{"id":560473,"date":"2026-04-02T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:09:17","slug":"danica-patrick-shows-off-her-rocket-launchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560473\/","title":{"rendered":"Danica Patrick Shows Off Her Rocket Launchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">First Hump Day of April? An APRIL FOOLS Hump Day? I mean, are we in for a wild little ride today, or what? I think this is going to be a special class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">How could it not be? Trump&#8217;s set to address the nation tonight, we&#8217;re sending astronauts to the MOON again in a few hours, and CB Bucknor continues to be just the worst umpire in the history of umpiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In the post-Angel Hernandez era, of course. Nothing will ever match Angel. But CB&#8217;s certainly trying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anyway, welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps \u2013 the one where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/danica-patrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Danica Patrick<\/a> shows off the arms and throws back some wine to celebrate Florence Wine &amp; Food Weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Good luck saying ANYTHING bad to Danica with these bazookas, libs. You won&#8217;t stand a chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">What else? I&#8217;ve got the WNBA girls soaking up the last bit of the offseason, ESPN&#8217;s Alyssa Lang hitting the beach, Trump obliterating a reporter, and, of course, CB!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">My man made a call that was so utterly bad last night that both teams just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/mlbs-worst-umpire-made-call-so-egregiously-bad-both-teams-laughed-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">started laughing<\/a> from their respective dugouts. Amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Grab you some of Danica&#8217;s wine and be sure the bottle doesn&#8217;t explode, and THEN settle in for a Hump Day &#8216;Cap!<\/p>\n<p>CB, what do you SEE!?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I&#8217;ve got 14 meetings today and I&#8217;m alone with the kids, so there will be no beating around the bush in this class. All gas, no brakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Try to keep up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">For those who weren&#8217;t locked into the big Rays-Brewers game last night, CB Bucknor, who is the worst umpire in the game at the moment, had another all-timer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And by all-time, I mean he should probably be sent to the moon later today with the astronauts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Coming off a brutal weekend in which he was publicly humiliated by both the Red Sox and Reds, CB made just a baffling call at first base last night. And I mean BAFFLING.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It was so egregious, both teams literally just started laughing from their dugouts. Do you know how bad you have to be to get mocked by BOTH clubs?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Rollllllll tape!<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked a fairly reasonable follow-up here<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Goodness gracious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I mean, credit to CB Bucknor for having the nuts to make that call. We all thought we&#8217;d seen the last of a dying breed when Angel Hernandez &#8220;retired,&#8221; but buddy, we had no IDEA that CB Bucknor was waiting in the wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">How do you miss that? Seriously, how do you miss him stepping on first base? Well, for starters, you don&#8217;t even look at the bag. That&#8217;s a great place to start!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">WHY did CB Bucknor take his eyes off the bag? That&#8217;s literally his job. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/mlb-challenge-system-data-pitchers-catchers-success-rate-abs-strike-zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one and only job<\/a> in that situation is to look at the bag and see A) if he touches it, B) when he touches it, and C) who gets there first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Instead, CB just randomly follows the poorly thrown ball, and then calls him OUT based on \u2026 nothing. Just literally guessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever seen a player miss first base. I played baseball for 20 years. I&#8217;ve watched it for 30. I can&#8217;t recall a time when a runner missed first base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Second base? Sure. Third base? Once in a while. But FIRST base? Nope. Players usually get that one every time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">CB wasn&#8217;t the only one who looked absolutely lost yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>Danica, Alyssa &amp; the WNBA offseason is winding down, sadly\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Just a Hall of Fame moment here from Trump, who has taken a lot of heat over the past month or so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">For those who thought the stress would knock the fastball down a few notches \u2026 think again. It&#8217;s still very much there. It still very much plays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Reporter: &#8220;Iran threatened US companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Trump: &#8220;With WHAT? BB guns?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Incredible. What a response. Even more incredible was the question itself. It&#8217;s a fine question \u2026 if it had ANY credibility behind it. Like, any.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But don&#8217;t come into the Oval Office and ask the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES a question that you literally have no basis for. That&#8217;s Big J 101.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Years ago, when I was a freshman in college, my dad called me up randomly one night after Thanksgiving Break. He and my mom both, actually. I knew when I answered and they were both on the line, I was in trouble. Never a good sign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Were you at the house at 3 a.m. last week with a girl?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;No,&#8221; I said, emphatically. Easy call, right? Couldn&#8217;t have said it fast enough. No hesitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Now,&#8221; he responded, &#8220;let me ask you again, and this time just know that I already know the answer. Were you at the house last week at 3 a.m. with a girl?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I was toast. He got me. He had me dead to rights. I WAS at the house with a girl! He knew it, because we had to reset the alarm when we left, and that all gets logged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The moral of that story? Don&#8217;t ever ask a question that you already don&#8217;t kinda-sorta know the answer to. At the very least, have some basic knowledge about the subject before asking it. Or answering it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">OK, let&#8217;s rapid-fire this quick class into a quick night of humping! I&#8217;ve got a rocket launch to watch, you know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">First up? WNBA players report in 18 days, folks. Time is TICKING on any last-minute vacation time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Indiana Fever teammates Lexi Hull and Sophie Cunningham with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/sophie-cunningham-bikini-photos-fever-preseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">couple absolute HEATERS<\/a> from the coast. This is what it&#8217;s all about, boys and girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I&#8217;m glad the WNBA season is a GO, but I&#8217;m sad to see the R&amp;R come to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Speaking of R&amp;R, let&#8217;s check in with ESPN college football reporter, Alyssa Lang!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Welcome to class, Alyssa! Good to see you enjoying some time off during college football&#8217;s quiet time, although how quiet is it, really? Last I checked, spring practices were in full swing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Just ask Lane \u2026 and his former QB!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Looks like both guys are settling in well to the #NewWorld order of the SEC. Lane&#8217;s at LSU \u2013 where he still looks weird with that backdrop \u2013 and Trinidad is back at Ole Miss after a court battle, and refusing to say Lane&#8217;s actual name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">171 days until Sept. 19, by the way. That&#8217;s when LSU travels to Ole Miss. Just in case y&#8217;all were curious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">OK, that&#8217;s it for today. Excellent Hump Day. Great way to start April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Let&#8217;s all have a glass of wine and enjoy this rocket launch with Danica Patrick!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">OutKick Nightcaps is a daily column set to run Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. (roughly, we\u2019re not robots).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Your dad ever remind you how dumb and naive you were back in the day? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Hump Day of April? An APRIL FOOLS Hump Day? 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