No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Music, Hi and welcome to episode 389 of no crying in baseball, the acceptable fan behavior episode. My name is Patty. I'm here with my friend, potty mouth. Hey, potty mouth, so

Pottymouth 0:26
I know that's not directed at me. I always like, I always think about those signs at the ballparks, especially minor league parks, will have the things about, like, no offensive language and offensive is in the eye of the beholder. So, yeah, it's probably more like, Sure. So I always kind of think, how offensive am I?

Patti 0:46
You are exactly the right amount of offense. Yes, you're off your offense is your offense is really more like talking like a pirate. You're not. You are not, you know, denigrating anybody. You're not using slurs. You're just using say potty mouth language. And that's, that's a different kind of offensive. It's enthusiasm. Yes, your enthusiast, enthusiastically. Offensive. As opposed to, you know, what do I want to say? Negative? Negatively.

Pottymouth 1:16
Offensive. Yes,

Patti 1:20
offensive. I

Pottymouth 1:22
like the pirate thing, because that means we can go back to Pittsburgh. I really like that stadium. I can be like and be just go arg and stuff, and say, I belong here. I talk like a pirate. See, I always think

Patti 1:30
I belong because I talk like a Clevelander, which is same thing as talking like somebody from Pittsburgh. So look, we both belong in different ways, language wise. All right, all right, let's go. All right, that's fine. Oh my gosh. Hey, it's snowed. It's freaking cold outside. You do work at all this week?

Pottymouth 1:43
I barely worked. It was such a fucking good week. So I this the snow. I have to thank the snow on so many levels. But I got my baseball boyfriend picks totally done during the snow. I figured out our transcription situation during the snow. So folks, you can get our transcriptions. What else did I do? I actually played my fucking drums again. I read parts of books, and it was really nice. And

Patti 2:10
shoveled when you say, when you say parts of books, do you mean, like you just skim some titles, or you actually sat and you read a couple chapters here?

Pottymouth 2:16
Yeah, yeah, no, I read a few chapters of several books, instead of reading one book and finishing it and starting a second book, because that's jam shopping. You're

Patti 2:26
kind of like, Which one, which one's gonna, like speak to me, or you're just gonna, that's your approach all the time. Yeah, read six books at once until I'm done

Pottymouth 2:32
with them. The problem I have, problems making decisions is what it comes down. So, like, I want to read all these books, so instead of taking turns. I just read them all at the same time. All right, so those snow days are absolutely your best friends. Yes, they're so so good, although I do want to make a public service announcement because I was swearing. You know, go figure at lots of cars on the beltway when we were driving out on I don't know when it was someday, since the snowstorm, clean off the top of your fucking car, for real there. I mean, I know we're in Maryland, and some people don't understand, like, how to care. I don't understand why, because we do get snow once in a while. But I guess if you're a newbie and you're from the south, and this is a new experience, and you cleared off your front window and your back window and your side windows, get the top also, because the person behind you could get a hunk of ice. And

Patti 3:24
I kind of believe, like statistically, all the people with snow on top of their car can't be like first timers to snow, right? They're just access, okay, clueless, but okay, we can go with that again. There's two kinds of people. Yeah, yes. So

Pottymouth 3:40
it has been cold, and we weren't gonna go out last night, and then I've really wanted to see a complete unknown, the Bob Dylan movie. And most people know it by the Bob Dylan movie, like it takes me I have to look it up to remember a complete unknown five stars. I loved it, really. I loved it. It was a super great vibe. It's not a full story, it's not a bio pic, it's a chunk of his life, and it's done so well. Like the images look familiar because you've seen them on album covers or on videos or whatever. And Timothy Chalamet is amazing, and Edward Norton is also amazing, as Pete Seeger. So this has nothing to do with baseball, but we went instead of watching the Venezuelan game, which was my second, my second option last night. So that's that's my just in for it. And I really think you should go watch it, if you like, if you have any interest in Bob Dylan, folk music, 60s stuff like that. So

Patti 4:37
you were cross training with folk music. I cross trained with our friends, the Swedes. My big outing was going to IKEA, and spending many hours walking and walking and walking. I decided my favorite time to go to IKEA is when I'm not shopping for myself, when I could just spout opinions for other people who are looking for things. I had a good time with that. And of course, then I got to have Swedish meatballs, that was also fun for me. And then I got to go. Home. Bonus,

Pottymouth 5:00
yes, my last update, which comes off of our action list that otter AI now gives us with our with our transcription, was to find out how to pronounce crochet and the Red Sox, who we will be talking about plenty this week, had their winter festivities thing, and they introduced him, and so I saw him be introduced and put on his red sox Jersey the first the first time. And it is Garrett crochet, looking good, sound and psyched to be in Boston, you know, from one windy city to another cold city. I

Patti 5:32
just figured crochet was too easy, because that's how I always say things that are spelled like that. Because I do, in fact, crochet, yes. So that's why I think that can't possibly be right.

Pottymouth 5:40
Yeah, and thinking that we've got to do a few spins on that. There's got to be some, like crocheting, some

Patti 5:45
way to hook people in. Oh, boy, we can spin the yarn about,

Pottymouth 5:49
yeah, okay, you got it, yeah, all right, I'm

Patti 5:50
okay with this. You got it sure on today's show. We've got the baseball response to the LA fires. We've got the arbitration deadline. Best wishes to Bobby D. We've got our boyfriends for Boston and for the Chicago Cubs. We've got winter ball and our police blotter features both family drama again and fan bands, cheers. I'm ready to move on to our backup beer. Oh, it's just we split the beginning beer three ways. We really go through it quickly.

