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> Deadspin was the only site I checked multiple times a day, alas defector hasn't risen to that yet. Why do you think that is? Does Defector have a smaller sta

> Deadspin was the only site I checked multiple times a day, alas defector hasn't risen to that yet. Why do you think that is? Does Defector have a smaller staff than Deadspin did at its peak? Prime Deadspin was hit or miss for me. I didn't really care for the social-justice and "culture" content, with an increasing number of non-sports articles that felt like a college newspaper. When the PE came in and had the stick-to-sports decree, in theory I agreed, but obviously they executed that poorly, which accelerated all the departures.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago
Ironic (in the business sense) because the post-mass-quit Zombie Deadspin is so over the top with the identity politics takes on sports that it is eye rolling at times, almost an experiment in absurdism. And that happened ... right-o ... as soon as Defector launched, it was such a transparent revenge move by the private equity ghouls/goons. I welcome left-wing and anti-establishment takes on sports. Mainstream sports are hyper conservative (flags! anthem! flags! jet flyovers! flags! honor the military! flags! honor more military! uniforms! borderline eugenics!) with THE MOST RIDICULOUS corporate welfare with publicly financed stadiums, publicly financed training areas, massive tax breaks and favorable tax law, and a fawning bootlicker media/PR division. Left wing takes on sports are extremely important because there are many societal themes at play with sports. The manipulations by the right to fleece the taxpayers. The last functioning unions and debates about fair pay and revenue sharing. Health care and pensions. Race and discrimination. Homosexuality discrimination. Blind loyalty and jingoism vs loyalty to higher ideals and sportsmanship. So much sausage making that is too boring for regular enterprises to get attention becomes front page news in sports. Of course there's the corruption. Soooo much corruption, favorable non-prosecution, getting let off by the cops, fake "investigations", repugnant work conditions. And the comments on deadspin were pretty good. Any site with "pretty good" comments is a gem in the cesspool. The usernames were fantastic. HN users have disappointingly lame usernames by comparison.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

Ironic (in the business sense) because the post-mass-quit Zombie Deadspin is so over the top with the identity politics takes on sports that it is eye rolling at times, almost an experiment in absurdism. And that happened ... right-o ... as soon as Defector launched, it was such a transparent revenge move by the private equity ghouls/goons. I welcome left-wing and anti-establishment takes on sports. Mainstream sports are hyper conservative (flags! anthem! flags! jet flyovers! flags! honor the military! flags! honor more military! uniforms! borderline eugenics!) with THE MOST RIDICULOUS corporate welfare with publicly financed stadiums, publicly financed training areas, massive tax breaks and favorable tax law, and a fawning bootlicker media/PR division. Left wing takes on sports are extremely important because there are many societal themes at play with sports. The manipulations by the right to fleece the taxpayers. The last functioning unions and debates about fair pay and revenue sharing. Health care and pensions. Race and discrimination. Homosexuality discrimination. Blind loyalty and jingoism vs loyalty to higher ideals and sportsmanship. So much sausage making that is too boring for regular enterprises to get attention becomes front page news in sports. Of course there's the corruption. Soooo much corruption, favorable non-prosecution, getting let off by the cops, fake "investigations", repugnant work conditions. And the comments on deadspin were pretty good. Any site with "pretty good" comments is a gem in the cesspool. The usernames were fantastic. HN users have disappointingly lame usernames by comparison.