No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Music, Hi and welcome to Episode 403 of no crying in baseball, the nervous yet super anxious episode. My name is Patti, here with my friend, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:27
Hey! That used to be me, sort of on a regular basis, as I like chugged the end of our my starter beer. So you want to say what our starter beer is. Yes, this is all very exciting. It is very exciting, very delicious, too. This was inspired by my recent trip, and here I am opening the backup, which we're gonna split. So I will pour half here, inspired by my trip to Fenway pack recently, and it is Dogfish Head and shit. I should take the koozie off so I can read the name of the beer, something to do with Grateful Dead juicy Pale Ale, I think. Let me see. Yeah, Grateful Dead juicy pale How about that for Wow, I love a descriptive name, yeah. So that's what it is. So I went to Fenway pack on Friday night, and it was Grateful Dead night, and it was so much fun because that's my Venn diagram, right? So they also planned perfectly with the weather, which is really hard to do on the east coast. But it happened, we got puffy vests and beanies, which was exactly what we needed. Everything was kind of tie dyed the beanies, like, I wasn't going to take it off. It's got the dancing bears in the front with wearing red sox hats. Oh my god, it's so perfect. Yeah, I will, I will show you the puffy jacket we actually, we went in early and we put on our very large size, small puffy jackets, and helped people in line behind us to ascertain what size to get. I'm guessing that the smalls went really fast, because the helper, they were sure, you know, it's like at a dead Show, everybody helps each other, but he's like, friendly. And we were in there early, and so we got to, you know, scope out our dark and stormy that we had to have because it was still Passover. So that's why I'm so excited right now to be drinking this beer, because it was, it is not. We actually broke Passover last night with beer and pizza, which is like the traditional Yeah, but we went out for it. So I went out and bought I was so excited to find this right here in silver spring. And we have the koozies that we got at Fenway, and so that's lots of fun. Oh, and by the way, the Red Sox won that night. It was a great, great base. It was just a beautiful night for baseball. It was cool, except for the puff, you know, the puffy vest and the beanie helped with that. We had great seats in the pavilion boxes, so a little bit high, but nowhere near as high as most other ballparks, and we could see everything. And we saw three home runs over the monster, and we are facing the monster. So it was so cool to just see the balls fly right over the monster. I'm

Patti 2:53
guessing those were all hit by Red Sox, where you would not have loved so much watching the balls go over the wall. Yeah,

Speaker 1 2:57
I'm pretty sure. So Trevor story hit two home runs that night. Oh my god, like he is. It's such a happy story. These days, he went one over the monster and one into the outfield. Another one was Sadan Rafaela, and then the third was the catcher, novayas, who I think it was his first home run that was very exciting. Andrew Ben in tendi was also hit a home run. I was thinking that the Red Sox fans, we'd show him a little bit more love, but not so much, not so much, especially after the the home run. So it was exciting. I want to go back to Fenway pack. It was really good. You always want to go back to family time. I do, and I want to go see the Wilma socks. And today. So today was the big day. Today was Patriots Day slash Boston Marathon day. Oh, we're recording on Monday. We usually record on Sundays. But I was traveling, yeah, on my way on a friend of mine at work

Patti 3:46
said, What do you mean? You're recording? Oh, did you take yesterday off because it was Easter? I'm like, we've recorded on Christmas, we've recorded on Passover. We've recorded on like, holidays, like crazy. No, it's just a travel day, yep. And then I said the word church of baseball, and she laughed. And I'm like, it's not really a it's a thing. Yeah, it's a real thing. Absolutely, is that a good thought joke?

Speaker 1 4:04
So today, yeah, today is Patriots Day, Boston Marathon day, yesterday. Also Easter. Well, speaking of holidays, Easter coincided with 420 which is all sorts of holidays. So Happy belated. 422 people who celebrate. But also it is our fucking city day in Boston. And so there was lots of coverage when we were listening to the Red Sox game on the way home yesterday. There's lots of throwbacks and just, you know, people idolizing basically David Ortiz and the guy on W E, I said, and I quote, This is so Boston that it was the most G rated F bomb that the city has ever seen, because nobody criticized him. But I mean, it's Boston also like and of course, I was thinking of you when we sat down. There was, of course, the preschooler next to me, and I look at Adam, and Adam looks at me, and I was like, but we're in Boston. And sure enough, after, I don't know, home run number, whatever, the Yankees suck. Jim. Um, erupts, and the slightly older brother of the preschooler joined in with the Yankees suck. Jen. I thought, you know, this is, I'm in Boston, whatever last thing I would say about 420 I think I needed, I should have verified this. I saw it briefly, but that Cody Bellinger homered for his third consecutive 420 which seems to sort of be like the Tyler O'Neill opening day, kind of relationship

