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When Patti and her potty-mouthed friend talk baseball, you'll know this is not a baseball podcast for lightweights. This is the real deal, from real fans. Because diamonds are a strong woman's best friend, and there's no crying in baseball.
Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 471 of No Crying in Baseball, the Ride This Wave episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth. Hey
Pottymouth 0:26
there. Is that because you got that like Hawaiian shirt thing? Might be. Might
Patti 0:30
be. Yeah. So I was at Nats Park yesterday, and it was a double giveaway thing. It was it was the Hawaiian shirt and shorts giveaway. I was not excited about the shorts because they are not built for you know humans who have curves. So if anybody wants those shorts, maybe we'll put them in a prize pack. Oh,
Pottymouth 0:43
there you go, incentive.
Patti 0:45
Maybe we'll put it in a prize pack. But the Hawaiian shirt was good, but also it's you know special ticket Hello Kitty night. So a couple of friends of mine and I got the Hello Kitty jerseys. I'm wearing one now. Unfortunately, the front of it does not say Hello Kitty. The back of it, it couldn't be larger. The Hello Kitty in the back is gigantic. It's like a billboard.
Pottymouth 1:03
It's really good. It's on your sleeve too. But I owe you. Yeah. I'm wondering if I should do your on today's show. If I should stand over here on top of the drum set so I get the kitty on the sleeve. You can do that. We'll figure it out. You can do it. Yeah. I'm
Patti 1:15
glad everybody can hear us applauding those things. Right. You know, what's the visual going to be? You who are listening only to us, I think that's great. Yeah, so the the crowd was it was a you know packed for the Hawaiian shirt giveaway, super long line to go pick up the Hello Kitty gear. It was very funny because somebody on the metro was was like had an arm around a small child and she was saying, oh yeah, I'm bringing my I don't know daughter, granddaughter, whatever for the Hello Kitty night. And there was a guy's like, oh yeah, that used to be big, and the and the woman looked at him and said, "It's still very very big, and we were joking because we had one of the conference like one of the meetings room set up for picking up the the Hello Kitty jerseys because it was again the special ticket and they were by sizes and my friend who I was joking with someone saying oh I bet you got to roll around the smalls and and she was like no not not really. Did they have kid sizes? No, they were almost. They were almost no kids around, but there were a lot of adults of all shapes and sizes and demographics wearing Hello Kitty gear. That's great. It was pretty fun. We were also in a section that the Howard University School of Law incoming class of 29 was there, so they all had their matching like Howard University School of Law T-shirts, and they were surrounded by people in Hello Kitty gear. Everyone seemed totally cool about the whole situation.
Pottymouth 2:32
So if Hello Kitty needs a lawyer, she knows where to go. She
Patti 2:34
knows where to go. Can tell you one more thing. Yeah,
Pottymouth 2:37
absolutely. I watched
Patti 2:38
the first episode of the new Ted Lasso. Oh, I'm dying to see it, and just this is not really a spoiler. My intern said this was a spoiler, but I don't think so. It starts in Kansas City. That's that's where Ted Lasso is living, and one of one of his friends goes to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. That's so good. And I thought, oh my God, we're going to be there. They're going. Is Bob
Pottymouth 3:00
in the in Ted Lasso,
Patti 3:01
he's not. He's not. They have a guy who who looks very actor like as the guide in the museum, but I guess we'll find out ourselves when we show up there and say, "Oh, I know you from, and I wonder if this is going to get more people to go visit the museum.
Pottymouth 3:13
All good.
Patti 3:14
I don't know, or
Pottymouth 3:15
contribute toward the rebuild.
Patti 3:17
And like I said, one of the funniest things that happened in the show. So clearly, Ted's friends from London come to visit him, and they're walking around, and they're like, "Wait, now we're in Kansas. Wait, we're not in Kansas. We're in Missouri. And they actually say, "How many states are in the city? And everyone says two, and they're like, "Wait, what? We don't understand what's happening here.
Pottymouth 3:38
Sure,
Patti 3:39
but I was looking around, saying I think they're actually really, really in Kansas City, and then when they're in the museum, I'm like, oh my god, they really for sure are in Kansas City.
Pottymouth 3:46
I am so excited. We were just going through our road trip itinerary, and Kansas City involved, and there's so many cities are involved, way more than two, so many cities.
Patti 3:56
Yeah, we have we have lots of plans. I'm very excited. Still time for you guys to influence where we go, but yeah,
Pottymouth 4:01
yeah, definitely, yeah. We'll we'll end with that.
Patti 4:04
So, so, so, what do you've been up to while I've been doing things like you know getting Hawaiian shirts and Hello Kitty things and watching Ted Lasso?
Pottymouth 4:10
Yeah. So, for a retired person, things have been super busy. Like as soon as we got back from Maine, we had an 18-year-old come and visit for the week, and I've realized that parenting a teenager is not like riding a bike. It's like it's. I'm feeling very rusty because my own child is what six years away from teenagerhood, and it just feels like eons ago. But we did we did cultured things like we went to the National Gallery, the Hirshhorn, and then we did 18 year old things like we went to a hardcore punk show. That's
Patti 4:41
a 60-year-old thing. Yeah,
Pottymouth 4:43
yeah. So it was so funny.
Patti 4:44
I mean, we've we've done that. Yeah, it
Pottymouth 4:47
it was so funny because me and mr. Pottymouth looked at each other and we're like, we are so many years older than anybody else here. Yet the scene was so familiar. Like it could have been us in college and high school. The music. Not that different. The style of clothing, dancing, not that different. And if you just like think about like you know from 1980s to now, but then you back up from the 80 s, like that range of music is so different. And our parents had no clue about like would not understand this music. It was great. There were four bands. Three of them were local. One was not. They were all very loud, very thrashy, but they were really good. And I think, like you know, the generation above us would not have maybe come to that conclusion. But we had fun, and the 18-year-old also had fun. And then we took him to an all-ages show in D.C. I felt so bad because going in, showed your ID. You get the stamp, but if you didn't get the stamp, you got a huge like one of those wide sharpies-not just a regular sharpie, but one of those like chisel head wide sharpies. Huge black X's on both of his hands. Don't even try it. Yeah, exactly. He was like, "I'm really. He was really feeling bad with that, and I was I didn't know they were going to do that to you, but you know we all got to enjoy the music, and and it was it opened sort of my eyes to all the music that's happening in D.C. and I feel like maybe now that I'm retired and that means I'm a teenager again, I could do more of this like during the week out at clubs thing. I just need to find someone to go. Actually, the the most inspirational thing was at that last club that we went to. Right after we got there, we ate in the like downstairs section. A guy came, gray-haired person, definitely my age or older, came in on his bicycle and like checked in for work. He was like the the door guy upstairs, like letting people in to the the concert area, and I was like, "Huh,
Patti 6:42
you could do that.
