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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Paul Kix is an author, entrepreneur, and occasional podcaster. His writing has appeared in places like The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Paul Kix

New York Yankees Workout

Parenting Lessons From An Ill-Advised Trip Into The Yankee Stadium Bleachers

Craig Fehrman is the author of <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Author-in-Chief/Craig-Fehrman/9781476786582">Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote</a>. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Craig Fehrman

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Life Lessons

It Never Ends Like It Should

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Laura Wagner

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Food-Scented Candles Are An Abomination

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

Vials of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are pictured during vaccination in Gaza City on March 25, 2021. - Thousands of Palestinian health workers, the elderly, and patients with cancer or kidney disease were set to get Covid-19 vaccines as the health ministry ramped up its inoculation campaign (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

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I Got My First Vaccine Dose. Now What?

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Chris Thompson

A turkey leg smothered in some sort of cream-based seafood slop. Delicious.

Stuff And Smother More Food, Goddammit

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Ray Ratto

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The COVID Vaccine’s Side Effects Were No Match For My Steel-Trap Mind And Columnist’s Body (This Time Around, Anyway)

Composer Irving Berlin (1888 Ð 1989) with singer Barry Wood (1909 - 1970) and orchestra leader Ray Bloch (1902 - 1982) recording a song in the 1940's. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Elder Wisdom

Never Stop Singing

You Must Have One Trick For The Baby

In this picture taken on August 27, 2020, Daniel Chan poses with a tin of Hoisin sauce with labling that reads ÒMade in Hong KongÓ made at the Koon Chun Sauce Factory, founded by his great-grandfather n 1928, in Hong Kong, which produces soy, hoisin and oyster sauces found in Chinese restaurants and kitchens around the world. - At the Koon Chun Sauce Factory workers are scrambling to cover hundreds of thousands of bottles with new "Made in China" labels as the popular Hong Kong brand falls victim to spiralling diplomatic tensions. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH: HongKong-China-US-politics-economy, FOCUS by Su Xinqi (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Hoisin Sauce And Me: A Love Story

Actors Lucille Hutton and Jackie Levine play tug-of-war with Jack Miller's blanket while attempting to get him out of bed in a still from the silent film comedy 'Oh, Mama'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lazy Bones

Hear Me Out: Put A Blanket On Top Of The Comforter

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Lauren Theisen

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Lost And Found In The Batting Cage

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Kelsey McKinney

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When The Cherries Run Out

Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.

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Dan McQuade

The writer, Dan McQuade, receiving his coronavirus vaccine.

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I Got The COVID-19 Vaccine, Then I Tried To Figure Out Why

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Barry Petchesky

A member of the Ripoll Taberner family minces meat during the annual tradition of the pig slaughter (matanza de cerdo) in Llucmajor on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca on November 23, 2020. - For the traditional slaughter, a pig is fattened up for a year and then killed on a cold day to ensure the best conservation of the "sobrasada" sausages. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP) (Photo by JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Year In Review

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?

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What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

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Hibernating For One Year Has Turned Me Into A Toxic Blob

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Is Drinking 40 Sips Of Water With Your Hand, Like A Cat, Every Morning “More Efficient” Than Using A Glass? An Investigation

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Science

Teeth Are Horrifying

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I Hate This Stupid Amazon Hub In My Apartment Building

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Cook With A Timer, You Neanderthals

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Let’s Just Do It And Be Legends. Let’s Make Pasta.

Dave McKenna

&lt;&gt; on February 26, 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The death toll has risen to 113 and the hope for finding survivors is fading as rescuers search through debris for over 200 still missing following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Christchurch on Tuesday. The quake, which was an aftershock of a 7.1 magnitude quake that struck the South Island city on September 4, 2010, has seen damage and fatalities far exceeding those of the original.

NZ Earthquake Victims Named As Death Toll Increases

The Unnecessary And Gross Tale Of Me And My Kidney Stone

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Circling The Block

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Albert Burneko

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You Can Always Just Not Watch TV

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