Patti 5:23
in a wholly different personality. Sure, any any photo you've ever seen, like, yeah, he's hovering today, for sure. Yeah, for sure. Speaking of small children, oh yeah, we've got happy news. That's great. Congratulations to the Otani family of Shohei Ohtani and Mama code Tanaka, who announced on Saturday via Instagram, the birth of their baby daughter. Shohei said, I'm so grateful to my loving wife who gave birth to our healthy, beautiful daughter. To my daughter, thank you for making us very nervous. Yes, super anxious. I like how those things are like, it's supposed to be, like, mutually exclusive, yeah, super anxious parents. And it was very sweet. Just showed the picture of her tiny, tiny feet, or tiny feet being held by an adult hand, and then also the little pup was in the in the photo as well. We don't know the baby's name, but we don't have to, because none of our business, okay? But congratulations, yeah, I feel

Speaker 1 6:13
like the announcement of the pregnancy and the announcement of the birth came really close together, yeah, so I don't think you know. I don't think we found out the day they found out. Yeah, I think they sort of like pace that out a little bit. Well, everyone's talking about the potential dad power. ALEX BREGMAN actually also had a baby last week, and I was we saw him the night after that, and I was all excited for some braggy bombs. Dad power, zero. He had zero. Dad power the day before the birth. He was five for five, so I think he just got it back.

Patti 6:43
He just did it too early. Yeah. So I'm thinking that this, this baby, this this child of superstar, oh 20 and professional basketball player Namaka. Tanaka is going to like the gene pool. Oh my god. This child is going to excel in whatever they want to do, anything and everything, anything and everything,

Speaker 1 7:02
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Patti 7:20
on today's show. We've got Jackie Robinson day and the day after, we've got boyfriends featuring Ouch, a bunch of Ks, and lessons in both math and music. We've got fingers being used for good and for evil. We've got teams doing the right thing, and captains are captains. Cheers,

Speaker 1 7:39
cheers. We're so poetic and also warm man that like, the season feels like it just changed this afternoon here,

Patti 7:46
I know, like, I'm wearing, like, a sleeveless dress, and like, this is, like, two days ago I was in like, the heftiest hoodie I owned. I don't know what's going on be able to wear my beanie. I mean, it just, if you can take the, you know, climate change out of the equation with extremes, lovely day. Yeah, absolutely. So let's talk about Jackie Robinson Day, which happened this past week. So as you might know, Jackie Robinson was signed by the Dodgers. So the Dodgers are kind of like the home team for Jackie Robinson day, and they do a celebration before the game in front of the Jackie Robinson statue on the plaza, and they had Kareem Abdul Jabbar as one of the speakers, and he had a lot to say, and I like what he had to say, so I'm going to share some of his words with you. Which are, Trump wants to get rid of dei and I think it's just a ruse to discriminate. Now, time out, I don't think it's a ruse to discriminate. I think it's flat out discrimination. I think ruse is irrelevant there. But okay, but thank you. Thank you for saying the words so I'm glad that we do things like this to let everybody in the country know what's important. Jackie had an idea of what we had to confront. We had to confront segregation, and in many ways, we're still confronting it, yep, but it's worth it. Couple things going on now. So MLB, if you remember a few weeks ago, we talked about how they removed references to the word diversity on their career pages, although technically maintaining their pipeline programs. And what, what? The gist of that is, they, they say that, no, we're still committed to ensuring, quote, all kinds of candidates receive opportunities. That's not changed, but they don't want to risk a lawsuit or put as many Republican donor owners under the White House scrutiny in order to do it. So that's yucky, and they didn't need to do that. And yet, they did it. And also, there's the other side, where the Dodgers are taking a lot of world deserve flack for going to visit the Trump White House, and so we know all the reasons why they shouldn't. An interesting take on it is Mookie Betts. So I wanted to share that, because this is not, this is a less obvious take on all of this. He said, being black in America in a situation like this, it's a tough spot to be in, no matter what I choose. Some. One's going to be pissed, someone's going to have an opinion. I told them I needed to think about it. Nobody else, nobody else in this clubhouse has to go through a decision like this, except me. That was super meaningful to me. It's like, oh shit,

Speaker 1 10:13
wow. He's the only one that's crazy for Jackie Robinson's team. That's, yes, that says a lot about the need for these programs with MLB, like, what the fuck if they don't? But fuck emphasis on the diversity program. So

