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Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor | Deadspin

Guaranteeing right now DC Defenders gonna lead the league in points allowed because fuck nominative determinism Read more

My college roommates and I had a team name discussion 20+ years ago. We concluded that the best name that you never see (forgive me if it’s some minor league baseball team, which it probably is) is “Monsters.” Read more

His advice: Get a federal permit to kill one of the vultures, then hang it in a tree or other spot where other vultures can see it for miles around. Read more

Good god, that’s exactly where this is headed isn’t it? We’re going to be discussing whether he completed the process of the clap and completed a non-clap football move. Read more

Whatever standard they decide on, I just hope it’s reviewable. Read more

Field tests are insanely unreliable when it comes to false positives, and there’s a good reason for this - cops don’t care about false positives AT ALL, all they care about are false negatives, because a false positive lets them arrest and charge you, then when it turns out the test was wrong, they let you go no harm Read more

[atonal nasal voice] something is happening here but you don’t know what it is Read more

Hello from August 28 2008, where the Lions just finished going 4-0 in the preseason and, well, it was silly to try to say anything meaningful about the preseason, but ... 4-0, c’mon, it wasn’t ALL against backups, this 2008 Lions roster is gonna spark a fire. Read more

A pretty good start. Can’t wait to see what he can do against NFL-level competition. Read more

We didn’t. But he’s gotten so bad that he’s come out the other side and now we do. Either way the Steinbrenners love him, so he’s not going anywhere, so you might as well just lean into the Stockholm Syndrome.  Read more

I like him because I don’t take myself too seriously. And hearing plenty of interviews with him he knows what he’s doing. It’s goofy and certainly not for everybody but I prefer that to some psycho like Jack Edwards or Tommy Heinsohn who scream bloody murder every time a call goes against the home team Read more

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