Goodbye From Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog

Please don’t leave us again

Fair winds and following seas.

I’m not rich as hell, but I’m pretty sure there’s still a Geocities site floating around out there. It’s got running tiger .gifs at the top and everything! You can have it for free!

The site’s not going for good, you guys. It’s just going to the store for milk and cigarettes. Like my dad.

Don’t… leave us this way

Damn I am gonna miss this little bit of joy I got this weekend

You can’t go! All the plants will die!

DON’T LEAVE ME AGAIN, I NEED YOU NOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭💔

I hope all you damn dingbats get hired somewhere as soon as humanly possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjlY8ubey9c

I miss you all so much, and i don’t give a shit about sports

For the love of god, please stay

Thanks again, you wonderful, ridiculous humans.

This weekend was so much fun!

come back! don’t go

Just when I thought I was out……

THEY PULL ME RIGHT BACK IN….

dammit don’t go

Thanks for this weekend – great birthday present

Parting is such sweet sorrow…

*sniff*

I have nothing to say other thank thank you

I read every single post right away like a junkie thinking the website wouldn’t stay up

Thank you so much for this. I know you love working together and you’re getting paid or whatever, but it feels like a personal favor to each of us. I love you all. RIP.

Love you guys. byyyyye!

Oh God please don’t go

Thank you!

This blog is over! 🙁

Well, shit. What everyone else said. The internet is a better place when y’all are all in one place on it.

The only website that mattered

“it exists, quiet and pure as
a peach. It is everywhere”

A. Zagajewski

Thank you all. This was a real treat. Please do it again.

And Saints – Sleigh Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jf1WBqNpmc

I guess my first comment was deleted but I’ll reiterate. Thank you guys for everything. You’re all the best and I love you all.

I’ll tattoo all the writers’ names on my body if this thing stays around permanently

Aaargghhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
Will be following you …..

There’s a whole in the blogosphere without you. Thanks for filling that hole for a bittersweet weekend.

Y’all are the shizzzzzzz. Hate to see you go.

Like an old lover who comes back in your life. You know it wont last. You know she will leave you again. But you still ran to her with open arms. Broken hearts are worth the love you felt.

I want to say something sarcastic but my sentimental mid-30s ass is just thankful for this (temporary) website’s existence. It made me feel alive again.

This timeline sucks.

And just like that, the dream is over.

I’m a little drunk in Mexico right now but legit planning on figuring this out when I get back. If this is a good business idea then it’s a good business idea; it doesn’t need a millionaire to save it. I’ve got enough dry powder and financial wherewithal to take this seriously. Talk to y’all soon.

<3 <3 <3

This hasn’t been a great year so far, but my god this Temporary Blog made this the best weekend of the year so far. Dont stay gone for quite so long this time. You dummies make the internet a better place.

Don’t be an herb, employ these beautiful bastards.

I sincerely hope this was as much fun for you guys to put together as it was for all of us to read. Thank you for a great weekend. I still believe that only the best things lie ahead for each and every one of you. (In the meantime, you can all burn in the fiery pits of hell!!!)

So Long, and thanks for just enough Bears

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfHU748SYQ

Baby please don’t go

This blog being up is the second most exciting thing that happened this weekend. Perfect runup to the Chiefs win. Thank you all. If I die from celebratory gunfire, know that you made my last minutes happy.

Thanks for coming back guys! It was just like old times except I knew to appreciate it.

Thanks for featuring my hilarious Russian beer in the cheap beer of the week, Drew.

And thanks to everyone who walked away from those private equity shitheads with your middle fingers held high. You’re an enormous inspiration for an enormous number of people.

Who do i have to pay to keep this good site going

UTSB is Dead
Long Live the spirit of the real Deadspin where ever it goes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tesSq-0yzog

Can someone make McKenna a fucking twitter account since he won’t do it himself? He’s a goddam treasure.

I hope you all land somewhere great.

I hope everybody knows how much you mean to us.

Thanks for this. It was great to have a good sports site again.

I’m not clever, but I want to thank you all for this. I really wish you could keep this going and I wish you all the best moving forward.

I’m sure you all have done the math on the back of a napkin in terms of the number of subscriptions and advertising revenue you’d need to pay everyone a decent salary to do this full time. And I assume the numbers don’t look great or you would have started doing it already. For what it’s worth I would happily pay a $10 per month subscription fee for this to be permanent, and I’m sure there are many other lurkers who feel the same way. In any case, it’s been a great 3 days. Thanks to Dashlane for making this happen.

I had just noticed last week that Deadspin no longer auto-suggested in my phone’s browser. It was nice reading you freaks again for a weekend.

What time does “What time does the Deadspin crew get a non-temporary blog to start?” start?

I love you all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmW3hF-iKg8

May you all stay forever young. I loved this so much.