Patti 10:26
the next day, Wednesday, clueless Rob. Rob Manfred, okay, the Commissioner of baseball, the clueless Rob goes to the Trump White House to meet with the President. There's not and no one found out right away. There used to be like the White House, that here's the agenda for the President today. This was discovered later. So after the fact the White House, you know, first, first Rob, in an interview with Forbes magazine, Rob Manfred said what Jackie Robinson stands for was moving us past an overt kind of segregation that I don't believe anybody actually supports today. And then he goes to the White House, to the guy who is like making this try to be a law, to support this segregation and oppression and all of this as we met with Trump and the trump the White House comment on their their statement, and said President Trump's a long time fan of baseball, as he has done in the past. Commissioner Manfred was pleased to visit the White House again to discuss issues pertaining to baseball with the President. So who knows? I mean, the President was doing that weird pardoning of Pete Rose, which he's got no business doing, because it's not about him. He's got no juice. He's got no no dog in this fight, no no whatever. And yet he's inflicting himself. So I don't know if I had to do it with that. I don't know what it was. I don't know if it was patting Rob on the head, saying Good boy to, you know, making baseball, you know, America's game, and not talking about all those scary little you know, things about diversity and inclusion, because we don't want any of that. Anyway, I'm ranting, but that's the Jackie Robinson day report for this week.

Speaker 1 11:59
It's worth a rant. And, you know, he has not done a first pitch, and I think that that's because he knows he will not be kindly received, especially in Nationals Park. It would not go well. I think

Patti 12:12
he probably also can't throw a strike, which, I mean, I don't know if I could. Well, yeah, my one, I did. I actually did, there's a very loopy, you know, it

Speaker 1 12:22
still counts, and you've got one up, all right. So I'll tone it down a little bit, little and political stuff for a brief moment. We're gonna go to and maybe not, I don't know. I need to look at my notes. We're gonna go to our baseball boyfriends. These are the guys that we picked in the off season because there was something cool about them, and now we are stuck with them for this season because we have our fantasy baseball for what it's worth, which is lots of fun. But, you know, people get hurt and shit happens, and I pick some of my players for certain reasons, including their names, and so I get to say what the puck, which is exactly why I picked AJ, Puck. I didn't really want to say what the puck in this situation. I wanted to be like, Oh, Puck and cool or something. You know, when he did something great, but he is on the 15 day, IL, you wanted the puck, yeah, but you got the puck. No, exactly, yeah, yeah. That's, that's exactly it. Left elbow inflammation. He had his MRI today. I didn't check to see how it went. He already had Tommy John in 2018 he had been having a good season. He had converted all four of his save opportunities. He had been splitting the closer position with Justin Martinez, who now has it all to himself, and he better fucking get it together, because that's my closer now I had to do a sub, because I have so many guys on the i l that I really needed to fill it in. And so I was blindly deciding between two guys that they brought up from AAA. So it wasn't just Puck, Puck and up, but there were two guys that in the in the game that I'm about to mention, I guess did pretty shitty, and got sent down. And so they brought up JP fireeyson, I think I said it right, isn't that right? I think. And Dre Jameson and I was deciding between them totally blindly, without looking at their records, because I remembered fire icing from when he was with Tampa, being on the good side of that argument, when some of the players were against pride night, and he was one of the good guys. And I was like, okay, good guy. Okay, here we go to politics, right? So, like, you choose based on being a good guy. And then Jameson, I felt like, Oh my God, I need some Jamison, right, right? This,

Patti 14:38
that would have been my initial thought. If I'm gonna pick by name, it's gonna be, you know, I prefer to drink the James,

Speaker 1 14:44
yeah, I went with fire, ice. And because I was like, I out and, you know, just trying to get the it on before the the game started. So he's gonna be debuting with the D backs. He was in the minors for a bit. He played with brewers, the rays and the Dodgers. James. Listen, hasn't been in the big league since 23 so I'm thinking maybe I picked. Well, I'll be it blindly, but we'll see what happens anyway. That's injury number one. Injury number two is my Rockies guy, Ezekiel Tovar, got rocked, not in a good way. So here's another one, like, I love, you know the puns and like rocking and the free used to be free world. He's not rocking. He got rocked. He is sidelined with a lip, left hip contusion that started in the very first series that they had. And I think it was actually against the rays, where he fell on it and then kept falling on it. You know, shortstops do shit like that. And so they said, you know, he's just gonna get a rest. Hopefully it's going to be a real 10 days, not an IL 10 days, as they tend to be, retroactive to this past Wednesday. Now he got on the IL the morning before they lost to the nationals, 12 to 11, which was almost a comeback, because they were down 12 to two, and they made it all the way back to it 11. As a nats fan, I'm very glad it didn't go any further. But, man, that must have been painful for all those Rockies people to come back so close. But also, like, what a fun game to watch. That must have been crazy highlights. I also have guys doing good things. Another short stop. Well, I feel okay. Here's where I feel like I jinxed it. I know Mr. Potty mouth reminds me all the time that I am not powerful, and that is so powerful. So this is what I'm afraid of. So I started doing my notes Saturday night before we left, and I checked Xavier Edwards, who I hadn't been looking at very much. My shortstop on Miami, he was on a hitting streak 12. It was his 12th day of hitting Saturday night, and I put it in the notes. And of course, he didn't hit today, yesterday, Sunday's game. So they won Miami, beat Philly in 10 innings, but Xavier Edwards lost his streak. So I should know not to do my notes early. I get a progression also.

