No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Music, Hi and welcome to episode 396, of no crying in baseball, the shut up and dribble episode. My name is Patty. I'm here with my friend. Patty mouth, hey, potty mouth, yeah,

Pottymouth 0:25
and there's nothing I'm better at than shutting up and dribbling. Well, okay, so you know,

Patti 0:30
y'all know the reference, right? It's about like, keeping athletes, like, in their lane and don't express opinions. I want to use this on our like, our fascist in chief, oh God, because, like, he's, like, has this whole thing about pardoning Pete Rose. I'm okay. I'm sorry. So Pete Rose did have an actual offense. You know, is his tax you know, his tax return. He served his time. You know, pardon him after he served his time. You know, I don't know, but the other things are not federal crimes. There are decisions by MLB and the Hall of Fame, sir. You have no jurisdiction here. No jurisdiction. Back off. Stay in your lane. You're gonna express opinions, but you can't pardon he

Pottymouth 1:11
doesn't give two fucks about his lane. He doesn't have a lane. He's a fucking fascist. Well, I

Patti 1:15
guess it's gonna be like the czar or whatever you can you can decide about everything. A side note, the family of Pete Rose has, in fact, formally requested that Emil be removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list. So there may be a parallel thing at least being looked at, which is completely independent of this, because it started before the fascist in chief made his thing. But yeah, got that out of the way early. So if you had political rants on your bingo card, check,

Pottymouth 1:40
yep. And if you want that bingo card, listen up about our Patreon details later, I want to tell you that I missed such a fucking opportunity this week. Oh, no. So there's a show on MLB, and I guess this is my bad for not following the little MLB shows, something called chatting practice. Have you heard of it? No, apparently they do like little interviews with players, and who did they interview this week? But my guy, Kiki Hernandez, my very favorite player of all time at this point, just for you know, entertainment value for sure. And what they did was they had people call in and on video, ask him questions. And I was like, I would have been so good at that. What would your question have been? Oh, boy. So I didn't think that much to actually come up with my question, but I would have been so good at that with a little bit of forethought, exactly sure. I think I would have, you know, brought up one of his, you know, past moments of of interest, and, yeah, and just asked how he felt about it, maybe like future frivolity plans, like, what's he gonna do to keep things fun? What I was hysterical is his hair was crazy. He was wearing a headband, and all of his hair was, like, sticking up straight, like above the headband. He didn't look like he sort of had, sort of like, you know, print himself for TV. And he was so Kiki. It's hysterical. So the link will be in the notes. The greatest question, which I might have asked, actually, was a young girl asking about his walk up song, and he took it very seriously. He's like, You, this is actually a real thing that takes a lot of forethought. And he said, I usually have several. And he said, this year, one of them is a song that he said by El alpha. So I went and looked it up for you all. You can listen to La Leche materna, which literally means, yes, Mama's milk. And the last he said, 30 seconds. I don't think it's quite there, but the last major chunk of the song is literally his name over and over, kick it, rapid fire. So that's gonna be, like, you can imagine that being the part that he

Patti 3:44
walks up to. If not, that's kind of a missed opportunity. Yeah, yeah. So he definitely

Pottymouth 3:49
took that up, you know, as Jackson holiday with one of the holiday songs, not the one that we would have chosen, but yes, he's of a different error. And before we finish our intro, I just want to say Happy Women's History Month. Woo hoo. Here we are on day two. We are women. We are making history. So thank you for joining us. And Ramadan Mubarak to everybody who started celebrating last night. May you all have a meaningful and easy fast over this month.

Patti 4:18
On today's show, our spring training stories are about the old guys, the young guys and some mutual admiration. We've got boyfriends from Cleveland and also from Philadelphia. We've got a little facial hair. We've got a little lockout rumor. We've got the World Baseball Classic and very surprising cross training. Cheers, cheers.

Pottymouth 4:35
That sounds like fun stuff. Oh, fuck. We forgot to number. How about we just, we just wing it. Do you want to start and say something, and then I'll say something after you, and then you'll say more stuff, and then we'll talk about boyfriends.

Patti 4:47
Yes, I'm going to talk about two things, and then then hand it to you. Just point. I'm going to wake up on it. Okay, so here's some things from this week about guys who are past or current boyfriends. You may have heard of this Adley about. Guy, my once and future boyfriend. So his news was actually sort of buried under news about Paul Skeens, who had his spring training debut. And everyone was talking about his spring training debut, which was yesterday, Saturday, he had four strikeouts and four hits and one run scored during his his time pitching. The important thing to note is Adley was one of the hits and scored the run. Oh, so they've not mentioned not mentioning that part, but I thought I would, but a fun one thing that I liked about them the week before, when they played each other, this is where the mutual admiration comes in. They asked, So Adley and Paul asked each other to autograph their baseball cards for each other. So did. They did a little trade. I think Paul also left with the Jackson holiday signed card as well, which is pretty sweet. So I love that. Like even the players can be fans, either out of their like investing in their futures, like I'm putting my kid through college. I don't know. I don't know. Another story is a little bit of a follow up. We talked about Jake Berger, who was my boyfriend from the White Sox, from 2023 went to Miami, was traded from Miami to Texas. And we told a story a few weeks ago about coming to the rangers and asking for number 21 because it was for trisomy 21 which is a clinical name for Down syndrome, because his daughter, who was born in October, was born with with Down syndrome. So he wanted to, like, spread awareness. Well, so four month old Penelope, sweet little thing, just had open heart surgery. Oh, my god, yeah, it's everything's good right now. It's good right now. That was not unexpected. They knew it was coming. They knew it probably happened around spring training. So it happened on Monday in Nashville. He stayed, of course, through Wednesday night, and then had to go to work. So, you know, Thursday, he went off to spring training, and his report was, it was just an unbelievable staff top to bottom. I don't envy those doctors or nurses for what they deal with on a daily basis. We go out here and play a children's game and have fun with it. Seeing what they do every single minute of every single day is pretty incredible. We're really lucky that we have such a great team there. So we talk about Dad power. So you know, back at Spring Training, on Thursday, he was wearing Penelope hospital band, and he hit his first home run of spring training. Oh, that's so yay, Jake burger.

