No Crying In Baseball

Pottymouth 0:00
Music.

Patti 0:18
Hi and welcome to Episode 406 of no crying in baseball the check out my pants episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
and I'm noticing you're not really wearing pants,

Patti 0:28
not that you're not with. Hey, that's something should be left unsaid, right?

Pottymouth 0:33
I mean, it's a skirt, isn't it?

Patti 0:35
Okay? I did morning on a Monday. I mean, I wore clothes,

Pottymouth 0:39
right? Right? I didn't really like, if you look at the Instagram shot, it's only waist up, so you really could not be wearing pants. And

Patti 0:45
maybe in some of them, I'm not. There we go. I mean, this is all from, like, the whole COVID, everything's online. It only matters, like, you know, from the shoulders up, yep, could be pajama pants. It could be pajama pants in this case, no, it's real clothes, real grown up clothes, and everything, real grown ups. I'm also wearing your Mother's Day present. Yeah,

Pottymouth 1:01
it looks really good. So I'm very excited. I just got back from New York City, and I'm really learning to love because my child lives there. So and actually, so, you know, the first thought was, yes, like we talked about last week, go to the city to see the kid for Mother's Day. I did think of the kid first, and then I thought baseball. And so we went to the Mets game. And there was at some point where we were talking to the kid about our, you know, slight disdain for New York teams, and the kids said, but what about the Cyclones? And then I realized that my child is a Brooklyn Cyclones fan, yeah, and so that's single a of the Mets. They're not officially a Mets fan, but I think they have, you know, pledged their allegiance to the fun. And it's really fun to go to the Cyclones games. There's all sorts of crazy stuff happening. And, you know, the Coney Island, Island is in the is in the, you know, background. So I'm dying to go at some point this this summer. We hope to make it. And I got a Brooklyn Cyclones hat, and it's not even Mets colors, so I like that. It's a very cool hat. Check out our

Patti 2:03
and I'm allowed to borrow it because, you know, like I said, I was wearing my work clothes, I needed to baseball up. And so this way you also get to see the potty mouths, lovely Mother's Day gift only on my head. Yeah. So there you have it. Did you want to tell us more about your trip to

Pottymouth 2:17
oh, I have so much to say about this week, and I have so much to say. So first of all, New York. So, you know, Mr. Potty mouth definitely has his little grudges about New York. He went full mass hole the whole time. I was trying to go a little bit neutral, but I did wear the socks cap. But before the game, we went to the hotel bar, as one does, because we had a little bit of time to kill and the Celtics Knicks basketball game was on. And for those of you who don't do the basketball thing, it's been a very painful week for Celtics nation, because they lost two games that they shouldn't have lost, where they were ahead by 20 points at some point during the game, and then fucking blew it. And so this is Game three, but the first one in New York, and we were shocking, no one the only non Knicks fans at the bar. So I was really, I get, I get loud with sports and basketball, just it's faster. There's more points happening fast, so there's more opportunity to go fuck or, like, Yay, or yes, you know, making the three point shot. So it was exciting. And the Celtics did pull it off. They didn't pull it off before we had to leave for the game. But, you know, we listened on the way, and then Citi Field was a party. So we did get our Edwin Diaz bobbleheads. That was my mission. Hey, we got there early. And sorry, usually when we have extra bobble heads, we put it in our soon to be prize pack for our fantasy, you know, winner at the end of the season, and there will not be an extra Edwin Diaz bobblehead, because potty mouth Jr is giving their bobble head to their friends, parents who always have them over for dinner, you know, like several local friends, parents who have them over in their Mets fans. So that's fair. And Mr. Potty mouth is giving his to his Mets fan cousin. So that's all also fair, and I love mine, and it's right behind patty. He's got Edwin Diaz has his mouth open like he's very emotional about getting the Save and and I got to see Edwin Diaz's grand entrance at at Citi Field. So that was nice. And I just want to note that giving one to Patty didn't show up in any any version of that. Yeah, that's okay, because I these are all very important things. Yeah, if we had had one more extra person that that would have been it? Yeah, definitely. But the the Mets did their damnedest to make us feel welcome. So first of all, we show up mighty early, because I'm bobblehead bound, but there was a block party right next to the well between the lines. So there's two gate entrances, and between the two gates is this huge, long block party. And I'm thinking, you know, most people there were in line, as opposed to in the block party. So I'm not sure about the timing of the block party on the bobblehead day, but right when I went into the block block party, just to get out of line for a moment. See if maybe the other entrance had a shorter line to get in. There was a little tell them more do stand. And the woman there said two of my favorite words, which are complimentary cocktails. She said, Would you like a complimentary cocktail? I was like, Do you know me? Of course I would so. And I, you know, had my tumor due, went back, told Mr. Potty mouth, he went and got his and noted that that is the official whiskey of the Red Sox. So we felt my they didn't have a sign there saying so, but we we knew that. We knew that. And then, to add to the like, welcome to the potty mouths. To Citi Field. We are getting to our seats, and the whole block party atmosphere was going on in the ballpark. DJ is going, he plays Sweet Caroline as we're getting to our seats. I actually videoed it because I couldn't believe that another ballpark would have the gall to do that. But then I figured, oh, it's for us. It was no

Patti 5:53
no other ballparks do it all the time but New York ball parks. That's what surprises me. It's one of those songs everybody's happy. Everybody likes to sing, yeah, sure, sure. But a New York City ballpark seems really kind of it was just for you. It was for