Patti 17:02
But I just want to say that I think that saying you don't have any power, I think you have all sorts of power in like in your you're a fantastic human and have a lot of strength and, you know, right? Control your own destiny. I might be a little bit with pot, with Mr. Potty mouth on some of these things. I mean, saying it's a no hitter, right? That's gonna curse it, you know, pointing that stuff out. But this, you don't have any power over that. That wasn't you. You are absolved.

Speaker 1 17:28
Okay, thank you. Thank you. Xavier will forgive me. He is sitting on an average of 299, like he Teeter, Teeter, with a 713, ops, so he's gonna hit the ball further. But yay, Xavier. I'm gonna hang on to him. Hang on to Lawrence Butler. So first I want to mention him as a connection. When I chose him, he A's outfielder. I chose him in the off season and talked about how he was buddies with your former pick from Atlanta, Michael Harris the second, and that they're both fast guys. They grew up together. They played against each other. They played with each other, and they used to race. And the article that I mentioned also had a third guy, Chandler Simpson, who just got called up to the raise on Friday. And importantly in that race, Butler said that he won it, but he thinks that Chandler Simpson had a bad start. He said, quote, I don't think I can beat Chan. I do. I don't think anybody can beat Chan. To me, he's the fastest in the league. It's between him and Ellie, but Chan has super speed, so something is gonna be bused and open there for the raise with Chandler Simpson. He hits really well for average, possibly due to beating out singles like he literally can run that fast that what would normally be an out at first, he beats it out. Um, last year, when he was in just high a and double A, he stole 104

Patti 18:57
bases. That's a lot, right? It's

Speaker 1 18:58
a shit ton in a minor league season. Yeah, that's absolutely a shit ton. Oh, by the way, so Lawrence Butler, my guy, I definitely should be flagging Chandler Simpson for the future perhaps. But Lawrence Butler has been locked down by the A's, the formerly of Oakland A's to be Vegas bound currently in Sacramento, seven years, $65.5 million million dollar extensions. He has two homers and four stolen bases so far, 291, average, 895, ops. So he does hit the ball a little bit further, and I'm excited. He's a fun guy. He's got so much spirit. He's so good for that team, and he would be so good for Oakland. But

Patti 19:41
Si, okay, some boyfriend reports from my end of things. So we don't pick boyfriend pictures, but we do pick a team from which we draw our pictures for our fantasy league. So I wanted to talk just very briefly about my guys who are from the Phillies, because they had a good week. Jack Wheeler. Sure I had 13 strikeouts versus Miami on Friday, which is the second highest number of strikeouts in his career, which is pretty good. It's also his second game of this season with 10 or more strikeouts. Also already good, because already all ready. And then Christopher Sanchez, so sort of my picture to watch had a career high 12 strikeouts first versus San Francisco this past week, on Thursday, the day before this happened. So yay. Yay for Philadelphia. Pictures, fingers crossed. That that you know, stays there for me. Um, welcome back. Wyatt Langford back from the aisle. He did not play yesterday. He'll be playing soon. I wish he came back to play. I don't know third base because I my outfield is loaded and my infield is not, because the guys that I thought were gonna be my infield guys are all in triple A right now. So that's kind of a problem. But um, boy, do I have a great selection of outfielders. Um, speaking of which? James Wood. Wow, that game versus Colorado, the 12 run game. Yeah, James Wood drove in four of those. He's homeward in five of his last 10 games, and he's had two three hit games out of the last 10. So I'm looking forward to seeing him tomorrow night when we go to nets Park. So Sal frilick from Milwaukee, my boyfriend from Milwaukee, has had a really hot bat. He's been doing great, well, really great for me statistically, but hasn't been hitting the long ball. Finally hit his first home run this past week. So yay. Welcome to the club. But just keep doing what you're doing. But and my my brief little foray into how math works, when you see stats and you see things like among qualified players, or players with a qualified number of at bats or innings pitched, or whatever it is, that's there for a reason, because again, my infield just I don't have any I've got a couple of short steps. That's all I have regularly. So Zach dicenzo, who's my Houston guy, who's in my spot for first base, has hardly played. He had one at bat this week, got a hit, which means his seven day batting average is 1000 and his Ops is 2000 which looks awfully nice. And yet, math, because, you know, not qualified number of at bats to actually be on anybody's records, although

