No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 419 of No Crying in Baseball the I'm Aware of the Gravity episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend. Potty mouth, hey. Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:25
hey. I'm often aware of gravity, but I don't know about the gravity. You know, that article just changes the whole meaning of that phrase. Yeah, right. Like, if you're aware of gravity, that means when I drop this phone, as I do, you know,

Patti 0:36
when I trip over this gravity wins, because gravity

Pottymouth 0:41
always wins. Yeah, things fall, but the gravity, the gravity that it's something intense coming, yeah?

Patti 0:45
And also, very, very good work. Teacher, when you said the article, you actually meant the not that thing that I read about gravity.

Pottymouth 0:52
Oh, wow. And

Patti 0:53
there we see now, this is why people could learn from listening to you good school. Teacher, you, yeah,

Pottymouth 0:58
well, this is why teaching English is so hard because

Patti 1:02
none of it makes any sense, right? Sure, right. Oh, wow. Tell me stories. So

Pottymouth 1:07
what? What was fun? I'm a little groggy, maybe not groggy. I'm a little loopy. I'm more than usual. I did not sleep much last night, but for mostly good reason, which was going to a concert, we saw a very cool band from LA called Oso Motley, and it's their 30th anniversary tour, and we've been going to their shows for probably 25 of those 30 years. And and they're very from LA, being a very diverse band, being they're politically active these days. And one of the super cool things they did at the concert is they had four nonprofits. They're working on different aspects of racial justice, Immigrant Justice. And not only did they let the nonprofits table, but they got to come up on stage. Oh, that's fantastic, in between bands, after the opening band and before Rosa Motley came out. So it was really cool to see, you know, I don't know. It makes me feel good about going to a concert, because I want to, you know, support artists who are doing good things, and it also let us support these other nonprofits. But the cool thing was, thanks to you, we had the immigrant city T shirts with, you know, Los Angeles is for everyone bilingually on the back and oh so Motley sings bilingually. But Mr. Potty mouth beat me to it. And so I had that like momentary thought, like, well, maybe I can wear mine too. And then I thought, potty mouth twinsies. So Mr. Body mouth had it. I think I don't even remember what t shirt I wore, probably something with a statement. His statement was better, and he got complimented on it on the way out. So nice. And we got our picture afterwards. What Oza Motley does is they their closing song, they go into the crowd and keep playing, and it's always like a super cool thing, and then they basically lead the whole crowd out of the venue, like out into the front lobby, and then they kind of hung out there. So we got a picture taken with one of the guys who saw Mr. Potty mouse immigrants. Excellent. I like it. So yay, absolutely. Yay. One more yay before we start the main stuff. Patreon, we got a new friend, Victoria. M, welcome and thank you. And anybody else who wants to make sure that we keep putting these podcasts out there, listen up at the end and we will tell you what to do.

Patti 3:15
Hi, Victoria. Thanks for joining us on today's show. We've got the heart and hustle awards, also known as the boyfriend awards. Boyfriends feature a little bit of vocabulary, some old friends and a curse we've got and very important first and some old guys. We cross train with WNBA in a way I could not predict. And we've got some international baseball featuring the LNB cheers.

Pottymouth 3:41
Cheers. You know, I think I gotta mix up the background a little bit, because we have so much fun stuff behind you. I gotta, like, rotate, I think,

Patti 3:47
don't you think people just so, you know, looking me deep into my eyes as I tell them the story of what they're gonna listen to, they don't even need that. That's probably,

Pottymouth 3:54
sure, that's probably it. We should just go to complete, like, blank background, white, sure. All right, that heart and hustle. I'm going to talk about it in light of our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we pick in the off season, because they're super cool, and we kind of have very similar qualifications as the heart and hustle Award, which is that they show passion for the game and embody values, spirit and tradition. We also include that you can't be an asshole, and heart and hustle doesn't quite have the same screening as we do, right? There was a fail, there was a fail, small fail, right? Yeah, or a large fail, yeah.

Patti 4:30
Before you get into the people, I just want to add one thing. The important thing about this specific, specific award is it's presented by the players union, the MLBPA, and it's voted on by a committee of former players. So it's the only sort of big name award in baseball that's voted on by former players,

Pottymouth 4:48
which makes it much more valuable. Okay, so in a lot of ways, I think so. So it's kind of cool when we see that our current and former picks are. All over the place. So for current picks, Andy paques, for the Dodgers, got it this year, which I think is says a lot for him, because that competition on that Dodgers team, there's a lot of really cool guys who do good things and have that heart and hustle. I think, you know, a couple of them have probably won it several times in the past. So moving on. Ernie Clement of Toronto, I feel so remiss. Like, I mean, we pick 30 guys in the off season, right? And then we have to whittle it down to our fantasy team. And when I Whittle sometimes I forget about those guys that I didn't put on the team. And maybe I should have, like, that happened with Andy paques, but I caught that like, mid season. I'm still, like, at the bottom of our fantasy league, but maybe, maybe there's hope, because I put Ernie Clement on my team as of yesterday, of course, this is after his winning home run versus the Dodgers last night. And damn it on that because, I mean, the Dodgers took two out of three for the Blue Jays. We're, you know, Al East watchers. And I was really hoping that the Blue Jays would get swept here, because it's nice to see the Red Sox increasing. But no. Ernie Clement came to the rescue. Got that winning home run over the last week. Also, he's batting 400 with a 1.233 ops and more than that. According to Yahoo fantasy, he's okay for the entire fucking infield. That's a unicorn right there. That never happens, right? So I dumped Massey, who's hasn't barely been playing, has been on the IO more than others, and put in early Ernie Clement. So do you want to talk about your your sure, three guys, so you got more than me. So yeah,

Patti 6:41
and two of them are leading into the alliteration, right? So I looked at the announcements about my guys. So one of them is Kyle Stowers from Miami, and all the announcements said summer of Stowers, right? Sal furlock from the the the Brewers, summer of Sal, really, everywhere. And then poor Geraldo Perdomo of Arizona, just like, hey, here's our guy. Yeah, no, no, alliteration, no, nothing. But I'm pretty excited to see those guys. Two of them are on my, my fantasy team on a regular basis. This is so the boyfriend award I went through and I counted, and out of 30 teams, only five guys are not yet, have been, have not met, been claimed by us as a boyfriend. And then there's that one guys on the no

Pottymouth 7:27
fly list. That would be Jaron Duran, but I picked previously. But other than

Patti 7:31
that, we have either claimed in the past or this year. Everybody on that list. I feel really good about

Pottymouth 7:36
us. That's Hey, check out our, our, uh, taste and judgment. I think that's a good thing, sure. Yeah. And man, Jaron Duran, it just it hurts. It hurts because I still need to write to his mom.

