Anyone who’s spent even as much as 5 minutes on Twitter over the last month has been inundated by a series of “Pick 3” or “Which quarantine house would you choose” gimmicks. But if you think that’s tiresome, imagine being Nico Hoerner and very literally living a combination of those memes. The 22-year-old infielder is sequestered in an Arizona abode with Ian Happ, Dakota Mekkes, and Zack Short, which actually seems like a pretty solid group.
Spurred by Happ, the can’t-go-to-a-barbershop quartet has launched a podcast called The Compound and they’re doing their best to stay entertained and in shape.