so they "broke into" ESPN's All-Hands? I am constantly trying to break out of the ones we have at work...
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Aug 26, 2011 20:58
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leokitty posted:Wait so they "broke into" ESPN's All-Hands? I am constantly trying to break out of the ones we have at work... This equally pointless follow-up makes it sound like they were invited. Either ESPN didn't like them liveblogging the event or they obtained the invitation through deception. Either way, yeah, who cares.
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Aug 26, 2011 21:04
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Is there any content on Deadspin that's worthwhile anymore?
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Aug 27, 2011 01:32
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The broken bones posted:Is there any content on Deadspin that's worthwhile anymore? They did that thing about BYU's honor code last year and that was decent enough. Not really anything exceptional, anymore.
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Aug 27, 2011 02:38
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Heaf posted:They did that thing about BYU's honor code last year and that was decent enough. Not really anything exceptional, anymore.
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Aug 27, 2011 04:05
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The guy who writes about boxing/MMA in the tri-state area is worth reading.
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Aug 27, 2011 04:53
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C. Everett Koop posted:The guy who writes about boxing/MMA in the tri-state area is worth reading. You can also find Hamilton Nolan stuff on The Awl. And it is good.
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Aug 27, 2011 06:55
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MorningView posted:Dalerio basically made his career by looking over Stu Scott's shoulder while he sent a text (or more likely making a story about doing that up) "I detect Deadspin, therefore bad!" Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Aug 27, 2011 |
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Aug 27, 2011 12:52
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His Super Bowl coverage was the first thing he did on Deadspin that got him a lot of attention, and the Stu Scott text was the most famous thing to come out of that. And it was really gross. I don't know why you are so desperate to defend a guy who thinks pictures of athletes' penises or who random ESPN employees are loving are worthy news stories. I'm sure Deadspin has some good pieces here and there, but it's largely a lovely tabloid.
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Aug 27, 2011 16:11
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Big Daddy Drew is on there. Now that Katie Baker is at grantland that's the only reason I'd want to go to Deadspin.
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Aug 27, 2011 16:21
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BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:That piece was written in April. Craggs' bit on NBA teams manipulating balance sheets to hide profits and maximize loss isn't even two months old. Other outlets pointed out that article had some fundamental problems with it. I'm not a financial expert, but it seems like an interesting but flawed piece. Ironically, a more in-depth investigative piece a la Yahoo News would have better served the exclusive information that they received. Deadspin has decent stuff from time to time, but I've lost most interest in what they do. Back when they started in 2005, the idea of a sports news aggregate with funny commentary and occasional features filled a niche. Now there's a million sites like that, and they lost my favorite asset in Leitch. With the shifting focus towards off the field events, petty sports journalism coverage and "lifestyle" pieces, there's just not much there I'm interested in anymore. I don't care about dong shots. Craggs posted his story about the trip to ESPN. It boils down to them figuring out who he is and politely asking him to leave. Sprinkled throughout the article are bits like, "I remember the look of smug idiot knowingness on his face." It's honestly kind of sad.
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MorningView posted:His Super Bowl coverage was the first thing he did on Deadspin that got him a lot of attention, and the Stu Scott text was the most famous thing to come out of that. And it was really gross. I don't know why you are so desperate to defend a guy who thinks pictures of athletes' penises or who random ESPN employees are loving are worthy news stories. I'm sure Deadspin has some good pieces here and there, but it's largely a lovely tabloid. Well, at least it's better than Bleacher Report!
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seiferguy posted:Well, at least it's better than Bleacher Report! 'The 50 Hottest WAGs of Summer" "Football's 40 Hottest WAGs" "The 50 Hottest WAGs of Major League Baseball" e: I didn't mean to put down Deadspin, I just don't read it and all I hear is how terrible it's been lately.
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Aug 27, 2011 21:00
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MorningView posted:His Super Bowl coverage was the first thing he did on Deadspin that got him a lot of attention, and the Stu Scott text was the most famous thing to come out of that. quote:I don't know why you are so desperate to defend a guy who thinks pictures of athletes' penises or who random ESPN employees are loving are worthy news stories. I'm sure Deadspin has some good pieces here and there, but it's largely a lovely tabloid. Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Aug 27, 2011 |
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BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:I don't think there's any dispute Daulerio's not a great writer, but what someone gets famous for isn't a fair sample. Bill Buckner wasn't a ground ball sieve. He did serviceable work for years, which would have earned him a position lots of places. (That was probably the rationale for selecting him as Leitch's successor; giving him management reigns wouldn't take away from long-form output.) But talking about that doesn't fit the narrative of "Worthless Smut Dealer!" so whatever. Right but I wasn't arguing that it was the only thing he's ever done, I was saying that it was the thing that initially brought him to the attention of a wide audience. And it was mostly for the sake of a joke, although I do think that particular story set the tone for a fairly large percentage of the work he's done since. Deadspin has more than earned the narrative that gets thrown at them. As you noted, it's not like that's always been they way they've been viewed, they had a lot of good will built up prior to Daulerio taking over (they published some dumb poo poo prior to that, but he's certainly pushed them farther in that direction, and at least back in the day they had a pretty decent writer in Leitch running things) that they've burned through. They may have a few good pieces, but they get buried under a mountain of petty bullshit about ESPN and trash. If they don't want that reputation they should quit publishing so much tabloid bullshit. MourningView fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Aug 28, 2011 |
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Aug 28, 2011 00:18
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MorningView posted:Right but I wasn't arguing that it was the only thing he's ever done, I was saying that it was the thing that initially brought him to the attention of a wide audience. And it was mostly for the sake of a joke, although I do think that particular story set the tone for a fairly large percentage of the work he's done since.