Pottymouth 6:42
I could do that. Didn't look too hard. That I could do that.
Patti 6:48
On today's show, our boyfriends feature some grand slams, some fantasy roster shenanigans. We've got some. Is it really your hometown or not? We've got the MVP race and so many babies. We've got WPBL highlights. We are cross training with the NBA, and we have got a very important first for female identifying mascots. Cheers! That was an adventure for you.
Pottymouth 7:13
That was that little foray into the other corner of this room made me realize I haven't been practicing my drums enough. So that's the things to do in the next couple days.
Patti 7:22
I've seen that list. That list is quite varied.
Pottymouth 7:25
It's so there's so much shit I need to do before we go. There's so much, but you know what?
Patti 7:29
I I know that you have pre-trip anxiety is a harsh way of saying it, but you no, it's
Pottymouth 7:35
it's true. It's saying okay, okay, 100% So I
Patti 7:38
have learned to like you know you're going to go with it, and everything's gonna be fine. But you just really need to let all of it out. So I'm here for you to let all this out in my general direction.
Pottymouth 7:46
Excellent, and and there's tequila, and there's tequila. It's not
Patti 7:49
tequila right now. Now we're on beer. We did we did our like our starter beer while we were doing some trip planning. So we're actually on. Oh right. Do you remember what we had?
Pottymouth 7:56
Well, that's I was just trying to go in. We it was from the trip. I'm pretty sure it was from Austin Street Brewery. It was the West Coast IPA from Austin Street Brewery in Portland, Maine. I pulled nicely
Patti 8:07
done, and it was
Pottymouth 8:08
yummy.
Patti 8:08
Now, now we each have our own beer. Our beer is different.
Pottymouth 8:11
Yep,
Patti 8:11
I'm I'm drinking the is it Scuzzy or Scuzzy? So
Pottymouth 8:15
it's actually Scuzzy. When I was at the bar because I I got that at Asland Brewery, which is a really cool place in Virginia, and I asked for the scuzzy, and the bartender laughed. And yes, it is scuzzy.
Patti 8:26
It's scuzzy. It's Italian style. Well, it's Italian, so of course it's scuzzy. Yeah, it's a pilsner, and it's very very tasty. I needed something light, and I got it.
Pottymouth 8:32
Well, I'm going with Manor Hill Brewing because I like the hops, and this is their flagship IPA.
Patti 8:39
Nice, that is always a favorite. It's you can always count on Manor Hill. Yep. All right. As a reminder for everybody in our fantasy league, check your rosters because we are now you know a few days post the trade deadline, and some of your guys may have moved, and especially if they're guys that aren't like the big name guys that everyone knows about, you may be surprised to find that some of your guys are on different teams now. And remember, we have ridiculous rules, so only one guy per team. So you may have to deal with that. So I had to deal with that. What Potty Mouth and I do is we pick one team from which we draw all of our pitchers, and my Detroit pitching flock-it's not looking so good anymore. And I will say I have not yet dropped Scouble, but I'm also in last place, so it's not affecting my position. But I wanted to announce that I'm going to do this on Tuesday, so you all have a heads up. So if anybody wants to prep for grabbing him, probably Tuesday night Eastern time, you'll see that that the espresso powered by espresso team has dropped Tarekle.
Pottymouth 9:40
Wow!
Patti 9:41
So get your get your ad player, you know, muscles in in motion. So who I did drop was Casey Myness, who went to San Diego. So I picked up Jackson Job, who is a right hand right handed pitcher, and this is his first game back, 14 months after Tommy John. So he wasn't even available before. So it's kind of good to. And on his first game back, just the other day, he pitched five shutout innings, a one hit, one hit five inning outing versus San Francisco. He struck his first batter out at 100 mile an hour fastball.
Pottymouth 10:12
That's Mizzy.
Patti 10:13
So what he said was, I had some good nerves. I was just excited to come in and show everyone what the past 14 months were four, were four, and how hard I worked. So fingers crossed that um you know I've got somebody that's you know can you knock on the thing over there? Yeah, not not magic
Pottymouth 10:30
table, not
Patti 10:30
on the IL, and this works and made it you know made it through the trade deadline. So I'll have a couple of pitchers at least. Adley, my once and forever boyfriend, this is how you know that I'm very good at loyalty and very bad at fantasy baseball because here's what I've got to do. I'm gonna have to drop William once Adley is back on the active roster.
Pottymouth 10:48
Oh my god! And
Patti 10:50
he's kicking ass.
Pottymouth 10:51
He is beyond kicking ass. Yeah, but
Patti 10:53
Adley's my guy forever.
Pottymouth 10:54
Wow! So that's another like big like broadcast to our to our league like folks holding. Oh yeah, I'm not sure when
Patti 11:01
Adley's going to be on the the roster.
Pottymouth 11:03
They're saying soon.
Patti 11:04
Soon. So so he was he DH today, and then they were going to figure out post that what to do about him. So keep your eye on that ball. So anyway, he was rehabbing finally. You know, he was out for several weeks because of his wrist. He was rehabbing with the Wood Sox, and his first game was Saturday. He caught five innings. He went on one for two. He had a two RBI double, two walks, two runs scored. He threw out a runner at second base. So that sounds like Adley to me. I feel good about him getting back. So again, he was DH today. I think nothing happened. I think he did nothing. Yeah, he didn't do anything.
Pottymouth 11:38
But I just want to say that like Red Sox folks who are watching that game were so excited about that put out at during the first inning when he threw that runner out at second because it was super clean, super sharp, and it was like, oh, this is coming. We are, we want this now. You may
Patti 11:54
you may or may not remember that when I first introduced you all to Adley, there was a story about when he was in college. There's there's actually video of him throwing from the catcher stance that two second base blindfolded.
