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Our Field Trip To Madison Square Garden


For the third consecutive year, in the tradition of batting against John Rocker and playing touch football with Andre Rison and Kordell Stewart, we accepted an invitation from the fine folks at "Pros Vs. Joes" to — get ready — play two-on-two hoops against Charles Oakley and Charles Smith. At Madison Square Garden. We were wearing a specialty-made Jeffrey Jordan "jersey" our father got us for Christmas; Daulerio, a brave man, donned a Tyrone Hill jersey. How'd we do? Come, join us after the jump. And by "jump," since we're talking about us, we mean "rising three inches off the floor." More »

6:43 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Leitch
30,423 views, 1275 comments

Latest by Swolestice: I see will has never heard of mesh shorts. more »

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Our Rick Ankiel Weekend

It really has been bizarre to watch the reaction to Rick Ankiel's triumphant return to St. Louis as a power-hitting outfielder. We understand that it's an inspiring story — obviously — but it's still odd to see a guy we've been quietly stalking following for seven years now suddenly leading newscasts. As we mentioned on Friday, it's like turning on CNN and seeing a Breaking News Alert: "Mattoon, Illinois to open second Hardee's store." We're touched that everyone suddenly cares ... but Rick's ours, you know?

Not for long, as the guy above shows: By Friday's game, people were writing Ankiel's name on the back of their shirts, and by Sunday, we actually saw our first legitimate "ANKIEL 24" jersey. We are glad the gift is being shared with the world ... but this kind of intense media attention is kind of what started this whole mess in the first place.

That said, we can't help but contribute to the problem. By pure happenstance, our yearly visit to Busch Stadium coincided with Ankiel's first games as a Cardinals outfielder. After the jump, a mostly incomplete and fuzzy report of our trip, specifically Saturday's game, in which Ankiel hit two homers and a middle-aged woman nearly stuck her finger in our anus.

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2:20 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Leitch
13,495 views, 114 comments

Latest by badead1: If we replace the chick with the bib with every Cubs team since 1908...then we have something here. Ponder along. more »

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Our Visit To The Hot Dog Eating Championships


As mentioned yesterday, we headed to Coney Island for the epic Kobayashi-Chestnut duel. We can't imagine a better way to spend our Fourth of July. A confession: For the first time since we started the site, we accepted a press pass for the event. It was a tough call, but, frankly, we feel rather comfortable that our association with The International Federation Of Competitive Eating is not something that will force us to compromise our integrity in the future.

It was a full day, and we were there at 8 a.m. to document all the madness. After the jump, the tale of our immersion into the world of moist sausage.

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2:30 PM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Leitch
20,754 views, 150 comments

Latest by Screw You "Miracle On Ice" This Is The Great Moment In American Sports on Awful Announcing: Yay! An American beat the Japanese Guy in the Hot Dog Eating Contest....wait what did that announcer just say?You've got nothing on Joey Chestnut, Mike Eruzione!!!Deadspin Field Trip To The Hot Dog Eating Championships ... more »

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Our Interview With Harold Reynolds

Friday afternoon, we accepted an invitation to MLB.com's offices in Manhattan for an interview with ... Harold Reynolds. This is the first SHOTY nominee we've interviewed — save for the imaginary conversations with Barbaro that go on in our head every day — and we talked for about an hour on a variety of topics, most of which involved ESPN and Reynolds' ongoing lawsuit against the company. More »

2:00 PM on Mon Jun 18 2007
By Leitch
38,983 views, 143 comments

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Deadspin Field Trip: The AJ Daulerio Going Away Roast


About a month ago, our own AJ Daulerio wrote, in his Cultural Oddsmaker column, that he dreamed of one day having a roast in his honor. Little did he know that the wheels were already in motion for that very thing. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Leitch
10,562 views, 115 comments

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Deadspin Field Trip: Our Battle With Slash And Bad Moon

