I have never been a media watch kind of guy, but today I was dumbfounded. Follow me if you will…

Deadspin just hired a new editor, A.J. Daulerio, who I believe began his new job this past weekend, giving him less than a week on the job. He has two (TWO) associate editors and works for a company with 12 very successful Web sites. And yet today the brand new editor of only a few days asked his commenters and readers if any of them would be available to do a little posting over the holiday weekend? Uh… Wha?!

To wit…

…if anyone is not doing anything firework-related and would like to sit inside and watch sports all weekend while writing on this site, please feel free to hit me up.

Considering this is the freewheeling managerial style I’m adopting during this transitional period, the chances of you getting paid before 2010 are rather slim. Those who are interested, however, should feel free to drop a line.

Now that is some f’ing management of a media powerhouse. Man, if I was Gawker’s boss, I’d have to ask myself, WTF? Who did I just hire?

Now if it was me asking for help for my piddly little sites like this one or Epic Carnival, that would make sense, but Deadspin? With THREE editors? Sending out a mass call for someone to write on a holiday weekend? Don’t they have any contacts they can call on? WTF, indeed.

Is it too soon to ask for Will to come back? I mean, if Favre can do it….