January 17, 2012
I’ll just be sitting here, hitting this shutter button, while the rest of the world watches football.  Lower Haight: San Francisco, CA: 2012.

I’ll just be sitting here, hitting this shutter button, while the rest of the world watches football. 

Lower Haight: San Francisco, CA: 2012.

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December 22, 2011
"When I first started doing Deadspin, Lockhart Steele, the man who hired me, told me that running a high-content blog “will teach you things you didn’t know about yourself; when you just start typing without thinking, and then doing that 18 times a day, it distills you to who you actually are."

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Will Leitch

It was fun being back on Deadspin today. My first piece on Deadspin in more than a year. The publishing system, amusingly, is exactly the same as it was when I last used it.

One of my first big “links” came from Leitch linking a blog post of mine about the 2008 dickhead-ish move by McCourt’s Dodgers to divvy up seats with over 180 different price points. I also remember that link helping me reach my quarterly page view numbers, which meant bonus time! 

Also, blogging 12 times a day for over a year made me realize that whimpering in public isn’t such a bad thing. 

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November 7, 2011
The 2009 British documentary “Thrilla in Manila,” shown in the United States on HBO, depicted Frazier watching a film of the fight from his apartment above the gym he ran in Philadelphia. “He’s a good-time guy,” John Dower, the director of “Thrilla in Manila,” told The Times. “But he’s angry about Ali.” In March 2011, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first Ali-Frazier fight, Frazier attended a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden and told reporters that he had not seen Ali in person for more than 10 years. “I forgave him for all the accusations he made over the years,“ The Daily News quoted Frazier as saying. “I hope he’s doing fine. I’d love to see him.” But as Frazier once told The Times: “Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But who would he have been without me?”

The 2009 British documentary “Thrilla in Manila,” shown in the United States on HBO, depicted Frazier watching a film of the fight from his apartment above the gym he ran in Philadelphia.

“He’s a good-time guy,” John Dower, the director of “Thrilla in Manila,” told The Times. “But he’s angry about Ali.”

In March 2011, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first Ali-Frazier fight, Frazier attended a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden and told reporters that he had not seen Ali in person for more than 10 years.

“I forgave him for all the accusations he made over the years,“ The Daily News quoted Frazier as saying. “I hope he’s doing fine. I’d love to see him.”

But as Frazier once told The Times: “Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But who would he have been without me?”

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