No Crying In Baseball

Unknown Speaker 0:00
Music.

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 390 of no crying in baseball, the just a bit outside episode. My name is Patty. I'm here with my friend, potty mouth. Hey, potty mouth, hey

Pottymouth 0:27
there. This is me phoning and not phoning in. What are we calling? Streaming in from the frigid north, although it's frigid where you are too, right? It's pretty

Patti 0:35
darn cold here in our hometown. You didn't that. You did not have to go north to get colder? You really didn't.

Pottymouth 0:42
Well, apparently I'm getting some snow, so I'm in the great state of Massachusetts, and it's cold, but it's cold in Maryland as well, and snow is falling tonight in both locations, so we will see what happens with my flight home tomorrow. That will be lots of fun to discover.

Patti 1:00
I actually think our snow has stopped here. So if you can get out, you're clearing oriented, as far as I'm concerned. And you know, clearly I'm in charge. And you know, some of my best friends are related air traffic controllers.

Pottymouth 1:11
Well, if you could, you know, finagle, something to get our flight bumped up a little bit. I'm sure it will be fine. What could go wrong?

Patti 1:20
So you had a band in the airport?

Pottymouth 1:23
Yes. So on our departure from Baltimore, Washington International Airport, we walked in the door and heard loud horns that turned out to be, I believe, the Ravens marching band. And actually, they had some really good covers. We were definitely bopping in line while we were waiting in TSA, but they're playing now, I think as we're recording, recording Sunday night, and I believe the Ravens game is on as we're recording. And I personally, for the well being of all of the neighbors and the area that we live in, I think a Ravens commander's Super Bowl would be so much fun.

Patti 2:01
I think that would be okay, and I look great in purple, so I feel good about that.

Pottymouth 2:05
Yeah, I gotta, I gotta pull for the purple. I definitely, although there was a really good crossover with our lovely nationals that we love and adore, Dylan Cruz, who I probably will kick myself for not picking for a baseball boyfriend this year. You know, soon to be superstar, went to college at LSU, hey Brian with Jayden Daniels, superstar quarterback who held his shit together to get the commanders to get to this point. So the two of them have been spotted in public in various times with a jersey swap. But it makes me feel, you know, just all the more I feel like the commanders should be rewarded for the name change, don't you?

Patti 2:43
I think so. And also, you know, ownership change, and

Pottymouth 2:48
they're making strides. They're making some strides. Yeah, so exciting. I mean, the football it would be really nice if they didn't have to bash people in the head and stuff, but it's playoffs, so we're gonna follow it. I'm going to follow it. I'm here in Massachusetts with my dad and stepmom. Grew watching the football games of today, which are very cold and exciting. You know, the Eagles, I guess, pulled it off in a snowstorm, and more fun will happen. That's all

Patti 3:13
pretty exciting. I like football in the snow. You know, growing up in Cleveland, I actually attended some football games in the snow, and it made me happy. It's the right thing to do, hey. So I'm staying warm with a very delicious cocktail that I made

Pottymouth 3:26
up. Oh, give, give, give our listeners to the recipe.

Patti 3:30
So I'm calling it, you know, my darling plan fennel time, my darling fennel time, because I made fennel simple syrup. And, I mean, you know, I threw in some gin and the juice of a clementine, and it is very delicious. I topped it off a little bit of of lime, you know, lime seltzer just and I've been topping off the lime Seltzer, so it looks like I still have the full cocktail, but really, now it's milk Seltzer, but it was very, very delicious.

Pottymouth 3:56
Well, that's, you know, stretch it definitely make it work, especially if it was that much work putting into it, but it's, it's healthy. I think it's, you know, rejuvenating after a long weekend, kind of healthy, you know, I've

Patti 4:08
got, like, the fennels of vegetable, the the clementines of fruit. I think I'm doing very, very well, and you're drinking local.

Pottymouth 4:15
Yes, I am. So in, in all honesty, I'm gonna come clean to to our listeners. I had some technical difficulties here in Northern Massachusetts that have have resulted in us re recording a big chunk of this. So this is completely my fault, and it had nothing to do with the fact that I think I've drank, drunk, drinking, drink, consumed. I finished. I inhaled one and a half only one that one and a half beers isn't a lot, except for when they're 16 ounces of local breweries, 603 in somewhere in New Hampshire. But a can is coming to me right now. So wait. No, this is my wine glass. Okay. Sorry. Texas court came in. To bring me more beer, but we've wait. I heard

Patti 5:02
the word wine glass in there also, yes. So what's the beer? Yeah, we

Pottymouth 5:07
we recorded. Drank one and a half of the 603 IPAs. Had to take a dinner break over dinner. Had to try the wine that my lovely step brother brought yesterday. I just sounded

Patti 5:18
like done to your head drinking. I had to do this. I had to do this exactly.

Pottymouth 5:23
But when I came back down here to reboot, I brought the wine glass instead of the beer glass, which was a major faux pas. So Mr. Potty mouth is up fetching my beer glass so I can drink the last half of the second 603, IPA, which is, can I have the can please? Also, sorry, Mr. Body, brought the actual alcohol without the can. Absolutely. Yeah, it's somewhere in New Hampshire. It's a lovely Brewer brewery, so I definitely want to give them props, and as soon as he gets back with a can, I will do so, because I if you're in Southern New Hampshire, check this place out. They have a lovely IPA. We do not get the coal shy. We were not so impressed with that, but it is from oh 603, brewery in Londonderry, Londonderry, New Hampshire, sure 7.3% in case you haven't been keeping track, all right. Wow,

Patti 6:19
yeah, wow. Okay, so on today's show LA is stronger in multiple ways. We've got boyfriends doing good and also having fun. We've got new boyfriends from Minnesota and St Louis. Potty mouth is killing it in winter ball and rip to Mr. Baseball. Cheers,

Pottymouth 6:41
absolutely. Cheers. All right, here's my last I'm showing Patty, but nobody else is going to see this. I'm just noticing that I'm at a desk at my dad's house in Massachusetts, and he has a pencil holder on the desk that I swear to God, I must have made when I was six years old. It's like rolled up newspaper on pieces of wire in a circle. It's really quite lovely, actually, yeah, and it's still useful. It's all over all these you were reusing and

Patti 7:08
recycling as a small child.

