It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're just absolute horseshit. But every Friday until we get sick of running them, we'll present to you some of these not-so-shiny gems. All items should be treated as [Sic'd]. Enjoy...

LEAVE GRADY ALONE!!!!!

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Dear Dumbass,

Thank you for putting these pictures on the Internet and continuing to follow Grady in a matter that is NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS. How sick of a person are you? Even if you didnt put the pics on there first, your still sick by putting them up on your site. If you were smart then you wouldnt have posted them, because what if those were you? How would you feel? What would the outcome be? How embarrassed would you be? Those photos belong to one man: Grady Sizemore, and anyone with a brain (I dont include you) would know that Grady is a class act and these didnt belong in public nor did he intend them to. So why in the hell did you "follow the sheep" and go right ahead and do it? Your a dumbass because even if it is your job to post stories your not supposed to stoop as low as posting personal information. I hope you feel bad for what you have done and what you are doing, you are a straight up jackass.

Good day, I will now go and read a more honorable authors work,

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Dear Barry,

It appears to me that you'd love to have sex with other men. Posting porn pictures like those makes me figure you would do anything to keep women away, and get any man in sight. That's just wrong of you to do towards celebrities! Just because you don't have a real job, and they make millions, that gives no right to embarass their personal moments.

You and many other web-site owners who do this should be sewed for the value of your homes, that way you can live on the street and feel the embarassment in a much worse way, having to ask for change on the corner of state-route roads.

From,
Mike Smith

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Why don't you dig down real deep, no... deeper than that (I realize you've got a long way to go) and try and pull out just a little respect for someone else's property. Do yourself, and Grady, a favor and take his photos down.

BTW, drop the Tiger story— old news and we're not interested.

And then there's this...

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Subject: I WANT TO SEE HIS TOES!!!!

None of the pictures have his bare feet in them!!! What is my foot fetish self supposed to do?

Regards,
Toes-R-Us

Notre Dame Alums Still Pissed at Dana

How does this DOUCHEBAG Dana Jacobson keep her job. Kuselias just wa smaking a point about hwo THREATENTING people ( ala Serena Williams) isnt acceptable and this C.....T Jacobsen attacks him saying "is it because its a woman" ......yeah Dana, F....K you not JESUS CHRIST.....Hey Dana ,,....FUCK YOU .does anyone have teh phone number to bristol so I can call and make a formal complaint?? thanks

...The Aristocrats!

yes, i was wondering, do you take photographs of bandmenbers taking shits on pre-pubescent cub scouts? I am interested in photos of men jacking off in the faces of Iraqi orphans. Any photos of men shifting on boys or photos of men jacking off on dogs fucking little boys would be appreciated. Rock on and may the Third Reich rise again!

It's Not As Creepy As Your Email

2nd half of game NBC shows bloody nose of Raven and then starts talking about blood – then he says something about Ray Lewis. Go listen. Creepy & Riveting.

Come To Antawn Jamison's For The Gayest Not-Gay Shoe Party Evah

My friend just received this e-mail from a promotion/marketing company looking for two "in shape" men to serve food at Antawn Jamison's house.

Gentleman,

I just got this in. Please let me know ASAP if you are available and comfortable with this. We are looking for very in-shape men only. (I'm sending this out to the entire database, so if you know of someone appropriate please pass it on!!). Pay is $25hr (so $100 total). It should be a REALLY cool event.

The event is from 5-9pm at Antwan Jamieson's private residence in Bethesda.

2 Males will be passing drinks and hors devours and helping out as needed.
The female will be modeling shoes from Shoecrush.com

This is NOT a gay event. But rather for men AND women. Obvious lots NBA players and industry people will be there. The shoe feature is for Antwan's wife and her friends, which the males will most likely be entertaining.

As for attire:
Female should wear black leggings and a black top (of her choosing) something cocktail-ish, sexy and fun.
Guys will be in black slacks and black dress shoes. Possibly a bowtie will be provided. And the Shoecrush logo may be painted on their chest.

If you meet the requirements and are available tomorrow please let me know ASAP!!!!

Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen got his face intercepted by a man's fist outside a South Bend bar, and pretty soon everyone started doing the Rashomon thing.

On the occasion of the Sports Fella's appearance atop The New York Times bestseller list, Leitch wrote: "Good ideas win out. Perseverance and new perspectives break through. The old rots and washes away. Sometimes the good guys win." Charles P. Pierce saw things differently, writing of Simmons: "You are not the cosmos, son. Get the fuck over yourself. "

"In an effort to reinvent myself, in a cut throat industry that was becoming more and more competitive the deeper I swam," Jenn Sterger wrote, "I made the decision to go against the grain and remove my implants." This is our generation's answer to Thoreau's Walden. The results of her decision were subsequently Tweeted.

