Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

I don’t care if some people here had an issue with some of their writers or content, a site that produced quality writing and journalism just went tits up. That should make everyone here a little sad.

And if you did have an issue with all of their writers and content, why the fuck are you on this thread?

 

This is a story that is solely about sports: Highly Desired Talent Squandered In Crucial Moment, Wastes No Time Thinking About Future

ETA - Oh, and another one: That Andy Dalton Feeling - I can't tell if current management is too dense to read between the lines and to take shit down, or if they lack the ability to stop things from going "live" on the site without scanning it first. Either way, the site is in fine hands going forward.

 

But it didn't. It remains a going concern.

Several writers have chosen to resign. I'm curious to see what happens next.

 

Went "tits up" or put a gun to their own head and pulled the trigger? Your mileage may very.

 

Better to bleed out from management's slow knife, or to take yourself out quickly? As someone who was part of Patch's slow bleeding out, I'm not sure if one way is better than the other.

 

To use Regan's own words, I'm actually sad they didn't fight harder while still gainfully employed there. (Again, I say that without knowing what fighting was already going on.)

I disliked the Deadspin of yore, which was mostly a bunch of immature, proto-Barstool garbage. I had come around in recent years, though. I certainly didn't read everything, but I read Deadspin a lot more recently.

So I will miss it as it was constructed, even as I acknowledge that there was still content I thought was disposable.

I don't think the management memo was that horrible, but honorable people disagree. So let's say it was as horrible as they thought it was?

If Deadspin was worth fighting for, why not keep up the fight? Instead, the staff went the route of the Nazi soldiers at the end of the movie "Downfall". They couldn't imagine a world that they hadn't constructed by themselves and for themselves and they chose to put a bullet in their head.

A shame, because the world keeps spinning with or without you, and I think they could have made more of a difference while still employed than quitting en masse.

Especially when they have a FUCKING UNION to fight some of these battles. As a union member myself, it does annoy me they didn't even seem to see them as a means of support in their internal struggle.

 

C'mon.

 

Such a nut sentence. Should be the essence of a movie or book.

 

The best content on their website were the Masked Man’s dead wrestler profiles. Basically, nothing to do with real sports. Good writing is good writing.

 

I liked this piece by Bryan Curtis on it all.

Deadspin and the Mavening of Sportswriting

 

Correct. It was largely an essay site, in a sense, that touched on topics wealthy, millennial, progressive, woke (often) white people were generally interested in: Sports, politics, inter-media drama, asshole men, food, this fucking thing or that fucking thing.

That's why a lot of them quit and will find jobs. It's possible Maven killed Deadspin because, hey, it's their site and they'll do as they damn please. And did.

Laura Wagner's gonna be Laura Wagner somewhere else. She'll be looking down her nose at someone before Christmas.

 

The Maven are Sports Illustrated's overlords.
Grey Hill Partners owns the husk of what is now Deadspin.