Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #164: Sports Are (Poop Emoji x 3)

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Corey Kluber, why

KISS DA RINGZ PLEB!

Bruce just tied it. This game is awesome

The Believeland Windians are at it again!

Do any of you live near a Kmart? They're going out of business. I bought a couple shirseys today because they're down to 50% off, like a typical lame American consumer

Ours went out of business a few years ago

I was pretty shocked that this one was still around tbh, I thought the whole company went under like half a decade ago

I literally worked at a KMart for years but it's gone now

The only KMart near me went out of business like 13 years ago

Not Your Average Joe Smith!

Absolutely beautiful throw and tag.

I wonder how many times I've seen a catcher pick off a runner at second. Can't be too many.

Ive seen Wieters do it, but Ive never caught any other times from what I can remember. I dont even recall seeing highlights on MLBN or anything. Theres probably a stat for it that we should look up

That was a ball because Judges shins are two feet long

how do you guys feel about deadspin?

in general they do have some good writers and content, but there's so much BS.

I looked up the best way to wash a hockey helmet, and after sifting through like 5 shit ones, I found a deadspin shit one. I clicked on it because usually they at least sometimes know what they're talking about.

Article title: Your Hockey Gear Is Foul. Clean It, Or Else.
I copied + pasted the many stupidass filler deadspin style words into word. it took 1031 words until they got to the actual information. Which included really cool phrases that 12 year old patriots fans would probably think is cool: I can picture those of you who actually play the game now, beating your chest and bellowing: "THAT SMELL is part of hockey! THAT SMELL makes me awesome! What kind of Ugg-wearing Tom Brady-wannabe dandy-boy washes his pads? WHO ARE YOU, WOMAN, AND WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ON DEADSPIN??"

"bacteria come out to party like drunken permatanned girls on the Jersey Shore in August."

"The thing is about that bacteriathey aren't picky. That bacteria may want Pauly D. with all his dark, hot, moisture, but they'll settle for the cut-rate version (I've named him Sauly E.), even though he lacks heat."

and throughout the actual information there was still a lot of filler

I didn't mean to rant on deadspin tonight, but most of their articles are full of this stupid stuff

I never use deadspin- only when @Zeeky_Bomb links to it

I don't know. On one hand I think they kinda suck in a lot of ways, but on the other I think they're probably the best source of sportswriting out there because sportswriting is in general really bad. And I agree with their politics so I don't get angry about that stuff like so many Facebook commenters do. That is really weird to me btw. Deadspin is extremely political and makes no apologies for it but people still act surprised and mad about it all the time.

STLCards1991 posted...

I don't know. On one hand I think they kinda suck in a lot of ways, but on the other I think they're probably the best source of sportswriting out there because sportswriting is in general really bad.

I agree with this, specifically the "[one of] the best sources of sportswriting out there." I don't read enough of it to comment on their politics, but a lot of it has too much edgy filler crap.

Some of it is great, and the only site that immediately post a video or something that other sites wouldn't post because of offensive content or something.

And I do like Drew Magary a lot, even though he he has a lot of filler/humor/edgy stuff, though his writing as actually good

Yeah he's really good. Barry Petchesky is good for baseball stuff too. Access Journalism is terrible which is why they're usually so much better than everyone else. They can say whatever they want because they're not worried about losing a press pass or something.

I don't follow Magary on twitter because it's a little much for me, but I check his feed at times, and there's a lot of true brilliance. Most recently, the one you sent me a couple weeks ago with the "NFL Owner is ********" something tweet. (did that tweet get deleted? I can't find it in my faves)

and I love his yearly Why Your Team Sucks articles, specifically for the vikings and the packers

Hmm he did seem to delete it I forgot about that though. That was fucking hilarious

legendary
I wonder why it got deleted

mfw you're listening to a googoo dolls playlist and it plays a Train song: (heyeyeyey-y-ey-ey-y)

Indians with the walkoff win in the 13th. Insane game.

Eh, I don't know if I'd say Deadspin is one of the best sources for sportswriting. They are just smaller in comparison to a site like ESPN, so it's easier to get a picture of their good content. ESPN and other major sites have good writers, but they're in a bigger sea and there are also many very bad ones.

One of my biggest complaints is that their coverage of major events is kind of arbitrary. Sometimes they won't write a single article about a recent game, but sometimes they have two or three. The bigger sites have a more reliable spread of coverage, but that also leads to an unnecessary amount of analysis.