Pottymouth 12:07
That's insane,
Patti 12:07
and hitting it like spot on. Insane. So yeah, he's he's he can be that good. So the story that was in the Baltimore Banner was all the Adleys Left Behind because this. Okay, so there's fricking crying in baseball. I teared up reading this story. Did you read this story?
Pottymouth 12:24
I didn't read the story because I saw the headline and I was like, "Oh no! So a writer
Patti 12:28
for you know local news, a paper I really like, the Baltimore Banner. We call it a paper if it's only online. You know what I mean? Put out a call for, did you name a loved one after Adley Ruchman?
Pottymouth 12:40
Oh, that's worse than a jersey.
Patti 12:43
He got more than 50 responses. Oh
Pottymouth 12:45
my god!
Patti 12:45
And they included dogs. One of whom in the story. This like this week we're calling him sadly. Cats, cats, including Catley Ruchman, which I really like, and many many children, including a family where Adley is a little brother to Brooks, so this family is not messing around. All right, you name one kid after Brooks Robinson and the other one after Adley Rutschman, and the joke was the dad always referred to Adley Rutschman as Ruch because his kid has to be his primary Adley. So that was very sweet. But the whole point of it was all of these people did all of this naming because you know Adley getting called up was like the beginning of hope for like a new era, and so they they have all of this like good feeling about that. And some of them were joking about I'm going to call my kid by his middle name now. Nope, they're not. But yeah, they were kind of kidding around about that, and they're like, nope, this was important, and it's still important.
Pottymouth 13:34
Or they could move to New England.
Patti 13:36
No. Anyway, so who who am I giving up?
Pottymouth 13:40
This is crazy.
Patti 13:41
I'm giving up. Well, you're Brayuz, who is arguably always in my top three in my um my fantasy league. Um, so this week again, funny math. Over the past seven days, his OPS is 1.805.
Pottymouth 13:54
That's insane. Um,
Patti 13:54
four homers in just the past week. He was, and he didn't even play Saturday. Didn't play yesterday because he had a swollen lower right leg because he fouled a ball off himself on Friday night. He was back in today as DH. I'm not sure what happened. Nothing.
Pottymouth 14:09
Well, it was a rough
Patti 14:11
game, but he's at 20 home runs and 62 RBI coming into today, and this is his second straight 20 home run season, and I will be giving him up because I'm keeping Adley. I am keeping Adley, which also this is weird because I now I don't have an Orioles guy. That is crazy. So I just don't have an Orioles guy. Like I can't like add somebody new this late.
Pottymouth 14:35
I am so impressed by your faithfulness. That is that is some crazy dedication. He
Patti 14:41
is my guy. Like if if you know you say baseball boyfriend, he's that guy, right? Right. He's so. What am I gonna do? Wow.
Pottymouth 14:48
I feel super super lucky to have him in Boston. That's insane. Just for Willie Aarbreu, there was one point this week, and I meant to text it to you, where the stat was that four of his. Last 10 at bats were home runs.
Patti 15:02
Yeah,
Pottymouth 15:02
that's crazy shit for William Gray. He's
Patti 15:05
having a good couple weeks. He sure is. So we are going to two games in Kansas City, and I'm super excited about getting to see Jack Caglino.
Pottymouth 15:14
Yeah.
Patti 15:14
He okay. When we were at the Nats game, when I was at the Nats game yesterday, there were a weird number of Kansas City or like Kansas related shirts, including a Caglione
Pottymouth 15:27
jersey.
Patti 15:28
They were playing the Reds. They were playing the Reds. They were like I saw like you know Kansas State gear, but there was like a notable number. As if you think, did you guys come as a group? I don't know. I don't know. But anyhow, excited about seeing him in his on his home turf in a couple of weeks. So they were they had the ESPN game recently, and our guy Salvi Perez was mic'd up on ESPN.
Pottymouth 15:54
That's the best. And he was talking
Patti 15:55
about Jack, and he said, "For me, he is the strongest young guy I've ever met in my life.
Pottymouth 16:01
Wow!
Patti 16:01
Lifting the other day, he was 600 pounds squatting. He's only 23 years old. I'm like Jack. Come on, man. So I love hearing that about from Salvi because you know if he if he thinks you're cool, that's pretty great. He had a career game last night versus the Cubs. He went four for four with two doubles, two home runs, four RBI. His crazy OPS for the past seven days is 1.391. He's the first MLB player this year to hit two doubles and two homers in a game. He's the first Royal ever to do that. His two home runs just last night were 448 feet and 420 feet. Wow! The second one. The second one was his 20th home run of the season. So the average distance on his 20 home runs is 418.2 feet. His average over 20 home runs-that's the best in the majors. And he's one of those guys that you talked to him about. You had a great game, and he puts it in perspective for you immediately. He said, "I think the beauty of it is that tomorrow will come and today won't matter anymore. So you know, like relish it. Remember what you did well, but you know, tomorrow is a new day. Just kind of stay the course.
Pottymouth 17:06
That is so true. That is so true. So true. Change in a moment.
Patti 17:10
Cam Smith, my guy for Houston, was in a bit of a rut, and now this week, crazy math has an OPS of 1.366. He went into their series versus San Diego, hitting 186 versus lefties, right? Terrible. And then on Friday night, he homered off two different lefty pitchers for the Padres, and he singled and scored another run in the eighth. His manager, you know, for Houston, Joe Spada, said he's really locking it in. I think it's just time. It comes with experience. It was the second multi-homer game of the season, and Cam said from the Jack School of Play Things in perspective. Said we've got to just ride this wave and repeat it tomorrow.
Pottymouth 17:46
That's so good. Yeah. All right, Cam and Jack. That sounds like I don't know what a duo.
Patti 17:51
Lastly, Dale and Lyle got to see yesterday when next day was the Nationals game. Okay, so remember we were joking about like your hometown varies depending on who you're talking to, like James Wood, unfortunately on the IL, so I didn't get to see him. You know, he's either from Only or Rockville, depending on who's telling the story. Right, they aren't the same place, but they're not too far apart. So Dale and Lyle is actually from Louisville, where we're going to be. Louisville is famously not Cincinnati. It's 70 miles, but like a two-hour drive. It's not Cincinnati, and yet everyone, all all the press is giving. It's a big deal about how he's really good at beating his like home team. He kicks ass against the Reds and has historically, but it's not like you know this is my neighborhood.
