Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor, Defector.com
We could have that Knicks-level civic unity for baseball too, if you dead-enders would just give up on the "Mets" already.
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Totally fascinating life and career for Bumpus Jones.
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Iâm old enough to have seen a few different very good Knicks teams but they *never* won painlessly or easily. This last month has felt delirious.
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I tried Silksong again because I love making myself furious. This is why I play games: to get so angry I can't see straight.
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Subscribe to Defector dot com: Never artificial, and only occasionally intelligent.
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The Written Word Is Having A Rough Week | Defector
Late last week, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners of its 2026 Short Story Prize. The quintet will move on to a final round of judging ahead of the grand prize announcemen...
https://defector.com/the-written-word-is-having-a-rough-week
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It's not possible to overstate how important Sean has been to Defector, and how he's made each of us better. Hopefully we've made him worse.
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Defector Numbers Guy Sean Kuhn Called Up To Big Leagues | Defector
Today is Sean Kuhnâs last day at Defector. Sean has been our Head of Subscription Strategy for the last four years, and in that time he has become one of our favorite dudes. The only reason weâre not ...
https://defector.com/numbers-guy-sean-kuhn-called-up-to-big-leagues
12 days ago
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This is all so undignified
14 days ago
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Wow, I did not see this coming, but the votes have been counted and it's officially Opeth's "Deliverance."
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16 days ago
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This is a great blog.
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Longtime NBA Photographer Nathaniel S. Butler Explains How He Sees Basketball | Defector
The Defector basketball chat was captivated by a sequence of artfully stage-lit photos in Game 1 of the Knicks-Sixers playoff series at Madison Square Garden. They were the work of Nathaniel S. Butler...
https://defector.com/nathaniel-butler-nba-photographer-interview
16 days ago
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Iâm more sympathetic to late Metallica than most but I think enough time has passed to say âHardwiredâ is a really good album, full stop.
16 days ago
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Insane to see the Knicks not playing with their food. Very unknicksy.
17 days ago
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Ted Turner-adjacent memory: I was baited into going to the Goodwill Games on a 90-degree day to see a mediocre WCW mini-house show.
21 days ago
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I was obviously hoping for the Rangers but the Leafs winning is a very funny lottery outcome.
22 days ago
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The sweetest cat in the world turns 15 years old today. She's started to show her age, but at least she's finally grown into those ears.
22 days ago
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Itâs fine to compose directly in the CMS. It wonât eat your draft unless youâre impure of heart.
23 days ago
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John Sterling died this morning. Reupping this from his retirement:
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John Sterling Was The Soundtrack To My Life | Defector
I have heard John Sterlingâs voice more than anyoneâs in the world outside of (maybe) my parents. Three hours a day, most days from April through October, every year since I became a baseball fan. Tha...
https://defector.com/john-sterling-was-the-soundtrack-to-my-life
23 days ago
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Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen.
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27 days ago
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Back in the day if you wanted to know even the most basic piece of information about a movie, like who was in it or what it was about, you needed this mf's 900-page book.
28 days ago
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Ironclad rule of business: A successful company needs multiple smart people in it. Weâre hiring a second one.
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29 days ago
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If you had told me nothing about the origins of this playlist I still would have triangulated it to Bergen County.
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29 days ago
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Everybody's talking about the 1998 film 'Fallen'
about 1 month ago
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Listening to Portishead and it really paints a picture of how depressing it must be to live in Portishead
about 1 month ago
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Good reminder that Dan Simmonsâs âThe Terrorâ (or at least the first three-fourths of it) is so so good.
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about 1 month ago
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Finding possible evidence of life elsewhere in the universe has turned out way more confusing and boring than movies made me think it'd be.
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Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment - Nature Communications
Curiosity detected over 20 organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rocks using a wet chemistry experiment, showing complex carbon compounds can survive for billions of years and may preserve...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0
about 1 month ago
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BIG BLOGS
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about 1 month ago
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Hugo spritz is really having a moment
about 1 month ago
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NHL fans love complaining when there are actually good first-round matchups
about 1 month ago
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Diana Moskovitz
about 1 month ago
I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:
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You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector
I donât remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...
https://defector.com/dianna-russini-mike-vrabel-the-athletic?giftLink=1a891651515d783b69535d621ebd53ee
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Craig Fehrman
about 1 month ago
A few years ago, I was attacked by a dog. It changed a lot about me, including the book I was writing. I tried to describe it all here:
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Give him the chair, thatâs what I say. Now whatâs this about an indictment?
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about 1 month ago
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Goddamnit we had a whole set of meetings and PowerPoint decks to tell Roth never to say we are âextrudingâ blogs.
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about 1 month ago
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Today should be a national holiday.
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about 1 month ago
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I would like to announce that I am also blockading the Strait of Hormuz
about 1 month ago
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Finally learned today, after literal years of hearing my coworkers talk about her, that Helen DeWitt did NOT write a book that got turned into the Tom Cruise movie.
about 2 months ago
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Cat checking her bowl as if she might've somehow missed wet food being served. Motherfucker, not once in your life have you slept through a can opening.
about 2 months ago
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Really good Albert blog
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about 2 months ago
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You just gotta serpentine
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about 2 months ago
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I just wish Angine de Poitrine were like 30 percent less ... Quebecois about the whole thing
about 2 months ago
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Lmao this is such a funny lie. "Uhhhhhhh the cops are investigating him for bad reporter-ing."
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about 2 months ago
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Love the Evil Building.
about 2 months ago
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Canât believe I just got to watch an earthset live. What a cool species we are.
about 2 months ago
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If you're new to the Moon fandom, you should read Seveneves. It has one of the wildest first lines in a book.
www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04...
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Neal Stephenson - Read the first 26 pages of Seveneves
https://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-excerpt/
about 2 months ago
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It's always kind of freaked me out how the Moon appears "upside down" to viewers in the Southern Hemisphere. Like I get it but I don't Get It.
about 2 months ago
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This really got me.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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@jloeppky.com
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about 2 months ago
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At the very least, listen to the embedded audio of Apollo 10 astronauts giggling about the zero-g turd that escaped its waste bag and was floating around the cabin.
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Artemis Boldly Goes Where No Toilet Has Gone Before | Defector
It was about 65 minutes after liftoff, the Integrity spacecraft 800 miles above the Indian Ocean and moving at about 16,000 miles per hour, when the historic words were spoken:Â âIntegrity, Houston, to...
https://defector.com/artemis-boldly-goes-where-no-toilet-has-gone-before
about 2 months ago
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Chris Thompson
about 2 months ago
watched Boat again this morning, almost cried, became randomly angry as shit, and now feel cleansed and energized. god bless you, Boat.
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The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is: Boat | Defector
I am going to ask of you a level of intimacy and trust I would not afford even to a lover, or to my own child: I am going to ask you to watch a 10-minute video online. Wait! I promise. I promise you w...
https://defector.com/the-sports-highlight-of-the-day-is-boat
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Boldly going where no toilet has gone before
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about 2 months ago
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Still watching the Artemis coverage and just heard, âHouston, toilet is powered.â
about 2 months ago
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