No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Music, Hi and welcome to episode 398 of no crying in baseball, the maimed, battered and uncertain episode. My name's patty. I'm here with my friend, potty mouth. That's not like any of those things.

Pottymouth 0:28
That's that's a really rough way to be entering into this episode. I'm I guess it's

Patti 0:33
actually hopeful for you and me. Oh, good. It's weirdly hope. I'm hopeful. Okay, we'll get I like, weirdly hopeful. Sure, sure. That's actually the tagline for the podcast, right? No cardio baseball. We're weirdly hopeful,

Pottymouth 0:44
and that really fits in today's day and age. Sure, we are,

Patti 0:48
yeah, but we're not ranting.

Pottymouth 0:51
Which is going to come soon, I am sure, but before then, and speaking of being weirdly hopeful, I want to say thank you to a new Patreon member, Heather C, thank you for joining the fun on Patreon. And for everybody who wants to know what that's about, wait till the end of the show, and we will give you the details.

Patti 1:06
Great. Happy to have you on today's show. We've got the spring breakout. We've got baseball in Japan. The American League just got interesting. They're just printing money, or they're trying to just print money. We've got our pitching squads this week, and oh, dear Tampa. Cheers.

Pottymouth 1:23
Can't wait to hear about that one. Oh, dear Tampa. I think I've uttered

Patti 1:25
that several times before. Usually it's oh dear. No, it's usually all hell Florida.

Pottymouth 1:29
Yeah, there's that. But when I've visited Tampa, I've kind of, you know, oh dear can. Can you

Patti 1:33
remind me what we're drinking? So we're almost already done with our starter beer. Ooh. This is an

Pottymouth 1:37
amber from Lone oak brewery in Montgomery County, Maryland, and it is lovely. And lone oak is a place we need to go this summer, because it's one of those, like, they have outdoor seating under the trees. Yeah, it's pretty. There's that distill. We have a new distillery. Yep, I'm all for that. All right, yes, Summer. Summer is coming. That's my hope in the future. So we're starting with spring. Yeah, and spring is officially springing. On Thursday is the spring equinox. So that's exciting. So days are getting brighter and baseball is getting more prolific, right? It's all over the place. Spring Training is fun, and part of spring training this year was the spring breakout. They did it with last year the first day. Okay, that is true. So these are the prospects showing their stuff over the past few days. We're recording on March 16. So today is the last day of spring breakout. I think that there's four games to go that I don't know about, like the results yet, that is, but 16 games overall. Mlb.com made it viewable, so I actually saw bits and pieces of games. So I appreciate that. I think it's impressive that it's been so close. A lot of the games have been super close, three ties so far. And of course, in this country, we love having tie games. In no way whatsoever. Baseball is not supposed to be a tie, but I get it, you know, it's just a showcase. It's these guys showing their stuff, and it must be fun for them. Two of them only had a run, one run difference and so far. And mind you, there's four games to go, so don't totally quote me here, but only two games have had more than a three run difference. The reason why there's 16 games instead of 15 for all 30 teams is because it's not split up well between the the grapefruits and the the cacti, the cacti, right? Because each of those have 15 so the lucky nationals and the lucky in Florida and the lucky cubs in Arizona each got to play twice to round things out. Couple of highlights for me that I wanted to point out before I talk too much about my team, which I know I tend to do once in a while on this podcast, I wanted to highlight your two teams, because they're pretty cool. First of all, the Guardians, my guy, Jackson choudh, baby brother Jason, apparently, is super hot stuff, and he's up and coming. So definitely flagging him for future baseball boyfriend potential, he got three hits and two runs in the eight to seven win over the mariners. The big MLB article about that game was Ralphie Velasquez miked up. And he's so cute because he's, you know, just coming up, and he's talking about this, like, dream come true, and he feels like he's in MLB The Show for real. So catch that if you haven't seen it. The other highlight MLB article that is going to be linked and is really sweet is, Oh, this guy, also, I want to flag also, we can go see him this summer in Bowie, because I think that's, that's where he left off last year. So I think that

Patti 4:29
you know that it's the Chesapeake Bay socks now, yeah, I mean, it's in Bowie, but it's a Chesapeake Bay so it's not the buoy Bay socks. We're trying to figure out if it's because no one can pronounce buoy correctly, or if they're just trying to be more widely regional, yeah, and not just that little, sort of little suburb.

Pottymouth 4:43
It's a lot more letters. It is. You've got to, have to, you know, rearrange some fonts or something like that. You have to buy chest peak maybe, maybe it's those Hojo colors, right? Howard Johnson's bright Teal and Orange, lovely for the bay socks. Anyway, Enrique Bradford, Jr, seems. A really sweet kid. He had a first inning basically self created run for the Orioles. He scored all by himself without actually hitting a home run. He got a single he ran very fast from first to third on a pick off overthrow, he got to third base. Yes, that might have been a pretty bad overthrow, but still like, the gumption to get off and just do it. And then he slid home on a wild pitch, and this was the difference maker, because they had a five to four win over the Yankees, and he went over the Yankees is a happy thing for me. I was talking to I mentioned it to Mr. Potty mouth. He's like, Yeah, it's just spring training. I was like, well, it's spring breakout, even less than that, but any win over the Yankees, it's still like, I don't care if it's preschool, it's still a hangover Yankee. Steve Right, see

Patti 5:45
your vitriol over a five year old last week,

Pottymouth 5:48
I've got the vitriol hangover, and it was more meaningful because this was when he hit home. After this intense run and slide, he had this emotional explosion, like a huge more than you would. I mean, everybody's pumped up for spring training, but it turned out that he dedicated the play to a high school friend of his, who were, they were in travel ball together, who just died this past Tuesday. Oh, dear, in a motorcycle accident, and for this kid to be playing a few days later, you know, it's it can go. I mean, either way, I totally understand if players need to just check out have time for themselves. But there's also that sort of like cathartic processing thing about playing hard and getting kids too different. Yep, exactly. And so he said, It's been a tough week for everybody that I've been around, for my family, friends, playing with a heavy heart. The The other cool thing about them winning that game is apparently there were a lot of Vandy boys involved. There were five Vanderbilt boys involved between the Yankees and the Orioles, just in that one game, in that one game, one game those two teams. And so Enrique had a dinner bet, you know, just kind of like a friendly, who pay, who pays for dinner bet with Spencer Jones of the Yankees. So He now gets to collect on that

Patti 7:09
so exciting, possibly at a, you know, a chain restaurant in

Pottymouth 7:14
Bowie. Yeah, oh, boy, I don't think I've dined in Bowie, we know, other than at the ballpark. Yes, they do, or they use it. I hope they keep the bean burgers, because that keeps me going. That's

