That’s simply not true.

Now, sure, I will concede: I happened to pick a bad moment (i.e., 48 hours into a glut of post-Super Bowl coverage) to declare that there is “daily soccer post(ing)” at Deadspin. But the broader point stands: The site has become far more receptive to soccer in the past couple of years, and there is a steady drumbeat of posting. There’s a hell of a lot more soccer coverage over there these days, and it’s not just Anfield cats or periodic EPL rundowns.

Those posts do indeed “garner page views,” and the days of soc-cer? are long gone. They write headlines about “Messi” and “Ronaldo” and “Dempsey” and “Donovan” with the assumption that their readers are well-acquainted with these people.

Look, I don’t even particularly like Deadspin. I think that whole smarmy-irreverent-Gawker-tone thing feels more and more dated by the month (and is going to look embarrassingly anachronistic a decade from now). But they have beefed up their soccer coverage, in a significant way.

That’s all.

That’s hardly reverential. They have started to do a mostly-weekly run-down that’s more in depth but it’s Wednesday of this week and that post still hasn’t appeared; and 2% of content is hardly something worth coming to a post on a mothballed blog and raving about.

Also, if you’re going to gloat, at least have the courage to use real contact information.