Lets Talk About Drew Magary
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She had some pretty annoying appearances on the Deadcast too, so my concern about Deadspin’s bosses is tempered by the fact Megan Greenwell is the unreliable narrator here.
On the other hand, she quite possibly saved Magary’s life.
Since she’s being discussed here, I thought I’d point out that Greenwell decided to go out with a bang today:
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
Not sure how long it will remain up, but it’s something...
Edit: joe dokes was damn close to bingo here.
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
Not sure how long it will remain up, but it’s something...
Edit: joe dokes was damn close to bingo here.
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It isn’t a PE issue. It’s a Deadspin issue. PE or not PE, they’d be dead in a short while regardless. They’re Tumblr and a bunch of rich people bet they could save them.
They are no longer the “renegades” or breeding ground for writers they once were. So nobody cares. Being first only gives you so much runway. And it’s running out.
They are no longer the “renegades” or breeding ground for writers they once were. So nobody cares. Being first only gives you so much runway. And it’s running out.
Drew's piece on the Luck retirement this morning is quite good:
https://deadspin.com/what-andrew-luck-means-1837554491
https://deadspin.com/what-andrew-luck-means-1837554491
It is very on brand for Magary to compile a list of good players that retired early and leave out the very obvious, but hated, example from just a few months ago
Should Pat Tilman's name be included on this list? Most everyone else got out before injuries wrecked their lives. Tilman was a different case entirely.
He said "what ought to be his prime," which is different than "early." I dont think even the biggest Patriots' fan would consider Gronk to be "in his prime," even if they consider his retirement "early." (Which is a questionable description in itself, unless we are considering everything that comes before "sucks and shouldn't even be playing" to be "early." )
Eh, who else on that list would be in their prime? Barry and Brown would still have been great, but if you're slicing so narrowly it's awfully hard to say that a 31 year old running back is in his prime.
I think this both walks and sounds like a duck.
He used "in their prime." If you disagree how that fits with some of those players, that's fine (although off the top of my head, Smith, Borland and Worrils would be hard to argue against). OTOH -- Perhaps it's all just a smokescreen for his true goal -- to cleverly avoid mentioning Gronkowski. But, no one can seriously argue that Gronkowski was "in his prime."
Which, coincidentally, is a very good description of Gronkowski for stretches of 2018.
There's not a single NFL-watching person alive -- other than those looking for places to find reasons for anti-Patriot umbrage -- who considered Gronkowski's retirement either to be "early" (to use your word) or "in his prime" (Magary's).
FWIW I think there is a difference between retiring "young" and retiring "early." Gronk was young but it was anything but early. Luck was both, as were many others on that list. It could have been a slight, or it could have been an oversight on his part. When I think of guys who retired early I think of Sanders and Johnson, not Gronk.
George Sauer would have been a good example of young healthy and still good. I remember when he retired. It was inconceivable to a 10-year old that a healthy player would quit at 27. (Although he later played in the WFL). An interesting fellow, as it turned out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sauer_Jr.#cite_note-NYT-2http://infinitejets.blogspot.com/2013/05/ny-jets-83-george-sauer-rip.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sauer_Jr.#cite_note-NYT-2http://infinitejets.blogspot.com/2013/05/ny-jets-83-george-sauer-rip.html
The Why Your Team Sucks series ends today with the Pats. I expect it to be the most vitriolic thing he's ever written.
A few years ago (I think it was the year after the Pats beat Atlanta) he wrote that he was toying with not writing a Pats WYTS entry, but ultimately did it. I think it would be hilarious if he did that today.
Nah, he's going to call Massachusetts residents MAGA racists, he's going to call Brady and BB and Kraft Trump supporters, he'll devote 6 paragraphs to Kraft's handjob, he's going to say the Pats have ruined football for everyone.
There's far too much anger in him to pass on this.
There's far too much anger in him to pass on this.
He certainly had vitriol for the Rams WYTS yesterday BECAUSE of their assist in extending the Pats dynasty, mentioning their 13-3 record reminded him of "another 13-3" (Super Bowl score). And the 12th highest scoring offense in history scoring "three fucking points".
But yes, agreed above in that Magary is going to hit the political/personal angle more than anything. Maybe one football-related angle will be to blame other teams for their "easy road" to a championship, such as a mention that the Dolphins managed to embarrass the Pats during the season but the Chiefs and Rams who played to a 54-51 game stumbled over themselves when it counted.
