No Crying In Baseball

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Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 418 of No Crying in Baseball, the Easy as 123, Episode. My name is Patti, and here with my friend Pottymouth, who is dancing ABC. Easy as 123,

Pottymouth 0:31
simple as do re mi

Patti 0:32
ABC. That's how easy love can be.

Yeah, so we're not quite the Jackson Five, but me, there's a story I'm gonna tell you. That's for sure. We make for it up for it in spirit, how are you doing? Haven't seen you a little

bit. I know I missed you this weekend, but I persevered. I managed. I know you. You're gonna tell a story about the greatest baseball game of all time. I want to tell you about the greatest thing I have ever witnessed in stands, in the in the seats at a baseball

Pottymouth 1:03
game, that is quite a statement, because I know you've witnessed a lot of things, a lot of things in your time in the stands, a lot of

Patti 1:09
things. And so my friends and I were in the very top row, like up against the the chain link, yeah, at the front of our on the third base side, on the front of our section, there were, I don't know, somewhere between five and infinity, small kids between, like, I don't know, four and, like, eight years old, and they were all having a great time. They were all on the, you know, on the the railing, and they were all wearing their little I'm so sorry, Soto shirts, because, you know, but they were nationals shirts, and they're just like the NATs are playing abysmally. We're losing by a lot to Milwaukee. And these kids are like, strike him out. Go nest. They have all the energy and all the positive so that was great, lovely. So that's happening off and on, and we're like, you know, admiring them and enjoying this eighth inning comes, and it's the downhill slide is just, it's miraculously bad. Yeah, there's a guy halfway down, so I'm at the top. These kids are at the front, and this guy in the middle starts booing with his whole diaphragm, oh, like the whole thing. And then he starts saying nasty things about the gnats. I mean, he's like, it's his team. This is not like, I'm here from somewhere else and my team's winning. Also

Pottymouth 2:15
very bad, right? But he was winning your own team. So

Patti 2:19
as a reminder of the rules is you don't boo poor performance, right? The players know that they're having a bad time. You don't need to remind them. You need you know if you're gonna say anything, please try to lift them up. You can boo personal decisions and egregiously bad calls, right? Those things are booable, but, like poor play, they already know stop it. So I'm like, I'm like, just, you know, making fists and like, I just, I want to go down there. I want to have a chat with this guy, because it's horrible. I'm not gonna bad example, Matt, you know, I'm not gonna because I'm way up here. He's way down there. Who knows? You don't want two of the kids, two of the kids come running up the stairs and start waving their arms around, shaking their fingers, like, you know, like, like that, the pointer finger at the guy, like, do you gotta stop? And like, they they called him out, get it. They told him, what for? They're like, poor sportsmanship. Don't do it. And honest to God, he stopped.

Pottymouth 3:16
Really, really, it's stopped. A little humbling to be, you know, yeah, by four year olds, for

Patti 3:22
sure. And then the kids go, sit down. I'm just like, stunned. I'm stunned. I'm like, I'm like, I want to buy all of these kids ice cream. Yeah? And my friend says, you know, that's $10 a pop right now. I'm like, Okay, I want to buy them all ice cream. Not going to, but it's a thought that counts. It is. I loved every moment of that. Like these kids know what's right. They know about sportsmanship. They understand, no, you need to help your team when they're struggling, not put them down. And they were not afraid to go. I mean, like, they weren't, like, it's awesome. It was great. I was so happy.

Pottymouth 3:53
That is so impressive. Was there, like, a good parent that you could, like, high five to say, good parenting? We,

Patti 3:57
I didn't, we didn't get that close, because it was also a fireworks game. So everyone kind of moved around and stuff to watch. The fireworks were very good. So the fireworks and this, you know, the kids versus boo situation, were, like, the highlights the rest of it, not so much. But I had a good time with my friends. And again, I was, it was a lovely evening the ballpark, and I was actually chilly for once, which was fantastic. It was like, there's a breeze. My mom was too cold. I'm so happy right now.

Pottymouth 4:24
Wow, that was Friday night, right? That was Friday night. That was so maybe I'll do mine backwards, because we had fireworks also, and the fireworks were awesome. They were like, non stop. I was really impressed. So to go back a little bit more, this is the woo socks game. Hi Callan, and we had a blast with our friend Callan in I noticed in the fireworks it was emo pop punk, which that it was like they had so much to do in one night that they just squished all this stuff together. And even though it was also fun, cup COPPA de diversion, and they had this whole like Mo. Multi Latin American country flags, and sang the Honduran national anthem and all that stuff they needed to shift, for some reason, to emo pop punk for the fireworks. And I'm sitting between Callan and Mr. Potty mouth, who both know every word and I do not do all of this stuff, but it was lovely. That was after two whole baseball games. So because the weather in Massachusetts was dismal, dismal, on Thursday, I had the best I'd like one of my best baseball days ever at Worcester on Friday, because they made it a double header and the other, like, fucking crazy, amazing thing that got happened. That got happened. It got happened. Yeah, I'm so excited on Thursdays, once in a while, they have a former player come back and be available for pictures and autographs in the Sherwood diner, which is like you've seen it, you know, like, right over on the side there. And because the Thursday was rained out, they moved it to Friday. So we got to meet Bill Miller, you know, famous from 2004 World Series, the team that you know, did the unimaginable until that point, and he's younger than me. I was like, Holy shit, he's younger than me. And the funny thing too about him is my dad had run into him in Arizona, like, 10 years ago, which is just a random thing at some like, he was visiting a friend and he was working out. It was at a gym. Oh, I remember the story. He told me this. So some guy said to my dad, that's Bill Miller. Dad figured it out, went over and chatted with him. So I got to say to Bill Miller, you know, my dad chatted with you in the gym, like 10 years ago in Arizona, and he said, Oh, wow. That means I was working out. Then, to give him some credit, he kind of looks like he's he's still working out. He's in very good shape. And so we got autographs, and we got cute pictures, and then he threw out the first pitch and watched on the big screen. So you know, for anybody who gives a shit about the Red Sox out there, Bill Miller's big moment in 2004 is it's something that should be up there with Dave Roberts. Because the big thing about Dave Roberts stealing the base in the ALCS against the Yankees was like, that was the move that let the run score, that let them win the game and do the huge comeback against the Yankees. So Bill Miller was the one who hit the RBI, so Dave Roberts stole the base, but he scored because of Bill Miller's RBI. And yes, history was made. So, you know, for me, like fan girl crazy. And it was a beautiful day. And then there was the team and the play. Well, they won both games. Huge. Awesome. The first game they played as the Worcester ruby red legs, no Ruby legs, Worcester Ruby legs, I think it's just Ruby legs. That seems redundant. If it's Ruby, right? It's, they use, like an old timey uniform. So it's like a cap that's like pirates cap style, you know that, like smokestack kind of thing. And then the legs, although only the pitcher got the memo on, actually putting your socks up. We're like, scolding everybody. But it actually came from we, we had just thought it was just an old timey thing. There was a team called the Worcester worcesters. Somebody had a very lack of creativity there. That was a national league club from 1880 to 1882 and they were nicknamed the Ruby legs, all right, so this was an homage to the Ruby legs in game one and then Game Two, they wore their Worcester white buzz shirt for the Latin American fun cup thing, which was super cool. So overall, like, it was awesome. We got to hang out with Callan. We had beautiful weather. We had two amazing games. We saw a sexy double play by von Grissom and Christian Campbell. We saw Christian Campbell get two hits like my dream is that the two of them get called up before the end of the season. But we'll see what happens anyway. I'm so excited. It was an amazing, amazing day. I am