Patti 7:50
What are you doing with your time? Oh, wait, saving the world. Okay, never mind. Never mind. I'm

Pottymouth 7:55
in my final week, folks, I go back to work on Monday. I know tiny, tiny, tiny violins, but little bit stressful over here. Speaking of our formers, though, the one jumped out at me. Would you who you had picked in two way back in 2018 for the cards? So it's kind of like, I feel like he had the before and after and in the middle were his like wild years, right? Tommy Pham, you know, noted for not being a good person to have on your fantasy league. In 2018 when Patty picked him, he was, you know, relatively starter with the Cardinals, and he is now with the pirates, and he's one of the heart and hustle guys for the first time in his career. So he debuted in 2014 This is his 10th team with the pirates. So those of you who do the grid, listen up. He started with St Louis, Tampa, San Diego, Cincinnati, Boston, Mets, Arizona, White Sox, Kansas City, and now pirates. So I'm happy to see Tommy Pham coming around after those wild days in the middle and doing some heart and hustle, and we'll hope for the best for him.

Patti 9:00
Yeah, I feel like a lot of the heart and hustle guys are usually kind of like, mid career, like they've proven themselves, but you've got like, Andy Pais, yeah, right, really early on. And then Jackson holiday is on that list. That's right. And this is his first, you know, full year. And I love that, because that means that these guys who play like that are already making a name for themselves, yeah, because of how they play, because of their attitudes, because of their heart, because they work hard and love what they do, and and are already serving as role models. I mean, these are the kinds of guys that that are going to end up being those clubhouse guys like, years from now. Oh yeah, they're here because they are the one that said the new guys can look up to,

Pottymouth 9:44
yeah, and representing that team, that's impressive. Yep. All right, before I start this, because my beer is over, we should mention what we just drank. My beer is over, is it? So this we just, I'm feeling it's been a hard day, despite my vacation situation, a lot of things have happened. Thing. So I went dark with the beer, and we just finished a dark movie, exactly. We just finished something, I think it was called, and I should, I didn't bring the cannon, but it was like, it was like a black veil, or something like, was very, something very glum from from Port City, and it was a black IPA. And now we're moving into a dark lager, which is not quite as dark, but hopefully equally as tasty.

Patti 10:25
It's more of a mahogany than the midnight.

Pottymouth 10:27
There we go, shades of black, and we I put on the black checker spot koozie. All right, port city, both of them from Port City in Virginia. So we check up on our current boyfriends on the show every week, and the guy that sort of jumped to my attention this week was Shea Langoliers. And I, you know, I picked him last year, and I still don't know how to do the G, but I saw him live in person against the nationals this past Tuesday night, we had a visitor who had never been to a major league ballpark before. He's 17 years old. Last time he had been to any ballpark, he was, like, six. So this was a fun and, you know, he wanted to see a baseball game. And when I, when I first checked, you know, the the lineup in the pitchers, I was like, Oh, this is gonna be a great game, because the NATs have, you know, their basic, I mean, nats don't have a lot going for them, but their ace, I would say, and Mackenzie gore. And then the athletics had Luis Severino, who I remembered from his Yankee days. And I thought it was going to be a pitcher's duel. Well, it was not. The final score was 16 to seven, and it started off with Shay langeliers lead off home run, and it was notable for a lot of reasons. It is the first time ever in his entire career in baseball Little League high school that he had been in the leadoff position, huh? And when they sent it so he said, quote, when they sent out the lineup, me and Brent Rooker kind of giggled, which, you know, that's so baseball boyfriend quality for me, if somebody's giggling, that's my guy. We thought it was a typo or something. So he was like, why am I in lead off? Needless to say, it worked out. The fourth pitch home run, and then he hit two more home runs during that game, in the fifth inning and in the seventh inning. So that makes him the second catcher in MLB history with three home runs batting from the lead off spart spot. The other is a guy whose name I also constantly butcher, Travis dar no for the raise in 2019. Was sick and yeah, all right, thanks. Thanks to the beer. His last at bat in the eighth inning was just a double. It was a good double, but he got shit, sort of jokingly from his teammates, because last week you talked about Nick Kurtz getting a four home run game, and Shay only got three. Yeah. And the guy, the 17 year old that we brought, was born in Lancaster. Oh, so we talked about big Amish, and he's also a big 17 year old. So Shay went five for six, not bad. So the A's scored five runs in that first inning, a total of 16 with 24 hits. The Nationals had only three runs going into the bottom of the ninth. And I said, this is what we do when we're in this situation. Did you rally? We rally? Yes, yes, you did. And he didn't wear a cap, which I think is kind of adorable because he tried it and he didn't think his hair looked good with it. So seven reads 17 year old. I rally capped, and I said, this looks really stupid, but I'm gonna do it anyway. And the NATs got how many four, four runs, four runs in the bottom of the ninth. So I feel like that worked. I didn't quite get up to you. You got five. We both had 16 runs against us, so it was pretty comparable kind of game. Just to note, when I picked Shay langeliers in 2023 for that season, he was batting 205 with an 861, ops this year, 2025 since the all star break, he's batting 389, sure, with a 1.256 ops. He's also ninth in MLB overall, with in home runs, with 23 All right, and he's even stolen five bases. So talk about your premature pick. There is a prime

Patti 14:18
but we can't pick them often, all right. Our PCA report this week, our pico Armstrong report is defense rather than offense. And a little bit of a vocabulary last one, because sometimes you guys say, Hey, tell us more about stats. So we do that today. So PCA is number one, is number one outfielder in outs above average with a plus 18 overall league wide, he's number two. He's behind only Mason win, who's got 20, who's an infielder. So let me explain what outs above average means you want to glow, because

