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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


General Dog posted:

Rovell’s Anne Frank tweet seems not that stupid to me, adjusting for the Tweeter and the subject matter. I would go so far as to agree with the basic premise that self quarantine from a mostly non lethal virus is preferable to being a Jew hiding from sinister agents carrying out the Final Solution.

you're trying way too hard here

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BWV
Feb 24, 2005


General Dog posted:

Rovell’s Anne Frank tweet seems not that stupid to me, adjusting for the Tweeter and the subject matter. I would go so far as to agree with the basic premise that self quarantine from a mostly non lethal virus is preferable to being a Jew hiding from sinister agents carrying out the Final Solution.

to echo one of my greatest posts:

only one of them leads to meaningful brand exposure.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
I sent a blind freelance pitch to editor@deadspin.com, let's see if anyone montiors that account. can't find contact info anywhere else on the site.

edit- lol address not found, anyone know how to write for these rear end idiots

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

General Dog posted:

There’s no way the theaters would abide a streaming price as low as $50. A family of four seeing it in the evening would be saving money in that scenario.

morestuff posted:

The real answer is that most theater chains would refuse to screen the movie if they did that

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1239620587820990464

$20 a pop.

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Well there you go. Though I doubt we’d see that price point in a normal market.

Also Trolls: World Tour looks viscerally unpleasant

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
Yeah, they can afford to make a drastic move because the market’s completely collapsed. They don’t mind if their movies get yanked from theaters because they aren’t making any money there anyway

Dunbar
Feb 21, 2003

Emma didn't open here until Friday before last and I skipped seeing it even though wanted to specifically because of the virus, so I'm in the target audience there and I'll happily pay $20 to check it out. Probably watch Invisible Man too.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1239717152250265600

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
https://twitter.com/ChicagoBears/st...D556%23lastpost
#SNICKERSDABEARS

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀



I hear Foles has got a big Snickers, if you catch my meaning

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

How's his immune system, I need to see white blood cell and lymphocyte counts stat

Island Nation
Jun 20, 2006
Trust No One

Mr. Fix It posted:

I hear Foles has got a big Snickers, if you catch my meaning

https://www.amazon.com/SNICKERS-Chr...s%2C169&sr=8-26

Don't forget his two big ones


https://www.amazon.com/HERSHEYS-Cho...R6FRFFPZN5V3SVT

Koopa Kid
Aug 21, 2007



Mr. Fix It posted:

I hear Foles has got a big Snickers, if you catch my meaning

Yeah I caught it, unlike Agholor :rolleyes:

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

So how's the new Deadspin doing...


https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1240697405323935744

Well okay then. :stare:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


holy poo poo even vice doesn't try to be that edgy

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Not even sports can save you now.

DildenAnders
Mar 16, 2016

"I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.â€Â
Vichy Deadspin is trying so hard, and only making it so much worse. I'm not a big style guide person, but a 3 sentence headline? Seriously?

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
see that's why they should of hired me, i'm an expert at writing for dead gay sites.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

I like this one:

https://twitter.com/roomiecrisis/status/1240702654361128960/photo/1

The capitalization of nearly every word is driving me crazy, too. I know it's the style at some places, but every headline at Vichy Deadspin is way too long making it even worse.

RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 20, 2020

Ready! Set! Blow!
Jun 17, 2005

Red alert.

DildenAnders posted:

Vichy Deadspin is trying so hard, and only making it so much worse. I'm not a big style guide person, but a 3 sentence headline? Seriously?

Could be worse, they could be following the Billy Haisley style guide

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

You'd think working under an established brand, even one management already ripped to shreds, would save you the trouble of including a long parenthetical right under the headline explicitly describing the tone you're trying to achieve... but Vichy Deadspin would disagree.

Patrick Spens
Jul 21, 2006

"Every quarterback says they've got guts, But how many have actually seen 'em?"
Pillbug
Hey the Athletic is offering a free 90 trial, so far it seems pretty cool.

