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Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor | Deadspin

Shows how much you know...I’m just as hairy as a normal auroch. Read more

I was already 20 when Ichiro joined MLB and I think I’d thought I was years past the part of my life where a professional athlete could ever be the kind of immortal, larger-than-life figure that, say, Michael Jordan or Lawrence Taylor or Martina Navratilova had seemed to be when I was a kid. But Ichiro was—and in lots Read more

Griffey in the dugout to greet Ichiro made me nostalgic for all of the Mariners teams of my youth that always found a way to came up just short. Read more

especially insulting to the Penguins because this was clearly an old gag meant for the Anaheim game back in November Read more

Don Cherry is so worried about this he’s gonna wear a blaze orange camo suit on the next Coach’s Corner.
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now only the fuddiest of duddies remain against hockey players visibly having a good time and entertaining their fans Read more

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One of the funniest things from Conan’s old show. Conan birding. The first time I saw a roseate spoonbill in the wild I thought I had seen a flamingo, because they are very pink and very skittish, so I only got a glimpse.

First two weeks of September, Jones Beach (NY) gets more species than any other part of the US. 2 square miles, has mid-400s # of species recorded, it’s the ultimate fall migrant trap, gets passerines, shore birds, pelagics. Read more

I’m so fucking proud of my alma mater, for at least the next 15 minutes. Read more

I get it. There’s not much I like to do more than watching birds, if you know what I mean. Read more

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“What losers!” I said, as I clicked over to see how many pretend farm was doing on Farmville* Read more

And this is, quite unironically and amazingly, the best proof of Marchman’s point — the American experiment literally begins with a select group of privileged people speaking for a circumscribed “We” and the whole of American history since has been a neverending struggle to reconcile that one fucking word. Read more

We are the ones who picked oat and honey cafe mix as the best cereal a few years ago. Read more