See, I'm not too sure if he's going to go with the "Massachusetts residents are racists" too hard mainly because he's seem to have gone away from that this year. Last year and the year before, every single WYTS was, "Fan base X is racist and here's why." I don't think that he's done that too much this year. The hand job thing will be there (and it should be, because that's fucking embarrassing as hell) and he's going to talk about the Pats ruining football, maybe a little Tommy from Qwinzee action, but it'll be fine.
I'll be curious if he gets Patriots fans to be negative about the team in the last section. To me that'll just have to be fans from other fanbases bitching about the Pats because in my mind Patriot's fans don't have anything to bitch about (other than in the game threads...)
He’ll post emails from people bitching about any one of the MAGA association, Aaron Hernandez (this one mystified me but it comes up), Tom’s diet/health regimen, RK’s handjob, perhaps a swipe at the stadiums, a Barstool reference, shock and dismay over becoming the Yankees of football, a shot at the perceived persecution complex of Pats fans despite, per this peculiar line of attack, Goodell being in the bag for Kraft, and maybe even a profession of fear that the Pats will be bad again some day.
Basically very little about football itself because, with the exception of the Jim Murrays of the fanbase, what is there really to be unhappy about?
Yeah, there is never a shortage of emails from people trying to be the woke Pats fan by shitting on the rest of the fanbase as well as all the things you mentioned. Basically a bunch of people playing the role Samer plays whenever he writes about Boston sports. Not that they are wrong about any of that, but the emails every year strike me as people who pander to Drew's usual angles so that they can get their emails posted.
If he's gonna do these bits he needs to at least be funny and SOMEWHAT accurate. Everything in the above statement is false, but certainly the Deadspin folks don't care.
He’s a bit off his game on this one, and - not that this is Drew’s fault - the fan emails were a disappointment. I did like the reference to Parcells’ front butt and the joke about the Pats being the only team to play in a ‘woodland stadium.’
A paint by numbers rant on the Pats. This line however got a laugh out of me:
I don't know if this was Drew just saying NH has lots of drugs or if he really knows the geography and the fact that Laconia is a complete shit hole filled with fentanyl and meth and is about that distance from Meredith.
Other than Robert's pre-AFCCG Kraftjerk, he's got next to nothing to work with.
The whole thing struck me as more of a sigh than anything. Not sure it even ranked in the top half for anger of this year's series.
It's honestly probably time to retire the series. You can only insult every major American city at essay length so many times before you start getting diminishing returns.
It's honestly probably time to retire the series. You can only insult every major American city at essay length so many times before you start getting diminishing returns.
I’m most offended that he described New England as a five state region. I’ve called Governor Ned and he’s gonna make sure the Magary household looks like downtown Bridgeport by midnight.
Magary is like Beavis at the end of his first Cornholio spoken word jam. At first he was all energy and righteous indignation, now he's just petered out and repeating himself.
Boy, if I'd known how right you were going to be, I wouldn't have needed to read the article.
The comments here seem a little serious - it’s a roast, right? He finds a bunch of material to completely goose up and be ridiculous about for every team. Belichick/Brady/Pats are the “stars” of most of the other WYTS entries because they’re used as the example of a capable organization in comparison to [insert crappy 6-10 team here]. I mean, most writing on Deadspin is snark-take performance art anyway, but this series is the height of it. I don’t for a second think there’s a lot of actual bitterness driving Magary to do it.
LOL that's fantastic. If that's the friend I'm thinking of, I met her in Baltimore at a SoSH bash a few years ago.
For most teams this is true. However, he is in record as truly hating both the Patriots (and their fans) and the Redskins. I used to enjoy the roast nature of these columns but when everything on Deadspin is "fuck all things Boston" at all times, it kind of gets old.
Drew did some politics the other day and he did it well: https://gen.medium.com/people-like-meghan-mccain-are-why-americans-keep-dying-21944ccf3ff8
I agree that it was a fun gag, and even for the Pats I thought it was fun and funny the first few times. But now he's just run out of steam. Auto-pilot hating is just not nearly as good. All that sugar and cappuccino helped him go strong out of the gate, but now he's come down off the high.
I saw a comment on Reddit that said Magary basically craps on the QB, the coach, the owner, and the product on the field for 31 other team, but that for the Patriots, he can only crap on the QB, the coach, and the owner.
Seems like that's pretty true the last few years.