Pottymouth 7:11
Yeah. And power to I can't believe it's on my dad's desk. Okay, I'm getting teary eyed. And teary eyed is probably the way to go into the piece of Los Angeles getting stronger. I know that a lot of us have had Los Angeles in our hearts these past few weeks as they're going through this just horrific experience, and it's always just that little bit of comforting to know that your sports teams are doing the right thing. And we talked last week about a lot of our Dodgers, especially Patty picks from the past of baseball boyfriends, you know, chipping in there and giving back to the people. This past Friday, two days ago, from recording, there was a big event where the Dodgers, along with a lot of the other local sports leagues, came together to give supplies to the people who needed it. And, you know, and there were players from each of the leagues who were involved, and so from the Dodgers, there was Anthony Banda, who is, I think, really well known for going topless in the victory parade that they had last year with an impressive set of tattoos. He's a really cool guy who's giving back at this event, along with Chris Taylor, who we talked about last week, and Blake Snell, new impressive addition to the this crazy pitching rotation that I know patty is going to go into a little bit more detail about distributing goods like, you Know, clothing, shoes, hygiene kits, school supplies and food, and to get people to Dodger Stadium, to be able to have access to this stuff, the Dodgers and the Dodgers Foundation provided transportation from evacuation sites where people had been relocated after their houses were either in danger or had been burned such such an intense experience going on right now, and it's just good to know that sports can can make a positive difference. So there were players from the Dodgers, along from the along with players from the Kings the LA Galaxy and the sparks, as well as a bunch of local businesses. And if you want more deeds on that, please check our show notes, because they're just too many to go through. And a special set. Shout out to Blake Snell for being Mr. California, really. I mean, you know, bouncing around from Padres to giants to Dodgers, and he's gotten a little bit of shit from Giants fans. And he's sort of like, you know, your owners can do this stuff too. He's rep in LA now, and he's wearing the LA strong gear, and he's coaching, continuing to coach his team, Zilla of 12 and under, travel team in California. And the style is remarkable. Like he's there in person. He's putting his feet where his money. Is. And he's designed these like absolutely fire uniforms for these kids in pink and green with a, you know, that sort of like jagged edged font, frisilla. And he's there repping them, making them feel special. So they're currently in a tournament, that's the word tournament in Huntington Beach, California. And I just would love to see more players that active, right, working with the kids, being there with them,

Patti 10:30
for sure. Hey, you may have heard of this guy, Shohei Ohtani. He's got a little bit of money, and he's being a little careful with it, not letting you know just anybody control his bank accounts anymore, but he live and learn, right? He did just write a couple of checks. He's contributing $500,000 to La wildfire relief as part of the LA strong program, and he's intending the money to support the firefighters and also the shelters and also animals in need. As you know, he's, in fact, a dog. You know, he's, he's, he's got decoy, that wonderful little dog, and so he cares about other pets who are sometimes overlooked in times of emergencies like this. So thank you Shohei and family.

Pottymouth 11:12
Yeah, I mean, that's, that's a huge amount of money. I mean, we know that he has a huge contract, but it's, it's the right thing to do at the right time, yep. And I think it just makes everybody love him, just even a little bit more. And everybody loves LA and one of our favorite relief pitchers, Tanner tight pants, aka Tanner Scott, who first caught our attention pitching for the Orioles because we were there and we saw those tight pants in action. And he's been hot stuff. He's moved around since then. I think it was a little bit of hope that he'd come back to the O's. I know I would rather see him at the O's, just because, you know, more more time with Tanner. But he's going to the Dodgers, like everybody else. They're, they're pitching staff is one to, I don't know it's, it's got to be historic at this point and very foreign rates. By foreign

Patti 12:04
do you mean international signings? Uh huh. For instance. You may have heard of this guy, too rocky Saki we've been talking about, who was posted from his his Japanese professional baseball team back in December, and he announced on Friday that he has selected the LA Dodgers offer a signing bonus of $6.5 million remember, that's a minor league contract. You know, they can bring him up, really immediately, but it's a minor league contract. It's not one of the big free agency contracts because of his age. He's only 23 therefore he can only be signed as a minor league player, the finalists got whittled down after the 20 teams expressed interest got whittled down to Toronto and San Diego and the Dodgers. Toronto is sort of a wild card in that one. But if you remember back when he was interviewing, when the 20 teams who were into work were doing presentations, they all had an hour and a half to two hours, all of the meetings were at his agent's office in Los Angeles. So they wasn't, you know, flying all over the place. It was a controlled environment. But he also gave all the teams a homework assignment, so they had to come into those meetings with, you know, prepared with the question that he asked them. And that was kind of top secret for a while, but now we know that what he asked was, tell me why my velocity fell off this past year, which is kind of brilliant because he's picking brains of 20 teams with professional pitching staffs, and some of those teams said he is so freaking smart for asking that questions. And some of the teams said, you know, that's kind of over the line. I mean, is he like trying? He's getting into our proprietary stuff, but, you know now

Pottymouth 13:44
diesel is really freaking smart, right? So that's like, goes back to the flow diagram, goes back to the same square. And,