Patti 7:26
what we want, we want, we want. So in addition to probably having to, like, restock with the base stocks, changing their designation from buoy to Chesapeake, MLB is, like, they're finding ways to print money. Like, if we do this, we'll get some money from fans. If we do this, we'll get some money from fans. Here's the latest they MLB, the league itself, has a partnership with tops and fanatics and Nike. I think fanatics owns tops now one of them owns one of the ones. They're all collaborating. And here's their plan. So the little MLB logo, the tiny, little rectangular logo on the very back of the the jurors at the neckline, right? It's on every single uniform they're going to do print those in gold for the award winners from the previous season. So your two rookies of the year, your two MVP, your two Cy Young winners. So six players will have those in gold over the course of the year. They um. They will authenticate 10 of them, like, they'll wear them for a while, and then they'll get cut off, you know, and taken away, authenticated, sent to tops, and they're going to be put in baseball cards, like the debut patches. So that's going to, you know, that's more incentive for people who buy baseball cards. They're going to be called the gold logo, man, cards. Great. I don't really follow baseball cards, but you know what? I do? Like I do like a jersey. So thank you, fanatics. So fanatics is going to find a way to get the money from the rest of us who don't buy baseball cards, because they're going to create replica jerseys with that gold logo on them for those six players, and not just six jerseys, but one of each of the jerseys. So the home jersey, the wage jersey, the alternate jersey, there's gonna be like, you know, 24 I don't know a lot of these options out there. So, um, they're gonna get you but you know, it's, it's not like you don't want these. They're fun. It's fun to have those things. But it does seem like someone sitting around saying, Now, how can we get more money? Oh, sure, here's a way to get more money. Um Otani, you may if you watch the exhibition game in the Tokyo Dome this past Saturday, you saw um Ohtani is already debuting the uniform with this little patch on the back of it. How

Pottymouth 9:32
cool. Yes, yeah, the season is almost starting. Yeah, about that in a minute. I wanted to follow up a little bit on my criticism of Raphael Devers and my request for the Red Sox to trade him, which I'm still like feeling okay with you, okay with your request. I'm okay with my request. I'm okay with the idea of trading him. It's like they're trying to walk it back, and it's hard to tell how much is him and how much is him getting shit from people like. Me who are, like, with the fuck man, like, What are you talking about? This whole I play third base when you have a lot of errors, you

Patti 10:07
know, who needs third baseman? The Yankees. Oh, God,

Unknown Speaker 10:12
so

Patti 10:13
carry on. I'm sorry. I

Pottymouth 10:15
think I want him to go there. I don't think he would be a good Yankee either. So Yikes. He played yesterday for the first time. So that's the other thing about him insisting on playing third base, is that he's had this shoulder problem, and he's been rehabbing, and he hadn't played spring training until yesterday, and he was in at DH, didn't do anything, zero offense, just one game. So you know, you can't judge everything by one game. Alex Bregman, on the other hand, has only played third base, so the line that they said when they brought him in is they'll move him over to second and keep Raffi at third. You would think by now they would have tried him at second, because he hasn't played second before, right? So to not have him at second at all is an interesting decision. So yesterday, Bregman did get a hit and scored a run. He's still way up there, averaging 370, with a 1.324 ops over 11 games, he is hot. Wow. So Devers, the day before, it's my intro to this. I don't think I said it out loud. You guys can't read my writing. Can you is that this is, this is Devers having a humble pie for Pi Day. We actually celebrated Pi Day in my classroom. The students did not really understand it, because it doesn't translate well to Spanish. But we did it. We did it anyway. So Pi Day for those windows celebrate is March 14, because it's 3.14 and, you know, pi and, yeah, I teach math, so Pi Day, and then I'm going to get to the accompanying cup of coffee in just a moment. So before Pi Day, Devers did have his humble pie and say quote ish, I mean, this is how he's being quoted. I've matured a lot during this, and I'm ready to move forward. So basically saying I'm willing to play DH, because everybody's told me that I have to do that. But what's also sort of leaked out is that he had some private conversations with Craig Breslow and Alex Cora right after they signed Bregman. And so the rumor is the scuttlebutt, totally unsubstantiated, but you know, that doesn't stop me from saying shit is that he was asking to be traded. Like you guys brought Bregman on, and he was, he's not things I should be traded to trade me, sure, yeah, that's pretty much it. So also that big promise, like, you're gonna stay at third base when you got that big, long contract that was under high and bloom, and now it's a Breslow show. So who knows? I'm gonna put some more feathers into bregmans. Alec bregmans hat, he did a, you would this is like a patty approval kind of situation. He bought suits for the kids like dress to find kids that the the rookies. Okay? Thank you, yep. So a whole bunch of those prospect kids got their first nice suit so that they could look sharp on their travels or whatever situation they're gonna have to wear a suit. And the kids were like, they've never had a suit before. Brandon remembered when Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann and Josh Reddick did it for him when he was a rookie with the Astros. He's passing it away. Pay it forward. Absolutely. By the way, it is the six year anniversary of Josh Reddick bouncing off of Pete Alonso, and I really hope I put that in the show notes, because it's the funniest play where he's running to first base, Pete had to reach over first to grab the ball that was coming in. So blocked Reddick coming through. And Pete is a large man, and Josh Reddick is not and he literally, like, just right up, yeah. And then Reddick said, who played the next day me, who took it off HIMS, even though he was the bouncer, he was the injured one bouncer in the bouncy, yeah, the bounced. Last thing about the Red Sox for the moment. Anyway, I know I'm so terrible with this, but they did the rookie thing. Poor Roman, Anthony and Marcel mayor, who are, like, super highly rated rookies for the Red Sox, were asked to do a Starbucks run, sure, for everybody, for all 76 players and staff. And so you even do that, right? So the discussion of it is fucking hysterical. They had to get up at 430 in the morning. They are. They're responsible boys, though. They called Starbucks the night before and said, Listen, we're doing this tomorrow morning. You might want to get ready. They did, and they give Starbucks a ton of credit. They doubled the staff there. They got up at 430 in the morning. Got to Starbucks at five, and everybody had not just like black coffee. Everybody had their Starbucks order of the Venti Mocha, cream, whatever the fuck it is, and they did them one by one, where they didn't think was how to transport it. That's my big question immediately was, how do you get them there? They called, and I forget who else it was, somebody who had a truck, and they, like, carefully put it in the truck, and they drove, like, two miles an hour. With like Roman Anthony sitting on the coffee all the way back, to give them like I didn't do to catch the average on this, I should have done the calculations to get their coffee average, as opposed to batting average. They only got one wrong out of 76 although Marcela mayor said we messed up one order, and it was Garrett crochets crochet I fucked up. His name already, coach Greg, not the order you want to miss. This is the opening day starter. Big sign. Just, I want to get a little bit of credit to Alex Cora, because he got a oat milk latte or an almond milk latte was a vegan latte. So I appreciate that.

