Whoa...deadspin is back

"Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero" (sampsonite24) 03/25/2020 at 09:53 • Filed to: None

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Articles started posting again Sunday as far as I can tell. Yet they largely seem to suck. and comments are still turned off

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 09:57

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I’m avoiding going there out of principle. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 09:58

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Scabspin.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 09:59

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The sass is gone. Reads like any local sports website now 

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 09:59

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What even is that formating?

Sir Halffast > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:00

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Yep. It’s all clickbait bullshit. Literally nothing of substance. Shit like “Tom Brady’s Overrated.” I mean, I think he’s an asshole too, but he’s definitely not overrated...

EDIT: “Sports without Fear, Favor, or Compromise?” Ha. What a load of horseshit. Fear because we rock no boats, Favor because we give everyone’s argument merit, Compromise because we already did so we don’t need to anymore. Fuck you, Spanfeller.

The Ghost of Oppo > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:02

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I see a bunch of ranking sports leagues logos articles . So essentially Buzzfeed

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/25/2020 at 10:03

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something really awful

McMike > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:05

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Deadspin c omments are disabled so I’ll just have to put this here.

“+1"

Ash78, voting early and often > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:07

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So Coronavirus also works as herbicide?

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:17

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I saw things pop up on my twitter feed. So I unfollowed Deadspin and refuse to go there. Not so much in support of the GMG union, but more in protest of management/ownership stupidity. 

facw > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:19

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It’s been back for somewhere around a couple weeks now. This is their new non-union shop in Chicago getting to work I guess (just in time for there to be no sport! Almost as good timing wise as shutting down Splinter right before election season!) It’s pretty clear that G/O Media’s current management doesn’t want it to actually be Deadspin though, so I’m not interested in reading it.

And while I haven’t checked it recently, I believe they been too cowardly to turn the comments back on, which was of course a huge part of the fun.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > facw 03/25/2020 at 10:22

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Yeah I just noticed today that they posted something on their Facebook about it. I read one article and noped out of there

Ssfancyfresh > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:23

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Who relaunches a sports blog  when there are no sports?

Also, fuck them.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 03/25/2020 at 10:28

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Same, I had to break my habit of clicking on Deadspin. I’ll never read that Herb blog. 

ttyymmnn > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/25/2020 at 10:32

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Similar to what they did to AV Club , which makes it basically unreadable.

ttyymmnn > Ssfancyfresh 03/25/2020 at 10:32

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Who relaunches a sports blog when there are no sports?

It’s called “karma.”

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Ssfancyfresh 03/25/2020 at 10:36

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People who have never understood sports in the first place

For Sweden > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:48

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Is it still bad

jimz > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:50

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no surprise comments are disabled, they’d be 99% shitposts anyway. 

ClassicDatsunDebate > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 10:56

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It has none of the self awareness that the old writers had.  Hackneyed edginess for the sake of clicks is how it reads to me.

SmugAardvark > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 11:32

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I checked it out a week or two ago. Was not impressed, will not be returning.

fintail > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/25/2020 at 12:27

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Without comments, there’s no point.  Deadspin always had an amusing comments section.

VincentMalamute-Kim > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 03/25/2020 at 13:41

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Same.

Stef Schrader > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 03/26/2020 at 08:39

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That’s not Deadspin. It’s run by scabs who can’t write worth a damn and an affront to everything real Deadspin stood against. No comment section. New, worse tagline. Run by a mega-scab who was okay moving the entire website to Chicago so it could be under The Onion’s union, as that one doesn’t have a contractual clause against folks outside of editorial (such as the business side and especially noted herb Jim Spanfeller) influencing and meddling in editorial content.

Not worth the click. Also, Jim Spanfeller is still a herb.

Stef Schrader > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/26/2020 at 08:44

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Accurate name. I’m going to have to start using that one. 

Stef Schrader > Sir Halffast 03/26/2020 at 08:45

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It was “ without access, favor or discretion,” but they can’t have that anymore without giving noted herb Jim Spanfeller access to futz with their content as a big ol’ scabby favor.

Stef Schrader > Ash78, voting early and often 03/26/2020 at 08:46

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This seems like more of a self-inflicted wound on the herb’s part. 

Stef Schrader > The Ghost of Oppo 03/26/2020 at 08:50

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Buzzfeed’s more serious side is pumping out decent content nowadays, FWIW.

Zombie Deadspin reads like a bunch of high schoolers who couldn’t make the cut to write for their school’s paper. 

Stef Schrader > jimz 03/26/2020 at 08:57

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T he herb is still a coward, as is the “writer” who blocked me after I pointed out that his snotty attitude towards freelancers is full of crap. Bad news for that guy : if he was n’t jumping all over the chance to work in an incredibly hostile work environment , he ’d probably be out of luck in this environment , too.

The Ghost of Oppo > Stef Schrader 03/26/2020 at 09:08

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Yeah Buzzfeed News, but regular Buzzfeed is very much still just pop culture listicles . The current second highest article is   titled “19 Wild “Bridesmaids” Movie Facts That Honestly Made My Jaw Drop”

Stef Schrader > The Ghost of Oppo 03/26/2020 at 09:21

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Hahahaha, oh yeah. I forget about that part since I never really venture onto it.