No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Music, Hi and welcome to Episode 401 of no crying in baseball the it's like a hockey player playing episode. My name is Patti, and I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:27
Hey, there. How's it going?

Patti 0:29
It's going great. I just want you to know that the hockey player thing is actually a quote about one of my baseball boy friends. Oh, excellent. But there is hockey player news. Sure, those of you who pay attention the world of hockey or live anywhere in the Washington Metropolitan Area know that The Great Eight has overtaken the great one and has become the greatest of all time. Alex, bet you can has set the record with 895 lifetime goals in the NHL and NHL, which is super amazing. It's impressive, very exciting. It's quite the feat, quite the feet. Hey, all right, so the OVI watch is over. It's over. That's Ovi o watch. Now it's just about how high is he going to go? Because there's still some games left. Oh yeah,

Pottymouth 1:08
there's still some games left. I'm going to hold out hope the Bruins have not been performing the way that we would appreciate. But you know, it's not over yet. It's not over yet. I would like to give a big shout out to our newest Patreon friend, Alex. Thank you for joining us. And if anybody else wants to know what this scoop is on Patreon, just stay tuned till the end of the episode, and we will tell you all about it.

Patti 1:30
You had a big day yesterday. I did not do what you did yesterday, but I'm very glad that you represented us there. Tell us so

Pottymouth 1:36
y'all can thank me for the news not having to write 99,999 there were 100,000 people, is what they're estimating. In Washington, DC yesterday they're estimating also there was another 100,000 in New York City. And big old protests, not just all over the country, but all over the world. And these are the hands off protests, specifically, exactly so well. We were going in, and I was holding my poster, and we were waiting for some friends to get their shit together. Somebody walked by and said, What's this all about? And I just said, everything. I was like, this is everything. And that's the poster that I made. It says too much shit to fit on one sign. And then I wrote, like, little shits all over them all over it, which was like, you know, bring back dei and stop hassling trans kids, and, you know, every little issue, because there's so many, there's so many. And the the protest itself, the DC folks, when they applied for the permit, they applied for 10,000 people the day before the protest, because they knew it was part of this national thing. And usually the huge things in DC are when, you know, busses come down, and I guess there were some busses, but then they thought that we that a few days before was gonna be 20,000 and then it was just a mob of people all over around the Washington Monument. And most people couldn't hear because it was like this little stage that's on the premises with one sound system, no jumbotrons, you know, none of that like big so everybody in the crowd has something they just I don't think we're thinking it was gonna happen, but it happened, so we'll be better prepared next time. But it was cool. We snuck in. We like, you know, did the crowd snake thing, and got up and heard the second half. I missed Jamie Raskin, but I heard the congress people at the end. And then, you know, somebody from every organization, the ACLU, came in. They were the best. They were like the litigators are here, and the crowd erupted and sharing

Patti 3:23
for lawyers, although half people in DC are lawyers, so I guess you know, but still,

Pottymouth 3:27
I think that we're cheering for lawyers is is humorous, like we're just counting on the fucking lawyers, just counting on the lawyers and the justices. Yeah. So yes, that was the beginning, and there will be plenty opportunities for all of you to get out into the streets or and or pick up the phone if you can't get into the streets and just act we just need to keep the pressure on at this point for pick an issue, any issue. Yeah, I think

Patti 3:52
that's really important to say, if you are not comfortable going down to a protest, and I was actually with people yesterday who were not comfortable for a variety of reasons. You want to, like be out in a very public, contentious place like that. There are other things that you can do. You can network with local organizations as potty most like you can you can write, you can call, you can act local. There's, there's many away. So please, please don't hold back, even if you don't feel okay about being one of 100,000 people on the mall. Oh,

Pottymouth 4:19
absolutely. And I mean, I've been protesting for a very long time, and honest to God, yesterday was the first time that I had like a pit in my stomach, like, is something stupid gonna happen? Yeah, that's it.

Patti 4:30
I think it's weird. I'm actually really excited that out when people came, because I know a lot of people were thinking that same thing, yeah. Like, this is the time something goes wrong. Here we go on today's show, please notice my torpedo glass. We've got boyfriends featuring contract extensions, breaking some streaks and reaching a milestone. We've got a police blotter featuring peds. We have terrible predictions. We have torpedo bats or look shiny thing. We've got women in sports day and potty mouths, penance. Cheers. You. Hey, fighting about this. Hey, you said the word snake when you were talking about getting through the crowd. We're drinking a beer called Rainbow snake, which is from checker spot brewery, which is the one we go to in Baltimore, before oils games. But what's special about this one, besides that it's delicious, is it's it's in collaboration with the Maryland biodiversity project. So we're pretty excited to be doing a little bit of saving the world. At the same time, we're having a very, very delicious beer.

Pottymouth 5:27
Oh, sure. Drinking for a good cause is always a good thing. Again.

Patti 5:30
That can go on the list of things you can do if you don't feel comfortable going to a protest on a national mall 100,000 people, sure, sure. You could drink for a cause. And

Pottymouth 5:38
before I forget about it, on our Instagram, you'll see placed behind Patty's head. Probably I could have placed a little bit better. Is Kat Williams's book that we talked with her about last week. If you didn't hear last week's episode, run to it. It was fabulous. We

Patti 5:51
had such a good time talking to Kat about her new book. It was a joy for us. All

Pottymouth 5:56
right, so here we are this week, and we're gonna talk about the boys baseball boyfriends, the guys that just very recently, in the off season, we were picking oh so carefully. We each get one guy per team each year because we think they're cool for some reason, and hopefully they're also good at baseball. And then we keep an eye on them. And sometimes, you know, bring back guys from previous years, since we can't keep them. But sometimes, you know, we keep an eye on them because they're not guys that we get rid of because we have to. It's just that this is the way the podcast works. We pick new guys every year, except for one guy so very happy that, you know, and we do a lot of premature picks, or picking guys just at not the quite right time in their career. I'm happy that I feel like I picked Jackson Merrill, right? I'm feeling good about your timing on this one. He so he is my current baseball boyfriend from the San Diego Padres, and he just signed a nine year $135 million I want to be a Padre forever. Well, at least for a while, a good while, a contract with the team with a club option for 2035 I was like, holy shit. It seems like, you know sci fi years we're talking about here. It's interesting that a lot of critics are saying that that's low for him, that he could have held out for more. It sounds like a shit ton of money to me. He is a very highly qualified young man, despite the fact that, yes, he is still a young man in his second year of playing major league baseball, he was an all star in a silver struggle in his in silver Silver Slugger. I could