Pottymouth 7:12
Oh, man, I can't imagine as a parent, leading so

Patti 7:15
scary. And how tiny is this little, tiny person who's having open heart surgery. Bless those doctors, yeah. So, you know, we send our best for a tiny little Penelope. We're thinking about you, babe. All

Pottymouth 7:28
right, now I have something much more trivial, and that would be reporting in a little bit on Jose Altuve, who I picked as a baseball boyfriend back in 2018 our very first season of picks. And it was, you know, fresh out of that world series. But before, before we're aware of what went on in that world series, but I do know that there's some endearing things about Jose Altuve, and then there's also those less endearing things he, you know, seems to be headed for a Hall of Fame career, potentially, despite that, he's 14 years with a lot of hot numbers, and he's been on second base the whole time, and they are putting them in left field, is what it looks like. So if they can find him out there putting Jose and left and you are allowed to make those checks exactly, because I am smaller than it's interesting because I looked at the predicted lineup and they had Mauricio Dubon on second, and he's played out he's outfield. Yeah, no. If anybody has more details on this, please contact us. So he debuted Friday, and of course, there was a crowd out there just waiting see what would happen. And the article that I read was hysterical, because it was like, well, this crowd gathered basically to watch him chew on his nails for six innings because he didn't get a ball. So nothing went out in left field on Friday, they actually kept him in one extra inning just to try. They planned for five. All right, let him go. Six. Nothing went out there. He did say that there was one thing that he did get practice of, which was getting back in from left field to home plate if you're leading off the next inning that that's a lot longer to travel and to get yourself all prepped up and stuff that come over from second base. So it was still a teaching moment. Julia Morales, on one of the social media things, said that he told her that he's, quote, officially, an outfielder because he gave his infield glove to a kid. Oh, so, oh, the right thing to do, the right thing to do. Although there's a lot of people who are still doubting that he's gonna do it, but he's given his glove away. Jeremy Payton, he

Patti 9:38
has no capacity to get another glove right. Who knows? Where do those come from? Even

Pottymouth 9:44
can't imagine. I really love to scrape it together to buy a new one. Jeremy Pena, who I picked in 2020 for the Astros. Very lovely guy with beautiful eyes. He said about Jose. He doesn't lead by words. He leads. By actions. He went to left field not complaining. He shows up every single day, and it's like a kid with a brand new toy. So this is the lesson. Raphael Devers, are you out there that you do what the team needs you to do, and you put your all into it. And it seems like you know this guy who's been a gold Glover on second base 14 years. They put him in left field. He's like, we this is going to be fun. So I, you know, I hope that he has mended his ways, and it's good that he can be at least a good example and do the right thing for the kids.

Patti 10:31
I like it. What are we drinking? It's delicious. That's

Pottymouth 10:35
a good question. We are drinking a dry hopped Pilsner that sounds fancy, doesn't it from Blue Jacket brewery, where I hadn't been in a very long time until last weekend? That's right near netspark. Yeah, baseball related, right there we with worth the Matic. Yum. It's

Patti 10:51
very tasty. Hey. So the athletic every year picks. They're all 25 and under team every year, the babies, the babies, and this year is especially meaningful, I think for both of us, we rocked this list. Hey, let me tell you about this list. Rob You, potty mouth, swept the outfield, swept four for four. Wow. Cheerio, Carol, Julio enriques and Meryl, okay, you got all of them. They were all yours. These are all my past baseball boyfriend picks. Um, well, Merrill this year, right? Oh yeah, right, yep, for sure. So I have talked often how I have three favorite short stops. All three of my favorite short stops made the team okay, but they only have one person for each position, so they were creative. They moved gunner to third, and he played third, that's fine. Okay, they kept Bobby Witt at shortstop, all right, and Ellie de la Cruz, they just marked as infield. Oh, wow. So they were a little creative assignments, which, um, hello, Yahoo, please. Let us do this, you know, in the future when we assign people. But I like that, that whole like, three for three there, and also, all three of our favorite Jacksons made the team. That's sweet. So that was pretty exciting, too, which means two Orioles are on that in field. So yay. That's pretty fun.

Pottymouth 12:05
And officially, you had picked Bobby Witt and I had picked Ellie de la Cruz as past right picks. And

Patti 12:11
if I didn't have Adley Richmond, as my mom wasn't forever, I would have picked gunner already, right? And Jackson holidays Tulsa, because I've had Ali for a couple years now.

Pottymouth 12:19
Yeah, a couple of my errors for not going in there. But you know, I'm just, I don't know I go where the wind blows me, or where, where I get that feeling of, this is where you belong. So this is,

Patti 12:29
this is also you don't want to listen to me, and that's fine too. That's going to well.

Pottymouth 12:33
Then there's also things like thinking about others. Like, I know that the kids had gunner, and I think that the kids team, this is our fantasy team fantasy league, and there are other people who make their teams, and some of these people I know pretty well, and I kind of think, like, once in a while, if, if you're so cutthroat, yeah, although I might, I might be cutthroat with Mr. Potty mouths pitching, don't sorry, Mr. Potty mouth, if you're listening to this right now, but I, I'm thinking about usurping you. Um, quick question, are we? Are we

Patti 13:04
splitting this back up here and then splitting the other one? Are just going to do our one at a time? I

Pottymouth 13:07
think I we could split them. What do you think I could pour while you start your your boyfriends? All right, so we, we're regressing. Actually, this is thematic. Oh, my God. I almost oh it so is it thematic? So we got baseball basement, bargain bargain basement, bargain basement beer at our local silver branch brewery, who is trying to get rid of their Nome for the holidays, Saison, which is a lovely beer that they put out at Christmas time, and they had some left over, so they put it on discount, and it's still yummy, so that's what we're drinking now. And you'll find out why this is thematic in just a moment. We're about to do our baseball boyfriends of the week. These are the guys that we pick in the off season, because they're oh so cool. We each get one guy per team, and we are almost at the end second of last week of teams. Holy cow. And then after that, we make our fantasy league. I'm not so sure about the spots on that. Listen up at the end of the podcast. I'm sure Patty will give you some info. So this week, I have two very different paths to the show, and neither one will probably be on my Yahoo team for different reasons. And I'm finding that as we get to these teams that did really well last season, because that's how we've worked our way up. These are the teams that kind of poach our guys from other teams. So it's like the whole lineup we've picked before. And so we're picking guys that may or may not see the light of day. I think yours definitely will. Mine might. He has a good chance. So

Patti 14:33
Cleveland had several, actually, that were pickable. Had a handful. I mean, right now, starvo means like, more than two. Right, right, where the

