No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Hi and welcome to episode 416 of No Crying in Basebaall, the Educated Decisions episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth, you made a face when I said educated decisions.

Pottymouth 0:29
Yeah, I made a face because I hit a wrong button on the recording, and I temporarily thought that we would have to do that intro again. But no, I think it's all down there for posterity. And you know, education is a word that goes on hiatus a little bit with me for the summer. I'm not doing educated decisions, so

Patti 0:45
You educate so hard for nine months out of the year, you can take a little break.

Pottymouth 0:50
Actually it is 10. It is 10. It's only two months that we get off only, I know. I know. Here we are, like tiny violins, yeah, I know. And here we are on the other side of the all star break, which always feels like, sort of like this moment in the summer where our

Patti 1:05
tips towards getting ready for school, as opposed to recovering from

Pottymouth 1:08
school, exactly, there's that part, you know, it's that parallel with the baseball season too, right? Like in the first before all star break, it feels like it's anybody's game. Anything can happen. And now as we're coming back. It's sort of like the tension is there right away. Because, you know, like, all right, this is it. We're in the final stretch. We got to make decisions what we're doing next. And I was feeling really good going into the all star break, because the Red Sox were on this 10 game streak. Things were looking up and, you know, recovered from this crazy ass trade, and it was promising. And then we come out of the all star break and have two fucking games against the Cubs where we lose and get shut out the second game. And it was two pitchers that had done really like, where both bayo and Giolito, where it seemed like were coming into themselves, like right before the break. So I felt like, All right, we can count on these guys. And then no. And then today was crochet day. So it was like, All right, at least we have crochet day. And they started off down, oh, to one. And so I got maybe a little bit cranky, and I felt like a little bit hypocritical. Do you have you seen? Welcome to Wrexham. I still have no Okay, so there's, I mean, it's everybody go, go watch. I think it's on Hulu. Um, it's really a cool documentary about Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcelheny purchase of the Wrexham soccer team in Wales, and the fans are fucking nuts. Like, talk about dedicated fans, but it's like, you live and breathe and live and die Wrexham. And yes, last night we were watching, I was like, this is a little extreme. And then today, I like, caught myself when I was like, I am getting so fucking pissed off at the Red Sox losing. And then I was like, Oh,

Patti 2:45
that that's really, that's exactly, they're the wrecks of mass holes, yes, okay, yeah,

Pottymouth 2:50
I could be a wreck some asshole. And then, and then, you know, Mr. Potty mouth, who is not of the superstitious variety when it comes to baseball, you know, not of the rally hat, change your seat, change your clothes, right? I understand that he I come back into qualities, yes. So I left the room briefly and came back right when the Red Sox got a I think it was a two run, home run. I didn't write that down by Willie Arbor, you to go ahead. I'm pretty sure it was to run. And what had happened right before that was Lou Meloni, who I adore, one of the color commentator I guess, in the Nesson broadcasting booth, said that he was going to take off his I think he would have said fucking if he had been able to, if it weren't in Ness but he's like, I'm going to take off this bad luck fleece. And he took off his fleece, and will your brain got the home run. Why was he wearing a fleece that he knew was a bad luck so? Well, I think he, at that moment, decided it was a bad luck fleece. And so in they're in Chicago, they're playing the cuts. So apparently Wendy and all and he had a fleece on, and he decided at that moment, this fleece is the bad luck. Okay, I'm going to take it off. You can act on it. I think so. I think there was a momentary discussion about whether it was the standing up, which he had to do to take off the fleece, that did the change of or if it was taking off of the fleece. Well, did he sit back down? He did. And the Red Sox continued to do well. So they, they tacked on some more runs. So Halle fucking Lu ya, they, they won. And then at the end of the show, Lou Meloni said, I'm, I quote this one because this one I was in for hearing it. I'm never wearing that fleece again. I'm burning it. So I like, I appreciate the R in with the good luck. Bad luck fleece, I sure, totally. And I think Mr. Patty mouth bought it too.

Patti 4:36
So do you guys burn all of your fleeces? Just in case? I think, you

Pottymouth 4:41
know, it's that specific fleece. I think this is very situational, okay? And yes, wearing a fleece, and what

Patti 4:47
is it middle of jewelry from this is, yeah, don't wear clothes you're attached to during a baseball game, because if you have to them, like curse one forever or destroy it or something, yeah, you don't want to do something you're gonna miss. That's a really good point. Yeah, can I tell. Do a thing that happened to our collegiate team, the Thunderbolts. Have you

Pottymouth 5:02
heard about this? Oh, yeah, I saw the video.

Patti 5:04
Okay, so the Thunderbolts, our local collegiate wind bat league from the Cal Ripken League, plays on the field. That's actually, it's a county park field, but it's attached to our local high school, and it is next to a fire station. And in the past, the firefighters would like get out. We'd see them like, leaning over the fence and watching the games during games and kind of like, you know, enjoying their neighbors, right? Every once in a while, a home run ball goes over the fence. So they talked to county parks, because parks owns the field about erecting netting like behind the home run fence right to prevent that, and the parks paid a bunch of money to do that, to protect because every once in a while, something would hit something in the parking lot at the fire station. Well, apparently it wasn't high enough, because during during batting practice on Thursday, one of the Thunderbolts hit a home run, as one does in batting practice. It went over the fence, over the netting, and landed on a pickup truck owned by a local firefighter. Local firefighter apparently was little out of control, because his response to that was to actually open a hose, fire hose, a fire hose, okay, list of things that are wrong here, and start soaking the playing field. So the coach runs over there, and as soon as it's a mistake, like the hose got away from them, they didn't realize where it was had, that's what you would think. And said, Oh yeah, no, he just there were a lot of angry words. This was definitely on purpose, because the guy was mad because the ball hit his truck. This is why you have insurance anyway. Anyway, it's a dent. It's a dent. He didn't like, crash the windshield or whatever. You can get this fixed. But beyond that, it trashed the field so much they couldn't play that day. So here are some things that are wrong. One is so many they had to cancel the game. People had purchased tickets for the game. The opposing team was an hour and a half away. They were traveling to this. Their friends and family were traveling to this. There's been a lot of rain late afternoons and evenings around here, so they've had a bunch of games getting canceled already. Plus the field has already been saturated. Plus this hose was draining some water supply, which I got to imagine, was in place to actually fight emergencies. How would you feel if your house was on fire and sorry, that truck no longer had any because they sprayed water on the baseball field because somebody was mad about their pickup truck so many so many parts that are wrong. So there has been an official apology by the County Fire Department. I don't know about the actual firefighter. I don't know if anything has happened to the firefighter who did this, but I've heard that the Thunderbolts are going to press charges. I don't know if that means, oh, wow, to the individual, or against the, you know, the fire department. I'm not sure, but it was malicious. Yeah, there was a financial repercussion the county. I mean, okay, it's county versus county here, right, right? You've got the County Fire Department trashing a county park, so there's got to be something there. But anyway, so all of that happened, which is a little funny and a lot horrible, and all of that. And then today, I'm watching the um the Orioles play in Tampa Bay at Steinbrenner field. Right again. It's this the Yankees spring training, you know, facility, and they were just talking about, again, the power of what you say out loud, that it never rains. They never have rain delays. Oh, my God, it's raining. And nobody there, like their grounds crew doesn't know how to deal with a rain delay. So it was a little funny when they got all caught up and the the tarp wasn't hadn't been rolled up correct, so they couldn't unroll it was keystone cops all over the place. But the bottom line was, I had just heard, oh yeah, there was a decision made over all star break, that if the rays make the playoffs, they're going to use that field in the playoffs, which is a problem for a lot of reasons. And here's a new reason, they can't handle weather. I mean, the first reason, in my book is there's 20,000 fewer seats than the smallest major league baseball field. Yeah, and you need to accommodate a lot of people for playoffs. So anyways, you spin out from there. But also, okay, this may change some things, like they can't handle a rain