Patti 7:27
be a silver striker. I shrug with the best of them. You

Pottymouth 7:31
would be a gold All right, all star silver striker. So I can't fucking do it. I haven't even finished a beer last year. Maybe that'll help. And he also, hopefully this is easier to pronounce. He came in second place for rookie of the year last year to Paul scans, who was just, you know, what can you do? The extension talks had actually been on and off for the past two years. How can that be? So it's very weird. AJ Preller said that GM said that that was a first in his experience that they were talking to a guy, literally in single a about extension, that he was that special. So him waiting last year. It's unclear if it was the club waiting for more time or him waiting for more time, or a mutual thing, but it probably did get him more money, seeing as though he had those accolades from last year, he is off to a hot start in this, you know, very limited time we have, so it's skewed. But hey, 375, average, 1.025 ops with two home runs already. I want to give a big nod to a guy who I did not pick, but he is a Fave of our fantasy baseball boyfriend, fantasy league player for leftist field. That's the fabulous name of callan's team. And Callan and I have been cheering on Christian Campbell since the get go, hoping that he would do great things, and sure enough, out of the gate, he's doing great things, and he signed on for also very modest, eight year $60 million contract right before Saturday's game. So at the time of the signing, he had only played five games. In those five games, he had six hits, including a home run and five stolen bases. I think he's gotten another home run since then. Campbell said, this is a life changing opportunity. So this kid was not expected to be greatness. He did not get drafted out of high school, even though he tried. He red shirted his freshman year, so he didn't play freshman year, sophomore year. Played one year at Georgia Tech, and then he was drafted. So 23 2023 two years ago, not a lot of time in the minors. Craig Breslow, I don't know what the fucking title is. It's a GM kind of thing that they use other words for. Said what he was, was a good player who made himself a great player because of his work ethic and diligence and open mindedness and attitude. And I love. All of those words, I think that that's just wonderful, that they highlight and appreciate characters characteristics like that in a young player, and the kid looks like a baby, wears a little backpack. He's so cute. Sam Kennedy, I wear a little I do too, but I think, yeah, we're cute too. Sam Kennedy, the president guy, I guess that's his present CEO. I think he spoke directly in the in the press conference where they announced it. He turned to the kids, parents, and this is also the like, little kid with the backpack thing, and complimented them on the kid's humility. And some people are kind of pulling that like, Well, did you use that humility to take advantage of him and give him this low ball contract. Alex Cora kind of responded to that and said, You know, it's a personal decision. He said, Hey, quote this, I'm not in their shoes, and you're not in their shoes. And Christian said, it's life changing. It's life changing him. It's $80 million I mean, or $60 million for eight years, you know, $60 million that's a pretty good chunk of change there, I think for a lot of people. Interesting fact, through his first seven games, he is the identical stats as Raphael Devers in his first seven games with the Red Sox, which is his, you know, debut as well. Interesting, 500 base, percentage, two homers, four walks, four RBI and six runs. That's a lot of like, identical stats, which is kind of wild. That's crazy.

Patti 11:23
It's all the way across the board. I just want to throw in there for folks who are like, Oh, should have hold held out for more. Held out for more. One thing you have to consider is if more might be in a future year, right? Like not signing this year? Yeah, anything can happen. Yep. You could get injured. Bad things can happen. And you lose that security, and sometimes it really matters to lock that down now as an insurance policy. And again, $60 million is nothing to sneeze at. Yeah, maybe you could get more. Maybe, maybe something else happened, you know what? If you're that good, you're gonna get sponsorships, gonna get all kinds of all kinds of deals. That's fine, but think about that too. Nothing is a sure thing. You may not get better? Yeah,

Pottymouth 12:01
and he's still going to be relatively young after eight years. He's got to be, I didn't write it down. He's got to be in his early 20s. So we're talking 30 years old. You know, anything could happen. So the Red Sox around the streak signing people 26 hours before Christian got signed, Garrett crochet got nailed down for set six years, $170 million so that is a big chunk of change. He said all the right things to the Boston fans. Said that he's thankful to be in Boston. Wants to stay in Boston. And that's understandable, because he had a really good year with with the White Sox last year. You know, I wrote 23 but I'm pretty sure this is 24 when he had a 358, era. But ended up with six wins and 12 losses. So you know, that's what happens when you have a team that's not, you know, supporting you on those good starts, if you're letting up two runs, but, you know, but your team's not getting any runs, then, yeah,

Patti 12:55
that's why wins is less and less important as far as how people evaluate pictures anymore, because it's not on them

Pottymouth 13:01
exactly, exactly. So I'm happy to have Garrett crochet. Sam Kennedy, I love this quotation said after the two signings, would be happy to do this every day as long as people want to keep extending. And so my question to that now is, like Orioles, like I you know they're they're rivals, but, you're an Orioles fan, and I have a soft spot because they're here. And I'm like, these

Patti 13:24
guys, sign these guys, lock these guys down. I know, I know. I'm with you on this.