Pottymouth 14:41
Phillies? Yeah, we're screwed. All right. But okay, so here we are with Cleveland, land of Patty's birth, and I am picking John Kenzie Noel, whose nickname is big Christmas. So there's the, there's the I love him, punch line, I love him. I do too. I especially outfielder 20. Three years old. I can't believe he's only 23 this man is huge, huge. He's six three and 250 pounds. And so, you know, one of our things about picking baseball boy, for instance, the guy would like to have a beer with, and I think he might be able to out drink me. I have, I have a hunch here. He did get that nickname from manager Steven vote, uh, although, you know, he's huge and his last name is Noelle, so not a stretch. Yeah, he actually had a another nickname that he got from Julio Rodriguez when they played together in the 2015 Dominican prospect league when they were babies. And he named him la de esa, which means the beauty. Oh, so that's lovely. I did first find John Kenzie went during the ALCS last year, and he won my heart for that fleeting moment when Cleveland had a teeny bit of success against the Yankees, and I had a teeny bit of hope that they could actually take them down. Unfortunately, they didn't. But this is Game Three, the one game that Cleveland won, and he pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth, and he pinch hit a tying two run, home run. And made me so happy. And I can remember the announcer yelling, big Christmas, and me thinking, that's really cute. He kind of looks like the part. He was the first rookie to hit a game tying or winning pinch hit home run in the ninth or later inning of a playoff game. And his dad was there. So he's from the Dominican Republic. His dad, it was his dad's first trip the United States for the playoffs. And he talked about how, you know, when he was younger, of course, it was Dad encouraging him to play, throwing to him. And he said, sometimes dad will say things like, why'd you leave that pitch? Middle, middle, middle, middle. And sometimes I tell him, Hey, go hit it yourself. Not only that, but he had some pretty sexy defense during that game. He had two outfield assists, actually, in all of the postseason, which wasn't that long for Cleveland. But you know, he had two outfield assists, which made him the fourth Cleveland player with multiple, multiple outfield assists in the playoffs, including Manor Ramirez before him. So he's from the DR from San Pedro de Marcos, which is that magical town where so many players come from. Even though it is a really difficult place to grow up, he grew up really poor. He said, It's uncomfortable when you don't have that food on your table. I'm here to help myself the team and other people when I die. I want people to remember me as someone who helped so he's young, yeah, absolutely, I can see him with a great future of giving back in the DR his he first sort of felt that I could do this when he had a step brother, older step brother, Victor exam, who was in single a pirates from 2005 to 2009 but while he was coming back and forth, he taught John Kenzie, kind of how to act. You know that that the baseball way in a lot of ways, and you may know that the culture is very different in the Dominican Republic, and sometimes it just can help you to get ahead. And so I am, you know, very much of play the game that you want to play, celebrate as much as you can, but sometimes you have to act a certain way to get ahead. So he feels like he learned a lot of those skills from his step brother, and also how to persevere through rough times. And so you can see that with John Kenzie, because he's had a lot of rough times, but he's such a sparkling personality. He is a happy, funny guy. He was signed by Cleveland 2017 as third base, and in his minors career, most of his games were actually at first and then third, and then outfield. He played right field, left field, and DH, he did make the minor league all stars in 21 and 22 and the futures game in 22 was kind of like a dream come true, because Adrian Beltre was coaching the American League side, and this was one of the futures game where they split by leagues, and he admired Beltre and David Ortiz were kind of his idols As he grew up. So those are two guys that I love and admire. So good choices there in 2024 was his debut. He played about 67 games in the majors. 54 of them were at right. One was at left. He did play nine at first in a couple. DH, so I'm hoping that Yahoo, you know, he might be a good utility kind of guy for me to plug in if he gets the time. And I know that the outfield is a little malleable right now with Cleveland, so it kind of depends how he's going to be doing in spring training. It was his rookie year, so it's kind of hard, especially with that few games, it's hard to make a lot of conclusions. He played around 20 games each month of July and August and September, July and August, solid over 260 average. August, he had a 975, ops. And then September, he kind of tanked. So overall, his average was just 218 but his ops was 774, he's a slugger, so when he hits, he's hitting for the fences. He had 13 homers and. Eight RBI, he had a home run in his very first career at bat. And I hope you appreciate this. It was a 430 footer, June 26 in Baltimore, off of Grayson. Rodriguez, wow. Yeah. And I watched the the play, and the announcer, very exuberantly said, big Christmas and a one horse open sleigh rounding the bases. I can't wait to see like the more creativity that comes out with the announcers on him. This year, he was the third Cleveland player to home run his first at bat, the 13th Dominican player to home run in his first at bat, but the first person to home run in both his first MLB At Bat and his first lead on that bet. That's the Dominican winter League. So he played for the estrellas Orientales in the 2324 season, and hit three home runs in his first six games. And so this is where, like the math of the batting average and the ops are wacky, because in those six games, he had a 211, average, but a 1032 ops because of all those home runs. And then he played nine games total with five hits, but three homers, five walks. And so overall for the season, 167 but 786 ops, his second MLP start was three days after the first one, and he had another home run Royals. It was the hardest hit home run by a Cleveland player in the Statcast era. His second home run. He was the sixth Cleveland player at a homer in his first two starts. So I saw a really cute interview of him when he was in the 22 futures game, and he was just exuberant and funny and friendly, and he said happiness is the most important thing. He said that he's always laughing. People can see his charisma and just have a good time and have fun is what's important about the game. So I appreciate that, and I think it's a good guy. I hope he makes it.

Patti 21:54
I hope so too. He is absolutely fun to watch. So I was trying to decide, because I during the postseason last year, we sort of placed some dibs, yeah, on guys. And none of those dibs were on big Christmas, right? So that's gonna think, do I want Christmas? Then you pick anyway. But wait, we had other guys, and you would kind of pick the guy that I ended up with, and I kind of picked David fry. David fries, yeah, that's what I thought. He's on the 60 day aisle. And when you're on 60 day, sometimes that's a placeholder for I don't know what I'm going to see. So I moved on. He's fried and I picked Brian Rokia, who's list is a shortstop. He's 24 he's born in Caracas. He was signed at age 16 as international free agent in 2017 he played for Cleveland's Dominican summer league. Their their summer leagues, when they're listed, have the the bad name, still, I don't know, but that was, that was from like the 18 to 1819, so it could be that it's just, you know, because, yes, they just didn't, yeah. So I don't, I do, I never check to see if they now use guardians interesting or not. But anyway, so he played for the um, the Cleveland's Dominican summer league in 2018 for 25 games, and then they promoted him to the Arizona league as a 17 year old. 17 year old. He had, out of his first seven games in the Arizona League, he had three multi hit games. It's a lot. And then, you know, other other minor league, minor league. 2020, off, et cetera, et cetera. So fast forward to 2023, April 19. He gets a call up for 24 hours and doesn't get in the game. There is a vocabulary word, oh, really, Phantom player, like you're on the list, but you don't do anything. So where you're really there, like if a tree falls, right? So he's a phantom player. Actual debut was the following month. It was on May 16, when Jose Ramirez was on the bereavement list. So he came up just for a little bit his first hit. Not dramatic, but it still counts, swinging bunt, but he ran it out, right? He pitch hit for Josh Naylor, yeah, it was, it was an app. It was a hit. His brother, his girlfriend were both there. So it's pretty exciting. Got to see his first hit, even if it was kind of a dribbler, right? Terry Francona said, You got to take a second and enjoy him making his debut. I mean, he got down the line pretty good for a kid that was sitting in the cold for an hour and a half. So he was there for three days, and then he went up and down a couple more times, back and forth to triple A to Columbus. He ended up that year being the the Columbus clipper of the year, right? So that the triple A team for the Cleveland team, he led the club in. And let me list these things for you, batting average, hits, doubles, triple stolen bases, and on base percentage. That's a lot of things, right? So, like, okay, great. So 2024 starts. We're starting him as our shortstop, because freaking amazing year in triple A right? His best buddy on the team, the guy who takes him under his wing is my former boyfriend with Cleveland Andres menace from 2021 they are both Venezuela. Yeah, yeah. So they have this kind of a bond, right? And Andres was playing second base, so he had second base and short staff, they have to work together all the time. And Jimenez said it's been a huge opportunity for both of us coming from Venezuela and sharing this. It's special for me, especially because he's a young guy. He wants to learn, he wants to improve. For me, it's a huge opportunity to help him out. And rokio says he's like my brother here in baseball. He helped me from the first day in spring training to here, how to play the game hard every day, including the bad days. So that's super special for me. And that bad day thing really mattered, because he did not have a great regular season right in 2024 after that spectacular year in 2023 in triple A. He didn't have a lot of offense. He was it was a big old slump. He was terrific on defense most of the time, most of the time. He had really good defensive numbers. He had all of those, like dramatic make, you know, the highlight reel plays. But he sometimes missed the things that were routine, like his head wasn't quite there, but anyway, starting his first home run was in June, which was a two, two run homer into the Seattle bullpen. And again, like we talked about last year, they gave him the silent treatment initially, and then absolutely mobbed him, which had him say, I have the best teammates ever. You know, they give me support. And every time when it's not going when it's not going my way, and now, in that moment, they celebrate it with me. For me, that's awesome. But he had a miraculous postseason. That's