Pottymouth 6:10
us. It was totally for us. And the other cool thing that they did, or that like we ended up on it was city connect night. And I really like the Met city connect uniforms. And what I didn't understand why I would say, like, 95% of the fans were wearing Mets normal colors, not their city Connect. If I had the option, you know, between blue and orange and gray and purple, gray and purple, man, that's a really nice city. Connect and make you want to purchase some No, but I did appreciate looking at it. And the team looked really nice. And it was a chilly evening, so they had like a purple undershirt under it, so it was like an extra sharp shock of that, like vibrant purple and lots of purple lights, especially when Diaz came out, because they were down by one. The only disappointment of the evening, and I'm sure Metz fans agree with me on this, was Juan Soto. He did nothing, and they lost by one run, and he made the last out, whereas if he had hit a home run, they would have tied it up and gotten into extras, and would have been lots of fun, but, um, Juan Soto did nothing for us, nor for Mets land. All right, yeah, but Francisco Lindor, well, Francisco Lindor did hit into a double play at the end too, but he did do some stuff. However, I do want to give us him a special shout out. He is the best walk on music. And I'm forgetting B song, but a song is my girl. But the way that they cut it, it's so cool, because they play the intro and then they cut the music right before my girl, and everybody sings it, and everybody keeps singing. And it's such so well done. So well done. So go to Citi Field. It's fun. It's a great place. I like the Mets. Why not?

Patti 7:45
Wow, you said a lot of things, and some of them were about Mother's Day. Yeah, yeah. Tiny, tiny bit. And so while I'm wearing your Mother's Day gift, I want to tell you my favorite Mother's Day story in the baseball world, which is Veronica Alvarez, who, in the past week, I've numerous times said she is such a badass, yeah, because we're coming off, you know, watching this, see her be her film again, I was looking through the our book, within the photo book, and she's just a badass, and she's wonderful, and she's also a mom to be. And this story makes me really happy. Okay, so Veronica Alvarez, badass coach of the US Women's baseball team. She's employed by the athletics, says the Player Development Coordinator for Latin America babies due in August. Wow. So wow, the director of player development for the athletics says, Hmm, Veronica Alvarez is expecting a baby. You know what she needs? She needs maternity baseball pants. Oh, my God. So this man, so also, like extra credit points. Think of this. Gets in touch with the equipment manager for the minor league team and said, We need maternity baseball pants for Veronica Alvarez. And he works it out he's got two seams just and apparently also his wife on it. Because if you've ever seen maternity pants, there's a panel, there's things that's a lot of construction, whatever. And they gave her a set of Home and Away. Oh, that's good maternity baseball pants. So she says these are once in a lifetime. I think they're super cool. I'm like, check out my pants. And I'm just flashing my pants around. That's she had been like, not announcing her pregnancy for a long time. Then last month, at the whole the Trailblazer series. She's walking around or all the you know, the girls who were there for the Trailblazer thing are working out, hanging out. She's with one of the you know, officials for the series. And that person stops this 13 year old girl who's there and says, What would you think if I told you the A's made Veronica a pair of maternity baseball pants? And this girl says it would make me feel like we were welcomed in the game. So how's that Happy Mother's Day, to the moms, and especially to badass Veronica Alvarez. That makes me so happy.

Pottymouth 9:52
So awesome. Yay for those pants. That is so cool. And wow, I just saw the picture of her on Instagram, and. She's starting to fill out those pants, and she's got a few months to go. That's gonna be

Patti 10:03
why I'm just expecting a girl. So all of this, this like trailblazing stuff that she is doing, whether her her daughter decides to play baseball or not, right? Was doing her damn just to make sure that's a choice that

Pottymouth 10:14
she'll have. There we go. That's what counts

Patti 10:18
on today's show. We've got boyfriends, including Mother's Day, fun, most improved, and kid stuff. We've got police blotter featuring threats, belts and drama. We've got cross training with the papacy and the other Toronto Maple Leafs. Cheers.

Pottymouth 10:34
Okay, it is time to talk about our baseball boyfriends, those guys that we picked in the off season because there's something cool about them. And my guys have just not been doing well. So in our fantasy league, which is the teams we made out of our baseball boyfriends, and then invited a whole bunch of guys to play with us. Thank you for playing. We floated the guys that we carefully picked, and I am so solidly in 10th place. And so I went to investigate that, and it's basically they just are not doing well. They're consistently under performing. That seems

Patti 11:06
with being 10 out of 12 teams, they're not playing well, huh? I'm not playing well,

Pottymouth 11:11
and I feel like I've been kind of negative lately. I've been focusing on injuries and focusing on shitty plays. So I was, I was trying really hard this week to focus on the positive, right? I'm trying to learn my lesson. And so literally, I wrote cheers to health because I saw that Jackson Merrill was back, and I was also all shades of excited about that, because I know he is a good baseball player. He was out for a month, from April 6 until May 6, so exactly a month, and he came back from his hamstring strain to go two for four in each of the first two games he played, which happened to be against the Yankees. So I was feeling pretty good. I'm feeling positive about my boyfriends. I got Jackson Merrill back. He's doing really well, and then the Padres played that crazy ass game against the Rockies, the record setting game. Yes, insane we were that happened while we were at the Mets game. And you know, you watch the scoreboard while you're at the game and checking out, also Mets do a very good job with this scoreboard. Not too busy. Easy to find the information backup scoreboard with lots of good information, and then the side had all the scores of the other game. It was so easy to navigate. And we're like, wait, what's going on with Colorado?