Pottymouth 6:21
Yeah, and we're on repeat beers, because we have a lot of them. We have a lot of hell Bender in the fridge. That's our backup beers, which are the turtle frog we're gonna eventually be drinking their lager, because that's what we're gonna have left next week. Oh, although, well, more on that later about next week's plans. Oh, thank you. Oh, we're gonna split them. I should have brought two different beers. Oh, I forgot. Okay, we could have done that. You're all right. Okay, what am I gonna say? Oh, right. So the news this week, news is stressful, man, it's just fucking stressful, and I guess that at the end, but the LA fires are just unbelievable. It's it's just beyond human comprehension, I feel. And we're not there. We're on the other coast, so we're not seeing it close up, although the little snippets you know that you see on the news and hear about other news looks like a war zone, including included in the destruction there is the ballpark where League of our own was league of their own. Ours be, you know, our podcast title coming from that movie. Feel like we can take a little bit of ownership, but it is the league of their own. And that ballpark also was the site of eight men out and the Babe Ruth story. It in real life, it was called J Littleton ballpark in Ontario, California, and it had been designated a historic landmark. It was built back in the 1930s and the wooden grandstand went up pretty fast. So that's, you know, part of the tragedy. Of course, there's so many, so many homes, so many other things that have gone so far with the fires, and we're just hoping that things can get under control somehow soon us. And you know, a lot of people are mobilizing, a lot of Hollywood folks and a lot of baseball folks and fanatics has come up with a line of sports T shirts, the LA strong collection, and name your favorite la team, and you can probably find it there. There are 15 la teams who are featured in these T shirts, including the Dodgers and the angels. And so you can buy, through the fanatics, one of these shirts, and the proceeds are going to go to the Red Cross and the LA Fire Department. So if you are in you know, shopping for an LA shirt now is a really good time, and it's a really nice design. So go to fanatics. Also, some of our favorite guys, some of our past baseball boyfriends, are involved, because they're involved in the Dodgers, and are feeling, feeling it. You know, I'm feeling like giving back Justin Turner, who is no longer with the Dodgers. Last I checked he's still a free agent. I believe he's working with the Dream Center in LA and his foundation that he and his wife, Courtney run. They're matching donations up to $100,000 which is some kind of yeah, these guys, if you got that kind of money, you're putting into the right place. A couple of Europe Past baseball, where from picks, are also in the news for giving back. And I'm feeling like there's, there's got to be more people who are doing it, you know, just under cover, without without the spotlight. But Chris Taylor, who you picked in 2022 when he was on the Dodgers still on. The Dodgers, I believe, and his wife Mary, are fundraising through their CT three Foundation, and they're matching donations up to a $5,000 each. Freddie Freeman and his wife Chelsea have donated $300,000 total, 100k to each of three organizations, the LA Fire Department, Pasadena fire department, and the Salvation Army. So that's just, I think the tip of the iceberg. Um. Yeah, and I just really hope that this is somehow under control by the time we record again. Yeah, no,

Patti 10:05
absolutely. That's, it's frightening. It's, you feel powerless. Yep, you feel powerless. I am very happy that people who have that kind of money available to them are using it to maybe to gain some power. It's like, that's we're going to fight back, and this is the only way we can do it, yes, is that support these first responders and support these organizations are taking care of people who have just been devastated, yeah,

Pottymouth 10:28
yeah. And it's, you know, it's, it's not over yet. Nope. All right. On the hopefully happier side of things, I do want to tip my hat to a former baseball boyfriend pick from the Red Sox. We're gonna be talking more about the Red Sox today, but doll the bobby Dalbec. Bobby Dalbec was one of my premature picks. I was super excited. He was one of the several sort of prospects who were super highlighted when he was in the minors about coming up to the Red Sox, and he just never quite made the transition. I picked him way early back in season two, which is crazy. What Episode 119, yeah, and at that time, he hadn't done a lot. I mean, he had been a big deal at University of Arizona, but I think that I mainly picked him because his musical choices with Queen and Led Zeppelin. He was also in Team USA premier 12, which we've talked about before, in 2019 and he was the best first baseman of that whole tournament. He was great in Worcester, like he was loved. He hit bombs in Worcester, and then he just, they kept trying to bring him up to Boston, and then he kept getting sent back down. And I feel like, for the longest time, I felt like that was the problem, that he didn't have any sense of stability, because he was being yanked up and down a lot, and he was playing, you know, coming into cover first, coming into cover third. And he just couldn't get his his feet sort of cemented in Boston, 2024 Alex Cora made a commitment like, All right, we're gonna stick it out. He's our first baseman. We're gonna keep him in. But that experiment can only go so long. First 22 games he batted 132, and the biggest thing is his with free like, he's striking out half the time, literally, 28 strikeouts and 53 at bats. But in Worcester, same year, last year, 2024 he had 20 home runs in 97 games. The year before, when he was in Worcester, a little bit more, 114 games, he had 33 home runs. So he's got a one year minor league deal with the White Sox. I think that's for the best. You know, he's going to be going back to Worcester anyway, and there's really, I think he kind of burnt his opportunities to give it a try. One cool thing about looking back at an old pick that they made way, way long ago is, it turns out he went to high school with Derek white, point guard for the Boston Celtics. And Derek White is been with the Celtics, I think, about four years. And so I think I picked Bobby doll back before that would have been a fun tidbit. And apparently they played together like they were one year apart, but as kids, they played on basketball and baseball teams together, and then last year, had like, photo ops with each other's jerseys and stuff. So very cool. Wishing the best for Bobby Dow back open my beer and port while you go on. All right?

Patti 13:24
So this was a big week for contracts, right? The arbitration deadline was this past Thursday. That was the date that teams needed to lock down contracts with their arbitration eligible players before that would have to then move to actual formal arbitration if it didn't work out. So the morning of Thursday, of the deadline, there were 155 arbitration eligible players in play. Many others had been, you know, locked down. They had agreed to terms and all that, there were 155 at the beginning of the day. By the end of the day, only 17 players are going to arbitration. That is way fewer than recent years. And the the record actually was two years ago, 2023 where there were 33 players that went there's only 17. That's good news. It is good news, right? So those hearings for those players who are going to arbitration will will start in the end of January, January 27 and go through february 14. Teams can still negotiate with players until that time. So it's not a, it's not a drop dead date. It's a the plan is we're going to arbitration unless, right? So avoiding arbitration was this past Thursday, but they can still, in fact, avoid it. 18 of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball didn't have anyone on that list on Thursday. They had, they had agreed with everybody who was in play. So that's pretty cool. So that just left 12 teams that had player. That to be dealt with, right? The angels and St Louis had them have the most with three players each.