Patti 9:09
so happy. That sounds like a perfect, perfect baseball day. Yay for you. I know

Pottymouth 9:13
I've talked a lot. I have quick corrections from last week I got I made a little Christmas of baseball for all social media because I couldn't keep up with what was happening at their their big national tournament, and the day after we recorded. So the day before it dropped, they actually posted a really nice summary on their Instagram. So check our show notes for both, a link to their Instagram to find out what happened at baseball for all nationals, because it's amazing, and then also American girls baseball Instagram for the All American Women's Baseball Classic that we talked about last week, also much better to just check it on Instagram for pictures.

Patti 9:50
All right, that is most excellent on today's show our boyfriends include the other Clemens on the mound and the Jackson three. Yeah, we've got Tales from the trade deadline. We've got ladies, women, girls, night out, one of those. All of those, maybe our police blotter features gambling investigations and chin up flashbacks. And we've got a book review, because we're brainy like that. Cheers,

Pottymouth 10:16
cheers. I love to be included in the we're brainy,

Patti 10:19
so we're drinking a bee Hoppy, IPA. You want to tell us about this from worm town. This

Pottymouth 10:24
is from the Worcester brewery, worm town, which is available at polar pack. And bee hoppy is like their signature, IPA. They also have, like, bee hazy and bees something else. But it's that smiley face that is the primary mascot of the woo socks. Oh, I didn't mention the casket mascot. So the woo socks, uh, mascots have, like, just gotten a lot more. So there's smiley, he's preliminary mascot. And then there's worfster, which understandable, coming from PAW Sox, especially, it's the Worcester, Worcester dog, which is cute. And then there's the polar bear, because it's polar pack. And then there, I'm missing somebody there is. There's Roberto, the rocket for the waipas, the alt. And then there's the heart, which is for some hospital beds.

Patti 11:12
I'm sorry, listeners, you've missed a hand signal for Heart, which was just lovely. Thank you. It was a whole body heart, right,

Pottymouth 11:18
right? It wasn't just those hands. It was the whole body heart. So that's cute. And then this year, they introduced a new mascot. I believe it's just the area. His name is Mort and he's a casket, and he's, yeah, they call him a casket. I said coffin first, I guess is the same thing. He's, there's, it's a funeral company that's sponsoring it. It's just bizarre to see the mask. So

Patti 11:40
here I am in the top row at nats Park, just watching the NATs do terrible things. And I get this text from Mr. Potty mouth, who says, Guess what? This is with a picture of this mascot. And our first guest was a pharmaceutical.

Pottymouth 11:55
I thought he was a chicken nugget, but he's an actual casket named more. It's, it's very, very funny. I I'll show you a picture of Mr. Prime. We're

Patti 12:04
still talking about beer. This we got that from beer. We're still talking about beer. Oh yeah, I'm laughing because I mean that this whole mascot thing was because we're drinking a beer with the smiley face on it, right?

Pottymouth 12:13
Which I appreciate. All right. So, baseball, right? Baseball boyfriends. We picked baseball boyfriends in the off season, one guy per team, each of us, because they're super cool. We keep one guy each year. And I had high hopes of keeping my Red Sox picked, because I kind of like the Red Sox, but it's, I don't think it's gonna happen. Connor Wong has been struggling. I talked about his struggles last week. I just want to say that I had an exciting moment watching the games on TV with my dad. We watched, I think it was, that was a day game on Wednesday, and we saw his second extra base hit. So I talked about his first one last week. We saw his second against the twins. He ended up with two hits that game. Had scored both times, two runs and got a walk, so maybe Wong is looking up. It was a great game, because the Red Sox won over the twins, 13 to one. I feel a teeny bit like I'm wondering, speaking of coffins, if that was the last nail for the twins to be. Like, fuck it. We're just gonna have a fire sale at the trade deadline. Oh, my God, 1111, players they traded away. Yeah, they had to, like, bring people up, because they didn't have a full roster, like, a whole bunch of a lot of them, yep. So that game also featured another baseball boyfriend of mine. On the other side, my twins baseball boyfriend is Cody Clemens, who ended up pitching because they're like, you know, they're they're losing. It was the ninth inning. I kind of question actually, rock about delis judgment here, and feel a little bit bad for Griffin jacks, who is the relief pitcher with this? Because, I mean, it is the ninth. They're down eight to one. Apparently, you can only put in a position player to pitch if you're the if the differential is eight, eight runs or more. And so when Jax gave up one run, so that was nine to one, he also had two guys on so he hadn't made an out yet. He's the relief pitcher for the inning. He has a potential of two more runs being tagged on his name, and baudeli pulls him because it's the eight run differential, and puts into position player. So and he was one of the guys who was like, on the and he actually did get traded. I forget where he went, but wondering if, like, that was going to affect his value anyway he gets maybe Rocco didn't care, because he knew he was going to trade him. Maybe that was it. Cody Clemens comes on the mound, right? So what better position player to put in than someone with that last name? I bet he's had a little bit of pitching experience. You know, you would think he threw like a 52 mile an hour, if this so he did give up a home run to Romey Gonzalez. So those two runs did score, and then he did give up another home run with the next batter to Yoshida. And I was thinking, Oh, this is really, is this ever gonna end? Because then Sadan Rafael is singled. Finally, he got three outs. And of course, my guy, Connor Wong, was the. First of those three. So Jax got tagged for two, Cody got tagged for two, and the end of the game. But it was a fun game that one of the highlights at polo pack, besides von Grissom and Christian Campbell, who I like have high high hopes for, is a current baseball boyfriend pick of mine, Chadwick Trump, who I believe I picked when he was still in the Atlanta system, and then he got bounced to Baltimore, and then

Patti 15:25
he went on the Il. I didn't even know he left. He was like catcher number 27 right? I think he was catcher number four,

Pottymouth 15:32
yeah. So apparently the O's did DFA him, and he got picked up by the Red Sox, and he's at polar pack. He is a very solid man, like he is short, but like he is a very solid looking guy.