Pottymouth 26:29
I remember him from the postseason. That's

Patti 26:31
when we all noticed him. Yeah, right. I mean, he was just sort of there doing his thing or not doing his thing as well as we were hoping, right? But all of a sudden, like, Wait, who's this guy? Right? He hit safely in each of his first eight games. He went 11 for 33 holy right, including a homer. So that made him the second player in MLB history to have a seven or more game postseason hitting streak before they had a five or more game st hitting streak in the regular season. That's Wow, right? I mean, so his postseason record was way better than anything he did in the regular season. It was also the longest streak in Cleveland's postseason history. So his offense took off, his defense not as much. He had a couple of pretty meaningful errors, so he needs to, like, get both of those things working at the same time. He ended up being a Gold Glove finalist because his regular season defense was really very good. So now, so when he wasn't doing so well, Andres Jimenez moved to short, as you may or may not remember, Andres Menace is now with Toronto. This leads rocho as the shortstop. This is it's his to lose. Now, yeah, right, it's his to lose. So he is the guy. He played winter ball the three previous seasons on the under tiberones, but did not play this year. He did his own training and apparently showed up completely jacked. So whatever he was doing in the off season was totally working for him. And I don't want to assume that things that happened in spring training are going to carry on. But the opening game versus Philadelphia, he doubled off the first pitch. He went three for three, including two doubles. So there's that Stephen vote said it's just nice to see him pick up where he left off, but it's just testament to his work he's put in this winter. So good luck, Brian. I hope you hang on to the shortstop position, and I hope you're still on that, that that upwards trajectory for for the offense and that your defense just kicks right back in. You're going to be so much fun to watch. Yeah,

Pottymouth 28:24
it's starting out with a bang and spring training. That's got to be good. Yeah, that's got to be good. All right, we're going to our national league picks for this week with the Phillies. So this is one of those teams that we had actually picked, like the entire starting lineup and the bench pretty much really did. So I am going with Cody Clemens, first base, 28 years old. Yes, that Clemens. He is and so I kind of as a Red Sox fan. I kind of had to go with the Clemens family. He is the son of Roger Clemens. He is the youngest, but he is the third out of four Clemens's is the Clemens is the little Clemens clementos from the next generation to go pro. So being being a strikeout King Roger Clemens, he named his four sons with K, they're four strikeouts, which I don't know if that's really what you want to put on your kid as a strikeout, but it's Coby, Corey, Casey and Cody. So they all have four letters, ending with y, beginning with K and Cody. And I'm gonna there's none of

Patti 29:37
them can ever be used as a crossword puzzle clue because there's, yeah, yeah, just it's you're setting up for. It's around disappointment. It's rough.

Pottymouth 29:45
I'm thinking the connections game from the New York Times app would be rough on this one. So Cody, this is the guy I picked. I got to keep remembering, all right, that one. I'm going to be talking about all of them, because they are such an interesting clan. Cody said it definitely could. Some

Patti 30:00
steady clown with the cake, because that would be exceedingly

Speaker 1 30:01
bad. It would be exceedingly bad. I'm trying to

Pottymouth 30:05
stay away from that word. Then, okay, he said, it definitely comes with pressure. You know, this being the kid of Roger Clemens, notably, none of them pitched. So there's that, he said, but me and my brother Casey, who's now in the Toronto system together, it just kind of lights the fire beneath us. It definitely makes us want to create our own path and our own legacy throughout the game of baseball. So power to you. So Cody and Casey are close in age, a couple years apart, and they played in high school together when little Cody made varsity in 10th grade, the eldest son. So this is where things get a little interesting. The eldest son, Coby, right? That was the first one. Oh, my God, this, this is like a Kardashian situation. Don't you think there should be, like, a match up there?

Patti 30:48
We're kind of avoiding that family right now. We're not happy with that

Pottymouth 30:51
family. COVID played in the minors and then became a spring training instructor for the Astros, and now he has his own baseball clinic. So he's quite a bit older. So of course, I look like, what about the one who didn't, didn't get into baseball? And so I looked him up online and found a TMZ article. And you know that that is good, so in no way whatsoever is that good. So this is Corey, his TMZ article. And this is before baby Casey. I'll get to that afterwards. Corey, TMZ article, had his second DWI in 2023 and he had a one year probation deal on it. And I say second. So the first DWI was one of those where it got kind of swept away with minimal stuff that he had to do this Kardashian ish, yeah, very there's so many parallels this one year probation deal. He did have to go to classes and not drink and do drug testing and stuff like that. What, what got me is that the cops alleged that he was throwing up at the scene, and the officers say he reeked of booze, had blood, shut eyes and struggled to walk. So, yes, this was 2023 and here we are in 2025 and maybe he has made amends and is a better person. And maybe I shouldn't be, you know, exposing this however, I think if you're driving that drunk, you really do. I mean, I It's fine for people to know. I think people it's really a horrible thing to do, and he should be making some serious amends about it. The article that I saw about my guy, Cody, when he was talking about his brothers, what he said about his brother was that he's a great chef, and the article said, for a while, he owned a restaurant, and this gets me the restaurant had what the article said was a great baseball name, catch 22 and I'm thinking,