Pottymouth 15:08
That seems weird that are going to our arbitration teams. We're not

Patti 15:12
Pittsburgh has two, and everybody else only has one, including the Red Sox and Orioles. And you know, other other teams that we spend a lot of time on they only have one. Had a boatload. They had like 1111, or 12 players that they had a lockdown, and they locked down all but one right. Only extend them. For instance, yeah, right. That would be okay too. So as we move forward with those guys who are going to arbitration. My previous asterisk boyfriend, Kyle Tucker, is asking the most, right? He's asking for $17.5 million he also has the biggest difference between what the team has offered and what he wants. I mean, he's been traded to Chicago, and the Cubs have offered 15 million, and he's asking for 17 five so remember, arbitration doesn't negotiate. Between them, arbitration picks one of those numbers. So you go in and you plead your case, and then the team tells you all the bad things about you, why you shouldn't get the amount that you get. And then the arbitrators pick a number, right? So the successes, as far as these one year contracts that were negotiated of Vladimir grower Junior, had the highest of the year, $28.8 million Fun fact, he went to arbitration last year and won and ended up with a $19.9 million contract. So this year he's out. He they negotiated 28.8 so he's locked down for one more year before he goes to free agency for $28.8 million the record is one soda last year at $31 million yeah, the year prior was Otani at 30. So Vlad is actually now in third place, and the largest one year contract in this sort of pre, you know, this arbitration eligible group of players. So there are eight players who ended up with contracts greater than ten million including Vladi and then FAMU Valdez the Astros at 18,000,003 time batting championship. Luis, Arias with the padres, 14 million right Dylan sees with the padres, 13.7 5 million. Zach gallon with the Diamondbacks, 13.5 Randy rosarino at the mariners, 11.3 my guy, Josh Naylor, who's now with the Diamondbacks, Diamondbacks had a cough up 10.9 and the current Cy Young winner, Terek school with the Tigers at $10.15 million so we will, of course, pay attention to the arbitration talks, or if anyone settles early, and we'll let you know what's going on, but those are the fun facts from the arbitration deadline this past

Pottymouth 17:44
week. Fun stuff. And Luis Arias is a former pick of mine when he was with Miami, I think. But we'll see. I mean, so that means that these guys are like, either, either gonna help their team, or maybe prime for trade deadline next year, if things don't yeah.

Patti 18:02
So a lot of these guys, because of where they are, because the fact that they are arbitration eligible means they're they're at the end of Team control, which means they're approaching free agency. So a lot of these guys on this big list of the big money list, this is their last contract year before they go to free agency. So this is their one year rental.

Pottymouth 18:20
Fun guys to watch, yep, hey, we get to talk about the Red Sox this week. We sure do.

Patti 18:27
One of us is excited about it so different than any other week.

Pottymouth 18:30
And you know, we usually talk about our beers, which I think we did, but we don't often talk about our koozies. But I was very particular in which koozies that we were using this week, and I gave you the wicked piss one because I thought that was

Patti 18:43
like wicked piss I do. I like to say that I often grab the pint glass in your house that's wicked piss, or the coasters in your house, or the koozies in your house that say wicked it's piss, like

Pottymouth 18:56
we're wicked piss. Are some, and it says, Yeah, and it says to get your Beas. And I don't know what else it is, but I picked Mr. Mr. Smiley with the woo socks, because he makes me happy. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping that the folks who have been training well with the woo socks make a big bang with the Red Sox this year. So Red Sox baseball boyfriends. First of all, these are the guys that we pick in the off season, like now one guy per team, because they're cool, and we talk about them, and then at the end, we're gonna make a fantasy team. And if you want to be playing fantasy ball with us, pay attention at the end of the episode, and we will tell you how to do that. But we are up to the Red Sox. We've been working our way up. We're almost at the halfway mark. Red Sox had a rough year last year, but I'm hopeful always. There's always fearful. So I also knew immediately who I had to pick. And I picked Connor Sun Han Wong catcher, 28 years old, and it's because of I couldn't jinx myself. So there was a certain Red Sox Yankees game. Of all fucking things that we were watching. It was very. 10s. It was very close. The Red Sox were actually up a couple rungs at this and I can't believe I fucking remember this, but I made a promise. Connor Wong was at bat. There were two guys on base, and you had a witness, and I had a witness with Mr. Pinemouth. And I said, Please, if you get an RBI, then you will be my boyfriend. And he did. He cleared the bases, so triple, but, uh, cleared the bases. And the cool thing is, it went over. Alex Verdugo said, so that was always fun. Double plank was, yeah, so, you know, it was, it was a matchup. I was nervous about it, because in the past, I have tried to find information about Connor Wong's background with very little luck, because his last name being Wong, and his, um, his MLB profile has his full name, Connor. Sun hung won so I was looking into, you know, where's the Asian background, you know, how many generations? And couldn't find anything. And this time, you know, I guess Connor is getting a little bit more famous. I found a teeny bit, but not a lot. His mom, Rachel Macy, is a special ed teacher, so yay for the teachers and she works with at risk students. So yay for teachers who work with at risk students. I can identify with that. His stepfather, Matt Macy is a former MLB pitcher. He pitched with the brewers and the Expos in the early 90s and in the mind, is with a few other organizations. And in the MLB bio, it identifies Macy as his father, which is what got me all sorts of confused, because I was like, Where does this Wong come from? So a little bit more digging. Now, I found out that his biological father's name is Rick Wong, and he is, I believe, first generation Chinese, I don't know. And there's, I don't know much about him. He was a construction engineer who worked in Dubai, and all I could see was some article where Connor said, so cool that he worked in Dubai. I'm sad that I never got a chance to go there. So it sounds like he wasn't that involved with him. But you know, his namesake, his name definitely reflects that connection. He said that he met his stepfather when he was age four to six. So somewhere in that, like we time where you don't really remember where things are going on, but you know, I'm guessing it feels like my whole life kind of thing, and I know that his stepfather was really key in his baseball development through the years. And he grew up in Houston, Houston, Texas, went to University of Houston and was a three year starter at the University of Houston. His first year, freshman year, he was a starter at shortstop. Second year he was a starter. He split his time between catching an outfield. And then his third year, it seems like he was mostly catching, although he did pitch 4.1 innings with a 208 era, and batting, he ended up leading off an inning with a home run seven times. So this helped me a lot, because the past couple years, when I've seen him in the infield, I've thought, What the fuck are they doing? This is our catcher. But apparently, and this is a quote from from Connor said, I played everywhere growing up, and I like playing everywhere too. I think seeing the fields from different positions is a lot of fun, and I think that's a really cool perspective as a catcher, right to understand what's going on in different places, because you're kind of, you know, quarterbacking the game in a lot of ways, just cross train that metaphor. Cross training metaphors. All right, I'm gonna take a sip for

Patti 23:27
that. I think you should.

