You're projecting—the first thing I said to Petchesky after the game was that he was on Peyton Manning hot-take watch—and it makes me wonder what site you've been reading if you think this is the sort of thing we do around here. Read more
Tommy Craggs
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Email sent to John Tesh's PR lady, Oct. 6, 2011: Read more
Gawker/Defamer only linked to the script. They didn't upload it. They didn't embed it on a Gawker-owned website. They said, "This exists somewhere out there on the internet" and pointed out where. If this is actionable copyright infringement, we're all fucked. Read more
According to the logic of his lawsuit, you, by embedding a link to a song that's been posted on YouTube in violation of Warner/Chappell Music's copyright, are committing a far more egregious act of infringement than Defamer/Gawker ever did. Read more
It was my call. I thought her objection was worth noting; I didn't see any reason to take her tweet out of the post, though. Read more
I might be an anomalous East Central Illinoisan, but Indiana gets all my hatred. Read more
Go on ... Read more
"Somebody opened up the exit door and Rivers fell out the back" is a great call. Read more
Please read again. Read more
Chill. Read more
It wasn't about tradition or externally imposed rules or anything. It was a matter of ensuring that a weird and complicated story was explained correctly, and it was also a matter of ensuring that we were the ones doing the explaining. Going on TV and what not was a part of disseminating our story—there are audiences… Read more
God, I wrote a lot of obnoxious shit my first few months on the job. I can't even bring myself to look. Like the man says, I was so much older than; I'm younger than that now. Read more
We had the dick on a flash drive, which we were planning on sending to the Newseum. It got lost, somehow, which breaks my heart. Read more
Te'o. Not the original story, which I stand by, despite the idiot braying of the 80 percenters. It was everything that came afterward. We weren't equipped to deal with the massive media crush (nor did we expect it), and on the days following the initial story, when we should've been pressing our advantage, we found… Read more
Former Deadspinner Luke O'Brien claims to have run a 4.4 40 or some shit. First time he ever brought it up, he was asked to prove it. He went out to the street, tightened the laces of his dress shoes, and promptly pulled a hamstring after 10 yards. Read more
Yeah, I dunno. That wasn't my favorite post of the year, but I don't think it was applause so much as a mildly facetious response to a pretty airy charge. Would you really prefer that we do the talk-radio thing and crack on lazy, overpaid athletes all day? Read more
I think there's an unspoken agreement in the industry that no one talks shit about each other's year-end lists. The whole scam rests on no one in media saying out loud that we're just mailing this stuff in. Read more
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Take that, Jason McElwain.
That was the joke. Read more