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David Roth
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David Roth is an editor at Deadspin.

I’d love to see one of the weird mega-aces of early baseball pitch. For some reason Walter Johnson always fascinated me, I think probably because The Big Train is such a cool nickname. But I would really like to see peak Magic play in today’s NBA. I barely remember him from my childhood but what I remember was so Read more

Good question! There are ones that I’ve seen in the fancier places where those things tend to show up—there’s a place in the East Village called Mr. Throwback that I sometimes visit just to see what they’ve got—that I didn’t even know existed, and most of the ones I’d consider paying more than like $7 for are those. Read more

Not all the coverage is good, but Dan Devine is always good. Read more

I apologize for it and while I don’t know if it’ll help you should know that I have pretty well wrecked my own shit with it as well. Read more

St. Patrick’s Day is a fucking disaster as an adult. Once you can drink whenever you want the idea of a designated day for it seems kind of redundant. Read more

You have to follow your heart on this one. I stand with you. Read more

There are a lot of Philly partisans on staff, and I am not one of them, but it’s a fun city. Chicago seems fantastic to me, though, and head and shoulders above either. I reserve the right to change my answer after we do the Deadcast in Nashville next month, though. Read more

We tend to share these in Slack but it’s not a bad idea. I always treasure the ones I get—not just the nice normal people being like “thanks, I also like the Brewers” but the people who actually read the stuff and engage with it enough to write an email. Honestly it’s just refreshing to be reminded that such people Read more

I think Patrick is right BUT I also think Trump’s the type to remember every single slight he’s ever received. He absolutely forgets how to tie his shoes and has never known all of his kids’ names at the same time, but he absolutely remembers everyone who ever told him to get stuffed. Read more

I eat meat and enjoy burgers and legitimately the one I think about the most is Superiority Burger, which is a veggie burger. Read more

I admire the extent to which baseball, especially, is out of ideas on this front. I would admire it more if I were the guy getting paid $375,000 to show Rob Manfred a dry erase board with “That’s October For Ya” written on it. Read more

I think he has a lot of DVD’s in a shoebox. That’s my honest answer. Read more

It’s comparatively proportional. All of Drew is too big. Read more

He has a highly advanced sense of smell. Every odor is overwhelming to him. Also he uses his tongue to smell. It’s complicated. Read more

Coens for me, and it’s not terribly close. Read more

I got DAY OF THE LOCUST at Goodwill and am working on it. The writing is very good line-by-line and it’s short enough that I’ll finish it, but it feels antique in a way that’s kept me from really getting into it. The best thing I’ve read recently is A CURE FOR SUICIDE by Jesse Ball. Read more

I think it’s corny but I appreciate it all the same. I do wish there were more overt weirdos pitching out of bullpens but I also feel like someone is going to discover how DISRUPTIVE submariners are sometime in the next year or so and we’ll get a little boomlet. There are only so many new things that fit in the game, Read more

He just helps the rookies learn where to buy awful boxy suits. The job pays $325,000 per annum. Read more