Will Leitch Quotations

I think it's getting to the point that there's so much information out there that fans have access to, that we don't really need an announcer to tell us what's going on.

Every single sports reporter covering the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade thought that Barry Bonds was on steroids.

It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is, because there's no sense of the structure that everyone is so used to.

It was a prank bracket. That person also had Monmouth in the Final Four.

They were all talking about this amongst themselves - but it was not something that they shared with their readers. And one reason was that they were afraid of getting in trouble with the press-relations department and having their press passes pulled.

I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.

As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.