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The Cheat SheetBy Jay Rigdon on

Welcome to Wednesday!

It’s officially been spring where I live (Indiana) for a few weeks now, yet there’s snow in the forecast on Thursday. I spent the last week in Orange County.

And now, a rhetorical question: why do people live where there’s winter? There are places without it, and it’s amazing.

Here, now, a list of the months I’d rather spend in Indiana than southern California, solely based on weather: May, September, and thirty beautiful days scattered across April/June/July/October. That’s it.

And now, Wednesday’s Cheat Sheet.

Russell Westbrook grabs 41st triple-double, tying Oscar Robertson

PHOENIX, AZ – MARCH 03: Russell Westbrook, realizing how lucky he is to have such sculpted shoulders with which to carry the Thunder (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

If anything, the season Russell Westbrook is having is too little a story. The guy is probably going to average a triple-double! In 2017! With Kevin Durant gone, imagining the numbers Westbrook would put up was almost a joke before the season, and yet here he is, putting up some of the gaudiest stats in history.

On Tuesday, he completed his 41st triple-double of the season, tying Oscar Robertson’s record:

He’s got five games left to add onto the total, and it’s hard to fathom anyone breaking this record for a very long time.

Unless, of course, Russ does it next year.

Stephen Piscotty had an extremely painful inning

ST. LOUIS, MO – APRIL 4: Stephen Piscotty right before he took a throw to the helmet(Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)

This actually could have been much, much worse, so when you hear that Stephen Piscotty will be evaluated today after leaving the game with a head contusion, you should be relieved. His inning was a rough one; it started when he reached base via being hit by a pitch. He was then hit with a throw down to second while attempting to advance on a dropped ball.

But, the scariest play was the final one, when Piscotty attempted to score on an infield grounder, only to be hit in the head by the throw home from Javy Baez:

Again, it’s lucky that the diagnosis was only a contusion, although a concussion is still very possible. Still, that beats a fractured skull, or other head injuries.

The Cardinals lost, too, after an Albert Almora home run robbery and a game-ending Javy Baez highlight play:

Hopefully Piscotty is okay.

Quick Hits

-This Pepsi ad is horrendously tone deaf. Here, now, my favorite tweet about it:

https://twitter.com/HelloCullen/status/849387206766669826

I always hated Faygo. Drinking bad pop is one of the worst experiences. Related to random pop discussion: remember when All Sport was a thing, and it was carbonated? It’s all my baseball league’s concession stand offered when I was a kid, and I’m amazed no one ever died of dehydration.

According to Wikipedia, they now actually market it as a “Non-Carbonated Sports Drink”, because apparently everyone else is like me and just remembers the carbonated years.

This would make for a great “You know you’re a ’90s kid if…” quiz, if that statement wasn’t inherently an oxymoron.

-Diamond Dallas Page absolutely went off on Dan Le Batard, and though I generally like Dan, in context it’s hard to blame DDP.

-Lance Stephenson played his first game back in Indy as a Pacer, and while he helped push the Pacers to a win over the Raptors, he also started a pointless fight late by going for an uncontested layup in the final seconds while Indiana led by 16. Welcome home, Lance!

-Amazon will stream Thursday Night Football, taking over for Twitter. Their rights deal is fascinating, too.

-We could all learn a thing about perseverance from this hummingbird:

http://i.imgur.com/fBLwwt7.gifv

Also, nice camera zoom. I tried to take a phone pic of a hummingbird in California last week (did I mention I was in California last week?) and even though I was like 10 feet away it just looked like a blur.

-Tony Romo is reportedly going to take over for Phil Simms as the lead analyst at CBS, which is awesome, because Phil Simms is bad at his job, and the best analysts are those who have just left the sport. Phil Simms was bad at talking about football and also hadn’t been in the league for decades. Romo has at least one leg up on Simms already.

-Apropos of nothing:

I am the law….the law of physics

Fake news headline I wish was real

Andy Roddick Announces Comeback: “I Know I Have Another Memorable Loss To Roger Federer In Me,” Says Roddick

One last glorious moment of procrastination

Wait for it:

About Jay Rigdon

Jay is a columnist at Awful Announcing. He is not a strong swimmer. He is probably talking to a dog in a silly voice at this very moment.

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