I do enjoy when they shit all over the media hype for guys like Jeter and Ortiz (and general blind idolatry of athletes). Sadly, even the best people on mainstream sports sites/networks seem to indulge those tendencies.

alright doyers. bench kershaw now and start him in game 2 olol
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Poor Taijuan. That inning was painful to watch.

MNTwins1991 posted...

I didn't mean to rant on deadspin tonight, but most of their articles are full of this stupid stuff

This is typically the case with a lot of their articles from Adequate Man, and it is kind of hit or miss. See all of their Foodspin articles, for example (although I genuinely enjoy some of the filler for Foodspin articles).

Anyways, you can guess my opinion of Deadspin. I did buy Magary's last book, after all.
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Jeff Mathis is starting at catcher again for some reason even though Greinke isn't pitching. And damn, you weren't kidding when you said he might be one of the worst hitting position players ever. How does a guy get solid playtime for a decade with a career average below the Mendoza line

I think Kershaw is a pretty cool person, but he plays for the wrong team. I enjoyed watching him melt down in all of the other playoffs so I hope it happens again sometime soon. Sorry Kershaw.

I can't bring myself to dislike this Dodgers team, like I do the Yankees or Red Sox.
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The Diamondbacks have more recently won the World Series than the Dodgers have.

Magary didn't gen retweet me when I sent him a pic of my copy of his book. Don't know why I still follow that POS

BTW, what did you think of The Hike? I really enjoyed it.
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I liked it fine. Didn't really blow me away but it was a light, fun read

That poor Diamondbacks bullpen. You're welcome, Dodgers :)

The Athletic has incredibly good quality content. Makes sense considering they sniped the best writers from each market

I'm too casual to pay for a subscription, though.

It's likely worth it, mind you.
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I haven't read anything on that site in part because I feel like it's about to go under any second now. It just feels like something that's going to be profiled as a noble failure by deadspin in 15 months. Also I really just don't read that much sports writing. Deadspin keeps me up to date on goings on in non baseball sports and for baseball I read fangraphs sometimes

The Wild beat writer (who is very very good and easily the best sports writer I've followed in my short time) was recently hired by the Athletic and quit his longtime newspaper gig because of it. I was going to try out a subscription, but I didn't and now that the season has started, I won't get a subscription because it feels like nothing has changed. He still tweets and stuff, but I don't need to pay for a long article about how the Staal brothers were raised.

I do think it's a good direction for sports journalism tho.

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

I'm too casual to pay for a subscription, though.

It's likely worth it, mind you.

same, and I agree. I might do the free trial within the next month or two

CaptainHammer posted...

I haven't read anything on that site in part because I feel like it's about to go under any second now. It just feels like something that's going to be profiled as a noble failure by deadspin in 15 months.

I wondered the same thing...how could it get profit? A couple months after he was hired, the wild writer (Michael Russo) tweeted that something like 50k people subscribed to the Athletic in the Twin Cities market. If they all paid $30 for the year, that's 1.5 mil. And that's just for the Wild. If they can do that in other markets, I can see how they have enough money to hire the best writers and stay in business

That's crazy but hey good on them if they're making bank. I guess the patreon model is working for a lot of people so maybe the new move in online media is trusting hat people will pay for your shit

I don't have a source, but I'm pretty sure the netflix/steam model has decreased piracy by quite a lot. I barely do it anymore because it's easy enough/cheap enough to get it legally. Maybe it can work for journalism too. Either way I'm interested to see how it works for the Athletic

the vikings need this kicker
https://twitter.com/TonyGerdeman/status/916646092086894592

Credit to that kicker for making the play, but I really wish the runner would have cut back inside and made that touchdown to complete the miracle play.

as a lifetime LSH fan, I wholeheartedly disagree

The goddamn video won't load for me

you on your computer or phone? on mobile, the twitter video player function is gargage
at least for android anyway

Got it to load in Firefox. Wow.

It wouldn't load in Chrome for me. Computer.

God bless those kids

https://deadspin.com/good-old-canada-has-gifted-us-another-onside-punt-1819247502

the CFL is fucking weird
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what a crazy rule. why didn't the blue team have a guy back to catch the punt? is that a formation rule in the cfl or something?

If you have a punter who can kick it really high and a crazy athletic gunner like cordarrelle patterson, I wonder if that would be a legit strategy to go for an onside punt every time

also, slurpee, how popular is the CFL in canada?

apparently this season, it's a gag for vikings players to have a picture of Shaun Hill in their locker
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Krammer/status/912374965105778689