Patti 13:54
wow, you just really threw me for a loop with that little sentence there. Okay, I'm all right. I'm all right. But when we first talked about what he was looking for in a team, he wanted to find a team that was going to make him a better pitcher. So that was, in fact, what he cared about. How are you going to take my skills and make me better? And the conversations coming out of these meetings were when he was engaged in conversations with the teams who were pitching to him. It was about mechanics. It was about what their program looks like, how, how does pitching work? He doesn't. He wasn't asking questions about the neighborhoods and how you're taking care of the families and what the you know, what the clubhouse is like. He's asking questions about pitching mechanics. So you know, he's gone with the Dodgers, and everyone is like, yep, we all knew that. We all knew that. But I think we know, by and large, we all knew that, because they have, you know, that they're building up this pitching staff with superstar Japanese pitchers, right? They have a program of taking, you know? Homegrown pictures and making them better, which is what they had all the pieces in place, and yet, still, there are a lot of rumors around about, we kind of feel like there was some handshake deal in place for a long time, the Dodgers made no secret of the fact that they were scouting him since he was in high school. But they were the only ones there were Scottie Gibson that time, but, but there were enough rumors that Major League Baseball actually did an investigation before he was posted by his team in Japan the achievement of Marines to Steve and they weren't questioning him or his agent. They were questioning his team, because in the past, the teams that posted their players could get this giant payback, like the team that Tony came from got a $20 million you know, posting fee. That's huge. That's gigantic. Now the rules have changed, and the team only gets 25% of the signing bonus. And if you remember, the signing bonus for this one is $6.5 million so 25% of that versus $20 million so there was a little bit of wondering, like, does his is his team like looking for kickbacks? Are they trying to work this somehow? But Major League Baseball did not find any evidence of that. So hopefully everything is fine there. So when those meetings happen with the homework assignments and the agents office and all that, you couldn't bring active players. You could bring owners, and in the case of the Dodgers, one of their owners is Magic Johnson. So that was kind of cool, because apparently Roki is a big basketball fan, and you know, he got an autographed jersey from magic and all of that. But later on, when he whittled down the teams and he went and did site visits to the the teams who were who were recording him, he got to meet some people. So went to San Diego. Of course they he met you darvish, who is very important for Japanese pitchers. He met Manny Machado, Jackson, Merrill, Joe Musgrove, you know, worked out in the park all of that. When he went to LA they did not go to the Dodger Stadium, because that's being renovated right now. So they had to go to the super fancy, plush home of the owner of the Dodgers and have a chef there making a sushi dinner for everybody. And everybody included Freddie Freeman and Mookie bats and Will Smith and Tommy Edmond and, oh yeah, that show, hey, oh, tiny guy. So there was wining and dining and susifying, all of those things were happening there. And that ended up being sort of, you know, the winning pitch. And it's oh the pitch. Look at that. And there was, like, this rollout plan for how they were going to announce it. But oh, town, he broke the news to the team with a little text that said, we got them. So moving forward, the Dodgers are going to have a six man rotation, and like, all six of them are going to be like all star caliber pictures. It's going to be untouchable. It was already almost untouchable. And then they, then they, like, bring on this international superstar. So that's quite a thing. Now, I have Dodgers pitching for the fantasy league last year, and I don't and when everybody, like, you know, went out for surgery, so I don't, right if you're gonna let me have him make them again, but boy, I sure would like to do that. Feels like cheating, though, doesn't it?

Pottymouth 18:18
Yeah, well, you're the commissioner, so you get to decide what cheating is.

Patti 18:22
I don't know. There's going to be an investigation and see if there's foul play in here. You know, before we even get started,

Pottymouth 18:29
yeah, we'll call in the intern, the union specialist, but I don't know. I I feel like it's okay. And also, you never know what's going to happen. I was just, I was just, I was thinking a couple of things while you were talking Roki Sasaki is 23 years old. Yep, like this is a kid. And just that he was, he and Shohei Ohtani and Yamamoto were all on Team Japan that won the World Baseball Classic, right? And to the idea of them all being in cahoots to get back together is not outrageous, right? Especially with Ohtani deferring a ton of money. Wait when

Patti 19:10
you're saying Cahoots, that makes me think that you're talking about shady dealings again. Well,

Pottymouth 19:14
maybe not shady. What's like an unshady way of saying Cahoots, collaborating? Yeah, that sounds even shadier. I don't know there's got to be a well, I guess it depends on the context. Yeah, collaborating. They're just lining things up. But I think it's fascinating though, that you know that a US baseball team is saying that Japanese players are of such a caliber that having at least half, if not three fifths of your starting rotation being from Japanese League, that's that's huge.

Patti 19:50
Well, happily, they're going to a six man rotation, so we don't need to do any weird math. It is, in fact, half, well,

Pottymouth 19:55
which, yeah, which is still a pretty big foreign percentage. But, you know, I saw something. About Dominican trainers being upset because the same pool of money that is trying to get, you know Sasaki, which is still there's a limit on it. He's a professional player. He had been in the Japanese League, which is very close to MLB level. And you're comparing that money against kids from the DR in Venezuela who are between ages 16 and 17. That's exactly where, that's the age range of those players. So it seems like sort of apples to oranges of the same pool of money being prioritized according to those different standards. And maybe, maybe things need to be changed.

Patti 20:41
I don't know. Yeah, for a long time, a lot of folks have been saying we need to look at these international free agent signings because because of starting with 16 year olds and all of that. So there's a lot of things that need to be looked at there.

Pottymouth 20:54
Yeah, yep. But one other signing that the Dodgers did internationally was Joseph Dang. And here's just a whole nother concept to sort of think about when it comes to international signings. This is the first player from the South Sudan, not some place that you would think a lot of baseball would be coming from, and only the second player from Africa to be signed for by MLB team in 2024 the pirate signed infielder Armstrong mahozi from Uganda. So Joseph dang apparently was picked up online. There's a there's an X account by Charlie Mayer, who apparently focuses on African baseball talent who probably see the majority of their baseball online in in clips on, you know, the the form leads the site formally knows tick tock, which God knows what it is now, and and x and reels and things like that. But it's a way to get seen. So this kid, six, 717, years old, throwing 95 mile an hour fastball gets picked up on x and gets seen by Dodger scouts and signed and so it sort of, I think, makes a big question for what comes in the future, right? If you find this niche and you're online and you can show your stuff and you can get picked up, that seems almost like, I don't know, inspirational for I mean,

Patti 22:25
it's, that's how, that's how it's been working in music for a very long time, and now it's split over to sports. And it's cool, because you get kids in places that are not hotbeds of a particular sport, who do get noticed, and then that creates more interest where they live, you know, in it brings attention both direction, and it grows the game. So I think it's really very cool.

Pottymouth 22:49
Yeah, I'll be, I'll be excited to see if either of these kids, you know, make it into the majors at some point. But also, just, it's right, it's a trailblazing thing, like, there's going to be people following. All right, my last little of the week tidbit is a hat tip to Kevin pawecie, and he just has a soft spot in my heart from his years with the Red Sox, because He was the creator of the laundry cart celebration. And we all know that one of the keys to a World Series appearance, if not win, is having the thing, the home run celebration, the thing you do after hits, whatever it is that the Baby Shark Club has, yes, exactly the Baby shark or the 2018 Red Sox dancing in the outfield with Mookie Betts and Andrew bentendi. They were adorable. And it's that kind of like you gotta have a fun thing to have success. And Kevin Fauci, like miraculously, brought the Red Sox into the postseason in 2021 didn't go as well as 22 but and then they retired it when he left the Red Sox, which I think is the right thing to do. He had started with the Mets, and he was with the Guardians before the Red Sox, and then went through the Rangers 13 year career in baseball, eight in the majors, and then just after leaving the Red Sox and going to the rangers and not making it, just kind of couldn't get his way back in. He was in the minors for a couple years with the pirates system, the gnats and the padres, and apparently enjoyed his time with the padres, because he's going to be joining their minor league coaching staff. So I hope that he finds a fun celebration for those Padres minor leaguers. And I wish the best to Kevin Fauci, who added some joy to my life, and I think a bunch of other Red Sox fans for you know, that chunk of time.