Pottymouth 14:54
that's a Yeah, I picked but, but, again, premature. I picked someone last year. So, so

Patti 14:59
outs of. Of average is how many outs a player has saved or cost their team based on the a lot of things, the difficulty of the play they made or didn't make, a higher number means they're making more difficult plays than the average player. All right, so it's calculated a little bit differently for infield and outfield, because in field, this is actually okay, this actually, I'm going to go to the next one first, because it kind of feeds into both of those. So PC has also the single season record. And again, we're in August. We're halfway through August. He's already got a single season record for what's what are called, five star catches. This is a stat cast definition. It's a catch with a probability, a catch probability of 25% or less based on time, distance, how far the guy's got to go, the direction he's got to go, and how close the wall is, right? So all those things factor in to how hard it is to catch a damn ball if you're an infielder, they also factor in how close you are to the bases and the speed of the runner. So there are so many things that factor into coming up with this number of Is it a five star catch? And then all of those things then also feed into outs above average, because if you're making that catch, you're out above average goes way up. So for five star catches, here's some perspective for you. Pete Carl Armstrong has 14 of them as of August 8, right? Wow. So next in line for the season high is former boyfriend, Buxton with in 2017 and Billy Hamilton in 2016 who each have 12, wow for the entire season, where this was as of August 8, Byron Buxton and Billy Hamilton in had 12 for the entire season. And that's next, behind Pete crow Armstrong. He's lighting up the stat cast.

Pottymouth 17:00
That's crazy, because I recently saw a catch by Byron Buxton that was a total steal, where he's, like, reaching over the wall together like he is a good man, and he's has experience, so for Pete to already,

Patti 17:11
already, yeah, and I think, you know, knock on all the things. But I think he's, you know, he's, it's early. He's gonna keep getting better, sure. So Woody, so James Wood, my nationals guy, I think you know, people are saying he had the Home Run Derby curse. I don't think many people did. Weirdly, he did coming out of the Home Run Derby. He slumped bad coming out. So did Cal Raleigh, who won the damn Derby, but still slumped. Wow. You know, immediately after the Derby, they both broke their curses. Woody, actually, Saturday hit home run number 25 and a double and two RBI and afforded to win over San Francisco. So hopefully he is coming back around from from that curse, if we can say that that's what it was. Kyle Stowers, I talked about him last week about how amazing his July was. It was amazing enough for him to be named National League Player of the Month for July. He's only the fifth Marlin ever to get National League Player of the Month. I mean, there's a bunch of those every year, right? Because one per month of the season. The last time a Marlin got that, it was Giancarlo Stanton in 2017

Pottymouth 18:14
that's exactly who I was thinking of. Yeah. Guessed it, yeah? Or yell it, holy shit. That's a lot. You know, I saw briefly. I've zero, like actual facts about this, but there is a beer out there called Big dumper that is, he has something to do with. And so if anybody in the Seattle area wants to send us some, because if, so far, it's not available here, we will give you our address. Because I would love to try some big dumper beer. Sure we would. That would be very cool. We love a thematic beer, yes, and former boyfriends. So there was a post on x by Julia Morales this week, including two of my former boyfriend. So I just felt like it was worth mentioning. I picked Carlos Correa in 2019 with Houston, and Victor Caratini in 2022 with San Diego, and now they are teammates on Houston. And apparently they were also teammates when they were like little kids in Puerto Rico. And so she posted the picture. Lots of people reposted it and commented like, isn't this cute? But of course, I wanted to figure out, like, where were they? How old were they? What was this team? So I looked up the team. It's called La los makuitas, and I could find that there was evidence of Victor Caratini playing when he was a 1314, year old in 2007 the picture definitely looks younger than that. So in the 1314, year old roster that I found Korea was not on it, but I'm thinking there's got to be something earlier. So if anybody out there has connections to Cuomo, Puerto Rico, please let me know, because I'm just really curious. I'd like to know how old they were in the picture. Apparently, there's a class, a team, and in Puerto Rico, I think it's like a double. And then the Roberto comment a league, and they're called Los maccuio. So los makitas is just little ones, you know. So there's the big players, and here's the little guys. I want more information. Please contact us. Another former pick of mine briefly in a flash of Pan news this week is Bobby Dahl back, who I picked in 2020 for the Red Sox his debut year. And he was one of those guys sort of like we're looking at Roman Anthony TO BE CONTINUED later this year, or Marcelo Mayer, who were just pumped up as being like a homegrown player that's going to come into the Red Sox and do really well. And he just hadn't. He couldn't make it. You know, the Red Sox hung on to him for many years. He debuted in 20 had a really good debut year, but it was only 23 games at the end of the season, and of course, that's when I picked him. So it wasn't that much use to me. We batted 263, 959, ops. And then in both 21 and 22 the Sox gave him a shot. He played over 100 games each of those years. 21 he was like 240 batting. And then 22 it was, I don't know, like 215 I think. And then 2324 It was sort of like the chicken and the egg thing, like, you know, it was Yo yo, up and down. And is it playing time, or is it consistency? And finally, he cut ties, or they cut ties. Somebody cut ties, and he went to the White Sox, where he also sort of wallowed in the minors. I think he was up. He was definitely up a couple games, because I saw him at Fenway playing for the White Sox. And this week, he is in his third minor league gig of the year. He just signed with Kansas City. He opted out of the Brewers last week. So I don't know why Kansas City over brewers move. Because the brewers are on a hot streak, man. I'm wondering if it's because there's more opportunity for him to come up with Kansas City. I mean, Kansas City is still battling for that wild card, but the brewers are just, you know, I think they've got their team in their solid so we'll see. I wish the best for Bobby Dahl back. I really hope he finds his forever home and he can come up and play with the with the big guys. So

Patti 22:09
Saturday was a big day for home runs that mattered for the books with my former boyfriend. So Cal Rowley hit his league leading 44th home run on Saturday, which makes him now the third all time for single season home runs for catchers. Right? He so he passed hobby Lopez. The next two, the last two, he's got a pat. And again, this a single season record. It's August, right? Johnny Bench has 45 and Sally Perez has 48 he's a 44 in the middle of August. Knock on all the things. All right, you may have heard of Shohei Ohtani hit his 40th home run for the third straight season, the fourth time in his career. And he's the third player to have 40 home runs in multiple seasons in both the American League and the National League, the only other two people done that are Mark McGwire and my pal Jim to me, holy shit, right? Peter Alonso, last week, we said, hey, he had his 250th home run. Well, he hit his 252nd career home run on Saturday. And that was important, because it tied him with Darryl Strawberry for the all time leader for Mets home runs, yeah.

