How To Join The Barstool Writing Dream Team
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You’ve seen the articles. You’ve seen the tweets. You’ve seen the Press Conference Heard Round The World. Right smack dab in the middle of Times Square, the hub of New York City, Big Cat’s tits out in the freezing cold. Big changes are happening at Barstool…real exciting stuff.
Ok to be honest not a ton is changing on your end. Basically we’re taking everyone’s 2 favorite things about Barstool – the original content/videos and the blogs – and making way more of them. Everyone will be in one spot, filming a video or recording a podcast can happen instantly in the time it takes to turn on a camera or a microphone. Dave and Big Cat’s videos, KFC’s podcasts, Smitty beating up Nate, all of it happening constantly, all the time.
Meanwhile I’m going to be in charge of the editorial side. Writing as usual but also maintaining the blog, editing, making sure important stories get covered. No more reblogs. We’ve already got a bunch of great writers on staff and they’re going to keep churning em out. But we’re still looking for more. I’ve got the green light to hire up anyone I think is good, funny and original. Basically I want to build the ’92 Dream Team of Writers who can blog lights out – in this analogy, I’m Larry Bird, and I’m offering up the Christian Laettner spot.
So if you’re interested here’s the deal: start a blog, and send it to me at BarstoolSamples@Gmail.com. Use any free blog service you want and update it as if you were running a Barstool Sports page. Don’t send Word documents and don’t send resumés – anything resumé-ish that you want to mention, just include it in your intro email. And don’t make it an El Pres Imitation contest – just be unique and write the way you want. Yes we’re looking for funny, but I promise you I’m not looking for clones of the guys we already have.
And we go over this every time we put out a call for writers, but it’s important. Know what you’re getting into. Yes being a “blogger” is something we all joke about, ha ha ha you work in your underwear and never shower – but as anyone who has ever had success doing it will tell you, you have to be on top of your shit. You can’t just be “the funny guy” who is always making your friends laugh, you have to be able to write and you have to be able to get things up quickly. That means staying in for important games while you’re friends are watching at the bar, having your computer with you on weekend trips, etc. I had to bring a god damn backpack with my Macbook in it to a fancy New Years’ Party because Alabama was on.
Listen I’m not saying blogging is brain surgery or curing cancer here. Just don’t want you to waste our time if you’re not prepared to actually put in the work. Because if you do there’s really no better job on the internet than working for us.
BarstoolSamples@Gmail.com
*I saw a ton of emails come in to my Kmarko email earlier this afternoon – if you sent one there, re-send it or forward it to the email address above. That’s the one I’ll be checking.