Pottymouth 13:28
So the D backs are also a lock the guy down. Team. They just signed keto Marte, who I picked in 2019 to a six year, $116.5 million contract, and they deferred $46 million which gives them flexibility to do stuff at the deadline this year if they need to do stuff at the deadline. So there's that, you know, I guess you can say Dodgers ask technique to kicking it down the road to free up some money. He this is actually his third extension with D backs, because he was traded there from Seattle before the 2017 season. Last year, he was third in NL MVP voting. So he's one of those. You know, you don't notice him, but he's doing really well. Kind of guys and the D backs are on the long term pattern. So they, they locked him down. They locked down Corbin burns for six years. They got Corbin Carroll for eight years. I just noticed that was two corbins in a row. Justin Martinez, their closer five years. And I'm hoping, you know, this is my pitching for fantasy. So hoping that bodes well. And coral deportomo for four years. So that's a lot of long term stuff going from the D backs. All right. To wrap up, my baseball boyfriend bit here I just want to put a little bit of a plea for having more walkers. So sometimes I have themes when I pick guys over the course of the season, and this year it's been a walker theme, because Junior Camero is pretty close to Spanish translation for Walker. I have Jordan Walker from the Cardinals. I have Christian Walker from Houston. And I just realized that we have. Two more walkers, at least out there. One is Walker, Bueller. Bueller, who is with the Red Sox. And I'm kind of happy and kind of nervous. Our friend Callan was there on his, his, his opener at home, his, it was the home opener. Yeah, both of them opening the home and the Bueller, and he got the win, but he did it with letting up five earned runs on only five innings pitched, and his era is now ballooned to 8.68 he is the first Red Sox pitcher. This is not a stat you want with five or more runs and the win on a home opener since John Lackey in 2011 who was also kind of a rocky guy, but did some great stuff with the Red Sox. He is recuperating from his second Tommy John. He had one in 2015 and one in 2022 so I'm a little nervous about Bueller. Bueller, but I do want to adopt him, because I feel, I feel like he's gonna get better. He's coming out of this surgery. He's also got some very endearing qualities and stuff that kind of I can relate to. So he grew up with divorced parents, and he was going back and forth a lot. His trip was longer than my trip. He went from Cincinnati to Lexington, Kentucky, and his grandfather kept giving him little medals of St Christopher, who apparently is a patron. So you'd know this better than me. You're gonna travel. Yeah, yep. So he kept losing, he doesn't cars a lot. I guess giving him into a kid is not nearly as stable, because he kept losing his patrons saying no travel. So he finally got it tattooed on his back as a child, I think once,

Patti 16:35
all right, six year old, he was one more time, tattoo on this, on your back. I didn't

Pottymouth 16:39
quite write it down. I think he was of age to decide by himself, but that would have been great grandpa's like bringing him into this too far like, All right, let's get this done. I warned you, great his his buddy, and this is the other like, potty mouths. As potty mouth esque thing is buddy Chad Martin, who's also a picture, but didn't make it quite so far. Described him in an old article as the perfect combination of meticulous along with not giving a fuck. I think that, you know, meticulous I can be in some areas and not giving a fuck, I can be a lot of areas. The other thing that I didn't write down is that he married his high school sweetheart, who he had known through elementary school. They kind of made a connection in eighth grade, and then started dating in high school, and my pattern is exactly the same. We were, you know, knew of each other in elementary school, connected in eighth grade, and then started dating at the very end of high school. That's

Patti 17:26
just spooky. Can I see you back right now? You tell me you have no chance. I don't believe

Pottymouth 17:31
no, especially not saying because, well, I wonder what I gotta think. Yeah, it couldn't hurt, right? Really, like, it's like, head you get

Patti 17:41
more Catholic than you. May be more Catholic than I am, and I grew up Catholic

Pottymouth 17:44
well, and I love that the Bueller like you know, I always go off on that. And he did mention that he had the Ferris nickname on his on his jersey when they did that with players weekend, and he would like to be able to do that again. All right, I gotta wrap up these pictures, but this next guy is also just near and dear to my heart, Taiwan Walker. So this is another Walker. I really wish I could adopt him, but he is a Phillies pitcher, and so those are yours, right? Do you have him? Actually, I don't have him. So I understandably why you wouldn't, because he had a pretty shitty season last year. He said, quote, It was a shit show. He was three wins, seven losses, with the 7.10 era. And the reason why there weren't more losses is because they sent him into the bullpen. That was the highest era for a Phillies pitcher with 75 or more innings since 1930 so very understanding why you wouldn't pick him. However, I like him as

Patti 18:38
a human, just Yeah, I like him as a human, but I'm amazing to not lose. So I

Pottymouth 18:42
so I was happy to see that he opened this this season with pitching the six scoreless selling innings for the Phillies against the Rockies, giving up only three hits and one walk. And then this is why, you know, I wanted to sort of bring him to the podcast attention is because it's a mom story. His mom was crying in the stands when he, like, came back and made this amazing start after stuff suffering so, so hard last year, and he said that the last time mom cried in the stands was last year when I got booed, which must you know, as a mom is super suck, and Phillies fans are not, you know, very gentle about stuff. I think it's interesting that Rob Thompson sort of had his back and said people don't see behind the clubhouse doors what he means to the club. So even when he was struggling, he was that guy in the clubhouse. And his mom talk about struggling. She was a single mom of four. Held it together. They often struggled. They there was one point where they were unhoused, living in a van for several months her and her four kids, she somehow struggled through that, pulling jobs together. She's a cancer survivor and the sad the I mean, horrible to begin with, but she didn't go for medical care when she first noticed a lump, because she didn't have insurance. Sure. Yep. So Thank. God, unusual, yep, yep. So so he Taiwan Walker, is a giving back kind of guy. He's involved in all sorts of great things. There's an article to be linked, and I want more walkers.

Patti 20:13
I gotta say, every time you say that, I picture the walking dead. I have this whole zombie thing going on in my head, like, oh yeah, the walkers. I was

Pottymouth 20:20
thinking of myself with, like, one of those walkers with tennis balls on the bottom, you know,

Patti 20:24
zombie, I'm going zombie, all right, okay. So a little bit about my boyfriends this past week, Wyatt Langford, my my Texas boyfriend, his name came up a lot with all of those extensions that potty mouth just talked about is, well, if those guys are getting them, it seems like Wyatt Langford is kind of in that same situation. Maybe he should get some offers here. Maybe, maybe that's happening. He definitely did the best on my fantasy team this week. And I think if you're going to factor that in, that's a real plus for he should be getting an extension, because he did sure the best on my team. He had a go ahead two run, home run versus the raise, which got Texas to their fourth straight win that same game, Jake Berger, my my previous boyfriend, hit a three run home run in the first these two guys are leading all of the batting stats for Texas right now. So Wyatt Langford is leading in batting average and home run home runs, and he's tied with Jake Berger for runs, and Berger leads an RBI. So a little bit more about Jake burger right now, Texas Rangers baseball foundation is now going to donate $31 for every burger Jersey sold at Globe Life field to the newly formed burger Foundation, which which Jake and his wife formed on World Down Syndrome Day last month, which was designed to support families like theirs through direct financial assistance therapy and community. So again, he keeps pushing that forward, being very visible, saying, this is part of my life. If it's part of your life, I want to help you. I want we should be together. We have, we have these things in common. It's really important people know about this. So that's very, very cool. Guy, James Woods, my Washington Nationals. Guy, tall man, yes, very tall man, that's very nice. Tall Man saved a Lourdes girl Jr home run at the top of the first the other day, and then the bottom the first had a two run double and scored a run. This is the game that that the NATs won four to three over Arizona, and if you're counting, James Woods was responsible for three of those four runs in that game, and it's all in the first inning that snap to four game losing streak for the nationals, so yay. And also, it's important to note that James Woods is still learning left field, so well done. Well done for that