Pottymouth 23:22
And as somebody who very much remembers Darryl Strawberry, I would really like to see him bury that record strawberry. Surprise, surprise. Oh, problematic. Good old 1986 I think that's that's remarkable too, because Pete was almost not a met this year. They strung him along, really did, and he they're lucky that he's so faithful, really, yeah, for sure, he wanted to be there. So power to Pete. Keep going. I think he's gonna break that record. All right, I spoke about Roman Anthony. I want to talk about a little more, because he's going to be a Red Sox for a while, hopefully, unless something goes really wrong, he's now signed up in an eight year contract, and at first blush, eight years, 100 and $30 million which looks like a steal, right for a guy who's really producing. He's been in 50 games so far this season, batting 280 with 811 ops. He debuted on June 9, and he had been drafted by the Red Sox in 2022 and he's been very vocal about wanting to stay in Boston. He's really, you know, grown together with a lot of the other guys around his rookie level, and they're coming up together. And I think he has just that real feeling of belonging, which is lovely. He actually has the potential of making up to two $30 million on this contract because of awards and all star appearances and stuff like that. I think that kind of makes sense, you know, like, put in some incentive there. Yeah, a

Patti 24:50
lot of contracts have that. It's like, okay, we're gonna give you this. You're guaranteed this. But Ooh, if you do that extra special thing, we're gonna note that

Pottymouth 24:57
that would be, yeah, I think that's cool. I mean, the. Red Sox have uncharacteristically been locking down a bunch of guys this year, and like, Hello Orioles. I don't understand what's going on, but rough. Sit on Rafaela, your guy, right? Christian Campbell, who had a hot start, and now he's back down to AAA, but he's doing we saw him there. He looked pretty good. I think he'll be back soon, maybe not soon, soon, but at some point he'll be ready. And then Garrett crochet, they're all signed from through 2031 so that's a chunk of time. All of the four, yeah, plus Roman, Anthony and Brian. Baio is signed through 2030 now, bayo has not been performing at the level that we had hoped. But he's it's not terrible either. I just think that that's a really good sign for a team that has not been signing long term contracts to be doing that. You know, granted, they did that with Rafael Devers, but they got out of two $50 million worth of that contract hallelujah when they traded him to the Giants, which I think is kind of a, well, I don't know if it's win, win. Since his trade to the Giants, his numbers have kind of tanked, although I apparently had a pretty good weekend. Yeah, he did. So he's, he's streaky, that's the thing. He is streaky. When he's good, he's very, very good, and when he's not, he's a little pissy. You know, he's he's just not a good vibe, I think, in the clubhouse. So power to you giants. I don't feel so bad about it when they signed him, just for like numbers comparison, his 10 year contract was $313.5 million so I think offloading that was definitely a good

Patti 26:39
No. And when you say they signed him. You mean the Red Sox him in 2023 Yeah, okay,

Pottymouth 26:44
and so they got rid of a big chunk of that commitment. So that was smart. I am so sorry, Giants fans. My heart goes out to you, because you started the season so good and things are not really pretty, but you never know. You never know, actually, but the NATs, did they sweep, or they at least won a couple of games against the Giants, at Giants this weekend, and notably Mackenzie Gore, who had that horrible night with us, one with the with the Giants.

Patti 27:10
So and the Giants were pitching Justin Verlander, yes, yes. Holy

Pottymouth 27:14
shit. Holy shit. All right. So the best part, my favorite part about this Roman Anthony story, is the Fenway came in. So those are the guys who have the big Ks, you know. And a lot of stadiums do this, that they hang up the Ks for every strikeout. So sometimes they've had other big signs in the same, you know, Boston Red Sox font that they hang up with the Ks. And back in the No Ma days, the no my garciaparra, they had no Mar letters, N, O, M, A, R, they went into their basement. They still have those letters. I love it. They have a basement. Yeah, it's an anagram for Roman, so now they can use those same letters. Amazing. What

Patti 27:55
was it? No more specifically named next. It was Roman backwards. He was, he was Yeah, and that's, that's not a that's yeah,

Pottymouth 28:01
it's not quite backwards, though. It's, yeah, I don't know. It's Ramon backwards. I don't know. I get, I guess I need to look back into no Mar, Garcia, para, oh. The other thing I want to mention about no more, because, you know, soft spot in many um, Red Sox fans hearts, especially because he didn't, well, he got the ring, but he wasn't there for the World Series that year. But he predates this sort of current fad of hooking up with is what I was gonna say. I guess it is hooking up with women who play in the women's national soccer team. So we've talked about, one might say dating, dating or marrying. In this case, so Dansby Swan starts with the first date. I'm just, yeah, the Dansby Swanson is married to Mallory. Now Swanson they he was my pick for the hammers in 2020 that would be the Atlanta team. And then Julio Rodriguez, who I picked with the mariners in 2023 was dating Jordan. We tema, who is Canadian, but she was on the US Women's National Team, I don't know, or maybe just play on Seattle. Yeah, that was it Seattle. So she must have played for the Canadian team. I need to really do research before I talk both of them. Very accomplished all the time. Yeah, soccer players. So there's, there's two more tangents that I, you know, I totally, I'm, like, kind of a fractal, you know, just keep kind of going on splits. Good use. First of all is that Julio and Jordan, apparently, maybe recently split up, like, days ago. So there was a rumor, and the rumor said, check their Instagrams, and even though neither one announced when you look at their Instagrams Now, the other one's not on it, are you just gossiping? Yeah, absolutely. They used to have pictures of each other on their Instagrams, and they don't anymore. So maybe they're taking a break. Maybe they're just flying. It's complicated radar. It is, it is, um, but no. Omar. Who did he date Mia ham abs, you know, famous ripping off the shirt after the after the win of the US national team. So not too shabby. I think he married up. They're still married. One more side note, because I'm just full of the side notes. This past weekend, since I'm talking about the Red Sox, anyway, they did a good thing. And I like it when my team does a good thing. When they were playing with the Padres this weekend during batting practice on August 9, they both wore jerseys from high schools that were impacted by the Texas floods, and those jerseys right now this week are online to be auctioned off with proceeds benefit benefiting Kerr county flood relief fund. So if you're interested in those jerseys, hop online and see if you can find them. I'm hoping that I found the link, but maybe not. The reason why so like, why Padres and Red Sox connected to Texas? Well, the double a team for the Padres is the San Antonio missions and the San Antonio missions on the same day also were jerseys during their game. Their jerseys were auctioned off right after the game at the ballpark. The jerseys were all supplied at no cost by Wilson Sporting Goods. So there's a lot of heroes here. And just to make a personal connection with the Red Sox, Alex Cora played for the missions, 127 games worth in 2007 so you never know. You

