"Stop enabling Barstool's shit"

Drew Magary at Deadspin goes after Barstool. I don't read either of them enough to know what the right of this is. I linked it because I don't often see this kind of straight up attack, and because it contains a lot of bile and pissyness. YMMV

https://deadspin.com/stop-enabling-barstools-shit-1833092349

 

"Barstool Sports, a site for boys who wanna grow up to be Donald Trump Jr. ..." is a hell of an opener ...

 

The problem with Barstool is that what is fun and irreverant at 24-28 looks really lame at 35.

 

He's not wrong, but that also described Deadspin for much of its history.

 

Yawn

 

Deadspin is the wrong messenger and always will be. They're the place that employed Daulerio and Greg Howard, Magary's former boss and colleague. I'm no saint, but I'd have to bathe with a soul brush every morning if AJ Daulerio had been my boss.

And Drew, JFC, he was a founder of Kissing Suzy Kolber -- a blog whose very title is predicated on the joke of unwanted male attention.

Deadspin has definitely shifted its tenor in recent years, but they were still fertilized in crap. Don't get me wrong, I like Magary and I think he's funny. I also think a lot of what Barstool does is funny. Deadspin flinging shit at them is too rich by half.

/crossthread

 

Monetizing other people's content without their permission was Nick Denton's business model.

 

Interesting that NASCAR made Portnoy an honorary something or ogre at Daytona. As if we didn’t need another reason to hate NASCAR.

 

Deadspin complaining about Barstool is like Creed accusing Nickelback of selling out.

 

"What'd I do?"

 

Barstool origin story

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