Pottymouth 18:38
But it's the closest MLB team, I guess. To you know, but are they going to define it
Patti 18:43
that way? I mean, I don't know that he said that that was my home team, right? So, but in his six career career games versus Cincinnati, he's hit 360 with four home runs and 13 RBI, including including Friday night when I wasn't there, a three run home run. When I was there yesterday, he had an RBI single and he had another RBI single today, and the now it's ended up sweeping Cincinnati. So wow, that's big. He does. He does. He's he's you know he's a Reds killer. But I was just so fed. Oh, it's like you know it's like they're from your hometown. He's like my hometown is two hours away from there. I'm from only damn. Anyway, that's my story. Those are my my current baseball. I didn't even say what baseball what what boyfriends were. I'd never defined boyfriends.
Pottymouth 19:21
Oh, I can do that. Would you do that? These are our baseball boyfriends. These are the guys that we picked in the off season. We each picked one guy per team because there was something that spoke to us about this guy. There's something that we want to hang out and have a beer with them, and then we keep a bunch of them for our fantasy leagues, and then we have to let them go year to year, but we kind of keep up on them. So Patty's going to be talking about our former's in a minute. I have some current guys that I picked for this year. Shockingly, I'm talking about my Red Sox guy again, and I just I don't think I've pointed this out. And maybe folks who aren't following Red Sox as compulsively as I am, that Caleb Durbin, who started the season. In the gutter, everybody was trashing him, and now he is just flying. His nickname is the Durbinator.
Patti 20:07
Of course, it is
Pottymouth 20:08
right. I the the what is it? Breaking T, of course, has a great T-shirt that's Boston runs on Durban, and it's the whole Dunkin' Donuts thing. I'm thinking, do I need another T-shirt? I don't need is not the word you need to use
Patti 20:22
in essence.
Pottymouth 20:23
So I super appreciate Caleb Durbin. Um. Also, what I've realized and remembered recently is he is a small fellow. Like he, he, you know, you
Patti 20:32
are old. You said small fellow. What the hell?
Pottymouth 20:34
He's a little guy. He, Dustin Pedroia, was his idol. So he's of the smaller stature, but he is way stockier and more solid than Pedroia. I mean, he looks like he could lift a little Mack truck, maybe a big Mack truck. But he is doing mighty powerful things with this little body. He hit his first career Grand Slam this past Tuesday night against the Chicago White Sox, and that was the series that I'm happy about and I want to talk about because the Red Sox swept, whereas this past series that just finished up today against the A's is the first series that they lost in quite a while. So that was a little bit of a shocker, especially because they they swept the White Sox, they swept the Dodgers, and then all these number one teams, these first place
Patti 21:19
teams, yeah, and then
Pottymouth 21:20
they lose the A's, but you know baseball, man. Like that, that every day is a new day. One of my favorite little bits of the Durbinator this week is with his buddy Tony Siegler, who's nicknamed as Tony Siegel because Siegel Siegler sounds the same. I didn't realize, or I forgot, make her better said that Caleb Durbin and Tony Siegler and Andrew Monasterio all came over together in that deal with the Brewers, which is crazy because at the beginning of the season, I think I said on this podcast that I thought the Red Sox lost that deal because the pitcher that pitcher that they gave up, Kyle Harrison, was doing really well. But these three guys are most knights these days a third of the fucking lineup. Like that's crazy. So when do you judge who wins a deal? Because as of today, the Red Sox have definitely won the deal. Tony Siegel or Siegler. He's. I'm gonna look at him for next year if he's still around, and I'm hoping he still gets playing time because he is a really special kind of guy. But look at the link of the two of them going into the green monster together because they're clearly buddies. They're actually of similar stature, but both like doing pretty well and just excited to go into the monster and put their signatures there with a bazillion others. I actually commented on like, can anybody sign this? And I think one of them looked and was like, "Oh yeah, anybody can because it was I don't know, who knows what kind of name. Thursday night was the night where I really needed the Red Sox. So flashback to the the 18 year olds staying here. So lovely 18 year old, trying to be very independent here and getting to understand the metro and bus system, but kind of just missed and was like one step behind the whole way. But luckily, the Red Sox game went on and on and kept me awake to the point where I went and actually picked him up because he missed the last bus. 13 innings, 13 innings, and we can thank Caleb Durbin for ending it with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 13th, and it was it was a game to keep you awake on the edge of your seat because the Sox were behind for the first nine innings. They tied it up in the bottom of the ninth, and then the White Sox. So this is double socks. So the Red Sox behind, White Sox ahead. White Sox hit two runs in the top of the 10th. Red Sox tie it up in the bottom of the 10th. Same thing happens with one run each in the 11th, one run each in the 12th. And at this point, the Red Sox are stranding bases loaded multiple times. I'm freaking out, but I'm thinking, well, it's keeping me awake. And then finally, finally, Brian Baio, who has turned into a relief pitcher extraordinaire, held the White Sox scoreless in the top of the 13th, and there comes Caleb Durbin. So you know they've got the Manford Man. You know credit to Craig Casatera for the term. I really like it. You know because it's not a ghost runner. It's a real. It's a guy on second base and automatic runner. Yeah, the automatic runner. That sounds so much more technical. I'm not smart enough sounding to say that, but I can try. There's a guy on second, right? So there's there's that pressure in these extra innings, and will your brain use up? So what about him? Yeah, right. So, like aforementioned bazillion home runs. So, what do the White Sox do? They walk Abreu. So he's on first. So Caleb Durbin says, and I quote: "They walk the guy in front of me. The guy being Willy Abreu. I had to make them pay for it, and he did.
Patti 24:57
All right.
Pottymouth 24:58
And it kept me awake for pickup duty." Caleb Durbin also gave us hope. Like both yesterday and today, ended up being close with the A's. Last night came into the ninth inning. He got the RBI single, followed by Contreras, former boyfriend of mine, getting a baseball boyfriend of mine getting a single, and aforementioned Monasterio walking bases are loaded. Eli White also new acquisition at the trade deadline could have tied it up, but no, he was out. And then today also pinch hit walk by Durbin. He was given a day off today. They brought him in in the ninth, and it was also denied. So those were the two two last games, but I feel like the Red Sox-they're fighting, like they're fighting for this-and I just really want them to fucking catch up to the Yankees. They were so close. They were a game away. I think it's two games at this point. Ugh! All right.