Patti 31:26
never know. Hey, I bet you were wondering when the heck we were going to talk about Jen Powell, oh, yeah, because she's a big freaking deal. Yeah, um, we're also going to maybe say, I hate that she's a big freaking deal, but I love that she's a big freaking deal. Both of those things can be true at the same time. Jen Powell is a 10 year veteran of more than 1200 minor league ball games, umpiring, minor league ball game, ball games at all levels. She became on Saturday, the first woman to up a regular season MLB game, but she got called up for the the series between Miami and Atlanta. So there was a double header on on Saturday and then a game on Sunday. So here are the other firsts that led her there. Right? She was the first in 34 years, first woman in 34 years to work a triple A game. Then the first woman to up a triple A championship in 2023 she was the first woman in 17 years to up a spring training game in 2024 the cap and the mask that she wore in that game went to the Hall of Fame and the cap from her first game on Saturday, which was the first regular season major league game to be upped by women that cap also went to the Hall of Fame. So based on her record of being a very good umpire, Major League Baseball keeps a list of AAA umpires who are kind of ready for their calls. So if they need somebody, this is like their substitute teacher list, yeah, these are the people who are qualified that are the best. There's 17 of them on that list, and she was on that list. So these are people that MLB felt they could trust as substitutes for major league games this year. The timing happened the way it did, because of the double header. Well, there's a double header. They often have they add an umpire to the crew, because if you've got one person working behind the plate for a whole game that person is going to get the next game off because that's very physically demanding and mentally demanding, more so than if you are a base, you know you stationed at one of the bases. This is only a cup of coffee. She has not been called up for the season she was called up for that series. There are no open umpire gigs, right? There's not a lot of turnover, which is one of the reasons you don't see new faces. That's why, when they announced the umpire, you say, you say, Oh, that guy, yeah, Oh that guy, because you've seen them all, because there's that guy or that guy, and there's because there's just not a lot of turnover. But she was welcome. When was the last time you saw people cheer for um pirates when they get announced, right? Doesn't ever happen. Jen says it was amazing when we took the field. It seemed like quite a few people were clapping and calling my name. And she's not wrong. Fans were holding signs. Welcome to the show, Jen. Thank you, Jen. And like, like little girls holding signs. See her be here. I mean, come on. This is what was really happening now. And also players were checking in, like Adam Wainwright message. This had this support message saying how important seeing her was to his daughters, right? I mean, so people are getting this. They're getting this. So she was the first base umpire in the first game on Saturday in the third base umpire in the second game, and then finally, Sunday, she was behind the plate, yeah, which was kind of like the biggest deal. And I just want to know, like, just want you to know that the trivia answer is my boyfriend with the first called strikeout she had was Kyle Stowers. Oh, really. So there you go. That's in the books. My favorite thing is, like, she goes. Way back with Chris Guccione, who was the crew chief. They've worked together in the past, and he actually knew she was getting the call up before she did right, which was very cool. And he said, as the crew chief, he's the boss. He is the boss of all of these other umpires. This is one of the proudest moments in all my career. I have been blessed with working playoffs. I've worked two World Series, all star games, and this is right up there. It gives me chills, even thinking about it and the magnitude it just hit me just now, the magnitude of this thing and how hard she's worked. I love that. I love that. So Jen is 48 she was in college. She was a catcher for Hofstra, softball catcher. She was three times all conference, wow, as college player, right? She was an NCAA softball, um, from 2010 to 2016 she did the whole thing where, you know, umpired high school games, umpire college games, the whole thing. And then she ended up at a sort of a an MLB clinic, and got kind of picked out, so you should go to this one day MLB thing that teaches you how to like, really, to umpire in the majors. And from there, she got a scholarship to the actual program from for Major League Baseball. So that was pretty good. And what she has said, based upon this game, these games a series, I believe that I'm going to be a very good steward and representative for young girls and women and boys and men that this is possible. Brian snicker, you know, from the hammers said he was talked about. You know, we all know how hard players work in the minors to get the call up. It's the same for umpires 10 years in the miners to get that call up, and you have to work damn hard and you have to have that dedication to stay in there. Please Curb Your Enthusiasm. Please don't get as excited as we want to get, because, as Chelsea James and the Washington Post pointed out, we almost had automated balls and strike callers before we had a woman umpiring a major league ball game. So yay for Jen and what the fuck yeah for the league. Also, NBA broke the gender barrier for officials, 28 years ago, right? And the NFL did it 10 years ago. Men's Soccer World Cup had their first all women. You know, officials three years ago, not a peep from the NHL. There's that, I guess we wouldn't want to knock over the the girls. I don't know, I don't know, but this is huge, yeah, Jen, I hate that. It's huge, right? I'm very excited for her, and I'm excited for the statement that it makes, and the whole, see her, be her, you can also do this. Yeah, right. Remember we talked about Perry Barber? Yeah, seasons ago. She said at the time when she started umpiring, they didn't make umpire gear in women's sizes. So, I mean, there's, you know, there's this whole, whole history. And yay for you, Jen, I hope you're back soon.