Patti 15:46
Did great for the minute that I saw him before he got hurt. He

Pottymouth 15:49
hasn't hit the ball in the past two weeks in Worcester, but we did see him walk a couple times, and I believe he ended up scoring on one of those walks. What I do appreciate is that his number is now 21 listen to aforementioned when I picked him about the whole 45 bullshit. But yep. Anyway, happy to see him. I hope he hits the ball sometime.

Patti 16:09
Yay. So speaking of catchers for Baltimore, my once and forever boyfriend is finally back. Ali Richmond is back after being out for like months, six weeks for a long time, with his oblique strain, he came back on Monday to play versus Toronto, which was great, because they won the first two games. You're welcome. Thank you. Versus the Blue Jays, and his first game back, he went three for five with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored. Wow. And he's been playing pretty well since, so hooray for that. Kyle Stowers, my Miami boyfriend, potty mouth is grinning because Kyle did some things to the Yankees that. I mean, I loved Kyle Stowers to begin with, but now we both eat deeply. So Miami swept the Yankees over the weekend, swept them. Swept them. On Friday, Kyle only went one for five, but his one was a grand slam in the 1312 when it was his second Grand Slam of the season, it was his fifth game with at least four. RBI, whoa, so then when we get to Sunday, where he hits a three run homer, I'm sorry he didn't get all four like he did, you know, on Friday, but he had a three run homer in the seven to three win, so he kind of making a difference. So now he's actually for a number of home runs. He's tied with one Soto for the National League. He's they're tied for sixth, which kind of good company, right? And they're both, you know, since they're tied their 10th in MLB overall for a number of home runs, and this was a guy just wasn't get getting enough playing time when he was with the Oh, so I'm so, so happy from his July. His month of July was outstanding. He batted 364, for the month, his ops for the month, 1.269 for a whole month. That's incredible. It's incredible. He's one of five Marlins to ever have an ops of 1.2 or higher for a single month. He's the first one to do it since John Carlos Stanton did it in 2017 John Carlos Stanton did it three times. He did in 2017 2015 and 2012 but only counts as one guy, right? Because there's those you know, couple of the guys that have done it, but, um, it, but Kyle Stowers, man, that's pretty exciting. I want to talk about former boyfriend, Carson Kelly, mainly, so I can tell you about the Jackson three. So Carson Kelly was thrown out at home by a 942 relay by the Orioles right and let me tell you who the relay was, Jeremiah Jackson in right field, who had debuted on Friday. So this is sun Saturday. I think it's a Saturday. So Jeremiah Jackson in right field, Jackson holiday on second base, and Alex Jackson, otherwise known as catcher number six. He's great. Oh, I hope we keep him. He's been doing great. So it was a Jackson Jackson Jackson relay to throw out Carson Kelly and hill. So I remember last year we talked about how many Jacksons there were, kind of doing like Jackson watches. So I did a did a little check. There are currently 12 players with the first name of Jackson in the major leagues and only two with the last name of Jacksons. Baltimore has both of the last name Jacksons and only one of the first name Jacksons. But if you do the whole math, Baltimore has 21% of the Jacksons playing in Major League Baseball. It is the first time in the modern era, which is since 1900 that a team has started at least three players with the name Jackson first or last. Why do I say that? Because it's stat for everything. But yeah, so we've got the Jackson three.

Pottymouth 19:52
I was really hoping that there was another team out there that had two Jacksons that were not on the IL and then they could play. Imagine. And then there could be a Jackson Five. Jackson Five. Yeah, I'm waiting for that day. It might happen. It could happen, yeah. So, trade deadline. I just wanted to talk about how it affected some guys that I've been watching because they're past baseball boyfriends of mine. And I did sit there from, you know, the the deadline was 6pm right? Yeah. So Dad and I sat together watching the Nesson feed from five to six. And it was fucking painful, because it was like, the Red Sox were looking at all these pictures that they did not get. And so then, you know, it's the local crew, so they kept hyping up a possibility, and then it would get dashed. And so that was kind of rough. The Red Sox were like, not very exciting. However, since then, they've been trying to show us like we're going to be okay. So fingers crossed. Brian Hayes, who was my 22 pirates pick, went to the reds. And I, you know, I like both those teams. I'm happy for the guy, sure he gets to hang out with Terry Francona. What could be bad there? So he was a Gold Glove. He basically they got him for his glove. Is what it seems like in 23 was a Gold Glove at third since his debut in 2020 he has the most defensive run saved by a third baseman in all of MLB currently. And this is as of this morning because I Yeah, things wouldn't have checked. Checked changed between this morning and now he had. He has currently the most in MLB for this season, of third baseman defensive run saved and double the number two. So he's got 16, and number two is Benjamin Williamson of Seattle, with eight. He's tied overall, if you're talking about all position players. Number four with tied with Fernando tatis Jr. So not bad when bad when you're talking about sexy defense. But then he goes over to the reds and he it's a three run home run in his first game. So not only you know, it's like, you get some bang for your buck there, the pirates, in return got Taylor Rogers, and that is notable because it was shortly before his twin brother Tyler was sent from San Francisco to the Mets. So Tyler and Taylor are still on different teams, both relief pitchers, but twins getting traded the same day is like, you know, stuff, because stuff happens in baseball. One of my, you know, a couple of my favorite O's got traded, which makes me sad, because, you know, I like to go see the O's to check up on the guys that I love. And now Ramon Urias will not be there. He got traded to the Astros. We lost 100% of our Ramones. Oh yeah, right, because Laureano went with address, yep. So that's my other guy, too, O'Hearn. So two former baseball boyfriend picks of mine from the Orioles. 23 I picked Ramon Urias, and in 24 I picked Ryan o'hern. So O'Hearn and loriano and, Oh, her notably, was an all star this year. So you know, should be getting some good hopefully. They got a bunch of prospects for o'hern and lorianda to the Padres and then RIAs to the Astros. They got an exchange, a very interesting name, a relief pitcher, right handed pitcher named twine Palmer. So I was thinking like he should hang out with Garrett crochet twine. Sure, right? I get that crochet time. Sure. I don't know I was I'm reaching. I'm reaching. But what I don't understand the Astros completely, though, because Ramon, I thought was third base, right? Gold Glove at third base, yeah. So they also got Carlos Correa, who is who I picked for a short stop in 2019 with the Astros, but they're putting them both on third, but because they have Jeremy Pena, who's another pick of mine, adorable, amazing shortstop. So it seems like that side of the infield is a little I don't know. Maybe they just want flexibility. They're all solid. But yet, yet the Red Sox just swept them. So I'm greening with that. Ryan McMahon, my 20 pick for the Rockies is with die Yankees. And the Yankees actually just dfad, I think you talked about this couple weeks ago, a past pick of yours. DJ, lemahieu, also, they got from the Rockies. And apparently. DJ, like, talk about a guy with sportsmanship on his way out, like being DFA recommended Ryan McMahon, wow, wow. So you know That's definite baseball boyfriend, cred, a little bit of etc. I'm freaked out that Mike yamsky is on the Royals now, and a little bit sad, because that makes him an American League and the whole wild card yada yada. But from the Giants, could have been an Oriole, damn it. Willie Castro, who I picked when he was on the Tigers in 2020 is on the Cubs. And Oswald Peraza, from the Yankees, went to the angels.

