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Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor | Deadspin

Real “we’re all headin’ over to Gary’s to look at his new chest freezer” energy. Read more

Only a casual hockey fan, but I love the clear Ping! of a shot to the post. Read more

So Bozak’s goal wins game 4 last round for the Blues and now Gunnarsson’s scoring OT winners in the Final. Read more

Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, a trust fund baby worth $3.7B, clearly cannot possibly turn down this several thousand dollars on principle, because he has no principles Read more

Thank you for this. The narrative about the Warriors over the past four of five years has been, “Fuck this noveau-rich tech bullshit NBA team and their bandwagon fans.” And to some extent that narrative is accurate. But that narrative misses the fans, many of whom also root for the A’s next door, who have been filling Read more

yep, the longtime season ticket holders who lived through the post Run TMC years (with the “We Believe” year being a blip on otherwise a dismal stretch) have been priced out by the tech bros who don’t care about basketball, they just go because it’s the cool thing to do and to be seen. Now they’re just being abandoned Read more

As an Oakland native and a long time Warriors fan, I’m riding out the this final year enjoying every moment I possibly can. These last six or seven years have been a basketball fans dream. A dynasty team of the ages. Somehow every player I liked ended up on the warriors from Igoudala to David West and even Boogie Read more

As a season ticket holder for the last 15 years, this season has been incredibly bittersweet, me and my dad will not be renewing at the new arena because of the absurd seat licensing fees and 30% markup on the price of game tickets on top of that (not to mention the inconvenient location almost a mile south of the Read more

I always loved how Oakland seemed to be the last hold out in the mass influx of money and gentrification into the Bay Area. San Francisco has been mostly unaffordable for most of my life and absolutely unaffordable for the last 15 years. Still, as the Bay became more homogeneous, it felt like people intetionally Read more

For Bay Area folks out there: have you met a single person who’s enthusiastic about the move? Because I have not.  Read more

From everything I’ve heard, the drive is to get there, no matter where you live in the area, is such a pain that it’s not worth it. Ten dollars less on admission when you still have to be stuck in traffic for an extra hour probably isn’t justifiable enough. Citation: I live in Brooklyn, about 1.5 hours on the train Read more

The cheapest seats available for tonight’s game are $18. You can get Marlins tickets tonight for $10, and you can get White Sox tickets for $7. That’s not all that bad, but I don’t know why the Rays don’t sell some tickets for something like $5 (or even $1) just to get people in the door. It would make the stadium Read more

Rays: where did you learn to leave huge parts of the park unoccupied?

I didn’t go to the game. You didn’t go to the game. Read more

My memory may be a little faulty in this regard but when Leiweke talked about the idea of a name change it was more met with a shrug of the shoulders instead of any outright hostility. I still think the city’s relationship to the name is pretty tepid. Right now you’d probably have a tough time talking people into a Read more