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Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor | Deadspin

Let yourself feel sorry for yourself for a while. It really sucks and I’m sorry to hear it.  Read more

Goddamnit, it’s gonna be the Bruins and I hate myself for knowing this already. Read more

Everyone here only likes weenie music, except for Drew, who likes rock, but only if it’s cheesy and from the 80s.  Read more

I’ll give you a hint, it’s none of the white men! Funny how that works.  Read more

Hotter, righter take: Anyone who likes college sports is a bad and weird person. Read more

I listen to exactly two podcasts, so I am not the guy to be making recs here, but Twenty Thousand Hertz is good. It’s all about sound, so it’s one of the very, very few things that actually justifies being a podcast. Read more

Ok, first of all, Patrick studied rocks at Berkeley. Second of all, he’s not smarter than anyone. Read more

I didn’t get into it here, but it does not feel entirely irrelevant that the Giants were the last NFL team to start a black QB. And that was only in 2017. Read more

On my laptop the left shift key died, and it took about two weeks for me to awkwardly retrain myself to use the right one at all times. Read more

Absolutely, yes. The sneaker pitch above came from someone just like you, with writing experience but without without any journalistic writing experience. Read more

I can’t speak to that piece specifically, but in many cases government agencies will waive the usual fees for responding to FOIA requests if the information is for journalistic purposes. Read more

And the Marlins traded Paddack to the Padres for Fernando Rodney. Cold world out there.  Read more