Pottymouth 9:14
shower, all right. Moral of the story, let's make sure that the rays don't make it to the playoffs. I would be totally behind that. Oh my God, holy shit.

Patti 9:25
On today's show. We've got our all of our takes about the all star game. We've got boyfriends featuring new clubs a reset and Diamondbacks in the rough, Eli signs fast and for a lot of money. We've got cross training with FIFA WNBA and the police blotter, and we've got women and girls in baseball. Cheers. I am drinking a lovely cocktail. Thank you for having lovely cocktails in your house. I am drinking a prickly pear Margarita. And I had, didn't know what it was contest, because I have no idea what a prickly pear tastes like, but it tastes like, yummy.

Pottymouth 9:57
Yeah. It's very sweet. It was a little sweet for me. Me, although made the mistake of not salting the rim, I think salting the rim would have added to it. I think that's the only thing that's missing. Yeah, I had the starter, and then I'm back into the hills being alive with the Von Trapp family, the Vermont beer. That's a little bit of Austria and a lot of Vermont, is what it says on the top of the can. So boy, do we

Patti 10:20
have their marketing all working out. If you guys need any help, you give us a call here. No crying in baseball, we've got a lot of things figured out

Pottymouth 10:27
for you. Von Trapps, oh, sure, all right. And I don't know how we else, we can break out into song with the all star game. I thought it might be just fun, because the you know, here we are, second half of this season. All Star game just happened, just to sort of chat about how things went, because it's such a big event. However, I am sort of caught up now in this, how much of it is a game and how much of it is just show. It's entertainment, right? It's just like what you were saying before, with with last week, with the fan vote and with the pitcher, whose name you can say for me, but yeah, they call him is okay? Yeah, he did very well. This kid. He was, like, all dressed up, and somebody, I think it was the ladies who do the Nationals on on Twitter, or whatever the fuck it is, said that he looked like he was on his first day of an in Washington intern job. Yeah, he doesn't quite have, like, the old swag there, but it's I kind of miss when it counted for something. I just, I don't know, I feel a little bit torn. It was fun, it was fun, but I think it is much more banana e than actual baseball e at this point. So first of all, we made Derby predictions last week, and I was kind of close

Patti 11:41
you I would two of us, you got the win. There we go. You absolutely got the win.

Pottymouth 11:45
I was really hoping that junior caminaro would pull it off, but alas. And a lack, I

Patti 11:51
mean, I kind of like the old guy getting pitched to by his dad actually winning, because he had a lot of things against him, like getting pitched to by his dad, and also the guy who's in the lead for home runs, never wins. You know, in in the regular season, never wins,

Pottymouth 12:04
yep, which is exactly what we said last week. Yes. Cal rally, so that was fun. I was kind of, there's so much attention right now on his ass, right, because of his big dumper moniker. And so I was spending a little bit of time during the all star game, doing a little bit of ass comparison. He's does not have an abnormal ass, no, he really does, like, and, and he was, and that's what actually kind of pissed me off when we're watching the Home Run Derby intros, is the guy, like, literally said that, like, the guy who's known for his big ass, and I he said the biggest ass in Okay, the biggest, yeah, I there. That wasn't okay to say that, right? Well, and there are plenty of big asses in baseball, this guy was clearly

Patti 12:42
tangential to baseball, yep, also, I think he got Brent Ricker his name, and I think he said Brian

Pottymouth 12:47
Rooker. Oh, really, yeah, yeah. He clearly didn't know what the fuck

Patti 12:50
he was talking Yeah. I think that that that needs, I mean, right? Body shaming, like, if he, you know, if he takes on big jumper, and if he's, that's fine, right? But can we know? I

Pottymouth 13:00
mean, yeah, can we not talk about it in those terms? And he has a lovely ass, like, it's a, you know, like,

Patti 13:06
express any judgment, that's none of my business.

Pottymouth 13:09
Well, he it worked for him with, there was some quote that he said, and he said, it's, you know, it's working for him. And it definitely did. He did really, well, never mind, yeah, right. There's, there's got to be, you know, use it for good, sure. For good, sure. I imagine that you were working when they had the right Oh, no. One more thing about the home run. Okay, cool. Can we say thank you to Woody, because, because of James Wood, the Nationals gave us 40% off of on game tickets. And so I'm going to actually two games. I got two weeks. Hey, you want to come along because they're 40% off. And I said yes to both. Oh, that's awesome. What's the other game? I'm not gonna tell you, no, actually, no, it's next week, Friday. It's, oh, nice. I think it's Milwaukee. It's a, it's a fireworks game. Oh, good. All right, well, that's a Friday night game. Yeah, if he had stuck in there longer, then we would have had a bigger discount, because that's kind of how it went. I think that putting the kid first was rough. You know, there's another one, like, yeah, there's, it's not a scientific experiment by any means. All right, so the next day, because I was home, I watched the red carpet stuff. Did you see any of it? I flipped through some photos from it. I actually, I had never done this before, like, actually watched it. It's amusing to see fashion being taken so seriously the whole time. And it was another, I don't know if it was the same bonehead, and I don't remember his name, the guy who was, like, interviewing everybody that had was literally saying, like, walk me through your outfit. And just to see, like these, you know, jockey guys like talking about their outfits from the, you know, the top to the bottom, and where they got everything was kind of amusing. It's also like so much money, you know, so flashy for going through that. And I didn't agree with them on the winner. They had a very subjective like, who was the best look? And I can't I think they picked jazz Chism. I'm pretty sure who looked great, but Ellie de la Cruz. Was, oh my god. Like, did you see his pink so good? It was a little reminiscent of Jaron Durant last year, but I think Ellie wore it better, and the colors were just a little bit better. But what was, what I think should have put him over the top was the lining, and a lot of the guys did this put like stuff inside. But for Ellie, he was honoring his sister who died at the beginning of the season, and we talked about that when it happened. And there's not a lot of information about why it did say an illness, but that's all I got. And June 1, he hit a home run in his first game afterwards to for her that he dedicated to her, and then took some time off to go back to the DR and just that he had that in his jacket, on his necklace, and I don't feel like they gave enough attention or credit to the meaning behind that, that they were all about the bling and not about the meaning. So I would have liked to see a little bit more meaning there talking about what guys are wearing. A lot of people are super happy that they went back to the actual uniforms during the game, including both managers spoke about it that they were happy to have the uniforms back. I usually resist change. I'm a very like, you know, there's so many things about baseball that I start off being like, Oh, I don't want that to change. And then maybe I'll come around. This is one that I was okay with the change. I like, I kind of liked having uniforms for the all star game because I liked the unity of it. I thought