Patti 12:29
Is there something wrong with the counter? How could it be 21

Pottymouth 12:32
Yeah, because it was, like, 16 after just a couple innings. Like, it was crazy, how fast it went up. But, um, you know, Jackson Merrill joined in in the fun with that, and went three for four. He actually did have a scare of an injury against the Yankees in the second game, where he got hit in the forearm with a Devin Williams pitch. I feel like the Yankees have broken Devin Williams. I feel terrible. He's a good guy. He was amazing last year, and he's just sucking with them. I'm gonna interrupt you

Patti 13:00
say, Do you want me to pour you some beer? Because you keep like, hey, because you keep, like, looking at it. Yes,

Pottymouth 13:05
yes. You like, um, well, this one, I guess, unless so did you want to split them because you said you wanted to go light, which would be also like, Oh, is it? No? No, it doesn't. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

Patti 13:17
All right. Okay, so quick. What are we drinking right now? Okay, we just drink, oh,

Pottymouth 13:22
shit. It was a wheat beer from silver branch. I forget the actual name of it, but it was nice. It was like, King Ferdinand or something like that. It was something very regal. And now I'm gonna be taking a precious apricot, slightly apricot flavored IPA from with from Union Atlas. Okay, yeah, one of those one word breweries, very good. So I haven't started drinking yet, but Patty has expertly poured it for me,

Patti 13:47
less less than expert. I'll take you a second. Sorry. So

Pottymouth 13:51
Jackson Merrill, all right, he did not get hurt, so that was good. Also, I liked his attitude about that game, because he was asked, like, did you guys, like, slow down a little bit once you noticed you were ahead by, say, 1516, runs. And he said, Honestly, treat the game like it's tied. I know it sounds like summer ball or daddy ball to say, but don't get it complacent. Ever go up there and grind that and then it says expletive in the quote, grind that expletive out. I'm thinking it's grind that shit out. I think it's darn crying that darn out, that poop out there in the No, no kidding. So kidding. Yeah, I could try this couple more, but no, we'll go with grind the shit out. And then so I'm all excited. I'm feeling positive Jackson Merrill is doing amazing. And then I get the fucking day to day flash Sunday, and I was like, oh, man, maybe that arm thing did affect him, but it turns out to be an illness. I'm hoping that that's okay, that it's nothing too long. Today is Monday. We're recording a day late because of my trip, and he's still ill. However, his overall stat line, he's averaging 446, yes, he was out from. Month, but still, you know, that's the end of March, beginning of April, and then this week, since then, 446, average, 1.207 ops. Remember, this guy is 22 years old, so I'm really hoping that he gets healthy sick. Somebody's giving healthy sick, a healthy soon, not sick, healthy soon. Somebody's giving him some chicken soup or something, and that he will be back to bashing baseballs in the very near future. And just one more guy I want to talk about because I've totally ignored to the point that I didn't even realize that he'd made the starting lineup. I am so negligent for some of my baseball boyfriends Andy pacas of the Dodgers. The Dodgers just have so much flashy stuff going on. You know, you see all the tawny and the Mookie Betts and the Freddie Freeman and there's and then Kike just deserves a lot of attention. I was not paying attention to the fact that Andy Pak has got the center field job, which is a big fucking deal, and he's doing well. So he had a super slow start, four for 34 in March, but over 30 games in April and May, he's batting 307 with an 890 ops, and apparently he had this, like Little Brother, Big Brother relationship with Tasker Hernandez, who just kind of kept him going. You know, you're now a starter, and we're out there together, but to ask her is now injured, so I think that Andy is gonna have to step up a little because your boyfriend, hayas Kim, right is now up because of taskers injury. So I learned my lesson from the whole rice kerfuffle. I got fried with the rice, and I added pockets yesterday before recording so that none of our baseball friends out there in our fantasy league, can swipe them from me.

Patti 16:44
You sound like someone who has

Pottymouth 16:46
been burned Yeah, yeah, it's totally my fault. Totally, totally my fault.

Patti 16:50
Yep, and burned rice. Burned rice. And note that I managed to pour my beer much more

Unknown Speaker 16:58
carefully. Definitely, it

Patti 17:00
is the same brewery. It's also Alice brewery, it's also Alice brewery, but it is the bullpen Pilsner, because I decided I need something a little bit lighter, and so I'm gonna have that. It's also baseball themed, and it's very pretty, and I poured it correctly. I was under less pressure,

Pottymouth 17:13
all right, that's it. Yeah, there was a there was the timing thing. I'm gonna

Patti 17:17
tell you another Mother's Day story. Oh, yeah. So my Detroit boyfriend, Jason young, you may be aware of his brother, Josh Young, who plays for the Rangers, right? So they they both play third base and Mother's Day weekend, their teams played each other. So amazing. How is that for a Mother's Day gift. Except for mom and dad couldn't make plans. Initially, Jeff and Mary were like, This is great. We are going to go see this game. Except for Josh keeps he's hurt. He keeps getting hurt. Is he going to be playing and chase Jace got sent down. Is he going to be up so, like, everything was up in the air. Finally, like, a week before Mother's Day, like, Okay, I think we're gonna be all right. And I also think that Jace has not been playing great. And I know this because he's my boyfriend, and he's on my fantasy team, so I'm aware of this, but I wonder if maybe Detroit kept him on just so they could have this lovely little Mother's Day. And it could have been, that. Could be, he did not play it Friday's game, okay, but you played Saturday and Sunday. His their dad pointed out, you know, both of their kids play third base that, you know, there's only 33rd baseman in Major League Baseball. I mean, how cool is that, that you gave birth to two of them. That is pretty amazing, right? Mom, of course, had the traditional split jersey, you know, half half Rangers, you know, half tigers. That was pretty cool. On the Saturday game, both of the young boys started at third base, so they had a little tic tac toe game happening in the dirt. That's so outside of third base, they thought it's only going to last for a few innings, because they're going to, like, rake the field and we're going to lose it. But they actually lost interest, because they realized they needed to focus more on the game than on the strategy of playing tic tac toe, where nobody really wins and no one is ever happy. So the Saturday game, Josh singled Jace made a great diving catch. Texas won 10 to three. Yeah. So there were, there were things to see though for the parents and make them proud of each of their boys. And of course, the each of the voice was interviewed about, like, you know, how badly do you want to, you know, sure, beat your brother because they They're notorious for growing up being like cutthroat competitors. So I think I talked about that when I, when I profiled Jace. So he says, So Jay says, I'm gonna try not to think like that. But obviously that would be the goal, yeah. So, so that made me happy. So yay for for the brothers, the mothers, the whole situation. So Jason Dominguez, my Yankees guy, on Friday, on Friday, I'm watching my phone, and I get getting my Jason Dominguez hit a home run, and then I see it again. I'm like, I thought I cleared that one, and then I got another one. Wow. I'm like, wait, what's happening here? So on Friday and when the Yankees played the athletics, Jason Dominguez became the youngest player in Yankees franchise history to have a three Homer game. Holy shit. You know who he just surpassed, Joe freaking DiMaggio. Oh my god. So Jason Dominguez is 22 years, 91 days, and Joe DiMaggio was like, 22 years, like 200 days, that's amazing. So he had two and now that record has been in place since 1937 so kind of a while, kind of a while, he had two solo home runs and then a Grand Slam. So he hit a solo home run from the left, a solo home run from the right, switch hitter right and then the Grand Slam from the left. That's crazy. So that also made him one of 16 players with three home run games that included home runs from both sides of the plate. Wow. That list includes Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray. So that's pretty cool. So poor Elvis Alvarado, who was pitching in his MLB debut, who? That's where the Grand Slam happened. So the third home run happened off of him, so now he's going to be a trivia answer. Oh, right. So yay for that. Dominguez had never had a multi Homer game before, not even two, not