Pottymouth 22:32
and with that region, I just want to give another shout to recommendation to follow if you're on X Twitter, whatever, follow his mom, she actually has started using her platform for other political issues, and she amplified one of the immigration situation with this guy, horribly sent to El Salvador, unjustly. And I, you know, appreciated that and commented as such great,

Patti 22:55
great Sal free, like, who's my Milwaukee Brewers boyfriend? Milwaukee is getting pretty entertaining for me right now. So they unfortunately broke a four game winning streak with an 11 to seven loss to Cincinnati on Saturday. But Sal was just a home run short of the cycle, which also today. Bobby Witt was a home run short of the cycle that was against the Orioles. That's where, okay, but that game, the game that they lost 11 to seven, Sal went Four for five with a double, a triple, two runs scored and an RBI. His batting average after nine games is 395 that's pretty high. His manager, Pat Murphy says that's who Sal is. He's going to get these types of results from time to time, but he's just, he's a scrapper, man. That's what he does. Nothing's pure about it. It's like a hockey player playing, you know what i There

Pottymouth 23:49
you go. And, you know, with a name like Sal, that's very believable,

Patti 23:52
sure. Jason Dominguez, my Yankees guy, had his first home run on Tuesday, and that's important, because that was the day when the Yankees broke the record for the most home runs in the first four games of the season was 17, and the two home runs to put them over were Jason Dominguez and Anthony Volpe, my previous Yankees boyfriend. And this is also notable because Jason Dominguez does not use a torpedo bat. Okay, all Yankees do, not only a handful of Yankees are using that bat. More about that later. Hey, Suz la sorry to one of my Phillies pitchers. I'm very excited about Him, because He handed the Dodgers their first loss of the season. He went seven scoreless innings, gave up two hits, two walks, and struck out eight of them. His previous start, he had 11 Ks, so he's doing okay. But another fun fact about that game that involves my previous police boyfriend, JT ramoto. It the game ended on a caught stealing, right? So JT ramoto to tre Turner, they they got Chris Taylor trying to trying to steal. Second, the last Philadelphia game that ended in a caught stealing was in 2012 been a while, kind of a fun ending, but it also was weird because JT noticed in. Ninth inning that he had cut his hand, like in the inning break, because he must have cut it on a water bottle. He didn't know until I looked down at the ball and it was, yeah, okay, so he glued the wound shut in the way that they do, yeah. And then, you know, threw Chris Taylor out and won the game. And his response to that was, it was exciting, sure. So there's that. As you know, my infield on my fantasy team is in deep. Doo. Doo. Thank you Yahoo for classifying people very narrowly as opposed to what their past history is. But this so I've got no third base, but not Zippo. So Jace young of Detroit got sent down to triple A, where he just went two for four with a 415 foot home run and a triple for AAA Toledo on Wednesday, through 15 triple A at bats. He's got an ops of 1.478 I hope that means he's coming up soon. Good boy, I would like to have a third sure basement. And lastly, congratulations to a friend of labor in happy who just played his 1,000th major league game on Saturday. All of those games were with the Chicago Cubs, and that makes him the eighth active player to play 1000 games with the same team. You know, that's rare, so it's pretty exciting. So congratulations to in

Pottymouth 26:17
how and raise your cup of coffee. Yes. Celebration, yes. Alright, I'm gonna do a brief police blotter, because I don't have a lot on this, but it's a past baseball boyfriend picking mine, so I felt sort of obligated to fess up and mention it also. It's a thing jerks and pro far sigh. I picked him in 2019 when he was with the A's has now been suspended for 80 days due to due to drug testing, due to a testosterone producing hormone that he was caught having ingested. That means that he could return on June 29 against the Phillies. It means that he loses a total of 5,806,400 million, $806,440 out of his $12 million salary for this year, which is what he's getting as the first year of a three year $42 million salary. I was just realizing that I was listening to should Eric hosmer's Podcast, where he was saying that, even though he kept saying he's my buddy, I got his back. We played together in the Padres. He also said that maybe guys with multiple year contracts should lose their contracts if they're getting caught like this, because there's not enough disincentive. Yeah, of a guy who knows that he's then getting paid $12 million next year or the next year to be really careful with the PED things interesting.

Patti 27:43
Just a little bit of fact checking before our we hear about it online. It's actually an 80 game suspension. Oh, not an 80 day suspension. It's actually a little bit longer than than 80 days. Thank you. Thank you. Not by a lot of it. They play almost every day, but it's a little bit different. Yeah, so

Pottymouth 28:01
this is just indicative of the woes of Atlanta, I think is shocking the world, yes, with just fucking collapsing, and this doesn't help, right? No, this doesn't help. So their outfield was kind of put together built for replacements, because Acuna is still out. He might be back in May. They're saying, I don't think he's had any rehab assignments yet. They did sign Alex Verdugo, so power to them. You know, who hung out there through pretty much the whole free agencies and without being signed. Fuck them. But they also have catcher Sean Murphy and Spencer Strider on the IL I think they're both due back pretty Yeah,

Patti 28:36
Sean's coming. Sean's back now. He's on my fantasy team, and he was, he just got released on the aisle, so

Pottymouth 28:42
maybe Atlanta is going to bounce back, but that was a pretty solid, rough start for them. And you know, this doesn't help matters much, and it just hurts me, because Profire had such a great year. Last year, he was such a great comeback story because he had been just a low level player for a very long time. He got to be like, the hot guy on the team last year. He gets to a new team, gets a big signing, and then fucks it up, right?