Pottymouth 23:30
So he had a little bit of experience in Massachusetts with two summers on the Cape, I think it was born in Yarmouth, and then he was drafted out of University of Houston in the third run round by the aforementioned LA Dodgers. And this is where the other piece, where it's like, I really do have to pick this guy, because he's the last piece of the Mookie bett trade. So I had picked who had to complete the set. There we go. Yeah, because I picked Mookie Betts, I had picked Jeter downs. Yeah. Came over with them. I say fuck you to Alex Verdugo, who is, you know, implicated way back. Go back into way old podcast for more information, or just write us and we'll tell you about it. But Jeter Downs was supposed to be the guy I remember when the trade happened that, you know, Verdugo was a name. Downs was his name and Connor Wong, like nobody knew about him at the time, Jeter downs didn't do so great. He was dfad by the Red Sox picked up by the Nationals. I was super happy to see him in our backyard for a split second before he was dfad by them. And currently he's perhaps where he belongs as a Jeter with the Yankees in triple A and just as a note, it wasn't just Mookie Betts who came over for the three guys, it was also David Price and a chunk of change. So when this all went down, Connor Wong was oblivious. The trade was originally supposed to be for for grader all Brewster graterol, but he failed some physical. Yeah, that's it. The checkup, yep. So they did a quick switch. A Rooney, and apparently Connor Wong was having a house party in Houston. He just bought in his house, yeah? And he missed a bunch of calls when he finally found out, he said, and this is baseball boyfriend, like we look for character, right? So he said, The Last week has definitely been different, but I think it's going to be good for me as a person to be able to grow and adapt and kind of move on the fly. What a great attitude framed, yeah, for somebody who just found out you're going across the fucking country to a very cold place, he had a lot of success in the minors in double A he threw out 52% of the steel attempts and then crept his way out. Had a few games in 21 and 22 but the big years were 23 and 24 and offensively, he made a really impressive jump in his stats. So 2023 he was batting 235 with 673, ops. 2024 he jumped up to 280 average, with 758, ops. And at first I thought, well, maybe this is due to the time that he spent in June on the paternity list with his second child. So maybe that's like some dad power, right? But actually his best months, like he was hot, hot, hot in April and May and June before the kid. And then I'm thinking maybe it was like lack of sleep or something, but his July stats, like dropped right after the kid's birth, and then it kind of went back up. So pre all star that year, he was batting 3078, 10 ops, post all star, 246, 696, not bad, but maybe showing a little wear after having a newborn in the house. Also in 2024 to shake things up a little bit, he played catcher, first place, first base, third base, and left field. So in 2022 at the right, left field. Yeah, left field. Is that crazy? Yeah. So it only made sense when I looked back and saw what he had done as a youngin. And I was like, Oh, he's actually played those positions before, but when it was happening last year, I was like, What the fuck is going on, right? And I think the Red Sox were just like grasping at straws last year, like, Who do we have, where, what are we gonna do? He has some homework, which is defense. He's great with the caught stealing. He was in line right before Adley Richmond. You were in you're in a conversation with Adley. You know, things are doing well and behind two of my previous picks, I think I'm done with catchers, because Corey Lee and Patrick Bailey also hot shit with caught stealing, but Corey Lee and Connor Wong, not so good on the framing and blocking. And you know I mean framing, who knows how long that's gonna last, but blocking is pretty important skill. So Connor get to work there. He is not a social media guy. He doesn't have a Twitter his last Instagram post was 2016 until this January 2, where he posted a picture with his wife and two kids. So he has the baby, who was born last year, and a toddler, and then going back into the, you know, 2016 and previous posts on his Instagram, it's all the same woman, his wife, Danielle. He calls Dan Danny Aldar Wong. And she is a Houston based wedding event planner. And she also planned their wedding. Very nice looking. They were married in January 22 but the first post with her was in 2014 so it looked like they were just, yeah, I think it was like prom. There were 27 total posts since 2013 in his Instagram. And what I love from one is really, really early posts. I think when he was still in high school, he had said, love the game, and it will love you back. I think he's in good hands with Jason veritech being there, coaching him, teaching him how to build relationships with pitchers, but his goal also baseball. Boyfriend points here is ultimately play good ball and have fun.

Patti 28:56
Nice. I like it. I like it. Hey, I picked the other Raffi. So such a good pick. I love this guy along the lines of, we've got guys with Tucker as the first name and a last name, and Jackson is the first name and a last name the other Raffi. It's not okay. So we got, you got you got Devers, but you've also got Sadan chipper and decasio Marte Raffaella. So cool, right? He's 24 he's a short stop. And as I was telling potty mouth before we started, I was sure we had picked him before, because we talked about him a lot, because he's really fun to talk about, but we haven't had him as a boyfriend, so we're doing that right now. One of our friends from Curacao, we do love to get talk about the players from Curacao. He was born in Williamstown, Curacao, in his household, they grew up. His whole family watched Atlanta baseball, of course. Why? Because Andrew Jones from Curacao, right? So there was a lot of Atlanta baseball in the house. And his mom, Rachel Lena, who played third base out of. Competitive, Fast Pitch team, so cool. Was enamored of Chipper Jones, who I personally have a vendetta against, but that's just, that's a thing. It's okay, but I get the she glommed onto him because third base and a really excellent baseball player, which is why you've got Sadan Nicasio, Marty Rafael with the word chipper sort of wedged in there as as a middle name, right for a wedge. So his if we're gonna go golf. So Rafi actually talking about his mom playing third base, and then a little bit of outfield, said she is the best defensive player I've I ever saw. She would catch everything. Now his dad say son also played third base for a semi pro baseball team, and he said, you know, he tell so Rafi actually never saw him play. And said, you know, he tells me he was a better defender than my mom, that's what he told me, but I didn't see it. That's so I love that very much. So it was, you know, definitely was a ball playing family. You know, my father in law would say he can buy it honestly, right. Grew up in that kind of household he was gonna play, and from both parents he got, he learned how to be disciplined about his approach to practice and learning the game and playing the game. They taught him to respect the sport and the coaches and the teammates and all of those things that are really important lessons that really get you through. And he said, It's always great to have the support of your mom and your dad. It's everything. And you know, we really appreciate that. He played in the Little League World Series in 2012 right for for Willemstad, for the team of Curacao, representing the Caribbean region. He signed with the Red Sox as an international free agent in 2017 I note again, he's 24 now. So again, these international signings are so young, they're so young. So he started his, basically his minor league career in 2018 with the Dominican summer league Red Sox, and then progressed pretty regularly, not especially a fast track through the years, through the rookie League, in the short season, single a and single A, and then the COVID year, where nobody played minor league ball. We get to 2022 he starts in double A plays in the futures game, and he is named the Red Sox minor league Defensive Player of the Year. And you know, I do like my sexy defense, right? He was added to the red sex 40 man roster in November of 2023 didn't mean he started yet, right? So he started 2023 at double A he set a record with six stolen bases in one game. Holy shit. He at one point during the game, had seven, and then that one was taken back for defensive indifference, classified, but still, six is crazy. Six. Six is crazy, right? And then he on June 28 and 2023 he went to the woo socks. So we're big fans of the woo socks. Love the Woo and later that same year, again, he started in double A and by August 28 he made his major league debut. And when he did that, he was the first curse Allen born position player to play for the Red Sox, second Chris Allen player overall, because Kelly JANSEN Right, and his first at bat, he's single. That was his first hit, his first home run wasn't until September 12 versus the Yankees, he was named the Red Sox minor league base runner of the year for 2023 and that was the whole season, not just that game where he stole six he was on the 2024 opening day roster for the Red Sox, and by April, had already signed his Eight year $50 million contract extension because the Red Sox thing locked him down, which is the right thing to do, probably potty mouths. Favorite thing about Rafi is July 5. He hit a two run home run in the top of the 10th in his first game at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, yeah. He finished the 2024 season with the lowest walk rate, walk percentage, in Major League Baseball. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. It's interesting. I find that interesting depends on Yeah, but the fun fact, the fun fact, he speaks four languages, potty mouth, four languages, English, Dutch, Spanish and papiamento, which is a Creole language they speak in Curacao. So yay for Rafi, who I'm almost sure we saw a play at the Wisconsin I was with you, and definitely I've seen him at Camden Yards, and he's fun to watch.

