albertburneko
Albert Burneko
albertburneko
Writer at Deadspin.

Every time i read these goodbye posts, I wish to everything that I worked in a place like this, doing whatever. Read more

“If what has happened is a memory and whats going to happen is a thought, you’re taking yourself out of right now. So in that case, every hour is happy hour”- me to a completely empty bar and a visibly uncomfortable bartender at 8am on a Tuesday Read more

I’m glad that you’re being sensible here. For a second there, it almost sounded like extended discussions about finding your team identity, or playing with heart, or measuring the intangibles and deceptive speed of the fan-favorite fullback, even though he averages 2-yards-and-a-spray-of-mayo on every carry, shouldn’t Read more

But wouldn’t football would take a longer process than Basketball or any other sport that has LESS players? I mean in basketball two players can change a franchise, meanwhile in football you gotta have at least 3 with 2 being on one side of the ball.. Read more

It drives me nuts that the 76ers are held as definitive proof that the process works. They are one more Joel Embiid knee injury away from it being an unmitigated disaster. They had all these high draft picks that have either underachieved (for christ sakes, Simmons can’t shoot a jumper) or they’ve whiffed entirely on Read more

Process people forget the fundamental point of sports, which is entertainment.  Read more

Process freaks always seem to forget that the first part of winning a championship includes...wait for it...making the damn playoffs! Read more

Fundamentally, sure, the chance of hitting on a star in the draft is the surest way to building a good team quickly, and you have a better chance at doing that with a high draft pick and multiple selections. But to completely disregard any other form of team building, or to insinuate that attempting to build a team Read more

So what? Are you saying we should wait until the Browns actually have a winning season, or at least play a single down that matters following yet another losing season, before anointing them a model franchise? Are you suggesting maybe we should acknowledge that the “Process” they supposedly “brought” to the NFL is Read more

Many things grate me about The Ringer sometimes, but their insistence that teams smash the TANK button the second they’re not a bonafide title contender is extremely dumb. Read more

this is actually my fear of a deadspin-less world: these chodes write these flowery pieces which just create horseshit myths of “success” which is going to be so fucking funny to us when the browns go 8-8, but no one will ever answer for this fucking nonsense Read more

Having Burneko review booze is like having Marchman review only popular things: their most basic frame of reference is so fucked out, they don’t have a baseline to compare against Read more

But I immediately blurted out “It’s for a gag!” anyway Read more

Yeah its so boring which is why I remember exactly how she looked, what she said, what she was wearing, how she tasted, how she felt... but I was terribly bored the entire time. It’s definitely not the only time I almost had sex.

Also I went to Harvard and she was totally impressed with that. I didn’t bring it up, she Read more

Love to write shitty Penthouse Forum letters about my sex life that also mention superfluously that I went to Harvard. Read more

A nice reminder that what Rich Paul has done with his affiliation with Lebron is actually very impressive and not the layup some assume. Read more

The first thing I read on Deadspin, about 4-6 months after it started, was about a baseball player flying his plane into a house. Read more