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General Dog posted:If Cum Town can sell advertising, it seems like Magary and Roth can. I'm honestly shocked that anyone listens to a Cum Town ad read and goes "yeah, that's for me."
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Nov 1, 2019 04:26
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MourningView posted:I think Petchesky was fine, but he also was a workhorse for them who was pumping out tons of shorter blogs every day. I don't think he was really aiming for something especially profound most of the time Petchesky's gimmick was getting self-righteous and climbing on a high horse about basically anything in sight and quite frequently trying--and failing--to dunk on people he disliked. He sucked, but that being said it's never cool to see someone get fired.
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Shameful of The Old Grey Lady to not use the full title: "Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo." Big Daddy Balls needs to demand a correction.
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Timby posted:Petchesky's gimmick was getting self-righteous and climbing on a high horse about basically anything in sight jim is that you
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I think it was on twitter, but someone pointed out that Petchesky owned himself for his entire run in the editorial staff by being the guy to post the morning blog by 9:00 a.m., which he started doing as a new writer way back in the aughts and then never realized he could offload onto someone else. Petchesky wasn't my favorite writer by a long shot at Deadspin, but he was above replacement level sportswriting. And he did a lot of editing work. The worst writer on the website in recent years has been Haisley, who combines horrible soccer takes with zero editing. It blows my mind that he was an editor. I still hope he lands on his feet. Meanwhile, there've been a lot of excellent writers in latter day Deadspin. Diane Moskovitz was essential in the coverage of USA Gymnastics and Nasser. David Roth is just fantastic all around. Drew Magary has wildly matured from someone I really disliked and hate read to someone who I looked forward to reading and hearing from- I was shocked how worried I felt when his brain exploded last December. Laura Wagner is going to be a fantastic features writer for a long time for whichever media outlet jumps to hire her. Dom Consentino did yeoman's work on the NFL concussion settlement. And I could keep going. I started reading Deadspin back in the Leitch days, and the journalism being put out right up until this past week has been as good or better than anything they'd done before. That's part of why I'm so angry about this- Deadspin wasn't a shell of its former self. Hell, it was better than the loving Dauliero era, and that's seen as some type of halcyon past. And it was murdered by chucklefucks who will never face any repercussions for their fuckups, or be held to account in any meaningful way. Also, now there's one less place to find Ray Ratto's writing! Goddamnit.
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habeasdorkus posted:I started reading Deadspin back in the Leitch days, and the journalism being put out right up until this past week has been as good or better than anything they'd done before. That's part of why I'm so angry about this- Deadspin wasn't a shell of its former self. Hell, it was better than the loving Dauliero era, and that's seen as some type of halcyon past. And it was murdered by chucklefucks who will never face any repercussions for their fuckups, or be held to account in any meaningful way. Definitely agree with this, the last few years have been my favorite period of the site.
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habeasdorkus posted:Also, now there's one less place to find Ray Ratto's writing! Goddamnit. Well I guess I am not the only one who was confused why people like Ray Ratto's writing
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Nov 1, 2019 13:51
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Thanks for posting the article on what happened at deadspjn
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Nov 1, 2019 13:53
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Lol, in the comments of Bernie's Deadspin tweet... https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1190070470374084608?s=20
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Nov 1, 2019 14:09
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Nov 1, 2019 14:19
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Stoolies are so pathetic. They really seem to think Dave Portnoy is their dad.
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No it's very normal build your entire life around trying to get noticed by some crybaby dipshit who looks and acts like every weird old guy hanging out at a college bar.
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he's your friend's older brother who they thought was cool"when he could buy them beer or drive them around but now it's like "don't you have friends your own age" and "no, I don't want to go to the strip club on a sunday afternoon."
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BWV posted:he's your friend's older brother who they thought was cool"when he could buy them beer or drive them around but now it's like "don't you have friends your own age" and "no, I don't want to go to the strip club on a sunday afternoon." This sums it up almost perfectly, yeah.
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Nov 1, 2019 14:48
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That’s what I love about these Barstool readers, man- I get older, they stay the same age.
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Burn on you beautiful bastards
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zakharov posted:Stoolies are so pathetic. They really seem to think Dave Portnoy is their dad. They loving hate it when you reply to their poo poo with "hope he sees this bro" because they know it highlights how pathetic they act
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zakharov posted:Stoolies are so pathetic. They really seem to think Dave Portnoy is their dad. Big Tom Leykis Energy
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Nov 1, 2019 15:18
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Did they just like schedule a bunch of posts and then leave, and there’s no one around to stop it? Because that’s extremely funny
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For those that were confused like me: https://twitter.com/PodVanDam/status/1190274496382611457?s=20
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https://twitter.com/megreenwell/status/1190281504234053632?s=21 https://twitter.com/megreenwell/status/1190281768009641985?s=21
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habeasdorkus posted:I started reading Deadspin back in the Leitch days, and the journalism being put out right up until this past week has been as good or better than anything they'd done before. That's part of why I'm so angry about this- Deadspin wasn't a shell of its former self. Hell, it was better than the loving Dauliero era, and that's seen as some type of halcyon past. And it was murdered by chucklefucks who will never face any repercussions for their fuckups, or be held to account in any meaningful way. This is exactly how I feel about this — Deadspin may have been a bit on an edge at some points, but it’s been pretty essential and doing good journalism poo poo for the better part of a decade (and even when Daulerio was around they did things like “try to replicate Doc Ellis’ LSD no-no using MLB 2K”). And it’s being strangled by people who don’t comprehend what they’re doing, won’t suffer from it, and might even profit off of all of this. It’s disgusting.
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Excellent job, management Give yourself a bonus
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Kibner posted:For those that were confused like me: https://twitter.com/PodVanDam/status/1190274496382611457?s=20 Bix freelanced for Deadspin and wrote some of the pro wrestling articles
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General Dog posted:Seems like the death of Deadspin is a pretty huge blow to the entire Gizmodo enterprise. Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine The Root, Jezebel, and Jalopnik got a lot of their traffic from cross-promotoin on Deadspin (at least here in the Kinja era). Seems like Deadspin and Kotaku are the pillars that hold the whole thing up. Yeah. Those sites probably won't have the same problem because they were never as free-wheeling as Deadspin, which everyone (except the people who bought it) understood was only nominally a sports blog. I guess Jezebel has the widest purview in terms of subject matter but it'd be funny to see Spanfeller say something like "stick to feminism".
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My point is more are Jezebel and the Root going to have the same number of visitors with no Deadspin to boost their signal?
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So now Dan Snyder is going to be happy, that makes this whole thing just that much worse.
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General Dog posted:My point is more are Jezebel and the Root going to have the same number of visitors with no Deadspin to boost their signal? Yeah it'd be interesting to see the numbers, I would imagine there'd be a drop off without the cross-posts or even people starting at Deadspin and making their way over (which I did all the time). Just made me think about how management will handle other sites.
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Vertical Lime posted:i just have a sinking feeling they're gonna try to silence the onion The "stick to sports" mandate was mostly an end-around by management to get Deadspin to stop publishing pieces about how lovely they are
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General Dog posted:My point is more are Jezebel and the Root going to have the same number of visitors with no Deadspin to boost their signal? I'm guessing it'll be a decent drop. I usually only went to those other sites when a post on Deadspin took me there.
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AndrewP posted:I guess Jezebel has the widest purview in terms of subject matter but it'd be funny to see Spanfeller say something like "stick to feminism". he tried to change their motto from "A Supposedly Feminist Website" to "We Empower Women"
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