quick hits 4/?
ππ½ππ½ππ½ Zip your fly and put the Sears catalog back under your pillow, because your internet bff combatdavey is keeping his promise and delivering unto you a quick hits post because it is Wednesday (my dudes).
Below please find some sports-concerned jetsam and flotsam to fill the moments in your day you would otherwise spend writing angry emails you won't ever send and/or applying for jobs that some robot will decide you are not a fit for and/or eagerly anticipating the answers to yesterday's trivia questions.
NB: New Twitter is a dumpster fire and I hate linking out to it ββ 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.
πππ πΌββοΈ Cameron Brink is back. Like, 5 blocks in 16 minutes back. (Twitter/LASparks)
ππβ οΈ Dolphins coach Mike McDaniels thinks it's a great morning because we're another day closer to death. No seriously. (Twitter/SlamDunkEpic)
βΎβΎπ Jonathan thinks the parents of this long dead ballplayer were probably big Tolstoy fans. Alas, we'll never know. (Baseball Reference)
πππ Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, and Doppler (the Seattle Storm mascot) recreated the Astronomer CEO/Coldplay thing. (Twitter/CirclingSports)
βΎβΎππ½ Jen Pawol will be the first woman to umpire a MLB game. (MLB)
βΎβΎπ° The Red Sox are about to sign 21-year-old Roman Anthony, whose big league debut was on June 9 (i.e. 58 days ago) to an 8-year extension worth $130,000,000. It is one of the biggest pre-arbitration extensions in baseball history ββ and more than Corbin Carroll and Ronald AcuΓ±a got. (ESPN; Twitter/spotrac)
πππ° Props to Otto Porter Jr. and Gary Harris I guess. (Instagram/doughburrow)
πππ Grab your tissues, Penguins fans ββ this upcoming season is likely going to double as the Evgeni Malkin farewell tour. (The Athletic Hockey Show)
That's it, that's all, it's over. You don't gotta go home but you can't stay here (but if you do, go check out our other posts). Until next time, keep your head up and your pivot foot planted.
We out.
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