Patti 15:31
Sure. So my prediction is that that that crochet is going to do exceptional on opening day, and he's gonna have to get, like, the wrong Starbucks order forever. Now as a good luck situation, yeah, yeah, we're switching to our second beer, and it's from Nepenthe Brewing Company in Baltimore. Thank you to our intern who supplied this to us. It is the werewolf death grip American polish, and it's very delicious. And the can is scary as hell. I'm just saying it's super scary, but the beer itself is not so I have to be delicate about this next one. So Gary Cole is gonna hit Tommy John and be out for the entire season. Yeah, that's bad. It is bad. I feel for the guy. I wish him well and happy recovery. But the really interesting thing about this is now everybody's predictions are being revised because of one player. He's that key to the rotation that all of a sudden there are all of these articles out there about not just the Al East being up for grabs, but the whole American League being up for grabs. Because for months now it's been it's going to be Dodgers versus Yankees, the two you know, evil empires are gonna battle for the Death Star and whatever, and now nobody thinks that's the case anymore. My favorite quote, which is meaningful to me and potty mouth, because you know, our our favorite teams are al East teams. This article in the athletic said, less than a month later, the American League fills up for grabs, and the Al East has become a five team free for all of the maimed, the battered and the UN Oh, that's so good. So, you know, apologies if this comes off as I don't, I don't want to be insensitive, but all of a sudden, the American League, and especially the aliens, just kind of fun. You know, it was like this foregone conclusion, and now it's not. Now it really is sort of anybody's race to win. So I'm, you know, I wish you all Garrett Cole and wow, one guy, yeah, not being there has just shaken up the entire American League.

Pottymouth 17:35
That's crazy. That is crazy, although, you know, that's a sequel that I don't need to see the Dodgers Yankee sequel, so sure. I think this will be all right, it'll be fun. Baseball is has started by the time you're listening to us like as far as the official season has started right now, our weekend exhibition games that I can't see because our MLB subscription is with the phone plan, and that doesn't get activated for I don't know. All I know is that I can't see these weekend games, unfortunately, where the Dodgers and the cubs are out there in Japan playing against the yamiri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers each each MLB team gets to play each of those between yesterday, which was Saturday, and today, which is Sunday. You might have seen it on Fox, or Fox deportes or something like that. But the regular season games, oh, those were on MLB. The regular season games are gonna be on Fox, yeah, and that's, well, one happened this morning, which would be Tuesday, and one tomorrow morning, which would be Wednesday. So I get breaks breakfast baseball at six o'clock in the morning while I'm getting ready to go to work. And hopefully I can catch those because of being on Fox instead of MLB or Fox deportes, that would be super fun. And if you haven't been following the exploits of the players in Japan, I think that's the coolest thing that these guys are really taking in the environment, right? They're out there trying the food. They're doing their own, you know, tiktoks and Instagrams and stuff about their experience there. Justin Turner, it took me, like I did a double take, because then I really realized he's there for the Cubs, which feels really weird. You know, even though he had that Red Sox interlude and Toronto interlude since Dodgers, he was Dodgers for so long, and to have all the Dodgers out there, I haven't seen anything about him hanging with the old team yet, but I'm sure that's there. He was the first post that I saw in his really cute kimono with a baseball cap. That's worth checking out. The other one worth checking out, of course, on the Dodger side is the guy that I adore, Kiki Hernandez, walking around the town with an entourage of people just following him around with their cameras, and he doesn't give a shit, like he's not trying to avoid them. He's just looking and they're just gobs of people going with like, door to door with them. So power to kick it. Sure.

Patti 19:53
A couple of fun facts. I mean, I'm sure you've all seen that, of course. You know, show ittani homered in the Tokyo. On his first visit back to the Tokyo Dome as an MLB player. So, you know, big surprise, they're wearing his new, you know, gold MLB award patch on the back of his jersey. A couple of this weekend with the exhibition games, there were a couple of differences from how the actual MLB started the season. Games are going to be when it's actually the Cubs and the Dodgers. So when they're playing the exhibition is a Saturday one, on the Sunday one, no pitch clock, because, you know that the Japanese league does not use a pitch clock. So they were talking to the the pit, the MLB pitchers, they're like, we're not going to try to do anything different, because we need to keep the same mindset. Yeah, you know, we're not going to have that pressure, but we're not going to, like, consciously say, oh, I can do this. I can take longer. I can do whatever. The other thing that's different is MLB and then apparently use two different baseballs. Oh, and so for the exhibition games, the MLB teams are going to use their MLB baseball, and the two Japanese teams are going to use their baseball when they're pitching, because it matters more on the picture side, Oh, wow. So the pictures are using the ones that they need to be used to, like in things like, you know, it's like the height of the seams, a couple of very like, I think the dimension is the same, but there's some differences, like the construction, like the seams, things like that, wow. Also, the the clubhouse that they're using has a smoking facility. It's like the size of a phone booth, and it's enclosed. So it's not like that corner is the smoking corner, which we know, you know, it took people a long time to figure out that doesn't actually work, right? But there is, they said, no one's actually used them. But there's like, these tiny, little enclosed spaces that are for smoking.

