No Crying In Baseball

Pottymouth 0:00
Music.

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 397 of no crying in baseball, the just try and hit the bottle cap episode. My name is Patty. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth. hey, Pottymouth

Pottymouth 0:27
Hey, how's it going? It's okay. I've

Patti 0:30
had a lovely day. The weekend has been good to sort of separate me from the horror that is the world outside. So that's nice. That is good. It's good to step back and, you know, have a little green beer, little Irish music, even if they're singing about Spongebob, I didn't understand that at all. Oh, it was that part, yeah. No, it was, there was a SpongeBob outside. They Yeah, they'd say a lot of things that were not what I expect. I think if you're gonna cover stuff, I want them to cover, like the drop kick, Murphy's, yeah, you know. But they were, yeah, it was, there was, there was one of those. Yeah, there was one of those. Yeah, it was, it was a nice day as a beautiful day to be outside. Today's a beautiful day to be outside. It's sunny, it's pretty, and I'm like leaning into that hard right now. Yeah,

Pottymouth 1:05
so in case you all want to know exactly what we're doing, our lovely county had an acoustics and ales early St Patrick's Day event yesterday, and it was outside. It was chilly, but we know how to dress appropriately. And the coolest thing, well there, you know, the green beer was cool, but the the draft beer had koozies built for draft plastic draft beer cup, so now that is going into the baseball bag, because that will be great for baseball beer in April, for

Patti 1:34
sure. Thank you for supplying those. Everybody. It was a lovely day. Friends, outside, news, live music. It was that these were

Pottymouth 1:42
good things to do. Yep, here we go. All right, so we're gonna start positive. Yeah,

Patti 1:46
we are. Remember us. That happens sometimes, yeah, on today's show, we've got spring training featuring walkers and talkers. We've got boyfriends on the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. We've got A's, we've got bees, we've got QR in the WBC, and we've got a follow up on a story from the police plotter. Cheers, cheers.

Pottymouth 2:07
You made that sound so much fun. Even with the word Yankees involved, it sounded fun. You

Patti 2:12
know what? The Yankees are going to be there, and we're going to have to talk about them. And so sometimes we just have to let it go and incorporate that into the beauty that is the world of

Pottymouth 2:21
baseball. Yeah, and admit that. You know, this is our last week, picking baseball boyfriends and talking about the Yankees and the Dodgers. That means that they were the bestest last year, the best standings. Oh, boy. But before we go to our new baseball boyfriends, I wanted to talk about some of the guys that I picked recently. So our baseball boyfriends, in case you're joining us for the first time. Hi, thanks. Yeah, good. Good to have some new listeners. So the guys that we've picked in the past few weeks are doing stuff because it's spring training, right? So I had a theme this year of walkers, and I picked three walkers, and I am batting 1000 on Walker injuries. So I was gonna call this, oh yeah, this is my walker rundown, right? Or clever. The other thing I was thinking is that, because they're all injured, they all need walkers, even though they are walkers, walkers are living alone, yeah? So the good news is, though, a couple a couple days ago, this was going to be a bad briefing on the walkers, and now it's a hopeful one, they're all doing better. So the walkers bounce back fast. First there was Jordan Walker, who I picked on the Cardinals, and this injury is a little distressing because he jammed his knee stepping on a sprinkler head in the outfield when they were playing at nats ballpark. So I'm thinking, whoever's like, first of all, is that really a good plan to put sprinkler heads in the outfield? I know you need to water that grass a

Patti 3:47
lot, but I would think that they're probably embedded, and they raise up when they're in use, right? And someone didn't hit a button to lower them again. This is just a suggestion, but, yeah, just a hypothesis, but I think that's probably what happened.

Pottymouth 3:58
So that's problematic. Maybe somebody got some sort of poor job review on that. Luckily, it was just an irritation of the knee. The MRI showed no structural damage. They thought he was going to be about out about a week, but he's actually feeling better already. I'm not sure if he played today. He could have he was playing catch when I checked up on him yesterday. This is a big deal because he didn't do so great last year. So they're looking at this year as a make or break year, like either he's gonna keep going, or we will see what happens with Jordan Walker. I picked him, so I am hoping he does well, because I may be needing him on my fantasy team. I know I will be needing this Walker, Christian Walker, which is why I was very distressed when I heard that he was not feeling well because he was out for a whole month last year when he was on the D backs with an oblique strain. He's with Houston now, and that old oblique started acting up this past week. What I like about this, and this is like, you know, the the mom review, we're always worried when players. Like, play through the injuries, because they're like, Don't make it worse, you know, to take care of yourself, even when, if it gets to the playoffs and shit like that. But he made the right choice, because he knows his oblique he had oblique problems last year, and he said, I felt I it was given the time of the year and the time frame, it was a good time to be cautious. So they actually flew him back to Houston for the MRI that came out plenty clean. He should be back soon. So I'm feeling good. This is two walkers so far. My last Walker is Junior Caminero, and his name translates to Walker. And he was pulled out of the game just this past Thursday with some back tightness, and he is a youngin. It was a precautionary move. They said he was day to day, but when I checked back in before recording, he's back in today's lineup. So that is good news. He's been doing all right. He has three home runs so far, which he gotten in the first six games that he played, plus it triple. He's played seven games total so far with eight RBI. And this is a reminder to myself, because I am so old that I always look at averages. His average is 211, but his Ops is crazy, 1.075 that's a combination of, you know, hitting the ball far and, you know, taking some walks, and also not playing a lot of games, because it's skewed. So those are my walkers. That's hopefully they will all be off and running soon. I also have a butler that would be Lawrence Butler, who I am definitely can't counting on from my fantasy league. He is looking super hot, and he is going to be an athletic, apparently, a Las Vegas athletic

Patti 6:41
eventually, that does not, yeah, they are. They are a city free team right now. There's more about that soon, yeah,