Pottymouth 34:27
Yeah, no, he's super fun. I find it super intriguing that he's listed as shortstop last year. One of the cool things about him was that his time was split between well short second and center field, yeah. And he was great in all of them, you know, in a kiosk kind of way, just like having that, having that, like, just the speed, really, like being able to just dive for any kind of play. So I don't know there's a lot of stuff that needs to be shaken down with the Red Sox, the. Uh, in field especially. Let's see what happens. Story camp is going on, Trevor. Story is supposed to be shortstop. So is von Grissom. I don't know. We have so many, we're like the padres,

Patti 35:10
so this means that you're not keeping von Grissom as your once and forever boyfriend.

Pottymouth 35:14
Oh, right, yeah, I dumped him and, and I don't know it's, it's really weird, because they did, you know, just had that Fenway fest, and he was there, and he was at Trevor story camp. But nobody's talking about him. Nobody's talking about von wierson. I'm wondering if there's gonna be a trade with him. Because, you know, if you've got raphaella and you've got Trevor story, and there's also, I think David Hamilton can play short I think they might be shopping them. Who knows

Patti 35:44
they might be. And I'm excited for when we get to the big reveal, when you do tell us who you're keeping for this year. Can't wait. Woo hoo.

Pottymouth 35:51
I can't wait either, because I have no fucking

Patti 35:55
clue to be a big secret. Yeah, big A No. All

Pottymouth 35:57
right, well, it's I got a figured. I have homework. I have homework. All right, so we're gonna go to the Cubs. And this is a pick that I made because he's interesting, but he's probably not gonna be a good pick for my final fantasy team, but he's gonna be fun to talk about. That's Alexander Canario, left fielder kind of definitely going to be off the bench if he's if he's playing, 24 years old. He's from Monte Cristo Dominican Republic, and one of the big reasons why I'm picking him now is because he's playing now. And I've really enjoyed picking guys who are playing in the winter leagues. So he is in his third year, which is an important stat with the Aguila si Vale's right now they are in last place, but not by a lot, and there's still time this is yet or Molina's team. So in his first year with the Aguilas 2022 his year was cut short due to a horrific injury which has impacted his whole career. The injury resulted in operations both on his ankle and his shoulder. He had a hard run into first base. He rolled his ankle and fractured it and landed hard and dislocated his shoulder. Ouch. So as I was trying to find more information on this injury, and I this is a bad sign for a baseball boyfriend and I was like, trying to Google, like Alexander Canario, injuries, more injuries kept coming up, like other injuries, not this one. So the one, the big one that came up was the other time that he had dislocated his shoulder, which is maybe why it popped out this time, 2020 he had surgery related to a torn labrum in his shoulder. So with this big one in 22 in the winter leagues, and you know, this is the risk that teams have when they let players play during the winter, the Cubs really did him right. They brought him back to Chicago, and he wasn't even in the majors yet. He's still in their minor system. They brought him to Chicago and they got visas for his mom, his wife, and his little daughter. He said that the injury was was was serious, but when you have your family giving you support, when you get home and the first thing you see is your kid that he said, I think that's what helped me in the mental part of it. He was especially grateful to mom. We love giving the mom props. He said she would bathe me. She'd help me go to the bathroom. She practically carried me. Well, she couldn't actually, but she would try. So because of this 22 winter injury, I know, yay Mom, he missed a lot of 2023 season in the US, and had a slow start, so he moved from rookie to high a, but then bumped up to triple A. So even though, yeah, even though he was missing a bunch slow start, made this huge jump and had six games in the bigs in September, October, so when he got called up. So, like, talk about, like, Whiplash there. When he got called up in September, Mom got the first call. Like, yes, thank you for bathing me. She immediately, luckily, because, I think because of the aforementioned visa stuff that the Cubs got straightened out, she was able to catch the first flight and make it for the second game of the doubleheader where he actually debuted. He had just one one at bat, pinch hitting in the ninth, and there was no action. But couple weeks later was his second game, his very first start, his very first hit was a double, and then later that game, his first home run, which was a Grand Slam. So he had five RBI in his second major league a couple of former baseball boyfriend picks of mine from the cubs were buddies with him and celebrated. Christopher Morrell was so excited that he ripped off his shirt, something I hot, you know, wholeheartedly endorsed, and Miguel Amaya bounced out of the dugout. And and Alexander said, you know, just to think, back in January, I was in a boot and I was on a scooter to move around, and now I hit a grand slam in the big leagues. It's just a surreal moment. Yeah, so the next off season, bless the Cubs, they let him go back to the Aguilas, but just a bit, probably being a little cautious, sure, let him go back. He was there for 16 games, but he's there now. So 2024 it back back in this country, back with the Cubs. He was in mostly triple A, except for 16 games in April, where he did really well. So there just wasn't quite room for him. Last year, he batted 280 with a 797, ops, and he might have had more time up last year, but here comes the rest of the Google researches. He had a bad hamstring strain in triple A that had him out six weeks. So six weeks, so despite or because of this is why he's playing a lot of games now with the Aguilas. I don't know. Maybe he needs the time, or maybe the cubs are letting him just, you know, play it out. He played 27 of the regular season games out of 50, and he's right now in the round robin, he's played seven games so far. He has been doing well, 304, average, 955, ops for the Aguilas regular season. He has not always been with the Cubs. He was drafted by the Giants in 2016 and traded to the Cubs at the 21 deadline for with picture Caleb Killian for Chris Bryant. So one of those big trades, he's out of options. So that leaves a lot of questions, right? He's on the bench. Maybe they're gonna trade him. Maybe they will have traded and by the time you hear me, I don't know, just a fun fact about him, Iron Man is his favorite adventure. I like Iron Man. He's good