Speaker 1 22:23
Chris Walker might. So I have the Houston first base guy who has been struggling. So maybe your Houston first gate base guy has more of a has a chance to get in there, because maybe, maybe we'll see. All right, we don't totally let go of our guys from previous years because they're so cool. We put so much effort into picking them, most of them, some of them, we have to let go when they do stupid shit. But one guy that I think we both adore is Trey Mancini, absolutely former Orioles. Wish that he were still here. He was my O's pick in 22 when he left the Orioles. So that was a bad year for me to pick him. But congratulations to him. I missed his five year mark of being cancer free in March, and actually it's his five year mark from surgery. So I think his cancer free mark is another six months, but it's still a really big five years is a big number to get through, especially that he had stage three colon cancer, and he's been clear since then. Importantly, he was the comeback Player of the Year in 2021 after he went through his struggles with cancer, and then he was traded to Houston the year that I picked him. He got to win the World Series, so that's pretty cool, but his stats took a hit. He did much better in Baltimore than he did in other places. He didn't do great with Houston. And then he got picked up by the Cubs for 23 and was kind of mediocre. And then the following year, last year 2024 he was actually out all year. He was picked up by the Marlins on a minor league contract, but he was released in March of 2024 had not played baseball since he got picked up this year on a minor league contract with the D backs, and I'm hoping, although they man, they do have a crowded both first base and outfield, but still, he is raking with the Reno aces. He has a 313, average, 804 ops, three home runs, including home ring in the season opener, and has stolen a base. He is dedicated to stick there, stick it out. He's not going to opt out. He's not going to try the free agent route. Tory Lovell has been very complimentary toward that, and I think wants to have him when there's room. I don't know. Josh Naylor is having a good year. D bags and paven Smith, I think is that your pick? I forget. I get a look anyway. They're both very solid at first base, and then you've got the Pina in the outfield. Actually, he's kind of struggling, but there it's going to be hard for him to Reagan. I'm hoping, I'm hoping Trey Manzini gets in at some point, you know, maybe just at the end of the season, another former Boy for. And I just want to mention because He's humorous, Jose Miranda, my 23 twins pick, has been struggling this year, and so he did not have a good start to the season, and he had one of those base running blenders last weekend that was really comical if you are on the other team, and just sad, if you're watching it, because he made a dive into second base. He was ruled safe. You can see the umpire right next to him doing the safe like I'm gesturing here, as you can just say that, just like this, doing the safe thing. Somehow it didn't compute for him. And he thought he was out, and he left the bag. And then he got tagged out, sure, and so then he was tagged out, and he was sent down to triple A. Apparently that whole experience made him thirsty. And so he went to Target to load up on the cases of of water, which, you know, maybe this is a lesson that you should just get a filter and save, save the environment and not get so much plastic. But apparently told him, that is nice. So he went to grab the case of water, and he apparently hurt his hand, and now he is on the i l of triple A with a hand injury because of water picking at Target, which, okay, A is different

Patti 26:19
than I can't remember who it was like last week, we talked about somebody who actually talked about somebody who actually, like, cut their their hand opening, oh, it was at JT realm, Oh, right. Cut his hand opening a bottle of water. See, they, see, don't get these disposable bottles of water because they kill, they maim. They're not okay, yeah, don't do that stuff. But if you want a funny retelling of the trials of Jose Miranda, who is in fact, the cousin of Lin Manuel Miranda. Jason Stark of the of the athletic writes up all of the trials and tribulations of Jose Miranda, relating them to various songs from the musical Hamilton, starting with he didn't want to give up his shot, and just goes on from there. And

