Tommy O'Connor

Ah shit it's gonna be 756 degrees on Monday. Better make this weekend count since it's our last one ever.

Your brain is built to forget almost everything that happens to you. It makes one exception, and you're looking at it. Carole Peterson at Memorial University has spent over 25 years studying our earliest memories. She found that the first one most adults can recall comes from age 2.5, not 3.5 as the old textbooks said. The early memories that survive share three things: a strong feeling, a new experience, and a physical sensation. A wave, a dad's grip, and the weird feeling of riding a board check every box. The mechanism lives in the amygdala. It's the brain's emotion sensor, sitting right next to the hippocampus, the part that files memories. When something big happens, the amygdala triggers a flood of stress hormones like cortisol. That's the signal to the hippocampus to file this one extra deep. James McGaugh at UC Irvine spent his career showing this works for happy moments too. The amygdala fires for pleasure the same way it fires for fear. What matters is how loud the feeling is. Dads play a particular role here. Daniel Paquette, a developmental psychologist in Montreal, has spent 20 years researching what he calls the "activation relationship." Moms tend to be the safe base kids come back to. Dads tend to be the door to the outside world. They push kids into new and slightly scary situations, and stand right there as the safety net. Kids who grow up with this kind of dad end up more confident, less anxious, and more comfortable around strangers. A 2017 review pulled together 16 studies covering 1,521 father-child pairs. Quality rough-and-tumble play, which means the wrestling and tossing and chasing kind, was linked to lower aggression, better emotion regulation, and stronger self-control. In rats, baby animals that don't get to play-fight grow up with an under-developed prefrontal cortex, which handles planning and impulse control. Christina Bethell's 2019 study in JAMA Pediatrics took the long view. Her team at Johns Hopkins surveyed 6,188 Wisconsin adults about their positive childhood experiences. Adults reporting six or seven of those had 72 percent lower odds of adult depression than those reporting zero to two. The effect held even for people with serious childhood trauma. Good moments keep paying out for decades. The original tweet is right. The moments that burn in are the ones with big feelings, new physical sensations, and an adult who is the bridge between safe and scary. Twenty years from now, the grip is what he'll remember.

Bringing Knock Knock back vs the Penguins would be an all time troll job

Did Trevor Zegras just bring Knock Knock back? 😳 He just posted this on Insta 👀 #Flyers (📹: trevorzegras)

Weekend's here folks--let's gas it up

🚨 TV RATINGS: King of late night @GregGutfeld reigned supreme in March with 3.2 million nightly viewers, beating all of late-night on cable AND broadcast TV! Fox News’ ‘Gutfeld!’ is #1 with 351,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic and outranked all of broadcast late-night TV, including: • CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2 million viewers; 265,000 A25-54) • ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2 million viewers; 299,000 A25-54) • NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (1.2 million viewers; 250,000 A25-54) • Late Night with Seth Meyers (830,000 viewers; 173,000 A25-54).

Baseball is a life lesson in disguise. You’ll fail. A lot. You won’t control the outcome. You’ll get humbled fast. But if you stick with it… You learn discipline. You learn toughness. You learn how to respond. That’s why the game matters ⚾️💯

Seems accurate

@DearS_o_n Dear son, Nothing beats hard work and consistency. Not even talent can defeat a man who is consistent with hard work. Hence, to be great in life, master the art of showing up every day. It might be boring, but the long-term reward is huge, son.

Something I think many don’t realize is the pride longtime hockey fans feel about the sport itself. Hockey is sort of a subculture, and we feel so proud that it was our thing that delivered for the nation here. We feel like we know these players. Bc we kinda do.

MacKinnon got OWNED.

Me logging into the Zoom call with that one Canadian coworker tomorrow.

Jack Hughes missing multiple teeth and bleeding after scoring the game winning goal: "We’re USA. We’re so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country." PATRIOT. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Jack Hughes loses three teeth and is bleeding, but not a chance he was not playing. Soccer would have air lifted him to the hospital. Then he scores the winning goal. Hockey.

Play baseball, kids! Never know what could happen lol

Using public voter files, Peter Lutz (@ding3rs) takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.

TREVOR ZEGRAS WITH AN ALL-TIME INTERVIEW. #LetsGoFlyers

If, in 2005 it was: 10% Luck 20% Skill 15% Concentrated Power of Will 5% Pleasure 50% Pain and 100% Reason to Remember the Name, Then what are those figures now in 2025 when taking an average 6% annual return and inflation into account?

@RdH1SW1 @jamie_lissow @PlanetTyrus @greggutfeld that's not me that's @GeneNelson

Sheesh! I didn’t know that @tommyoconnor is taller than @jamie_lissow, @PlanetTyrus and you @greggutfeld! 😁 I might be as tall as Tommy!😁😁👍😎

I’ve never really been a guy who can rock a mic like a vandal, but if needed can wax a chump like a candle.

Trea Turner — NL ranks among SS BA — .299 (1st) Hits — 109 (1st) SB — 22 (t-1st) 2B — 18 (t-1st) Runs — 61 (2nd) 3B — 2 (t-2nd) OPS — .802 (3rd) Not an All-Star #Phillies