Pottymouth 21:40
Oh, that sounds comfortable. Yeah, all right. Well, excited to see baseball, breakfast, baseball and and it's exciting that it's all started. And since things are starting, we're going to talk about our pitchers. So we've been putting together. We're done with our position players. We've been putting together our potential lineups for our fantasy teams over the winter. We each picked one guy per team throughout the winter because there's something cool about him. Then we call him our baseball boyfriends because we like them and they're not assholes. We checked and out of those guys next week, we're going to tell you who's going to be on our lineup, and then the folks who are playing fantasy baseball with us will then know who's free for them, and they should, at that point, get in touch with Patty really quickly. I'm guessing you're getting in touch with them before then, I absolutely will All right, so watch your emails for an email from Patty if you've said you're interested in fantasy, and if you haven't let us know yet, please as soon as possible, because I'm not sure if there's spaces available, but the only way to find out is to email us, or other stuff you'll hear later, how to get in touch. Yeah, so today's pitching. So it would take us forever if we did pitchers the same way that we did position players. So we just pick a squad from one team. Last year, we experimented a little and did two teams, and now we're going back to the one team, because it didn't seem to make a hell of a difference. And this is easier. I waffled. Shocking, no one. No, yeah. I took me a while to pick my pictures, and I was really, really, really close to picking the Red Sox, because it's a it's exciting. That red sox like that. They're in the top 10 list some pictures. Yeah, they do. We are not used to this situation, like, it's been a while since we've had what could be, and it's, there's so many ifs, but I was thinking I could take that chance. But then I realized, well, I really, I knew two things. One is that I would be pissing off Mr. Potty mouth, because he's been scouting, and he has a lot of Red Sox pictures on his list, and it would throw his lineup into just a, you know, disarray, disarray. That's the word. Thank you. The vocabulary resource over here, I really need to, like, have you on speed dial, on a regular if you do, in fact, can't be on speed dial. I'm gonna use that more often middle of the meetings. Wait, I gotta check out. What's that word? What's the running but not only that aforementioned, I might have said that I tend to talk about the Red Sox a little bit too much on this podcast, and this is forcing me sort of not to, although I'm twisting it a little bit because I do shit like that, but I thought it was better, both from the podcast and from my marriage, for me to pick the Diamondbacks instead of the Red Sox. And so I'm picking the Diamondbacks. And a note that I did this pick before Anthony Castro Vince came up with his top 10 article, which I think came out on Thursday or Friday, and the D backs are listed as number five. So it's sort of like backed up my feeling. And I'd been waiting for an article like this to make my choice also, but apparently I didn't wait long enough. So according to Yahoo rules, we get to pick two starters to relief and for whatever. So this was actually I'm still wavering a little bit, and I'm hoping you'll give me a little bit of leeway on my last pick, because for starters, I'm picking Zach gallon and Eduardo Rodriguez relief Pictures Justin Martinez and AJ. Book, my four whatevers, Corbin burns, Brandon Fauci, Kevin Ginkel, and I think Ryan Thompson, because it would make sense for me to do four relief and four starters, but it's really hard to pass on. Meryl Kelly, so I'm waffling. Anybody who hear this, who hears this and has like advice for me, please let me know. The opening day situation for the D backs is, right now, very stressful for Tori Loulou, he doesn't know what to do. He is, quote, agonizing.

Speaker 1 25:25
I thought everybody already claimed their starting pitcher. Yeah, well, as

Pottymouth 25:29
of the time of recording, as of this morning, when I checked one more time, he said that he thinks that MLB is after him because he hasn't done it yet, because he can't make this decision, because he's got these two big aces. So they just made this big deal with Corbin burns, you know, coming over from the Orioles, six years, two, ten million he started last year for the O's. He started the previous two years for the brewers. So he is an ace, but they also have Zach gallon, who's like the franchise guy. He has started the last two years for the D backs. And if they start in this year, he would only be the fifth pitcher in D backs history to start three consecutive years, and that would be following guys like Madison Bumgarner and Randy Johnson. So

Patti 26:10
just do it. Just Just do it. Just do what? Just go with Zach gallon. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I love Corbin burns. Clearly, I do, but I think I think Zach gallon was the right pick for that just, I mean, I think so too. So they'd be safe, said for tradition, and for, you know, just, it's fan service, it's okay, it's opening day, it's opening day, it's a holiday. Do a thing,

Pottymouth 26:29
yeah, and, and, you know, Lulu really is gonna, like, be that dis. I mean, that's what a manager does. He's, he's, like, pulling his coaches, which I also appreciate getting some consensus there. I agree. I would have picked a gallon too. No, no. You know, shade to burns, but I like gallon for his funky glasses and his wingspan. So of course, those are two things that should go into choice for open, easy day pictures. He's just got such a great like, reach back, sure, and he's got those funky sport glasses. He has a really good ace mentality. He says that his success is due to thinking like a closer in the first inning, so he's trying to shut him down right away. He also has four pitches in his arsenal that he uses, all of them right away to sort of start playing mind games to make batters have to guess which one he's going to use next. So that's the ace. The guy that I'm going to talk about the most, though, this is where I get myself in trouble, is Eduardo and regain

Patti 27:21
shocking. Why?

Pottymouth 27:23
Why potty mouth so well he had a really good outing on Friday, so I'm gonna put that out there. First, he went 3.2 innings with no base runners, no hits, no walks. Of course, he wanted to keep going, but this is spring training, and you're not doing this in spring training, but still, it must have been such an intense feeling for him to be out there and to have, like, such a hot outing. But you know, spring training, the other cool thing to see about him is that he's now the elder statesman, which is I'm not used to, because when he was on the Red Sox, he was a youngin, and he's like the mentor guy to the new to the new pitchers and to the rookies overall. So yeah, he was on the Red Sox. And he was really important for the Red Sox. I didn't know, or maybe I forgot, because, you know, all those holes in the brain at this point, but they actually got him from the Orioles out of buoy. So he was a base sock. We might have seen him back in 2014 trade for Andrew Miller. Also another pitcher that's so good for immaculate grid. But he's been, I think, on all of our teams at this point in 2020, ERod had some really cool tweets, I guess, on, yeah, it was, it was twitter, on a social media, if you remember, there was a lot of stuff coming out then about The whole celebration thing. And he was very in favor of pitchers also being to celebrate. And so he said, if you call it, let the kids play, it's about everybody, not just the hitters, right? Like I should be able to emote too. And I agree with you, Eduardo. The other thing that he came down on the right side, I think, is that when Fernando Tati said, I think it was his rookie year when he hit that grand slam on a three zero pitch, when they were ahead by a million, and everybody said that it was really shitty. Eduardo as a pitcher, voicing in I think is pretty powerful. He said, You just have to pitch better if you don't want that to happen. Right, right? Exactly. He said, I never see that rule, and I take myself as an example, because I'm the king of three. Oh, counts. A little self effacing there, but also That's exactly it. Pitch better, yeah, so yes, he was the fucking hero of the 2018 World Series. For those who don't remember every detail, he started game four after a marathon, 18 inning, seven plus hour, game three, and this is the Red Sox against the Dodgers in 2018 so Alex Cora used pretty much every pitcher in that game. Dave Roberts was a little more strategic, and he held rich Hill, who was fresh for game 4e. Rod hadn't done a lot in game three, but he did pitch. She pitched. He had six pitches on one batter, and he became and notably and importantly, the Red Sox lost that game. So that was the first game that the Red Sox lost. They had won the first two. They lost game three after this marathon, and then E rod starts game four, making him the first pitcher to start a World Series game on zero days rest since 1924 going up against the very rested and dominant at that time, rich Hill, he got through five and two thirds innings, and that was the most important part, because it let the bullpen rest, because everybody was used the night before. So ERod eating up those innings, and he almost got out clean, but Christian Vasquez blew the double play by overthrowing the ball. The run scored. Then yase el Puig hit a home run, and basically, and it led to ERod being charged. We

Patti 30:54
get a long time, and I'm okay with that weird.

