Big brouhaha since Pens-Isles Game 4. The game where Sid, early in his 3rd game back from jaw surgery, took a puck to the throat just under his fishbowl jaw protector. Isles fans not only cheered the injury in unison, a bad enough showing, they used "Princess Crosby" chants which tend to incite calls of sexism because haha you're calling him a woman which is lesser than a man.

Barstool Sports got on Sporting News writer Jesse Spector's case, since Spector called out the Isles fans and Barstool responded with typical bravado. "You called a man a woman and also insulted an injury" vs. "MAN UP THIS IS HOW THINGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN," with just a touch of that Philly anti-Sid irrationality in the latter camp. You know, where apparently Sid is a flopper when Nabby is jumping around like a pogo stick and only an Islander has been called for diving this series.

Anyway, I'm not here to sway you to either side. I'm an admitted Sid fan, and you're reading these words on a Pittsburgh sports humor website. You know my side. I'm just here to point out how crappy Isles fans are at their insults. Forget the women-bashing and injury-cheering, I'm concerned about that sign up top.

Printhess Cindy? I mean this is a great double-up, you can somehow allude to breaking your jaw as a sissy move while also making fun of a lisp created by 100+MPH of vulcanized rubber. Now, we've made fun of Bryan Murray's lisp before so that's all fair game, but what about the dedication? Why is only the first s-sound lisped into the -th? Shouldn't it be Printheth Cindy? Or better yet, Printheth Thindy. It's concerning when idiot Isles fans half-ass their shoddy insults.

Penth in Thixth thith Thaturday.

Thanks to usbzoso for sending this over a while back and to Twitter for picking today's Mini Pony of the Day. Two twin baby moose will always in the running for this honor.

In the below video, the two baby moose play in a sprinkler. That should be all you need to hear to click play. They look so huge at first, then Mama Moose comes out and completely dwarfs the babies. As much as I want to pet and play with the babies there is no way I'm messing with a full-sized moose. It's like how baby hippos are unreal and then Mama Hippos will eat you alive.

Literally no clue what that music is in the video. Mute it hard.

Thanks to Jessica and Billy and Rob and Gracie and Terry and Z P and Holly for this. Yesterday some Craigslist ad popped up with a Long Island firefighter wanting to give away his mini horse for free. This was awesome news to me, a Brooklyn resident, and I immediately began seeing if my apartment could hold a large-enough pen.

And then smrtmnky chimed in and let me know if was a prank and a fake posting. You have no ideas the highs and lows associated with the facts of this story. Now I have to go back and double check every other Craigslist mini pony we've come across.

Thanks to Megan for this. From the link:

Either this Belgium Woman has Long Legs, or that Horse has Short legs?

Staggering that it took this long for a mini pony to get spotted on Google Street View but I'm pumped either way.

Thanks to Evil Shero for this from a bootleg circus. He says:

Gary the mini pony. psamp he was so gangsta 

they were everywhere and a lemur escaped and wrecked like 20 minutes of the show.

Here's the other dude, def not as cool as Gary

That's Gary up top and the other guy below Gary. And I see several other buddies. Another staggering entry into our collection of circus mini ponies.

WHAT!?

How does this slip by? How does one wear this out without noticing the upside-down MILLER nameplate? Or is this kid just super confident and a person who thrives off attention?

We've looked at this phenomenon in a roundabout way back in 2010 when some dude at Mario's 2000 comeback game couldn't hold a sign up the right way. That is a bit more forgivable because in a frenzy there's like 4 possible ways of thrusting that into the air with your sign message facing the ice, 8 different ways if you're in a rush and hold the back side up to the ice. But a jersey can really only be put on 2 ways, and backwards would be an insult to Kriss Kross cos one of them just died in the past week.

So inspect your knockoffs, kids. Or hold up a sign saying you know the nameplate is upside-down and you're wearing it that way for the attention so us old crotchety people can get with it.

Thanks, Lowell.

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Thanks to Doug for this. He says:

friend sent this to me. Mini ponies at the Philly zoo.

The Flyers aren't in the playoffs so this is Philly's parting gift.

Thanks to The Pen Spot for sending this over. He says:

After going to the first game of the playoffs I was inspired to make a short animation that represents in a simple form of how I think this first round of the playoffs will turn out.

And in this 11-second clip, the animated Islander is shown putting up a better fight than anything the real Islanders did in Game 1.

Go Pens.

Thanks to Cotter for this.

Y'know, it's almost the weekend, and I really have no caption or quip that can make this image better.

Thanks to Morgan for this. He says:

Hey psamp, Maria Menounos with a mini pony.

Oh man. Maria Menounos is hot and was a part of Channel 1 news back when I was in high school. And now here she is with a mini pony, looking hot, being mini pony of the day. Incredible.