Non-competes are ubiquitous in TV news, and have snaked their way into online journalism (there’s technically some kind of non-compete in the GMG union contract IIRC) though they really only ever get enforced in TV, though they are very severely enforced (mostly because local TV stations don’t want their chief… Read more

nah, the dream—and we’re the same age, so I think you know where I’m coming from—was the A3 Golf wagon that was never imported here.... at least it was on the Vortex forums around the turn of the century...  Read more

The Glazers have also told Tampans to go fuck themselves whenever possible, while Jeff Vinik is singlehandedly turning our downtown into a world-class destination, business, and education center. Read more

Given that Barstool owns Rough N Rowdy, and Rough N Rowdy already killed at least one person... Read more

Most expensive NP ever? Read more

The co-rec league I was in required 50% or more of the players to be women, for men and women to alternate positions on the field (so either the left and right-center outfielders were male or female, etc, and the first and SS or second and third basemen, plus either the pitcher or catcher, batters must also alternate… Read more

according to Comscore, nobody. fun fact: more people [‘unique visitors’] read Timothy Burke over the months of March and April 2018 than read all of barstoolsports.com, according to Comscore.  Read more

Thanks, it was fun working with you! Read more

oh man, you’re making that recipe? it seriously brings people to our Thanksgiving every year. We have 30+ people every year. It’s such a great recipe, I’m so glad someone else can share in it. Read more

I think that GIF predates Deadspin, let alone my tenure here. Read more

no idea, i’m actually not sure what that GIF is or why it’s named “original.gif” but an error may have been made in dragging in the buttfumble gif. unfortunately this post is so heavy with GIFs i’m afraid to edit it and put the right one in.. Read more

(I didn’t make that one.) Read more

I believe Jaguars fan is from the 2011 preseason? Or early enough in the season that I didn’t work here yet. Read more

MLB is down 32% this season, the NCAA tournament was down 11%, the NHL is down 11%, and NCAA football was down 5% (despite having more games on TV than any previous season). Sky’s Premier League ratings are rock bottom. Only the NBA, which is currently in a once-in-a-lifetime level of talent, is surviving the trend.  Read more

It’s not actually that hard. If you believe that a pitcher should be credited for his fielder’s work when that fielder makes a putout, then why should the pitcher be absolved of his fielder’s failure when that player makes an error? Read more

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Recently realized that my next destination is a site that does not have comments, I will be lost... adrift...

I was a shitty commenter on Deadspin long before I worked here and I expect to be a shitty commenter here well after Read more

i have to imagine. 75,000 RTs before FIFA got involved Read more

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thanks, hopefully the next seven days of sports provide me one more opportunity to do this dumb stunt i’ve been doing for nine years now Read more