Patti 32:49
not well read for a guy with

Pottymouth 32:50
two DWIs. I'm not sure if that's really a baseball reference. So then TMZ gets even more clemency, and Casey. So there was Casey had a TMZ article. So this is the one that's a little bit older than Cody, who he was close with. He got the shit beat out of him by bouncers in a bar with a friend of his, who is also a baseball player in the Cardinals organization. So my first sort of reaction was, all right, these are baseball players. They were probably, you know, talking shit, but there were pictures that they really were beat up, like they took photos to show the extent of the damages. The cops on the scene said that they were not intoxicated, and one bouncer was arrested and charged. And I don't know what happened since then, because I didn't keep on TMZ, because I figure I should talk about the guy that I'm picking for this week for baseball. But before that, so I've gone through the brothers dad. So just to know a little bit about the pressure that this kid is inheriting, even though he's a first baseman, his brother Cody Casey, also first baseman. Coby, not a pitcher either. Dad is third on all time strikeout list. He has a record of seven Cy Young's seven Cy Young is by Roger so many. However, he is not going to the Hall of Fame because he also was caught up in the steroid thing from from 1998 to 2001 remember, I don't know folks our age might remember the Mitchell report that alleged that he was on steroids for three seasons, but he swore in front of Congress during the hearings that he did not do steroids. Then the Department of Justice filed perjury charges against him. His strength Coast coach, Brian McNamee, McNamee, McNamee, something like that. Basically, what they did was they they strung that guy out because he's the one who injected him, and they were able to establish enough reasonable doubt. About his testimony that Roger got off on no perjury charges, so not criminally charged, probable steroid use, definitely not Hall of Fame, despite seven Cy Young's, which is really sad because three seasons and you know, he fucked that up, totally fucked that up. So you know, because of that, the kids get a lot of shit and and Cody, I have to keep looking back to make sure that I got the right guy that I picked. Cody said, it's not fun being the only player out there that people heck heckle every freaking game. But I think me and Casey have dealt with that our entire life, so it doesn't really bother us anymore. So they actually followed their dad to University of Texas at Austin, and they were both playing there together and apparently coursing around as brothers do when Cody was a freshman, and it led to throbbing elbow and a torn UCL, and he had Tommy John surgery. After that, I'm wondering if the baseball like primed it, because I don't think just horsing around, who knows, who knows how much horsing that they did? Interesting, though. Dad 2024, year career, Roger Clemens never had Tommy John surgery. Yes, I know you think. I don't know those were the days. So Cody decided to even though he was recuperating from from Tommy John, he decided to play sophomore, sophomore year as a DH and Steve could have red shirted, but he wanted to play with his his brother, and he had a pretty shitty year because he probably shouldn't have been playing,

Patti 36:37
although that showcase guy did okay doing DHing while recovering from Tommy Johnson, he

Pottymouth 36:42
wasn't, I guess, a college player with quite Yeah, he was invited to Cape Cod, but then released two weeks before the Cape Cod start, because it turned out that he still wasn't ready for fielding. Dad picked him up. Happened to be in Boston. He got to do batting practice at Fenway as a consolation thing, and headed home. And then junior year in college, he did have a really strong breakout season. Brother was gone. He had 24 home runs, which was the second highest in Longhorns history. He was a golden spikes finalist, and he made it to the College World Series. So pretty impressive. And what I like about his character, especially like after I've just panned his entire family, basically, yeah, but his teammates noticed that when he got that heckling at the College World Series, because, of course, all the assholes are going to come out and start yelling steroids at him, he just turned around and thanked the fans for coming to the game, all right. And so they said that was such a mature, you know, reaction, and a good model for the rest of us. So in the tournament leading to the World Series, he batted 419, slash line was 419-536-1000, but they got knocked out in the finals. One of his teammates said his personality and his leadership have taken over. He has the ability to communicate with a lot of different personality types, he takes the time to get to know everyone. So that's why I figured, like, even with all the Clement shit, I'm gonna pick this guy. That's

Patti 38:08
where a lot of that comes from. Yeah, having to deal with all of that in your family, you get pretty good about understanding how to relate to different personality types and, you know, stressors and whatever, all those things

Pottymouth 38:19
totally, especially if he's the baby of the four sons, totally as the

Patti 38:23
baby of four, I can attest how important that skill might be. He's

Pottymouth 38:28
signed with the Detroit Tigers after his junior in 2018 and I'm hoping that sometime he can go back to finish the Corporate Communications major that he had with a minor in business, which seems very sensible. And one of the articles that I that I saw from way the way back machine was kind of like, if this baseball thing doesn't work out, he could do so many jobs in sports, in MLB with degrees like that, and he had a three Oh, GPA, not too bad for playing baseball at the same time. Debuted in May, May, 31 2022 played 57 games that year, and then was part of an off season bazillion player trade. Well, maybe not bazillion, but a whole bunch that brought him to the Phillies and it was connected to previous baseball boyfriend picks of mine. So Nick mayton, who is my 22 Phillies pick, went to Detroit, and Matt Vierling, who I picked last year, got to Detroit in time for me to pick him last year. Over the last two years, he's had under 50 games a year. His Ops is improving, his strikeouts are declining. His projections aren't stellar or inspiring. He's doing okay at the time I took notes. He had two hits and two RBI and 10 at bats for spring training. So that's pretty much on the same like Mendoza e kind of stat. He's projected to start in triple A but I'm not quite sure how that's gonna work, because he has no options. So we'll see what happens to Cody Clemens. All right.