Patti 25:52
Only you had a good catcher. It'll
Pottymouth 25:55
be-it'll be so much fun when Hadley gets there. It'll-I-I-it's weird. It's weird. It's super weird. Oh boy! All right, Justin Crawford, my Phillies guy, I've been talked about him in a minute because he's not quite living up to the predictions that I had that he would be rookie of the year. However, he's had a really good week this week, and possibly it's because Luis Arai, as you might have heard of him, has arrived with the trade deadline to the Phillies to sort of shake things up. I picked Luis Arias as my baseball boyfriend in 2020 when he was with Minnesota. He's been with like three teams since, which is
Patti 26:32
crazy because he keeps winning like batting titles. Like, why don't you want to keep him?
Pottymouth 26:36
Yeah, I think it's because they get a lot for him. You know, it's I don't know. Yeah, no, you're right. As of August, so Luis Arias's first game, his debut with the Phillies was august 4. That night, he was seen chatting with baby Justin Crawford in the in the dugout. So you know, power to Crawford for like new guy, good guy. I'm gonna like hang out with him for a while, and they actually have very similar sort of records, except for Crawford's is when he was in AAA and Arias's his entire career in MLB. In that they're contact hitters. I mean, Arias is known for his average. He hits for average absolutely. So the deal is that Mattingly, Dave Mattingly, the manager, is hoping that Arias can just like give give Crawford that push to just not quite strike out, not so much, not hit so many ground balls that worked in Triple A but are not working at the MLB level, and get things moving a little bit. So we'll see if that works. And that night, Arias, you know, in his debut with the Phillies went two for four in a five to zero win over our nationals. Justin Crawford also went two for four with a steal. So I feel like that fire was set under him. The next few games between August 5 and eighth, he's gotten three hits, three RBI, three walks, and a stolen base. Over the past week, his average is 412, which is a huge improvement over what he's doing. 1.123 OPS. By the way, even though I predicted Justin Crawford for my Rookie of the Year prediction, I perhaps should have looked more at my Reds guy South Stewart, who's been, you know, just sort of lighting things up, because the recent MOB Rookie of the Year prediction update had Sal Stewart and your actual pick for Rookie of the Year and your baseball boyfriend JJ Weatherholt as their two like leaders for Rookie of the Year tied. So we'll see what happens between the two of them? Maybe I just picked the wrong guy. Other news between so my posse potty mouth posse that's my team is really getting limited because I'm losing a lot of guys for the wrong reasons, just because they didn't quite make it. Gabriella Rias, I thought I had totally lost him. He was DFA'd by Cleveland on Wednesday, but he was picked up by the Mets, who need some folks, which is convenient because my Mets pick, Nick Morabito, played five games in May, didn't get a hit in those five games, and so he's been hanging out in Syracuse. Seems to be doing okay there. I don't think he's going anywhere this season, so I can move. I can keep Arias on my lion. He's still there. He has got to be played by the Mets because he is out of options. So use him or lose him. He played his first game yesterday, subbing in for Francisco Lindor in the top of the fifth, and did not get a hit. And the Mets lost zero to nine against Pittsburgh. So the Mets are just having a rough year. I'm sorry,
Patti 29:45
you're not going to have a a Cleveland baseball boyfriend to root for when when we're there in a couple of days. But there'll be other guys to root for. Yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be a fun game.
Pottymouth 29:53
I I think our biggest loss, honestly, is Lars Noop Bar from from St. Louis. Yeah, like there goes your T-shirt.
Patti 29:58
So, but. I will say my T-shirt says I just hope Lars Newbar has fun. Oh, he
Pottymouth 30:04
could still be having which I think
Patti 30:05
is kind of a poignant thing. So maybe I'll wear that when we go to the arch, and we'll be happy. Oh yeah, yeah, we hope he has fun too. But damn it, damn it, why is he in Arizona and not here at the arch with us? Yeah,
Pottymouth 30:14
yeah. Last minute, I remembered my Cubs pick, Moises Basteros, went to the Angels, which is also really convenient because my Angels pick Gustavo Campero, is not played at all this season, so I can keep Moises and hope that he does well with the Angels. So the trade deadline thing did did well for me because they went to the right places.
Patti 30:35
So formers, these are guys we've picked in previous years, and we still keep an eye on them. There are some guys that are ex-boyfriends because they've done stuff we can't, we do not appreciate, and so we write them off. They are on the no-fly list. But we have other guys that we've enjoyed watching, and we will continue to watch. So two of my former boyfriends are basically head-to-head right now in the National League MVP race, which is
Pottymouth 30:56
which is crazy because you would think that one of these guys would be untouchable, and so yeah, so
Patti 31:02
it's Shoy Otani and Pete Crow Armstrong. Ohtani hasn't been pitching, so Ohtani is incredible because he's a two-way guy. Yeah, he's fantastic as a batter, but the thing that makes him unique and puts him way over the top is the pitching. But right now he's only batting, so he and Pete Crow Armstrong were head to head because the Cubs and the Dodgers played each other. The Cubs swept the Dodgers, but the crazy thing is on the Wednesday game, both Shohei Ohtani and Pete Crow Armstrong hit two home runs and had three hits total in that game. So they're like,
Pottymouth 31:38
wow, head to
Patti 31:39
head. Like, okay, who are you gonna pick, right? But it's kind of all over, you know. Ohtani may start pitching again, right? So PCA gets interviewed about this, and he said, "I would be crazy to say I don't want to win the MVP. Of course, but if we're talking about having priorities straight, mine are pretty straight. It's not on the forefront of my mind. It's fun to joke about. It's fun to acknowledge. It's absolutely okay to pay attention to, but it's not following me up to the plate. That's all fair. It's all good. But if you guys, the journalists, if you guys want to talk about all this back and forth, I really should go get in the lap and start pitching.
Pottymouth 32:13
It's hysterical. Well, that's if and only if you know iftani starts excelling again at pitching. I think the fascinating thing about PCA is that he started this season super rocky.
Patti 32:24
He did,
Pottymouth 32:25
and so to go from that to the level where he's at now, I mean that alone is is you know something in his favor.
