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Will Leitch
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Sorry, I think they’re doing great. Though any site that lost Craggs would certainly feel his loss.
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Cardinals fans have no one to blame but themselves for Deadspin mocking them. We are way, way too sensitive: Every time you react, you give them exactly what they want ... and proving their point. Do what I do in October: Take Twitter off your phone during playoff games, text with your friends and family who are Read more

I’m always amazed how many stories there are like this. I was honestly just looking for content. I was glad it helped people out, but that was a happy accident.
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I can’t believe I get to do this for a living. All I ever wanted to do, since before Deadspin started, since I was a kid in Mattoon, was to get to write for a living. Now I get to do it. I don’t complain about it, and I don’t take it for granted. I spent a long time trying to catch a break, hoping I’d someday get a Read more

I’ve honestly never met him and corresponded with him only in the first week of the site. I think it’s fair to say we have differing sensibilities and views of the planet.
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Oh, the same way. Those two were both great reporters two years ago. We just wouldn’t have spent all our lunch hours yelling at each other about it.
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I think I saw that first on Spencer Hall’s blog. (He just wrote about it because Mike Cooper was wearing an Ohio State shirt.) The C train was the only train I ever put on pants for.
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It’s worth nothing that the photo that runs with my reviews here is literally more than 10 years old. Am I more punchable now, or less?
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I do not disagree with this theory in the slightest.
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I think Deadspin has a slant toward the truth, and always has. In my political writing for Bloomberg — Read more

I honestly don’t remember. Big Daddy Drew was Magary. Captain Caveman was Ufford. Unsilent Majority was Kogod. They might know the rest?
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I am 100 percent with Marchman on all cereal-related inquiries. We’re adults. We don’t need to be eating marshmellow sugar shit.
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One time my girlfriend and I were hosting a party and he got one of our guests to snort a line of cocaine off his balls in our bathroom.
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I answer this earlier, but yes: I think it’s a much better site than when I did it. It always baffles me when people say they haven’t read the site since I ran it. It’s demonstratively untrue, and somehow puts me out to pasture, like I’m not out there writing my ass off every day and haven’t been in the seven-plus Read more