A semi-pro football player tackled his teammate, and Barry Petchesky provided the video.

Dash's gallery of sports-themed Halloween costumes spawned two sequels. The highlight was this cogent piece of media criticism.

Leitch launched his Aughts retrospective with this massive gallery of the decade's towering failures.

With the yank of a ponytail, New Mexico women's soccer player Elizabeth Lambert became an American symbol of something or other, and then all was forgiven after she wore a pretty pink crinkle scarf in the New York Times.

The Clemson rowing team got some exposure ...

... as did Grady Sizemore, whose extensive self-portraiture was swiped from his girlfriend's e-mail account.

And then Tiger Woods, a well-known golfing personage, went and crashed his car into a fire hydrant and a tree in the early morning after Thanksgiving. He had cuts on his face, which may or may not have been caused by his wife, who may or may not have been reacting to rumors of Tiger's cheating heart. I will defer here to friend of Deadspin Chas, who notes that Tiger is the best there was when laying two.

But Brittany's not bitter and doesn't hate Grady's loyal, devoted lady-fans. "I'm not pinpointing his fans, all of his fans are great, it's just one stalker that's been pestering us," she told me during a phone conversation, oh, about 56 minutes ago. That's all she'll say for now, since she and Grady are doing everything they can to prevent anymore embarrassing photos "stolen" from her email account to pop up on the web.

It's gonna be tough to keep the latest batch from popping up multiple places. Especially those websites frequented by, say, gay people.

Grady Sizemore starts legal action against racy photos on web [CPD]

AJ,

The photos posted in the article cited below are the property of Grady Sizemore. They were stolen from a personal computer. We've begun an investigation and request that you immediately remove Mr. Sizemore's property from the posting. We also ask that you preserve any records associated with its submission in anticipation of a criminal complaint to be filed with local law enforcement.

Thanks for your assistance with this. Feel free to contact me with any questions or if you need additional information.

I-Team...assemble.

These have been making the rounds in an email forward, purportedly meant for Grady's girlfriend, Playboy Playmate Brittany Binger...

...that's her spread propped up by the mirror. I think it's kind of creepy that he travels with her Playboy issue.

Perhaps you remember the batshit lady who emailed every site on the Internet trashing Brittany. Wonder how she's taking this.

Nathaniel Hornblower he's not.

Okay, I'll just shut up and let you look at his junk.

[Pics courtesy of ONTD]

It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're just absolute horseshit. But every Friday until we get sick of running them, we'll present to you some of these not-so-shiny gems. All items should be treated as [Sic'd]. Enjoy...

This Batshit Lady Hates Grady Sizemore's Girlfriend

Well my sport compatriots,
it seems that a Playboy Playmate of the name Brittany Binger *she is one of Kendra's BFFs* is dating Outfielder Grady Sizemore of the Cleveland Indians.
They have been dating since December 2008.
Grady was recently seen with Brittany in Seattle a few weeks ago. Shitfaced and drunk out of his mind.
The pictures were leaked by Brittany Binger's mother Cinda Binger to help her get more press for her
potential fame and reality show.

Sounds like Brittany is following in the footsteps of her BFF Kendra Wilkinson who is now married to a pro-athlete?

Rumor has it that Brittany is broke and is trying to get work albeit the guitar hero commercial.

I thought this would be of interest to you...and if you post it, the Grady's Ladies may all die of hearttacks or start purchasing semi-automatic weapons.

pictures are attached.
i found them initially on talk sports where her mother leaked them.

hope you post these

you're biggest fan
lady f

(Ed. note: Of course she sent the same thing to many, many other websites Why she hatin'?. )

Mess With The Tebow You Get The Angry Emoticon

Man, you are one silly ass dumb doofus. What a crappy anti-Tebow piece you wrote, full of animosity and vitriol and lacking in journalistic style. Fortunately I do not have to contend with you ever again...You, dude, are history.

G O G A T O R S !!!!!!!Click Me!

Jared Allen Is Friendly

Sympathy For The Lupica And A Rightful Condemnation Of Homophobic Taunts

Lupica should have berated the kid for using the word "faggot." Why you published that dipshit's story just condones all the teenagers out there that read your website that it's okay to berate strangers by using it as well.

I'm all for satirizing pretentious people in sports, but use some common sense.