Pottymouth 30:58
So the poor guy gets four runs, and he feels, felt really shitty about it, but the players, like rallied around him, and we're and Alice score, of course, blamed himself. Yes, he should have taken him out like one batter earlier, but the players all said, you haven't, you haven't had an outing like that. And just to do that at this time, they rallied. They had his back. They came back to win the game after being down by four runs nine to six, Joe Kelly actually got the win on that game, and then they came back to win the next day. And blah, blah, blah, they won the World Series. Yay, yay, yay. Our current fascist in chief actually had the, I don't even know the word to say, the gumption to tweet against Dave Roberts saying that there was no excuse for him. Like, pulling, I think it was pulling rich Hill and putting in those relievers to give up the game. Like, really, like, you, ha, you cannot say anything. Or you can say congratulations to the Red Sox, but criticizing a manager when he's feeling shitty about it. Yeah, just bad form. Yeah. And Dave Roberts basically said, Well, that's one man's opinion. Thank you for watching.

Patti 32:09
Glad you're a baseball fan. All right,

Pottymouth 32:11
I picked other guys. I'll go through them pretty quickly, because I know I ate up a lot of time there with E rod. There's good old Brandon Fauci, which, okay, so they say, when you look it up on YouTube, it does sound like fat. And I'm from Boston, so, like, you wouldn't do well in Boston, but it just cracks me up every time I say his name, you're 12. I am 12. I am so 12. They say it's like fought, like the past tense of fight, which sounds a lot like fat to me, fought. He fought. Anyway. It's Brandon fought. And I'm just gonna laugh all fucking season, because I love the name. He was a rookie in 23 key to the D backs World Series run, the first pitcher in MLB history to allow no runs and no rock walks in consecutive postseason. Starts as a rookie Florida, first against the Dodgers in game three of the ALDs, and then he started in the ALCS against the Phillies. So I'm picking fat, and I'm sticking by it. Giggle, also set up, man, last year he might be a closer. So this is the other like, who's closing? I don't know. I'm putting them all on my team, just in case it might be. Giggle, he's an Arizona guy for years, because he went to University of Arizona, was drafted out of there by the D backs came up in 2019 which makes him the longest tenured D backs reliever. But the real reason why admire Ginkel is that there was a fan graph article about him titled, and I quote Kevin Ginkel whips his hair back and forth. That was an article name, yes, by fan graph. That was a fan graph article

Patti 33:39
that wasn't like the description of an image for those who are visually impaired. Yeah, no, I need to know what the what the image is.

Pottymouth 33:46
Apparently, he keeps a close eye of the guy on second when there's a runner on second, and so the way his hair goes when he goes back, really for back and forth, really quickly, looking at second, it whips back and forth. So there's some cute hair discussion there. Um, then I'm gonna, I gotta go with AJ Puck, because with the puck, right? So I figure Puck, you can either go Shakespeare, or you can go hockey, or you can go potty mouth, like Puck, yeah, or what the puck? So yeah, Puck is my guy. He was almost a starter when he was with the A's in Oakland, and they traded him to Miami in 2019 and got, you know, pretty much set in as a reliever then, but he had only good words for the A's and their fans, and I appreciate this about them that he had some criticism about going to Vegas last year. He got to the D backs at the trade deadline. And when he was in college at University of Florida, he had some interesting teammates, Pete Alonso, Jonathan India HARRISON BADER, and he was roommates with Jesus luzardo, so he might be a closer, sure that might be fucking cool. Or the last guy we have is Justin Martinez, who is like the wild thing, 23 years old, throws 103 miles. No but. Not always in the right place, because they hit the bull. So, you know, I haven't seen that. I guess he's not on the right team for that. He did improve a lot, though, in his 10 games in 2023 he had a 12, six, oh era. But then last year, 2024, up to 64 games down to 248 that's better, huge. I know how math works, so he's getting that, you know, that wild thing coaching in between those seasons, he played some time in lead on with the agala si biennas and the gigantes de si bow when it got to the semifinals. So maybe that helped him. What, like, totally raised my antenna on this guy is he's a 2020 graduate of the D backs GED program. Oh,

Patti 35:42
hey, that seems like a really freaking good idea. They've had it since 2015

Pottymouth 35:47
so I don't know. And this is where my letter to the nationals. Like, hello, if you don't have this, like, Can I suggest a really, like, interested teacher, because he is from, I believe, Dominican Republic. So this is a combo, you know, learning English, M, G, E, D, and that's what I do. So, yeah, Mr. Potty mouths, last comment was, you're doing it all for the fight, aren't you, aren't you, aren't you like that. And I just think that, like my, you know, law office is going to be fat punk and giggle. Yeah, yeah, fat punk puck and giggle. I can't say that. I

Patti 36:23
do not want that receptionist gig. Do not want that receptionist gig. Nope. No, no, no. So I did not pick the Dodgers. Wow. And I'm so sorry because I didn't know that you would have picked them. If I did pick them,

Pottymouth 36:35
it wouldn't have been as much fun as it really wouldn't.

Patti 36:37
And honest to god, I mean, how much can I talk about their freaking Disney prince, and then they all got hurt, and I'm not sure they're all gonna get hurt again. I don't know. So I didn't want to pick the Dodgers. I'll probably shoot myself in the foot by not picking them, because maybe this is the year that they are all healthy and, you know, pitching exactly perfect. And there you go. I'm going with the Phillies. I forgot that you picked up last year, so it's gonna be a little bit of overlap. I'm gonna try to talk about things that are new since last

Pottymouth 37:01
year, and I realized that I only picked half of them last year because I had half mariners. So I only picked a few

