Eh, it's situational. I mean, we probably shouldn't have dropped the shithammer on him right away, but the coyness of the tip, the crypto-racism, and the fact he wanted money for something we weren't going to pay for anyway, unless it depicted [ESPN on-air talent] delivering the hummer while also holding up an ESPN ID… Read more

I like this "earnest revenue" metric. So if, say, the New York Times piggybacks an AP scoop, whatever money they make off that story is only, what, "ironic revenue"? Read more

No principle. We figured it'd surface eventually and we'd post it anyway. The very rough Gawker calculus, to get brutally mercenary about it, is $10 per 1,000 uniques (320k on the Cooper post right now; you can see uniques if you mouse over the flame). Read more

Oh for fuck's sake. I love how a post in which we ask MLB and MLBPA a basic unanswered question—what exactly was Ryan Braun suspended for?—is at once a reflection of our meatheaded pro-doping agenda and a dereliction of our duty to "find more details on the story." What the fuck planet are you on? Read more

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I wish I could hug you right now. Read more

Jesus, relax. We did stuff like this all the time in the old design (and the old old design). The only thing new here is that we can post the tweets themselves instead of copying their contents and pasting them between quotation marks on the site. Read more

Sorry, just now saw this. Yes, Vitale would dictate his columns to Howie. Hence: "amanuensis." Read more

That "more or less" makes all the difference. You could drive Peter King's EvoShield bus through that "more or less." Murder "more or less" fits a pattern of past behavior that includes—I'm using your words here, from another comment—"smoking weed and fighting at bars and trying to act as hard as possible"? C'mon. Read more

Which is what, exactly? We're criticizing Peter King's post hoc nonsense because we're bitter that we didn't get news of Hernandez's involvement 10 minutes before the rest of the world did? I really don't follow. And in any case, as I said, no one "broke" the story, unless you count the cops. Read more

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Or if a guy had no such issues going into the pros, got drafted high, and then, like, shot someone or killed himself or had a domestic abuse situation or repeated rapishness-type behavior. Read more

I think you're misreading the complaint. Also, this wasn't exactly a story that anyone "broke." Read more

(Watch now. Someone will say: "Nah, the gangs were just a red herring. Hernandez fell to the fourth because everyone knew he was committing genocide while at Florida.") Read more

Maybe I'm nuts, but it still feels like a looooong way from "gang affiliations"—remember that one time Derrick Rose supposedly threw a gang sign, and the Chicago Tribune spent all day fanning itself on the divan?—to "orchestrated an [apparently non-gang-related] execution." Read more

I put a response here: http://deadspin.com/not-every-dill… Read more

No, a spade was called a garden rake, and now everyone's running around saying, "Ah, yes, we knew it was a spade all along." Read more

King: "... Point was, Hernandez was 30th-pick value who went at 113 because scouts thought he was a dillweed w/potential to remain a dillweed." Read more

He's doing excellent work over at the Atlantic Wire: Read more