Pottymouth 21:14
even, like, even in the minors kind of thing, never,

Patti 21:17
never before. And then when I profiled him. I talked about how he was learning English. He was really excited that he didn't he didn't rely on his interpreter as much anymore. I kind of had him nearby casing it, but he was pretty confident. The story I read added some color commentary to that. One of the ways he was improving his English was watching Brooklyn nine, nine.

Pottymouth 21:38
That's not bad. But also, but also

Patti 21:40
your friend Ben rice, apparently, is fluent in Spanish and has been helping Jason Domingo, so they've been no good conversing with each other. So that's pretty cool. Again, you know, I've been having infield woes on my fantasy team, and one of the woes is Zach dicenso hasn't been getting much playing time, and I'm really short on the first baseball, but he's my Houston guy. Jordan Alvarez is out on the IL which I'm sorry for Jordan Alvarez, but it is giving dicenso more consistent playing time, which is also good for him, because, like, four out of five games that he started with, Alvarez out, he went four for 12, two doubles, so six run scored. So he's been doing well, getting consistent playing time, and that makes my team suck less, too. So that's all good, because

Pottymouth 22:26
Christian walker is at first too. So I'm wondering exactly all right, which is, why? Yeah, less time. So,

Patti 22:31
actually, so Zac has been like in the outfield, but don't tell Yahoo that, because, yeah, who's letting me put him in at first base? Yeah. So this is one of those, please stop taking my infielders away.

Pottymouth 22:41
Yeah, as long as Yahoo can be flexible, yeah, that's, I know that's a good thing. I want to, yeah, I definitely want them to credit when guys move around, although now I'm going to go into past boyfriends, which, you know, I don't care as much about the credit, because somebody else might have these guys on their teams. And my last year's pick, Michael Garcia. I just noticed, because the Red Sox had a series with the Royals, and I was noticing how well Michael Garcia was doing, and he was not doing that well last year, when he was actually on my team. Yeah. So in 2024 his season average was 231, with the 613, ops, nothing to really write home about on either on either level there, but now he's a 316, average like that. He I feel like he should get most improvement award at this point in the season with an 879, ops. And the Royals fandom article that I, that I read, had a great quote saying the proverbial Lego set has clicked into place, and that's kind of what it feels like. Also, he has played third place, second base and center field this year. And so I'm hoping that whoever has him is getting that Yahoo credit, because I feel like that is where, you know, where the credit is due, and also he shoot, I I'm clicking over. He was like, neck and neck, all right, Bobby's ahead. He was neck and neck with Bobby Witt on the on the stats. Bobby wit Junior, like he was actually leading at one point, but he is not anymore. Bobby Witt is just an amazing baseball player and is slightly ahead, but just that he's in the same conversation this year where last year they were not quite on the same plane or bus or train or whatever you want to whatever mode of transportation you want to choose.

Patti 24:31
So don't think that's how plane is used in that sense. No, no, no, okay. I'm just just checking. It's more of a geometry thing, but it's the

Pottymouth 24:39
same spelling in that situation, it's not like plain Jane or, you know, it's just a plain old, All right, next boyfriend who's not at all plain and that would be P, L, A, I n. That would be Kiki Hernandez, who is just like my favorite guy. I don't know he's my favorite guy. He's just, he's done so much, so cool. And. And I encourage everybody to see the excerpt, if not the full episode of Kike on the rookie. You can find it on Hulu. I think it's an shit. I think it might be HBO. I don't know the original, whatever, but I didn't know of this TV show that it existed, and probably for a good reason, because it's a cop show, and that's like, not my kind of favorite thing these days, although I did used to really love Brooklyn nine nine, but I feel like that was another level, and they actually got self critical on after the whole Black Lives Matter situation really blew up and did a lot of good stuff about criticizing police. But that's another story. Kikan, the rookie, brings utility player to a new level. He looks pretty comfortable. He has great hair, and he makes just this little guest play with the one of the main characters, apparently at the end. And it has to do with flu labor being who I love as a comedian, and didn't know he was involved in the show, doing crazy stuff and paying an enormous amount of money for Kike to spend some hours with this guy, the rookie. I think it's the rookie, one of the one of the cops, and he has his Telo glove under his his jacket. So go check out Kike. Because you know, why not?