Patti 24:39
So we pick these guys as as boyfriends, you know, one guy per team, for what, for, you know, various reasons, and sometimes a few years later, it bites us in the butt because he something bad happens. You know, there's assholery or, you know, just bad, bad choices or things and so like, oh crap, I'm sorry that I picked this guy. Sometimes we are pre. Proven right. I'm happy to report one of those times when I made a good call. Proven right. I picked Jake Berger in 2023 for the White Sox as my guy there, and he's now, he went to Miami and is now with Texas. He has decided to wear number 21 with the Rangers in honor, in honor of his daughter Penelope, who was born this past October, 25 Penelope was born with Down syndrome. The formal name for that is Trisomy 21 so he's going to wear number 21 and what he said was, this is the first time I can pick a number that's not just close to my heart, but close to a lot of people's hearts. For me, it's trying to spread awareness and try and get the word out about Down Syndrome and how people can get support. I'm just really proud of this number and really excited to wear this and represent my daughter, but also so many people out there. He had been working with Miami to try to get his number on that team changed when he was traded to Texas, so that just kind of carried over. He and his wife are starting or establishing a foundation to help other families impacted by Down syndrome, and he is the only active MLB player who has got a child with Down syndrome now, because quiz definitely Texas also just recently assigned other former boyfriend of mine, Jack Peterson, whose older brother champ is living with Down syndrome. And so Jake said he's looking forward to meeting champ and maybe getting to partner up with Jack for like, you know, ways they can provide support to each other and to other families, and that's really cool. On the much lighter side of things, Matt Chapman, who was my A's boyfriend in 2020 and is now with the Giants, was made an appearance at the Giants fan fest in Napa and was challenged by fans to a beer chugging contest. Why you would think you could beat Matt Chapman? It's anything. I don't have a clue. But of course, he It went as well as you might expect. He He chugged with the with the style of someone you know on the video board at a hockey game, for instance, which, which seems to happen. And so the person taking the video, you know, got him chugging this like a champ, and then, like the other fans, not even being halfway through their beards, and kept panning around to this giant crowd. They're outside, and the the front of the crowd is all children. But thankfully, the last thing that's caught on this video is him saying, gotta wait till you're older kids, so thank you met you haven't

Pottymouth 27:25
absolutely have those like sane words of advice, and having known this story, like right at dinner time, the aforementioned wine was Napa Valley, and I made a joke about chugging it, but I did not. I absolutely did not. However, I did just get a text from Mr. Potter mouth saying, let me know if you need wine with my beer yet. So I think need

Patti 27:47
one of the things that we say about like, how we pick our boyfriends is a guy you'd want to have a beer with, yep, and I'd love to have a beer with Matt Chapman, but I think it would go by really quickly.

Unknown Speaker 28:02
That's absolutely right. Let's

Patti 28:03
talk about some new boyfriends, sure.

Pottymouth 28:05
Well, I'm really happy to say that both my guys are of drinking age, but barely So these, these are the guys that we're picking this year, because they're cool, one guy per team, and we are set for the twins and the Cardinals this week, because we always do one Al and one nl. And I noticed that the two guys I picked this week are both rather young. They both graduated high school the same year as our children, but they're cool guys, and they are of drinking age, and I would love to hang out. I mean, I like having a beer with our kids, so having a beer with our kids and these guys would just be a whole bunch of fun. We're starting with the twins, and I'm picking Brooks Lee, who has been shortstop, or maybe second or maybe third, and we'll see how things pan out for this year. I'm hoping that he's really there in one of those spots, 23 years old, and we've been traveling, and I'm not quite sure how much of this got put into this recording, because, you know, several beers have transpired since then. But Mr. Potty mouth helped me go through the list of twins, and there were so many that we had picked before. And I thought, Who am I going to pick this week on on short notice? And he said, Brooks Lee has the best name, so I checked to make sure he wasn't an asshole, and apparently he's not. He's 23 years old, and he's done okay so far. And I had to find One fun fact that I enjoyed, and I did find that so Brooks Lee is my guy, and he could have been with the twins a lot earlier than he was, despite the fact he's only 23 now, because an area Scout saw him when he was a senior at San Luis Obispo High School in California, and wanted to draft him. Knew he was going to be picked up. He was a star shortstop, plus he was playing second and catching at that point, and the main Scout said no, so. Area Scout saw him at high school. Said this, this kid's gonna draft out of high school. He's probably gonna be a first round pickup out of high school. But their main Scout had some had some doubts, and ended up being really lucky, because despite the fact that there was a rumored $3 million offer for him, he decided to go to college instead of going to sign on and often, especially with our baseball boyfriend picks, we talk about, well, we appreciate the guy who's making that decision to further his education, but in this case, it was maybe even more special, because he decided to go to college because his dad was the coach at set at Cal Poly, which was near home. So we got to stay home and work with his dad, who he had always clearly bonded with over baseball, but especially in his later years, they kind of overlap. So dad was working coaching at Cal Poly while he was, you know, shining in high school. So this was his his opportunity to actually spend a season with dad. The twins were lucky, because then when he came around again in the 22 draft, they realized, Oh, we really have to get this guy. And they got him on the eighth pick. His debut was in July, just this past year of 2024 so here's an intro to the fun fact that I appreciated. He was named after Brooks Robinson Orioles fame. Grew up being dressed in Orioles gear. Despite the being a California Baby, apparently this baseball family just appreciated all baseball. So because he was named Brooks, he got the Orioles gear. He almost was named Brock, after Lou Brock. And here's the part that I absolutely adore, because if they had named him Brock, he would have been broccoli, like broccoli, which, yeah, you