Pottymouth 6:47
but he will be eventually, because he's signed for seven years, yeah, okay, so he will be in Las Vegas athletic right now. We will find out all about the athletics, but $65.5 million with a club option. It's the second biggest average annual value contract for a guy with just a year of experience after Spencer Strider. What tickled me was his agent is Amber Sabathia. I know that last name isn't that cool. So CC Sabathia. For many you know, if you guys listen to this podcast in the way back times when we first started, I was a little bitter with CeCe Sabathia because he really looked like shit, and he pitched really well against the Red Sox. Turns out, I've become very, I don't know, not enamored, that's not the right word, but appreciative of CeCe Sabathia and his journey, his his memoir till the end, is something that you should definitely check out, especially because Amber comes off as the absolute fucking hero of his life, like they be a spouse, yes, okay, that is, ah, yes. So that is Mrs. Sabathia. Amber. Sabathia, CC, spouse who really took care of him through his whole fucking career, and he would not be in the Hall of Fame today if it weren't for her doing a lot of mop up stuff and understanding, sort of how to play the game when you're supporting a baseball star. And so she's taken that knowledge and she became an agent I didn't realize, in 2021 with CAA and is Lawrence Butler's agent, which is pretty cool because Amber and Sabath and CC are from the Oakland area. So it's, you know, sad that they're not still in Oakland, but pretty cool that they're, you know, connected to Lawrence Bucha Butler, and so apparently they went to watch him play last week on February 28 so a little bit more than a week ago, and to say thank you to them for coming to watch him, Lawrence Butler hit a three run home run as he went around the bases. He pointed to them in the stands, and he said, That's really like UNK and Auntie right there, which is so so sweet. So Lawrence Butler's doing pretty well in his first seven games for 74 average, 1.342 ops. And what I love about him the most is is that he has the attitude and he has that dedication to the A's. I almost said, Oakland, God, this is painful. It's gonna be hard. It sucks. He said, I love the A's. They're the team that gave me an opportunity as a young 17 year old out of high school. I'm grateful for that opportunity, and I've developed some of my best friendships here at the end of my career, I would love to have my jersey retired here and be talked about like Dave Stewart and Ricky Henderson. That would be amazing. So he's got that dedication, and it seems like the A's are trying to maybe stabilize whatever they can stabilize, because they already extended Brent Rooker for five years in January, and manager Mark cots, they extended for three years so that this little core is going to get through the Sacramento years and in. Vegas into Vegas, right? Yeah, I

Patti 10:03
don't think you finished defining what the boyfriends are. We got sidetracked really fast over there. So that who me? So I know. So we each pick one guy per team each season. And so some of the guys we talk about in this portion right now are guys we've picked in previous years. So they are, you know, they're, they're former boyfriends, and then we pick a new guy for it. So this is the last week we're picking guys for this season. So they're, they're guys that we think there's something special about them. We might want to go have a beer with them, because we think they're, you know, they're people we want to hang out and talk with their they're good at baseball, they have a good time playing baseball, all of those things. I want to have a beer with Amber Sabathia, yeah, yeah, we do like a lot. There's a lot of, like, boyfriend adjacent people that we come across when we do our research, like spouses or kids or parents or or, you know, siblings or something, it's like, oh, we like the player, but you are really interesting to me for whatever reason. So you'll find that happens a lot. Ronald Acuna Jr is a former boyfriend of mine from from the hammers, and I'm speaking somebody with a with a sibling. I've also brother for this year. Anyway, I bring him up because the Atlantic, the athletic did this nice little piece on him about this season in spring training, he has started to conduct interviews in English, right? He's not a native English speakers, native Spanish speaker, and and he's always had an interpreter with him, and usually responds in Spanish when as the interpreter assist, and he's really been working on that, and like, this is the year, he's really trying to go for it. He's got their their PR manager is bilingual and kind of hangs out, like, not too far away. So if he needs a word or needs to clarify something, he can do that, but he's really working on doing himself. And one of the things about that when you watch these interviews, it's terrific that Major League Baseball makes sure there's interpreters all the time, but you also see that those interviews are a little bit more stilted and awkward because of going back and forth between languages. You don't necessarily get the real flavor of the player. So it always when they're able to, you know, the language that they're using is the that they're comfortable in, it's what that what's going to express their personality, right? So if you become comfortable in English, that's a plus when you're on American TV, for instance, right? So he's mostly learned English from teammates, no, but he's actually has taken lessons back in Venezuela and also in Atlanta, so he's really been studying right? He wants to be able to do this. And when some players do this is for marketing purposes, because if you're gonna, you know, be able to communicate in English, you're gonna be a lot more attractive to the kids today, because they're gonna wait to what you're saying to the brands that are going to pay you to sponsor other things for Ronaldo. Can you Jr, it wasn't that so much. He's got a pretty nice little contract. He's, you know, he's not looking for that. He wants to be able to communicate with his fans. He wants to be, you know, he He wants us to be able to use English comfortably in those kinds of situations, the you know. And he said, you know, in the past, there's been fear of saying the wrong thing, or, you know, embarrassment of like, Oh, I'm not comfortable. Like, even when you like, you in your head, you think, you know, but if I say it out loud and I'm wrong. So he's really working hard to get past all these things. And the person who's doing the interview with him, that this is written, this was written up in the athletic said at the end, he was kind of like, you know, rubbing his hands on his hoodie and saying, Okay, speaking English, my hands are starting to get a little bit sweaty. So he's really trying really hard, but just very, very cool for some perspective to how prevalent this is an issue all throughout Major League Baseball. Last opening day. So a year ago, 28% of players in MLB were foreign, born from 19 countries. Wow, 19 countries. So yeah. So yay for you, emerald King Jr, where I'm looking forward to to see and I'm glad you're comfortable. I'm glad there's something that you want to do, yeah,

Pottymouth 13:49
and it's just that extra level of intensity when the camera's on you. I think a lot of these guys are fine speaking English with their buddies in the clubhouse, but it's so different, like I would not be happy speaking Spanish, even though I have for a long time with a camera on me, thinking that, you know, millions of people are watching, yikes,

Patti 14:09
yikes. You may know this guy, Shohei Otani. May have heard his name go by. You know, he played last season batting, but he's still recovering from Tommy John, so the idea was, oh, maybe he'll be like the opening day pitcher for the Dodgers. No. And that got kind of pushed back to May. And now Dave Roberts is saying, we're not going to put a date on this. We don't want to screw this up. And we need his bat. So, I mean, we wanted to take care of his throwing arm at the same time, you know? So one of the things they talked about in the past was they're not going to have him do a rehab assignment in the minor leagues, because, you know, he would face live pitching, but they would not be able to have his bat right, and they want that right. So he's going to be doing, you know, simulate, simulate, simulation games, you know, to get the pitching back up. But he hasn't been. He hasn't pitched off a mound since. The end of February, and they're saying that Dodgers, he's not going to face hitters until after the Japan series, which is, you know, another week and a half away from now. But he's doing okay, but they want to make sure he continues to do okay. So this is, you know, kind of in the Mom, don't walk it off, right? Take care. So I think I don't know that this is actually news. This might just be like reinforcement, if there's not a date yet, but we put show his name on there, and it's news immediately.