Patti 24:56
Yeah, I don't have my whole list. I did find like my, my. Current guys are, are stable, but um, actually, um, so the mariners picked up two of my guys. They picked up Josh Naylor, and they picked up Eugenio Suarez. So mariners, how about that? That's the wild card situation, too. But I need to tell a story about Cedric Rollins, because it leads into many, many other things. So we knew Cedric Rollins was gonna get traded. We talked last week about how the whole, I know, I know, but we knew was coming, and he's gonna, was gonna be a free agent at the end of the season. It was the right, there was, it was a good choice, even though it's a heartbreaking choice, right? Yeah, and now he's got, he's with the Mets, so he's got a better shot at the postseason than he would have had with the Orioles. And I want good things for Cedric Mullins. And who knows, maybe they will attempt to bid for him to come back. I don't know, but anyway, became a met he scored two runs on Saturday. He record one on Sunday versus San Francisco. So okay, so San Francisco is playing the Mets over the weekend. Okay, here's more. So my former Mets boyfriend, Peter Alonso, hit his 250th home run during Saturday's game versus the giant so that's pretty cool, as potty mouth mentioned, Tyler Rogers got traded to the Mets from San Francisco. You didn't you missed this part. He bequeathed a beer fridge. Oh, really to the Giants. Oh, what clubhouse. He claims there's, there's wine in there also, but it's more fun because he his his twin played with him on the Giants a couple years ago. So the beer fridge was initially Taylor's. So Taylor installed the beer fridge. It became his twin brothers. When Taylor, you know, was, was he was traded at the beginning of the season to Cincinnati, right? And then prior to the one that you just talked about. And so, yes. So the beer fridge, it conveyed, so that is still there. And then, as you said, they got traded basically at the same time. But Tyler went from San Francisco to the Mets who were playing each other. So there's that. So another clubhouse to clubhouse commute. This one made me so amused, right? So on Tuesday, Baltimore had was hosting the Blue Jays for double header in between the two games, Baltimore sends Sir Anthony Dominguez to Toronto, so he has to basically go through to the other clubhouse, get his new uniform on, and then walk across the field, directly past his former teammates as of 10 minutes ago in the bullpen, and then, like, walk upstairs, because there, but there were all these very funny shots of like he had, like, leaning over from the the, you know, Blue Jays bullpen to chat with the guys down below. And so, okay, so that was the thing, right? But the guy they traded him for was a prospect who was on their double a team, the Fisher cats, who were playing the Chesapeake Bay socks. Oh, my God, like 30 miles away. And so he also had to walk across and like just but it was before they there was only a night game there, so he made his commute from clubhouse to clubhouse before the game started as as opposed to between games. Wow. So both guys, it really, they saved a lot on travel expenses and all of that. And then, of course, Dominguez was called on to pitch and relief against the Orioles, like moments later. But that's okay. That's okay. It was, it was fun. And I like these, like, crazy little trade doctors do, well, did he, like, he did, he actually did okay. It's one of those things where, when they're that fresh, yeah. I mean, also, like, like, the O's trained Andrew Kittredge to the Cubs, and then Kittredge played, you know, pitched against him twice over that series. And you think that you, your department team would catch you, like,

Pottymouth 28:42
wouldn't have an exact advantage, yeah,

Patti 28:47
yeah, although, oh, hey, there was no PCA report this week because because of the law in it. So the the O's won one, and the series against the Cubs lost the other two. They struck out. Pete crow Armstrong, like, 1000 times crazy. So many report when they're so that was, that was fairly interesting. I was like, Okay, well, you know, if I if they're gonna lose, lose. I can see Pete crow Armstrong do great things he didn't. But that's okay. That's

Pottymouth 29:13
okay. So both it's a win, win situation, sure. All right, I'm a little mass focused. Actually, the the, I think it's worm town, has an actual beer called mass hole, which I think is amazing. And we really tried to pick some up to bring it back home, because it just seems very appropriate. But they it wasn't in the liquor store and in in Andover, but in the liquor store, is it a Packy? Yeah, it's a Packy. Oh, my God, that you're so much. I totally

Patti 29:41
should have said that I learned so much from you so good.

Pottymouth 29:45
Mass hole is light, actually, Mr. Potty mouth, got one, and it wasn't bad. It's, you know, a light, like crush it during a baseball game, kind of beer, but you can get a can for five bucks, really, yeah, at the stadium at at polar pack. Whoo. So there you go. Get your mass holes at pull the pack. So while I'm looking at, you know, I was in Massachusetts and surrounded by all that good influence, and noticed that the Red Sox are doing a pretty good thing tomorrow, which is today, for you, if you're listening, when our podcast drops, which is having a women's night at Fenway. It's called a women's celebration, and I really liked what the website said about it. It said, this is more than a game. It's a celebration of progress, empowerment and community. That seems like a good approach. I think so. I'm actually super impressed with the Red Sox didn't used to do. I mean, they were, you know, kind of like pseudo Yankee, like we don't do this shit. Like, didn't do for a long time, the celebration stuff. And now they're like, all in they're celebrating everybody. They've got so many cool nights coming up. But I thought that was a really good way to look at women's night. They have a really nice Jersey that's cut nice for a woman, like, it's a retro jersey, but kind of a shorter cut. And the first all women's broadcasting team for a full game. Apparently, I think they tried this as a shorter part of the game, but their branding this is for a full Red Sox game is going to be on the microphones on August 5, Tuesday night. It's going to be Emma titleman, who is the actual continual announcer. For the Portland sea dogs, which is the the double A she's going to be doing play by play Ness. Reporter, Alana Rizzo is going to be doing color commentary, and they're going to have another reporter, Casey Hudson, on the sidelines. So all women announce, you know, but it would be nice if it's not a gimmick, if it's actually like a real thing that could continue starting, starting baby points. But I so I started sort of looking into who does women's night and who does Ladies Night, because I always get itchy. I'm itchy now because this whole poison English ivy stuff, but that's a whole nother thing. When, when I see ladies night, and the NATs have done it annually for as long as long as I can remember. So the NATs Ladies Night is happening August 14, and their quotation on the website is quote, celebrate women who love baseball at Nationals Park, which what like do you want to look at? How many things are wrong with that? At least they said women,