Patti 31:50
don't need to footnote it. You footnote it. It's less funny. But I just, I mean, I think they saved him a lot of bruising, because I think he would have been beaten up every freaking day in middle school with a name like broccoli, you just would have, it would have been horrible for him. I made a good choice. Cute

Unknown Speaker 32:04
from

Patti 32:06
that's one of the reasons he would have gotten beaten up, because it was a cute little name, and you don't do that,

Pottymouth 32:11
yeah, yeah, yeah. But the the O's didn't quite pay him back for the dedication, because that was, you know, they had the number one draft pick that year. They could have picked him, but they have other guys, Jack Jackson holiday, so it was there were a plethora of good picks. Everybody wound up in the right place. So his big baseball family, his dad, Larry, has been coaching at Cal Poly since 2003 he also had two uncles who played in the giant system, never made it to the bigs, but spent some time in the minors. And dad and uncles got their baseball Mojo from grandpa Tom Lee, who coached not only baseball at Cal Poly. So there's also this Cal Poly thread, but also boxing, football and basketball, there's

Patti 33:03
really a weird duck there, right?

Pottymouth 33:07
Yeah, and doesn't, I mean, there's three seasons of sports, so I don't know how you do all four, doesn't

Patti 33:14
it's always time to box. There's always time to box.

Pottymouth 33:17
Sure, sure. Well, clearly, he's a member of the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame. And not only was he coach extraordinaire, but he spent some time playing himself, barnstorming back in the day with folks like satchel page. So Brooks Lee grew up in a house full of memorabilia, so they had signed jerseys from folks like Derek Jeter, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, hanging around the house, and he enjoyed his time, finally getting, you know, time with his dad when he when he decided to go to Cal Poly. So it's not just staying with dad, but also the carrying on that like three generations of being connected to this university, and Dad noticed him. So it's not just him being there because he wants to do the right thing for his dad, but his dad noticed sort of his baseball brain when he was out there on the field. He said that those interactions with other players have shown me that he has such a great mind when it comes to the game of baseball, he's like another coach on the field. But Brooks says that when he was younger, he actually wasn't like the best kid in the Little League team that dad was coaching. He said he was, quote, a little fat kid from age eight to 12, but he worked on his fundamentals because he was the coach's kid, and he had those solid as he developed in baseball, and when everything sort of shook out in junior year playing shortstop, he started putting up the numbers. And he said, My dad says fundamentals always went out, and that's exactly what happened. And then he goes to Cal Poly to. To follow his dad, and he has a massive injury freshman year, and almost blows the whole thing. And this is sort of like a heartbreaking moment, because I don't know you can get injured anywhere, but with his decision, ended up getting injured, snapped a co lateral collateral ligament. Oh, my God, I can't believe is that a real thing in it, it lateral collateral that does sound like, I don't know, it sounds like a mob deal like, is your lateral collateral for this, right? Well, that got snapped, as well as a hamstring Well, running out of ground ball during a pre season game, and he actually recap, rehabbed enough after a miraculous surgery to have a couple of at bats. That didn't count in that 2020 but who know, 2020 was a weird year, so it didn't count for him. He ended up being able to red shirt the next year, so that he had two solid years between before being, you know, drafted under out of junior in college in 2021 huge comeback after the surgery, 1.010 ops, and in 2022 up to that to 1.126 ops, with a stint in Cape Cod, where all the cool guys hang out in Between. In 2022 he was voted by the college baseball foundation as the Brooks Wallace award for number one college shortstop, and he had actually been a finalist the previous year, but hit it in 22 and he talks about it. There's just the bond that he has with his dad of having grown up sort of being, you know, being coached by him, and then definitely in in college. And said, I'm sure we bore the heck out of everybody else, but it's a special bond between us. Debuted pretty fast July, 24 and went two for four in his debut with an RBI. Had a very solid July and start of August, and then, damn it, another injury. And so his stats for 24 don't look pretty, because he struggled a lot in September, except the very last week, which gives me hope for next year being I feel like I say this a lot about my basketball boy from picks like next year, like he's got everything lined up next year he's gonna be the guy. Fan graph says that he is going to be playing second base. So he did a lot of short stuff coming up and through college. But you know, the twins have Carlos Correa at shortstop. But also, I find this pretty fascinating. So now if, if my guy, Brooks is going to be at second base, Carlos Correa shorts, Royce Lewis at third base, Jose Miranda at first that means the entire twins in field is potty mouth baseball. Boyfriend picks, you've completed a set is I feel like I should get, like, a sticker for the

Patti 37:59
cycle or something.

Speaker 1 38:01
Yeah, hire twins. Infield. Pretty nice. All right. So, speaking

Patti 38:09
of names, I picked Austin Martin in my head. I joked, Hey, that sounds like Aston Martin like the James Bond car, right? And I swear one of the searches I did, it came up saying not to be confused with Aston Martin. So there you have it. But anyway, Austin Martin is a center fielder, but also super utility. So that's just what they plugged him in as 25 years old. So his background, his mom is a nurse. His dad, I kid you not, air traffic controller. Wait, didn't you already have one of those? Brett, wisely, both parents were air traffic controllers, and now Austin Martin's dad is an air traffic controller. Was

Pottymouth 38:46
a serious amount of air traffic control in baseball. Boy, right.

Patti 38:50
Okay, but here's the thing, he was born when his mom was 20 and was clerking at a gas station while his dad was in school. This is not a typical I'm getting to the major leagues, because I have a privileged life story here, right? But work ethic like crazy. So that's where he gets that. And he said like, nobody in his family plays baseball, nobody. They all played soccer. So even though, as a small child, he ran around the house hitting balls with sticks on a regular basis. They still made him play soccer, wow. But eventually he moved over to t ball, and then it all clicked into place. But it's very funny, they just couldn't see it. They didn't see it because they saw soccer anyway. He was born in DeLand, Florida. Went to high school at Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville, Florida. Your pal, Royce Lewis was his roommate on Team USA, their 15 U squad, which won the silver at the 2014 World Baseball softball Confederation World Cup in Mexico. So how about that? He was initially drafted out of high school by Cleveland in 2017 but you know, when Vanderbilt calls you go. You become a Vandy boy. So they went to Vanderbilt, where he where he played six different positions as a freshman. He mostly third base is a sophomore, yeah, mostly sophomore. Third base is a sophomore. And that was the year that Vanderbilt won the College World Series, and that was the year he had an average of 410 which led the Southeastern Conference. His coach at Vanderbilt said, when he shows up to the ballpark, he has no earthly idea where he's going to play, but he's not a high maintenance kid. He comes in about four hours before the game, looks in the lineup car and says, Okay, that's where I'm playing today. So his junior year, he hit 377, but there were only 16 games, because that was the COVID pandemic year of 2020 when it all shut down. I just want to tell you that he used that shutdown time wisely by learning to play the ukulele.