Last year around this time, thanks to a promotion for that "Pros Vs. Joes" show on Spike that no one we know watches, we strapped on a helmet and batted against John Rocker. That trip worked out so well for everybody that they asked us if we'd be interested in heading to Grand Central Station in New York City this morning and playing a little two-on-two against — of all people — Kordell Stewart and Andre Rison. More »

2:15 PM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Leitch
9,008 views, 186 comments

Latest by Bad Moon In Bankruptcy on Lion in Oil: It looks like former NFL star Andre Rison can now join the likes of Scottie Pippen in the category of "I wildly misspent all the millions I made during my successful career." Rison is now facing a court-ordered bankruptcy more »

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Deadspin Field Trip: Cardinals Win The World Series

As we might have mentioned once or twice, we were at Busch Stadium to watch our beloved St. Louis Cardinals win their 10th World Series on Friday night. It is obviously a rare and lovely thing for anyone to have the opportunity to watch their team clinch a championship, and we were blessed by the experience. More »

2:00 PM on Mon Oct 30 2006
By Leitch
1,491 views, 65 comments

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Deadspin Field Trip: The Rainy (Original) Game 4

As we might have mentioned, we originally had Game 4 tickets, and we sat out in the rain for two hours, freezing, waiting for MLB to put us out of our misery and cancel the game. We had been considering this a dreadful, cursed occurrence, until last night made our Game 4 tickets potential clinchers. We view the matter differently now. More »

1:36 PM on Fri Oct 27 2006
By Leitch
140 views, 37 comments

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Your RFK Evening Wrapup

Well, the evening for Deadspin readers at RFK Stadium was Monday night, and we'll say this: We woke up just in time to do the site this morning. We had an excellent turnout, and we were deeply honored to meet some of our finest commenters around these parts, including many of the All Star crew behind Kissing Suzy Kolber. We are proud to report that the average Deadspin reader is as intelligent, charming and drunk as we anticipated they would be. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jul 5 2006
By Leitch
3,201 views, 117 comments

Latest by Tits McGee: Who wears a dress to a baseball game? That hot dog guy looks like a porked up Brian Austin Greene. more »

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Deadspin Field Trip: Batting Against Rocker


Earlier today, former New York City subway spokesperson John Rocker caused a minor fuss by walking off the set of ESPN's "Cold Pizza" after being informed he would be asked about his famous comments about "queers with AIDS" and not liking foreigners. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Mar 6 2006
By Leitch
3,832 views, 33 comments

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Introducing Darren Prince

This man you see here is not Hugo Weaving from The Matrix; he is, in fact, Darren Prince, agent for Dennis Rodman, whose book signing we popped by — and lamented — yesterday. More »

12:58 PM on Fri Nov 11 2005
By Leitch
2,223 views, 33 comments

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Deadspin Field Trip: Rodman's Book Signing


A media friend of ours emailed us yesterday and said, "Dennis Rodman's publicist just called me and promised he's going to pull a 'major' stunt at his book signing tomorrow." We couldn't imagine what Rodman could possibly do that could be classified as "major," save for, you know, sitting down and being quiet for a little while. But we realized we'd been sitting indoors for far too long; screw it, we'd go. Why not? More »

5:22 PM on Thu Nov 10 2005
By Leitch
3,679 views, 14 comments

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Our Field Trip To "Quite Frankly"

We finished up with the site early yesterday not because we're lazy, but because we consider Deadspin a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. (Oh, uh, except for weekends.) We wrapped up our Monday posts in record time, because we had to hustle downtown, because we had the hottest ticket in town: Audience seats to see "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith", the show that proves it actually is possible for an ESPN show to garner worse ratings than billiards. When we got there, as you can tell from the photo, we got our moment in the sun, a chance to talk to Stephen A. himself, on camera, mano y blogo. Well, it wasn't exactly a "confrontation," but it was an experience nevertheless. After the jump, join Deadspin for the tale of our class trip to see "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith." Quite frankly, that's all you need to know. More »

6:07 PM on Tue Oct 18 2005
By Leitch
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