Patti 16:20
you didn't. I thought you were way against. It was like arguing back with you, saying, I like the unity of it. Wait, you

Pottymouth 16:24
just channeled me. Maybe I just, maybe I just like all this time, I finally came around. But I just noticed while watching the game that it just felt that disjointed. I get the representing your team, and I get the people who really like that, but I liked the feeling that this was a team, and this kind of comes back to the show of it all too. I feel like as a team, you're playing together for a game, although huge caveat depends on the uniform. Like, there are some years that they've gotten it right. This year, the uniform that they had that they wore on Derby Day, right? I didn't like it that much. It was not interesting, yeah, and the font was not great. It was like this lowercase cursive in the corner. Yeah, no, and they weren't that yeah, they weren't that great. No, it wasn't,

Patti 17:10
it wasn't exciting. I do like Unity, but you're right, if it's a bad uniform, then then the whole thing sucks. Let's throw it out. So I mean that we have these like extremes about that. I do like I see you're going to go into it. I like that. You know, the guys can trick out a little bit during the game. And thank you for bringing this up, because I saw ryana Hearn orange crayon bat. And I want to know more about it. You can tell us

Pottymouth 17:30
more about it. Yeah, so various players did stuff with bats or cleats or gloves, and most of them were, you know, to their family. So Aaron judge, his, he he's a new parent, so he had his bat was dedicated to his daughter. Francisco Lindor is a big family guy, and all of his kids were on his bat. And there were a lot of other examples. Actually, the one that I really liked was Andres Munoz, the Seattle closer, who had his famous cat, now very famous cat on his glove, Matilda, who's just an amazing looking cat, looks very pissed off, but adorable. So Ryan O'Hearn, though, you know, really did it right? And I think this is what we like about players weekend, especially when they did it well, his orange crayon bat was signed by the Newtown Edgemont angels, which is a Pennsylvania based Little League Challenger team that's for players with both physical and intellectual disabilities. That's their words from their website. And what's cool about it is that he's been active. I had no clue, and I chose him as a baseball boyfriend. Actually, I should go back to my notes and see if I actually mentioned this when I talked about him, I'm guessing not. It doesn't sound familiar. So he's worked with them for years, since he was on Kansas City, and Matt Strom, also, who I believe, is on the Phillies now, he's been all over the place. He is okay. Both of them have been involved in this organization for years. Between the two of them, they pulled together enough money to get a scoreboard for the team. So these are kids really playing baseball, kids with challenges. And he did a lovely little video, like talking to them, that I think is in the show notes, I hope is in the show notes. But yay for Ryan over Yeah. And it's one

Patti 19:04
of those things where we absolutely appreciate players donating money, but also we really appreciate it when they show up. And this is a case where he clearly shows up for these kids.

Pottymouth 19:13
Oh yeah, there's the article that I'm definitely linking talks about how he got to know them and like, it's that, you know, once you get to know them over the years, it's a lot more meaningful. And, you know, he's more attached to it. So, yeah, absolutely. All right, the other part, all star game, which we didn't watch together, how did you feel about the miked up part of it?

Patti 19:33
I find it so distracting. I don't mind it so much. When an outfielder is miked up, I don't think it's great, but someone who's not going to like be like I hated the pictures and pictures being like. That was so wrong,

Pottymouth 19:45
exactly. So that's exactly what I wanted to open with, because it was Terek school ball and Kyle Raleigh. You know, there never been a battery before to my knowledge, right? Focus, dude, first fucking inning, and they're coming up against Shohei Ohtani, right? Donald Acuna and Catal Marte. Like, that's the 123, and the booth clearly wanted them to be, like, talking out what they're thinking. What's your next? What are you gonna ask for? And, you know, Otani singles, right? And I'm like, All right, maybe you guys should just let it go. And I was thinking, like, Can Cal just say, leave us the fuck alone right now, like, let us play.

Patti 20:21
I'm sure it's in a contract. I'm sure they have to. I'm sure it's in a contract. Super

Pottymouth 20:26
shitty, because they kept Adam, and then Ron decuna got a single, and then Marty got a double and scored. So it was, it was definitely it felt like, When is this gonna end? And luckily, the next batters got out. The one good part of that I enjoyed hearing about on the mic up, but, you know, definitely not worth this whole shit was when they use the the challenge for the pitch. And it was a low pitch, but it was in the strike zone, and it was called the ball. It was against man Machado, and I believe it was the it was the third pitch of his strikeout, yeah. And Cal Raleigh caught it. So like, Cal does everything, right? He hits home runs. He wins the Home Run Derby, and he has a really good eye. And said to call that a strike.

Patti 21:08
And that was the first time the challenge was used, yep. And in the All Star game, first time was used in the major leagues, because it's been, you know, I think they did a little bit in the spring training, but, like, not in a, you know, during the game. And, yeah, so it was, they said, Oh, look, it worked, and it worked fast. Yep. It wasn't one of these challenges where, you know, we start doing things on the video board because we have three minutes to kill or anything. It's like, Yeah, they look out, you're right, yeah. Moving on, moving I was happy

Pottymouth 21:33
to see it, yeah. So the rest, like you said, Though I don't know the rest of the mic up, I didn't mind as much. Still, overall, I don't think it's a good thing. Clayton Kershaw, like, he had no fucks left to give because, like, it's, you know, he's in there as

Patti 21:47
his last he, like, enhanced it anyway, because he just didn't care what he said or what he

Pottymouth 21:53
did. He wasn't covering his mouth at all. And he's talking about what he's gonna throw and what he's thinking, Okay, what do you want me to throw? It was great, although I think he faked him out in the last one, because I was watching, like, the replay of it, and he said, like, with his mouth open, I'm gonna throw something again. And then He covered it with a glove and said, Oh, okay, I'm gonna throw the curve. And then he got him out with the curve. So it was but that was kind of cute. The problem with that, though, did you catch was they kept then they kept the mic hot, and when he went into the dugout repeatedly, he said, suck it big dumper. Because his first out, and it wasn't a strikeout either, I think was a line out, was to get Cal Riley out, so to have him say, suck it big dumper a couple times, I

