09.28.06 ESPN Is Getting Its Leads from Deadspin

Less than two short months after Deadspin brought our attention to Beep Baseball, ESPN.com has created a fancy little interactive "E-ticket" on the same subject, a whole page built in Flash with slow-loading video and sappy Bob Ley commentary.

I don't really give a shit that Bob Ley is schmaltzifying something that Will Leitch's piranha pit of commenters has already mercilessly ridiculed. What really matters is that we finally have video of blind people hitting a beeping ball and running towards a padded base that they crash into. And the blind players all wear blindfolds, because some of those cheating fucks can actually see light. Anyway, go check it out and laugh it up. It's a cross between baseball and Marco Polo, and it delivers the goods.

Just don't read any of the player info or history of the game. That presented the human side of things, which made me feel like an asshole for laughing.