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Friday has arrived
Welcome to the Friday morning edition of Screencaps. For those of you who haven't been keeping up with this week's activities, Joe is off for the next couple of days. Which means you're stuck with me for the entire weekend.
That's not a bad thing. We've been here before, and I'm sure we'll be here again at some point in the future. The good news this morning is that I don't have to rush around.
The preschool has turned this weekend into a four-day weekend for President's Day. No drop-off means more time to find content for the most important start to the day.
Feel free to shoot me an email at sean.joseph@outkick.com over the next few days. Joe will be back on Monday morning.
Pitchers and catchers have reported
The Super Bowl is behind us, the NHL and NBA seasons are in full-swing, College Basketball is full speed ahead as March approaches, and NASCAR is gearing up for the Daytona 500.
All of that means it's time for pitchers and catchers to head to Arizona and Florida, which they've all done this week. The spring is right around the corner, and we'll have a version of baseball that nobody grew up with to enjoy soon.
But first, this is Major League Baseball, and they have to screw something up before the season gets underway. This year they decided to screw up the jerseys.
They've managed to turn them into something that resembles clearance rack knockoffs. Way to go.
According to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the jerseys are going to be really popular after people get over how stupid they look.
"The jerseys are different - they're designed to be performance wear," Manfred said. "They have been tested more extensively than any jersey in any sport. After people wear them a little bit, they're going to be really popular."
I'm not sure why performance wear means that they have to look like garbage, but here we are. There is light at the end of the tunnel, however. Manfred's time will be coming to an end. Unfortunately, not until 2029.
In the next few years, he has plans on expanding the league and "fixing" free agency. January 2029 cannot get here fast enough.
Cop thinks an acorn is a gunshot and opens fire on his own vehicle
Look, as with any profession, there are those who should be police officers and those who should not. This Florida deputy who mistook an acorn falling for a gunshot is the perfect example of someone who can't handle the responsibilities of the job.
Thankfully, he resigned following an investigation into an officer-involved shooting he was part of. During the incident, which can be described as a scene you would see on Reno 911, he unloaded his gun into his own vehicle.
It all went down in November 2023 when a woman called the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office to report that her boyfriend, Marquis Jackson, had stolen her vehicle.
Jackson was detained by responding officers. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of Deputy Jesse Hernandez’s vehicle.
Hernandez's body cam footage shows him walking back to his vehicle to perform a secondary search on Jackson. An acorn fell as he approached the backseat and that's when the officer yells "shots fired" as he rolls on the ground away from the vehicle.
While on the ground, he starts firing at the back of his vehicle. He unloads an entire clip, somehow missing Jackson, who is still handcuffed in the backseat.
At one point, the officer yells out, "I'm hit! I'm hit!" He was not hit, but his overreaction to the acorn caused Sergeant Beth Roberts to also start shooting at the vehicle.
Somehow, despite the crazy number of shots fired by officers, the handcuffed man in the backseat wasn't hit. Talk about a miracle. Obviously, being unable to determine whether an acorn falling is a gunshot should probably disqualify you from being an officer.
Woman had no idea you could eat fruit off of a tree
From one incredible moment to another. An influencer by the name of Karly shared a video that I can only hope is a joke. She confessed that she's been buying lemons despite the fact that she has a lemon tree in her yard.
The reason for buying lemons instead of grabbing them from the tree is that she didn't know you could eat fruit off of the tree.
The 28-year-old said in the video, "I can’t be the only person on the planet who didn’t know you can just pick a piece of fruit off a tree and eat it."
Is she for real? Are there people that honestly don't know that you can eat fruit off of a tree? Let me know what you think here or send over a similar story.
Have a great Friday. As always, the DMs are open @sjoseph_sports on X, as is my inbox at sean.joseph@outkick.com.