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

RC and Moon Pie posted:

I like this one:

https://twitter.com/roomiecrisis/status/1240702654361128960/photo/1

The capitalization of nearly every word is driving me crazy, too. I know it's the style at some places, but every headline at Vichy Deadspin is way too long making it even worse.

First, Gary Bettman, Now, Coronavirus
First, Gary Bettman; Now, Coronavirus

either is better than the actual headline

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1241426525213339649
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1241428094411509760

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
Well that's 500 more pageviews than their articles were getting just a few weeks ago, so if current trends continue...[Disco Stu voice] Eyyyyyyyy!

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe
truly amazing how galaxy brained it is in retrospect to effectively shutter a leading web site by forcing it to stick to sports during an election and one of the most world-changing events to happen in the last hundred years

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

truly amazing how galaxy brained it is in retrospect to effectively shutter a leading web site by forcing it to stick to sports during an election and one of the most world-changing events to happen in the last hundred years

They didn’t know the latter was coming, to be fair

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

General Dog posted:

They didn’t know the latter was coming, to be fair

IMO everyone saw the writing on the wall that Brady and Belichick were headed to splitsville.

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

General Dog posted:

They didn’t know the latter was coming, to be fair

yeah i just mean that the mandate to stick to sports crippled them...could have been anything else and they would not be allowed to cover it.

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Simmons doing a solo Rewatchables episode on Cast Away is a pretty good bit

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
Yes, because it invites one to ask the question "Would I listen to this podcast if I was stranded alone with it on a desert island"

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Deadspin is selling a t-shirt. It's going over as well as you'd expect.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

also, they don't know math

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1242528268642856960

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
The Athletic's MLS section is killing time in the best way

https://twitter.com/samstejskal/status/1242520655700078592?s=20

quote:

A Saturday afternoon away game usually means one thing for MLS teams: Saturday night is going to be a hell of a party.

On a trip to San Jose in the late ’90s, a couple of Kansas City Wizards reserves weren’t interested in waiting until after the game to get started. The players filled some water bottles with vodka and sipped from them during the game — a mid-game pregame, if you will.

Late in the match, a player went down injured. As the trainers tended to him, players from both teams went to the bench to grab a drink.

That didn’t go so well for Preki. The star Kansas City attacker, now an assistant coach with Seattle, unknowingly grabbed one of the water bottles filled with vodka. And instead of taking a sip, he sprayed it all over his face.

“He goes down on the field, rolling around, screaming,” says one person who was on the field for the incident. “Everyone’s like, ‘What the gently caress?’ And he’s down there just screaming: ‘I’m blind! I’m blind!’ And the guys on the bench are just dying laughing. I mean, the guy just sprayed vodka right in his eyes. They had to stop the game.”

All of them are great even if you don't care about MLS

morestuff fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Mar 24, 2020

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


lmao these are gonna own

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007

The Mons Venus featuring in multiple stories is so fantastically Mid ‘90s Tampa.

Also amazing that about half the league in the ten-team days stayed in the same tourist villa such that trades would happen at a party one night, and the guy would just move his bags one door down the next day.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.

harperdc posted:

The Mons Venus featuring in multiple stories is so fantastically Mid ‘90s Tampa.

Also amazing that about half the league in the ten-team days stayed in the same tourist villa such that trades would happen at a party one night, and the guy would just move his bags one door down the next day.

I’ve heard about the mons Venus from so many loving ex nfl employees. I’ve never set foot in Tampa and yet half the stories I know about that city are from there.

algebra testes
Mar 5, 2011


Lipstick Apathy

DJExile posted:

lmao these are gonna own

quote:

“Immediately, I’m like, ‘This is gonna be a shitshow,’” says Williams.

Incredible.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


the ringer did a karate kid podcast, FINALLY i can hear what bill simmons thinks about the karate kid

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morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
The one time I listed to a Rewatchable it was basically 60 minutes of the hosts confirming they had watched the movie

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