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Message From the Guest Editor: Checking Out

So last night I psyched myself up for this task and came up with a little arc about how the day was gonna go: We'd start off as enemies, you mocking me relentlessly, me crying into my seventeen iced coffees as I frantically tried to provide content for two sites at once. But surely, I thought, as the day wore on, we'd grow to tolerate each other, to realize that maybe we're really not so different. I imagined my final post of the day was going to be a warm acknowledgment of all the terrific readers who populate Deadspin, and that maybe there'd be a little grudging respect on your part for my keeping up my end of the bet. More »

4:45 PM on Tue Oct 31 2006
By abalk2
299 views, 124 comments

Latest by ILovePaleHoseandPaleHos: Balk, Great work. Tell Liza "Hi" from Deadspin. more »

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Message From the Guest Editor: Checking In

Okay, listen up, douchebags: I don't like you and you don't like me. But thanks to some of the sloppiest play we've seen in World Series baseball since the Marlins beat the Indians we're stuck with each other for the next twelve posts. My name is Balk, and I'm an editor over there at Gawker, a site focused on New York media and gossip. Which is to say that our gayness is fully open and acknowledged, in contrast to the deep-seated homosexual desires you all so clearly exhibit here. My entire preparation for this job was essentially scouring the web for naked pictures of Brady Quinn, because that's what I've been told the readers frequently request. If you're riled up enough to read on (and that was totally not the intention), there's a full scouting report after the jump. More »

9:15 AM on Tue Oct 31 2006
By abalk2
682 views, 239 comments

Latest by Need a Greenie (fka SolidContact): Okay, I'll bite: I'm a Red Sox fan because of Mike Greenwell and his mustache. I'm a Giants fan because my more »