Speaker 1 27:05
hilarious. Yeah, you definitely have to be a Hamilton fan, because it goes on and on and on. And I actually needed to go to another article to find out what the fuck happened, because there's so much Hamilton in there that it's not really that much of the baseball description, but yeah, if you're a Hamilton lover, go for that Absolutely. Oh, I have one more thing. So this isn't a boyfriend, although maybe he will be someday if I pick Red Sox pitching. And actually, this is a big nod to you that I just stumble a plot across the hashtag, crocheting with crochet. Sure. Of course there is so at Rock me, Anna Deus. I'm guessing her name must be Anna Deus on that, you know, the website that shall not be mentioned is crocheting with crochet. And so she has a sweater that is red, and it's white with red zigzags. I think it's supposed to be baseball e that she only crochets WHEN CROCHET IS pitching, and so she will pick up her needle at the first when he gets the ball, it's a hook. But okay, so thank you. I'm here for you. I'm here for quality control. Clearly not the crocheter. She'll pick up her hook boy, when when he gets a ball, give it away when he loses the ball. And actually brought her project to Fenway Park, sure at his last outing, and is making some serious progress. So crocheting with crochet, you too, can do it. I can't. Patty could. I could,

Patti 28:35
but I won't. That's fair. That's fair for the record, I did, in fact, do the year that the Nationals won the World Series. I did a scarf where I did different colors for every single game. So there was one one row for all each of the 162 games. And I had, you know, I think, was red for wins and blues for losses, and then I had gold for wins in playoff games. That's so cool. Yeah? So that was, that was kind of fun. So, so people do this sort of thing, but I love this one, because this one's like an ongoing, very, very specific, and I, I don't mind a pun, yeah, um, police blotter is also sort of a boyfriend thing. You know, jazz is certainly becoming one of those just teetering on the edge of, now we're gonna be a boyfriend. But so this is back to the this is the whole fingers for good, fingers for evil, the hand crafts, this crocheting, absolute good use of hands. Bad use of hands is, well, tweeting anyway, because that's a bad choice. But also when and what you share via X is um can catch up, especially if you are a professional ballplayer. So justice. Um was on Thursday, ejected in the seventh inning after arguing a

Speaker 1 29:47
third strike call, which is not really a good idea, period. You just don't argue strikes, but people do it, and you know you're gonna get thrown out, right? But I got thrown out,

Patti 29:57
but then you went to the clubhouse, which was still. During the game and posted to x, not even eff close. Now I don't know if you think he'd write second. Well, I don't know, because the two things I read, one said F and one like, blocked out the whole thing, and the text is deleted. The post is deleted. Somebody's gonna have a screenshot, so I'm assuming he, you know, use, I don't know, I can't back it up. But anyway, he deleted it fairly quickly. But that broke not one but two rules. MLB says you cannot use electronic devices during the game. Oh, right, even though he was ejected, technically it was during the game, and he's a player, and he's, you know, on the premises and all of that, but also their social media policy prohibits, quote, displaying or transmitting content that questions the impartiality or otherwise denigrates a major league umpire time did that too, so he was suspended For a game and had an undisclosed fine, amount of a fine levied against him. He is appealing. I don't know if this has happened so far. About the time he was appealing the suspension, he has to pay the fine. It was his fifth career rejection. It's his first as a Yankee. What he said was, I lost my emotions. I lost my cool. Okay, I got to be better than that. I'm definitely mad at myself for losing my cool.

Speaker 1 31:23
All right, shit happens. I mean, there's definitely been worse, the worst loss of cool on the ball fields. Yeah,

Patti 31:29
yeah. But, boy, he's hard to keep in I don't, I don't mean keep in line. I think I, I, what I want to say is there are rules, yeah, that he really does need to follow, because they are rules that apply to everybody. It's not about personality, it's not about expressing emotion. It's about these are the rules if you are a major league baseball player, so it's Sorry, bud, you really do need to follow these or or you get fined and suspended. I mean, that's the consequence. If you're okay with that, then, okay,

Speaker 1 32:02
yeah, and the Yankees, right? Like you'd think that somebody would be pulling maybe somebody has, at this point, pulled them aside and said, you know, this isn't exactly how we do things here. Yep, all right. Oh, do you Did you see the call? Do you know if it was actually a bad call? I don't even that's my homework,

Patti 32:20
because it's about the arguing, right? It's true. That is true. Yeah, that's about what happened after the arguing

