#deadspin forever

[theartificialintelligentsia]

Ben Mullin on Twitter

“New: Jim Spanfeller is in talks to sell @ClickHole to Cards Against Humanity amid Deadspin crisis. W/@lalpert1 https://t.co/t2LPvmo7zT”

yo, just sell every last website in the GMG to CAH

CAH would be a much better owner of these websites than Noted Herb™ Jim Spanfeller

[combatdavey]

deadspin

I've wanted (and tried!) to write something meaningful about Deadspin, but words have failed me. It was a singular, meaningful, and good place on the internet. It was staffed by the exact right kind of people. It had guts and integrity. It had heart, and brains. I like sports, and people who like sports, but precious few people know exactly how to contextualize popular sports within the larger motherfucker of it all, and no one has ever done it like Deadspin did. 

And now, no one else will.

I never wrote a piece for them and I don't know any of them IRL but David Roth, Laura Wagner, Albert Burneko, Drew Magary, Diana Moskovitz, Barry Petchesky, Samer Kalaf, Tom Ley, Lauren Theisen, Megan Greenwell, et al, made me better at what I do professionally and somehow, personally. 

Nothing gold can stay, alas, and that blows. Fuck Jim Spanfeller, fuck vulture capitalism, and fuck anyone who gets off on issuing (or conforming to) edicts as mind-numbingly feckless, stupid, and boring as "stick to sports." Y'all should stick to not wrecking the world.

[combatdavey]

This was the site that made everyone who read it want to start a site of their own. It can still be that place, if the people in charge cared to keep it that way. My exit—along with that of my colleagues—should tell you precisely how optimistic I am about them doing so.

from This Is How It’s Gonna Work