Patti 29:07
And this whole thing was, you know, I gotta get away from the padres, because they are fucked up as a team, yeah, the ownership and all of this stuff. I mean, like, like, at the ownership level, not the teammates. We ought to be very clear about that. That was definitely the whole front office ownership situation. He was like, oh yeah. And I'm, you know, happy to be rid of that. Well, dude, there you go. So we're doing this a week late, maybe two. It's because we have that lovely conversation with cat celebrate our 400th episode last week. But hottie mouth and I make terrible predictions. They're almost never right. Sometimes we get lucky with a couple of them. So here we go with this year's terrible,

Pottymouth 29:42
terrible prediction. So do not bet like your your savings on these. This is for entertainment

Patti 29:46
purposes only. Absolutely. So my American League, you know that my leaders here, ales, I'm gonna go with the Yankees. I wasn't gonna go with the Yankees because they had the you know, they lost. Pictures, right? Like, big, big, big pictures last miracle, and I thought, no, and then their offense has been amazing, and you can forgive a lot of pitching, you know, woes, if your offense is off the charts. So, you know, it pains me I'm playing this to be a real prediction, not of my heart, because it would be different if it was of my heart for the central I'm going Kansas City, because they are, they have heart. Yeah, they are so much fun to watch. They play hard, they play scrappy. They are a great they're so much fun to watch. They're also my pick for fun to watch. Team is as the Royals. Right now I went with Texas for my al West team and for wild card. This was a little, this was tough. And, you know, I considered, you know, being nice, you know, just to honor potty mouth a little bit, but understandable. But yeah, I think you there's enough coming from you that they're good. They're good. I'm going with Baltimore, Detroit and Cleveland. I'm picking two from the Central. The Central is almost a dead heat. It's crazy pants in the central so that may work against them. It may not work against them, but my wild card picks Baltimore, Detroit and Cleveland for the National League. Speaking of scrappy Philadelphia, got to go with them. I have all their pictures. Yeah, I like a bunch of those guys. So, yes, so hope, So, hope so. You know, honest to God, a few weeks ago, I said, Oh, it's going to be Atlanta. I'm glad we didn't take this a few weeks ago, because what the heck that'll be one heck of a comeback. I'm going Milwaukee for the central which is not what the numbers look like now. But again, the team is really interesting to me. I think they can come together. And you know what, the first couple weeks of the season don't necessarily show you what the whole season is gonna be. Gotta pick the Dodgers, because you gotta pick the Dodgers for the wild card, San Diego, San Francisco and the Mets. Do you wanna do your Sure,

Pottymouth 31:50
I'll do those too. So for the Al east, I'm doing exactly the opposite with you. I'm just going with my heart. I'm chasing the dream. And I'm gonna say the Red Sox, they've been very rocky for a starters. However, I'm just coming off watching them win an extras Holy shit, after almost blowing a really great opportunity, and I feel like they will get better when they have a full rotation. Right now, their pitching is really scrappy. I don't even know the fucking guy who they have starting tonight. They just pulled him up from triple A. He's got a 12 something era in his one game in triple A that just power to him, but giolitta will be healthy eventually. Bay will be healthy eventually. Kind of Crawford will be healthy eventually. And of those three, hopefully two will be good. That's my hope. That's all we need. That's all we need. Central, I'm going with your Cleveland guardians. They've had a little bit of a rocky games. But however, I just have a lot of love for Jose Ramirez, who had a three home run game, and it was his 26th multi home run game, which ties him with Oh Jim Tome and Albert bell for most multi home run game games for the Cleveland franchise.

Patti 33:04
Right. For the record, I adore Jim Tome and I cannot stand Albert Bell. So there you

Pottymouth 33:08
All right. Well, good, good player. However, there you go. All right. But Stephen vote, who I think we do adore. He says that you the rockiness is just because the roster needs to gel. They did actually have a little bit of shake up in the off season, and that's a nailer. Yeah, exactly. They lost a nailer, and they lost a fry. And, you know, stuff is stuff is happening, but he said that he is good at getting that done. So that's like, that was his strength last year, really, that, yeah, you know that, that collegiality, that camaraderie, and so I My vote is with vote again. Ale West, I'm going with Texas, for all the reasons that you said. Also, I think it's fascinating. Patrick Corbin has come to the rescue, perhaps because they were down a picture and they signed him very, very recently, they actually had him on a minor league deal, and they just brought him up. And who knows? You know, he has one World Series under his belt. Who knows what's going to happen? Native Aldi, this past week, pitched a fucking Maddox against the reds. 99 just made it. 99 pitches shut out. So and I love native Aldi. So there we go with Texas wild cards. I'm going Baltimore, because they're all sorts of great and I don't know why I picked Toronto. I just because they're doing well. And Al East also is very tight right now in Detroit, so I'm not too far away from you, actually, in the whole al East situation in the NL, I'm going with the Phillies, because, yes, they were the first to slay the giant of the Dodgers for the central I'm going with the Cubs. I'm fascinated by Kyle Tucker, who's in this home run streak with four straight games with a home run. And l West Dodgers, no comment, wild cards. I'm very similar with you, which is exactly the same San Diego mess and San Francisco. San Francisco is this is a premature pick of mine. Elliott Ramos, I picked like a couple years ago, and he is now coming into his his position. He has a streak of six games with an extra base hit, and Willie adamez over there as well. So a lot of a lot of hope for the Giants this year worlds. Wait, did we get that? No, we didn't get there yet. Wait,

Patti 35:22
yeah, so, real quick. So World Series, I Hate it. Hate to say it. I hate to say it. I think it's gonna be Texas Dodgers. Hate to say it, but I'm gonna say it okay, and fun to watch again. Like I said the Royals. I just, I cannot get enough watching those guys play.

Pottymouth 35:36
All right, so before we get to the prizes, I for the World Series, I just wanna What the fuck you know. I think something crazy is gonna happen, and I'm hoping so bad that the Padre Padres get there, because they've been so close for so long. Padres, Detroit, I hope you're right. Fuck wouldn't that be that would be so much fun. And I just think the Padres are gonna be fun to watch. Yeah.