Pottymouth 37:58
Yeah, it can't be easy to come by now. And we also talked about both Venezuelan League and Mexican League have had women umpires before. Yes, MLB,

Patti 38:06
but they can't travel here, so it's okay, yeah,

Pottymouth 38:09
Mexican Well, theoretically, I don't know, have we tried? Yeah, it's not easy. It's definitely not easy. All right, I don't know. Speaking of minor miracles, I'm going to say something nice about the Yankees, mostly, mostly because I always have to couch it. So, you know, respect. I really should give the Yankees more respect than I do. They have an old timers game. I love that. I love that. I think it's great, and I would love to see more teams do it. I mean, it's not just because the Yankees have a lot of cool we all have a lot of cool old timers. Why not? The Yankees have done it 77 times, and I don't know of any others. So please also write to us. Listen up at the end of the show. Let us know if you know about other old timer games. This is the first one that they've done since 2019 although for two years they just had Q and A on the field. They did it special this year, I guess, because it's the 25th anniversary as a 2000 World Series win. I so

Patti 39:07
this is what, not what I

Pottymouth 39:10
last story, not this one. All right, 25th anniversary. So the 2000 World Series win, of course, was their third in a row. That was that record breaking, three consecutive World Series wins. I just want to add that they've only had they've only had one since 2009 they did have a ceremony beforehand where several of the players were inducted into Monument Park, which I really wish I had had time to go to. It's, you know, the Yankees, Hollis of fame. Thing that they

Patti 39:38
have, polish of favor, Hall of famish, I'm not sure attorneys general, game seven.

Pottymouth 39:43
No, that doesn't work. Yeah. Anyway, it's supposed to be really cool, but I went to Yankee, Yankee Stadium twice, and I did not get to go. I think I need to just suck up and go back sometime and pay respects, as one should do, because. I mean, it is they amazing players, really amazing players. Have been through that pin

Patti 40:05
story. I think it's okay to separate the players as individual players from sort of like the policy level team then,

Pottymouth 40:12
which I feel like I have, although, you know, my barometer is been a little wacky. So, you know, I had a lot of negative comments for years about Sisi the Bathia, because he looked like shit on the mound, and he was still like hitting the corners, although now I've turned around and since I've read his memoir, realized those times he was looking like shit, he was he was fighting addiction, like he was dealing with a lot of stuff, and just that, he was able to keep pitching through that is a minor miracle. On the other hand, somebody who I rarely criticized as far as personality and intent and just, you know, being a nice guy was Mariano Rivera, because he did his job. Man, he really did his job. And, you know, of course, I feel less about it because less bad about it because the Red Sox did hit against him in order to get that World Series win in 2004 but Mariano Rivera was back at Yankee Stadium for this event, and he ended up with a torn Achilles and needs surgery.

Patti 41:15
Can I tell you that was the top level headline I saw in any story about this old timers game. It was all about Mariana Rivera

Pottymouth 41:22
getting hurt. So it's sort of like old timers. You read like you guys need to do some conditioning, because you're

Patti 41:30
not. Here's the weekend warrior syndrome, right?

Pottymouth 41:33
You got you're not dudes, you're not in the same shape as you were back then. And for him, he wasn't even in the state same shape that he was when he played in 2019 apparently, in 2019 he hid an inside the park home run. Well, he played in this game, so I and hit. So all of this is like sort of swirling in my mind, because he was a relief pitcher. I'd never seen him hit before. So he hit this inside the park home run in 2019 this time, he actually singled off of Andy Pettit and ran to first base without an issue. But then, and, I mean, I don't know who's coaching this, but this is where I think the mistake was. He was playing center field. What the fuck he's a relief pitcher, and he's old there. I know they're all old, but he crumpled something went wrong when he was chasing down a ball in center field, and it didn't go well, shocker. So I, you know, I just wonder how much any relief pitcher is in condition to play center field, let alone one of Mariana Rivera's age. The sad part about it is that he had planned to speak with Devin Williams, the current relief was supposed to be closer for the Yankees, the guy that got their facial hair, yeah, position changed, and I feel like the Yankees have kind of broken. Devin Williams, I don't know what happened. He was he was so hot last year with the Brewers, and since moving to the Yankees, it's just has not been the right fit.

Patti 43:02
Maybe he needs to shave. Yeah? Just a little joke. Just a little

Pottymouth 43:05
joke. Yeah, and I'm wondering about that, you know how they had that it has to be a well trimmed beard his I'm not sure. I don't know it's in the behind beard holder, right? Like the eye of the beard, beard holder, like, what is well trimmed? I don't know it's just not working for him, but, you know, to have a one on one with Mariano would have been very cool had he not been in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Patti 43:29
It really does put down the opportunity to chat. Yeah,

Pottymouth 43:33
dude, there's a whole bunch of other really famous people who were in it. And I think maybe I put this in the notes, or at least here, but it reads like my nightmares from way back when, starting with Bucky fucking dent from the hold 78 debacle, and David Cohen and Jorge Posada from those crazy you know, 90s into 2000 early 2000s World Series stuff, notably speaking of my Yankees nightmares. No. Derek Jeter, so Derek Jeter, I've been actually very impressed with his contributions to the whole a rod. David Ortiz, like balance thing. They're amusing together. And Jeter really does seem like the brainy guy of the bunch in a lot of ways. And he said, That's a lift. He said, quote, I'm not playing well. That part's not quote, but the quote part is, I would be afraid I would hurt myself. And he looks pretty fit, but he knows

Patti 44:28
he would do that ridiculous job and land badly and roll his

Pottymouth 44:32
ankle. Right, right? Yeah, he can't jump anymore. No, no. Old guys can't jump.

Patti 44:36
I love that movie.

Pottymouth 44:39
That would be such a good movie. All

Patti 44:41
right. All right. We're cross training with WNBA, and if you placed a bet, the potty mouth would be the one to say the word dildo. You lost money because it's me, babe, it's me. All right,

Pottymouth 44:53
not really, though. This sucks.

