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David Roth
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David Roth is an editor at Deadspin.

Schaumburg is essentially one large outdoor mall comprised of large indoor malls and retail spaces connected by parking lots and a 10% sales tax. I’d say avoid it at all costs, but there is a Garrett’s Popcorn... Read more

I see where he’s coming from. For a guy whose day to day in the white house involved being ok with the deaths of thousands of innocent people on a frequent basis an oasis of sport like the Olympics, which has only occasionally featured the deaths of innocent people, must seem like a welcome reprieve.  Read more

Wow I would never have pegged Kissinger as a Burning Man guy. Read more

Rick Cerone is of a set of guys I remember during my brief time collecting cards whose cards were in seemingly every pack instead of my favorite Indians players. Let’s call them “Bicycle Spoke Guys” because that’s where their cards ended up. Some more of them:

I teach a Baseball History class and after I showed them the ESPN Dennis Eckersley video biography in class, and they had found out Manning stole Eck’s wife, a couple of them, who play on the baseball team, shot daggers at each other. I later found out the team’s catcher had “stolen” the second baseman’s girlfriend Read more

Ken Phelps, Bob Knepper, Chris Bosio, Mike LaValliere, Paul Kilgus, Kelly Paris, Keith Atherton, Bob Horner, Mark Clear. Read more

I find it hilarious that their 82 year old hire seems to be more flexible and foward-thinking than the ownership. Read more

If “I Watched all the Porky’s Movies” isn’t the title of Drew’s autobiography, then what the hell are we even doing here? Read more

Hearing Roth say “it was a wish my heart made” felt like we were about segue into some strange crossover with a Hallmark movie, which...appropriate. Read more

Don’t know, but he CAN play 5-on-5 with his kids, which is impressive, I guess Read more

Definitely read “Mississippi State star Jake Mangum” as “Mississippi State star Jake Magnum” and was pretty disappointed when I realized my mistake.  Read more

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Linguistics Professors HATE Him!

I worry about bringing down the mood in a lighthearted “Guys” article, but you seem like a man in touch with your weltschmerz, so here goes. I don’t know that a more apt metaphor for Alzheimer’s, or perhaps even death itself, has been uttered than “When we stop remembering, they turn out the lights.” Read more

259 Ks in 417 IP over his career? Seems like he couldn’t really Frohwirth a crap. Read more

I was at Fenway for Mike Timlin’s 1000th appearance. Any Guy who gets the ball a thousand times is worth Remembering. Read more