Patti 35:57
All right, so Rookie of the Year this point, this is so tough. It really is. It's very tough. So I'm going Jason Dominguez as my, you know, my Yankees boyfriend. I'm amused I look at some of the betting sites just for giggles. And Jace young, who's my third baseman, who is playing in triple A right now. He's not even in the majors, is in the top 10, and COVID Mayo of the Orioles, who I adore, who's also still in triple A, is actually 10th on some of these lists. So I'm excited about both of them. I'm also kind of like, really, really, especially with Jason, you're like, really, and for for National League Dylan cruise, yeah, yeah. Do I do your

Pottymouth 36:39
Okay, I'll do my rookies. So hey, Callan, I'm gonna pick Christian Campbell, because what the fuck I just think he's adorable and super fun, and he is just already exceeding expectations. And I know rookies, you know, have their ups and downs, but Christian Campbell, I gotta pick a red sock for the National League. The only reason why I'm doing this is because I get to say Rookie of the Year, which rocky Sasaki. It's not original. I saw it somewhere, but I just think it's super cute. He had a couple of really rough starts. So this might be really stupid, but he pulled it together in Philly. Philly is not an easy place to pull it together, so I'm thinking that it's, you know, he had a rough beginning. He's coming into a new experience. He's a young kid. It's emotional, and he's going to get it together. I almost picked Bubba Chandler for the pirates also, so I could say Bubba, and also, because I feel like he's coming up, it's he's not up yet, and when he comes up, it would be just wild to have, like, back to back crazy pictures for rookie of the year. And, you know, he's got a good influence there with poskins. And

Patti 37:44
what I like is he found a way to say Bubba, even if you weren't saying bubba. Yeah, there we go. Perfect. MVP. I want to know that intentionally, neither of us picked Shohei Ohtani or Aaron judge, even though they're all, of course, the top of list. But I've got a little bit of burnout, a little bit of burnout on them always being at the top. And I'm wondering if the people who vote on such things right might also be experiencing experiencing a little bit of burnout. So oh, look at me going back to Bobby Witt Jr for Al MVP. He was actually second to Aaron judge last year, and I'm gonna go Ali de la Cruz for National League. He was eighth in voting last year, plus he just this week, picked up a torpedo bat. Oh, he did. He did more about that in just a minute. All

Pottymouth 38:28
right, so I'm gonna request that you link an article to Ellie de la Cruz about his English teacher. It's adorable, and I am so jealous because he credits her with why he's doing his interviews in English this year, and and another team has a comprehensive, not only English teaching, but high school GED type program. So damn it, I need to get it in gear and get into that action because that, oh my god, dreams, dreams, life goals. Okay, so my MVP picks, I was this close. You can see me this close to picking Bobby Witt, especially after his performance today. However, I'm going with Jose Ramirez because I was thinking, Oh, maybe he's too old for it, but he's the same age as Judge, exactly like he's a few months younger. And so if people are seriously considering judge Jose Ramirez should be seriously considered. He's been in the top five votes for MVP five times. And so here's another one where I feel like he's due and he just, you know, had that three home run game. So I'm hoping for Jose NL MVP. I gotta go with Juan Soto, because he was once my once and forever boyfriend, although I let him go when he left our nationals, but I'm happy now that he has left the Yankees. And I think it's very humorous that Yankee Stadium now spontaneously, when they're not playing the Mets, a rope erupts into a fuck Juan Soto chant. So. It's kind of like Fenway with the fuck the Yankees chant, regardless which

Patti 40:03
that's, that's, you know, a whole ritual, as opposed to attacking an individual, right? Interesting, right?

Pottymouth 40:08
And that and that Yankees play, the Yankees fans are pissed at him going for this very lucrative deal instead of staying with the team. And it's like, Hello. Have you seen how your team operates in the past? You guys have money, maybe a little, maybe a little

Patti 40:25
self awareness that, yeah, all right. Cy Young, I think school is going to repeat. Wow. And Zach Wheeler, who, you know again, I have Philadelphia for my guys. He finished second last year to sale, and he finished second in 2021, to burns. And I think that always surprise me, doesn't mean I think it's time. I think it's time. It's gonna

Pottymouth 40:44
be Zach this year. Yeah, those are both good. I mean, Cy Young, I don't think I've ever had become close, but I'm gonna go with Garrett crochet, because watching him, oh my God, he's really good. He's young. He's gonna get it at some point. So why not now? And no, why not Paul Skeens. Am I saying that? Right? I always put skeins in his eyes. Yeah, you know, yeah. Anyway, he's good. All right, hey,

Patti 41:06
so folks said Patty will tell us about torpedo bats. Yes, people have been asking So Patty is gonna tell you about torpedo bats. All right, the reason torpedo bats are a big deal is because they are not named bowling pin bats. They are shaped like a bowling pin, right? Not, they have been referred to as bowling pins in shape,

Pottymouth 41:25
right? Where did they get the neat That's fascinating. So torpedo,

Patti 41:30
it's it's shiny, okay? So absolutely fits the rules for bats. There are very few rules for what makes a bat legal in Major League Baseball, it can be no more than 2.61 inches right in diameter at the widest point, right? It doesn't say where that widest point has to be. That is the important part here. And it can't be longer than 42 inches. And it's got to be round and smooth. You can't have, like, you know, a weirdly, you know, square shaped, you know, rough hewn, like, you can't swing a tree low, right? It's gotta, you know, it's gotta be Shabbat, but it doesn't like it. Those are really the only rules about it. The thing about a torpedo bat is it puts the most mass of the bat lower on the bat. So when you say, Oh, he really barreled up the bat, right? The barrel is the fattest part of the bat. Not all hitters are good at hitting in that spot. Some of them regularly make contact lower than where the barrel is on a traditional bat. So the torpedo bat lowers that like six or seven inches and that. So that torpedo best not for everybody. It's for those batters who tend to make contact with the ball lower on the bat. So they have the advantage of hitting on the barrel when the barrel has been moved to a place that makes sense for that, right? So that gives you the bowling pin shape, right? It's a little skinnier at the top, and then it kind of, you know, it bows out a little bit lower than you expect on a traditional bat. There's also a suspicion that it might increase the bat speed, because it's thinner at the top than a traditional bat. It may be that like that part is going to slice through, you know, the air faster and make your bat spin. Bat speed is really the thing that makes the ball go very, very far. So that's that's important. Okay, so, why did this just happen last week? Yeah, right. So during the Yankees game, a Yankees announcer noted the bats while they were hitting a lot of home runs, and said, Oh, hey, look, look at, you know, look at jazz chisholms bat. That's, you know, that's the torpedo bat. You know, a couple of guys are using that. He used the word torpedo bat. Shiny thing happened, right? It's like, Wait, what is that? Okay? Can we do that? Is that legal? How are they all? They must all be using it, everybody? Oh, maybe only the in because everything spun out. Everything spun out because he said that one thing in truth, versions of moving the barrel around, a little bit like changing where the heaviest masks that has been happening for years. A lot of versions have been tried out since 2021 the current style, the one that you see happening right now, have been used by some players since last year. Okay, right? You'll see if you, if you're a Yahoo fantasy player, you'll note that now those the players have, and I checked our, yeah, our teams with the highest number of pits, one or two. I've got one. I've got

Pottymouth 44:23
one. I noticed that it's nobody's got a bug. You can click on it and it says, torpedo bat, yeah.