Patti 32:32
And I think if Otani is only batting, which she's incredible at, I think that will factor in with the Ohtani burnout is always getting the MVP. You cannot argue with it if he's an ace pitcher at the same time. You can't. But if it's his batting, which is as good as, but not necessarily over somebody like PCA, maybe there's an argument to be made. All right, there are other guys who play baseball that aren't our boyfriends. Very briefly, I want to tell you that Mike Trout celebrated his 35th birthday on Friday with a home run. It is the sixth birthday on which he has homered. The sixth one. He's the first MLB player to homer on his birthday six separate times. So six separate birthdays, including his 21st birthday, his 22nd birthday, his 24th birthday, his 26th birthday, and his 29th birthday. It could be higher, but he did not play on four of his birthdays because of injuries. Four, four because of injuries. Can you imagine? I mean, I bet that that would be at least one, if not two more.
Pottymouth 33:31
And and I wonder if like the weather gods have a thing in here that there's actually games on his birthdays, you know, because of his weather connection.
Patti 33:39
That's right. Oh, good point. Good point. Also, Max Scherzer, Mad Max, congratulations. He has moved to 10th place on the all-time strikeout list. He passed Walter Big Train Johnson. Huge. He struck out Kyle Schwarber looking for his 3,516th
Pottymouth 33:55
strikeout. That's amazing. He needs
Patti 33:57
19 more to patch to pass Gaylord Perry to take ninth place. He's second for active pitchers. Justin Ferlander is still ahead at 3554. Ferlander said he is retiring at the end of this year. Max has not said he's retiring, which kind of surprises me. But he could still move up more. Who knows? But anyway, I'm happy to see Max get another little milestone.
Pottymouth 34:19
I Max is so tenacious. I think he's gonna keep pitching until he gets dragged off the field or something.
Patti 34:25
Likely, and he'll be arguing at the manager as they try to do that.
Pottymouth 34:29
He's the guy you want for a player's representative. All right, women's corner. I think this is gonna be a regular thing because we have this women's league going on this month. I mean, it's it's sad that it's so short, but it's happening, and we're going to two games, and I am so so excited. I am currently wearing a surprise gift I got from mr. Pottymouth, who is really just the best. He is the best, and it's
Patti 34:55
a great
Pottymouth 34:56
shirt. It's a Boston Hunter shirt, and it's Hunter Green. Yeah, and it's actually my my camp that I went to as a child had this green, like it reminds me of Camp Green, so it just showed up, and I had been sort of stalking the website because they sold out, you know, in that original day, and I'd been looking, and I put myself on the wait list for the the email notification. I have not gotten an email notification. mr. Pottymouth was stalking better than I, and just seized the opportunity and got me this swell T-shirt. So I will be wearing this when we watch Boston take on New York, which they also did this past week. And I think I have my first baseball girlfriend, and I am so excited about this, Denver Bryant third base hot corner for Boston. I love her spirit. I love her attitude, and she plays her heart out in the game against New York. She so Boston's trailing. I'm stressing because I'm like, come on. I mean, Boston hadn't won a game yet. They're playing New York. New York has been really good. She hits a bases clearing triple. It might have been scored as a double with an error, but I'm gonna say it was a triple. Sure, which gave us hope in the sixth inning and brought Boston up to really close five to six. And then this fantastic catch that she made in the sun. So she's got her hat on. Her sunglasses were on her hat instead of on her face, and pop up fast. She had to think quickly, and instead of doing the take the sunglasses off the hat and put it on her face, where maybe they should have been to begin with, she took the hat with one hand and used it to literally block the sun while she caught the ball with the other hand. It was such a great move. It was, and and I get it. Like I think it would have been harder to get the sunglasses off and on her face. So she made it work. She got a great catch. The after the the hunters won woo against New York nine to six. So this was huge. I mean, beating New York, getting their first win. She was interviewed afterwards. She was player of the game, and there's a new phrase for her called the Denver disposition, which she even said is the Mamba mentality, which is just you play your heart out, you just go for it. So I'm excited for the Boston Hunters. There's like a breath of hope right there. Things were looking pretty dire for a while. There's firsts all over the place with the WBPL. The first Grand Slam was Sarah Edwards of Los Angeles, and oh my God, the Queens are on top. They are the Queens, LA. You know what can you do on the fifth this Grand Slam over Boston, and the Queens won 12 to four, so that's when I was feeling rough about Boston and just really resenting this LA dominance. You know, between the Dodgers and now the Queens on top of it, they finally lost a fucking game yesterday. Finally, and you know, I the Queens are the players are lovely. I told I love Ashton Lanza, Monet Davis, it's it's a great team, but oh my God, L.A. You guys have a lot already, so they finally lost their game. Joelle Lagisaman, who's a shortstop, went three. This is for for San Francisco, who won the game, the Belles, the Fire Bells. She went three for four with three RBI for the Belles, didn't get player of the game because Jill Ablyateti went two for two with two RBI, a walk, and she pitched four innings with four strikeouts. Jill has pitched those
Patti 38:35
two-way players, man. It's they have a built-in advantage,
Pottymouth 38:38
and there's so many of them in the women's league. There's so many. She pitched six innings this week in two games. Didn't let up an earned run. A couple unearned, but didn't let up an earned win. She has a zero ERA at this point. So the Hunters ended up losing to the Firebells on the second. But there is a highlight that I will link: Sabrina Robinson on first, absolute split to make the play, like just a perfect absolute split to make the catch, which was a catch from my baseball girlfriend Danver Bryant, which I'm super excited about. I gotta mention Dana Benitez of New York as much as I've got, you know, this like reaction to New York City. I there's I'm getting better. I'm getting better. I love the politics a
Patti 39:22
lot. My kids there.