Alright. I live in New Canaan, same town as Loop, and he's widely known to be a prick. If you didn't know, he wrote a self-important book about a youth basketball team of shorter kids or some crap like that because his son wasn't a good enough to make the travel teams and it was a conspiracy, blah blah blah.

But couldn't you tell from reading that King kid's post that the kid was a total shithead? He's a private school douche bag, the kind that looks down on public school and thinks his "buddy" got screwed by the headmaster. Boohoo, Mike Lupica told on my headmaster. His headmaster! What a twat. I'm gonna go ahead and demand a redaction on the grounds that the kid who sent in the complaint is definitely a twat.

Ruination Redux

AJ,

Just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for completely ruining Deadspin. I think that the transformation of the site from a witty, alternative POV site into one dominated by filth, snarkiness and sarcasm is complete, don't you think?

For example, it doesn't bother me that you published the Josh Hamilton photos. Instead of posing the question of how that incident may effect his perception in the general public, and more specifically, his standing among the Christian community, you heave out drivel like "Casting stones is God's job and God's job only - especially when it comes to those who slurp body shots off of a giant pair of heaving breasts in a Tempe bar." Hamilton's "mistake" or "dalliance" or what-have-you is only the latest athlete screw-up that you guys have pounced on with unbridled glee. Those pictures drive traffic to your site, so I expect you to be happy about them; but do you have to display that happiness so readily?

That's not to say that the entire site is garbabe; no, the ESPN insider riffs are informative and amusing, the stray "not about an athlete that made a mistake in a bar or coach that cheated on his wife" story is interesting, and Drew is obviously comedy gold (and the best writer on the site, by far). But, more and more I'm finding that my perception of the site is of a shark looking for the blood in the water. Deadspin is no longer "Sports news without access, favor or discretion." You exhibit virtually no discretion in the tawdry stories you run. You clearly have access, whether you choose to use it or not (you hosted DP's show, for Pete's sake!). And you clearly exhibit favor (and especially dis-favor) on a daily basis.

As a matter of fact, your proclamation regarding the Vick signing was downright offensive. JFC? Really? You may not be a Christian, or particularly religious; hell, you might believe in that Flying Spaghetti Monster I've heard so much about. But, frankly, the vast majority of this country identifies with Christianity or, at the very least, the Christian God. Why JFC it when there is really no need to?

I write this to you because it is a shame that Deadspin has literally gone off the rails. I've talked to several friends recently who told me that they just can't read the site anymore. Sadly, I'm now at that point as well. I doubt that a handful of readers concerns you either way, and your page views still seem to be doing well, so I may be in the minority. But, I just wanted to voice my opinion on my way out the door.

Good luck,
AW

While we're at it, we also send our saddest condolences to the family of Michelle Mielecki, one of the founders of Grady's Ladies, the cute fan club for Indians centerfielder Grady Sizemore. She was, shockingly, murdered by her boyfriend Saturday, who then took his own life.

Boyfriend Kills Founder Of Indians Player Fan Club [NewsNet5]
Gregg In Critical Condition [Baseball Musings]

(UPDATE: Gregg has passed. He was 55.)

Perhaps in response to somewhat famous Grady's Ladies, the official cheering section for Indians outfielder, these Indians fans, either tongue-in-cheek or not, have dressed themselves as "Mrs. Wickman." They're the official fan club of the portly Indians closer, who is, Grady Sizemore aside, an extremely handsome man.

There are two reasons these guys would dress like this.

1. They're proudly gay baseball fans and grizzly men.
2. They knew about Grady's Ladies and thought, "Hey, you know what? We think it's dumb that women baseball fans find a player attractive and come out to cheer him on. What stupid broads! We should come up with some way to mock them, Dave! Let's wear 'Mrs. Wickman' shirts to the game. That will show them how lame they are! Girls, man! If I ever end up talking to one, I'll let them know just how lame they are! Yeah!"

You know what? We hope they're gay.

(thanks to Brian Dickey for the heads-up on this.)

We were reminded of all this when we saw that the Cleveland Indians are promoting the allegedly hot Grady Sizemore to bring in female fans this year. "Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season," said Indians vice president Bob DiBiasio. "Grady is the big reason."

We have always found it amusing that executives always assume women are watching a game just because certain players are attractive. (The "checking out the players' butts" postulate.) But then we went to the actual Web site for "Grady's Ladies", and we wondered, jeez, maybe they're right. If you're out there, Mr. Sizemore ... run ... get out while you can.

(Thanks to Baseball Musings for this whole post, really.)

"Grady's Ladies" [Official Site]
Coco No Longer Got ... Hello 'Grady's Ladies' [Boston Globe]