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'Only If You Get Caught' Returns Next Week
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (300+ words) ‘Only If You Get Caught’ Returns Next Week defector.com ‘Only If You Get Caught’ Returns Next Week 2:40 PM EDT on September 9, 2026 The time has once again come to break the rules: Only If You Get Caught is back for…...
Do You Hear The People Sing? Singing The Song Of Sequined Teens?
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (164+ words) 3:12 PM EDT on September 9, 2026 Today’s story is about another fledgling taking her first steps into another artistic realm: the theater. What better backdrop for a bunch of young people to take everything too seriously, from their roller skates to their…...
Callaway Golf Got Wrecked By YouTube Doofuses Because Everyone's Out Of Ideas
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1256+ words) Callaway Golf Got Wrecked By YouTube Doofuses Because Everyone’s Out Of Ideas Defector Callaway Golf Got Wrecked By YouTube Doofuses Because Everyone’s Out Of Ideas 9:17 AM EDT on September 9, 2026 Try this, maybe: Think of the internet as an ocean vast…...
The Angels Are Just Passing Through
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (212+ words) 1:51 PM EDT on September 8, 2026 Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we think you’ll like. If you do like it, we encourage you to check out their site…...
Ketel Marte's Bridge-Burning Hat Raises, Leaves Unanswered Several Questions
1+ week, 3+ day ago (288+ words) 12:17 PM EDT on September 2, 2026 This Ketel Marte thing keeps getting stranger, at least linguistically. Marte made his return to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday, during their game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Before the game, Marte, who speaks through an interpreter,…...
Holy God Damn, Colton Cowser
1+ week, 4+ day ago (421+ words) They don’t give style points in baseball, but if you were scoring Orioles-Rockies, you’d want to break out a second, third, maybe even a fourth color of pen to decorate the box with Colton Cowser’s ninth-inning catch to save the…...
The Girlboss And The Drug Rug
2+ week, 3+ day ago (189+ words) 12:01 PM EDT on August 26, 2026 But every bright-eyed youth loses innocence in their own way. Today’s friend of a friend is out to solve the affordable housing crisis, but she’s about to learn that all of us, however committed to “the…...
Tom Browning Devoured Innings And Tormented My Team
2+ week, 3+ day ago (900+ words) Defector Tom Browning Devoured Innings And Tormented My Team 9:53 AM EDT on August 26, 2026 There are certain types of baseball players that just are not coming back. Some of these guys have been written out of the story by changes in…...
Please Tell Me Red Wine Is Good For Me
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1055+ words) 12:45 PM EDT on August 25, 2026 Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking…...
Red Uniforms, Ranked
2+ week, 5+ day ago (67+ words) 11:59 AM EDT on August 24, 2026 Without further ado, I present to you the definitive ranking of red uniforms: 3. San Francisco 49ers 4. Detroit Red Wings 8. Las Vegas Aces 13. New Jersey Devils 16. Kansas City Current 18. Kansas City Chiefs 19. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30. Real Salt Lake…...