Speaker 1 32:26
all of those things, right? They should be like the angels and just take away the cell phones for the duration. All right, so there are teams that are doing good things, and I want to give a big shout out to the twins for doing the right thing right now, actually, we're in the beginning of lesbian visibility week, so yay, go out there and celebrate. And one group that's celebrating is the curs Foundation, who are in the Minnesota area, Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsoring a queer women in sports panel for this week, and it's part of a bunch of activities, including one of the other things that they're having is a collection of bars that do women's sports. And so there's a the one that is part of the sponsorship here in in the bar of their own. I Why can't I like, I wanted to make sure I got it right. Like, hello, that's our, you know, beloved, named after movie slash TV series from but bar of their own, also with other women's bars did a bar thing, but they're promoting this sports panel with women who are in sports like I love promoting women, promoting women who are doing good things. So the panel is going to have Sylvia Brayton, who's the head coach of the Twin Cities Gemini rugby, Kate Voss, who's the Senior Manager of the Minnesota links premium services, and Chelsea Fauci, who's the manager of youth programs for the Minnesota Twins. So here's the into the podcast. There's baseball connection. And what I love about this, absolutely, most of all is that the Minnesota Twins is listed as a sponsor, and that's important to have major league teams on panels like this. You know, there's should be major league team names on diversity panels. But you know, specifically, in this day and age, on anything dealing with pride with LGBTQ community, is really important for our baseball teams to continue that, because there is so much shit coming down in the other direction. So thank you, Minnesota Twins. The very cool thing about this, as if there aren't enough already, is that you can see it on Zoom. So it is going to be April 26 you have time to look up the link, 11:30am to 12:30pm twins time. So that's central, right? I think so check it out. And it's zoom available. And it would be really amazing if a whole ton of people. Got on Zoom to to support this event.

Patti 35:03
For sure. For sure. Hey, the the Pittsburgh Pirates made a really good call. They made 17,000 people really happy. That's so nice. I don't know if you saw photos from this, but on on Saturday, the pirates were doing a Paul schemes bobblehead giveaway to the first 20,000 fans through the gates. People lined up five hours before gates open.

Speaker 1 35:26
Oh, I did see that the line was down the bridge. And, like, since we were there, I it was that was very cool that we had been there. So I had, like, the reference that, holy fuck it went down the bridge,

Patti 35:36
yeah. So one of the that's only one of the lines, because there were lines at every gate, wow. So that line for that gate spanned the entire Roberto Clemente bridge all the way to downtown, wow. And that was not the only line. So there were 37,000 people attending this game. The first 20,000 got bobbleheads. Way more than that were in line. So Pittsburgh announced that they're going to send vouchers to every fan who scanned in after that first 20,000 the first 1000 got the bobbleheads, and they're going to send them vouchers to pick up about a bobblehead of their own. They're making more. They're making sure everybody got one, because they got in line, they did the work, and they deserve their damn bobblehead, yeah, and they didn't have to do that. That's 17,000 bobbleheads. That's not free, right? And so good. It's the right thing. It's good public relations. It's good, you know, fans service. And, you know, these are such dedicated fans, right? And also, they're, you know, they are doing a little yelling of sell the team in the games. But

Speaker 1 36:41
that's I was about to say, like, I think also they need to spend some money on some players, like the fans are not

Patti 36:47
but also, you know, makes make some fans happy at this area, right?

Speaker 1 36:51
Yep, good thing to do. All right, just one little announcement on the World Baseball Classic. We talked a little bit last week a couple of captains. Our captains have been announced. Aaron judge announced that he is going to be captain for the USA team, which is interesting for a couple reasons. One, he didn't tell the Yankees before he announced this, so I was wondering how that went over. And also, he's a first time player. He did not play on the team last year, and he all of a sudden, gets to be captain. So I don't know what goes into that. I wonder, how did

Patti 37:25
the team say he should be captain, or did he just say, I'm gonna be captain, and you daring anybody to, like, go up up to against the big man, and saying, No, you're not. That's

Speaker 1 37:33
a good question. I am not totally clear how. Yeah, I wouldn't go against him. However, I gotta wonder how Mike Trout feels, because Mike Trout was the guy last time around, although Mike Trout got the last out against Shohei Ohtani. But still, there was that, that moment and that emotion. So I don't know. It's kind of like new guy coming in, saving the team. We'll see what happens that. But yeah, if anybody else has details about Patty's questions before I look it up, please let us know in all the ways that you can contact us at the end of the show. Because, yeah, I would like to know how, how judge got the role, although not a shocker. Also, Francisco Lindor is repeat captain for Puerto Rico. He was Captain last time. He's captain. Again, his Q heart is off the charts these days. Have you seen his bouncy curls like not seen him recently. He's got the cornrows often. But there was something recently where his curls were just all out and he was doing like the hair flip, like the Bryce Harper style kind of flip, and, oh my god, definitely quality hair above replacement off the charts. Someday, we'll do a bracket someday, someday,