Patti 37:06
of the Phillies. And the Phillies and the Mariners and the Dodgers have are kind of like the top three in various orders of all the various lists that I saw. So I mean, I gotta do that. So I'm gonna start with two aces, of course, Zach Wheeler, the right handed pitcher. The article, actually that you cited, referred to him as the best active pitcher without a Cy Young, Oh, wow. He was the runner up to Corbin burns in 2021 he was the runner up to Chris sale this past year. He's very close all the time. Maybe it's the year, I don't know. He had a career year last year, career high winds in his personal best era at 2.57 Wow. My favorite is that during spring training, MLB surveyed 100 players, and they asked him a lot of questions about a lot of things, and they asked them to rank pictures. And Zach Wheeler camp was number two in the spring training players survey behind school. And because notice, like an inning eater, a big game reliable pitcher always shows up like, he's like, you know, his machine is always there. He's always doing this thing. You'll hear some of those same words. We'll talk about Aaron Nola in just a minute. He was he signed a three year 120 $6 million extension, which was the fourth highest annual salary in baseball history. That kicks in this year. He signed it last year, but this is the first 2025. Was the first of those three years he has been named the opening pitcher, the opening day pitcher for the Phillies. Fun fact, his dad played amateur baseball for 15 years. His mom played competitive softball, including into parenthood when she sometimes had a playpen in the dugout. That's awesome. Aaron Nola, 31 right handed pitcher, also all about the consistency, the working hard, and the always showing up. He has started seven games that are we're clinching games, either to get to the postseason or to win a series. In those seven clinch games, his era is 1.62 holy in 44 in the third innings, 46 strikeouts and only seven walks in those seven starts, his NL East clinching game in 2024 that gave him the lead of the most regular season wins in Citizens Bank Park history, with 57 wins at the bank. JC ramutto, who is a former Phileas boyfriend of Mine, says about Aaron Nolan, he loves to compete. He does everything he can off the field to ensure that he's going to be able to pitch for us every five days for an entire season, as much or more than any pitcher I've ever seen. He's under contract through 2030 he's there for the long haul. So again, so the Phil's looking at this combination of these veterans who can really teach and set the stage and model, you know, good behavior, and the young ones who have the raw talent but haven't been in the league for very long, right? Sure. So Aaron no is known for his philanthropy. Oh, that's great. He partnered with Yingling brewery during COVID in a program called cheers Pennsylvania, which was an initiative to provide aid for restaurant and bar workers or impact. Can buy the shot nouns, Oh, wow. He's done work on childhood hunger, anti bullying. His uncle has ALS. So he and his brother, Austin, no, you may have heard of him, do like an annual fundraiser for the ALS society. So a lot. He's the Roberto Clemente nominee. So he does a lot of philanthropy, which is very important in our whole boyfriend universe here. And he says, I feel like a lot of fans, see what we do on the field, but I think it's more important off the field. As human beings, what we want to do, what we're able to do, baseball, is not going to last forever, but what you do and how you do it can last a long time. Fun fact, today our recording date, March 16, is his daughter, Scotty Brooks first birthday. So happy birthday. Scotty. Happy birthday. I'm most excited about Christopher Sanchez, 28 year old left handed pitcher. He was signed as an international free agent with the raise in 2013 out of the Dominican Republic for $65,000 Oh, wow. He was traded from the raise to Philadelphia in 2019 Remember, a couple weeks ago, I taught the vocabulary word Phantom. Player gets the call up but doesn't actually appear in a game and gets sent back down. This happened him twice. He was like a double fan. If double Phantom is a thing, he's it. 2021 called up twice. Nothing happened. Went back down until June of 2021 when he got his call up. He's known for his change up. Last year, he got 91 strikeouts on the change up, which was the most in mob. This year, he's coming into spring training with his new sinker that's a lot faster than his old sinker, 97 miles per hour, as opposed to like 94 last season and 92 so now he might have like two, sort of like killer, you know, top speed pitches, right? Last year, 2024 he was the national league pitcher of the month in June, because he had a 1.64 era in 33 innings and threw a complete game shot out that month. He also threw another complete game in August, so two complete games in one season at the beginning of the year, in spring training last year, he was asked what his goal was. Said, I want to be an all star. He was an all star. He was an all star. It turned out he got picked to replace Chris sale on the All Star squad, because Chris that wasn't going to play. And with that, the Phillies tied the record with eight players named to the to the All Star squad, and they set a record by sending five Phillies pitchers to the All Star game. So fast forward to the nlds this past year. His son was born just a few days before he before he started game two of the NLD so baby Chris was like a five or six days old. When? When? When? Dad pitched game two. He pitched five innings, allowed only two hits, struck out five. His strikeout rate last year wasn't great, but in spring training, so far, he has struck out 12 of 30 batters he's faced. That's a lot. That's not bad. That's a lot. He signed an extension last year for four years for $22.5 million and he is actually saying that the Philly strategy of the veterans and the kids is working. What he said was, I just followed the leaders. What we have built here, what we have with the horses of the team Wheeler. No la Ranger. I just followed the path. So yeah. So for relief pitchers, I've got Jordan Romano, who's a 31 year old right handed pitcher from Ontario, two time all star. He was with Toronto forever, right? He hadn't pitched since this past season. He had season ending elbow surgery in May. He's recovering now. He's gonna be ready for opening. You know, that's all good, but after six years with that one team, Toronto, non tendered him in November, he had the third most saves in Toronto history. He was a little shocked. He was surprising. He didn't play for most of the season, so it's like it wasn't totally unexpected, but he's got a really important player on that team. But anyway, Phil del picked him up in December for one year, $8.5 million he may be the closer, if he's not the closer. Orion kirkering is, Oh, really. Orion is 2323 he's a right handed pitcher. So his first name is Richard. This is Richard Orion Kirk ring. There are three generations of Richards. His dad is a Richard, and his grandfather is a Richard. All three of them go by their middle names. They're not like Richard and Richard Jr. They're like Todd and Orion, and I don't remember what his grandfather's name is. That's your fun fact. He was drafted in 2022 and debuted majorly. Debut in 2023 he's the first Philly to debut the season after he was drafted, since Aaron Nola did it in 2015 so that's a good sign, right? So when he was when 2023 started, he's like, my goal is to get a double A, right? He had a reasonable goal for his first full season. I want to get to a double A. He appeared at five different levels for the Phillies in the 2023 season, including his debut, he won the Paul Owens award for the for the Phillies top minor league pitcher. So he was totally surprised when he got this call up right he would just been sent over to triple A, and the phone rings. He says, a pretty absurd moment. I didn't think anything could happen just because it was triple A for. Three days, and I got that call so really weird and different when, during his debut, he went in for the eighth inning. It was a 123, inning with two strikeouts against the Mets left his dad in tears. It's famous that went everywhere because his dad was very sweet and moved by the whole situation. Last season, he pitched mostly like in the sixth and the seventh inning, kind of a setup guy, but they're talking about him kind of as like a maybe like a sleeper or a wild card for the closer position. We'll see what happens. Last guy I'm gonna talk about is Jose Alvaro, who's 29 he's a right handed pitcher. Probably will continue to sort of pitch in the setup role. He is Venezuelan. He's he is, please, played for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic twice now, he dropped out of school at age 14 to do farm work to support his family. And then, of course, got identified as a kid with skills. So he was spotted at a showcase baseball showcase, and there was an international signing by the rays in 2012 to, you know, pull him up, and he played, you know, for the for the rays, you know, the whole rookie situation, he was traded to the Phillies in 2020 in 2023, he led national league relievers in strikeouts. He had an 18 game streak without issuing a walk. And this is the last year of his three year $21.5 million extension. He has a son and two daughters, and his fun fact is, he apparently hunts iguanas with a slingshot. I don't know about that. That was a throwaway line somewhere. I could not find corroborating evidence about that, but it's just a thing that I think he probably doesn't do very much now that he's a major league ball player, right?

