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You might remember, back in those halcyon days of two weeks ago, that we made a wager with Alex Balk, editor of angry sister site Gawker and Tigers fan, that whoever's team lost the World Series would have to take over the other's site for a day. (We know you remember this, because Gawker's comment section has never been more active than it has been for the last few days. Which is beautiful, by the way.)
Well, it's payup time: Tomorrow, Mr. Balk will be your humble editor around these parts, and even though there's a part of us that wonders how winning the bet means not doing our site for a day — this is our first day off since February, and we don't plan on taking any more for a while — the day has come. Tomorrow, Mr. Balk — with assistance, as always, from the vastly underrated Rick Chandler — will be your Deadspin editor. Expect plenty of references to Matt Lauer, the Meatpacking District, Greg Lindsay and all kinds of people who wear extravagant hats. So we hope you're ready.
We're gonna spend out day off outside enjoy nature and maybe taking in a museum or something ... naw, who are we kidding, we're just gonna watch Game 5 over and over. But anyway, enjoy Mr. Balk's handiwork — you should email him with your tips at the tips@deadspin.com address — and after a couple more posts today, we'll see you Wednesday. We hope the place is still standing.
A Friendly Wager, If You Will [Deadspin]
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So, once again Will, you win, and we lose.
Thanks for lookin out Big Man.
sounds kinda gay
Can someone please tell me who won the World Series? It's driving me nuts.
Let's burn this motherfucker down
So, will he be running both Gawker and Deadspin? Cause he better not shortchange us over here while he's busy posting pictures and witty comments on Avril Lavigne's latest drunken escapade.
Hey Rick, I suggest you not look at the tips e-mail tomorrow, because I promise I will be trying to see how many ways I can create fake links to sports stories that actually lead to tubgirl.com.
Welcome to Thunderdome, bitch.
Enjoy your day off, Will.
//waving good-bye to Will and then starts rummaging through the liquor cabinet as soon as the Chevy Cobalt drives out of sight//
I also suggest most of us spend the day at Gawker posting nothing but "NEW COMMENT RECORD!!!1!"
Who's the chick in the photo? Or is Mr. Balk one of them transtesticles?
oooooooohhhhh - I LOVE AVRIL!
Burn it to the ground, UM.
I drafted Graydon Carter in the first round of my Fantasy Editors League. He scored two points last week for drollness and seven points for Tartan-ness.
Does this mean we can finally get that picture of Donald Duck exposing Christina Aguilera's boob?
Even though St. Louis is now more violent than Detroit, Cardinal fans did not in fact set anything on fire to celebrate. Deadspin will have to do.
Does this mean the site will contain no useful sports news tommorrow, so basically you are telling me that it will be as good as espn page 2 tommorrow?
Let's burn this motherfucker down
You better not...you better not.
It'll actually be closer to Page 3. *shudder*
In celebration, deadspin is already lookin' all wonky today.
GO TO THIS LINK NOW!
http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2006/10/so-you-might-have-h...
as wonky as Paris Hilton's eye?
Also: Be prepared for many, many uses of the word, douchebag. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That Donald Duck/Christina Aguilera picture is one of the best Photoshop jobs that I've ever seen. I wish I had that guys skills.
Christ. Now I have to go google all these references so I know what the hell's going on tomorrow. Let's see: "M-a-t-t L-a-u ..."
or it will be about celebs at games. do we really care that Jack Nichsolson has front row seats.
UM: I have a feeling that might be every post tomorrow... goodstuff
Oh my god, UM. I haven't seen Will dance like that since New Years Eve, 1999 ...
UM, I don't know what's more disturbing -- the dancing on display in that clip, or the fact that I immediately obeyed your all-caps voice and clicked on the link without a second thought. You're like the Pavlov of Deadspin.
Does this mean I have to start caring about the NYC publishing scene? I mean, just because StarterBoyfriend works in that field, doesn't mean I listen to him when he comes home from work.
tmftml on sports? most excellent.
Can he handle all the HUGH and Denny Green explosion jokes?
That's the guy that wont approve me as a commentator? I've dropped lower than I thought.
donald duck is naughty, naughty
Will's dancing makes my feet sad.
Just kidding Will. I'm short and jewish, so you don't see me cutting a rug much..
cool, substitute teacher tomorrow. I'll have my fart spray and spitballs at the ready
I can't decide if tomorrow will be awesome, or if tomorrow will suck.
that video UM - WILL WAS EXACTLY WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS! by the way, do we have to clean this place up a bit for the gawkerettes? and have coke for them?
Meatpacking District? Seriously?
Wait, if you're the StarterWife, why is he the StarterBoyfriend??? SCANDAL AT DEADSPIN!
Great. Does this mean that we get treated to a day full of breaking news of the secretive results of Anna Wintour's stool samples? Finding out which editors of whatever magazine we would never read, are gonna down on each other? And the never ending breakdowns of a Sean Delonas cartoon???
Well, looks like tomorrow has the potential to be an all day WithLeather and KissingSuzyKolber kinda day.
StarterManWhore?
Will's dance style is eerily similar to DadBabu.
Gawker readers will be quite confused when he gets his passwords mixed up and starts posting HUGH jokes over there.
Then again, Joe Dolce quotes probably won't sit well here either.
but wouldn't it be more fun to stay here and abuse unsuspecting Gawkerites who come over to play?
KSK's kinda homophobic these days, isn't it.
and by the way, StarterWife - does your name impoly that you're just the first wife (i.e. a 'starter set'), or that you constantly wear Starter jackets?
Welcome to Thunderdome, bitch.
Who run bartertown? You know who... Say!
Will was the inspiration for Kevin Bacon's character in Footloose.
Will's dance is Lindsey Bluth-esque.
MasterBlaster runs bartertown.
we haven't said anything homophobic in hours!
I, for one, welcome our new Gawker overlords. I personally hope that they'll treat us Midwesterners with respect instead of a Sorkin-like contempt for our lack of big city sophistication.
Correct, BTO. Nice job.
Will was the inspiration for Michael J. Fox's campaign commercials.
when are we going to get a zubazwife?
what the video didn't show was Will's background track unexpectedly coming on with vocals