Patti 42:00
at math. I appreciate that about him, if my math is correct, and it always is. While

Pottymouth 42:05
we're talking about the Cubs, just want to give a shout out for two my previous premature picks who had not been doing a lot, but maybe they will now viral. Bucha was a ex pick of mine from or former pick of mine from Miami, and the Cubs picked him up in December so he could be playing for once he did really well in actually, the Puerto Rican league. And then Miguel Amaya, who had been watching for a while, looks like he might finally get that starting catcher gig. All right, so there goes the Cubs. All right.

Patti 42:37
I picked a guy with a very long name on the back of his jersey. Pete, Henry Crowe Armstrong, 22 center fielder. His nickname is PCA, which fits much better on the back of a jersey. But we don't do that. We don't do that, right? He was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His parents, Matt Armstrong and Ashley Crowe, therefore the crow Armstrong are currently both teachers, but they were formerly both actors. Met on the set of the TV show heroes, which you may or may not remember. It was a show about sort of like regular people who had superpowers. Oh, wow. I never watched it. I remember it being on, never cared for it. That is the teachers, though, but Sure, but sure his mom also, this is the fun part. Played a mom in the movie, Little Big League.

Pottymouth 43:26
I'm not just a mom, but I play one on TV. But it

Patti 43:29
was a baseball movie. It was about a 12 year old who, like, managed a big league team. So that's so cool. This was, this the Houser of baseball, sort of, yeah. So this actually happened before he was in the draft. There's a lot of jokes about maybe you know her experience. You know, parenting a 12 year old, you know, general manager of a baseball team would help, you know, guide her child through the draft process. What she said about, you know, him playing baseball is, there's absolutely nothing better than watching your kid do something they love. Right? Very happy about that. So Pete played for team USA for years 14, you add up. So with the Pan American Games, his team won silver in 2014 they won gold in 2017 and 2018 and when talking about playing for team USA and doing these international tournaments as a like, as a pre teen and a young teen, he said, you make really good friends. You're coached by really good coaches. You get to go play in different countries where people don't always want to see you win, hmm, and that adversity you face is once in a lifetime, yeah. So I like that. He appreciated all the factors there, like, here's all here are the things that I can learn from this international experience as as a young kid, right? So he went to Harvard Westlake High School in Los Angeles, which may sound familiar to you, because was also where Lucas giulito, Mexico and Jack Flaherty came up. Why? Wow. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal. It's kind of a big deal. As a junior, yeah, I noticed that, right? And he's not. He is not right. It's a center fielder. As a junior at Harvard Westlake, he was named the LA Times Player of the Year his senior year, which was 2020, which may be a year that sounds familiar to you, he was hitting 524, before the season shut down because of COVID. He had committed to Vanderbilt. But that same year that 2020, draft, remember, that draft was only five rounds long, as opposed to, you know, 30 some drafts, which it is in, not say, plague years, right? He was drafted in the first round by the Mets. He was the 19th guy picked, right? Mets, right? His signing bonus was $3.4 million so they saw a lot. They saw a lot. I mean, this, this kid, I mean all that international ball playing experience. I mean, that's, that's like, you know, travel team on steroids that walk out steroids, because then you get kicked out. You know what? I mean, there, right? Well, depending

Pottymouth 46:01
on the country you're in, so

Patti 46:04
in 2021 he started in low A but had shoulder surgery almost right away in May, and he was out for the season. But while he was out recovering from shoulder surgery, he was traded to Chicago at the deadline, and you said, into July for Javi Baez and Trevor Williams. And he said, Oh, wow, I had a sling on my shoulder. I thought it was a joke, like he was not involved in baseball at the time. He was recovering from surgery and oh, by the way, you are getting traded to the Cubs. So 2022 low A and high A. But he also played in the futures game in 2022 and he got a minor league Gold Glove as one of the three best defensive outfielders. Oh, there I go again, with a sexy defense, right? Surprising no one in 2023 you started with the double A Smokies. I've been to that ballpark and played yet another futures game you played for the Cubs, this time in the 2023 futures game got bumped up to Iowa on July 31 and finally, he got his call up that September. So he went from double A at the beginning of the season to his call up in September. He went in as a pinch runner, hit a sacrifice, but his first app out, not all that exciting, but it was important, right? It worked. It worked. 2024 he started in triple A, but he came up, got called back up in April because Cody Bellinger was injured. So his, you know, as always happens, right? Your big breaks are because somebody else is not playing for whatever reason, either they're injured or they're in a slope. So it's somebody else's bad news. Is your good news. So his the next day after that, so the April 25 his first hit was a two run, go ahead, home run versus the Astros. So hello, I'm I'm here. I'm here. I'm announcing my presence. Ta, da. And he said, when he was asked the Gosh, how did it feel, you know, to get your first, you know, major league hit, which is also a home run, which was important that it felt great. But the best part of that was coming back in the dugout and feeling awful love, right? He has played center field since he was nine, and he pointed out that a lot of kids like start out as infielders, and then they get stuck out in outfield eventually, right? Like but you start with the infield. He, as a nine year old, was playing the outfield, and he really likes the outfield and the skills that are involved, and he wants to be good at he doesn't see it as just you're stuck out here. He really, he tried to emulate Andrew McCutchen, who, like a lot, Jones center fielders, who are very good at their jobs, both defensively and offensively, right? Sometimes you might be a good hitter. They got to put you somewhere so you're going to stick in the outfield. No these. He emulates the guys who were good defensively as well as good with the bat, and he said it's only becoming rare because nobody treats it as an art or craft. Said a lot of people just go out there to fill a spot. That's never a goal. For me, the conversations I've had with like minded baseball players are. When you go out on defense, you're trying to change the game. I love that. I love that he's trying to learn from the guys who are playing the game the way he wants to play the game and really make a difference. So as a kid, he cross trained like crazy. You play football, he played soccer. You played basketball. He played street hockey with the guys. He was on Little League with, right and this all prepared him for this most important cross training that he ever did, which was this past January when he and Michael Bush provided commentary at The Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, the outdoor I love those NHL game between the Blackhawks and the St Louis Blues, and they are hilarious. I watched a couple clips of them with their commentary, and they are exactly how you would picture baseball players talking about hockey, right? Like, would you get in there? Would you fight? That's a big guy, I mean. But my favorite thing was they watched a goal and they said, Oh, top bin. So, oh top bin, that's great. Wait, isn't top bin? Where? Grandma keeps the cookies. Grandma keeps the cookies. I'm gonna use that when I when I rob a home run. Oh, that's the top end, man. I rob where grandma keeps the cookies. So their cross training has paid off to, you know, increase the lingo. So I'm kind of excited to watch Pete crow Armstrong play some baseball. I like the cross training. He's a little bit more of a potty mouth than I would have expected. He had blue hair for a while. He did have blue hair for a little while. Yeah, not, not so much recently, but he did, okay, so that's good, yeah, I appreciate that. Or, you know, I don't hate the potty mouth, No, sure. And I love the that's where grandma keeps the cookies. So yay for that. That's so those are our guys, right? For this week, for for Boston and Chicago. Next week, we're talking about Minnesota and St Louis. Woo hoo.

