Third, and penultimate, Hump Day of June. Time flies when you’re having fun! We’ve got more College World Series action today, the U.S. Open is on deck, and that pesky soccer tournament is still chugging right along.
Sure, I wish it would end so I can get back to new episodes of “MasterChef” at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, but I realize I’m probably in the minority on that one. I hear there’s a chance USA and England could play on July 4? If that’s true, I’ll lock in for that one. Until then, it’s just not my wheelhouse.
I’m more of a football guy myself. Speaking of that …
Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Kansas City Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt shows the Europeans what a real FOOTBALL WAG looks like as they invade Arrowhead Stadium.
What else? I’ve got a ton of action from last night in Omaha, including the age-old, ‘What’s a catch?’ debate rearing its ugly head once again. I’ve also got Tiffani Amber Thiessen hitting the beach as we near the technical start of summer, and an all-time youth baseball fight down here in big, beautiful, FREE Florida.
This is what it’s all about!
Grab you whatever you’d like — dealer’s choice today! — and settle in for a Hump Day ‘Cap!
Before we get this town hall going, I’d like to start this Hump Day with a question to the veterans in class:
How old were you when you realized the day-drink wasn’t what it once was?
The First Lady and I celebrated our 10th anniversary yesterday. A big one! Because it was Tuesday and the world didn’t quite slow down just because it was our anniversary, we’re actually celebrating it this weekend. But, we did manage to sneak off to lunch yesterday to at least acknowledge the occasion.
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I had two beers. Two. And I was wiped out by the time we got home. Just toast. Exhausted. I felt like I needed a nap, and I never take naps. Ever. But after two beers at 1 p.m., I got home and could’ve passed out for hours.
Now, obviously I do this regularly during football season on Saturdays and Sundays, and I’m fine. But how I felt yesterday has me concerned.
Am I getting too old to drink a beer during the afternoon? I’m 33. That can’t be true, right? I figured I had way more time. I’m hoping this was a one-off.
Perhaps my body wasn’t expecting a couple of beers at noon on a Tuesday? That’s what I’m telling myself right now, but I am moderately worried. I’m hoping someone here can talk me off a ledge.
Or, perhaps, push me off of it. Either-or!
OK, let’s go ahead and get this show on the road. I’m hoping to get this issue resolved soon, because football season is right around the corner.
A quick check of the calendar tells me that training camps are one month away, with the first regular season game in (woke) Australia just 84 days away.
On that note, here’s Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt wearing her Sunday red at Arrowhead for yesterday’s showdown between Argentina and Algeria:
I know we’ve got … futbol … going on right now, and I respect that. But goodness, I could use some real football this weekend.
What I would GIVE for some crappy Thursday night game between the Jags and Browns tomorrow night. Hell, I’d take an Akron-Eastern Michigan game at 8 p.m. on CBS Sports Network right now. Something. Anything.
Oh well. It’ll be here before you know it.
In the meantime, we at least have some College World Series action to keep us distracted. And buddy, we had a couple all-time moments in last night’s elimination game between Georgia and Texas.
The Bulldogs won, 2-0, and will now face elimination again tonight against Oklahoma. But first … was this a catch? It’s all over the internet today, and — to me — it seems pretty cut and dry.
But is anything on the internet EVER cut and dry?
To me, that’s not a catch. I didn’t think it was a catch in real-time, and I certainly didn’t think it was after the replay. Had the ball not been moving as he was lifting his glove up to show the umpire he caught it, I’d probably think otherwise.
But it was already moving. Everybody wants to compare it to the infamous Dez Bryant (non) catch a few years ago in the playoffs. That one was way more of a catch than this. If we want to think of it in football terms — and this class has been weirdly football-centric, so we might as well — then I think it’s even clearer.
If this was a receiver diving for a ball, and he caught it and then rolled over and it started to wiggle, they’d review it and immediately overturn it. It would take two seconds. That’s what we have here.
Easy call, and the right one, in my (always right) opinion.
Frankly, the more impressive part of that replay is the absolute NUTS on the third base coach to send the runner home on that pop-up. Perfect throw, but an even better slide.
What a tournament.
OK, two more on the way out. First? It’s summer, which means it’s officially time for youth travel ball parents to get AFTER it:
Lordy. What a scene. I played travel ball for years down here, and I can honestly say I’ve never seen things escalate to THAT point. What a brawl. Just anarchy, all in the name of 8U baseball.
I just couldn’t imagine getting that worked up over an 8U baseball game. Possible pregame tailgates in the parking lot contributing here? Maybe. Certainly not out of the question.
Lord knows it wouldn’t affect me! As I told you earlier, I’d be passed out on the bleachers while the suburban moms were all in a headlock.
OK, that’s it for today. Good work, everyone. Good class.
Let’s cool off and end the day with Tiffani Amber Thiessen at the beach.
See you tomorrow.
OutKick Nightcaps is a daily column set to run Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. (roughly, we’re not robots).
Where do we stand on the catch/no catch? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.