Pottymouth 46:31
But might have helped him with his aim. Sure.

Patti 46:35
Let's go with them, cross trading with iguanas. Yeah, after

Pottymouth 46:39
like listening to you. I'm wondering why I did so shitty last year in our fantasy league. I think I'm just inept because I should have had better points for pitching. Well, we

Patti 46:49
split. I mean, splitting between one of the reasons we like to do all the pictures from one squad is so because we do roti three, we don't like switch what. Switch it up every single game. And if you have all your pictures from one team. It's likely that you're going to have a guy who's starting that day and have a guy who's closing that day and all of that. Well,

Pottymouth 47:07
we will see where that goes this year. Yes, I just wanted to give another nod to to the clothing wear, and I wasn't sure whether to put make this officially police blotter. You had police, it's kind of a crime. So New Era continues to disappoint. I really think that it sounds in in Boston, New eras. New Era. It's new it's a new era by these guys, because they can't make, keep making these errors. And it's like what you were saying before, that's what the connection is, just selling more stuff, right? Like, if you keep coming up with new designs, you can sell new stuff.

Patti 47:44
I know I want an ugly hat, yeah, can I have an ugly hat please? I'm guessing

Pottymouth 47:48
a lot of you have seen these ugly hats by now, and the scandal about them, and so what they did was they superimposed the letter for most of them on the middle of the the state, I believe name No, it depends on the team. So for Texas Rangers is one that got pulled because Texas, the x was covered up with the T for Texas, which spells out tetas, which means tits in Spanish. So like, how did quality control? This is where people need to fucking hire me like quality and control. In Texas, of all places, there are a lot of people who speak Spanish. In Texas,

Patti 48:26
you would have reviewed that, giggled like a 12 year old, and then said, Oh, maybe we should change this. But can I have one? Can I have one? Just need one? Maybe two, right? And

Pottymouth 48:36
that's exactly it. And they've pulled it so I don't know. I'm guessing they're a bazillion dollars on Ebay. I really should do that search. And this, this is nothing new for new era, because last year, they had this shadow hat where some of the letters got shadowed and the A's with the S shadows spelled out as so of course, now we have tits and ass, and that's all over the internets, and it's my 12 year old giggle. If anybody out there like me is a huge fan of the movie tape heads from the 1980s it's one of these, like side cult flicks. I don't know where you can find it, but you would understand the tits and ass joke, because they it's these guys who do video, right? And they go to the to try to get their video gig, and they keep trying, and they keep crying. And finally, the guy, very dead band goes, what you need is tits and ass. And they say, so anyway, that's that's apparently where New Era got their idea. They weren't the only bad ones, though, and I think that some of the others were even more giggly or stupid, depending on how you read them. So the Astros have the T replaced by an H, so phonetically, that's asshoes, which also is slightly problematic.

Patti 49:48
Oh, see, I am, in fact, 60 years old. Because I'm just like, shaking my head in disappointment. I'm just disappointed, whereas you're giggling, yeah. I mean, wow, we are really playing to type right now. Yep, absolutely.

Pottymouth 50:00
And then the D, the D backs, which is Arizona, have Ariana. And so there's lots of Ariana Grande things. The angels look a little anal. It's a, N, A, E, L, S, so I don't know that Tampa Bay, the R, T, B looks like ribs. So there's the barbecue theme there. Miami, mmm, E, M, M, I, Boston goes to Boban. Then the gnats get the NA walls, which is actually kind of cool, and the mariners get to be the masers, sure. So all of this is so interesting. But you know, the Orioles and the Blue Jays came out actually looking good, because I don't know who made the decision, but whoever made it should have done it for more teams. They had the birds instead of letters. Thank you. So it's just like a couple letters are blocked. You know, that's whatever a choice, and there's the little bird on it. And the birds are cute, especially the Orioles bird is adorable. Sure, the Brewers also have the glove instead. Good. So that's good too. And Chicago looks pretty much the same because it just traded the C's the C in Chicago and the cub, see, and it's just whatever short font issue, sure. Hey,

Patti 51:09
so the rays the stadium. Wow, do they have one? No, no. It is now a complete unknown. Oh, my Thursday, yes. Yes. The Thursday the raise owner Stu Sternberg said quote, After careful deliberation, we have concluded we cannot move forward with a new ballpark and development project. At this moment, to catch you up, after a long time of figuring out what to do about a new stadium, because the trap at the time was falling apart. Now it's destroyed, but at the time it was falling apart, actually falling apart. And apart. And September 2023, they announced agreement for a $1.3 billion ballpark development complex adjacent to the Tropicana with with a six with $600 million in public funding, and the raise we're going to have until March 31 like two weeks from now, basically, to show that they had the remaining $700 million necessary, they've already cut and run. So they didn't wait till the very last minute. They cut and run right now. So since they announced this deal, there have been two hurricanes which have destroyed not only the drop, but also all of you know, Tampa and St Petersburg, and lots of politics, including delayed votes by the city and the county council because they couldn't commit to the public funding, because see two hurricanes above, there's a lot of recovery that they had to do. So that got delayed, and so the rate at anyway, they both ended up approving this. They're kind of, they were kind of calling the team's bluff on it by saying, all right, we're in. We'll do it now. You got to prove that you can do it. So you can't blame us because we're in. Here's our money. We're putting our money up. Where's your money? And they like, oh, never mind. So in the meantime, the city of St Petersburg still has to pay to repair the Tropicana because they're contractually required to do that for the 2026 season, right? So all of 2025 as you know, the rays are playing in a single a field. Thank you to the Yankee Steinbrenner field in Tampa, and then they're back to the trap for 26 to 28 then their lease is up and they have to have a new home. Rob Manfred, the rumor is he really wants Sternberg to sell. He wants a Tampa deal to work. He doesn't want Tampa to lose a baseball team. Yeah. Clearly it's not going to work with the current ownership. Apparently, other owners are also making noise without like, You got to get out. If you don't, if you're not in, you got to get out. You can't just stick around. Basically, the mayor of St Pete, Ken Welch says, if in the coming months, the new owner who demonstrates a commitment to honoring their agreements and our community priorities emerges, we will consider a partnership to keep baseball in St Pete, but we will not put our city's progress on hold as we await a collaborative and community focused baseball partner. I have a lot of lot of feelings about public funding ballparks of that, one of the other things that still unanswered, in addition to all the other questions that have now opened up again, is that the ballpark was part of a larger development project called the historic gas plant district. When the trap was built, a historic black neighborhood was plowed under to make room for this ballpark. And so the current, the current mayor, is like, we have to acknowledge this. We have to make reparations. We have so the idea was, when we build this, there's going to be a black history museum, there's going to be affordable housing, we're going to try to put some things back that were taken away and without this central ballpark getting paid for, who knows what's going to happen. So who knows what's going to happen? That is my story, and I'm sticking with it. My. More printing of money, more things to buy. Okay, we might get sucked in on this. Oh, really, yeah, we're gonna fall for this. We're gonna fall for this. As you know, minor league teams love to have an alter ego. I love me an alter ego, right? It could be like, you know, the like the Rochester plates, right? You know, on every Thursday or whatever. So this, here's a lot of new ones. It's a lot of new ones. And I hate it when a team from a place that I know has one that the cultural reference that I don't get, like Akron, it's just not too far from where I grew up, in Cleveland. Their Alter Ego from the rubber ducks, is the cheese salad? What the hell I don't know anything about a cheese salad. Is that a thing? I don't know. Please, I love cheese, but other things, I think olives and lettuce. I don't know why it's a thing. Don't ask. I don't know. Okay, a couple a couple of weeks ago, my relatives served me pickle soup and told me it was a Polish dish. And I grew up in a Polish household. I've never heard of pickle soup, and, like, you could be right, but I don't know. And I felt really weird about not being able to say, Oh, of course, this goes way back in my family, just like the dang cheese salad. Well,