Patti 26:17
So most of the time when potty mill says Kike, I say man in Chatham, and as of an RBI single in his final at bat yesterday, Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to 11 straight games, the longest active Street in the major leagues, 19 for 42 during the streak. Well that so there you go. All right, that's my fun fact. Okay, hey, police blotter. Remember how we talk about how you shouldn't boo people when they're playing poorly, because they already know they're playing poorly. You also shouldn't make death threats. Holy fuck. Holy fuck, this actually happened. Lance McCullers. Lance McCullers from Houston, right his second start since game three of the the 2022 World Series, right? He's been out a long time. Last Sunday, his first game back, he pitched three and two thirds scoreless innings, right? Great return. This most recent one had a terrible game, terrible, terrible game. So he gives up seven runs in the first inning. It's a 10 run first in he doesn't even make it, so it's horrible but, but he received death threats, directed him and his family. He has two young daughters that's over social media because he had a fucking bad start. This is not okay in any way in the downplaying category. He says, I understand people are very passionate, and people love the Astros and love sports, but threatening to find my kids and murder them was a little bit tough to deal. That's horrific. It is terrific. So the Houston Police and Major League Baseball security were notified. The implication is it's an Astros fan that did this. Mean, come on and there, there. There's a precedent for threats made via social media against baseball players, of people being prosecuted for that. There was someone who made them in the context of, like, losing bets because of how somebody played, and that person was, in fact, prosecuted criminally. So hopefully they can act on this. But it's also multiple death threats that say that. I read that as multiple accounts. It's crazy chiming in this way. This is horrific. This is horrific. How do you send your kids to school the next day? I mean, yeah, unbelievable.

Pottymouth 28:45
But also people, like, get a grip. I mean, we love the game, but it's a game. And there these are people who are doing their job, and it's hard to do your job sometimes, and sometimes you fuck up. I fuck up at my job too. Like, you know, whoever sent those death threats. Are you getting 100% ratings on your job evaluation? It's not easy to be perfect every day, especially when you're throwing a baseball in front of, you know, 40,000 people.

Patti 29:10
So somebody else who wasn't perfect, but I don't believe it was all completely his fault, is a game day employee who play employee at PNC Park. Oh, so if there haven't been enough bad things right happening, to do with the PNC part, no, it does not. So they suspended the employers of this game day employee. I don't know if the team or who, or if it's a concession thing, whatever, suspended him because he hit a quote guest with a belt. But here's the context. How does that even happen? Oh, there's video, there's video, but the beginning of the video is cut off. So apparently, after the game is your belt over. After a four to nothing loss to San Diego, right? Most people have left the ballpark, this employee comes across two. Two male guests, guests. They use the word guests. They fans, sure, right, arguing with a female food and beverage employee. So that's already not cool. That's not cool. So he steps in to try to defend her. This part is not in the video that was captured because things hadn't escalated yet things escalated between this one particular fan and this staff person who starts staring each other down and yelling at each other and posturing and doing that Buddy Guy thing to each other. So I don't know what gets said, because you can't hear all the stuff. But the staff, the employee punches the guy punches the fan. The fan spits on him. Oh, another fan, a woman comes in saying, cut it out. There's kids here, there's kids here, and tries to break them up, right? But she is directing most of this to the other fan, so the implication is he's instigating a lot of it. Sure, the staff person absolutely got crazy and out of control. But on the video, the other guy keeps coming back like they keep walking away, and the other guy keeps coming back and menacing and menacing him. And finally, the staff person pulls off his belt and goes after him and wails on him. So none of this is okay. There's so many levels of so many levels, so many levels of wrong and blame and all of this. And all we know so far is that the team said, you know, the employee's behavior was entirely unacceptable, and he was immediately suspended. And the incident is currently under further investigation, and no charges have been failed as of a file as of a couple days ago when this story was written. But I'm also like, okay, but also, these guys are messing with a female employee, right? I don't know how that started,

Pottymouth 31:52
well and but still, after the game, nobody's selling anything like they were. They thinking like they're trying to get a beer from somebody no

Patti 32:01
idea, no idea. And clearly enough, even on video, even the shortened video, there's enough ridiculous, bad posturing on both sides that I hope the fan gets some consequence out of this too, because that was not cool in any way. So this is like two days before the team fired their manager, Derek Shelton, after his seventh consecutive loss, right? So the teams have an About time. They promote their bench coach Don Kelly to manager who immediately, the next day, got a win over Atlanta, and they actually took two out of three from Atlanta over the weekend. But again, this is also, as you mentioned the same place where a fan fell 21 feet. The update is he broke his neck, his clavicle and his back, but he says, you know, it hurts and I can't sleep, but I'll put ice on it. So that's my story about Pittsburgh.

Pottymouth 32:53
Oh, man, I really enjoyed being there. I hope things so

Patti 32:58
I better. We'll be okay going back there, as long as we don't lean over, yeah, railings, and we don't get into it with really anybody, right? Yeah, I rarely wear a belt, because it seems like both fans and staff could go off it. That

Pottymouth 33:11
is just so many levels of nuts. Yeah, all right, yeah. And another and Rocky's manager got fired as well. Yeah,

Patti 33:21
yep, for sure. I was amused that you made some remark about, you know, playing multiple positions, because that seems to lead into the next kind of art. Sort of police

Pottymouth 33:29
plotter does. So I do feel like this falls under the police blotter, and that's just the Red Sox drum. Of course. I couldn't stay away from this because it's, you know, filling up. It's kind of one of those, we don't want to talk about it, but we're talking about it anyway, situation, because there's a lot of talk around the clubhouse. And even, like, Trevor story, I think, was interviewed and said, I just don't want to add to the fuel. However, I'm adding to the fuel because I just, I just feel like it's just fucking ridiculous. What's going on with Raphael Devers and Craig Breslow, apparently the GM, and it's just a lack of understanding, I think it's not good communication, and nobody is right. So what happened was Breslow made a very poor decision, in case you haven't heard, and asked Rafael Devers to perhaps play first base because of Tristan CASAS injury. Now, right there, that was stupid, like, the beginning of the season. I think you might remember, I was all like, trade Raffi. And I'm a little back on that now, because he's doing actually quite well these days. So I'm not on the maybe trade Raffi to solve this train anymore. So you could be bought, yeah. Well, they can be impressed by good play. I can be wooed. I'm been wooed, although I'm still pissed off that he's doing too much chew. He's just always got a mouthful of tobacco. But besides that, he is starting to produce some runs. But you know, he was not happy when he was taken off third to be moved into DH. Now, notably, dH is. Actually a position that you play. You don't have to do anything. And that's actually the point of DH, is you're not doing anything. So it's not like you are kidding. You are hitting playing a position. All he had to learn was to not do something between the times he was hitting. And honestly, to take him off third was a good decision because there's a Gold Glove new player, Alex Bregman, as opposed to Raffi, who was like a bazillion errors and third base, and he just was not that great. So that whole kerfuffle settled down. He learned to accept being a DH. He wasn't happy about it. He was a little pouty, and I was, you know, critical of his kind of childish demeanor with the whole thing, but it calmed down, and we got past it, and we forgot it. And then what the fuck does Breslow expect? So that's the thing. He should not have asked him. Number one, he shouldn't have asked him because he knows he's gonna get pouty. And number two, Does he really think he can play first base? Like I don't think it would take a lot of dedication, which clearly, you know, Raphael Devers doesn't have to be willing to try to nude position. I can't see him doing splits. I just can't see him being effective at first base. So I think it was a stupid thing to begin with. Do they have

