Elizabeth Hurley Suffers Ankle Injury, ESPN Playing Mask Police & Snow Jet Skiing Down South
What a week out of the emailers...it's like you guys have time on your hands because it's cold outside!
Let's get this first Friday of 2022 rolling with a message from Mike C. who perfectly summarized this 'Don't Blink' week that officially closes down this morning.
Screencaps the past two days...
…has been excellent. I am the type of person that would prefer to communicate with other people what they have done. Then, based upon their experiences I can learn from them. Great reading all around.
The connected virtual community you have built up in Screencaps has the cohesiveness that our work leaders on Zoom calls wish we had.
Mike, it's because the OutKick readership is dialed in. I would have to track IP addresses to know for sure (and that ain't happening), but I have a feeling the average Screencaps readers are scanning these posts at least 4-5 times each week. I assume many readers are skipping Saturday.
They're focused. They understand what I'm after. They sit down and hammer out emails that get to the point.
I knew it would take time to train Screencaps readers on what it is that makes this column hum, but I also knew I was training the sharpest tools in the shed. Then the emails started coming in from business owners, guys flying F-15s, guys way up the chain of command in the military and others who have been way successful in life.
Screencaps is cohesive because we have all these readers who aren't jerkoffs, Mike. Let's just cut to the chase.
We mix in the blue collars who bust their asses with the white collars who bust their asses and it's a massive ball of Internet cohesiveness with photos of brisket and Instagram models.
I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming that I get to do this for a living. It's absolutely incredible.
Now, let's get this day moving along.
• Andrew T. wanted me to see this out of Connecticut:
Hey Joe, see this? What a douche. If this happened to my 13 year old daughter, I’d be calling up Moose and Rocco.
https://www.ctinsider.com/gametimect/amp/Jeff-Jacobs-After-88-point-win-Sacred-Heart-16749812.php
The story is about how Sacred Heart Academy, a girls' Catholic college prep school, beat a team 92-4 Monday night.
I skimmed through the story until I got to this part where a local coach relayed what he saw while watching the game:
I get working on your press and preparing for tougher battles down the road, but it likely didn't take two quarters of pressing to get the needed reps in. Maybe a coach out there would like to defend Sacred Heart's coaching staff on this one.
• Dave in Rhode Island got his weekend started early:
I ran into an anomaly this evening - upon opening my "traditional" blue 30 rack of BLs, I found a mixed bag of mostly orange cans along with a few regular blue cans...I feel like I won a Willy Wonka contest!
Wondering if anyone else has experienced this unusual crease in the universe?
• Mike in Pasadena, the guy who buys exotic wood, sent in a 'Don't Blink' email where he talks about raising boys -- one is a software engineer at Apple and the other son is a neuroscience engineer at a biotech firm -- and he ended his email with a regret. I wanted to isolate this part of the email for emphasis.
P.s. - I do have one regret. I should have put them on ice skates and stuck a golf club in their hands as toddlers. Hockey and Golf - #1 under-used D1 scholarships out there.
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I was taking out the trash this morning before I even opened Mike's email and I was thinking how I need to get a virtual golf reservation and take my son to swing the clubs this weekend. Not that I'm after a D1 scholarship for him. I just want to make sure I have a partner down the road when my buddies are having hip and knee replacements. I'm thinking ahead here.
• Johnny R. checks in:
Good morning Joe! My wife sent this to me on her way back from dropping the girls at school this morning. Who knew she was a screencaps content provider?!? LOL!
• Mike T. in Idaho wants the pizza pros out there to see this report out of the Seattle Times on a secret sourdough starter that supposedly dates from the Klondike Gold Rush. Sit down with a slice and dig into this one.
• Let's go out there and attack the weekend. Fill up the email inbox. Enjoy the final weekend of the NFL -- so weird saying that on Jan. 7 -- and make it a safe one.
May your meats have that perfect crust and your beers be ice cold without being completely frozen.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com