Patti 32:17
right, and they also, so they've got a giveaway, which is a crew neck sweatshirt, which is not, like, you know, flowery thingy. It's, it looks fine. Okay. They say there's gonna be some pre game event, which they have yet to identify. What it's gonna be. I don't know if it's gonna be one. Like, they've been doing a lot of interesting panel discussions. Maybe it's one of those. I don't know. It could be, yeah, it could be anything. But I am loath to, like, jump on tickets until I know that it's a thing that I would like to see happen.

Pottymouth 32:46
I think it's the the women celebrate women who love baseball, not like, celebrate awesome women who are playing baseball, or working in baseball, like, or doing stuff with baseball, like, I mean, yes, at least they're acknowledging that we're fans. So that's something,

Patti 33:02
I mean, that is actually something. It is actually something. It's not like you're here with your date, right, right? No, it's like you're here because you love baseball. Well, let's see

Pottymouth 33:11
heavy stuff. Pull it off. The Royals also have a ladies night, or they had a ladies night. So I tried to do like, the whole, you know, Google AI thing, and those were the only two ladies labeled nights that I could find. There were a bunch more women's nights. And I think that's sort of an important delineation there. The Mets had one in June 23 on June 23 and their blip on their website was celebrate the incredible contributions women have made to baseball, sports and culture. Well, that's better. Very nice. The Dodgers had one in April, and they said, champion the women in our lives and their impact in sports, business and culture. And the D backs in May, said the D backs and they have a women group. The D backs women group was created to provide a safe and open place where D backs women can feel comfortable talking about challenges and issues.

Patti 34:03
They what that means. I wonder what d max women are in that context.

Pottymouth 34:07
No, it seems like it should be like women who are involved in sports, who maybe, like, need support of other women who are dealing with all the bullshit, maybe, or the sports like, you know, yeah, umbrella kind of thing, not necessarily playing. The twins definitely got my attention, because they include wine. And I don't know if this is good or bad, but I like wine, so they have a wine women and baseball night. I like all of those things, sure, in September, sure cubs, I feel like get a minus here. They have a girls night out. So I guess there's gonna be like, all these little kids there dolls. Is that what they do on a girls night

Patti 34:44
out? Well, I mean, they might have their balls and mitts, but they're going to be under 16. Yeah, September

Pottymouth 34:47
3, it says get the girls together and enjoy pre game activities at Gallagher way, including a chance to visit a variety of women owned businesses. All right, so I like that part. They're promoting women owned businesses. They call them women, but. It promoted into girls, right? Who don't have the spending power as women have. So I don't know what's happening there. There's a link that we're going to put in the show notes for minor league because there's a whole bunch of stuff going on there. Very disappoint in the Brooklyn Cyclones that had a girls night out ad with a upside down red stiletto high heel. I would not wear that to a baseball party. I would not wear that period like, I can't imagine. I don't know why you wear stilettos, but anyway, not a way to promote women in baseball. I don't think, I don't think so. My question to you all is, what did

Patti 35:34
I might have been like a baseball bat or something like, it was just, I'm just hoping for

Pottymouth 35:39
better. Go ahead. I'm sorry, very nice. You're being very, very kind. It should be it should that would be cute. Please let me know if you have a local girls, native ladies or women's night out in whatever team that you're going to see. We would love to know about it. And just a quick end of women talk, there are three alumna, alumnae. Is that what you say for women alumni, alumna, for from the Women's National Team of baseball, who are now playing in the Savannah banana realm, and Kelsey Whitmore, we've talked about a lot, is an actual Savannah banana now, wow. And Ashton Lansdale is a party animal, and Val Perez is a firefighter. All three of them played baseball women national team, and I saw Kelsey thing after she started before Orioles. And I'm like, oh, man, that would have been so cool to see. But her debut was at Camden Yards, and she said, You know the feeling of playing at a literal sold out crowd in a major league stadium. Like, check that off the bucket list, and she's like, and I'm gonna do six more. That's great. So that's

Patti 36:51
great for her. Yeah, yay, police blotter. Hey, we're talking about gambling, because why wouldn't we in the police blotter? So no, we really don't ask for a tech support. Okay? I think so. Okay, I'm gonna feel good about finishing this beer before I talk about gambling,

Pottymouth 37:06
I'll ask for a small one.

Patti 37:09
All right, so two Cleveland pitchers are currently on what I think is administrative leave. It was billed as non disciplinary paid leave, which I think is the same as administrative leave until August 31 that includes Luis Ortiz, who was put on leave on July 3 and closer, Emmanuel classe, who was put on leave July 28 they're both under investigation for sports betting. Interestingly, Cleveland cleaned out both of their lockers on Friday, without explanation. This is like the day after the trade deadline. So they didn't get traded. They are on basically paid leave right now, but it sounds to the suspicion is no one thinks they're coming back. Here's the story. So here's the beer and here's the beer, which will help with the story. Thank you so much. Thank you so, Emmanuel Class A is three time all star, right? He's under contract through next season. He would have been such a lucrative trade, you know, option for Cleveland, who ended up trading away Shane Bieber, which kills me, yes, but anyway, but because of this, you know, he's like, Cleveland could not trade him. He's there, he's but he's not there. He's not Adam Lee, but he's on. He's still associated with Cleveland. No details at all about what specifically happened for him. However, Ortiz, Luis Ortiz is being investigated because of two specific pitches that he made on which large bets were placed. So someone's paying attention to, hey, you know how there's these crazy bets where you can bet on one pitch or one, like, very specific things, and he threw horrible pitches, like outlandishly horrible which looked fake, right? So that's a big deal because it's a direct influence on the game. So if you're keeping score, when investigations happen about sports betting to majorly ball players, if they're found guilty of betting on unrelated games, games on which they have no influence, they didn't play in them, it's a year suspension, right? You're ineligible for a year if you're found guilty, If, however, you're guilty of betting on games in which you played where you could have an influence, say you were pitching those games on which you placed bets, and you're found guilty, you would be permanently ineligible. So the fact that those lockers got cleaned out is leading a lot of people to believe that there's a good chance that these guys might be permanently ineligible. And classy man,

Pottymouth 39:51
he was wondering, is that fucking up the Guardians? Like, that's a big deal.