Pottymouth 15:26
Yeah. And they need him in the lineup in Japan, for sure, they do big money maker,

Patti 15:32
um, hey, what? What did we just we just drank a beer. We did,

Pottymouth 15:35
um, we Yeah, and we actually had small thirds, because I'm pour it pouring. Pour it pouring. We drank the blue jacket hopped Pilsner, which was lovely. It's very nice. And now we're moving on to our backup beers.

Patti 15:50
Yeah, I'm gonna have that, that little, little holiday that the gnome for the holiday season from our local silver branch brewery

Pottymouth 15:57
and and when I get around to it, after I talk about my Yankees boyfriend. I'm gonna go to our rest in peace hell Bender brewery, the one of the last few beers from there, they're Pilsner. But first we have baseball boyfriends, the guys that we think are cool, like Patty explained. Thank you very much. I do get little distracted once in a while. I don't know if you've noticed. I have two guys who were rookies last year and had some pretty impressive rookie home run records. So that is my theme. We're starting off with die Yankees, and I'm going with Ben rice, also known these days as Ben arose, first baseman, 26 years old. I have no plans to actually play them, because I'm feeling very bitter about the Yankees things that they did so well last year, at least they didn't win the whole damn thing. Ever Played a Yankee on your face I have and what, what happened was, I don't know if it was last year, the year before, but I tried really hard to only put them in the lineup, and I wish I could remember the names when I could also put my Red Sox player in the lineup. Like, yeah. Like, I felt like, bad if I just was getting Yankee points and no Red Sox points, so we'll see so Ben rice, I thought was meant for me as a Yankee for two reasons. One is that he's born in Massachusetts, and two is that he speaks Spanish. And I'm thinking, Oh, Massachusetts born guy. He's from Cohasset, which is South Shore, like a rock you Well, if you, if you throw rocks really, really far, you could throw hit Boston. But it's actually really easy to get to Boston from Cohasset. It's on the way to the Cape, like lots of people going through there. So I thought, no problem. Who the fuck could grow up in Cohasset and not be a Red Sox fan? Well, apparently, Ben rice, oh, no, so not even that. Despite this clear geographical influence, he grew up a Yankees fan. I could not find any Yankees influence in his family. Sometimes, little kids just do shit like this, five years old, a dashes little fucker toward Fenway Park in a Yankees jacket. And there is photographic evidence, so I saw the picture of like, whatever fucking group tour he's on in front of the green monster, all the other little kids in their little red sox hat. And there's Ben rice wearing his Yankees jacket with the big smile on his face. Can I just pause

Patti 18:23
for a second and point out that you got really loud and dropped a lot of pirate words in talking about, you know, a five year old Yankees fan at Fenway Park. And so, you know this happens? Yeah, I, you know, I could have predicted this, but it was really fun to see it come to fruition, yep.

Pottymouth 18:43
Well, even his brother, like, I feel like I should, because his brother was wearing a Red Sox cap and Ben was not. It gets worse, somebody gave him, I want to know. Who the fuck gave this kid a Sharpie. So he, the kid has a Sharpie. Oh, my God, he wrote on pesky pole, this sacred pesky pole, you know, right field Yankees rule, who, like somebody, should have been supervising this young kid. And he turns to the GM. So apparently this was some sort of special tour, because Lou Gorman, the GM at the time, was there. Five year old kid turns to him. Derek Jeter is my favorite player, and so Gorman responds, wow. Well, he's a great player. I wish we had now his parents. To give his parents a lot of credit, full respect to his dad, who I read more about I don't know much about his mom. They focused on the qualities of Jeter, rather than the Yankees as a team, and sort of like, you know, influenced or respected the kids attachment to Jeter as like a role model, kind of thing, which is better than I would have done as a parent. That's for fucking

Patti 19:54
I can't wait till you get to the part about what you like about him.

Pottymouth 19:59
So for. Worst. It gets worse. Wait again. So, so, you know, as a Yankee rookie, he so, here's where the the record stuff comes in. He's the first Yankee rookie ever to hit three homers in one game. Where did he do it? Against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. He's very

Patti 20:16
comfortable, I believe, in Yankee gear at Fenway, and has been for, you know, a decade. I guess

Pottymouth 20:21
he had been in training, right? And so, along with Oh Lou Gehrig, he's the only Yankees rookie with seven RBI in a game. Now, the sweet Massachusetts stuff is that it was a toss up as a kid between hockey and baseball. He started skating at age two. His dad said, like all the kids, which I can attest to, I very, very clearly remember being small. Well, I've been small for a long time. I'm still small. I remember being small. I remember my mom taking me to the skating rink, and I must have been preschooler, and pushing a chair around. So like, yes, if you're born in Massachusetts, skates go on your feet pretty fast. They had a backyard rink, but then dad said, as soon as he could start whacking things, I was throwing stuff to him. So I really like dad, and I think you would actually like dad too, and maybe you should be having the beer with dad, because he is actually an Orioles fan. There we go, Frank Robinson fan. He pitched at Brown so dad made it to collegiate level with pitching, and now he's a lawyer. Like some of our favorite people are lawyers. The kid Ben rice, combination of baseball and his smarts got him into Dartmouth, and also he needed a little bit of time to finish growing because he was small in high school, so he needed those years of college to kind of catch up during the pandemic year, and I talked about shit. Who was it last week? Who actually did better during the pandemic year because of training? Ben Rice went home to hit with dad, and it was a good experience, because he got to spend time with dad again, just like in high school. He just said, I didn't really know what I was practicing for, but I was practicing with dad, and apparently there were, like all these attempts in Massachusetts during the pandemic to have league type things where kids who wanted to be seen could be seen. And Ben kind of just got lucky, because Yankees vice president of domestic amateur scouting, Damon Oppenheimer, happened to be hanging out in Massachusetts during the pandemic more than other places, say, New York or Florida, because his son was playing hockey there, so he got to see Ben a lot, talked the bank the Yankees into Ben. Ben did have a little bit of a hard road with Dartmouth, because not only did they cancel 20 but they canceled the 21 season. They were the only division one conference to cancel that year. So Ben went to the Cape, played on the summer to make up for it, did pretty well. 265 with nine RBI in 13 games, and got drafted that July off the cape as a catcher. So he started off as a catcher and went into single a with the Tampa Tarpons. 2021 to 22 as a catcher, and they started playing around with moving him to first base at that time. 23 he had a really strong trip double A season. And this is the part that I do, okay, so I'm gonna give him some credit here. This is what I do. Like about Ben writes in the off season. He, you know, with the double A ends earlier than than majors, he went back to Dartmouth, and he actually took a fall semester in Dartmouth and then did online classes in the spring to finish his bachelor's degree. Nice. So huge credit to him there. 2024 moved up to triple A, and then the magic moment happened. You know what somebody's pain is, somebody else's chance to get up there June. 2024 Anthony Rizzo broke his arm, and so Ben rice got called up first game, first hit, and he hung around for two months. So right now, there's been, like, a little bit of a viral video going around of him speaking really good Dominican Spanish, and he comes about it pretty honestly. He studied Spanish through school, but he really made a point to use it when he was in the minors with his Dominican teammates, and he picked it up. He's really impressive for somebody who hasn't like spent some time abroad, especially. And my favorite little story is that he got to surprise Ellie de la Cruz when he got to first base, and Ben was there, and he started chatting with him, and I guess he just cracked him up. He also talked about the importance of using Spanish as a catcher when he was in the miners as a catcher, and he said, You can be relatable, especially as a catcher talking to your pitchers. You don't have to go up there on a mound visit not know what to say because you can't communicate with the guy. I think it helps a lot. So this past off season, he put on some muscle, and it looks like he's getting another chance because of somebody else's misfortune, John Carlos Stanton, just this past week, was diagnosed with some severe tendon injuries in both of his elbows. He's out for who knows how long, and it looks like that's going to give Ben rice the chance to start the season as DH and. And make it or break it. You know, in other yanks news, because I feel so terrible for the poor Yankees. Garrett Cole is also out for a while. His elbow is acting out. He's going through some tests. There are other pitcher, Hill, who was Rookie last year, I believe he has a severe lat strain. He's out for at least six weeks. And DJ lemahieu is MRI did come back negative, showed a strain, and he's out for at least a couple weeks. So the Yankees are starting. I don't know. We'll see how these young guys go. You might have a young guy who's gonna help him out, and I'm gonna pour my beer. We

