Earn it.

Earn it Saints


She Earned it__by Cayusa [flickr.com]


Moe Tkacik

Meet Your Weekend Deadspin Guest Editor, in the Most "Weekend" Sense of the Term
I'm Moe, and contrary to what some of you seem to be insinuating, I haven't smoked weed in such a long time you would probably have to carbon-date my urine to find any trace.

If they do that sort of thing with urine. Drinking is more my thing, which is obviously how A.J. and I got to thinking this was a good idea. So anyway: I "sound" this way (so to "speak") because I am the least qualified person ever to blog about sports. This is in part because I never played any, and in part because my parents always seemed to be monopolizing the TV with this Masterpiece Theater bullshit, and mainly because I'm a girl. I do have a fun story about getting hit on by a young LeBron James I will tell you this weekend, because there was a time I followed sports when I lived with this dude and had a job writing about the footwear industry, but basically my interest here is in broadening my horizons. I have written about many topics in my career as an actually-paid blogger — and if you were wondering, I am being actually paid by Talking Points Memo at the moment — but I feel like the financial crisis has sort of gotten me into a rut, where I've just started to feel like I can't have a drink without also delivering one of those credit default swap soliloquys, wait that is not a word oh who cares, and anyway, I am hoping that learning about this inspiring new topic will have an effect somewhat akin to how normal overworked people would, say, "go outside" or "read a whole novel" or something. Yeah, one day I'll figure out how to do those things too. In the meantime, help me blog for you. No topic overstretches the limits of my abilities to dispense comprehensively ignorant commentary. You can reach me on the tips line or, for that personal touch, here.


THE COMMENTS

That's absurd that you're being accused of smoking weed. From your picture, I would have guessed meth.

Hi Moe, I'm __. You look exactly like the zombie version of a girl I used to date.
Please post a thread for the Cavs game now, please.

You misogynistic commenters with your patriarchal value systems and love of traditionalist power structures make me sick. The phallic overcompensating here is out of control and further indicative of a systemic illness throughout this patronizing, Y-chromosome haven of a website. Maybe instead of marginalizing the female presence through self-destructive cycles of pornography and videogames you bare-backed neanderthal wannabe pimps should go outside and read some Sylvia Plath. Furthermore...
OW, my head hurts. Where the fuck am I?

Mostly because I'm a girl Sigh.
@__: Yeah, that was one of the dumbest/saddest things I've ever read.
@__: It's too pathetic to even make fun of. Just sad.

Moe's run-on sentences leave me breathless, but in a good way. They are exhilarating.
@__: Exhilarating like watching a small, slightly "slow" child run into traffic, right?

To sum it all up - no posts til 1:35PM EST, 3 stories in just over 2 hours, and all loosely based on sports (by that I mean they contained the name of a professional athlete.)
Great success!

Sarah Schorno: My head hurts.
@Sarah Schorno: We miss you. We all really, really miss you. We miss that you write well. We miss that you're funny. We miss that you know sports and like sports.
We miss that Moe is NONE of these things.
@__: I could make an appearance again soon. You never know.

This is just embarrassing. You are setting women back years with this crap. If you accept a gig writing on a sports blog, write about sports, and do some homework before you start. Oh and get here fucking on time. This is a big sports day. Be prepared. If you worked for me I would take your things, throw them in a box, and escort you to the elevator.
@__: I am angry about this. I've always wanted more female sports writers, but Deadspin seems to sabotage them at every turn. I know Moe's a friend of AJ's, and I can see him wanting to do her a favor. I know it's only the weekend. But this, THIS is ridiculous.
/yes I know children are starving in Africa blah blah, still sucks.
@__: Dude this has nothing to do with women as a whole. This has to do with the notion of the controversy that follows Moe, especially when she decides to tackle subjects she knows nothing about. And the bizarro boner I'm sure Denton is getting from having this girl picked apart for just having a vagina. There are a lot of women who have played sports and more than vaguely familiar with the topic, like myself. Unfortunately, they don't seem to get represented here.