David Todd

Three months ago I thought Kyle Schwarber would be the perfect signing for #Pirates. LH power bat who would hit 45+ HRs playing at PNC Park. Of course it was a pipe dream because the team would never pay the $120+M needed to outbid Phillies & others. In fact the Pirates were mocked for being “in the running,” because they never pay up. A fair criticism. But sometimes fortune goes your way. The Bucs “settled” for Ryan O’Hearn. Now it’s only six weeks, but: KS: 147 PA, .210/.361/.555 .915 148 OPS 11 HR, 20 RBI RO: 137 PA, .316/.401/.487 .889 146 OPS 5 HR, 24 RBI $33M vs $14.5M. So far, so good.

Golden Tempo was literally dead last in the final turn and then outkicked everyone to win the Kentucky Derby. What an insane finish.

ROSTER MOVES: The Pittsburgh Pirates today ended the rehab assignment of INF Jared Triolo (right knee patellar tendon injury) and reinstated him from the 10-day injured list. Pittsburgh optioned INF/OF Nick Yorke to Triple-A Indianapolis following Friday's game vs. Cincinnati

Cole Caufield’s first moments in the @NHL: “When I got called up at the end of the 2021 regular season, I didn’t even think I was going to play. We were on a road trip out west, and I was just along for the ride. Healthy scratch. Get acclimated. Practice with the guys. And man, those were some guys. Shea Weber. Carey Price. Eric Staal. Corey Perry. Tyler Toffoli. I was coming into that room probably looking like the water boy. I couldn’t have been more starstruck. We’re at a morning skate in Calgary, and it was a bag skate, of course. I’m thinking I’m going back to the hotel for a nice nap, throw on the suit, sit up in the press box and have a Gatorade. We’re on the bus and somebody tells me, ‘Hey, you’re playing tonight.’ I thought they were joking. I said, ‘Oh my God, we just bag skated. I’m toast.’ I called my parents and my brother, and that was an awesome moment, just them getting choked up and saying, ‘We’ll be watching you on TV.’ That was the hardest nap of my life. I couldn’t even sit still. I mean…. I’m somebody who started skating in diapers. Me and my brother used to watch the NHL and be playing carpet hockey in full gear in the living room, pretending that we were those guys. I demanded to wear my hockey socks and everything. So yeah, that night in Calgary was pretty much the greatest 15 minutes and even plus-minus of my life. I thought that was probably going to be it — a couple games at the end of the season. But we had a few injuries, and somehow I ended up in the playoff lineup. Everything went so fast that I don’t even think I had time to be nervous. I’ll never forget, I was just so happy to be there and so amped up that we were at a morning practice at the start of Round 2 against Winnipeg, and we’re just supposed to be warming up the goalies, right? Nice and easy. We’re in the shootout line, and I get up to the front, and I had this goosebumps moment where I guess it finally sunk in like, ‘You’re a Montréal Canadien. You’re coming down on Carey Price right now. This is unbelievable.’ I came flying down like a bat out of hell at a freaking morning practice after Game 2 of a playoff series — guys are literally still yawning, stretching — and I absolutely rip one on net. As soon as I let it go, I thought, Oh s***. I smoked Carey right in the face. The sound was insane. Everybody stopped. You could have heard a pin drop in there. All I could think was, Is Shea looking at me? Is he going to kill me? I wanted to dig a hole in the ice and hide. Thank God, it was Carey Price. He shook it off like it was nothing, and he’s the chillest guy ever, so he wasn’t even mad at me. But then I skated back to the line and one of our vets just looked at me and said…. ‘Hey kid?’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘Don’t ever f****** do that again.’ Noted. Noted. I think I went five-hole on Carey for the next two months. The puck never left the ice.” playerstribu.ne/Caufield @colecaufield | @CanadiensMTL

There has been ~ 7000 total playoff games in NBA/ABA history. Orlando, Houston and Atlanta just accounted for 3 of the top 5 worst offensive halves in NBA history, within a 24 hour time frame. Houston’s current shooting splits are 27/21/60 and Orlando just finished the second half shooting 10.8% from the field. We will never see another outlier of basketball this bad in our lifetimes.

RJ BARRETT INSANE GAME-WINNER TO FORCE GAME 7 OMG 😱🚨 WHAT. A. SHOT. 🤯

EDM goalie has no idea what he’s doing. And he’s starting over Jarry.

#Penguins played from behind for zero minutes/seconds the last three games.

Really thought the Pens would be rewarded for dictating play all night long. They left it all on the ice. Just dug themselves too big a hole in this series. Incredible effort by Silovs.

This is the 67th Pens' playoff game to go to OT, and the first with the score 0-0.

The Save II Silovs!!!

Dewar playing out of his mind.

This is the 17th time a Pens' elimination game is going to OT. Pens are 8-8, including 3-4 on the road.

Oh. My. God.

Ahhhh, no sh*t.

We’re headed to OT.

Penguins-Flyers: 3 stars: 1) Goal scorer 2) Winning Goalie 3) Losing Goalie

Ohhh, Tommy!

Great kill Boys! #LetsGoPens