Thanks to meatpark for this. He says:

look at these f***ing Irish mini ponys

I still have way too many of your submission pictures to use, but every year I get some pictures from at least one St. Patrick's Day parade, and if I'm gonna cut into all the previous submissions well then the picture better be topical. Yesterday was St. Patty's Day so here we go with some Irish mini ponies for you.

How about Sid and them Penguins? All of a sudden they reel off seven-straight wins and now Sid is Morph from the X-Men.

Sidenote: how cheap was it that Morph was just some guy that could look like anyone. Maybe more of a cop-out than Rogue's "I can have everyone's powers if I touch them."

After the Pens became the only team in NHL history to to win consecutive games after being down AND shut out through two periods, I went online looking for reactions to Sidney Crosby. They've been pretty loud and mostly positive in the wake of a game where Sid set up two quick goals to steal two points, a win and the hearts of the Air Canada Centre.

NHL.com is all praise, seeing that today mark's one year since Sid's concussion/neck comeback. They had to throw Ovechkin a bone too:

It seems like Sid's game even softens the hearts of many of his critics. Commenters on all of the NHL.com pieces, Pens fan or not, are pretty much understanding of where Sid is ascending. These are fun times to watch.  And with everyone saying "Sidney Crosby is this" or "Sidney Crosby is that," I went to notoriously troll-ish Google autocompletes:

Still catty. I'll give their algorithms time to catch up.

I took the phrase "Sidney Crosby is" to Twitter, where I came across this from PensNation_Ash:

In tonight's photo gallery, with "87" clearly visible on the jersey, Sidney Crosby is listed as Paul Martin.

And that's the picture at the top of this post. You can catch the Pens gallery from last night's game here. Morph Crosby is at some Martin/Crosby mid-point where people think he's Martin but he's already gettin' back to Sid form.

Long story short there was a typo that one time.

Go Pens.

Thanks to Dawn for this. IT's MISTER BUDDY, THE ITCHY-BUTT-ED DWARF MINI HORSE!

I always approve of mini ponies using Facebook, and if you got that itch, scratch it! Mister Buddy understands both Internetting basics and standard hygiene better than your average teenager.

Catch Mister Buddy on Facebook here.

Thanks to usbzoso for this. What we have here are half-shaved alpacas lookin' at you like you're the weird one.

Kind of a backwards day, today. We took a look at Mike Lange earlier this morning, and rested on our 6 year old laurels before murking through reality tv. Now here comes Mini Pony of the Day as the sun looks to set, rather than already there in the A.M. making you smile. You can flip the script on your anniversary. You're only 6 once.

And with all that, I also threw today's mini pony on BuzzFeed, and I'll use that page for any beyond-special links or even non-mini pony submissions you guys have. Thanks to Dawn for sending it over originally. And this isn't some passing thanks, the video is one of my absolute favorites in the history of PSAMP. 6 years is 2192 days and we get you a mini pony each weekday morning, so you can see where this ranks.

Video below:

Thanks again for all the love these 6 years.

God I hate that something called Millionaire Matchmaker even exists, and some former fill-in Steelers punter was on it.

Mitch Berger, who stepped into the Steelers punting duties multiple times when Dan Sepulveda couldn't, won a championship with the team against the Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII. I guess that and a career that started in the mid-90s got him to millionaire status. Or at least "rich enough to appear on some harpy's lovematch reality show."

Berger retired in 2009, and complained of being too much of a party boy who coldn't find a wife among the college kids at the bars. Stunning, right? So he got hooked up with some bikini model because when I think wife material, I think bikini model. And yes, I may be co-opting 15-year-old-me's brain there.

It apparently worked. Berger proposed before Christmas, and the couple is planning a July wedding.

Willie Colon was just cut by the Steelers. He is asking Millionaire Matchmaker to set him up with a sandwich.

PSAMP turns 6 today. Anyone know a good kindergarten? I woulda put PSAMP in the class ahead but his blogspot page would've had to been started by August 31st the year prior or something.

Thanks for making me write this.

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Previous birthdays:

5th

4th

3rd

2nd (Terrible Twos)

1st

Always much love to my bud Benson for doing this, just like after the insane Geno/Sid goals. Here's Mike Lange calling the Pens comeback goals against the Bruins. Coming back from down 3 in the final 6 1/2 minutes to win 3-2? That situation just begs for Mike Lange.

Go Pens.

Thanks to AJ for this. He says:

I’m not sure if this qualifies as a mini pony, but it’s still funny.

Creepy, but I'll allow it. GIF below cos I'm still having trouble embedding:

Thanks to Rob Ullman and Cory and the guys at DSB for this (1:50 mark). Jon Stewart boldly proclaims that miniaturized versions of everything rule. And boy does he get that one right.