Patti 39:55
That's a big deal. I mean, it fucked them up initially, because they couldn't trade him to get something else. Hmm, also, so they're, they're pre fucked because of that, but also fucked, you know, anyway,

Pottymouth 40:05
oh man. Ah, that sucks. I really had high hopes for him. He seemed like him, yeah, fun guy,

Patti 40:11
yeah. Well, you know, the investigation, they just so, I don't know if something in the other in the Ortiz investigation led them to him because they play on the same team, or if it's something completely separate and we have no information, and MLB says, yeah, we'll talk to you once we're done with our investigation, which they always say, Well, that makes sense. But I'm curious, and I want to know, yeah, this second thing, I'm not sure if it's police blotter or not, oh

Pottymouth 40:36
yes, it is okay. I'm going to add the fuel to the police bar of it. I think it totally is okay.

Patti 40:42
So the fascist in chief has created slash, reinstated the President's Council on sports, fitness and nutrition, and brought back the Presidential Fitness Test. The Executive Order, which does this damage, says the goal is to address, quote, The widespread epidemic of declining health and physical fitness with a time tested approach celebrating the exceptionalism of America's Sports and Fitness traditions. All right, so until 2012 this test, this Presidential Fitness Test, existed, including running a mile flexibility tests, push ups, pull ups, those kinds of things. So well I do one of those traumatized kids. I am a traumatized kid. Awful it is. I mean, I was plenty flexible, but I I was not a runner, and I couldn't do a chin up to save my damn life. So all it did because it was out of context. I mean, again, I'm 61 years old. So this was when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But this test existed, right? And there was no context. There was no here's how to be healthy, here's how to have fun playing. It was you're gonna pass this test or you're not, and I was not, and it just made me feel very, very bad about

Pottymouth 41:55
myself. Same, absolutely the same thing.

Patti 41:57
So my question is, is this just another fucking standardized test, right, right? So, or it's not done yet, right? So there's like this grandiose executive order, but if it comes with a real program to get kids outside to play to the best of their abilities, and abilities is a big deal in this context, right abilities for fun and for their health, give me the bigger picture, and maybe I'll feel differently about it if it's just a freaking test which is going to make most kids feel bad because they're not going to be good at all of these things. I don't want it, and this is coming from the fascist in chief who spends a lot of time preventing kids from playing sports, right, right? He's saying, I'm sorry, you can't play sports and you can't play sports and you can't play sports, but we have a celebrated exceptionalism in, you know, this tradition of sports bullshit. I would like to

Pottymouth 42:53
see him do the test. Oh, he claims he was very good at the sports. Well, how about now? Well,

Patti 42:56
you know, he spends a lot of time golfing, yeah, a lot of time golfing when he's not governing, which may or may not be so okay. So one more layer on this is the people he surrounded himself with to make this announcement included former NFL running back in registered sex offender, Lawrence Taylor, who pled guilty of sexual misconduct after he was arrested for statutory rape. That seems like poor timing given the other context of things happening. I mean, really, again, have us in the room, we could tell you, although I rather He embarrassed himself, but still, we would have noticed, right, right?

Pottymouth 43:34
You know, I feel like it's like they're just saying this shit out loud now, like it's, you know, he's like, he's said all this crap and all that, like his photos with Epstein and the videos and shit like that. It's just out there. I think this is the clientele, and it's people who just, I don't know, don't give a fuck about so

Patti 43:53
that they're starting this council Right? And, you know, all things being equal, I prefer to keep the Department of Education and NIH Right, right? Rather than, you know, this thing that's gonna, it's gonna exist to provide one standardized test to make most kids feel bad about themselves.

Pottymouth 44:07
Yeah, so he did reach out to some more athletes, and a couple of the names jumped out at me because we talked about them at the time of the Super Bowl, because one was on that Kansas City right team, and the other on Philadelphia. So Harrison Butker, we talked about, actually a couple of times on this podcast, because he is really an asshole, so he's a kicker for Kansas City, and he had done a commencement speech at Benedictine college that we talked about, where he talked about women's true vocation being in the home, sure, and that, you know, all this danger about these gender ideologies out there and all sorts of shit. So he's part of it. You know, race, you know, avowed homophobe, transphobe. I'm

Patti 44:55
feeling like a pattern is emerging, emerging here. Yeah.

Pottymouth 44:59
So then. And I freaked out because I saw saquon Barkley's name and he was on my good guy list. I talked about him in Episode 393 because he he publicly supported Carl laced coming out, and said a lot of really nice things about it. So I quickly today was like, What the fuck? And apparently, months ago, he kind of politely declined this, yet when it was just announced the other day, his name was included, and he was quote, shocked by seeing his name in there, and said, Oh, no, folks, I'm actually not on this. But apparently he recently exercised some, in my opinion, some very poor judgment, and went golfing with the fascist in chief, and he said that it was him honoring the position and not the person. And I golfed with Obama too. And, yeah, but there's the same thing. Guy is really, I mean, we have Gestapo now, you know, this is like above and beyond, just like playing with a Republican. This is fascist. The other NFL folks, notably, you know, so, so who you mentioned? Lawrence Taylor. Lawrence Taylor, African American, as is say, Quan Barkley. The other NFL folks are not so, Nick Bosa, Roger Goodell and Tony Romo are also

Patti 46:24
involved. So I think that Lawrence Taylor got in there on a technicality because he's also a pedophile. So that excused the fact that he's not white, yeah. And that got him in the club. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Another point to make is that I said this the test existed until 2012 the Obama administration stopped it because there was no surrounding program, which is what we were just talking about, to work on. Here's ways to be healthier and to play and to have fun and to, you know, lean into health aspects and why this is good for you. It was too competitive. It was only competitive. There was no other factor involved in this that made it worthwhile. It was just a smackdown of kids who were lesser equipped to do chin ups. Yeah,

Pottymouth 47:13
yeah. And both Obama Oh, my God, that was so traumatic. Um, both Obama's, though, are also like personal examples of staying fit and staying healthy, like Michelle Obama had great stuff with nutrition and exercise for kids and upper arms. Jesus, I know guns and, and, you know, not the real ones, but you know her biceps. And

Patti 47:35
I like that you define,

Pottymouth 47:38
make sure and, and Barack was, like, always playing basketball and, like, look at what we have now. Maybe golf, cheating golf. Like, holy fuck all right,

Patti 47:49
fuck them, Yep, yeah, let's talk labor, because labor is always fun, sure. So I'm sure gonna win. I'm sure you heard about Bryce Harper, yeah.