Patti 36:17
do they have somebody else so totally ready? Because I gotta say, if you're on a team, your job is to play where you're signed Exactly. So as saying he's gonna be pouty, right? Is not a good reason not to put him there. Saying he'd be terrible there, on the other hand, is a good reason.

Pottymouth 36:33
I think it's kind of a combination, because, and I just think it wasn't worth setting him off for that. So before this whole thing happened. And I think I said this last week, Alex Cora was like, we've got Romeo Gonzalez and Abraham Toro. They're going to be, what do you call it, platooning at first, and that's the plan, and that's what we're going to be doing for now. And there's a lot of other options, but, and there were a lot of other things that people talked about, not Raphael Devers, so I don't know where Craig Breslow got maybe

Patti 37:02
if you lose this bet, you have to ask Everest to play for space.

Pottymouth 37:08
So Deborah's didn't react well. And if you look at the video and somebody said, Oh, look at it in Spanish, because it's so much better. It's not, it's not. He basically says, like, I don't think I can do it. And that actually was the most honest part of it, of him really being like, I could try, but I don't think I'm gonna be good at first base, and I think that's fine. But he also said, quote, they can't expect me to play every single position out there, so I so that's where I get into the like, okay, is dh, a position that you had to learn. So, you know, third, maybe you sucked at it. But nine, I want to say sucked. I mean, this is that's terrible. I'm being very critical. He was, he was a major league baseball player who had some success at third base. However, he had a lot of errors, and I would not be able to do any better. But he's no young brother, is what you're saying. So he should be exactly he's and he's no Alex Bregman, but, you know, he learned DH, but that idea that like you, like you said you, you're supposed to react like, I'll do anything for the team. And it's not far that you have to look to see guys doing a lot of that, like, say, Kiki Hernandez used to be on the Red Sox, and I think he played almost every position well. I mean, definitely in his career, he's played every position except for catcher, as did Brock Holt, who was on the Red Sox for a long time. Currently, you've got Saddam Raphael, who's going back and forth between second base and center field. Talk about, like, a little bit of versatility. You've got David Hamilton, who's all over the infield. You've got Connor Wong, who's like, okay, yeah, I'll do first, yeah, I'll do catcher. And it's just like, why is Rafi saying that's me? And outside of the Red Sox, I want to tip my hat to a former baseball boyfriend of mine, because I think he's so cute. Mauricio du bon, definitely one of my favorite Honduran player. He had a baby recently, and they had a special onesie made of the six positions that he has played so far this year with his face on all the positions on his base baseball onesie for his baby six positions this year, and those are all like six weeks into the season, yeah. And this is not including DH, right? That's not a position. Also, Vladimir Guerrero Jr recently switched from third to first for the betterment of Toronto. And I don't think squealed about it too much. So third

Patti 39:28
to first is a pretty common thing. You know, exactly. You know, Zimmerman did it on the Nationals. I mean, like, it happens, yep, Kevin's

Pottymouth 39:35
did it. Like, there's tons and tons of examples. I just think it was not done very well. I don't think that the you know, organization dealt with it very well. I don't think Rafi dealt with it well, but it did give me a little time to do some historical research, just because I was kind of fascinated by this. Okay, how many players are doing multiple positions right now? But the. Hole that I went down is that five times in history, in in MLB, and actually I wrote my notes wrong here. A player did it in one game. So played all positions, all nine positions, in one game, five times in history. The most recent one was Austin Roman's brother, Andrew Romine, who had to actually borrow his brother's glove to do the catching. He did this with the Tigers versus the twins. And fuck, I didn't write down the year. I think it was 2007 I'm 99% it was 2007 and y'all, can, you know, complain to the complaints department when you figure it out the Tigers actually won that game three to two. It was a meaningless game at the end of the season. It was september 30. Manager Brad osmas had it in the back of his head, because he knew that Andrew was a super utility player and could play essentially all positions, and he had done all except for catcher at that point, like sometime in his career, and he thought this would just be a fun way to give this guy a little bit of attention. He's a utility player, you know, he comes off the bench all the time, so he's never the superstar, so why not do this and let him shine? And he actually got the idea. And I think this is the cool part. So Brad Asmus was the the Tigers manager at the time. He played for the Tigers himself as a catcher in 2000 when Shane halter also did the same thing, also against the twins. So because he was in that game and saw it happen, I think he just kind of kept the idea in his back pocket so that he knew that the challenging position was going to be catcher, because that was the one that he had not done before. So they waited until the seventh inning and the guy who was the catcher, and fuck, I didn't write down his name, but they had him playing second base, not necessarily because he would do that well, but because he could flash signs, because that was the biggest thing that he was nervous about, right? Is having to, actually, because there's the pressure, right? How to call the game, right?