Patti 22:34
have never loved him, and now I just think, wow, you're such a classy guy. Maybe I should really, you know, change my feelings about you. Clayton Kershaw, I don't know, yeah. And I did enjoy pico Armstrong when they asked him, like, what's your advice for kids who look up to you and want to be you? And he said something to the effect of you should want to be the best you that you can be exactly. And I was like, oh, boyfriend, yeah. This is like, I love this. This is what I want. Like, are the players that kids look up to to say to them, yeah, you're already great. Yeah, be be more like you are,

Pottymouth 23:06
yeah. And for him to be able to do that with his first All Star game, 23 years old, like, you know, he had just said before that, they had asked him, if, you know, this still feels surreal. And he's like, of course, like, no joke, right? I'm out here. But then to have, like, the composure to give solid advice to

Patti 23:23
kids I was waiting for, oh, you know, keep working hard, right? You know, you can do anything. But it wasn't, it wasn't a platitude. So yay for that. The young

Pottymouth 23:30
guys. The other young guy who I thought was really impressive on the mic, was Jacob Wilson with his dad, Jack. And that was another one where I was like, All right, if you're gonna mic people up, like, and it's gonna work. And I mean, shortstop, like, that's a rough position to be. Mike, it worked out okay. He was actually, I didn't realize Jacob's the first fan elected rookie shortstop, yeah, in the history of that movie. So he's doing pretty well. He has not been a baseball boyfriend pick yet, but I would wait till next year and see what happens. His dad, Jack Wilson, played for the major leagues for 12 seasons, which I didn't know. And he was a shortstop too, and he, most of his years were in Pittsburgh. He made the all star game in oh four, and he got the heart and hustle in oh seven. So I think we need to dig into the Wilson family a little bit more. And then he went to Seattle and Atlanta, and they definitely, you know, pumped up his Atlanta connection for the all star game. Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts were also miked up. Not, you know, whatever. Really give a shit. Did they talk? It's fine. And Matt Olson got a few moments at the end. Is like the hometown boy. So overall, it makes it less of a game and more of a, you know, a

Patti 24:39
show, yeah. And I think some of the show things interfered with it being a game like it actively made it less of a game and more of a show, right?

Pottymouth 24:45
Like you said there, there's definitely better ways to mic people up, like they could have done the Father Son thing as an aside. Or, yeah, some there's

Patti 24:53
between innings, there's some downtime you can, you can work that stuff in there, yeah, all

Pottymouth 24:58
right, very last part of the all star game. Came the historic swing off at the end, full of ncib Baseball boyfriends, at least on the National League side, for sure. So your guy, Stowers from Miami, who kicked it all off, was hysterical, because they, when they asked him, like, what'd you think about that? He's like, I didn't know this was a thing until minutes like, before I was actually get up there and do that, yeah. And he was like, Oh, this is a thing that I gotta do, hockey game. We turn into a hockey game, right, right, or soccer, depending on what you watch. So he, he got one, I think he got one home run. He got one. And then Schwab, My guy is, you know, MVP got three out of three home runs. Not bad. So that Peter Alonso, a former pick of yours, didn't have to actually approach the plate good thinking

Patti 25:47
Homer during the game, because otherwise, I mean, without doing the Home Run Derby or doing the speed off, I mean, he's really cutting down on opportunities.

Pottymouth 25:53
Yeah. And the interesting thing about this swing off too, is that they had to pick the guys who are currently, who currently, whatever at the time, who were in the game. So that's why there wasn't Aaron judge or, you know,

Patti 26:04
and by the end of the game, it's not, it's not your starting lineup anymore,

Pottymouth 26:08
right? Yeah, so for, I mean, for the American League side, you know Brent Rooker, who had been in the Home Run Derby, is he the only one who was this year's Home Run Derby who was in wait was Star Wars in the Home Run Derby, he was not okay? So just Rooker and then Randy rosarena and Aranda is the one it was I felt really bad for because he was, you know, the one who didn't get any and made it so that Alonso didn't have to take the plate Tampa, Tampa Bay Ray, you know, if they had Kevin arrow in there, who was in at the beginning of the game, maybe it would have been a different story. So seven to six national league, can

Patti 26:40
I tell you my favorite thing about the swing off, it's actually in the collective bargaining agreement. Oh, wow, that as the tiebreaker exists, that that has been bargained that's something like, that's a labor thing, man, that's in the CBA. So I

Pottymouth 26:52
think that's really ours. Needs to read up on his, his union contract. I mean, you know,

Patti 26:57
yes, he absolutely does. He should anyway. But also, really only comes up, you know, once a year at most, right? But, yeah, I was amused that that got negotiated, which also, I think, is before about Steinbrenner field possibly being a location for playoffs that is going to, there's going to be a lot of union attention for that, because the players get cuts. They get bonuses based on the gate, for you know, how much a ticket sales, and if you can only sell 11,000 tickets instead of 40,000 tickets times however many games, you're cutting down on income as well. So anyway, back to, back to Pete crow Armstrong,

Pottymouth 27:33
what a guy. He was also snazzy. Snazzy. On the he was, he

Patti 27:38
was pretty snazzy. So we keep saying about, you know, oh, he joined the 2020 club. He started a new club right before the all star game. His new club is the 2525 70 club. He hit his 70th RBI right before the all star break. He is the only player in MLB history ever to reach 2525 70 so, 25 homers, 25 stolen bases, and 70 RBI before the all star break, and he has, since, I haven't checked today, but as yesterday, added another home run and another stolen base. So he was he had actually 2628 and 72

Pottymouth 28:15
that was against the Red Sox before. He didn't do well today.

Patti 28:19
But the other thing that happened right before the all star break was Fox Sports did a fan poll for like, first half awards, and fans voted PCA as the National League MVP for the first half, which, you know, I don't think that's going to hold or mean anything for like, the whole year, because it's going to be shown how tiny. But it's nice that folks are recognizing this is a very special season that's happening

Pottymouth 28:41
here, crazy, and he's super good on defense, too. So there was this catch in the outfield today that he missed that was a full layout, like, for anybody else, it would have been like, so understandable that he missed it. But Lou merlonie was like, you know, that's actually a catch that he usually makes. And he said, like, I'm really glad he didn't make it today. He's an amazing player. I wish him the best for his career after today's game. Yeah,