Pottymouth 50:47
And you know, folks, we are really willing to be fixed up. So if you are a fan of Minnesota and or St Louis, or have opinions about them, let us know we love a blind date. So much. All right, so we are going to be so, so way over today. So I'm going to condense my winter ball. Oh, does that keep happening? Don't know, we have shit to say. My beer is almost gone. We might have to call tech support. I don't know, everything's going to help, but it, but we're having fun. I hope you, I hope y'all are having fun too. But my my winter ball, I'm I think we're gonna do a Patreon recording, because there is more story behind this. I have two really good, feel good stories, and I'm gonna do one now and save the other one for Patreon. And the one I'm gonna do now is the flashy one, because it has to do with Juan Soto. I've heard him, yeah. So lead on Dominican league right now the leaders. It's in the round robin stage. You know, working toward the finals, Tigres de Lissie are on top. And this past week, Juan Soto showed up to a tigress de LISI game in Lise uniform to play well, he threw out the first pitch. All right, so actually, no reverse. He caught the first pitch. This is an important detail. He caught the first pitch from a kid whose name is Leonardo Santana. So this kid had a viral video where he showed a tour of his home, which is beyond humble. I mean, it's like a one room, sort of steel walled abode. He shows how well look we have some glasses and like, here's where a little bit of water is. And then he takes you outside to the bathroom, which is has a as a toilet with a curtain around it and zero plumbing. I mean, it's, it's very intense, and it's definitely, you know, in the countryside of the Dominican Republic. So his VI, his video, got picked up by a group, which now I'm now fascinated with, called jumping. And it's a Dominican group run by five young Dominicans who are raising funds and what they say for emergency cases of poverty in the Dominican Republic. So they amplified his video, and somehow it got to the Tigris daily say, and to Juan Soto, because at the end of the video, well, the video starts with him saying, I just got back from playing baseball, and he has his glove. So he does have a glove, but he's, he's like, I just got back from play, and at the end of the video, he said, Juan Soto is my favorite player. My dream is to meet him someday. Well, you know, jumpa may made this happen. They exploded it. Quan Soto showed up at the tigrays game. The kid got to throw out the first pitch. But not only that, he had to hang out with Juan Soto. So they hung out in the clubhouse. They played dominoes together. He signed he gave him a signed baseball. The kid also had a Soto Lisa jersey. Now mind you, Juan Soto has never played for Teague, but it seems like he has some connection, because at the end of the interview that I saw with Soto, he said he promised it's on film that he will play for Lisa someday. He doesn't have an exact timeline. He said it depends on the Mets, but you know, Vladimir Guerra Jr said that, and he did end up playing some games with Leon is de escogidos. So it's it could happen. It should happen at some time, but the just the impact that this is gonna have on this kid. So what jump in a does is they pick these very intense cases, amplify them, and raise funds. And so this kid right now his, you know, it's like a Go Fund Me kind of thing. It's at $21,000 which hopefully will, you know, put a little bit of a dent in getting him and his family a better house. We will be putting this in the show notes so you can go to jump AMA. You can, you know, donate to Leonardo's fund or find a. Other fund there, they're all sort of, you know, equally, moving in different ways. It is in Spanish, but it does give you the opportunity to change it to US dollars, and then you can use Google Translate and make it all accessible to you. And if you have any problems or any questions at all, just contact us and we will hook you up. Wow, yeah. Super, super sweet. All

Patti 55:20
right, so we're gonna say the rest for Patreon. Okay, all right, stay tuned to Patreon. Okay, we're gonna hop into police blotter. I need to tell you about the Padres ownership because it sounds remarkably similar to the soap opera we had recently with the Angelos family, the previous owners of the Orioles, right? Damn owners. This one is absolutely, as she said, they said, situation for the Padres. So last week, Monday, Pete Seiler, widow the Peter Seidler, the former, the late owner of the Padres. His Widow's name is shield. She sued two of Peter's brothers, Matt and Bob. Boy. Do they have regular names, yeah, Peter, Matt, Bob, and soon you'll meet John, right? There's nine of them. There's nine, there's nine sailor siblings, right?

