Will Leitch, founder and editor of Deadspin.com, is stepping down to take a job as a contributing editor of New York magazine. You can read his abdication announcement here.
I use that term with some consideration, since he writes of himself using the “Royal We.”
It is with heavy heart — yet mirthful disposition! — that we announce that our time as Deadspin editor is about to draw to a close. After almost three years of plugging away around here, we are leaving as editor of Deadspin on Friday, June 27.
There are always those who will find some blogs smarmy (including this one, I’m sure). After all, it’s an ego thing to think people are and/or should be interested in what you think. But some are more smarmy than others, especially those that seem to exist for no other reason that to point out the worst in people, under the guise of free speech and journalism. And those who dare complain about such blogs are considered uninformed dinosaurs (See Buzz Bissinger’s rant on the Costas Now show).
Anyway, the new editor is A.J. Daulerio and you can read about his coronation here. It will be interesting to see what changes will be forthcoming.
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Mr. Kaplan, first of all…I would never call your blog smarmy and I have no idea what smarmy means, but based on the meaning of your sentence, smarmy sounds like a negative atribute. I’ll look in a dictionary.
Anyway, your blog is extremely beneficial and informative and downright fascinating. Please don’t think of your expressions as ego driven. You have opened my eyes to so many baseball related beauties…I only wish Buzz whatever his name knew how detailed and accurate some blogs truly are. In an ideal world, blogs complement newspaper articles….and bloggers complement journalists. After all there is only so much space in a newspaper and only so much time to meet a deadline.
I would love to see NY Times Book Reviewer add in closing…”See Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf Blog for an excellent survey of this summer’s great baseball reads” or maybe intelligent journalists already have already done so.
Thanks for the kind words. I wasn’t trying to appear self-deprecating or overly humble, just stating my opinion that there are such blogs and bloggers out there.
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