Patti 25:36
are definitely at this time of year where spring training news is either who hit a home run or who went on the IL Yeah, because that's kind of what happens for like spring training, right? We're testing everybody out, and either they're doing great or they're hurting something because of whatever reason. And yeah, that's kind of, we're kind of mired in that right now, my guys are thematic with one of their only because they both appeared on an article of the athletic that was about Rookie of the Year. Candidates to watch going into

Pottymouth 26:01
spring training. We gotta make those predictions. We do need to do our predictions.

Patti 26:05
Yes, it was pretty exciting. And my guy who I picked, Jason Dominguez, might be one of those Dominican kids that Ben Rice was practicing his Spanish with. Probably right. That makes sense. So Jason Dominguez, left fielder. He's 24 years old, so pretty, pretty much in there for Dominican Republic. He is the second of six kids. His dad played some baseball. Big Yankees fan named him after Jason youngby. Oh, you know, they threw in an extra s, and Jason is still pronounced Jason, but there's double S in the middle, and there it is.

Pottymouth 26:38
Oh, man. Of all people to pick, I would even be better with Derek, whatever.

Patti 26:42
Stop with the hate. There's enough hate in the world right now. We don't need to also do this. I'm just saying so I haven't looked at the player Tribune for a while, but there's lovely essays in all different sports. You know, players, that's their own voices. They you know, they're they're telling their stories. And he has a piece in there, an essay in there from this past September. It's, wow, lovely. It is absolutely wonderful. So a lot of the quotes I'm going to use, I wish I could read the whole thing to you right now, but I'm not going to link to it. But some of the quotes that I'm going to read to you are from that. So he talked about growing up, you know, in the Dominican Republic, and as a kid, as an eight year old, he was always on the bench. He was terrible at baseball. Oh, but, you know, his parents were working. They weren't at the game, so he would rub dirt on his perfectly clean uniform because he didn't play, and go home and basically fake that he played, and he had, he had a great game, and he had a triple. He did whatever, and because he didn't want to disappoint his parents, but he just wasn't here. And then his dad takes time off of work to go see him, and finds out, no, this is not what's been happening all this time. And so, like his dad was disappointed, because he wanted, you know, his kid, to do the thing that he said he was. What he actually told him was, he said, Look, Jason, if you want to do it, you have to do it. You have to be committed. You have to want to play. You have to make the sacrifices. And if you don't want to, then quit, right? It's like just, you know, pick one, Don't fake it, you know, go for it. And he did start going for it, and he went for it so hard and got so good that one of the trainers started working with a with a trainer when he was 13. And these are the guys that help it really churn out. You know, this, like these raw talent, these, these teenagers with raw talent, right? Get them noticed, right? So 13, and this trainer nicknamed him The Martian, because, when it started, because he said his skills are, quote, out of this world. Wow. One of the GMs who saw him said he's like Mike Trout, and trout wasn't close to this good when he was 16. Oh, man. So Jason's got a lot of hopes pinned on him, and the bar is really high, right? So he's got the raw skills, but Yikes. So he was signed in july 2019 by the Yankees for a franchise record $5.1 million signing bonus, which was 90% of their international signing bonus pool. They threw all of their available money at him as a 16 year old,

Pottymouth 29:09
right? My god, that's a lot of money for a 16 year old Dominican kid. He said he cried

Patti 29:13
the night before signing, and his dad said, Son, we're so happy because you've got what you work so hard for. We're also grateful because you've changed our lives. And he said, he said, my dad, my mom, they worked for so long, for so little Felix and dorca, my heroes. They gave up so much to raise me and my siblings. The day I became a Yankee, we went from earth to heaven. Oh, man, life changing money, right? Life changing money. Okay, so this is 2019, so you know, you don't play that year when it's an international signing. 2020 obviously, you know nothing. So he there were no season. So he's trained in San Diego. I hit like 1000 baseball into a net. Because, again, these guys were just figuring out how to do training on their own in 2021 that was the first year he was actually playing. Wow. He was selected for the futures game that year from the rookie League. He was the first prospect to play in the futures game without a full season in the minors. First went back to the futures game in 2022 from low A so like they were, you know, they hadn't, they didn't move him up that that fast, but they saw he had a thing and needed to be in this game, the showcase game where you see the best of the best, right? So in that the rest of that year, in 2022 he ended up in double A for the postseason. Because he did that double A, it went a little bit longer, and he was named an all star for the minors in 2022 so he gets invited to spring training for the first time in 2023 and tells the story about like, meeting the rest of the Yankees. And he said, like, he ate his meal, like in the dining hall cafeteria the spring training facility, and he was finished. And he said, you know, this guy said, you know, are you done with that? And like, pulled his trace, and I look up it, Aaron judge, grabs my plate, takes it over, scrapes it into the garbage and puts it on the counter. I completely froze up. Like, completely froze up like Aaron judge just cleaned my plate for me crazy. So there's like this, he had this time where he was meeting these guys, and they were accepting Him and bringing him in. And, you know, say, what we say all the time. I mean, I really think, you know, the Yankee says institution piss us off. And right, we don't give up our grudges. But some of the guys and some of the interactions, yeah, are pretty great. And this was one of those, they really made him feel so, okay, so he, you know, he went to spring training, but then you started in. Double A, went through to triple A, got called up to the majors on September 1, and fairy tales come true because he homered on the first swing of his first at bat versus ferlander,