Patti 39:50
All right. Wow. That's a lot. That's a lot. I love crazy

Pottymouth 39:55
shit. But sure enough, that's my style. So

Patti 39:59
I. Can attest to that. Okay, so I picked Weston Wilson. Wes Wilson, who's left fielder, who's 30, and he is on the parallels. Do you remember my, my dad's boyfriend a few years ago? I'm Joey manesas, who had that very, very long, long trip to get to the majors. Here we go again. Okay, right. Okay. So Wes was born in High Point, North Carolina, which I it my head is the name of a brewery that I went to in Raleigh. So if that's true, then yay for that. But if not, I don't it's a good you know, I'm sorry that I'm thinking about beer, but I am out drinking it. So he was drafted in 2016 by the Brewers, pretty low, round 17 out of Clemson, and then went right into the rookie League. So here's he had some highlights that were not necessarily baseball related along the way. So in 2017 right, the year after the draft, he played single a and high a, his the high a mud cats allowed him to invite his girlfriend to do the ceremonial first pitch Wow to him before game in May of 2017 and as soon as he caught the ball, he got he was already down on one knee, so he proposed right there, right before the game, in front of 5000 people. So cool. He said, I had some butterflies, but the good kind. And then went on to the game where he immediately snapped his seven game hitting streak. Oh shit. So, you know, I think he was a little bit distracted, but I like the story. He wanted to surprise her, so the you're going to throw out the pitch was the way to make sure she was going to be at the game and all of that, he told his teammates, I'm just going to wing it. I don't know what I'm going to say. I'm just doing it, but they did okay. So 2018 high a, double A. 2019 when he was playing double A Biloxi, he had a career high, 19 home runs, 58 RBI, 12 stolen bases. And then there was no 2020 right? So we're, we're, you know, we're cruising along. But remember, this started in 2016 right? So 2021 he starts in triple A Nashville. Has a blood clot in his right shoulder, which is a scary, scary things. Has surgery, out, out, out, and then recovers in time for the Arizona fall league 2022 he plays for triple A and then became a free agent after the 2022 season. So you're going to count with me when he signs with Philadelphia as a free agent in January of 23 with Triple A Lehigh. Lehigh Valley eight seasons in the minors, eight seasons in the minors. So he debuts. He finally, finally, after all of this, in August of 2023 has his debut versus the Washington Nationals, because Brandon Marsh is out for a knee injury, any home run in this first step back. Oh, hey, right, right. That got a little bit overshadowed, because that was the game where Michael Lorenzo had a no no. Oh, but that's okay. So he was up for eight games. He hit 313, yeah, that one Homer and three stolen bases. So not bad, but a long time coming. So the Phillies manager Rob Thompson said, there's a whole bunch of people who spend a lot of time in the minor leagues and have never gotten an opportunity. So whenever a guy like that gets his especially the quality person that he is, I really feel good for him. I really do. And Wes says it's a testament to perseverance, staying with everything. It has not been easy. So last season, 2024 he starts in triple A again, doesn't get called up until July, and that is because that's when the Phillies released whit Merrifield, right?

Pottymouth 43:31
Oh, that was a pass pick of yours with the Royals. Yes,

Patti 43:35
right. That is correct. So a few weeks later, well, about a month later, again, back in nets Park. August 15, he hit for the cycle.

Pottymouth 43:46
He was at nats Park, nets

Patti 43:47
Park. He was the first Philadelphia rookie to ever do it, and that cycle included his first career triple. So not only his first career triple, but also, oh yeah, go ahead for the cycle. But he says he remembers that he was at bat like the crowd understands that it could be a cycle. Everyone, everyone's cheering them because the cycle is cool, and they're the NASA already losing by a lot. So, but he said that Bryce Harper is standing on the steps to the dugout saying, if you quit anything, keep going till you get to second. No matter what, keep going until you get to second. Right? So that was also this past season. Was also the first season that two rookies across the league hit a cycle in the same season. Wyatt Langford hit his june 30, right? So that's pretty exciting. Two rookies hit crazy go for the cycle. Not a lot of people hit for the cycle. So to give you some numbers that really, really matter here, he had more than 2600 plate appearances in the minor leagues before I got to the big leagues. Homeward in his first plate appearance and completed a cycle in his 62nd that's crazy plate appearance. He and his girlfriend, Madison, his wife, Madison, if you remember, from 2017 they got married in September of that year, by the way, so just a few months later, they unwelcome to baby. Walker in August of this past year, coming into spring training. The good news is they a lot, a lot of the odds were for him to get that last bench spot on the Phillies. But, but bad news, bad news, just like the last week, last week, suffered a left oblique strain while in the batting cage, and will miss at least six weeks. Hopefully it's only six weeks, and it's one of those weird injuries. It just happens when you turn funny, right? I mean, like, it's not like he hit a wall or had a collision or or did whatever. So he reports what was told to him, and what was told him was, y'all create a lot of force in your torque, and that that kind of can happen? Yeah, sure. So hopefully Wilson will recover quickly and get back to work, because he he worked so freaking hard to get to the majors that I hope he can stay there.

Pottymouth 45:53
I do too, man, those fillies are stacked. Just gonna do a super fast facial hair follow up on the Yankees. You know, one of my favorite subjects, we talked about, how they're letting guys grow beards for the first time. Oh, boy, but they have to be nicely groomed. And so that definition of nicely groomed has been batted around, shall we say, this past week, like, what does that mean? Exactly? So Brian Cashman weighs in the general manager. And he said, and I quote, we're not trying to look like Duck Dynasty. And then apparently he a moment to realize that he didn't want to offend anybody, and said, No, dis against Duck Dynasty. All right, you're not dissing Duck Dynasty. He said, you're grinding in the woods all the time. You don't really have another option.

Patti 46:44
Not really better, not really better. Cashman.

Pottymouth 46:48
Like, you want your Yankees to be grinding? Do you want them really to be like, worrying about how long their beards are every day? Like, what are they gonna do take, like, a little ruler and measure their beard length? Like, whatever power. So

Patti 47:02
I'm picture in like, like, dress codes, right? Where, like, you know, you're, like, your skirt or whatever, has to be longer than working where your fingertips land, or something. I bet there's going to be some equivalent to that for, yeah.

Pottymouth 47:14
But what is that for your face? Because they've got, like, the hair can't go below the collar, but I bet the bears gotta be shorter, than that. Yes, so it's, I think it's got to be a length per whisker thing.

Patti 47:26
No whisker can be longer than an inch and a half. I don't know what it is, but I can't wait to find out. I'm going to ask you to pour one more beer while I talk about labor for just a minute, right? I like labor? Well, I don't like laboring. I like organized labor, fair labor, organized, organized labor. So like our intern, just poor beer things, shut up and poor beer. Ah, so get it. That's my little joke. I brought it all. I brought it all full circle. You can talk about labor all you want, the MLBPA, the players union, their their CBA, the collective bargaining agreement is valid through December of 26 which means bargaining will probably start next spring, about a year from now, but we're already talking, we're already talking, and we're already psyching up. Salary cap seems to be the biggest issue. The owners want one. The players do not want one. The trick is it sounds like the league. It sounds like the Commissioner's Office is considering a lockout as a sure thing, like that's their short starting point in January. Rob Manfred said there is leverage associated with an off season Lockout and the process of collective bargaining. The great thing, the great thing about off season lockouts is the leverage that exists gets applied between the bargaining parts. He sees that as an even thing like it's punishing the owners as well as the players who are not getting paid or not able to use any facilities or anything. I think he's missing a point there. Tony Clark understands. Tony Clark, the head of the MLBPA, understands that that's actually a threat. That's not, Oh, it's good for everybody. Tony Clark says our goal is always to sit down and negotiate in good faith and find ground on a fair deal. We're not the ones professing that a lockout is a good thing or that it's definitively going to happen. That would be the commissioner's office,

Pottymouth 49:15
and I recall the last off season lockout. What ended up happening is when players got injured, the team didn't know. And so then the lockout ends, and it's like, oh, like, now we need and they couldn't get medical attention from their teams either, right?