Patti 44:55
This sucks. Okay, so, as you are probably aware, since the end of July. Lie. There have been multiple instances, at least six that I am aware of, of, depending on what you're reading, they're either sex toys or, quote, intimate objects. What right being thrown onto the court, the basketball court, during WNBA games. So a you're, you're, you're you're gonna hurt somebody. You're either gonna hit them or they're gonna trip or bad things are gonna happen. Can't do that. It's not only disrespectful, we're getting to that, but it's a danger. Let's start with it's a danger. But also, some of y'all out there who think you're cute have terrible throwing arms and you're hitting people in the stands, also not very cool. So, all right, where did this come from? It may have come from some whack jobs who I don't understand, some cryptocurrency group, oh, my God, who they say they're using like they they do. They're doing this on purpose because they want to promote their meme coin. What's weird are me saying dildo or me saying meme coin or cryptocurrency? I know what one of those is. I don't understand the other one, but their meme coin is called, and I quote The Green dildo coin. They were looking on my opportunity to promote this, which got released on July 28 or something. So their question that they asked was, where is there already controversy, and how do we intercept some of that attention? So okay, there's your disrespect beginning with that, right? You're calling this controversy. We've got this sport that's attracting all kinds of attention. The players are exceptional. Everybody's watching women's basketball. This is not a controversy. You're met. You are creating this. You are manufacturing this. You're also creating copycats. Copycats. So an 18 year old was arrested for throwing a dildo onto the court. He said it was just a stupid prank that I wanted to go viral. He just wanted to, like, you know, have somebody catch that. Okay, so here's, here are the things that can happen to you if you are ridiculous enough to try this, right? Because it's a safety issue. There's already rules on the books that if you throw something onto the court, you're facing at a minimum a year, getting like, banned from arenas for an entire year. And also you're open to prosecution by law enforcement, because what you're throwing is an intimate object, you're sort of opening up what that prosecution could include, which is really bad. Some of the people who have been arrested have been charged with displaying sexually explicit material, indecent exposure, a whole realm of things, because of what it is they're throwing and the result of that, may require that person, if prosecuted, to register as a sex offender, right? That they're not messing around. Good. They are not messing around. Okay, here's the other part that really pisses me off. Why is this happening only at WNBA games, right? Well, you're

Pottymouth 48:17
gonna show your dildo. Why are you doing it there? So

Patti 48:20
we're gonna let Shannon Ryan and the athletic speak for me right now. She says humiliation, often lewd or sexual, has long been used as an attempt to make women feel uncomfortable in sports or diminish their place in this space. It's a stretch to argue that targeting the WNBA wasn't strategic and intentional. Making a sex toy the focal point of games in a league that is perhaps the most openly gay and queer players doesn't seem like an accident either, right? Yeah, it's it's bad. Do you know that Donald Trump Jr made a joke about this? He did a little like drawing of his dad throwing a dildo off the off the White House to a basketball court of women playing basketball. Oh yeah. And you said post it with that comment. Because, isn't that funny? Isn't it funny, right? Because, can't you take a joke, Come on, girls, well, can't

Pottymouth 49:09
you take a joke? Oh, my God, it's like kidding, Doge bros, right? Like this guy that you know now, for folks who don't know, we're very close to a mile away. Patty's like a porch away from our nation's capital, we're right on the line with DC, and we're about we're getting invaded today by the National Guard. So that's always fun, because he's blowing up this one incident where one of the doge bros got attacked in the by two people from Maryland, actually, kids, um, and his nickname is big balls and like, that's all over the and they have no problem with this. They have no problem with this. And because this one big balls guy got attacked all of a sudden, it's getting blown up, and it's, you know, it's the distraction of the week, but it's real shit for those of us who live in the nation's capital that don't want them there, like the people in LA didn't want them there, but I think it's that same mental. Reality. I mean, it's fucking cryptocurrency, right? Like, it's the same guys behind this who feel so comfortable in this day and age that we're dealing with that you can just, you know, whip it out and throw it around. It's crazy. Like, I'm just wondering, like, how they got through security,

Patti 50:18
because there's no metal. I mean, I want, I want to know that you are aware of that, that there's no metal involved,

Pottymouth 50:25
but, but if it's an, I guess, if they put in a bag and it goes through that screener, like, can you sweater, yeah? I mean, you know, you don't cargo pants pockets, oh, something, yeah,

Patti 50:35
right, yeah. But if there's no metal, it's not going to set off a security and do you really want to have to have everybody, you know, check every single thing again, right? But I don't want this happening, so I'm hoping that really serious prosecution makes a difference. But,

Pottymouth 50:50
and because, you know, these games are more friendly price than NBA, there's a family show kids, yep, a lot of kids at WNBA, Hey, Mom, what's that? What's that green thing on the court, how gross, and to have to stop play for shit like that, yep. Um, all right, I'll take a turn to the happy for women's sports. I want that so much. This is a good thing, despite my earlier was and I feel like I have a lot of mea culpas, mea culpas to do, because I was a major anti Barbie force when my child was young. How are we still friends? No, I was so anti Barbie. I mean, it's understandable. It's not the right image. She's not normal proportions. I wished her. She's an engineer, she's an astronaut. I just wish her body was a little bit more like, you know, I like the American Girl dolls and things like that that were more appropriate for young kids. However, you know, especially since the whole movie thing, Barbie has been pretty kick ass lately, and now she's kicking some ass on the ice. So there's a collaboration between, like, talk about like this three to come together. Barbie. Tim Hortons were, for those of you don't know, that's where you get coffee in Canada and in the north of the United States, and the pwhl, the professional women's hockey league, are teaming up with a new Barbie doll, and it went on sale today. We will post the link in case you want to buy one. It's a pink and purple uniform, but it's a full uniform, and it's pretty hot shit, like, I think it looks pretty cool. She's got the PWh logo on the jersey. It's 30 bucks. It's a little steep for a Barbie. But, you know, it's not, I've been out of the Barbie, yeah, looking at for a long time. Yeah, it's, I think it's pretty

Patti 52:35
cool. And it's now on my Christmas list. So noted. It's on my Christmas list, Dear Santa, I would like the hockey Barbie, please?

Pottymouth 52:41
Hockey Barbie. I want hockey Barbie. She's come a long way.