Pottymouth 31:48
who probably was twice his age at least

Patti 31:50
could be, could be. And the way he tells it, okay, so, you know, he talks about it like, you know, the same story that we've talked about before in the Dominican Republic, where these poor kids are playing baseball with whatever they have. That was my reference to the bottle caps before. Bottle caps before, to like, you know, balls made out of rolled up socks, like whatever you do to play in the street to get all the practice in. So what he said was about his call up, he said, and that first at Batman, what a feeling. I was so focused on my at bat that I didn't even really care who was pitching, in a way. I mean no disrespect to Justin Verlander. He's one of the best ever Hall of Famer. Incredible play, but I was just trying to hit the bottle cap, sure. So what a moment, right? He was the youngest in Yankee Steve history to Homer in their debut, and the youngest in MLB history to do it at a first bat. He hit four home runs in his first eight games, and then Taurus UC all had Tommy John surgery, so eight games in the majors hurt Tommy John out for months, right? You know better, quicker recovery time, as we know, than if you are a pitcher, right? So starts 2024, in recovery, then has an oblique strain, so it's out to July, and then he's in triple A. So he's like, just trying so hard to come back from all of this. So this players Tribune piece is really in September of 24 was really a promise to fans that he's not gonna let the injuries knock him out. He starts the piece by talking about a Dominican saying that basically ends up with, like, you know, you're not gonna spend all this time just swimming in the ocean to die on the shore. Oh, wow, right, you know. So like, if you got this far, you can't give up, right? So what he said was, I didn't come this far just to die on the shore. I don't want to be the future or the past. I want to be there right now. Power to I'm so excited about this guy.

Pottymouth 33:30
Oh yeah, no, he was a huge fan favorite. And I know that he was a big favorite of Rachel Bal COVID When she was managing him in single a and saw, like, this is like going to be a huge person in the future. So he, he just turned 22 in February. So that means last year he was 20 he was 24

Patti 33:52
MLB said he was 24 interesting, Yep,

Pottymouth 33:55
yeah, he's 22 Yep, and, and. So, because I was thinking that doesn't add up, especially from the being scouted at 16, right? But, but last year, when he hit Verlander, Verlander was 41 so it was 20, yeah, that's, oh my god. It's like, off your dad kind of thing, all right? I think great dad,

Patti 34:19
Who named you after Jason.

Pottymouth 34:23
Oh my gosh. You know Jeremy Giambi. I have a lot more sympathy for it. Just Jason, Jim. I just remember those days with him at first base. That's, all right, all right. I'm it's past water under the bridge. There's a new season. Is it the new and not at all grudge. Um, we're gonna go to the Dodgers, who, really, you know, I think, are gonna be the targets of a lot more angst, because they're just so fucking good, and people really resent the money that they're putting out. But, you know, everybody else can pay money too. They have

Patti 34:53
taken on the mantle of, you know, the evil empire, which used to be, you know, owned by the Yankee. So this is very interesting, sure,

Pottymouth 35:01
evil empire of the West. So I'm going with Ande paches, outfielder, 24 years old. So the thing about the Dodgers, and actually the Yankees too, because we pick these guys every year, and we don't repeat, except for one guy that we hold over. It's getting you know, we've been at this a few years, and our pickings are getting slim, and for the Dodgers, man, like they've been really good at picking out guys that we have clearly scouted for them and bringing them onto the team. And so there were really, that's us, I'm sure. I'm sure there were really just a couple of options. Andy paquez may or may not make the team, but we will see. It does give me my second defection story of the year, my second Cuban defection story. First one being in episode 392, with tigers Andy Ibanez. And there was a Q and A in 2022 with Andy when he was in triple A, tell no double A, double A, Tulsa. And he said, It's been hard, because I've had six years here without seeing my family. I'm pretty much by myself here, you know, going through everything like, well, it's like, Thank God I got the coaches to help me. But it's like, it's not easy to just be yourself with family back in Cuba. So that's the story of Cuban players, because it's a one way trip. You cannot go back. Parents, it's really hard to get visas to come. His dad was a carpenter in Cuba, and the handy part about that is that he had a good connection to getting wood. So he made Andy's first bats. His main job was fixing up boats and stuff like that, but there was wood hanging around, and then Andy made the decision to defect. And so we're talking about like signing out of the DR at 16. So this kid makes the decision to leave his family and his life at age 16, to go see what happens, to go to a new country, to defect to the route that a lot of Cuban players do, which is to go to the Dominican Republic train there and get picked up out of the Dr. He said it was the first time he saw his dad cry when he left, and then he didn't see his dad again for seven years. So we got to the DR, had eight very stressful months, you know, trying to find where to play and if he was going to get picked up. But he did get signed by the Dodgers in 2018 somehow he was able to go back to Cuba in the winter of 23 and I don't know the details about that, but it was a long time away. However, he did get to go back somehow, one thing that he's done, even through his minor career, is play video games, which is usually not my thing, but I appreciate the intent behind this. He played MLB, the show to get to know the pictures, which is hysterical, because, you know, there's, I mean, I apparently, I've never played, that the guys on the game were supposed to reflect the people in real life. It was also to relieve a stress, you know, see the aforementioned. He was feeling pretty alone and looking for something to make him feel better, and he did really well. And so he became one of the highest ranked MLB The Show players in the world. But his account got hacked. He got trolled by this absolute Loser on SX who accused Andy of all sorts of things. And because Andy is now my boyfriend, I'm gonna defend him, and I'm sure that he was an honest player, like, why the fuck would this major league player be trying to lie about his stats on MLB The Show? But apparently, that's what this troll did, and he ended up getting suspended for 92 games virtually. So this is a virtual he got suspended on MLB The Show. I didn't even know that was a thing. He did have a gradual climb from 2018 to 24 and then absolutely busted out, finally in triple A when he started the season last year, the first magical 24 games of 2024 where he was batting 356 with a 1084 ops, ended up debuting in April against our very own nationals, although he almost missed it because he slept through the first few phone calls that were telling him to get his ass in gear and get up to the majors. He finally like he had fallen asleep early. He woke up at midnight with the ring and, oh, now I get to go. So we called his mom right away, who proceeded to wake up the entire neighborhood in Cuba as she screamed that her kid made it to the show. He did get a hit in his first, his first game off of Patrick Corbin. Five days later, he got his first home run off of the Mets and ended up playing 160 116 games last season. So way more than anticipated. Kind of middle of the road, very middle of the road to eight, 248, average, 712, ops with 13 home runs. He here comes the the rookie home run theme record thing that I'm trying for today. He was the first rookie Dodger with a. Multi home run postseason game, and also the youngest to do so. He was the second center fielder for the Dodgers to do so, but the fourth in MLB overall, out of the nine spot to do so when he went three for four against the Mets in the postseason with two homers and four RBI. So I was rooting for the Mets at that point, but, you know, happy for my guy here, Andy Gavin Lux, a former pick of mine from the Dodgers, said about pockets that he's never too high or too low. He always looks calm, which totally tracks for me. I'm sure people say that about me. Absolutely.