Patti 44:28
And so it's not making a huge difference, like over a whole team, right? But it might make a difference for that battery. That's where they typically make contact with the ball. Is a little lower than on a traditional bat. So interestingly, on opening day this year, eight teams has at least one person, at least one player, using a torpedo bat. Since all this fuss happened a week ago, all 30 teams have placed orders for some of their players for torpedo bats to at least try them out. So like I. The Nationals, right? Nathaniel Lowe, low, I can never do it. And this one's low, this one's low, right? Okay, so Nathaniel Lowe, tried, he was one of the guys who tried out a torpedo bat when they were first, like, testing them, and he didn't like the feel. That wasn't great for him, right? And he said about this whole buzz right now, he said people just started throwing a fit because A, it's the Yankees, right? And B is a different shape. On the other hand, Ellie de la Cruz tried one, got one on Monday this past year, like two days after this, all happened, right? And he threw a career. He had a career game that night. He had four hits, including a double two home runs and seven RBI. So he must be one of those guys who tends to make contact a little lower than on a traditional bat, and it works for him, right? So the bat manufacturers are swamped usually, oh my god. They're like, they're easy time. Their relaxing time is right at the beginning of the season, because everyone's worked out their batting needs during spring training. Yeah, and they get a minute to chill. They do not have a minute to chill right now. They are swamped. There is no downtime. My favorite quote that I read they I saw lots of interviews with people from different bat manufacturers. So Chuck Shoup, who used to be at Louisville Slugger for 30 years, wow, he now is worth Chandler bats, he said. But I look at it this way, it's all good news. The Final Four is this weekend, and we're talking about bats, yeah. So that's pretty exciting. So that's the story about torpedo bats. I think it makes a difference to individuals. I don't think it makes a difference to teams as a whole, all right,

Pottymouth 46:33
and it's legal, sure. That sounds all right. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens and and, you know, just making some guys do a little bit better seems like a nice thing. And

Patti 46:44
why is your beer glass that you gave me shaped like a torpedo, right? You know, the barrel is lower than I would expect, but I'm, I'm not. Maybe I'm

Pottymouth 46:53
it works. Maybe I'm hitting the beer harder. Yeah, I think I was. I think according to Mr. Potty math like that, that's that shape helps the aromas come out. I don't know. There's something to do with curvy glasses, or better for beer, yeah, but the curves are in different places. That's true. That's why I don't get right? You just get the torpedo one, I don't know, or the bowling bowling pin one, right? If

Patti 47:12
you said, Oh, look, it's a bowling pin bat, nobody would have called these bat companies. I need a bowling pin bat, yeah,

Pottymouth 47:17
except for people in Massachusetts, because we candle pinball, and those candle pins are shaped like candles, not like that. Speaking of Massachusetts, so many, which I do once in a while, I just want to say that the best promo ever is happening next week in Worcester with the woo socks they are having uni bank women in sports day. Wait not Ladies Night. Isn't that nice that we can say women in sports day? I never want to hear a fucking ladies night again in a baseball stadium. There is no need to do ladies type of stuff when we can put a spotlight on what's happening with women in sports. So they're starting off with a lunch. So this is like a special ticket that you get before the game. That's happening at like 4pm there's a lunch with ballpark designer Janet Marie Smith. If you haven't looked her up, please look her up. She is so impressive. She's an architect, urban planner who's been involved in both of our teams that we love, both Camden Yards and Fenway parks, reworking both the Oh spring training and the new wussoc Stadium and so much more. So. Then after she speaks, there is the plural women of the woo socks front office who are going to be speaking. Many of these women who are now working with the woo socks were captains of college sports teams. And then after that, you get the opportunity to be quote interviewed, you know, like a mock interviewed by the woo sock sideline reporter, whose name is Natalie Nori, and she also covers the professional women's hockey league games for Ness in the New England Sports Network. Is that all, no wait, there's more. Cocktails are involved. This is like a perfect day at the park for us. Can you imagine cocktail hour and you get a professional headshot taken by the team photographers who are both women, Ashley green and Taylor Bulldog, and the first 150 tickets bought get the coolest t shirt promo ever. It says, and I quote, girls who play sports become women who lead. I want the shirt on a t shirt. It might be sold out by now. The game is happening on April 12. Run to your computer and see if you can get tickets. I'm going to be in Massachusetts days after that. So this kind of pains me, but yes, I never want to see ladies night again. This is what I want to see. This is what I want to see, spotlighting women in so many areas of the sport, you know, everything from designing the ballpark to being a reporter on the field to having played sports in college and so many good things. All right, do that. So another woman who is. Is an absolute idol to many of us. Who has been breaking barriers. Is Kelsey Whitmore, last seen playing for the Oakland ballers is now trying out, and so I my fingers are crossed, trying out for a professional team in Mexico. This is a legal de Mexico, the Liga Mexicana de baseball, which is the league that's happening right now, while MLB is happening. So it's their professional baseball league, very high level. This is where I'm not going to mention names, because a lot of them are the ones that are coming to my mind, are guys that I don't want to think about. But a lot of former MLB players have played in this league. She was invited by the team Aguilar Veracruz to try out, so just getting invitation, I think that is hot shit. Their season opens April 18, so maybe the decisions have been made by the time you hear this, but just trying out for a professional team in Mexico is breaking another barrier. You can see stuff both on her Instagram and at El Aguila baseball, who've been promoting her trying out. One more thing, just to check in our show notes, is an article about the Eastern women's baseball fuck. I should have written what their what their stands for conference. Thank you. Eastern women's baseball Conference, which is a group of women's teams in this area, and they range everything from their inter league play, where they have teams from different places in Maryland and Virginia and DC, where anybody can play. You know, it's very open to women, young and old, but women playing baseball. But they also have a travel team which is more elite and goes around the country playing regional and national tournaments. And they were recently spotlighted, and I think it's a CBS article, but it's really lovely just to put a spotlight on women's baseball happening. You know in your backyard that you can support excellent