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Aug 28, 2011 00:23
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I wasn't completely sold on Grantland until they posted This amazing article
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Tom Kowalski died this morning. He was an excellent reporter for the Lions, and will be missed.
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:I wasn't completely sold on Grantland until they posted This amazing article But they didn't include my favorite of all time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMji36lOQM
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ShaneB posted:But they didn't include my favorite of all time! It only vaguely fits the theme of the article, but my favorite Sprite commercial of all-time is still this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOulvniNdg4
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Storm posted:Tom Kowalski died this morning. He was an excellent reporter for the Lions, and will be missed. He wins the award for most awkward final tweet ever: http://twitter.com/#!/TomKowalski36/status/107993777859338240
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Neodoomium posted:He wins the award for most awkward final tweet ever:
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Aug 30, 2011 07:42
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Yeah, shame to have a Princess Bride reference as your last public communication.
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Aug 30, 2011 20:52
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The Simmons vs. Jonah Keri "e-mail exchange" is kind of hilarious, if only for Simmons' inability to understand that bringing up Desmond Jennings earlier wouldn't have single-handedly saved the Rays' season. http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/3137/youve-got-mail-bill-simmons-and-jonah-keri-discuss-desmond-jennings
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The only thing that would have singlehandedly saved the Rays season is if they played in the AL Central. Simmons just does not get this argument. Thought process goes as follows: Simmons: He's batting .351/.439/.634 through 130 at-bats! Why wasn't he playing all year? If he played all year like that, the Rays would be in first. Yeah, I know he probably would have regressed a little, but still. The Rays would be in first. Keri: what, no
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"Even if you conservatively estimate, he'd have hit [all-star type numbers]" "That is dumb. And even then it wouldn't be enough to make up the gap" "BLOOD IN THE WATER, FANBASE, ATTITUDE"
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Damon Bruce ranted and raved this morning about how Carlos Beltran "wasn't brought on this team to slap singles" and is a travesty because "he only has 4 RBI." The Giants aggregate OPS around him is like .050. Goddammit, sports radio. Why must I have no other choice when I'm in my company car 
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Aug 31, 2011 07:54
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When the hell did they let Bruce back on KNBR? He'd been exiled to 1050 the last time I checked.
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Because Radnich is terrible. Apparently they're teaming Radnich with Larry "brain-dead Caribbean hitters" Krueger. More reasons to not listen to KNBR unless the game is on.
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KNBR is the drizzling shits when Fitz and Brooks aren't on. I've been trying to listen to the new FM station, but they're no better, especially now that the Giants are struggling.
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Between not believing that a student-athlete could be poor enough to find illegal benefits enticing in his last article and calling Miami a "thugfest" and saying that the athletes who went there but didn't commit any violations don't deserve any pity because should have seen something like this coming in his most recent one, I don't quite understand why so many reputable people were excited about John Brandon on Grantland.
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xbilkis posted:Between not believing that a student-athlete could be poor enough to find illegal benefits enticing in his last article and calling Miami a "thugfest" and saying that the athletes who went there but didn't commit any violations don't deserve any pity because should have seen something like this coming in his most recent one, I don't quite understand why so many reputable people were excited about John Brandon on Grantland. He's not funny or good. They've put out what, three college football articles total if you count his two awful ones and the one about Oregon's Uniforms? There have been a ton of Tennis articles. Is tennis way more popular than I imagined?
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Is Rick Reilly EVER legitimately funny or insightful? I can maybe believe the latter, but definitely not the former.
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Spacemonkey57 posted:He's not funny or good. They've put out what, three college football articles total if you count his two awful ones and the one about Oregon's Uniforms? There have been a ton of Tennis articles. Is tennis way more popular than I imagined? It's kind of nice to have a place that gives exactly the same exposure to articles about tennis as they do to football. The internet is not particularly hurting for scrutinizing, minutiae-dissecting college football coverage.
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christ it's like every third page someone has to get in the loving time machine and post articles from when Rick Reilly was Rick Reilly. go look at some old content i am sick of posting his good poo poo all the time.
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Badfinger posted:It's kind of nice to have a place that gives exactly the same exposure to articles about tennis as they do to football. It's definitely hurting for non-poo poo college football coverage. e. Any of those people would have been better hires than the guy Grantland has covering college football. I guess I should be happy it's not Dan Shannoff or Clay Travis. Spacemonkey57 fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Sep 2, 2011 |
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Spacemonkey57 posted:It's definitely hurting for non-poo poo college football coverage. Eh, Doc Saturday does good serious national coverage for Yahoo, EDSBS does good funny national coverage, Smart Football does a lot of cool X and Os stuff, and there are several really good team specific blogs. And at least as far as the Big Ten goes, I don't even mind the ESPN blog that much.
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Lazy like a Fox posted:KNBR is the drizzling shits when Fitz and Brooks aren't on. I've been trying to listen to the new FM station, but they're no better, especially now that the Giants are struggling. Fitz & Brooks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Razor & Mr T > Murph & Mac > Eric Byrnes >>>>>>>>>>>>> Gary Radnich & "D Bruce" Incidentally I like the "fill in" guys that usually do other things, like Ray Woodson or Ted Robinson. I love me some Fitz & Brooks 
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