Patti 49:29
They had to go to their private doctors who were not necessarily sports medicine. They, you know, weren't necessarily being treated or recovering in a way that made sense for what the team would have them do. Yeah, it was bad.

Pottymouth 49:39
Yeah. So Fuck you man Fred, really, we hardly

Patti 49:43
ever say that that's not on that bingo card. Sure could be, but CBA is on the bingo card. All

Pottymouth 49:49
right, there you go. We have so many, like, fun alphabet things. I think

Patti 49:53
that's also on the on the black

Pottymouth 49:57
eye. It's one of the you guys should really be playing our bingo. It's super it's super cool. What's happening with the World Baseball Classic? So World Baseball Classic stuff is happening. When we left you last week, Taiwan was e hosting the qualifiers, and it was kind of tenuous if they were gonna make it or not, because they were gonna have to play Spain, who had previously trounced them 12 to five. But Taiwan did it Tuesday morning. I woke up and I watched. It was super fun to watch. They beat Spain six to three, including with a baseball boyfriend. Adam Jones, is Spain, yeah, yeah. And

Patti 50:32
that's a tough one to pick. It was.

Pottymouth 50:34
I kind of felt it was hard. I wasn't wholeheartedly going either way, but I just kind of felt bad for Taiwan, first of all, that they had to go to the qualifiers was so by the skin of their teeth, and then they're hosting. And yeah, it was, it was hard. So baseball. Boyfriend involved was you Chang, who I had picked when he was on the Guardians here. I think it was before they were called the Guardians. He started things off with the first RBI on a double Can you

Patti 51:03
say why you said guardians here? There's an important reason why you said that.

Pottymouth 51:06
So now he's on the Guardians there. So he last year he was in the Tampa system, but he was released in July, and then he decided to play in CPB, the Taiwanese League, and he signed with the Fubon guardian. So he is one of, I think, a couple players who have played for both guardians. That's kind of a cool thing. So it's fun to see you Chang, he was, you know, the hero of the World Baseball Classic last time around, and we'll see if he can be the hero again, and they get to go on with Nicaragua. So the other qualifiers started today in Arizona, and that's Brazil, China, Germany and Colombia. And I got home just in time to see the bottom of the seventh inning and to see Germany just sort of put that final nail in and score six runs against China. Now to give China some points, I think they have the coolest hat they've got. They've got a C that's actually a dragon.

Patti 52:08
Oh, okay, we're big fans, yeah, anything that can be a dragon.

Pottymouth 52:11
And because one of the fun things about watching WBC international baseball is realizing that the letter on the cap isn't necessarily the letter that we correspond with the country like Spain was E for you, and today, Germany was D for Deutschland, which is across their shirts. So yes, there is the rest of the world out there. Wait, so

Patti 52:31
we're not in charge of whatever what all the names are everywhere, don't

Pottymouth 52:34
we? Don't, although, you know, sure this seems like no, oh my god, huh? So Germany looked pretty good today. They do have last week I talked about the Brazilian, the couple in a Brazilian go back to that, because I was so proud of my joke. But this week, the player, the player of note, is Jayden. Agassi. Did I say that? Right? Agassi, wait a minute. Seriously, right? Son of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf so talk about like, some genes going into this kid, not playing tennis, but playing baseball. Born in the US, but he gets to play for Germany because of his mom, and so he's gonna pitch for Germany, but he did not do so today. So I tuned in hoping to see Jaden Agassi. Hopefully we'll see him in the near future. He played for USC, and did not get drafted out of his junior or his senior year. He spent some time with them hunting Valley scrappers, which is MLB draft League, and he's trying to get into MLB. So I think his appearance on the World Baseball Classic is a really big fucking deal, and we'll see what happens Germany. I mean, either China is pretty bad or Germany is pretty solid, because they won by the mercy rule today, and it was either entertaining or ugly, depending on your point of view, but their six runs in the bottom the seventh ended with a walk off walk. So the bases were loaded and and he had a full count. It could have gone either way. It could have been just extending the pain for another for another inning, or losing the game because there's a 10 run mercy rule. There were some German players who had, like stats out of control after this game. And my favorite was Donald Lutz, who was in the red system in 2013 and 14, just in the minors. But today, his first two at bats, he walked. His third at bat, he was hit by a pitch, and then his fourth and final at bat, he hit a two run home run. And the way the math worked out on that was a 1000 average and a 5000 ops,

Patti 54:50
because only the home run counted, yeah, toward the like to the batting average, crazy and

Pottymouth 54:55
the but the 5000 is the nuts. Yep. So that's going to be. On brand to hang on to for a little bit, for a hot minute. The other thing that I noticed is that apparently trumpets are led into the stadium in Arizona, because there was a guy in the right field seats who was playing throughout the game, and the announcers were trying to figure out where the trumpet noise was coming from. The trumpet I got you. Oh God, oh no, no, no, not trumpet, trumpet and the instrument, the instrument anyway, in a couple hours, which is after we're talking, but before you're listening to us, Brazil and Colombia will play. And so you're gonna have to look that one up yourselves. But in another World Baseball Classic news, Albert Pujols has announced that he is going to be managing the Dominican Republic in the next World Baseball Classic in 2026 which is super exciting. He just won the Dominican league as a as a first time manager. First he wins the Dominican League, then he wins the city of the Caribe. And then he takes a jump over to Dubai to do some color commentating for baseball united, which is still this. I don't totally understand what's going on, but they had a series with the Arabia wolves against the Mideast Falcons. And he is also the global ambassador and executive advisor to baseball united. So a

Patti 56:13
couple of things that I saw about him was this might be like his path to becoming a manager in the major leagues? Oh, sure, right. If he has all of these sort of ticked off, it's a pretty freaking good resume. Yeah. So he's definitely setting himself up for a future job managing an mob team. Yeah.