Patti 52:45
Yeah, you know what? Yeah, we agree or disagree. All right, I'm

Pottymouth 52:49
a Barbie fan, okay, all right, I'm sorry, everybody last bit international corner. I just like to do a little bit of international every week. And this week, I decided to look at the Mexican League. So the Liga Mexican de baseball has the same pretty much temporada the season as MLB, just the letters are mixed up that same basic thing, and they're going to their playoffs right now. And when I looked at it, the number one player in hits in all of LMB is Harold Ramirez, who we last talked about on this podcast a couple of years ago, probably because of his blue hair in which was purposeful, because of his kid who had autism, and he was very vocal about supporting his kid, supporting autism organizations, and Just a good guy. I was shocked that we actually hadn't picked him as a baseball boyfriend. Wow, we've talked about it, but yeah, you're right. Maybe he'll come back. He did pretty well in MLB. He was batting over 300 in both 2022 and 2023 with Tampa last year. He bounced around and ended up with the nats at the end of the year, still not bad numbers. Ended up a free agent, and I guess just didn't get picked up. So he's playing with the TECOS de los dos laredos, and they're in the playoffs. He is batting in LMB this year, 359 average with a 908 ops. He's 30. Who knows a couple years left? Yeah, so we would like to see you back, Harold, and we will not ignore you this time. So please come back. Robinson. Can no who is a former baseball boyfriend? I didn't write down the year that I picked him, but it was a long time ago, long time ago, because boy, has he been on through a lot. He is number three in hits, old man, shit. I didn't write down his age. I meant to look at it. He is old. We need to look this up. He is batting 372, with a 999, ops in the Mexican league right now. He. Is the most valuable player of the playoff clinching game for his Diablos rojos, who were in the first seed in the south division. So the LMB has two divisions, north and south, and the first round of playoffs just started. There's three games going on six teams, and in each division, the TECOS de los dos laredos is a four seed, so that's where Harold Ramirez is playing. They're playing against the Acer Rose de monclova. And the Diablos rojos in the first seed are playing against seed six, Leones de Yucatan. So I will stay tuned, because I just think you know, despite the poor decisions that maybe Mr. Cano has made in his past. He's really had a remarkable career, and for him to be putting out this numbers at this advanced stage of Did you find it? No, no, no. Oh, bummer. I'll look for it while you're finishing up a podcast.

Patti 55:55
Okay, I was actually gonna try to cut off the Corrections Department who are going to come for you. About Mia ham. Oh, Mia is not the player who pulled off the jersey Chastain. Mia Ham was the captain of the Olympic team, but Brandi Chastain is the one who did the very dramatic. Hello, everyone. I am hot and tired and I'm celebrating, and here's my sports bra. Yeah. Very like iconic

Pottymouth 56:21
image. Okay, yeah, yeah, sorry about that. Thank you. Thank you for getting that ahead of that. I am just

Patti 56:27
impressed I remembered her name before I Googled. That was pretty exciting. Hey, so we have this terrible, terrible rule set for our fantasy baseball league, but it's not so terrible that not a single person had moved position in the past week. So congratulations. Wicked awesome for hanging out in number one photos. Boyfriend two, pandemonium three, leftist field four, Karen's crew five, and then everybody else is everybody else. Nothing changed.

Pottymouth 56:53
All right, so Robinson can no is 42 years old? That magic number of 42 so that's like a blessed number, and his batting average when he was in no B was 301. So that's a good one for those you know, immaculate grid things. When you're looking for a bat, somebody with over 300 lifetime average put in Robinson canal, yep, Oh, wow. We're at the end of the podcast. We are. That's it. So this week coming up, yep, baseball. I am going to the Brooklyn Cyclones for the first time on Saturday. Nice. I am super excited about it. I know that our kids together should have gone, but they were interrupted by a incredibly overpriced Seinfeld

Patti 57:37
night. They were they were interrupted by very bad policy decisions on the part of the Cyclones. Yeah.

Pottymouth 57:42
So I saw a quote from the Assistant General Manager, Billy Harner, about Seinfeld night, and he said, quote, it's a Seinfeld convention with a baseball game in the background. And so if you look at the crowds, especially from I mean, it just gets bigger and bigger every year, and it's a bunch of people who just really miss Seinfeld and are just Seinfeld heads. So it wasn't really the right environment for our kids, who probably have not seen much Seinfeld, nor do they give a shit about Seinfeld. But for anybody who likes Seinfeld, it looked like a really fun time. It did look like a really fun time the oh and they played as the signed clones, which is instead of the Cyclones clones. Yeah, One fun fact about the Bricklin cyclones that I am very excited about. And I mean, it's high a so I'm wondering, like, what kind of access you have to autographs and stuff like that. But their manager, Gilbert Gomez, he's in his eighth season with the Cyclones. I remembered that name from lead on because he was the manager with Tigres de ly say in 2024 who was like the youngest manager in history to get championship of of lead on, and also the youngest manager in history to win a game in this area, the Caribe, because the Tigres de Lisa won championship in 2024 went on to the Serie A they didn't win it, but still, like a pretty notable guy who's hanging out there in Brooklyn, so pretty cool. Check him out. Well,

Patti 59:12
while you're enjoying that weekend, including the cyclones, I will be enjoying lobster Palooza with the intern. And I know you don't care, but I care deeply. So hooray for that. That is very exciting to me. We hope that you are all having good weeks and seeing some baseball live and in person. Please report back to the class. We want to know what you're up to. If you have feelings about intimate objects being thrown onto courts, or you have like Barbie, Barbie takes you need to get out. We want to hear those too. Please find us on social media.

Pottymouth 59:40
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Patti 1:01:04
Oh my gosh. Hey, please get boosted more and more people every week that I know are ending up with covid. I don't like it. I don't want that to be you fight the man because, oh my god, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth. Goodnight. Pinewood. Up.

Pottymouth 1:01:37
All right, say some more dulcet Tony things. So

Patti 1:01:40
more Nelson Tony things that sounds like a restaurant. Let's go to delsil Tony's tonight for the ravioli special. It's good, right? Maybe a little cannoli, yeah,

Pottymouth 1:01:48
maybe they have a good Chianti. I.