Unknown Speaker 40:52
That is really unique. He was

Patti 40:55
drafted in that 2020 draft. It was only five rounds long. He went to the first round to the Toronto Blue Jays as a shortstop, a shortstop, and got a $7 million signing bonus. So you know, 2020 no minor leagues, 2021 starts in double a future game and gets traded in Minnesota at the trade deadline in 2021 2022 risk. Wrist injury, dieting for a ball out for six weeks, elbow injury in 2023 so these two things screwed with his swing. So he came, like in college, he was, like this power hitter. He was, he was the guy with the bat, and all of a sudden, his bats kind of screwed up because of all of these, the wrist injury, the elbow injury and all that. So 2024 he started triple A, but immediately got called up on March 30, because our guy, Royce Lewis, had an injury, and then he went up and down all season, right? So one of his pitcher teammates referred to him, said, he's a hustler. He'll run through a wall for you, and he apparently will, because on June 17, he got Play of the Week, right? Because he had this Shay Langley A's home run robbing catch, right, like over the center field wall at Target Field, right? So not only did you reach way the hell over bring the ball back in, but then he threw Shay out at first double freaking play with a home run, Rob, robbery, right? So his response was, hell yeah. I was surprised. I felt the go in my glove. My whole arm kind of went over. So I didn't know what I'd be bringing back. I didn't expect to bring back a baseball. So when I looked and I had it, I was like, dang, that's not bad. Yeah, that's

Pottymouth 42:36
a past baseball boyfriend of mine, the shade Langelier, so, yeah, nice work.

Patti 42:41
So Austin and I are actually the same person, and let me tell you why. Here's some fun facts. He's ambidextrous, and sometimes I'm ambidextrous, right? His favorite type of workout is any that doesn't include endurance running, and all of my favorite kinds of workouts are kinds that don't involve any kind of running. Okay? He claims that Jason Momoa would play him in a movie, and that he'd be a good Aquaman. And I appreciate Jason Momoa in the movies, and I think he's a good Aquaman, and his Q heart absolutely supports this.

Pottymouth 43:10
Wow. So he's gonna have to, like, arm wrestle Jorge El far over that, because Jorge El Faro is a pretty decent, yeah.

Patti 43:18
Look decent. Look him up. Look him up. Oh, wow. It's a smackdown. It's a smackdown. All right. Who do you have for the National League? All right,

Pottymouth 43:26
we are going to the Cardinals. And, by the way, I don't know. I just didn't get the memo that Chaim Bloom is baseball operations guy. It's, I don't understand general it used to be just GM. Everybody had a GM, and now they've got all these baseball operation leader people. Anyway, cayenne Bloom is doing that a Cardinals, which is where he went after not doing shit for the Red Sox. So I, you know, wish the best for the Cardinals, but I cannot give you huge recommendation under the guy that you're you're working with right now. However, I managed to find a lovely card that I feel like I'm not going to do justice to him. He's a really good guy, Jordan Walker, right field, 22 and at first blush, I picked him because his last name is Walker, and I already have Junior Camino, who's translates to Walker. So I figured, you know, if I've got to have, like, sort of a thread through my baseball boyfriends, let's see how many walkers I can get. I've had other measurements that have made, you know, equally as much sense. But then I found out that he is a super good guy, giving back to the community, even though he's a young and at age 22 so following Jordan Walker. He's from stone Martin, Georgia. Crazy strong high school career, not only in baseball, but he had a 3.98 GPA and was in the National Honor Society in high school. So this is the kind of guy that you would think would be going on to college. And normally I. Would say you really should go on to college. However, I understand why he chose not to. Just

Patti 45:07
for our listeners. You need to know that potty mouth just shook her finger with you should go to college, as if she was acting it out, as if she was talking to this guy, you should go to college,

Pottymouth 45:18
I feel like with the heavy academic upbringing that he got from his parents, I'm going to talk about in a minute that he he's gonna get his education. I I'm not sure he made the right decision. However, I think it's all gonna work out for him, and I bet that he's gonna be one of those guys who then goes back to school and becomes like a rocket, you know, scientists or something like that. He was, he was also part of the whole Major League Baseball, USA baseball's focus on diversity development, and benefited from that. So he was part of the 2019 breakthrough series, the 2019 dream series, and the 2019 High School Home Run Derby. He did have a full scholarship to Duke University offered, and I believe it had to do with his academics, but he decided to go with the 2020 draft, and a tough year to be drafted, especially because, generally, the tradition of the Cardinals is to bring their draft picks to a game. But it was 2020, so we didn't get that part of it. His father sort of summarized his academic qualifications and said that that perfect game, you know, the organization that pumps up kids before getting before getting drafted, referred to him as the resume because of his prospects on the field and of how committed he was to his grades and how he handled themselves off the field. So he actually kind of took on baseball on his own. His is it sounds like his parents were big academics. He did get the love of baseball from his dad and his grandpa, but the actual playing seems to be really just him going for it. When he was super little in Little League, he started hitting it out of the park at age eight, which is not a common thing, and apparently brought a little bit of attention to him when he hid his grandmother's car, who was parked outside of the outfield wall. So you know that that might have been