Pottymouth 48:01
Oh my god. So I've had, like, warm and cold feelings over the

Patti 48:05
years. This is the endearing part, such a warm feeling. Me too. Me too. Okay, so the current CBA, the collective bargaining agreement between the MLBPA, the players union, and the league, expires after next season of 2026 so Manfred, the Commissioner of baseball, Rob Manfred has been visiting all 30 teams to talk about economic issues. He's been showing up like in clubhouses and whatnot, going taking it right to the people, which I also have an issue with, but hold that thought. So he was visiting the Phillies clubhouse last week, and Harper stopped him and said, if you're talking about a salary cap, you can get the fuck out. Yay. And they sort of moved on from there. And he stayed, and he talked about many things, and then he left. And then Mark DeRosa, who works for the commissioner, also coached the USA, you know, national team of he told the Philadelphia players, the Commissioner is a powerful guy. Don't fuck around with him. Wow, which every one of them took as a threat. They're like, there are going to be repercussions if we speak out. That's exactly how everybody took it. Mark later is like, oh, no, I was kidding. I was kidding. I thought these guys are my friends. I thought they'd know it was a joke. No, not funny. So Max Scherzer, former teammate of Bryce Harper, now with the Blue Jays. If you remember, Max was part of that eight member executive committee representing the union who negotiated with about the CBA, and they unanimously voted against the CBA. They were overruled by other votes, but the entire executive committee said, no, no, no, no, and they all quit over it. But Max is, like, surprising. Honestly, Max is fired up. That seems like a redundancy. I mean, that's his baseline. That's his baseline. So what he said was, oh, I'm looking forward to rob Manfred, visit to the Blue Jays. He said, I. Have a lot of questions for him. Oh, my God. And then he said, I'm just glad to hear guys are willing to stick up and stand up for each other. It's good to see the passion from all the players across the league. Manfred gets squirrely, right? He's like brushing this off, saying, Oh, no big deal. We shook hands everybody's friends. But he also says, This is red flags all over the place. There seems to be a kind of mismatch between what we see at the union leadership level and what the players are thinking, Oh, what a dick. What a dick. Thank you. Thank you.

Pottymouth 50:35
My God. And then he that is such an ant that's a union busting tactic.

Patti 50:39
And then he says that this next line is, the strategy is to get directly to the players. He says this out loud. He said, I don't think the leadership of this union is anxious to lead the way to change, to change. So we need to energize the workforce in order to get them familiar with or supportive of the idea that maybe change in the system could be good for everybody. Read your American history, people, right? Pay the frick attention to this Manfred just admitted out loud he's a union boss. Yeah. I mean, as a union lawyer, we know, we know this about him, but he wouldn't said it like, Hi, we're making end runs around the union to talk to you guys as you're sitting in the clubhouse. And I'm gonna, like, smile and say, look shiny things, but thank you for the Bryce Harper to say, get the fuck out of here. And I think that made more players pay attention. Sure. Like, wait a minute, what am I missing? Because if you're not paying attention, I'm sure that Manfred can, like, talk his way into a lot of things, but if you Your attention is called just like,

Pottymouth 51:37
okay, all right, yeah. And taking advantage of players who maybe come from other places and aren't familiar with the whole system and like he could do so much insidious bullshit. I'm Rob Manfred and I'm here to help. Yeah, yeah, for sure. What a dick. I just want to say that, um, if I were ever in any sort of union negotiating situation, I would want Max surge around my side.

Patti 51:57
Absolutely, God, Oh, absolutely,

Pottymouth 52:01
all right, we talked about the travel ban, and that is another one of those, you know, bazillion executive orders that fucks us up. And it is two of the target countries are Cuba and Venezuela, which both have a lot of baseball stuff going on. So I talked about a rundown last week, and I missed the Cuban girls, age nine to 10 not being allowed to play in the Caribbean qualifier in Puerto Rico for Little League softball World Series. Nine to 10 year old girls from Cuba couldn't go to the next island over because some asshole thinks that this is a national threat, un fucking believable. Well, the kids actually got their visas, but the adults didn't. And you know, it's good to travel accompanied

Patti 52:50
when you're a kid, when you're nine or 10 years old, yeah, you need a grown up. Disgusting,

Pottymouth 52:53
just disgusting. So no Cuban athlete has gotten a visa this year at this point. Well,

Patti 52:59
it allows them to say the team could go right. We approve the kids. We approve

Pottymouth 53:04
the athletes. It's fine. So who's Oh, my god, yeah, so that's sad. The Little League World Series still has Venezuela coming. I did see an unverified post today saying that they got visas. I need to look back at that. I don't know if it was just the kids. There's adults are allowed to come with the Venezuelan kids. So we will see Cuba did not make the little world series because they lost to Aruba, who has no problem getting here. That's going to be the 13th to the 24th of this month. So very, very soon, lots of regional stuff is going on. Very exciting. The big boys do the World Baseball Classic. And there's some fun, fun announcements this week. And I don't know if you saw all over the place that Nicaragua has announced dusty Baker with their long ties to Nicaragua. So I was wondering about this too, because I kept just seeing dusty Baker managing Nicaragua, and I know he had picked up some Spanish from playing in winter leagues, but I wasn't sure about the Nicaraguan connection. So apparently he was hanging out with Marvin Bernard, who was a former MLB player who played on the Giants when Dusty was managing the Giants in San Francisco. And they've stayed in touch all these years, and they live eight minutes apart, and Marvin had, for some reason, connected with a Cleveland Cavaliers player who's from Nicaragua. So that cannot be common in, you know, any American sports situation, and NBA especially, I would imagine, right? So Marvin's hanging out with nor Chad Omar, the basketball player and and omir is one request was to meet dusty Baker, because apparently he knew about that can. Action. So they all got together having dinner, and Marvin, just like came out with, why don't you manage us for the World Baseball Classic? And dusty said, Let me think about it. And two days later, he called back and said, Okay,

Patti 55:14
sure. Why don't I do anything else? Right?