Pottymouth 56:13
you have some friends on the on in Akron. I think you should ask that. I

Patti 56:17
will survey. I need a little follow up on the whole cheese salad, you know, kerfuffle, but also, like a lot of the alter egos, are food related. There's the spicy meatballs, there's tacos, there's space potatoes, there's there's a lot, a lot of food things. I don't know it's always but anyway, my favorite, that's what I like, and I may have to explore a little bit more. The Winston Salem dash are gonna be the hooch pooches. Well, that sounds a little, I know, doesn't it? Though it's supposed Wow. It's supposed to like, it's supposed to reference their bootlegging background. So that's kind of the hooch the image that the logo is a dog looks kind of like a mobster, which I kind of don't hate, but it's the hooch pooches. Wow. I know. I know far

Pottymouth 57:03
away is that I like road trip

Patti 57:07
for the for the hooch pooches. Heck yes, we will get in a car and drive for hooch pooches. That's all I got. But I mean, like, here's all the ways that that our money is flying out the door or or MLB is trying to entice us to to send them all the money. All I want to do is buy a damn opening day ticket for the Orioles.

Pottymouth 57:27
God damn it, like what the fuck Orioles? I know we said this last week, and they still are not on sale. You know, still gotta buy a buy a buy a membership. I forwarded you the email today that you guys all probably had anyway, but it's a deal where you create what you predict to be the Orioles opening day lineup, and it enters you into a drawing for opening day tickets. So I'm like, All right, might as well enter, because that's the only like avenue we have right now. And it was actually difficult like, because who knows, Gunner Henderson is iffy, and so then what happens to the infield? And there's a lot of like, Huh? I don't know, wow, I put in my guests, so I think that you should too, and I will Betty, we know should I will do that? Fucking tickets to opening day? Yes,

Patti 58:11
yes. Okay, so we've got, like, two weeks for that, and then we got to get that done. And also, in two weeks is our 400th episode. Potty mouth.

Pottymouth 58:19
Isn't that crazy? Should we do something for it? This is 398, we have something, coincidentally, just queued up. That's what it is. I'm so excited. This is gonna be so much fun. I don't know, for those of you who have been with us for a while, we previously interviewed cat Williams when she had written a book lefty shit. What was her name over us. Thank you. The Cuban baseball player who was also in the All American professional girls professional league. I'm at the end of my year. There's a lot of words and letters there, but Y'all follow me. Kat Williams is amazing, and she has written a book now about Maybelle Blair, so the goddess of the A, G, P, B, E, L, yeah, sure. You guys know what is it called all the way, and I do need to start reading, because we're going to be interviewing her in two weeks. So please, please tune in for our exciting 400th episode. And those of you who are on our Patreon, that's p, A, T, R, E, O n.com/no, crying. B ball. If you want to join, please let us know if you have questions for cat Williams, if you've been following the All American girls professional baseball league and have and all the amazing things that Mabel Blair, who's, I believe, like 97 now, and still showing up at baseball for all events, and still throwing the ball like getting out there on the field with the girls. She is an absolute like living hero icon, and I can't wait to read her biography. Anyway. If you have questions, like we sure do, please let us know. You know, join our Patreon. We have very reasonable rates a. Dollar or more if you want a month, and you get the line to us,

Patti 1:00:04
yeah, for sure, for sure. If you've been listening in, you know who our picks are for the various teams, and you say, hey Patty, I really want to make sure you put this person in a short step or Hey, potty mouth, I know you picked 47 catchers this season, but you're assuming you should play. You can also let us know on social media. Padma, where else can they find us, besides Patreon? Oh

Pottymouth 1:00:23
boy. Social media is so much not fun these days. But you know, blue sky is really not so bad. So I would say start with blue sky and CIB podcast. You can go to the X if you want, but it's really a nasty place. We're also nciv podcast. There Facebook and Instagram. Slightly less on the nasty scale are and no crying and bee ball. And then there's the aforementioned Patreon, or you can just email us at ncib podcast@gmail.com and, yeah, let us know what you think for

Patti 1:00:50
sure. Um, do you have anything going on this week that we need to know about? Nope, I want to

Pottymouth 1:00:55
see ephes. Me too. Me

Patti 1:00:57
too. I got plans cooking. Maybe we'll loop you in. Okay, maybe we'll loop you in. That could be happening this coming weekend. I don't know. That'd be cool. We'll see. I'm excited tomorrow my work book club is gonna be talking about stealing home, by Eric Nussbaum, so I, you know, I work for the city, and I work in the housing slash planning department. If you haven't read stealing home, it's about how a Mexican American neighborhood was cleared the hell out plowed under to make room for Dodger Stadium. So it's my little Venn Diagram of housing policy and love of baseball, and the author is going to be joining us remotely to talk about that. So I'm really excited. You

Pottymouth 1:01:30
think you can get Tampa Bay ownership

Patti 1:01:32
to listen up? Like, right? That's exactly what happened. And yeah. So that's like, oh, it's like, telling your story too. Maybe somebody will write that book. Yeah. Oh my gosh, hey, so get boosted. Fight the man. Oh, my God, fight the man is the right thing to do. Send your game boss to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth, good night. Potty mouth,

Pottymouth 1:02:02
you all right. So anyway, that's you're very exciting.

Patti 1:02:14
You are very exciting all the time, all

Pottymouth 1:02:18
I don't know it's all crazy in it. It's.