Patti 47:30
safe when they're right,

Pottymouth 47:32
exactly. So he made a very fast ascension as my other baseball boyfriend. So drafted in 20 then there was no 20 was in single a, high a, 2122 double A, and then gets called up for opening day from, you know, double A and 22 to 2023 debut, opening day, his parents were so confident that he was getting called up out of double A that they had their tickets bought from Georgia to make that opening day game. And they were right, and he made a huge splash when he first came up. He had a hitting streak for his first 12 games, which tied with Eddie Murphy as the only players to do this before age 21 the two of them and he passed Ted Williams, who apparently had done that with a few more games. So in 2023 he was mostly in the majors. He did get sent down for a while to triple A and I think at that point it was mostly just due to crowded outfield, he made opening day again for 2024 and then hit the skids. And it's just, you know, it's just not all easy. It's not always smooth sailing. He started off 2024 just pretty shitty. Nine for 58 155 average got sent down to triple A for three and a half months. So that's where it comes into the mental game, like, how do you deal with this? You're this, you know you're you're seen as this prodigy. You come right in, and then things don't just don't work out. Your second year, you get sent down. And you said, obviously it was tough to say positive sometimes. But I just kept telling myself that I know I am a good hitter, and I had to figure it out. So he also had to rethink the idea of change. He had his swing that did well in high school, and he had to come up to the conclusion that it's just not working here. And he said, I'm sort of stubborn, but as a young guy, I need to be open to change and just realizing that there's a lot of stubborn kids out there, but you have to be open to the fact that if this isn't working, I've got to do something else. So we came back in September and did. Well. So this is the last month of last season, where I'm getting my hope from. He was the youngest Cardinal with a five hit game, and in September of 24 since Rogers Hornsby in 1916 Okay, so his Yes, so I'm looking at this as like, all right, this is what's going to happen for the future, right? I'm hoping that he brings this energy into into 2025 but what like the icing on the cake is that even in this little bit of time that he had in the majors, he has his own organization called walkers winners, and it's geared toward literacy and math, motivating kids all throughout school, pre K through high school. So April last year, there's some really sweet pictures of him reading to like, 50 or 60 young kids connected with he and actually through the course of this, connected with a bunch of local St Louis organizations for youth empowerment and literacy, this organization called Life wise St Louis, and the CEO of the organization was so impressed by him, because he said he got down at the kids level and just went eye to eye with them and interacted with them in amazing ways, like I said, he was a natural. And so then, after the season went through, they invited 200 kids back in September, and they were the kids who did their summer reading homework, who, like excelled at number of books read over the summer. They sat the group of kids in right field where he was, and they watched him play after hanging out with him. So it was sort of like get to know this guy, and then, holy shit, he's on a major league baseball field. This is the guy that we're just hanging out with, reading with, and there he is, right next to us in right field. So he got, I think, the influence of the importance of education from his incredibly well educated parents. His dad went to MIT, his mom went to Harvard, and then she got his her Master's in Business Economics from Washington University, before she realized her true calling to be a teacher. So another like super baseball boy from points for me, she got her master's in teaching from Emory University and ended up chairing the English department of the high school where her son had achieved his National Honor Society status. And then the other like cosmic why he should be a potty mouth baseball boy from pick is that he's super tight with my last year's pick who I adore, Mason Wynn, who was the second behind him, Cardinals, 2020, draft pick. And Mason considers himself Jordan's number one hype man, the way he like jumps out of the dugout for him, and he said about Jordan, the way he catches the barrel, the way he feels, the way he throws and runs. He's the complete package, five tools they got to make a sixth tool for him. And last quote that I got is from John Denton Cardinals beat newsletter where he described Jordan, saying that he is a delightful cocktail of confidence, humility and overwhelming talent. And I appreciate the words cocktail and confidence, humility and talent. So that's exactly

Patti 53:27
how I describe you. I say potty though, is a delightful cocktail of confidence, humility and overwhelming talent. It's exactly what I say.

Unknown Speaker 53:35
Oh my god, I love that so much.

Patti 53:38
All right, so Pedro Paj is a catcher for the Cardinals. He's 26 he's bilingual. He was born in Venezuela and went to high school in Miami, Florida at Gulliver prep. He went to college at Florida Atlantic, and in his junior year, he was named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year. He threw out 40% of attempted base dealers. He was the finalist for the Buster Posey collegiate catcher of the Year award. This is all in 2019 right? This was after he is 2018 season ended early because of a you know, what a handmade injury, which, as you know, gives you superpowers in the way that you know parenthood also does. But so you know the different stages of life, right? So and the 2019 draft, the cards picked him up in the sixth round, right? I'm going to skip all the minor league stuff because I just want to tell you things that are fairy tale, like about the 2024 season for for for my guy here, for Pedro. So starting in spring training in 2024 on March 9, his manager Oliver marmal, basically dared him to hit a home run right in the spring training game, which he then did right in the ninth inning. But the manager knew that Pedro was planning. Proposed to his girlfriend, Corey later that night, and he said, you know, he just like, needs a hormone to pump him up for it. And so he got both, he got the Homer and he got the Yes. That was pretty exciting, right? We got his call up in April, early April 6, when our power Wilson Contreras was out for a bruised hand. So right now he's like the number three catcher at this time, right? So he was playing for triple A Memphis. They were in Indianapolis. The time he gets this call up, he has to get there for the home opener, right? This is the home opener in St Louis. He's in Indianapolis. There are no flights to get them there in time. He has a three and a half hour Uber ride. So this three and a half hour Uber ride gives him lots of times for phone calls, because he's like, calling everybody knows, oh, my God, I got my call up. I'm trapped in a car for three and a half hours. But he said he called his dad a couple of times, but the last time was when they crossed the bridge into St Louis. He FaceTimed, because that's the first time you get the view of the arch when you enter the city. And he said, I said, Dad, we made it, and we cried on the phone, and then I went straight to the ballpark. But apparently this uber driver on this three and a half hour drive had no idea what was up. He did not know that he was taking this kid to his major league debut until they got to the ballpark and at all, like, you know. So he was only up for like, you know, a couple of games went right back down and back back and forth a couple of times in a matter of a couple of weeks. And then our pal Wilson Coronavirus fractures his forearm in May. So Pedro comes back up. And here's where things get even more interesting. So May 15, it's the third inning, two outs, two strikes, bases loaded. His very first Major League Baseball hit is a base clearing double. Wow. He is the first card, no player, to have three or more RBI on their first career hit since mark World did it in 2008 this is like, starting with a bang, right? He always like quick little little up and down, up and down, but there's, but when he's going to announce his presence with a hit, that's it's a base clearing double. Father's Day weekend. They're playing a series at Wrigley Field. His family comes so his dad, Edgar, his sister Maria and his fiance, Corey, are there for the three game series. They're sitting a few rows up behind the plate, and his dad said, sitting where we are, we feel super connected to him right now. From here, it's almost like we have our hands on his shoulders, helping him know, hey, you got this. Let's do it. So he did it on Friday, he broke the scoreless tie with an eighth inning home run, and the cards won three, nothing. Sunday, Father's Day. Actual Father's Day. He hit a homer and cards won two to one. His dad was dancing in the aisles. What a nice what a Father's Day gift, right? So it's super amazing. They won the series. He had these two really important homers, fantastic. Fast forward to September. He has his very first two run homer. Game, two, two home run game, September 2 versus Milwaukee, and then that same week, September 7, he broke a scoreless tie with a home run in the eighth. You remember that from just like a you know, a few months earlier, he broke a scoreless tie with a two run homer in the eighth versus Seattle, the same game that he caught a shutout, started by Kyle Gibson and closed by Ryan Helsing. The game was one two, nothing. He was responsible for everything. He hit the true red Homer and he caught the shutout. Right? He's the only Cardinal this past season that had multiple go ahead homers in the eighth inning or later. Go figure, this is stat for everything, right? He said it was a dream come true coming up here, and it's like I'm living my dream. I've always worked so hard for this, and I'm going to keep showing up as the same person and grinding. It's a lot of fun, and I want to keep enjoying it.

