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Will Leitch
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Rick is one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing and/or working with. This is awful. Read more

My wife of 16 years and mother to our three boys is an only child. I’m going to go call her a fraud and a bad leader and report back my findings. Read more

Recently realized that my next destination is a site that does not have comments, I will be lost... adrift...

I was a shitty commenter on Deadspin long before I worked here and I expect to be a shitty commenter here well after Read more

I may be too old to still be reading a Sports blog (your roast was one of the best things to come out during a terrible time in my life), but dammit that was the most gut-wrenching intro to anything I’ve ever read. Read more

Will, I love you, but that photo is so white it looks like it has very serious opinions about Ladybird. Read more

“I am a father now, of two beautiful little boys who are obnoxious and gassy and loud and just about the most incredible things I’ve ever seen in my life. Every day my wife and I look at them and see the boys they are becoming, the men they will someday be, and we are thrilled, we are elated, we are driven near to Read more

Probably way too soon to be making this joke, but it’s a bummer how that suit went from my Reservoir Dogs suit to my “Turkish assassin” suit in the span of, like, five minutes. Read more

Well, he equates himself with window guy as well, because I think most of us feel that way. I certainly didn’t want this either, it’s horrifying. But, here we are all the same. The election went the way it went and now we have to live with it. Read more

I will give Leitch this, and I will always give him this from this point forward: his “Cubs win the World Series” tears taste so much better than your random racist Cardinals fan tears. And it was a pleasure to see him slowly unravel as it became more and more clear the Cubs were really good and the favorites to win Read more

Sports dadding has improved considerably since the introduction of body-cams. Read more

Yep. Can’t manage a smooth shift at Applebees, but his bonafides as a hard-ass are impeccable. Read more

The story, as I remember from Deadspin oh-so-many years ago, was that Berman and his crew were at a bar in Scottsdale, Arizona, and as they were talking to a group of women, Berman used the infamous line to one of them wearing a leather outfit. It’s Scottsdale; there’s a better-than-average chance that a full leather Read more

And John Harrison is Kahn. Shhh, you’re not supposed to know! Read more

I also like Life Aquatic! It made my top 10 that year: Read more

The actual riots were largely initiated by people of color and transgenders, not a straight acting blond white dude. White-washing an actual historical event means race is certainly an issue. Read more

The hyperbole comes fast and furious. Bamberger meets Shyamalan for the first time and comes away wondering if he has superpowers. “I go down the New Age road skeptically,” he writes, “but I felt a powerful force coming off the guy.” That’s from page 4. This is from page 12: “Night knew there was something telepathic Read more

I scream-laughed when I saw this that day (my fav). Happy 10 years - please keep doing this kind of hard-hitting work (seriously).