Patti 38:41
for sure. So we have this fantasy league made up of our boyfriends. So our team is our boyfriends that we profile throughout the year, and then our friend, friends of the show, also participate, and they follow our ridiculous rules. And we really are very pleased that we can convince you to do this really ridiculous set of rules. There's been quite the disturbance. You know, usually I give you the top five. The top five this time includes dingers dinos, who went from last week position 10 to crack the top five. Wow. And be number five this week booted me down to eighth. So most of the other changes were just like, you know, one spot or so, here or there, but dinkers dinos that was gigantic. So congratulations to you. So our top five this week, number one, wicked awesome team by a lot, followed by pandemonium. Bono's boyfriends left his field, and then the aforementioned dingers dinos, potty mouth and I are hanging out, you know, in eighth and ninth, but we're not gonna talk. Yeah,

Speaker 1 39:45
sorry, yeah. Just, you know, trying to figure out what to do with my fucking eyes. I have no infield,

Patti 39:51
so I the fact that I'm not dead last is really a whole thing. I have no infield, and I'm still doing okay. I

Speaker 1 39:56
have a huge appreciation to everybody participating, because it is. Lots of fun, and I like the conversations that kind of erupt through the shit that does come down in the world that is the baseball. So here we go. We're gonna go

Patti 40:11
see baseball this week. We're gonna see multiple games this week. I'm so excited. We

Speaker 1 40:15
gotta go get some tickets right now to go see the Nationals play the Orioles tomorrow. Yeah,

Patti 40:20
the NATs are hosting the Battle of the beltways. Beltways, you know, plural, because, you know, Washington's got one, Baltimore's got one. And, you know, we're pretty close together. So

Speaker 1 40:29
you have, like, of all people, I know that some people do the split jersey and stuff that you have absolute right to wear whatever you want to this game. Like you could do the split, or you could do the Orioles or whatever. I don't know. What do you have a plan? Do you have an idea? So

Patti 40:42
you know, again, I've named my child for the Oreo, so there's that. But also, I do have this algorithm that says all things being equal, Root for the Home Team. I may bag it all together and where it's a beautiful night for me. Root for and I hope everybody just has a good time. I have to really do some, do some soul searching, and report back next week to how it goes and the

Speaker 1 41:03
important thing, or one of the many important things. Hopefully it'll be a beautiful night for baseball, but it's also James Wood's oversized bobblehead night, because he's an oversized individual, they told him. So I'm really wondering what this I mean, do we we can't bring in backpacks, so the carrying of the bobblehead it'll be interesting. Yeah, we'll see how that goes. Yep, and

Patti 41:24
then we're gonna go also on Saturday, because you guys were super smart and got some like, crazy sale tickets and then forgot about them.

Speaker 1 41:31
I'm also benefiting from this. The off season, there was some big sale. We got Mets tickets this Saturday. So I think this is Juan Soto's return as a met. I don't know if they play Friday, but it'll be a thing, you know, back again here, and yeah, we'll see how it goes.

Patti 41:48
Oh, speaking of nets Park, on the way to nets Park is Atlas brewery, and we did, we switched beers towards the end. Here we are now drinking a bullpen Pilsner from Atlas brewing, and it's pretty yummy,

Speaker 1 42:01
yeah? And I appreciated the whole, like, it says baseball beer right on it, and it's good, yeah, yeah. It's that. We just needed that for the

Patti 42:10
it's like they said, Oh, look, those people are coming right show them this. They'll buy it. They'll buy it. Hey, are you going to see baseball? Tell us about it. You have, you know, opinions about the things that we've talked about, tell us about it. Where can people find us on social media,

Speaker 1 42:24
oh boy, you can find us on blue sky and CIB podcast. We will continue checking our messages on Twitter, although I was behind on one that we were asked to retweet. And I was like, three days late, and I was like, well, we don't check this account quite as much as we used to. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook, at ncib podcast, but the very best way, if you're not a fantasy baseball member, to chat with us is on Patreon. That's P, A, T, R, E, O n.com/no, crying and B ball. And for $1 a month, one buck, you can join our community. It's a much friendlier than the masses social media place to chat with us, and we try to put stuff on there that's kind of fun. So join us on Patreon, if you can scrape the change out of your glove compartment. And

Patti 43:14
thank you for those of you who do because you help us pay our way. Again, we're not making money on this podcast, we just want to pay the bills Absolutely. Thank you for your help with that. Please get boosted fight the man is the right thing to do now more than ever, send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight by mouth. Good night, pine man.

Pottymouth 43:42
You but I

Patti 43:52
have just enough raspiness to be like, totally sexy, yeah,

Speaker 1 43:54
okay, yeah, or to host NPR one or the other. Yeah? Okay.