This can just become a daily appreciation moment for Padres. It’s not our fault. Sometimes something will be and you can not run from what should be. The Padres decided it would be fun to hit a Rangers grand slam for a third straight game, but to turn it from just a pint of ice into a sundae, this one was a walk-off version of Manny Machado.
Maybe it’s just something to have in this baseball baseball, or even all over the world, that seems cool and fun that we’re addicted to. Maybe it’s that the Padres are really the only hope to stop the Dodgers plague for the next decade. Maybe it’s just a quirk of the past few days. However, everyone needs something that makes them smile, or feel something these days. Embrace the Padres. They will make you feel something, and you need that badly.
It was Happy Death Day in the NHL, as three teams were invited to leave their respective bubbles. The Arizona Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Carolina Hurricanes can go back to what it is they do the rest of the time.
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The Coyotes were walloped by the Avs 7-1, and they were put so hard in the face all series. The only reason they got one game is goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper knocking out once, but he could not keep that level. Nobody could. The Yotes are a bad team that got a hockey make-a-wish to get into these playoffs, and the Avs treated them that way. Come next season, we can all go back to not being aware of their existence, which everyone was happier with.
The Jackets are not that, but they are not much better, and would not have been in a normal playoff system. They actually held the Lightning for a period and a half without a shot, and had a two-goal lead. But the Bolts’ firepower finally woke up, and Anthony Cirelli tied the game at four with one and a minute left. Brayden Point won it five minutes into OT.
The winning of the series exorcises some demons for the Lightning, who were ousted by the Jackets last year as winners of the Presidents’ Trophy. Now that they have removed these, they should be favorites to come from the East, as they have been the best team since December. The jackets can continue change the diaper of John Tortorella after loss.
The only disappointment is the Canes, who reunited against the Bruins, although David Pastrnak missed most of the series and the Bruins had to go for their second goalie after Tuukka Rask opted for it. While the Canes have been the league’s analytical estimates for years, you can somehow not overcome mediocre goal tending and a lack of top-line finish at the other end. It also does not help if you run into the Bruins as they run in shape, and we really just need to move on to the Tampa-Boston series that the East will almost certainly decide, whichever round that happens.
The Canes have been the “next” team for two seasons, maybe three, but the thing is, eventually you have to become the “now” team. By dunking for two years in a row through the Bruins, you are not doing that. Everyone who matters there is locked up, but they will need a goalkeeper for real and maybe one forward difference. Will they actually pay for those this time? Can they?
While the Reds made much bigger news last night there was another nugget that Human-centipede Trevor Bauer earned the MLB honor by trying to wear shoes that said “Free Joe Kelly.” Bauer was told he would actually be thrown out of the game if he wore them. Kelly was obviously suspended for eight games last month by MLB for throwing at Astros Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa, who both brought teams onto the field for a bit of a face.
But hey, attention-grabbing morons attract each other, so it’s no surprise that Bauer would speak for his colleague wanna be suppressed. Bauer is always five minutes away from a rally of men, and you would think as focal as Bauer has been over the Astros, he would feel the same way about players at the 2018 Red Sox, who also have Kelly on the team cheated, in case you forgot. But Bauer’s head has always been somewhere, logic is about to die.
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