Patti 29:01
no, yeah, no, we've talked before about he has, he has made catches that had like a 0% probability based on Statcast. Like no one's ever made a catch like that before. I guess that's it. So Kyle Stowers, back to Kyle Stowers, so you know how often they say, you know, the All Star game sometimes screws with the beginning of the second half of the season, right? Not for Kyle Stowers. So if you consider the last game before the all star break and the first game after the all star break as sort of like consecutive games, so between those two games, those back to back games, he's gone eight for 10 with five home runs, including a walk off and 11 RBI in those two games. So there are two consecutive games. There's an all star break in the middle, but there you go. So the last time there was someone who had eight hits, five home runs, 11 R, B, I in a two game span. That was Ty Cobb, 100 years ago, holy, 100 years ago. He's also the only person in MLB history to hit five home runs, including a walk off in a two game span. On, ever, ever. And, of course, and then we said he hit one of the National League homers in the All Star Game swing now. So he's also having this miraculous little season. So I'm very excited about Kyle Stowers, yeah. So Brian Rocchio, my clima boyfriend, done nothing for me because he got sent down. And makes it a terrible, terrible beginning of the season, things have changed. He just came back up because Gabrielle Arias, who I'm looking at for my next year, boyfriend there for that. For the Guardians, sprained his ankle, so he's down for a little bit. So they brought Brian back up, which is good for me and good for Brian. More good for Brian, a little good for me. So he said, I mean, he had a really good outlook. He said he took the time in the minors as a reset, both a mental reset and also a mechanics reset, right? He got to get his head on right, and also figure out what's wrong mechanically to get better. So he said, when they sat me down, I'm trying to reset my mind, and I know who I can be as a player. So his first eight games back from getting that call up, when, when Arias went down, he's, he's, he's been hitting 333, with six doubles, a home run, and six RBI. So if he can keep that bat going, he may not get sent back down. When Arias comes back up, they may keep him at shortstop, and arias may end up platooning at second base. They may end up with both of those that'll be guys that'll be very exciting for him and also very exciting for me, because it allowed me to move sedan Rafaela to second base on my fantasy team and put Brian Rocchio at shortstop. So I have, you know, currently two knocking on wood, pretty, you know, decent players right now in my infield, which is rare for me, because

Pottymouth 31:41
there you go, yeah, and your timing is really impeccable with that, because the Red Sox also moved, say, Don Rafael to second base today. There you have. It was a little rough. So

Patti 31:49
Sean Murphy, his bat is, how is hot again. So he's the catcher for one of the catchers, one of the catchers, this is important, one of the catchers for Atlanta, right? He's my he's my Atlanta boyfriend, right now, his bat is hot again. He had a three run homer on Saturday, which was his third home run in two days, his seventh and 11 games. So great for me, great for him, except now, Atlanta's other catcher, who's a rookie, has statistics. Who is his stat line is almost as good right as Sean Murphy's. He's doing great. He's all in conversation with, oh my God, is he a rookie of the year? Maybe? I don't know. So that's Drake Baldwin, so he's not that far behind. But also, he's getting peanuts compared to the $73 million contract that Sean Murphy has. And if you're a team who's looking for a good catcher who's got a hot bat, yeah, so he may. So there's a lot of rumors about him being like on the trade, which would be bad for me, because he's my only catcher right now, except, except Adley Richmond, my once and forever boyfriend from Baltimore, is starting rehab on Tuesday in Norfolk, so maybe he'll be back before Shawn Murphy goes somewhere else. If Sean Murphy, I mean, it's all rumor. It's all rumor. Yeah, like, I mean, you're gonna be reading about your own team. Oh, you know, we're gonna lose this guy. We're gonna lose that guy. You don't

Pottymouth 33:05
know yet, right? No, but that's, that's a big fucking deal, because here we are, like, 11 days before the trade deadline, and shit is gonna start happening, and Atlanta's had a really weird season. They really have to. They really have, you know, who else has had a weird season? Yes, the Diamondbacks. Yes, they have and, holy shit, you know, of all pitching flocks for me to choose at the beginning of the year, it really seemed like a reasonable, such a good idea, did it was such a bad idea, like, this is just one of those, like, you just don't know shit goes wrong. So I was, you know, sort of bemoaning my place in our fantasy league that you'll hear about later, and trying to figure it out. And I did the count and 10 of my transactions so we get, like, a very limited amount of ad drops over the season. And I've already used a shit ton, and 10 of those shit ton that I've used are pitching because I've had, because I've had so many guys go on long term. Il, so I just, you know, came up with the rundown for all of you d backs fans out there, and my sympathy goes to you. So two big name starters out for the season, for Tommy John surgery, Jordan Montgomery from the get go, and then Corbin burns a little ways down the line. So Corbin was actually on my team, but he is out, also out for the whole fucking season. I talked about at the beginning of the season that they weren't sure who was going to be the closer. There are a few guys who are in the mix, and it was mostly Justin Martinez and AJ PUC. And I was really excited to say, get the puck out of there. Or like, here comes puck. But anyway, Puck and cool, they're both out for the season. So Martinez apparently needs the big time Tommy John, he might be out for 26 as well. They're saying 14 to 16 months of recuperation. Yeah. Whereas Puck is not the full Tommy John, it's the brace thing, which he talked about before, and I don't quite remember. But hopefully that means he'll be back next season, but definitely not this year, definitely not this year. And then somehow I avoided three more relief pitchers who are also on the 60 days. So pretty much out for the season. Christian MENA might be back in August. He has a shoulder strain. Another Christian Montes de Oca has lower back surgery coming, and that might be career and, oh no, let alone season ending, which is super distressing. And then Tommy Henry. So currently on the 15 day I O, are four guys that I had on my roster at one point, Dre Jameson, which I was very excited to have some Jameson and I often am has a bone chip in his elbow that they can't quite figure out what to do with, and hopefully it's just 15 day. Jalen beaks has lower back issues. Shelley Miller and Ryan Thompson are the only ones who are projected to come back in their future. They're starting throwing programs. Both of them are kind of, you know, announced that they can avoid Tommy John, so I don't know how solid that is. Previously, both Kendall, graven and Kevin Ginkel were on the 15 day. They are happily back on my team, but Juan Mario also was up for a while, sent down to triple A and for a brief moment I had JP. Fire ISON on my team. He was DFA, and he's now in the Dodgers, and so he's probably pretty happy to be there, considering the state that the D backs are in. So that's the pitching mess, but there's more mess. And so my heart really goes out to D backs, folks. So Quetta Marte was a previous baseball boyfriend of mine. He I wear so we're recording Sunday, 6:10pm, right now. Unclear whether he's playing today. He might be really he's been on the restricted list for the past two days, because while he was basically winning the all star game. I mean, you can, you can credit him. He hit the two run double in the first inning off of school. He his house while that was happening, got burglarized, and the information that I saw was, quote, high dollar, and they talked about personal items and jewelry, and how horrific, you know, he and his whole family were out. Somebody clearly scooped out his place and did this. And please remember that it wasn't too long ago that there was an issue with him on the field at the White Sox when a fan was heckling him about his mother, who had died tragically, yeah. And it really, you know, set him off, understandably, and so he's just had a shitty year. So he went to the DR to kind of decompress, yeah, and he asked for some time off, and toy levula was like, yeah. So the restricted list means that he might not be getting paid for those days, but it's unclear. Yeah, no, he

Patti 37:45
doesn't get paid. If you're on the restricted list, it's like, leave without pay, but you're not penalized for it other ways. And also it frees up your roster spot, yeah, so you can get someone else get called up to replace you without, you know, to so it's actually, like, sometimes it's a punishment, but off, but it's also there for, I have to, I need to be gone right now, yeah? Like, I think, like, when there have been some medical things, people said I'm on the restricted list. I just need, I need, like, three days, right? I gotta go. I'm sorry.

