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A Place that Was Safe, Where I Knew I Was Strong: Women in Baseball Week, with Kat Williams
We celebrate the 4th annual Women in Baseball Week by talking to Dr. Kat Williams about her new book, Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban-American B...
Save the Spit for the Test
The only spitting currently allowed in the MLB is into vials for mandatory testing. Pottymouth’s musings about the total volume of saliva this collects on a daily basi...
“Sports Are the Reward of a Functioning Society”
Instead, we have the sh*#show that is an MLB testing protocol that could not factor in the 4th of July holiday. The Minor League Baseball season was cancelled, leaving...
What Do We Do With the COVIDiots?
Here comes MLB, unless it doesn’t. We catch you up on what the shortened season schedule may look like, how the rosters will work (until they don’t), the new game rule...
Back Around to March, Pirate Booty, Heroes, and Addison Frickin’ Russell
After all that back and forth, looks like the MLB plan agreed upon in March is moving forward. Addison Frickin’ Russell gets picked up by the KBO Heroes and we are giv...
100% of Not Enough
The sh*t hits the fan as MLBPA calls MLB’s “we are 100% going to have a season this year” bluff and says they are ready to play just tell us where and when. Meanwhile,...
The Cat Has Meaning
The world is still on fire and we acknowledge that by discussing how the world of sports is responding. The MLB Draft begins on Wednesday and we ponder what happens to...
Everything is a Sh**show Right Now
The world is burning and we intend to “stick to sports” the way we always do, in the context of social justice. We talk with Bobby Coon of the “Pulling Tarp” podcast ...
Brian Dozier is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Plans are moving forward for a shortened MLB season outside of a BioBubble. The Angels are devils when it comes to paying non-player staff. Lastly, we have a lovely co...
Jose Canseco is our Muse
You should watch the finals of the First Annual Bump Bailey Wax Pack Hero Tournament of Awesome. No reason, other than Patti, Pottymouth, Jose Canseco, and a Golden Pi...
Mother’s Day, Mimosas, and Monsoons
Patti and the Pottymouth get a little weepy over Mother’s Day. We start with laying out the rumored plan for bringing back MLB, and poke it full of holes like a biobub...
KBO and IPAs
Fueled by Isolation Pale Ale brewed by Mr. Pottymouth, your hosts learn about Korean baseball from Jeeho Yoo, KBO reporter for Yonhap News Agency in Seoul. The umpires...
A Suitcase Full of Monkey Swag
NCiB talks Taiwanese baseball with Daniel Shih, sports director at @tstvsports and host of “Rants With Danny Shih. The Commissioner’s report on the sign-stealing inves...
Monkeys and Wyverns and Dinos. Oh, My.
10,000 employees of Major League Baseball, from players and front office staff to ushers and your friends that sell you your ballpark beer, have volunteered to partici...
Scorekeeping with Blake: The Reckoning
In the final installment of our score keeping trilogy, Blake grades Patti and Pottymouth’s homework (totally on a curve), and answers the hard questions. In the post-a...
That Juan Soto Run-down, Though
Pencils and scorecards are ready for Part 2 of “Scorekeeping with Blake." After a brief Sports Movie Review conversation in which Pottymouth name-checks Psycho, and Pa...
There’s Beer and People are Nice
Patti and the Pottymouth are excited to start a new segment today: Scorekeeping with Blake. MLB and the player’s union came to an agreement on salaries, service time, ...
Interview with Jeremy Wolf, CEO, More Than Baseball
On the day the Save America’s Pastime Act passed, allowing teams to pay minor league players below minimum wage, More Than Baseball was born. Former players Jeremy Wol...
The One Where Patti #stayedthef*ckhome
Even a Beermobile delivery is not enough to make up for Patti and Pottymouth not being in the same room, but nevertheless, we persisted. COVID-19 is spreading through ...
An Abundance of Caution
Patti and the Pottymouth and their socially-distanced Smart Baseball Brains bring you the baseball state of the pandemic. Even though the season delay pushes back ou...
Where the F*ck is Toro?
Stop touching your face. It would be irresponsible not to discuss the intersection of the coronavirus and baseball, so we do. As a public service we share CDC informat...
Minor League Matchmaking, Now With Bonus Chihuahuas
In one month, Michael Rivers matched up dozens of financially-struggling minor league ballplayers with individuals willing and able to commit to a seasons’ worth of ca...
Eric Thames Arms
Tangents this week include Eric Thames’ arms, O. Henry, and Ironman’s math skills, which it turns out are better than Patti’s. Spring Training games have started yet t...
BONUS: Coach Whitey
Coach Andrew Whitener (Coach Whitey), head strength and conditioning coach at DC Dynasty and owner of District Performance, talks with Patti and the Pottymouth about t...
Premeditated Retaliation
Did the Red Sox really do their due diligence around Alex Verdugo? Police reports indicate otherwise. But he just wants to move on. Astros owner Jim Crane apologized b...
Defense Against the Dark Arts
New information on the Astros cheating scandal implicates interns, Excel, and Harry Potter. Were the right people punished? At the time of recording, the Mookie Betts...
A Squirrel, a Polar Bear, the Beast and Superman walk into a bar...
We get way into the weeds around the Astros cheating scandal and cite a few studies trying to get at what players were doing. Pottymouth channels her inner Whitney to ...
Just Wait ‘Til Next Year, Omar
Patti and the Pottymouth pull out their Mom cred to jump on Scott Boras’ assertions that the Astros players don’t need to apologize. We stay clear of ongoing investiga...
A Little Bit Happy, A Little Bit WTF
Boyfriends this week come from the Rangers and the Cubs. We are overjoyed to cheer on Alyssa Nakken, the first female full time coach in the majors, and give Gabe Kapl...
Patti Breaks up with Anthony Rendon
Patti explains Arbitration, and runs through NCIB boyfriends past and present heading down the file and trial road. Mookie and Cody set records for deals.