Photo Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Photo Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

There’s so much going on in local sports today that we’ve got enough for a nice little roundup of things not worth their own posts.

The Flyers will not buy out Sam Gagner and will keep (at least for now) the forward who came over in exchange for Nicklas Grossmann and Chris Pronger‘s contract.

And in players who probably won’t be coming to Philadelphia: Jimmy Butler has reportedly postponed a meeting with the Sixers (and the Celtics, Lakers, and Mavericks) since being offered a max deal with the Bulls. He’ll likely stay in Chicago, but it’s nice to know he was planning on meeting with the Sixers, even if it was just for a trip and a meal.

Let nothing be said against Jahlil Okafor’s work ethic, because he’s in the gym before type-A Scott O’Neil is out of bed.

Last week, Bob Costas observed Cubs reliever Pedro Strop pointing to the sky and wondered, into the mic, if he was “asking some departed relative for forgiveness, for this atrocious performance.” It wasn’t the classiest thing to do, and of course it caught some fire on the internet. So does Costas apologize or walk back his statements? No, because the internet, man. “We can be disingenuous about it if we want, if it suits our purposes, but we all know this: We live in an age of faux outrage, of disproportionate outrage” Costas said on WFAN. “Everything is shocking, over the top. ‘He savaged Pedro Strop’ — I mean, come on, come on. Let’s get a handle on this. I could have done better and I will apologize. But . . . that’s just Internet stuff. I’m going to take care of it the same way I would have taken care of it if it was 1986. And that’s going to be that.” You’re right Bob, burning a dude so hard he has to be buried with his own “departed” relatives is just “internet stuff.”

And Pete Mackanin will retain his job as interim manager for the remainer of the season, while Andy MacPhail watches and listens and by golly he’s just happy to be around.