Pottymouth 56:31
And he the pressure is on for him, for the World Baseball Classic, because Dominican Republic, despite being, like, you know, a hot, hot team, like, think about all the players on there. They didn't make it out of pool play in 23 and I remember that we were disappointed, because that meant that we didn't get to see them in Miami. But it was a tough pool. Yeah, Venezuela and Puerto Rico went on, and the DR, like, just barely didn't make it. So, you know, the pressure is going to be on him to to perform just the last bit of international baseball, and my only tap to women's history month right now, also in Dubai. And this makes me feel just a little bit better about them. Justine Segal was there for that series, and she coached the Arabia wolves, and they won the tournament three to zero over the Mideast Falcons. And I'm hoping that all the countries involved noticed that a woman coaching made a big fucking difference, especially

Patti 57:25
where she was coaching. Yeah, we're gonna cross train in a way that you're not gonna believe. One of my coping mechanisms is, I'm gonna tell you right out loud reading romance novels. Oh, that's so it is true. You're gonna have so good You're gonna have to read this book if you haven't yet. And you will weep. You will weep. There's a book called The prospects. It's a debut novel by Katie Hoffman, and it was recommended in multiple ways. The intern said, You got to read this. It appeared on a bunch of Best of lists, which is pretty amazing for a debut novel. The main character is a trans athlete playing in triple A, so trans man playing in triple A and after all the crap we've been hearing about trans athletes and how things are being painted badly, it's a beautiful story. One of the best parts about it is every single baseball thing is absolutely correct. Everything that happens is absolutely what those of us who follow baseball understand about baseball, which isn't always the case in books that just need to pick a place for people to exist. They kind of like they have all these there's the futures game, is there? There are call ups, there are all these things. The details are exactly right. So as a baseball fan, I loved there was nothing distracting about it. I was tearing up for call ups, as much as I was tearing up about this positive experience for this trans man playing triple A baseball and it didn't shy away from the difficulties. I mean, obviously this is a world that we don't yet live in, because he's out everyone knows a lot of the players, wow, played against or with him before he transitioned. So there's that people who knew him before he transitioned. There are things like official government documents not matching, like when you're traveling. There are there are all these like details about being tested all the time for your testosterone level, way more than other players who are being tested for steroids, right? And all of those things are kind of just built into the DNA, built into that this is what my life is like. But I am living my dream. I am a trans man who is playing professional baseball, and you will maybe weep. It is a lovely, well written book, and God, I really needed it. So, yeah, the prospects by Katie Hoffman, I recommend it. You may not be somebody who's willing to say out loud that you read romance novels, but you should

Pottymouth 59:49
read this one, and maybe this is a good opportunity to tell each and every one of you call your fucking congressman and senator and tell them to lay the FUCK OFF THE. Issue of trans people in sports, because it's not a problem. They're just making it one. So just call. There's all these bills out there, there's shit going on. Please call and tell them to stop the insanity and get back to work, because it's not a fucking problem, right?

Patti 1:00:16
So this next week, you're going to be calling your members of Congress, because it's the right thing to do, and we're going to need to do that. To do that all the freaking time until we don't have to anymore. But what else do you have going on? What

Pottymouth 1:00:28
do I have going on this week? I didn't stop to think about that. I don't know. It's the first week of March. Sure. Hey, how about that? And that means a five day work week, which is something that's kind of

Patti 1:00:40
for those of you who play risk, you know, March 4 is, is risk day? Oh, is it because you March 4? Oh, wow.

Pottymouth 1:00:48
The May the Fourth, the, I don't know. Yeah, okay,

Patti 1:00:52
that's, that's not risk, though, that's not risk. No, no, that's Ken. So we'll talk about that

Pottymouth 1:00:56
later. Politicians are playing risk these days, like, yeah, they should. I don't know. Do you have anything exciting this

Patti 1:01:01
week? Well, I do, um, so um, Ovechkin is at 11 goals until he breaks, uh, Gretzky's record. And so I'm hoping that this week they play three more games the Washington Capitals, and maybe he'll get to single digits. And I'm very excited to watch and one of, like, the greatest hockey players of all time, and he's ours. Any SARS? All right.

Pottymouth 1:01:20
Well, yours, I still, I still wear the black and gold.

Patti 1:01:24
You still wear the black and gold. I'm speaking for the greater Washington, DC area, yep, and my family. All

Pottymouth 1:01:31
right, that's fair. Yes, fair. All right, so I guess we tell people how to find us, right?

Patti 1:01:37
Sure, yeah. So like we're there's things to say. I mean, tell us how your your your bingo cards are going, and pine will tell you how to find those. We've only got one more week of boyfriends to go, and then we'll seriously start the the fantasy league. Those of you who've been writing and asking questions about it, you're the the simple answer is, only one guy per team on your team, and you need to really kind of wait. I mean, you can start, like planning your things, but until we're done claiming our guys, you're not gonna know who's available. So it's gonna be a kind of a rush at the end. Okay, the way it always

Pottymouth 1:02:12
says next week is our finally position players, and then we have one week for pitchers, and then, and then here we go, and then you go,

Patti 1:02:19
and then we go. So where can people find this talk about

Pottymouth 1:02:21
all this stuff. So please go to blue sky. It really seems to be the only sane place left out there. That would be nciv podcast. You can message us on Twitter at the same place, and I will check it, but man, that place pisses me off, and then meta pisses me off, but I will keep checking no crying and bee ball on Facebook and Instagram, or you can join our fun friends at Patreon that really keep us going. And we have very reasonable rates. A buck a month is the intro rate, you know, $1 a month. You can't get anything for $1 but you can keep this podcast going. And it really does add up. And it's, you know, it's that kind of attitude that if everybody does a little, then we're all better off. So we're not asking for a lot of socialist Yes, okay with being social. There you go. Where the so support the socialist podcast at P, A, T, R, E, O n.com/no, crying and B ball, and let us know what we can put there to make worth your while. But you can look for Patty's bingo card, which is so cool. You get your very own, and you can check it off and keep us honest while we are while you're listening to our podcast. And I would like to shout out Montana girl, and I'm not pronounced that's a lot of urs. Girl, I'm usually good at rolling my R's, aren't I anybody? You

Patti 1:03:42
really are way better than me rolled. But maybe that's that was it was okay. It was better than me. And you know, on the bingo card is Patty tries to pronounce something in Spanish, just referring to the rolling of the R's, not to Montana girl,

Pottymouth 1:03:53
all right, so Montana girl, if you want to shout out with another name, just let us know, because that's one of the things we do for our Patreon fans and folks who sponsor at a certain level, and I can't remember what it is, I think it's like five bucks that makes us say something that you want us to say, and even if it is go Yankees, I would be willing to say that for one of our faithful listeners who supports us and has a good reason to make us say it. But yeah, we'll do that. So get in touch with us, because we'd like to hear from you guys. And a huge thanks, as always, to everybody who does contact us. We really, really love hearing from you guys. Please

Patti 1:04:29
get boosted. Fight the man. It's the right thing to do now more than ever, send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty

Pottymouth 1:04:35
mouth, good night, potty mouth.

You Oh yeah, oh yeah, we gotta go back there. That was a fun place. We didn't get to see Mr. Salary. So I feel a little bit, you know, like jilted out of the Yeah, we

Patti 1:05:04
got the short end of the of the

Pottymouth 1:05:09
salaries at the stalkers bar. Was that it Yes.

Patti 1:05:14
Oh so bad. So bad.