Patti 42:05
There was no pitch come so you couldn't, like, just throw it at the, you know, second baseman to, like,

Pottymouth 42:09
say it in the ancient times of, I think it was 2007 I'm pretty I'm pretty sure. So the other cool thing about it is he actually got the first out of the game when he was playing in left field, and he got the last out of the game when he was playing at first base, by the way. Buster Posey, your former giants pick, also did this. Played online positions when he was in college at Florida State, state in 2008 Alright, alright. So back to Raphael Devers. Just to tie things up, the big wigs of the Red Sox realized that they had fucked up. I mean, basically what happened was they had the discussion. Devers flew, you know, just opened his mouth to the media, which is also like, just a bad luck, you know, he just, you know, said a lot of stuff right into a microphone. And so the owner, John Henry and Breslow, flew to Kansas City, where they're playing, to have the discussion. And apparently John Henry and Alex Cora were the first ones to talk to him, because Devers also, and this was such a bad choice, he literally pulled out the GM as the target, like basically said, I don't know what the GM is doing. I don't remember. I should have got, I should have written the exact quote, but he did mention the GM, and sort of threw the blame at him, saying that he was good with his teammates, and he felt like everything was good in the clubhouse, but there's this issue that he has with the GM. So the owner spoke to him first, Alex Cora spoke to him, and as of the time of recording, nothing is final, and I think Craig Breslow is just being a little bit like, well, I'm the GM, so I'm going to be the final decision. He said. Breslow said the decision was never going to be made on a couch in an office in Kansas City, and that conversation is still ongoing. I'm a little nervous that Breslow is not fond of Devers and might be considering a mid season trade, which I was all in on at the beginning of the season. I don't know how that's it depends Yoshida. If Yoshida comes back and he's doing super well, maybe they could trade Devers and get a shit ton in return, and it would be like a Juan Soto situation for the nationals, but, but better, because the Red Sox would be actually contending this year. I don't know. I know

Patti 44:24
how to solve this problem. Okay, bring in Crash Davis. Kevin Costner needs to sit him down like mentor him, yeah, for the rest of the season. That's right. Here's how you react to things. Here's what you're allowed to say. Here's what you are not allowed to say, right? Throw it at the bowl. I mean, there's a bunch of things he could be telling him that would straighten him up, get him to like, you know,

Pottymouth 44:45
I think you're exactly, absolutely right. And I think that is the role of both Trevor story and Alex Brigman. They're kind of like the that sort of level headed guy. I think that they also just are. Are waiting it out a little bit. He would listen to Alex pregnant, that's the question. I think that's the hard part. Yes. Maybe he's been

Patti 45:06
there longer, not a threat, because just hasn't come up in conversation. But interesting. You

Pottymouth 45:13
know, I think they need to fly in big Poppy for this. I think this is, I think, yes. Poppy hotline to David. Ortiz, yeah. Tease. All right, I have a sidebar, but I'm gonna hold it because we have more stuff to say, and maybe we can do it for for Patreon. Okay, I think about fun facts on I

Patti 45:30
sent a text that I never in a billion years would have thought I would ever typed in my life. To potty mouth is the best earlier this week, and it was the following dibs on the Pope, sure. So here it is, folks, we're cross training with the papacy. So on Thursday, there was the announcement of the first American to be elected Pope. So pretty exciting, right? So Pope Leo, first

Pottymouth 45:54
United States in,

Patti 45:56
yes, yes. Thank you. The first United States in, of course, it said American in many places. But you are absolutely correct. This first, the first, the first or

Pottymouth 46:06
North American, yes. Anyway,

Patti 46:08
Pope Leo the 14th, the former Father Bob of Chicago. More recently, it was, you know, Cardinal Robert, but you know he was Father Bob for a long time of Chicago sports fan, sports fan. So good. He graduated from Villanova in 1977 and to this day, still follows Wildcat basketball. I love that, right? So he's like, legit. He's a legit sports fan. So the folks that run the board on the outside of Wrigley Field jokingly posted he's a Cubs fan. Within an hour, very quickly, the new Pope's brother John ended that discussion very quickly by talking to the press and saying he was never, ever a Cubs fan outlet for the Cubs, he's a White Sox fan. He was never, ever a Cubs fan. And also he's a White Sox Yeah, but he made it very clear, no, no, no. Apparently their mom was a Cubs fan. So it's like, I don't know where that came from. Maybe it came from that, I don't know. But of course, the White Sox had a great time with that. So on their on their video board, they're like, you know, he's a White Sox fan. And also ran that video clip of the post brother saying he was never, ever a Cubs fan, which I just just love. There is also both photo and video records of at the time, Father Bob attending the 2005 World Series, the one that the White Sox swept, right? So he was at least at Game one five. He was at least a game one, right? So it could have been divine intervention, I don't know, right, but as the first time that they won the World Series in 88 years, I've also since learned that he also plays tennis and Wordle. You might think one of those is not a sport, but I think tennis fans would, you know, argue that,

Pottymouth 48:07
yeah, I saw shit. I don't know enough about the 2005 White Sox. I thought I had saved it, but Jermaine

Patti 48:12
dye was the MVP. Who Jermaine dye? Oh yeah,

Pottymouth 48:16
I there was some grand slam that they were like, Well, maybe he just made a phone call in to like, you know, yeah, said that, yeah. However, folks can communicate when

Patti 48:28
I when I watch O's games, I really, I love the commentators very much. And when the O's are doing badly, which is happening a bunch this year, they go off and they talk about other things. Some broadcast teams go quiet when the home team is doing poorly, not ours. They find other things to talk about, and they were talking about the Pope, and not only about the fandom, but also the one on about do you think you would get him throw out a first pitch? Yeah? Oh, all right, that's all. That's my Pope news for today. But who knows might be recurring then?