Pottymouth 38:13
Or maybe, like, beyond those bereavement days that they get, which is just, just a few, yeah, so they did add Sergio Alcantara, but I think he might be sent down already, because, you know, Marty's gonna come back. And Marty's, bit, had a crazy, wonderful season, you know, technically, with the bat and with the glove, but not with the overall like,

Patti 38:34
also here this in context, there have been, apparently, across a lot of like, major sports leagues, a lot of burglaries of athletes homes because their schedule is public. Yeah, and it's not just they're at an away game, they're at the All Star game. Therefore the whole family is gone, yeah, right. It's not like, Oh, he's gone. We can work around the, you know, the kids or whatever. No, they the schedule is out there. So there, there are, actually, there are a lot. I think it was MLB, or if it's the MLB, Pa has like, security folks who have been, like, consulting with players, like, you need to install alarms and cameras and, like, kind of walking them through all of these things, because everyone knows where you are all the time.

Pottymouth 39:13
You would think, like, you know, to have a big alarm system would be something, I guess I know more D backs problems. Gabriel Moreno, who was another former baseball boyfriend, pick of mine, is been moved to the 60 day list, so he's pretty much out for the season with a hairline fracture in his right hand from June 6. So who knows, maybe he'll be out for back by the end. But that's a really hard thing for your starting catcher. And then former baseball boyfriend pick of yours you can Suarez was hit by a pitch on the hand during the all star game. So of course, that set off all sorts of alarms. They got him checked out. Everything was negative. He stayed in the game after that, which makes me a little bit like, I guess, like he felt okay right away. But holy shit, he did get to opt out of that. Swing off at the end. And luckily. You know, National League didn't need him. All worked out fine on the one right side for the the all star game with and the D backs. Corbin Carroll, former pick of mine, first diamond back to Homer in the All Star game. Yeah, so between him and Marty, the, you know, the the D backs had a big, big role in uh, winning that game.

Patti 40:21
Yeah, yeah. So, um, Ronald green, Jr, was not at all harmed by um, playing in the All Star game. He did, of course, you know, step down from the Home Run Derby. So maybe that's what made the difference, because his performance Friday versus the Yankees was pretty damn good. So he had a double hit, a triple, okay, it's Acuna. It's what he does, right, right? Okay, he's got a great bat. Those are good hits. The thing that everyone's still talking about is he caught a flyball at the warning track in right field. This is back to the infield right turns around, throws a bullet. I've heard the phrase frozen rope before, and they said it about the sounds like, Oh, I get it now. This was beautiful. Such a beautiful throw. No bounces, no anything. 301 feet to third base to throw out the runner who had tagged up at second and was going to third got there in time. It was the longest outfield assist since Mookie threw a 302 foot one in 2020, wow. Brian snicker. When all, all of his media training said his accuracy is stupid, yeah, which is true,

Pottymouth 41:19
yeah. You know there, I think looking at the video, the runner just didn't. Mr. Browning mouth said, like, the runner could have put a little bit more effort into it. Like, who would have thought that that throw would go through? Also, the runner just didn't. The third base

Patti 41:32
coach was trying to get him to slide, and he didn't. So he's gonna take a lot of crap. But also, there's no denying that that throw was incredible also, but yeah, it could have, it could have been, wow, that was, that was so close. But no, it was, you know, effective. David Wright was my very first Mets Boyfriend Back in 2018 he retired right after that season. The Mets, just this weekend, retired his number number five, and on the same day, inducted him into the Mets Hall of Fame. He was a seven time all star, two time Gold Glove, all around. Great guy. Spent 14 years with the Mets. He is the team all time leader in hits, with 17 177 singles, with 11 119 doubles, with 390 and 970 RBI, which you know the team for 14 years. Those cumulative stats are going to be there for you. And during his acceptance of all this, he said, I never accomplished my goal of bringing a World Series back to Queens, but I promise you, I gave it everything I had and I wanted it just as badly as you did. Yeah, so that's pretty great. All right, last week we talked about the draft. It usually takes a couple of weeks for the players who are drafted to actually sign a contract. Um, Eli wilts, number one draft pick, did not take more than a minute. It was six days from the draft when he signed the bottom line with the Nationals for record for a high school player, for a guy getting drafted right out of high school, $8.2 million um, Jackson holiday was 8.1 $9,000,000.03 years ago. But I would say that if you adjust for inflation, I think holiday got more, but I get it. I get it. It's fine. So this kid, you know, great. This is huge. This is amazing. But also his plan is he wants to get called up by age 20. And, you know, he's makes these plans, and he writes these plans down, and they come true for him. So you got to sign fast so you can get going, you can start working fast so you can get called up by the time you're 20. Just fun fact for the nationals, he makes the third number one draft pick for the nationals ever. Steven Strasburg and Bryce Harper are the only other number one picks. They turned out pretty well at times,

Pottymouth 43:39
right? I know Strasburg is just such a sad, you know, that was, that was very sad. But he had his moment. You know, they both had their moments.

Patti 43:45
MVP, of the wasn't he MVP at least one of the World Series? Or at

Pottymouth 43:50
least it was definitely like key for World Series. However, Harper was gone by then, but Harper was up at 19, yeah, yes. So maybe that was good strategy.

Patti 44:00
So our police blotter and our cross training, once again, is like squished together and thrown all over the place. Okay, so I'm gonna start with what I read today about the players union, the MLBPA, they now based on all the travel ban stuff that potty mouth talked about last week, even with the athletes exceptions and all that, but also what you know about ice just showing up, ignoring rules and dancing their own freaking steps, the MLBPA now recommends to all international players that they keep their immigration documents on them at all time. It doesn't matter that that Rob Manfred had a conversation with the fascist in chief. It doesn't matter that there are exceptions for athletes. It doesn't matter that you have the proper documentation. Crap happens. So the unions like have this with you always, always, and they the Union itself, has immigration attorneys on staff, which makes sense, because they have so many national players anyway,

Pottymouth 44:57
but now it's probably, hey, maybe they're hiring there. I know an immigration that could

Patti 45:01
so Manfred says, you know that all of the international players have visas, and he hasn't seen evidence of disruption. He's not saying so it's not going to happen. So he was careful about that. He was like, these things are all true. We haven't seen a problem for players yet, and we do know that they are all have legitimate visas, and he just stops. He's He's not going any farther than that, because, you know, he doesn't want to ruffle any feathers. Tony Clark, who's the head of the players union, said, educated players make educated decisions. So, like, you got to just know these things, and you have to, like, just take care of yourself, and we will take care of you as best as we can. But here's the part that you need to do yourself.

Pottymouth 45:42
Yeah. So the shitty thing you know that maybe Manfred should have talked to the fascists about while they were hanging out is that plenty of people are being detained, detained who have visas, sure, who have valid visas. So you know, if you're if your ice agent doesn't follow baseball and doesn't recognize you, you're definitely at risk. And the other thing is, not just players who are born in other countries should be carrying these documents. But any player who looks as if they were born sure another country sure should also be carrying the documents, because ice is racist,

Patti 46:11
and players regularly cross the Canadian border and have to come back into this country, you know. So there's, you know, even on official baseball business, there are plenty of opportunities to get tripped up, to get mishandled, to get bad crap happening to you. Yeah, yeah.

