Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Take It on the Road

(In an absolute shocker, Stolarz didn’t practice this morning. Woll will start and Matt Murray will be the backup. As someone who’s had a concussion and was vomiting, though I don’t think it was blood but in fairness I was 8 and busy being concussed… yeah, that isn’t good.)

In other news:

George Pickens IS A GOTDAMNED STAR, YEEHAW! (Pickens and a 2027 5th for a 2026 3rd and 2027 6th)

In other WR news, the Jaguras have released Gabe Davis, after signing him to a 3-$39M deal last year. This season’s $1.5M salary and $10M bonus were fully guaranteed, so Davis’ll still make his money. This burns $20.3 in dead cap for DUUUUVALLLLL.

Okay, so what’s on tonight?

Yes, there’s playoff games!

Hockey first (non-Mammoth edition*)
Teams you hate for varieties of reasons (FLA vs. TOR, Maple Leafs lead 1-0) (7:00, ESPN, probably TSN)
The Game 7 ass-pullers series! (DAL vs. WPG, Game 1) (9:30, ESPN, probably TSN)

Basketball Jonesing
Mikal Bridges trying to justify all them picks vs. Brick City (non-Newark edition) (NYK vs. BOS, Knicks lead 1-0) (7:00, TNT) (I should hit up Wingstop one of these days, it’s been a while! Like, back when I worked in Astoria.)
MVP SHOWDOWN! (DEN vs. OKC, Nuggets lead 1-0) (9:30, TNT)

CAN Cham, non-headphone edition
Forge FC Hamilton vs. HFX Wanderers FC (7:00, FS2)

And other things on various streaming services, like the Yankees back on Prime (much to everyone’s chagrin), SexiMexi futból, the US Open Cup which involves teams you’ve never heard of (and also the Tampa Bay Rowdies—hey, the Cosmos are on indefinite hiatus again and have been since… 2021? Oh, they’re fucked). And (hopefully) doubleheader diceball: it’s the Battle On Long Island, and I’m gonna need a sweep for the Nocturnes to have any chance of making the playoffs! (Edited post-Game 1 and we only played 1: Nope, no playoffs. That sucked. You have the guy who’s already set the most hits allowed record and you get 5 hits? No playoffs for you.)

*Instant Utah Mammoth thoughts: Name is fine, especially considering it’s been leaked for the last however long, and I do like the tusks in the lettering for the U and for Utah. Apart from the fact that I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen that logo, sans mountains, in Madden ’21, or the last one I played on my phone, it’s functional. It needs some sort of wooly mammoth brown or make it desert rock brown instead of black—that could be the eye color instead of the blue. Other than that, it’s fine. It’s not “Holy shit this is the greatest logo in sports history” but for now as long as it’s functional and not a total whiff it should be fine. Future iterations might want to do even more with the tusks as a possible hockey stick play for secondary or tertiary logos. Tusks Up is a little obvious, on account of the NLL Colorado Mammoth having #TuskUp as their thing already. But listen, that’s still better than renaming your team after a sports team ALREADY in the city (looking at you again, Cleveland Guardians, Spiders was still right there.)