Pottymouth 39:23
That's all good. Denae Benitez is rocking this league. Now, granted, she has been playing baseball because she's in the the banana ball league with the I didn't write down the Coco Locos or with the coconut team. I don't remember what they're called, but she's been playing hard, and it shows. She in eight days, three games, she has four home runs, including the first of the league, 11 RBI, three stolen bases. She's gone 10 for 12. That's a 833 average and a 2603 OPS. Plus, she's a catcher, and she has a perfect fielding percentage. And she's been working with those pitchers, so she is amazing, amazing. There have been no shutouts so far. There's a lot of hitting. There's only one game that hasn't had one team with double digits, and that was that aforementioned Boston New York game. And I was talking to mr. Pottymouth about this because it's you know it's a little bit scrappy. There's been some criticism online, which I am not going there. I am only looking at the happy places because this is basically spring training. These women have not played together, and this is a month plus a teeny bit of play. So this is what happens in spring training, so don't shit on these women. They're playing their hearts out, and it's getting better. So you know that's what happens when you practice. I'm excited we're going to be there on a Wednesday because apparently every Wednesday is teacher and educator appreciation night.
Patti 40:56
What does that mean? I appreciate you all the time, but what does that mean?
Pottymouth 40:58
I honestly don't know, but I'm looking forward to finding out, so I'm wondering if I still count as a retired teacher. Can I still fake it, like because of the last? I don't think
Patti 41:06
you have to fake it. You, you. Once a teacher, always a teacher. You may not be employed as a teacher currently. How many years were you a public school teacher?
Pottymouth 41:12
3030.
Patti 41:13
Yeah, I think you're okay here. I think you've covered all the bases, if I may say that. Yeah. All
Pottymouth 41:17
right. So we will get me appreciated on the Wednesday night, yes,
Patti 41:21
we will. We
Pottymouth 41:22
will get me appreciated. So the coverage is improving. I kind of complained about the coverage last week. The website is getting better. Instagram coverage is getting better. There are some other websites that are really fun with compiling stats. SportyDolphin. Fun. I just wanted to say that out loud, sure. The great game summaries, stats, and other info. So go there. I feel like there is not enough coverage or information or credit to the announcers who have been working their asses off calling all of these games Lisa Pride and and Gina. Oh shoot, I'm probably saying that wrong. Becerra. That looks like Gina, doesn't
Patti 42:05
it? Sure,
Pottymouth 42:05
sure, Jenna. Maybe it's Jenna. So you, I mean, I've been listening to games, and like they don't even announce the games. The way that I got their their names was mr. Pottymouth had to search and found the beginning of the game that I had missed, and it had their names on it and sent me like the little audio clip that was transcribed. AJ Andrews on the field, three women who are all super capable, super fun to listen to.
Patti 42:31
Is AJ Andrews the one who you showed me the clip of interviewing your new your new baseball girlfriend? She was very good.
Pottymouth 42:36
She's great.
Patti 42:36
I really enjoy. She's really great.
Pottymouth 42:38
I looked into all three of them. Check our links. They all have mostly softball backgrounds, both playing and covering. So definitely look at it. You know, I'm gonna click on the standings right now just to let you know where we're at. The Queens are three and one leading the situation. So this is we're recording Sunday at 7:25. Firebells are two and two, and the Hunters and New York are both tied at one and two. So you know, if the Hunters have to be in the basement, then I'm glad that New York is. I hear there's
Patti 43:08
tequila in the basement. And speaking of that, we have this crazy fantasy league, which we need to everybody please again check your rosters. Maybe I'll do some spot checks later. I sound very threatening, right, as the Lord Provost of the league, yes, to make sure that you've only got one player per team. Nothing happened the whole past week. Nobody moved. Nothing. That sounds like a first. Buddy moved. So I'm just going to tell you, top to bottom, tried in some tap room and tap rooms. Karen's crew, Bono's boyfriends, all star cobalt 112. Wicked awesome team. You've been at number five forever. Yeah, Sonny Slammers, McLean, mean pitching machine, Potty Mat Posse, and then me. And I guess that the basement is spreading out a little bit, so I may have all the tequila to myself pretty soon because I think you know there are people that are at the lower end of the list, but point wise, I'm thinking fast.
Pottymouth 43:57
Well, and dropping Willie or Bray is going to do wonders for that. I was just Eric Spivel, for instance.
Oh my God! Yeah, I'm I'm
Patti 44:06
there forever. You
Pottymouth 44:06
are, but you are principled. You can. I am. You can feel good about it. And
Patti 44:11
I'm not the principal of the league. I'm the Lord Provost of the League.
Pottymouth 44:15
I was just noticing we have tap rooms on the top and tequila in the bottom, so we're we're pretty well. Technically,
Patti 44:19
it's espresso at the bottom, you know,
Pottymouth 44:21
tequila fuel espresso.
Patti 44:24
Hey, should we cross train? I'm
Pottymouth 44:25
gonna try cross train because I am still in absolute fucking mourning of the Celtics losing Jalen Brown. It's it's I I understand it's a business, but fucking a this man is a such a good person in any measure of the term, so I'm going to give you just two examples of how he set the bar, not just for basketball, but I think for any professional sports player who is going through this kind of transition from one city to another. This is how he dealt with introducing himself to his new city in Philadelphia. He has, you know, new players, especially like a big name like this, is going to have an intro press conference. He's not doing it at the 70 Sixers facility. He's not doing it at the arena. He's not doing it any place that's actually connected to the Philadelphia 70 Sixers. He requested to have this press conference at the Francis J. Myers Recreation Center in West Philadelphia, and invite local kids. There's a link to the video, and I teared up. He said, "Quote for me and people who know my family and me, we are rooted in the community. So being here at Francis J is as I'm still getting to learn this community. I just wanted to make it known that this was an important pillar in my life and community and the foundation. And he has a foundation. He's going to be doing work in Philly, and it is Boston's loss. He's still processing this. What really hit me and put it into perspective is he said, "I've been in Boston for 10 years. I'm 29 years old, so I was there a third of my life. And 19 to 29, holy shit! What a third of your life to be developed in this city, and to have established so many programs to to help these kids in Boston. What a fucking loss! What a I can't imagine how many jailens there are in Boston now. So because of that, not only did he do this wonderful thing for Philly, but he's having a free festival on Boston Common on august 30, 2p.m. to 7p.m. If you're in Boston, get your ass there, please, and report back to the class. I want to know what's happening. It's quote an afternoon of community music, giveaways, carnival games, the 741 pop up, back to school experiences, surprise performances, giveaways, and more. This is our way of saying thank you to the city that's shown love from day one. So 741 is he has a brand and it's like footwear and apparel and all sorts of stuff and you get a discount if you register for the festival. But it's a free festival, so please let me go know if you go. I am dying. I mean, we're going to be on our road trip and having fun, but what a model for somebody changing cities, right?