Patti 40:37
That's how I introduce you, right? You know, potty mo always calm.

Pottymouth 40:42
So calm. So I think I could use a calming influence. Actually, Mr. Potty mouth is a really good calming influence, for sure. Yeah. So that's but to look calm as a rookie in your first postseason, I think, is pretty impressive. So my guy picked last year, my terrible premature pick last year of James outman, who didn't quite make it, and Andy pockets and Chris Taylor, who's a former pick of yours, I believe they're battling for a final, basically available roster spot amongst all of these gems that the that the Dodgers have, Taylor is the most versatility, because he does both infield and outfield, but pockets has the most power on his bat. Both outman and Taylor struggled last year. Their numbers are definitely they were both Mendoza e outman was 147 so below then, then pockets last year, and in spring training right now, they're all right around the same, but spring training isn't, you know, hasn't been going on that far. And pockets did get a home run, so I'm hoping that he has a shot over the other guys, because they don't do me any good right now.

Patti 41:47
The other guys that he is, the other guy he's competing with is, is the guy that I'm picking, which his song, Kim, who is not has on Kim, who was my Padres boyfriend, who is now with Tampa Bay,

Pottymouth 42:01
I can't tell you how confused I was,

Patti 42:04
right, right. So hi, song, Kim, second base, maybe, maybe, maybe outfield, maybe anything. Because you'll we're gonna talk some more about how the Dodgers are loaded in their infield, and what the heck are they going to do? 26 second base. So he comes out of the KBO right, the Korean professional league. When he was in high school, he won the Lee Young Min batting award for the top hitting high school player in the Republic of Korea. So known for his bat initially, right? He played for the heroes the in the KBO, who were the Nexen Heroes from 2017 and 2019 then became the key womb heroes in 2019 through 2024 right, he also played internationally for Team Korea in a bunch of different ways. One was the 2020 Olympics. Korea was the defending championship team. They were fourth. However, in the 2020 Olympics, He then played in the 2022 Asian Games where South Korea actually did win the gold medal and the World Baseball Classic in 2023 so he's done a lot of you know international baseball with Team Korea as well. So his last season with the heroes, he had 11 homers, 30 stolen bases, 75 RBI and 127 games. Those were his career highs and home runs. And RBI, also known for his defense, probably more so for his defense, he has four gold gloves and the KBO wow the most like the the first one was at shortstop, and then the last three were all at second base again. So pretty flexible in the infield. His career over over time for with the heroes. Bad at 304 he had a 364 on base percentage and stole at least 20 bases per year. So his team posted him on December 4. That means he's unavailable to negotiate with MLB teams for 30 days. January 3, he signed with the Dodgers a three year, $12.5 million contract. The options that are involved this contract could boost that all the way up to $22 million between, you know, more years or a certain number at bats or whatever gets you getting you bonus. All of this $2.5 million goes also to the heroes, the team that posts him, and let's compare that to what we talked about with with Rocky, you know, going like when you are posted at a certain age. You could only get a minor league contract, right? So you get international signing bonus money, but you can't sign for a bazillion, million dollar contract. But if you are a certain age, and that is where we are here, you can sign for three years, $12.5 million right off the top. And again, a percentage of that goes back to the team, the KBO team, that has posted you. So the Dodgers have been following him a little bit, but hadn't seen him play in person. I. Until that exhibition game last March where the Dodgers played in Seoul. Oh, right, and his son Kim hit a double, and the double was rocking double, and the GM said it was eye popping. So, like, this is what they needed. They needed to see him in person to really solidify the fact that they were going to go for him. He also played 44 games in left field, and that's super important right now for the Dodgers as they're all those guys are battling for the roster spots and what the musical chairs that they're playing. So he gets signed, right? And then you got this crowded infield at the time that he signed in February, right, where, at that time they were looking at Mookie at short and Lux at second, and you know, they said, Oh, if they're gonna, they got this guy out of Korea, they're probably not going to resign Kiki Hernandez. All that changed, right? So, you know, Gavin Lux got traded to Cincinnati. They did, in fact, you know, resign Kiki. And all of a sudden, Kim's bats not as great in spring training, but one of the reasons for that is the pitching in Major League Baseball is better than it is in the KBO. It's certainly faster that fastballs average five miles an hour faster than in the KBO. There's an adjustment. The fielding is not an adjustment, but the batting is an adjustment. So Dave Roberts, the manager, says he's in competition to earn a job with us, I would say that's still all in play. We don't need to make a decision right now, because now there's rooms like, maybe he'll start in in the minor leagues, which could be a good thing for him. The general manager said we're excited with what he's brought to the table, the energy, the defense has been really impressive, and then the work ethic, because he's one of those guys. He's like, I'll play anywhere. Tell me what you want me to do. I will do whatever you need me to do. Fun fact, he has the lowest body fat percentage on the team. That came up so many times. It came up sort of generally as like a throwaway line in the story. But also, we quoted Freddie Freeman, who said, Oh yeah, he's also got the lowest body fat on the team. Okay, all right, fine. But what he says, what Kim says about himself, my personality is, I'm all in on baseball. I'm 100% in and it seems like the clubhouse itself. A lot of the guys are exactly the same way. They want to get better. I have a huge desire and passion to be the best player I can be, and that's the same vibe I'm getting from all of them. So it sounds like he picked well, and the Dodgers picked Well, if this may be the year, this may not be the year, he could be starting in the minors, and then get a call up. He could be a whole season the minors, or maybe, oh, I don't know, Tommy Edmonds great and all, but maybe we want this guy a second. We don't know what's gonna happen, sure, but I'm impressed with how all in he is, and I think he's gonna He's got good stuff happening in the future.