Pottymouth 48:58
Yeah. Well, the thing is, the White Sox are not on their way to another World Series in the very near future. So I don't know about, yeah,

Patti 49:05
they have friends in high places. So this could change, I don't know, right? Wouldn't

Pottymouth 49:09
that be amazing if there's like, this sudden change in White Sox statistics, because they've got friends in high places. God speed, White Sox, yes, that's awesome. That is so cool. I'm excited about the Pope. I don't know why that sports fan in high places has got to be a good thing. Yep, you got dibs on the Pope, though. You definitely have way, way, way, way more Pope cred than I do.

Patti 49:34
Another sentence that I didn't expect to ever go ahead tell me about Ayami Sato.

Pottymouth 49:40
All right, Ayami Sato, Japanese pitcher for years and years on the Japanese national team, who is known for winning a many Women's World World Cup of baseball. I think it's six, yeah, six gold medals that she won with Team Japan and the Women's World Cup The. Three of those times she was the MVP does not cease to do wonders. We just saw lots about her. Actually, it's so good watch. See her, be her, if you haven't, because it has wonderful, wonderful foot footage of a yami Sato, and she was signed, as we talked about before, with a Canadian pro ball team called the Toronto Maple Leafs. That's

Patti 50:19
a hockey team. It's, she was owned by a hockey team, yeah, but she

Pottymouth 50:23
plays really good baseball with, I don't know. It's, it's, how can Toronto

Patti 50:27
not come up with any other team names, right? It seems like more things exist in Toronto than Maple Leafs. Maple Leaf. So not Maple Leaf. I've always wondered that. I have always wondered that, look, I did the, I did the Baltimore Orioles broadcast thing. I went off on a tangent. Tell me about Ayami Sato and the Toronto Maple Leafs, which is actually a baseball team. So

Pottymouth 50:45
she got to pitch yesterday. So yesterday it was Opening Day, Mother's Day. I To my knowledge, she is not a mother herself, but I'm sure she has one and and actually, it is really a lovely scene with her mom in the movie. So yes, so Happy Mother's Day to Ayami satos Mom, because she got to probably at least on video, because lots of people got to see it on video. It was on YouTube Live. So I don't know if the Maple Leafs are going to be showing all of their games on YouTube Live. YouTube Live, but their opening day was and she was more of the opener than a starter. They had her in for two innings. However, they were two hit list innings, three up, three down each of the two innings. First inning, she only threw five pitches. She had one strikeout, and none of the balls left the infield. So a bunch of grounders for the out. What I didn't realize, and I just didn't think about it. She's five, five, so she's intimidating, exactly, and she's very slight, however, she's made out of wire seeds. Yeah, she's just mighty. She's mighty, and she has now overshadowed any other news that's coming out of Canadian pro ball, which I knew nothing about until this season anyway. But for those of you who've been listening for a while, there is another famous face that's going to be debuting, or has debuted at this point on the Hamilton Cardinals in the same league in Canada, and that is Fernanda Rodney, who is the Energizer Bunny. And I'm excited because on May 25 the Hamilton Cardinals will be facing the Maple Leafs. And no word yet as to if these two pictures would be facing each other. But how cool would that be? And they do face each other several times this season. So there is, well, lots of opportunity, and we will let you know if we have a Fernando Rodney, Ayami Soto, face off, face off. That was back down. But also that would be even better. Yeah. So we have a ridiculous,

Patti 52:46
super fun fantasy league in which almost nothing changed this week. I don't change. Congratulations. Wicked awesome for leading by a lot in the number one spot. The only change is Karen's crew caught up to bring back Ronal to tie for sixth place, instead of being several points behind, didn't change the order of things, because, you know the alphabet and all but, um, yeah, so we're kind of all holding steady right now, just saying. All right,

Pottymouth 53:14
well, thanks everybody for participating. It's a lot of fun. All right,

Patti 53:17
what do you got going on this week? Um,

Pottymouth 53:21
not a lot this week, but it is Patty's birth birthday sort of couple weeks worth of celebrating right now. So I think we need to do a lot of birthday celebrations. Everybody has to toast Patty next Monday, I guess awake from today? Yeah. So we'll be, we'll be mentioning your birthday at next recording. But if there's anybody in the area who wants to come to takoma park next Saturday to help us party, we're going to be at the VFW because there's a big, like great reason to celebrate Patty's birthday there, which will be a fundraiser for local schools, giving them supplies in honor of a friend of ours and some good bands and beer, cheap beer, bring cash. Yeah, yes,

Patti 54:04
not for my passion for your drinks,

Pottymouth 54:06
or, you know, you can bring enough cash for everybody.

Patti 54:09
That would be super fun. We would love to see you there. Let us know if you want to join us. How can people find us?

Pottymouth 54:15
You can find us on blue sky, that would be nciv podcast. If you throw us a message on Twitter, we will also retrieve it there, and Facebook and Instagram. Instagram, oh, man, I'm at the end of my IPA. Instagram, are no crying in B ball. Also join the fun at Patreon. That's P, A, T, R, E, o, n.com/no, crying B ball. And we will put up some random stuff, like probably my sidebar, that we'll record in a moment. And I just wrote about more about my New York trip with some pictures. If you want to see that I don't know, join Patreon and let us know what we can do to make it worth your while. We have various tiers. We'll give you shout outs. It's a fun part. Used

Patti 55:00
to be Wait. There's no tears because there's no crying in baseball.

Pottymouth 55:02
There we go with another homonym that's great. Oh, is this? I hit a double that's great. So good.

Patti 55:14
Oh, my God, until then. Oh my gosh, get boosted. Fight the man. Fight now more than ever, send your game balls to Meredith. Wish me happy birthday, and until next week, say good night potty mouth, good

Pottymouth 55:25
night party. Mouth, you

all right, I guess I should do sound check. Do you want check your sound?

Patti 55:46
So much I cannot, I cannot wait to check my sound. All right, all the whole walk here, I was thinking, If only I could be there checking my sound. Actually, I was thinking if I could be there having a beer, but this is a close deck, yeah, really.

Pottymouth 55:56
Oh, beer and checking sound, because you got to take sips in between two I do, right, right?