Pottymouth 55:17
So dusty Baker, just like one more thing on that Hall of Fame resume. I mean, he hasn't checked that off yet, has he right? Is it managing in the World Baseball Classic? So just adding, like so much more fun to it, they announced it purposefully on the 28th of July, which is the anniversary of Dennis Martinez, probably the most famous Nicaraguan player in MLB, his perfect game that he got in 1991 with the expos. So they're going to be playing in Miami, which I wish we could go to, but Florida's a hellhole with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Israel and the Netherlands, so tough group. But you know, you don't on, you know? Well, Dr, Venezuela, for sure, Netherlands, as a lot, you know, I don't know, Israel's got a few. It'll be interesting. Okay, interesting. Yeah, Venezuela. Speaking of Venezuela, their manager, Omar Lopez is the Astros bench coach, and he managed them in 23 which, you know, they didn't make it be on the group stage in 23 but keep trying. The rest of their coaching staff, though, super interested me. Their bench. Coast is Robinson chirinos, well, one of the many past O's catchers, pitching coast, Johan Santana, who actually threw the first pitch at the First World Baseball Classic Game in North America in 2006 poetic um, the hitting coaches Miguel Cabrera, who played in all five World Baseball classics to this day. So, or Venezuela and the coaching staff of Venezuela, yeah. So third base and infield. Close, rugless o door, so the other o doors, brother, I believe first base, outfield and base running coach in Gerardo para so Baby shark will be there, and the assistant manager is V Mart Victor Martinez. So Venezuelan coaching is stacked. Puerto Rico is trying to catch up. I mean, their manager, Yadier Molina, who did amazing the last time around, has three bent, three support coaches with him, Alex in Trone on as I think the hitting coach, right. He played both for the o's and the Nationals, current Astros. Hitting coach third base is Joey Cora, brother to Alex Cora, who also now coaches third base for the Tigers. He played for a bunch of teams, ending with Cleveland. And to keep the Cleveland connection, the first base coach is Sandy Alomar Jr, who was,

Patti 57:50
like, the first catcher I ever like, deeply loved. Oh, Sandy Alomar Jr is just a lovely, lovely human, and he's still with Cleveland for first baseball. Yeah, he is, yeah, he is so fun stuff. Can I just go back to the nets game that I was at Friday night? Because Gerardo para is the first base coach, financials, and usually when a guy gets to first base, he fist bumps, high fives, does something with the first base coach. Every single NAT that got to first base, there was a hug, like an arm thrown around the shoulders. There was, like, this squeeze of contact, of like, you know, affection and yay. And it just was, it was good for my soul. He's such a good guy, such a good we have this crazy, crazy fantasy team where only, like, one or two things really happens in a given week, but it's always pretty exciting. So congratulations to wicked awesome for coming out on top again and knocking bonus boyfriends back to number two. That's been a bunch of back and forth. Everybody else has stayed exactly the same in exactly the same order, but yay for you wicked awesome. I'm very proud. We are brainiacs here at no crying in baseball. I am almost done with the book The Last manager, how Earl Weaver tricked tormented and reinvented baseball by John W Miller and I have a love hate thing happening. I didn't care so Earl Weaver, he's the last manager, because he was the last like archetype of manager, right? He swore a lot, he smoked a lot, he kind of bullied, but in a way that the players appreciated and motivated. He managed the Orioles for over 14 years, right? Had this incredible, incredible record, and I didn't care about his backstory so much, so I the first I've been listening to the audiobook. It's fine, it's good, but as soon as he hits managing in the minors, it starts getting interesting, because his outlook on strategy, his outlook on. Yeah, he was like an early adopter of on base percentage, making a difference on what stats are available on matchups on, hey, let's look at like the batter, pitcher matchups. And so he super smart with strategy. But also, once he got to the O's, there's a lot about Jim Palmer, who I adore, because they feuded. They were like best friends and deep enemies at all times. And it was I love hearing those stories. The whole Ripken family is involved, because Ripken SR and then rip a story about the day where Cal Ripken Jr is born is in this book, and also stories about his debut in the majors, because it spans. I mean, it's huge because, you know, or we renew them all the time, but it's a little bit of and then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened, which is not necessarily storytelling as much as reporting events, but some of them really made me happy, like I learned I knew that Jim Palmer, so he was adopted. It did not know that, but he was adopted by a very wealthy fan. Wealthy family. I knew he grew up rich. I knew he grew up with privilege. Apparently, he learned baseball by playing catch with his butler in Central Park. That made me very happy. Also, there was a great line talking about about Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, which was the original home of the Orioles, where one of the players said, oh gosh. What was the actual quote? The rats are big enough to stand up. And I think it was something like, screw a turkey. Oh, wow. So there's that. So that's a first base. It's very colorful. There's, I don't want to say potty mouth language, because you are not that vulgar, because it's vulgar. Yeah, it's not just F bombs. It's got to listen, it's, it's, there's good stories. And if you like baseball history, there's a lot of fun about his sort of, like, long time feud with Billy Martin, and how, like they, they were both, like, long time managers, but very different outlooks and and so it's, yeah, it's a fun history. It's not beautifully written, but I'm glad that I am listening to it on my little walks to work and all of these things. It's, it's making me happy, but I get it. It became more fun once they moved to Earl managing, as opposed to him not doing well in the minors. So I recommend it if you care about like, Where does this Where do these strategies come from? Cool. Who are these characters? You know, and he's absolutely like a renowned character in baseball, and you'll hear a lot of very familiar names. So last manager, how Earl Weaver tricked tormented and reinvented baseball by Sean W Miller, you can, if you have your library card, you can get it on Libby. I'm just saying,

Pottymouth 1:02:49
cool. Sounds good? Yeah.

Patti 1:02:51
What do you got happening?

Pottymouth 1:02:53
All right, I am going to the nationals game tomorrow. I have a big little cousin, which is my cousin's son, who's probably, like, two heads taller than me, but we're gonna take him to his first nationals game. Nice. So we'll see them play the A's, and, you know, just hope for the best for both teams. It'll be fun. It's gonna be a beautiful night for baseball. Gore is pitching. That'll be fun. Oh, that'd

Patti 1:03:16
be great. Yeah, that'll be good. Yeah. And I've got family coming into town, so I'm gonna be, like, hanging out close to home, seeing family haven't seen for a while, so that will be a lovely, lovely thing. Yay. All right, please find us on social media. Tell us about your baseball books that you're reading about the women's girls, ladies night extravaganza, Lollapalooza, situations that are happening, whatever you got going on potty mouth. Where can they find us? You

Pottymouth 1:03:41
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Patti 1:04:19
We sure we sure do. Please get boosted. I hear that covid thing is just around like crazy. Send your game balls to Meredith and fight the man now more than ever and until next week. Second night body mouth, good night fighter.

Speaker 1 1:04:42
You if

Pottymouth 1:04:50
you have a smiley face as a mascot, you can't have a bad day.

Patti 1:04:56
I mean, it does kind of set the bar high because, like, it could be pressure. Like, you will be happy. It's like, you know, with Disney being like the happiest place on earth, like, what if they're not one day, right?

Pottymouth 1:05:05
And that's why they throw in the casket for balance. It offsets the happy.