Pottymouth 47:39
Yeah, and their commitment to Mookie Betts at short is wild, really. Like, I mean, I'll be curious to see, I know he grew, he came up, you know, like, did short stuff when he was young, but he's been in that outfield for a while, and he tried a little bit last year, and it wasn't stellar. So we'll see what happens.

Patti 47:56
We're talking about the A's a weird amount for a day that we're not profiling, profiling A's players as boyfriends, but

Pottymouth 48:02
I am using an A's koozies. You are actually really leaning in Yes, and my heart goes out to A's fans. So famously,

Patti 48:09
Sacramento is playing Sacramento is going to be hosting the A's in their triple A field for the next three years, but sacrament, they're not the Sacramento A's right, but they're also not the Vegas as nor are they the Oakland A's. They are just the athletics. They're just the A's right. Oh, man, so Vegas, man, the Las Vegas Convention Visitors Authority did the super smartest thing. I am not pro moving the A's out of Oakland, for sure, but I will bow my head to the business savvy shown by the tourism folks here who are sponsoring the team so they can have a patch on the sleeve of the jersey that says, Las Vegas. Oh, they are branding this team on the arm because it's a sponsorship thing. I mean, it could be anything. It could be any of the sponsorship things that you see all time, yeah, but it's the Las Vegas, you know, the Convention and Visitors Authority. So it says Las Vegas. And those guys said, We want Vegas to be seen in every ballpark leading up to the new stadium. They want the branding to start right now. Wow, really, really smart. The stadium is scheduled to break ground this spring. Again, there's so many things standing in the way right now, it's probably going to happen, but it's going to be ugly. In the meantime, they're going to be playing in a very, very hot field in Sacramento, but they've got that Vegas patch, just saying. So Meanwhile, back in Oakland, the former home of the A's, we've got the ballers. Big fans of the ballers, right? They're a pioneer, Pioneer league team. Yeah, they have had, they're in their second of two Community Investment rounds. You too can buy a piece of the Oakland ballers. Okay, right? That their summer round in 2024 raised 1.2 million. Dollars from 2200 fans. This round has a goal of $2 million so the minimum investment is $510 510 is the Oakland area code so good for them, they have a fan spot on the board of directors. So if you are a fan owner, you could vote for the person. They have, they have elected somebody to the board who's going to be there for two years. And it's not just, you know, your run of the mill residence. There are some sort of, you know, famous Oakland folks who are now owners. I don't know what level, but the rapper too short, and then Green Days, Billy Joe Armstrong, both legends in Oakland are owners of the ballers roots the Oakland roots in Oakland soul, which are the soccer teams, have also done this community investment model. So this is what's happening in Oakland right now. They're really kind of leading the pack on this so So Billy Joe Armstrong says sports in the bay area have been transforming. Over the past couple of years, we've had some emotional goodbyes to teams we grew up with. But recently, there's been a major shift. The Oakland ballers and the Oakland roots and soul represent everything I love and grew up on in the Bay Area, the welcoming atmosphere, the DIY attitude and the people behind it make me proud to be an investor and support the next generation of teams kids in the Bay will be proud of so you too can buy a piece of the Oakland ballers if you've always wanted to be a fat cat baseball team owner

Pottymouth 51:30
so cool and roots and soul. Like, what great names, yeah. Like, we are sticking we're staying here, yeah? Like the foundation. Yeah, that's awesome, man. I wish the best of the ballers. We got to go to a ballers game. Somehow we do all right, World Baseball Classic. This is the end of the qualifying rounds. Run down from me. And I just want to say that we're going to focus a little bit on QR, which is our quality hero above replacement stat, thanks to our friend Oll. And in this case, the q and the q heart is for questionable. So Brazil, Brazil and Colombia came out of this last round of qualifiers. They're going to be joining Nicaragua and Taiwan, which I talked about last week, on the road to the World Baseball Classic in 2026 and the chances of that, of course, are one a Brazilian, one in a Brazilian I already blew my joke. I love my joke,

Patti 52:27
all right, so it worked really well the first time.

Pottymouth 52:29
Milking it too much. Yeah, Dante bishette Jr, so this is the questionable, I don't know, what do you where do you come down? So Dante Bucha Junior, in the Bichette way, or at least Beau used to have the flow. Dante has the flow, but his flow is day glow. It's like, it's not blonde, it's like bordering Chartreuse is what I feel so bright

Patti 52:52
like, the attitude, yeah, there you go. I mean, I wouldn't look at that and say, Wow, that hair is beautiful. But I like the statement. I like the brashness of the whole thing. I like the, you know, this is me Take it or leave it. So I like the attitude. I

