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David Roth
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David Roth is an editor at Deadspin.

Not to give away too much but there were two Perot inserts in the second pack. Read more

I am very happy to be of service, here. For whatever reason I was very feisty about the gum during this shoot. Which is weird because I enjoy gum etc. Read more

In the biz, we call this Scannin’ For Tunch. Read more

A discussion to this effect was edited out. Herman Heard was Okoye’s backup, and then Word and Okoye’s backup. A very rectangular backfield in retrospect. Historically rectangular. Read more

Got to respect going out there and hitting guys really hard while dressed in the Matlock color scheme. Read more

I also think this! I don’t have any tape on hand to prove it, but I remember years ago watching him and thinking that he was good and insightful and understated, whereas now he is more surly/comatose. Read more

It’s the former for me. Just knowing that you’re the fastest person ever to swim a given distance or the first person ever to do some ridiculous flip seems impossibly cool to me.  Read more

They’re really good but I find not-liking them pretty easy so far. Read more

I’m putting my writing about the Mets on hiatus because I feel like I keep rewriting the same story. Probably because I do. Any team that stays bad for years on end for reasons of its own devising is a tough one. Read more

Big tacky New York Post headline reading like TRAIN DERAILMENT every five days would be okay, though. Read more

Funny, mostly, but only because this is the rare website where the follow-on riffs are often significantly funnier than the original text. Read more

/Checks to see if Richie Incognito is currently on a NFL roster Read more

I have to think that the Bengals are a tough one. They’re never that good or that bad, they’re kind of organizationally scummy, shitty owner, and the stupid stadium deal is wrecking the budget for the city and county around them. Just a full-spectrum bleakness that even the sad-ass Browns can’t deliver. Read more

I watched it recently for a video series that i09 was doing and was delighted at how well it holds up. It feels slow and strange relative to contemporary horror stuff but it’s even better than I remembered it being and it scared me crazy as a kid. Read more

Whichever non-Republican it is I opt to vote for instead of Andrew Cuomo. Read more

All of my answers here are making me think I need to re-examine my entire lifestyle. Read more

MAH WIVE and I go to the same restaurant in our neighborhood every week, and it’s generally become something that we do when we feel like we really need it. It helps a lot, and it’s nice to be someplace where they know your order and will let you hang out drinking wine. Read more