MOONWALKING MINI PONY!

OK so this video came out a good couple of weeks ago now, but it's one of those things that everyone is gonna see and love. And with my status as LORD OF ALL MINI PONIES AND ALSO GRAND GALACTIC INQUISITOR, everyone who saw it had to send it to me. Submissions are always appreciated, and are the lifeblood of the Mini Pony of the Day feature.

So thanks to everyone who sent this over. A tally of just about everyone here:

smrtmnky, via primanirules and popbytes, BigBurgher, Tony, Jason, Gheorghe, Jessica, TDS, Carly, Scottro, Dawn, Steve via Lisa, Dan, Sideshow Raheem, walterflanagan, my bud Cotter, Anna, Will, meatpark, Aaron, Ethan, I think at least one of my sisters and anyone else in the ether.

I know I missed people for sure. Hell, I forget to credit people when two of you send the same thing. What I'm saying is thanks as always for thinking of PSAMP.

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I listened to Fleetwood Mac "Everywhere" on repeat while typing this post asdsdadsfgadgdasg.

Last week, some trailer featuring Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin in a Russian movie titled 12 Months debuted. Today, we translate.

The basis of this movie falls on some cute woman who gets wishes that were meant for a kid. Or something along those lines. And the kid wants to meet or play hockey with Geno and Ilya Kovalchuk. Even in Russia, Alex Ovechkin is 2nd tier.

Well worlds shattered when towards the end of the trailer, Geno gets speaking lines! He's not just a pretty  ugly face. So I got my Belarusian bud usbzoso on the horn. Geno says this:

Привет камикадзе

Which in English is:

Hi kamikaze

This is breaking news, you must credit PSAMP or get sued.

Go Pens.

Thanks to my old friend Cy for these. He says:

here is a pic of 2 mini's that need a home in Pittsburgh.

And also:

here is another one from Pittsburgh that needs a new home. Its mini pony day

That's all the info Cy had. I'm sure with enough noise we can find out exact info if you are in the market for 1-3 mini ponies. And if so, please get these awesome guys!

Thanks to my sister for this. Currently, she's probably over the Atlantic en route home to NYC from Ireland where she spent the past couple of days DJ-ing. And since St. Patty's was yesterday and we had a topically-festive mini pony this morning, we'll keep this potato-train a-rollin'. She says:

steelers representing in Ireland

I got that message late this morning, so she sent it from whatever-time-of-day it is at Dublin Airport when it is about 10ish AM on the East Coast. And being the good former Pittsburgher and sister of a Pittsburgh sports blogger that she is, it was probably captured and sent to my inbox without a second thought. Pittsburgh expatriates get a certain rush seeing the Black and Gold in the wild.

Hannah I'll send you this link after you land I don't know what the wifi situation is on cross-Atlantic flights and I haven't been on a plane in like 6 years.

Here we go Steelers.

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.

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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.