My Goodbye to Deadspin
Our own Drew Magary bids farewell to his other home
NOTE: This post originally appeared on drewmagary.kinja.com under the headline “This Is How It’s Gonna Work,” but has migrated here because G/O Media is threatening to get rid of its DIY Kinja sites.
I resigned from Deadspin today. No more Funbag questions. No more Jamboroos. No more telling you why your team, and your children’s television program, and the St. Louis Cardinals, and Christmas catalogs, and mayonnaise all suck. At least, not here (or there, I should say; I no longer have posting privileges at Deadspin proper, and so I gotta post this to this here). Nothing stopping me from taking those toys elsewhere. But alas, the time has come for you and me to part ways here at this particular corner of the internet.
I learned about this place from Sports Illustrated. That was 14 years ago. Holy shit. I read a short item about Deadspin in an SI print edition, logged on, and felt as if I had been waiting to discover this place my whole life. I was a commenter at Deadspin first. Then, in 2007, Leitch let me start the Jamboroo for a weekly freelance stipend. A few years later, AJ Daulerio took over and let me start the Funbag column (originally called Open Mailbag Tuesday, which was not terribly catchy) and do other regular freelance work on top of it. In 2012, Craggs…