Pottymouth 46:29
Super, super shitty. All right, we have we're going on a really dark turn here. You got it right, right? When I was like pulling shit together, I saw this last minute thing. I just gonna throw it out there, because the fascist in chief seems to be such a big sports fan these days. He and because he's trying to find any distraction that does not begin with the letter E and end with pristine anyway, he's just saying shit and so on truth social this morning, Sunday, apparently, he posted this tirade about how both the Washington football team, which is the commanders,

Patti 47:04
and on the Washington what should we call it? Yes, yes, it's a great name, a level iteration. And

Pottymouth 47:09
then And then, the Cleveland garden guardians demanded that they revert back to their old names, and said owners take care of this. Like this is a command by the President to the owners, to revert to the old man,

Patti 47:23
sure. And one of my favorite parts about it is he said that a lot of great Indian people are clamoring for this. What I what I didn't see, what I really wanted to see. I wanted so much to see. A quote that said, some of my best friends are great Indian people. I wanted that deeply. What an S but both teams had both owners for both teams said, we have no plans to change the name. We're fine, thanks, though.

Pottymouth 47:45
He said, green. We're good people too, like, who, or, you know, which kind of Indian people are you talking well,

Patti 47:51
he had great success, you know, with the whole Pete Rose thing that was, you know, so why we? Probably thinks I can do whatever I will with

Pottymouth 47:56
sports, right, right? And also, so this leads right into FIFA, which is what I talked about last week. And I just wanted to give myself a call. Give myself a correction for this. So this is also where he's been treading into sports. And last week I said that the World Cup next year would be kicking off in LA and I was almost right, because it's actually kicking off in Guadalajara. Oh, here's our song opportunity. Oh, no, Guadalajara won't do and Mexico City first, and then on US soil. The first game is going to be in LA with the US Men's Team. So there's that. That would be June 11, are the matches in Mexico. And then June 12 is both LA and Toronto. The final is going to be at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, which I believe is where the club cup was, where all this shit went down with the fascism chief not getting off the stage. There are rumors, and I'm not usually one to spread rumors, but maybe once in a while, of the need to get these matches out of the United States because of this travel ban, because potentially 43 countries could be banned from entering this country and and, yes, there was that clause in whatever the travel ban is that said that, you know, players are exempt for World Cup and the Olympics and other relative things. But it's it would fuck up with everything, because that's just the players. There's so many other and the teams, but there's just so many people hanging on and fans. And, you know, it's not a very friendly atmosphere for competition, for climate. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So while I was looking into that the United States has even more to do to learn from the club cup, because it is going to be mid June to mid July, and there are various parts of this country that don't have very hospitable weather at that time, and these are going to be in stadiums all over the US that have very different environments. You. Know, and climates. So, for an example, at the club Cup, the same team Manchester City. They played in Philadelphia, open field, open, you know, to the sun at noon in the heat wave. And then they also played another game in air conditioning in Atlanta. And the coach said it was like playing two different sports, sure, because, like how you know, totally, totally different. So four out of the 16 stadiums that have been identified for the FIFA World Cup have roofs, which is a plus for air conditioning, but a minus for growing grass, which is actually a requirement by FIFA for their competitions, because turf can be really bad on the body have grass. They have to have grass. So apparently, five of the stadiums, which are currently NFL stadiums that are going to be used for the World Cup have turf. So something has to be done. There was some experimentation that went went on during the club cup, including transporting Bermuda grass overnight in a refrigerated truck to make that requirement happen. So there's a lot that has to go into this. Also, a lot of these stadiums aren't quite set up well for public transportation and traffic issues. There were a lot of there's a lot of talk about people standing in line in Miami, for example. So even if the stadium is air conditioned, if you're standing in line, and if you got a lot to go through to get into the stadium, you're not going to be feeling very comfortable, not to mention weather delays dealing with travel around the country. So there's stuff that needs to be learned. You know, this is all going to kick off next year, so we will see what the fuck happens. And, you know, our fascist in chief is just very excited about it. I saw a little clip of him basically being grateful that he skipped four years with his presidency. You know, even though he feels like he was reelected in 2020, sure that he's in office now, because now he gets the good stuff, because now he gets the World Cup, and he gets the Olympics, and he's all excited about all that for him, right? So apparently he pocketed a medal when he was on that stage. So I talked about last week how he took about up too much room on the stage for the the club Cup final, the team really was looking at him like, what are you doing here? He even the Infantino Gianni. Infantino, the head of FIFA, was kind of like pulling him back like, you're not. This is the club's moment to accept their trophy. And as he's walking through and there were these medals given out to the players, he pocketed one. Jesus Christ, yeah, he literally, it's on video. He literally pocketed one. Apparently, Infantino, like, went over to him, and then it was kind of like, all right, whatever you can keep it so fun stuff there. The other thing is that the Cup trophy is actually in the Oval Office, and apparently a real thing. So I don't understand, I saw this in a couple different sources. I don't understand how this happens, that Infantino that infant, you know, like, actually gave the fascist the trophy and said, you get to keep this one and we're going to make a replica for the team. And apparently, like, that's a thing, like, the real one gets put in special places, but there's no, like, give back. I bet he's telling

Patti 53:18
people he won at fair and square.

Pottymouth 53:20
I think so. I think so. I don't know. So what we'll see when he shows up in New Jersey next year, like for the finals of the World Cup, and what the fuck happens?

Patti 53:29
So we have talked in the past how women's professional teams have been more active in social justice platforms than men's teams so far, and it's been noted that the WNBA has kind of, like, like, reeled back some of that in recent times. A lot of it is the environment that we've just been talking about, right? And it's, it's scary out there, and bad things are happening. Hasn't stopped them in the past, but they're also negotiating their CBA right now, right? They're in union negotiations, so I posit that isn't fair pay a social justice issue. I'm okay if you're focusing on that right now. So for instance, one of the things they're focusing on is revenue sharing, right? So the NBA, I hear the boys play that, right? Their revenue sharing is at 50, 50% of profits go to players in the WNBA 25% go to the players. Lower percentage, lower profits, right? All of those things, all of those things. So the players, they had their their All Star game on Saturday, all of the players showed up to warm up, wearing their matching T shirts that say, Pay us what you owe us. Yeah, right on, right on at the end of the game, when they're giving, like the MVP award and all of that, the crowd, the sold out crowd, please note, sold out there. There was a very record setting all star game for a women's professional sport. Thank you very much. The crowd started chanting, pay them. Pay them. Them. Wow. So that's so cool. There is social activism happening, but it's not happening in other ways. So Elizabeth Williams, who's the Senator for the Chicago Sky and the secretary for the players union, said it might not necessarily look like the social justice activism we saw in 2020 and 21 but I think that's why our priority and our focus has been on the CBA, because we're saying, hey, for women, fighting for equal pay, fighting for appropriate standards throughout the league, that's our standard, right? And then this is an article from The Washington Post, which I'm going to link to, because it was, I thought, a pretty good overview of this whole WNBA social activism and also CBA. So Leticia Brown is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She said it's a league of women, and a lot of the women, which is already a marginalized category, are either black, women of color, queer or all three. So it makes it really, really difficult to know if you're gonna have the support if you do come out and say something. Right? We're treading on some like, really crazy ground right now. And then, closing with this one, the administration has really not invested in women's sports as much as it's invested in controlling who gets to be called a woman to participate in sports.