Patti 51:51
our backyard, our backyard, but our backyard is big enough to share, so please get into our backyard. That would be fun. We can have a cookout. We can play Cash, sure, or go see you in a game. Yeah, yeah. Actually, that is true. If you are in our neighborhood and are going to announce game or an OS game or a minor league game within like shouting distance, let us know, because if we're going to be there, we'd love to say hi. Absolutely, our fantasy league has been shook Yeah. Things have happened every day this week. Things have happened this week, pandemonium has taken over first place. It's so appropriate, pushing down bonus boyfriends to second. But the biggest news is bring back. Renault came from 11th place last week to come to take over third place that's gigantic, pushed wicked, awesome team down to fourth. Leftist field is in fifth, hanging on to a spot in the top five. So very exciting things. It's changes all the time. I can't believe I am number seven because I have no freaking infield. I'm just saying and congratulations, potty mouth, you're not in last place

Pottymouth 53:01
anymore. Yeah, but I feel really bad to have I don't want to be above the Canadians in the basement, so I'm very pro team Canada. Go Canadians and hang in there and I appreciate the Canadian team. Can I just say the Canadians in the basement sounds like a David Letterman skit? It's like the guy under the stairs the Canadians in the basement? Yeah? I mean that with love, yeah. And ironically, we're the ones who are going to be in the Canadians basement when we have to hide out. We absolutely are fucking country. Some of

Patti 53:26
our best friends are Canadians with basements. Sorry,

Pottymouth 53:32
I hope so, because they need to, they need to put a little cotton there for us. All right. Speaking of being in the basement, this is my plan. So as I said, I'm going to be cheering on my Red Sox. I'm hoping that that they get first places, or that they, you know, take the L East. I do not have high hopes of them going much further, but I do feel like I need to. And I've learned this word from you to to make, to plan for my penance, to repent for having two homophobes and an abuser on the team, and I really, really, really hate that, especially today's Chapman. Really like, save the day today, so fuck that. I do also am now pledging because I haven't done it yet. I want to write notes to them all, like maybe an old fashioned letter, maybe an email, but I would really like to request them to show evidence of their penance, because I would feel so much better if they were doing this. Also, can

Patti 54:24
I note this is based on a model from queerfancy stats, who we talked to many years ago, who has been a really good role model for how to continue to love your team, even when your team has players on it that go against everything you stand for. Here's a way to manage that. And

Pottymouth 54:43
I think they started it when Daniel Murphy was coming out with the homophobic shit, when he was on the Nationals. Well,

Patti 54:49
it's when he came, well, when he came over from the Mets, because he was that happened then, and when he came to the nationals, they said, Okay, what the what the fuck am I gonna do? And that this was the plan.

Pottymouth 54:59
So I absolutely. Appreciate their model. They were way better at math than me. Like, I know they had, like, equations involved. I can't deal with equations, so I went with, like, just direct dollar figures. And I'm figuring I'm, like, coughing up cash for three guys. So it's gonna add up and it's gonna go to good places. So for for both Jaren Duran and Sean Newcomb, who Duran, you know, famously made an out loud, terrible homophobic comment last year that you know, despite the fact that he's done a lot of other really positive things, visiting kids in hospitals and speaking out for mental health struggles, I have not seen evidence of him dealing with what clearly was something that he must have said a lot. You don't just come out with that, so I would like to see some penance from him. But in the meantime, I'm going to be paying $1 for each RBI and two bucks for each home run to Bagley, which is a Boston Area organization for gay and lesbian youth, and beyond. Same for Sean Newcomb, which I looking into him. So he was with Atlanta when we found out about his horrible so so many homophobic comments as a teenager, but still, there were so many, and he's just got to recognize it and do better before I can let him off the hook. He's actually from Massachusetts. Ouch, from Brockton, south of Boston. He is right now in the starting rotation out of desperation. I believe so, 10 bucks a win, because I don't think he's going to get that many of them. But, you know, who knows if he has a crazy year? Good for Bagley row, this Chapman, I'm going to split the money that I pay $5 to save, which might add up, because he's already got, like, three, I think, between a recommendation from one of our friends and listeners Callen, who mentioned the Sojourner House in Providence, Rhode Island, which sounds like a wonderful organization. I also wanted to give a nod to Rosie's Place in Boston. That has been it's, it's one of the longest women's shelters in the country, longest longest in surviving, right, longest lasting. And I knew about it when I was a kid. So having something in Boston plus something recommended by a listener is, I think the way to go. That's where I'm going to do so I invite anybody who is a fan of a team where you have issues with maybe some of the comments or actions of some of your players to do this and then publicize it. Tweet about God. I hate that word, not tweet, post whatever. Put it out there, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, put it on whatever social media you like to use. Blue Sky is a lovely place, and, you know, do stuff.

Patti 57:34
I'm impressed. Thank you for doing that. That's that's really very meaningful, because I know how much you love your team, and this is an excellent way to to manage that and to accommodate that. If you can beat your team into submission, to just get it together and not keep these guys on the roster, yep, yep, for sure. If you do follow this model, please let us know about it. You can find us on social media in many places. Sure,

Pottymouth 57:58
blue Sky's a good place, and it would be ncib podcast. Also, I will check the X messages, but it's Yeah, fuck Elon Musk, if I haven't said that already, just just what a dick weed asshole anyway. So okay, get off. Sell your Tesla, please, people. And then there's Facebook and Instagram, which is no crying and be ball. And then Patreon. Patreon, we have lovely people on Patreon. We appreciate you guys so much. That's P, A, T, R, E, O n.com/no, crying and be ball. We put up a little bonus bit that we did with cat Williams, and we are very open to suggestions of things that we can add to Patreon to make it worth your while, but most people on there are on there because they're just, they like us, and it's really sweet, and I appreciate that so much, so much.

Patti 58:47
Yeah, and a big thank you again, we've made it to Episode 401 could not have done it without you, listeners. Thank you for your support and for making us feel a little bit, you know, like, like we're bringing something into your lives, and thanks for sharing that with us. So please get boosted. Fight the man all the freaking time, whether you do it at a with 100,000 people on the mall or you do it from the comfort of your own home, yep, fight the man and send your game balls to Meredith. Are they just we don't know, but Meredith can figure it out, and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth, good night. Pine mouth. You

Pottymouth 59:35
in Your tone, yeah, well, pre atone, prepare for atoning. Right? Plan for tone free, tone free tone before I a tone.