This is C.C. She’s a year and a half old. She can recite the retired numbers for the New York Yankees.

Okay, so she has a little help, but f**k you, she’s not even two. I’m a grown-up with a sports blog and I can’t recite the Cleveland Indians retired numbers without facepalming for five minutes. YOU try remembering Mel Harder! Anyway, C.C. (who shares a name with a Yankee, and is very excited about that fact) is adorable, thinks her daddy is the team captain of the New York Yankees and does a pretty-okay job of spitting out “Mattingly.”

YouTube user KylePMore sums up the clip nicely:

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Yesterday was brutal, so if things aren’t funny today, that’s probably a normal reaction. You can help yourself along by watching this video of an elephant playing catch, because it’s adorable. It’s the best possible Field of Dreams/Dumbo mash-up. (via Daily Of The Day)

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A few quick truths:

1. With Leather doesn’t really have a signature animal. Sure, we’ve tried to get sea otters over as our thing, but nobody comes here for specific animal content in the way they might’ve, say, Warming Glow.

2. Sledding is more of a recreational activity than a “sport,” but it requires a small amount of athletic prowess. Slightly harder than hanging motionless on the monkey bars, but easier than the slide.

3. It’s Friday, and the only things going on in the LOL LOOK AT THIS sports world are Harlem Shake videos and … additional Harlem Shake videos.

So, with those three things accepted as facts, here’s a clip of SLEDDING PUGS. Okay, so it looks like somebody just put them in sweaters, dumped them into a storage bin and decided to drag them around in the snow against their will, but still, pugs in sweaters in a sled. The fabric softener commercial music in the background is a nice touch.

As a resident of hot-ass Texas who lives with a lady who is allergic to dogs, I’m going to pretend that this is what winter is like. SLEDDING PUGS, Y’ALL.

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Otters playing football.

Hello! In support of the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship game this weekend; Georgia Aquarium’s Southern Sea Otters and Asian Small-Clawed Otters have been practicing their football skills. Check out the video below to see the team spirit!!

Otters playing football.

As the Atlanta Falcons go to the NFC Championship, Georgia Aquarium has found some “otterly” excited fans who have been working on their football skills.. Check out how our marine team is getting in the football spirit!

OTTERS PLAYING FOOTBALL.

AAAAAHHHHH

For the past three years, Red Sox rookie Daniel Nava (not pictured) has been leaving tickets for sideline princess Erin Andrews at will call. Now that he hit the first major league pitch he ever saw for a grand slam last night, maybe she’ll actually know who he is.

His financial manager must be Lenny Dykstra because this just seems like a fiscally irresponsible move for a young baseball player. Wouldn’t he presumably need those tickets for his friends, family and bargaining chips to make his poorer teammates eat bugs?  There are red flags everywhere with this kid. Beloved EA, stay away!

Daniel Nava only has eyes for one woman: ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews.

Dan Hoard, radio announcer for Boston’s Triple-A team in Pawtucket, R.I., said that Nava’s been leaving the former “Dancing With the Stars” participant tickets at will call for the past three years. Andrews has yet to take him up on his offer.

He supposedly got the idea from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who left pop star Jessica Simpson Cowboys tickets, hoping she showed up. It worked for Romo, as he and Simpson had a nearly two-year romance. -NY Daily News

Unfortunately for Nava, it looks like Erin Pageviews’ love has already been captured. BY A RUSSIAN! Yes, it seems as if Andrews is dating her Dancing With the Stars tango buddy Maksim Chmerkovskiy after the two demonstrated obvious chemistry while shimmying to a second place finish.

It’s been a long and winding road for the undrafted 27-year-old rookie, who began his collegiate baseball career as the equipment manager at Santa Clara University and weighed 70 pounds in the 9th grade. He had to drop out of Santa Clara because his parents couldn’t support him financially, so he spent two years at a junior college where he absolutely raked. Signed by an independent baseball league, he went on to win the league MVP award in 2007 while playing for the Chico Outlaws which opened the door to his career with the Red Sox, who bought his contract for one dollar.

Even with Andrews off the market, there’s still hope. After Nava hit the historic grand slam Andrews had this to say through twitter, “Have Dave Obrien pass along my best to Daniel!! Congrats on a big day that will go down in Sox history! Hope to meet him soon!”

I’m no expert in reading between the lines, but I think I know what that means, amirite?