quick hits 3/?
👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 TGIF! It's OddballCompuGlobalHyperMegaNet Jr. Vice President combatdavey on the mic with a special Friday treat for you, the human. It was the part you were born to play, baybee!
Last time around I wrote that "henceforth, Wednesdays will be for QH posts." That's still true. Wednesdays will 100% be QH post days.
They're just not going to be the only QH post days.
TL;DR we're gonna rip one of these posts off whenever we can because the bad guys run everything and fascism is back and the world is on fire and the walls are closing in and this is what we do to avoid thinking about those things (sorry not sorry).
Below please find some organic, ethically raised odds and ends to fill the moments in your day you would otherwise spend trying to remember the name of the guy who was in that thing with the other guy who always wears a hat and may have guest starred on an episode of Mad About You.
NB: New Twitter is a dumpster fire and I hate linking out to it —— but the fact remains that a lot of the media organizations (legacy and indie) share posts there. As our goal is to bring our readers the best stuff I will hold my nose and link to that hellsite when appropriate.
🏀🏀🏀 TIL Washington Mystics standout rookie Sonia Citron has roots that track back to Cape Verde and Senegal. (Andscape)
👴🏽😂🏀 If you are vaguely old, like basketball oddities, and on Instagram, just trust me and just click through.
⚾⚾⚾ Something that had only happened twice previously happened in last night's Braves/Reds game —— and it's a doozy. (ESPN)
😬😬😬 Baseball Trade Values hates the Shane Bieber trade for the Blue Jays. (Twitter/BaseballValues)
❤️❤️❤️ It seems that DiJonai Carrington and NaLyssa Smith are still together despite the latter getting traded to the Aces. (Twitter/sixfivelando)
🤮🤮🤮 The estimable Ray Ratto wrote about how the Rafael Devers trade has not been the masterstroke everyone thought it was —— at least so far. (Defector)
🎰🎰🎰 TIL about the existence of betting integrity firms within the context of the Luis Ortiz investigation. (CBS Sports)
🎙️🎙️🎙️ One of my other Jonathans and I recorded and posted a new episode of Red Black Comeback, and we'd love it if you had a listen.
If you enjoyed this post, click the little up arrow chevron thinger below the tags to help us rank in Bear's Discovery feed and/or subscribe to oddball.blog via rss feed and/or add your address to the new email list we're building.