Pottymouth 56:10
I'm guessing Jim and a Scott, but probably

Patti 56:12
Dave, Matt and Bob were sued for, quote, breaches of fiduciary duty and fraud as the trustees and executors of the trust, the seedler Trust and the will. And she said she wanted to be the control person for the team, which is, you know, it's a title that I we didn't really, didn't hear much until last year, but it's a real thing. The control person in an ownership group for a baseball team, is the person who has the, quote, ultimate authority and responsibility for the decisions regarding the team. So when you have an ownership group, one person is the face of that group, and the final like where the buck stops and shield seedler The widow would like to be that Matt and Bob want their brother John to be that, right? They put him forward as that person. So she'll and the three children. So she was married to to Peter for for 15 years. You have three kids between them. They own approximately a quarter of the team, other cedar family members combine to get the family ownership close to 50% between them. And what you know his widow and the kids have, right? So when Peter was alive and active as the owner, he was really involved. He was very visible. I mean, you probably saw like the his initials on patches, on layers. Yes, last season, they had a big thing on the field. He was beloved. He was out there. He was making himself visible and the face and known all and he also spent some money. He was an aggressive spender. Matt Bob, John those guys, not so much. They have not been very visible in the world of baseball ownership, and also they have reduced the payroll quite a bit, so all of a sudden, they're sort of ratcheting back the Padres who have been on this role, right? Yeah. They were signing these guys who were stars. They were paying for them because it's worth it. They were making their plays. These guys are ratcheting it back since Peter's death. As she said, the emphasis in the press reports on the Padres cutting salary, lowering their expectations and implicitly abandoning their all out pursuit of a World Series championship would have been a gut punch to Peter. Right? She also as an oh, by the way, this also happened. Says that Bob, see above, his wife, is responsible for, quote, multiple racist, profane and hateful communications directing at shield, oh, who is a woman of Indian descent from India, right? And also said, oh yeah. And they've talked about relocating the team, and also, oh yeah, they've ostracized me and my kids. They've not worked in our best interest, and they're supposed to be. So she has this laundry list of things that are wrong. Well, the Padres and also Matt have said, No, that's not actually what's happening. So the Padre special statement says a suit is entirely quote, without merit. Matt, who says, basically, everything you know is wrong, says the idea of relocating the team is, quote, laughable. This is my favorite part. The racist comments are from someone who with, quote, difficult personal health challenges and don't reflect the rest of the family and oh no, we've welcomed them with open arms. We've not ostracized shield and the children. So it's really like she says this, they say nope, and there's no like in between. So one of the problems with this is it doesn't just affect ownership. It affects the players, for instance, right? They are pursuing in Roki Sasaki, right? It's in that line, right? But, but is this an easy one to cross off? Because ownership is screwed up? Why would I want to sign on? Right? It's also screwing with potential contract extensions for say, Oh, I don't know, Jackson Merrill and other players like, do I want to commit to this team for five more years when they're screwed up at the top, I don't know. So just to keep in mind, the Angelos drama with the Orioles ended with them selling the team. You know, they're saying, we're not going to sell the Padres. But that level of drama with the family and ownership for the O's ended that way. So there we go. So that's happening also. The other part of our police blotter today is the New York Yankees fan band, yeah, of course, which I feel super good about. So the Yes, so Major League Baseball band, Yankees. Well, the Yankees did okay here. MLB banned the two Yankees fans, right? Who interfered with Mookie Betts during game four the World Series Yankee Stadium. They banned them from all MLB ballparks. The quote is they sent a letter to these two guys whose names I'm not going to put in here, because who wants to amplify these guys, right? Right? Their letter said your conduct posed a serious risk to the health and safety of the player with far over the line of acceptable fan behavior based on your conduct, Major League Baseball is banning you indefinitely from all MLB stadiums, offices, other facilities. You're also hereby banned indefinitely from attending any events sponsored by or associated with MLB. Please be advised if you are discovered at any MLB property or event, you'll be removed from the premises and subject to arrest for trespass. Bucha, right? I don't know how they're going to enforce this. Like, how is they have a little photo of these guys and, like, in the like, you know the 80,000 people will come and do it. I don't know, but if they do get caught there, they do risk arrest. The Yankees as a team, ejected these guys at the time of the incident. They banned them from the next game, from game five, the next World Series game, and since then banned them from Yankee Stadium. So the team did that. But

Pottymouth 1:02:06
just to say, Fuck the Yankees, there was a big delay. There a big ass delay because these guys were season ticket holders. So there was they were not really. They were not, well, there was definitely a big delay before they got banned for that, that game, and then an even bigger delay before being Dan banned from Yankee Stadium. Media. There weren't any games in question, so there's that. So, yeah, okay, but they should have come down on them right away, which they didn't. And Mookie Betts was a little pissed. Yeah, no,

Patti 1:02:36
for sure, but the season ticket thing is interesting, because they were in season ticket holder seats, and it wasn't them. It wasn't them, though, the season ticket holders were not in those seats. So that may have been something they had to figure out, because the season the people who own those seats have owned those seats since the 1919 90, right?

Pottymouth 1:02:52
So that that's why I thought that that was the complication that they were like, Oh, we're not gonna kick these guys. No, they,

Patti 1:02:57
I think they determined that those weren't the actual owners of the seat. So they had to say, the people who own the seats are fine. They didn't cause the problem. People who were using the seats are the ones that caused the problem. Shitty. So there's that. So, yeah, so, so got a fan band,

Pottymouth 1:03:13
all right, that's fine. That's fine. Hey, what's going on this week? Wow, I actually have to work, so that's a problem.

Patti 1:03:23
Welcome. Can I just say that? You know, because of telework, yeah, snow days for me just meant working from home, which is better than going to work, but it meant also not actual snow days.

Pottymouth 1:03:33
Yeah, that is, that is definitely shitty, and that is what they're threatening us for the future. But it hasn't happened yet, so I'm just gonna sit and enjoy. So next weekend, we are going to really hope that the what do you call it, squad cast gods are all like looking for us, because I'm gonna be in Massachusetts visiting dad, getting my Bob fuck out of DC for inauguration. It's

Patti 1:03:59
getting kind of crowded. Yeah, yeah.

Pottymouth 1:04:02
Oh boy. Oh boy. Folks, buckle up. Buckle the fuck up. Bucha the fuck and we will be with you. I am gonna encourage y'all next weekend on january 20, which is Inauguration Day for some folks, but it's also Martin Luther King Day, and I just want to encourage you to reflect on the positive, and we're all in this together. And Martin Luther King said, and I quote, We shall overcome, because the arc of the moral universe is long, boy, is it long, but it bends towards justice. And we're going to keep that thought in our hearts and hope that it guides us through the next whatever, whatever is coming our way. Yep. But you can count on us.

Patti 1:04:47
You can count on us. We will be here in some form to be your you know, your guides, your friends, your diversions, whatever it is you need to get through all of this stuff. Off, baseball is our friend. Yeah, baseball is our friend. Please tell us what you're up to on social media, potty, Math, where can people find us? You know,

Pottymouth 1:05:08
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Patti 1:05:57
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You just gonna assume that everything's just hunky dory. I think that's the best thing to do is just sort of forge ahead and hope for the best, right? Right? Hi Ho Silver, nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? Or, Hi Ho Silver, really, either. Either works for me. I.