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So who's going to bankroll the Deadspin In Exile that's going to give all these people jobs?

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Assume Laura Wagner will be picked up by Barstool. Barstool, Grantland/Ringer, Athletic, 538, Slate even the NY Times: all these online content providers rely on podcasts to prop up the dead-pixels-text content. Deadspin never got into the podcast thing in a substantial way, other than ad-free Deadcast.

Deadspin was propped up by Kinja Deals, I think.

My prediction: The Intercept Sports

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https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/a ... the-planet

Rent. Free.

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funny how an ad-free entity couldn't support the site.

Barstool has its podcasts, but it also has other revenue streams such as live events, an e-commerce store, videos with actual sponsors, a vodka they are promoting (which has already sold out multiple times), and premium subscribers.

CH said this earlier, but Barstool has something Deadspin never had, fans. Barstool has monetized their following and done so quite successfully.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

if dunking on a vanquished foe is living "rent free", then I guess you're right.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Ogie, who’s cock is stiffer right now, you or Portnoy? You won’t be needing the Parkins wonder pills for a while.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

They're nobodies. They're talentless. They'll never work in this town again. I'll talk about them constantly.

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No, she won't. She's a shill that thinks they're the enemy. She can go pull that shit at fucking Huff Post or some other shit site.

The only one leaving that bums me out is Magary. I liked the Jambaroo and Why Your Team Sucks.

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ya it's great. it's really easy to tell who to stay 1,000 feet away from.

Magary is also the only person in this group who is instantly employable at another outlet and who will have his share of offers before lunch. The rest of this group are nobodies who will be vying with the thousands of other out of work bloggers and journalists for a very limited number of open jobs an a rapidly shrinking industry.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

He’s the only one there who had a significant other he actually had to talk it over with first

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

When Dave holds a grudge, he holds a grudge. He said he is the type of person who would shoot cannonballs at his enemy and after they have sunk would train the cannon to continue firing at the wreck on the bottom of the ocean.

I think at this point we've hit the firing at the shipwreck phase.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

He's also the only person there who will have multiple job offers by lunch.

Everyone else at Deadspin is a nobody who is easily replaceable

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Maybe it's because I'm not a Barstool partisan and thus not gloating, but I find it very hard to believe they undertook all this together without a lifeboat.

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WYTS has fallen off hard though. He's run out of insults and this year just bashed Trump supporters in every article.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I liked the one about how the one team's fans were fat white trash.

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If this were 2016, there would but jobs out there for them. However this is 2019 and there aren't enough open jobs available for that to happen. I honestly think these are 25 year olds who are still young and foolish enough to think there are jobs out there when there aren't.

This was a post-bubble industry and we're seeing an outlet close shop seemingly every other week while others are announcing lay-offs.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Having a union proved pretty pointless since everyone had to quit.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

True. Still a good way to burn 10 minutes on a mindless August Wednesday afternoon at work.

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but the union members all changed their avatars! SOLIDARITY!

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I understand it is a little bit simplistic but it is pretty funny that ultimately there was a mass quitting by sports writers on a sports site because new management wanted them to talk about sports.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

You would be right if you were talking about people quitting a local or even major-market newspaper in a huff, but I don't think the people who get to write for Deadspin inhabit the same world as the rest of us do. They're all products of elite upbringings and elite universities and as such are exquisitely well-networked; if no one can find a job for Laura Wagner, they'll make one for her. They're all In and once you're In it's hard to be Out.

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It seems that the people who were laid off from Spinter about a month ago haven't landed anywhere yet. As for these guys, a lot of digitial sites have had layoffs and I'm seeing most of those writers now stuck freelancing. These Deadspin writers are in the same boat. The reason these guys used to be able to move from job to job was that a new site would pop up every week to hire them. Unless these people find their own backer to launch a new site, I'm not seeing that happen.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Danny Chau is the Eaglo Jeff of sports writers

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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Well, neither one of us has batted 1.000 on predictions, that's for sure. We'll see.

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I guess we can revisit this in a month and see who has new places of employment in their twitter bios and who has a Patreon/PayPal link and a few smatterings of freelanced articles

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Well that's simply not true.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.