Pottymouth 58:55
And it seems like, you know, he's in the running for, I don't know if he's going to be first or second with catcher. But fan graphs has Wilson Contreras playing first base. I know Wilson had a, had a rough year last year with, with coming into the Cardinals and and all the injuries. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, seems like that position is, you know, we'll, we'll see what happens. It'll be fun to find out. I'm excited about the baseball that's going on right now. There is winter ball happening. And check out the links in our show notes to both dominicanball, with lead on that you can get with your MLB if you've got a subscription or Venezuelan baseball, both of which are in the finals. You know the the last two teams the next week, week and a half or so, depending on how things go, and I am over the fucking moon because my my team in each of the leagues has made it to the finals. So woo hoo. In Dominican Republic, tigers, daily say, are playing against the Leona del. Es cojiro, the Tigres have a home field advantage, and we'll see what happens. I believe it starts tomorrow, but one of my very current baseball boyfriends, Junior Caminero, my Tampa Bay pick, was player of the day in the clinching game with the Leone is getting a key home run so that they could make it to the finals. In his 15 games postseason, so far, he's batting 448, in the postseason, holy shit, with a one, two, A, 5o, p, s and 14, OB, RBI. So I'm hoping that junior Camero helps. You know, the Leones to make it through the finals. Lisa is working on two time championships, so it is mighty close at the end. And then in Venezuela, my Cardinals de Lara are playing against the Bravos de my guy in this and the very cool thing for me here is that my Cardinals picked up my current baseball boyfriend, pick Andres chaparo, who is playing with the Washington Nationals. He was playing with the aguilles de Solia, and when they got eliminated, the Cardinals and the Bravos both got to pick two players from any team that was eliminated, and my guy Andres got on with Cardinals. I'm super excited. He has six home runs in 12 postseason games with a losing team. So that's amazing. With the 333, average and a 1243, ops, I'm hoping he joins my other past baseball boy from Pink pickle, Marro Vargas, and we'll see how the Cardinals go. So hopefully at this time next week, I'm going to be able to tell you guys that both the Leones and the Cardinals have won their games, and we're on to the seria de Caribbean. All that brings in store. Nice

Patti 1:01:56
work. Nice work. Okay, our condolences go out to the family of Mr. Baseball, Bob Buker, the voice of the Brewers, who died at the age of 90 on Thursday, from a small cell lung cancer. I assumed that it was, well, he's 90, but no, it was actually cancer. He I didn't know that. He also played baseball. I thought he was, you know, our entertainer, commentator, guy. He played six seasons in the major leagues the backup catcher. He's got a World Series ring with St Louis from 1964 his writing joke about this, his career highlights. I had two I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax, and I got out of the rundown against the Mets. Wow. So Bud Selig, you know, who owned the Brewers then became commissioner of baseball, hired him as a scout from Milwaukee, and then put him in the broadcast booth in 1971 and to give you an idea of the breadth of his time in the world of baseball, he once played against a team managed by Casey Stengel, who was born in 1890 and then he later broadcast games played by Jackson chorio, who was born in 2004 so all over, you know, the social media, you can see all of these lovely, you know, messages and remembrances and honors to Bob Bucha so many. One of my favorites is, you know, one of my baseball boyfriends, Christian yellow, says, I remember you saying, you know, said to Bob, I remember you saying that, no matter how much time you have, it still never feels like enough. And that seems pretty true today. You'd always thank me for my friendship, but the truth of it is the pleasure was all mine. I'll miss you, my friend. So rip. Mr. Baseball. Bob Bucha,

Pottymouth 1:03:30
yeah, no. Major League definitely. It was such a highlight, like such a great actor. And also, from the what was it? The commercial, one of the like Miller bud, one of those commercials back in the day. He was a key voice, you know, a rod. Blew it, a rod. Did you see this? He tweeted a testimony and said that he brought joy, not only to Cleveland, but to baseball fans everywhere. So Cleveland is kind of near Milwaukee, right?

Patti 1:04:02
Well, Cleveland is the subject of Major League, and he did bring a lot of joy to COVID, who enjoyed, enjoyed Major League, which I still contend does not hold up, but it did. It did give us the, you know, the it's just a bit outside,

Pottymouth 1:04:18
but I think for a rod, no,

Patti 1:04:20
he's wrong. Okay, hey, what do you have going on this week? I

Pottymouth 1:04:24
think I'm gonna follow winter baseball. It's the last week from well into lucery decor eBay. So it's gonna I hopefully I can get home safely tomorrow from snowy Massachusetts to less snowy Maryland, but we'll see how that goes. And then I'm gonna sit tight and watch some winter ball. How about you?

Patti 1:04:43
So I have, once again, an empty nest. So I'm thinking about getting in touch with Matt Chapman and seeing if he

Pottymouth 1:04:48
wants to have a beer. Oh, not a bad idea. And if he falls through, I will chuck a beer with you at perfect, any, any situation.

Patti 1:04:57
Perfect, if you have ideas of how just. On my empty nest time, or what potty mouth should do once these winter ball finals, remember, find us on social media.

Pottymouth 1:05:06
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Patti 1:06:02
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Speaker 2 1:06:42
You that's got

Patti 1:06:53
that number in your lovely face. I think we did this just right between us. We have, you know, all the exact right number of lovely faces. And.