A good read. I wish you all the best of luck and I hope you get the backing you deserve.

all we need is one random bored billionaire… throw us a bone!

Damn it 😩

Congrats to legendary KSK Kommenter Ottoman on finally getting a Super Bowl in their lifetime.

Fucking loved this weekend, thanks team!

I just bookmarked this fucking site

UTSB FOREVER

I won’t give 24 seconds of silence for the end of this sports blog but that’s not to say it wasn’t complicated

Miss you guys. Thanks so much for doing this.

As Rose said at the end of Titanic,

“COME BACK! COME BACK!!!”

D****pin Love. Thanks for the memories, and thanks for letting me relive them again, if only for a weekend. I started reading when I was 26 and broke. I am now 36 and not broke. I would like to still do this, and I, like many others, have a couple $ to donate to the cause.

I miss this part of the internet

Goodbye, sweet dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g8GDhYBa8

Thanks for three glorious days. You jerks are the best.

Loved it, thanks guys

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Please don’t go.

I’ve missed this, and now I will miss it again. Thanks for the few days of remembering old times.

This is not good Kinja…

Jeez, I just FOUND you guys today. And now you’re saying goodbye??

Come back, Shane…

You did not mislead us with the name of the blog.

If you guys are still reading the comments, I want to pay to read your work in one place. I keep refreshing this page hoping a new story pops up.

Well, this was like spending a weekend with friends who used to live next door and moved halfway across the country for some ridiculous “work-related” reason and now you might never see them again and it was fun but when it’s over you might be sadder than if it hadn’t happened.

I hope we did enough clicking to convince some capitalist who believes in the online advertising fairy that your work can pour currency into his empty soul.

I have enjoyed this so much since Deadspin died. Please don’t go.

What an amazing weekend. Please come back. Add my name and e-mail to the list of people who will pay for the web site/ newsletter

I sparsely commented on the old site, but I’ll be fucking damned if I’m greyed on this post. I was just getting used to have unnamedtemporarysportsblog in my life. Ask Harry Potter for some of that wizard money.

Now one last song that will make you run through a brick wall. Or whatever that was mini-feature was called:

Near
Far
Wherever you are
I believe that this sports blog goes on
(Why does the blog shut down?)

Once
More
You open the door
Spanfeller’s there with 80% less traffic
And that traffic will go down and down

YOU’RE
HERE
THERE’S NOTHING I FEAR
AND I KNOW THAT THIS BLOG WILL GO ON

WE’LL
STAY
FOREVER THIS WAY
YOU ARE SAFE IN MY HEART
AND MY HEART WILL GO ON AND ON

Thank you. I read deadspin for some time, always reading every comment and never leaving one.
So here I am just saying thanks.

I don’t see where I am supposed to enter my credit card information now that the free -trial period has ended. I have $8.99/mo avail now that mandalorian is over.

well, UTSB was the fucking best, and I hope it re-appears in some form or another sooner rather than later. failing that, I hope you all get paying jobs doing what you’re good at.

goodbye UTSB. you died young and beautiful

As I walked along a path amidst the green I came upon a scene that made me pause to re collect
my thoughts. A fatal doe had given up, turned heavenward and lay prepared to rot.
Yet all the while, soft petals fell with elegance and force I cannot shake.
They too now void of life, but with such splendor and a grace
absent in the woeful beast, the difference of a death in war and peace.
Decrepit doe, oh wretched man, what sadness I bestow, when hand
or hoof cannot but help to shudder, while loveliness has never left the other.

Just wanted to add my thanks. You guys are indeed missed.

Temporary sports projects ranked:
1. UTSB
2. Getting hit by a bus
3. Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons
4. Barstool Van Talk

I’d give a kidney (or $10/month or whatever) for an UTSB-cast FWIW.

Being awoken at 5am to the urgent task of emergency toddler puke cleanup is a rough start to any day. Hard to redeem a morning that starts like that…unless you decide to hop online afterwards rather than return to bed, and you randomly stumble upon the Deadspin reunion party you didn’t even know was happening. Thank you UTSB for reminding us all how much fun it was being a part of something so clever and snarky and stupid and damn entertaining for so long. Miss you guys immensely.

So… I’m not rich, or even well off really, but I am curious: is there a number you have in mind? Like, what would it take for “some entity” to put a site up and let you run it, front to back, the way Deadspin was before a bunch of herbs came in and ruined it?

If Cards Against Humanity can rescue Clickhole from herb hell there is hope after all. Good luck in your future endeavors. Long live UTSB

I feel like I just got off the Vikings Sex Boat. Thanks for a great weekend!

Thank you for the brief respite from our Billionaire Venture Capitalist Hellscape.
Please come back. Ashley Feinberg Forever!

It’s been nearly a week.

I miss you all dearly.

Please come back, UTSB.