quick hits 5/?
ππ½ππ½ππ½ Got a case of the Mondays? I feel you. Let's be solutions oriented about it. Like, you could read the news and ingest (more) stories about how the bad guys always win ββ or you could hang with me and eat some sports. I'll give you five seconds to decide.
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Below please find some sports-concerned bits and bites (MΓ©li MΓ©lo for my pals in Quebec) to fill the moments in your day you would otherwise spend putting things you have no intention of ever buying into your online shopping cart and/or scrolling through social media feeds to watch the planet's average IQ drop in real time.
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) and professional teams share things there. As our goal is to bring our readers the best stuff I will hold my nose and link to that hellsite when appropriate.
βΎβ€οΈπ A million awesome things happened during Ichiro's jersey retirement celebration thinger in Seattle, but to me, this was the best one. (Twitter/Mariners)
βΎπβΎ Cal "Big Dumper" Raleigh just hit his 45th HR of the season. He and Ken Griffey Jr. are the only Mariners to ever do that. Raleigh is currently only three bombs behind Salvy Perez's all-time mark for HR by a C in a season ββ a record set way back in 2021. (ESPN)
βΎππ₯ Mason Fluharty preserved the Blue Jays' 5-4 win vs. the Dodgers yesterday by retiring former MVPs Shohei Ohtani (strikeout) and Mookie Betts (fielder's choice) with the bases loaded. The last time a closer saved a game by retiring two former MVPs with the bases loaded? Trevor Hoffman sent Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent home unhappy on September 15, 2002. (Twitter/OptaSTATS)
ππ€―π A'ja Wilson just dropped the first 30/20 game in WNBA history and that ain't hay. (Twitter/UnderdogWNBA)
πππ£οΈStephen A. Smith thinks LeBron should end his career in Cleveland but I'm betting that LeBron James does not ever think about Stephen A. Smith. (Deadspin)
πβπ The NFL didn't quite ban smelling salts, but teams will no longer be allowed to provide them to players ββ much to the dismay of George Kittle and many others. (NPR)
πππ¦Άπ» Jaguars K Cam Little hit a 70-yard FG in a preseason game. The NFL record for a regular season FG is 66 yards and it is held by accused sex pest and occasional opera singer Justin Tucker. (NFL; Yahoo! Sports)
ππβ Sometimes you gotta tell the rook the truth. Here's Myles Garrett doing that for Shedeur Sanders. (Twitter/Browns)
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