Here is one option for people who like other things and who would like to talk about them away from the Taylor Swift fans: Talk about other things (that aren’t Taylor Swift) in other places (that aren’t the comments of a post about Taylor Swift). Read more

God damn it. Read more

I’m not actually sure which version they’re using; the stuff I saw on it only referred to the tests as “SCAT;” I just used SCAT3 as a reference. Read more

Yes, but not as much.

Reminder that just last year, ESPN housed another climate-change denier under the FiveThirtyEight roof. Read more

I only watched the first season of Lost, so I think Lost is pretty good. Read more

I’ll probably watch this. Read more

Why would an ad salesman be D.B. Cooper? Read more

Nah, it builds tension for lists that are well thought out, so those should leave the No. 1 ranking for last. For ones that are about objectionable opinions on both ends, you have a an earnest argument-starter at the top and a troll joke/reality at the bottom. Read more

Some lists should go the other way, though, and that is OK. Read more

Oh god, I actually just forgot. Donovan is Fine, I guess. Still think Gentry should coach every team with FaceTime. Read more

Everyone’s going to call him, sure, but there haven’t been any reports that I’ve seen. Read more

When I had much longer commutes (~50 minutes door to door from far uptown to the city) I’d listen to podcasts on my way to and from work; same in college, when it was something like 80 minutes to get into Manhattan from Queens, and while I was doing braindead data entry jobs. Before things like Instapaper and Pocket… Read more

Persuasive. Read more

Hey, thanks Read more

I completely disagree, and I’m not sure how else to phrase it other than I already have. You’re narrowing the scope in theory in a way that makes the work and posts, in the context of how Deadspin would present them, completely meaningless to most readers. We cover fantasy sports projections when we can (I commission… Read more

Craggs keeps threatening to give me the Jazzy Jeff toss if I ever step foot in a gym where he’s playing. Read more

Right, but in this case, the gambling writers are not writing about how well specific gamblers did, they are giving advice about how to gamble in the immediate future. Poker writing, for example, is largely retrospective, and when it isn’t the analysis is done by people who are competent at the game. But writing… Read more

Oh, he still writes NBA-themed columns, but they are not about basketball; they are about namedropping the people he texts with (Kobe! Jeff Van Gundy!) or summer movies or Larry Bird, somehow. Read more

He’s an exceptional basketball historian who refuses to write about basketball, and as you look back at his best work, has always refused to write about it, preferring meta-meta-meta-layer analysis and pre-SAT structure over simply saying what he thinks. The last time he sat down and just wrote about the NBA… Read more