Pottymouth 53:07
can tell you that team Brazil is really hoping that Bo also jumps in for the World Baseball Classic, because that would be all sorts of fun. Dante said, this is absolutely my favorite team. I've said that for the last nine years I've played with them. As long as I can help Brazil, I will. I'm just honored to be a part of this, really. So I talked about a couple weeks ago that his mom is Brazilian, which is how he gets to be on Team Brazil. Manny Ramirez's son, Lucas Ramirez, his mom is Brazilian, and he was looking really good. And that sweet swing, I mean, beautiful swings that I've seen Manny Ramirez has had, I don't know, maybe still has one of the most beautiful swings. Just gorgeous. And Lucas, you know, it's the apple and the tree kind of situation. So of course, he's getting a lot of questions from the press. Where'd you get that swing? Well, duh, like, this is my dad, but nurture, he responded. I taught myself, yeah, right, whereas. So here's the next questionable hair, above replacement. Manny Ramirez has dreadlocks almost down to his ass at this point. So I like the dreadlocks he doesn't have so much I feel like it's pulling all his hair that there was, though, because he's got the receding hairline, expanding his hairline, and the dress weighing it down. That's what, yeah, I mean when, when the ponytail was adding too much weight, is when Mr. Potty mouth just cut off the long hair and said, we're gonna we're losing this battle, but also looking very, very lovely. You're adorable. Mr. Potty mouth and Manny Ramirez, perhaps could also be adorable. I don't know. It's a lot of long dreadlocks. Brazil did knock out Germany in that second, third place final game. So the winner was Colombia, which just trounced. Everybody, and then they had the second and third place out of the four got to battle it out, and Brazil beat Germany. And I had mentioned that I was looking forward to seeing Jaden. Jaden Agassi, son of Andres Agassi and Stephanie Graff, who you would think would be able to do something really good with his arm as a pitcher. But however, he did not. He got the L against Brazil, giving up four runs on two outs, and then he gave up two of the runs when, when they got trounced by Columbia, 10 to nothing. And that was the Mercy rule. That was seven innings. So Jayden Agassi is walking out. Let's see. I think I put, yeah, his era after this experience, was a 23 point 14. And I'm thinking maybe he should try tennis. I don't know, Columbia notables. Oh, man, I spoke Columbia wrong here. That's embarrassing. You all can see Columbia notables. Gioro is on there and Harold Ramirez, of the famous blue hair fame, but the star player. So this is the guy that maybe we need to look for for next year for a baseball boy from picks is Michael Arroyo, whose average was 300 with a 983 ops. He is a mariners prospect, and he is so cute. He's just a cute guy with he's got good like little dreadlocks. He's really cute. So I think we got to keep our eye out for Arroyo next year. So Germany's out. China was Team Four, and they didn't win anything. They were the South Africa of Tucson, because South Africa would had not won anything in the other qualifiers, except for China, did even worse, because they lost two games to the Mercy rule with

Patti 56:47
no, yeah, oh no, I wanted to close the loop. A few weeks ago, we talked about Chris Cole, who was the former Minnesota Vikings kicker, who got arrested at a Huntington Beach council meeting during public comments, which I kind of love, oh yes, since then, and I meant to talk about this a little last week, but then there's even more information now. So it's fine. It's fine. He got fired from his gig as a high school football coach two weeks after the council meeting. He was told the school is getting too much attention. We have to let you go. And he said, I think it sucks for the kids, because I don't know where Edison is going to find a former professional football player to coach the freshman level, right? But then the plot thickens. Oh, the school later, after all this, and after this conversation they had with him telling you he was fired, said it was for a post he made on blue sky, which they said was inciting violence, was because they took it out of context the way one does. He made a post on blue sky following his arrest, basically asking people to stop fucking with the library. Because everyone's calling the library, right? Everyone's like, they're mad because it was about this plaque that, this plaque for the library's anniversary that had like, Maga language on it, right? So that was the issue. It's not the library's fault. Library didn't design. So he's trying to get people to stop bothering. So what he says is, stop fucking with the library. That's the City Council is doing. The library is great. Out of the people who work there. Go fuck with the City Council, find where they work and blow those places. Oh,

Pottymouth 58:11
blow up. Yeah, right, right.

Patti 58:15
In fact that the cops called him. He's like, no, no, no, no. Look at the context, because he had a video where he was talking about this, and he's like, you know, they're, you know, there's all of these, like, review bombs, right? He's like, you know, review bomb them. And that was what he meant by so he even took the post down when the police kind of said, Hey, this sounds bad, but they said that the post was not brought up at the meeting he had with the school officials when they told him he was fired, they came up later, right? So they're trying to find a way to cover their tracks. I want to know, is there a teacher's union for this school where he works, and Are there guidelines on public speaking? We know that some school districts have rules about what you can do on social media. Does he have those? Does he have representation? I do know that an elected official, not with the City Council, with the states, like, hey, I want more information on this. This doesn't seem cool. This could be illegal. So this could be an ongoing story. I'm fascinated, not only because I really care deeply about city of politics and love via good public comment, but you go, Chris, cool way,

Pottymouth 59:15
right? And he is just such a cool dude because he's been standing up for what's right. So I, you know, put my support behind him. Yes. Oh, did we? So this is, like, kind of a little bit of a side that I just added on here. I think that we missed this, that when Rachel balkovic, who we talked about earlier, when she was she's amazing, but she was managing the low the a Yankees, and she was hired as director of player development by the Miami Marlins in January. I think we didn't talk about I mean, my brain cells are really rocky these days, but I think we missed that. There is so much cool about her that I'm not going to talk about it. There's going to be. The article linked. Please read it. I already put it on our Patreon page because it's so fucking impressive. Great. How much like so many firsts in one person, and the attitude like she's just gonna keep going,

Patti 1:00:13
right? That's fantastic. Good, good. I look forward to reading that and learning more. Hey, so I need to go to the movies. I want to go see if this, I don't know about them. Yeah, so your friend the knuckleballer is in it. It's about basically a middle aged guy rec league playing their last baseball game on a field that I think is going to be like, close something. But this just seems like right up our alley. I think it's playing locally right now, so I might actually get my butt to the movies.

Pottymouth 1:00:47
Is it gonna it would be so cool if it were at the cinnamon draft house. Yeah, I think it's

Patti 1:00:51
the classy theater. Not that they're not classy, but they might be, but we can drink beer there too. Yeah. There we go. There we go. What do you got

Pottymouth 1:00:58
going on? Not much stressing out about the next week. Man, things are hard, guys. I just, I'm glad that we can provide this baseball diversion, because the real world in the DMV area, that would be DC, Maryland, Virginia. It's, it's not happy around here, you know. So here we are plugging along and waiting, waiting for opening day. We have our opening day tickets. That's something exciting we do in nationals. I just want to say, what the fuck Orioles, what the fuck like? I know they're trying to milk as many season tickets as they can for opening day tickets, but stop milking cow is dry.

Patti 1:01:34
It's dry. We just want to go to the damn game. We don't live close enough to get a season ticket package, but we really want to come to the game. Please, call us some tickets. Please, please, please. Please, please. All

Pottymouth 1:01:45
right, that's it. Okay. All right,

Patti 1:01:47
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Pottymouth 1:01:57
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Patti 1:02:45
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Pottymouth 1:03:10
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Patti 1:03:27
Sure enough. Okay, my friends get boosted. Fight the man. My God, Please fight the man. That's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to marathon until next week. Say good night potty mouth. Good night potty mouth.

You Oh, man, if I knew that was the sound check, I would have tried to be funnier.

Pottymouth 1:03:58
Yeah, I know that was a dead pressing sound check. Oh, well, his son, I.