Icon Sportswire(Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Between dressing up as a Royal Canadian Mountie, talking to Jerry Seinfield and David Letterman during games and politely tossing back bean balls at opposing pitchers, it's easy to forget that Joey Votto is one of the best hitters baseball has ever seen. This stat should serve as a reminder.
Votto, like the rest of the Cincinnati Reds, is in a slump to start the season, going 0-for-3 in Wednesday's 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. But only a man of great standing can make the insignificant historic, which is what Votto did with a pop up to first base in the eighth inning. Because it was Votto's first pop-up to first in 6,829 plate appearances over his 13-year career.
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That would be a hit-to-first-base-pop-up ratio of 1,742-to-1.
For context, no other active player with at least 50 popups has avoided hitting one to first, and the next..

Tiger Woods may have made golf's “stinger” popular, but he certainly has a lot of company on the PGA Tour when it comes to pulling off the low, wind-cheating shot. In recent years, we've seen some pretty impressive efforts by Phil Mickelson and Gary Woodland, among others. And now Scott Stallings has (frozen) roped his way into the conversation.
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Ahead of this week's RBC Heritage at Harbour Town, Stallings posted this video on Tuesday of a shot with such a low trajectory that it looks like a mistake:
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However, on Wednesday, the three-time PGA Tour winner showed the shot off again with a better video to prove it was real:
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Good lord, that's low. Stallings should teach a class in flight school.
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Dylan BuellA great many Americans struggle with retirement—with aimlessness and the sudden absence of self-worth long associated with a hard day's work. A great many more never get the luxury of struggling with retirement for obvious reasons. From the looks of things, however, neither of these unfortunate scenarios apply to Dwayne Wade, who, despite being officially retired for all of a week, already looks like an old pro.
WARNING: The following video features scenes of graphic relaxation and profane chill. Sorry bastard discretion is advised.
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Needless to say, D-Wade is wasting no time when it comes to wasting time, chugging his own rosé from the passenger seat of a golf cart while his former trainer (because who needs one of those when you're retired?) laughs hysterically behind him. If you're still wondering what “livin' la vida loca” looks like 20 years later, well folks, this is it.
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