Pottymouth 56:12
Wow. So there you have it so true. Yeah, because they don't give a shit about women's sports, you know, they're just using it to be to advance their fucking anti trans, yep, shit. And it and then when it comes down to it, they're not supporting women. They're not supporting women. I've seen a bunch of memes saying that maybe they sell those shirts, those pay us what your shirts so that teachers should show up for our in service? Sure.

Patti 56:39
Oh my god, it's a great shirt. That'd be great. It's great shirt. You should get

Pottymouth 56:43
that. So women doing great things in baseball as well. Baseball for also baseball for all nationals, which is our National Girls baseball competition, growing every year, 10 years. This is the 10th Annual National. So, you know, absolute Pat tip for that to Justine Siegel, who's the motor behind it all. It's starting tomorrow, July 21 through the 24th in Nevada. Who So, I hope this Sports Complex is air conditioned. It must be near Reno. There are seven age groups this year, ranging from eight and under to 18 and under, and they've guaranteed a strong female representation in the umpire crew. What I am blown away by, and we've talked about this in sort of like increments. Has been happening about the Minnesota Twins supporting girls baseball. Now, the twins are the only MLB organization that are actually supporting a team going to baseball for all they're supporting the 14 and under team, and Chelsea Falzone, who we talked about when she was on this panel at a bar of their own about women's sports and women who are active in sports. She's been leading this effort for the twins. She works for the twins over the past year, getting them training, getting them resources. And the coolest thing, and this is, like, you know, definitely the patty thing, like put them where people are watching, put them in the real stadiums. They had a kick off at Target Field. Last Sunday, the girls were on the field for recognition. Dolly Osborne was there, who was a pitcher in the All American girls professional baseball league back in the 50s. She spent two years with the Fort Wayne daisies and then with the South Bend blue Sox in 1954 threw out that first pitch to the team captain, who then commented afterwards about how meaningful that was to be, literally passing the torch like this is a woman who played professional baseball. This is us getting ready to play professional baseball. It's like what we saw in see her, be her. It's exactly like you need that inspiration to do it. And I'm gonna go back to the Wrexham connection, because there was also a women's team in Wrexham, and the women start off doing better than the men's shocking in their first season, and they talk about how meaningful it is to them to be able to be there for the girls, because they didn't have that. Yeah, they're like, look at these kids. They actually see women playing professionally. That is a big deal. We didn't have that. You're gonna have that. So it's gonna be happening next year with the women's professional baseball league and the we talked about how the tryouts are happening right here in our nation's capital next month, August, 22 to 25th and just maybe yesterday, the day before, Monet Davis announced that she's trying to Nice. That's great. 24 years old, so she was 13 when she pitched that shutout in the Little League World Series. And you know, she'll be there with 600 or more of her closest friends trying out for this Women's League, very cool, that the last day of it is going to be an actual game before the final cuts in Matt's Park. So once again, be in the big league stadium. Get that attention. Last little bit of footnote, paying our respects. Very sadly to sue zippe. Who died this past week, who is a pitcher with the Rockford peaches in the All American girls professional baseball league. She was a pitcher in 53 and 54 and then, importantly, she was the founder and president of American girls baseball, which for the past several years has been having a tournament called the All American Women's Baseball Classic every season with teams that represent those old team like, there's the peaches and I think the the blue Sox, I don't remember the four of them, but amazing that she got that going, and hopefully that will continue. She was 91 years old and from Hingham, Massachusetts. All

Patti 1:00:37
right. All right. We have a quirky little fantasy baseball league, and they keeps getting shook at the top, shook at the top again. So we noted that Bono's boyfriends had dropped to third lasting well, they're back on top. That was back on top, and number one pushed wicked, awesome team and pandemonium back down to two and three, and everything else is exactly, wow, the same in the same order. So that's some pretty exciting stuff. I have noted that I'm holding steady in the sixth position, even with some roster spots open. So I think the way the math works is, if you don't have anybody there, it's better than having a bad player. Wow, there. That's what I am learning.

Pottymouth 1:01:19
I can't do that with an entire pitching squad. However, yeah, no, somebody would notice that's not so much. What do you have going on this week? Um, not a heck of a lot. Baseball oriented, but I am going back to jail on Friday. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 I'm going back to jail. I'm going to be doing some work in a local immigrant detention center, which I did last week, the week before. I don't remember, but it's, you know, it's something, it's a shitty, shitty, shitty situation, but I feel like bearing witness is part of it, and just listening to people is another part. Because, you know, these guys want to tell their stories, and I've got a little bit of information to share with the organization that I'm going with, but it's, it's just, you know, it's a day, it'll be

Patti 1:02:08
a day, yeah, yeah, again, thank you for what you do. It's, it's, it's a big deal. It's not a, oh, you know, I'm going, you know, going for a couple hours. It's a, it's a long commitment, and it's an emotional commitment, and involves a lot of skill and a lot of things and a lot of heart. And thank you for

Unknown Speaker 1:02:21
that. I hope so. Yeah, thanks.

Patti 1:02:23
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm working this week, and you know, and that's that I don't have any baseball things this week, but I am looking forward to baseball games that we have lined up once again. Thank you to James Wood and the Nationals for giving us a deal on those tickets. Please find us on social media and tell us what you're up to, tell us about your takes on the All Star game and how the second half of the season is looking for you. Where can they find us? On social media, potty mouth.

Pottymouth 1:02:48
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Patti 1:03:17
Hey. So we've been posting transcripts from our episodes through our show notes, and also on the free section of Patreon. If you are using those, can you drop us a note and tell us that you are and how you're using them? So I'm interested. Yeah, we're not, we're not going to stop doing them, but it would be nice for us to know, I think, how those get used and by whom. So thank you for that. All right, my friends, please get boosted. I know two people in the past week who said, hey, guess what, I've got COVID, really? Yeah, fine. Find a place to get boosted and get boosted, send your game balls to Meredith, fight the man because, oh my god, it's the right thing to do. And until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth,

Pottymouth 1:03:51
goodnight. Potty mouth, you

Pottymouth 1:04:00
go. So maybe it's a family thing. Maybe, like, there's so many of them, maybe they're right, right, like this got to be

Patti 1:04:18
the T shirts are actually made out of curtains with.