Patti 47:21
Right.
Pottymouth 47:21
Just like I am community. This is late. It's
Patti 47:24
the 30th. That's the day we're driving back of our road trip. So if you want, we'll give you. No, you can fly to Boston. I'll just drive your car back. We'll be fine. Sure, we'll be fine. You can go. So we like to report first, and often we say, you know, we hate that it's a first. Why can't this just be a regular thing? Here we go. mrs. Met has become the first female identifying mascot inducted into the mascot Hall of Fame. mr. Met was inducted in 2007. So here's my thing.
Pottymouth 47:55
Right?
Patti 47:57
Are we being gender specific about most mascots? I mean, what I think it is is this. I think I think if there are noticeable eyelashes, as if the the mascot is wearing mascara. I mean, and this is mrs. Okay, so that one is female identifying.
Pottymouth 48:12
You know, there's plenty.
Patti 48:14
But I mean, like the fanatic,
Pottymouth 48:16
right? The
Patti 48:16
gritty. Oh well,
Pottymouth 48:18
there is a like mrs. Wallier. Yeah. Okay, I'm getting to that
Patti 48:21
in a second, but like Screech, the Oriole bird. There is nothing that that makes us, you know, that that's gender specific about any of them. But mrs. Met, they say the first female. I'm choosing to say female identifying mascot in the Hall of Fame. Okay, you you identified some other female mascots who are not the primary mascot, right? So like
Pottymouth 48:45
a sidekick. They're
Patti 48:46
a sidekick. So here's the thing: before the WNBA, who has single female mas, like a singular mascot?
Pottymouth 48:53
Ellie, the best, the best. Actually, Ellie's like number one. Oh my God, she's so good.
Patti 48:58
No professional sports league had a primary female identifying mascot. Everybody in MLB is paired up with somebody else, like it's the it's the the the misses, or it's like for for Cincinnati, right? So that like Rosie Red is the fourth mascot, the fourth mascot. It took four to get to Rosie, and again, you know she's got eyelashes, so that's how we know. But there, there are there other than WNBA, there are no like professional sport leagues that have a woman, a female identifying mascot. Now there are a bunch of colleges who have female mascots, and the important one for this conversation is Zippy the Kangaroo of the University of Akron because in November 2024 Zippy became the first female mascot to sign an NIL deal, a name, image, and likeness deal. So now I'm on the hunt for when we go to Akron, I need to get some Zippy wear.
Pottymouth 49:56
Right, if she's got a deal, she's got to have merch. We're.
Patti 50:00
The University of Akron bookstore, the online does not have anything with Zippy on it, so I think because they have to pay for it with the NIL deal, they're probably just not going to do it. But anyway, so I've got a whole. I'm way too worked up about mascots right now.
Pottymouth 50:14
That's crazy. I I'm just gonna say that they should all just be non-binary at this like that. I mean, I don't want
Patti 50:20
to inflict my my gender judgments on any of this, but I just think this is weird.
Pottymouth 50:25
Yeah,
Patti 50:27
it's like, can we just all be mascots?
Pottymouth 50:29
Yeah, just a mascot. Can
Patti 50:30
we just be mascots? Yeah, and and why are eyelashes the thing?
Pottymouth 50:34
Right, right. Yeah, guys have eyelashes. They really do. Some of them have really nice eyelashes. It's that's a little crazy. That and the bow in the hair or something like that. Like there's some yeah,
Patti 50:44
or like if you know if you, I don't like to expand mascots out to like who's running the races in the in between because there's you know there's a there's a hot dog who's got you know who's got eyelashes. There's the the pierogi Hannah jalapenos carrying a purse. Really, I I don't care your purse, and yet I identify as a female. But that's okay. But also, I don't think those qualify as like the primary mascot. I'm way too invested in this whole mascot conversation. I'm going to stop now, and you're going to you're going to. Well, this is
Pottymouth 51:14
going to this is I think this could be a road trip theme though. Like I think we've got to do some mascot noticing as we go along,
Patti 51:20
okay.
Pottymouth 51:21
All right, I have a very quick mention that I don't think Houston deserves much, and they definitely don't deserve this. But I wish I could go, but I'm not going to go to Houston. Actually, I might at some point, but that's a whole nother story. October 11th. If you are in Houston or have to be in Houston, go to this because it sounds like a fucking blast. The Cardinal de Salara, which is my beloved team of the Venezuelan league, seven-time champs. They didn't win this past year, but they won the year before. They're going to be in Houston playing the Charos de Jalisco, the Mexican team. They are the champs from 2026, and they won the Serie de Caribe. So this is like an interleague, just fun competition. There's going to be some sort of concert included, names to be determined, and the best part of it all is a portion of the proceeds goes to benefit Venezuela that is still very, very much recovering from a horrific earthquake. So if you are near Houston in Texas, please go to this. I think you know it's even worth the travel at this point because you know proceeds. This is the like
Patti 52:30
the the ballpark, like that where the Astros. So I
Pottymouth 52:32
do shoot. I should get those. I will get those notes and get that in the show notes. I don't think so. I don't think so.
Patti 52:38
Interesting. Yeah. All right. So wow, this is quite a week for us. We're recording on Sunday, and then pretty soon it's going to be Thursday. And oh my God, Pie mouth.
Pottymouth 52:50
Yeah, yeah. Okay, sorry, I just looked it up. It's going to be at the Space Cowboys.
Patti 52:54
Okay,
Pottymouth 52:55
okay. Thursday we leave. Holy shit, holy shit. We get on the road, okay. That trip anxiety thing will start kicking in mighty soon, but it'll all be fine. The car has been checked out. Although my fucking tire light came on again the other day. I gotta get mr. Potty Mouth. This is gonna be
Patti 53:14
awesome. It'll
Pottymouth 53:15
be awesome if it comes on. We'll just you know. We added we added
Patti 53:20
Google Docs to our color-coded spreadsheets. So thank you, Google, for providing us all of these shared planning tools. We've got just a lot going on. We just added. So we're starting and ending with non-baseball cultural experiences. We just added tickets to see the Scottish play on Thursday night in Akron. If you are that's the Scottish play. If you're in Akron, Beth.
Pottymouth 53:40
Don't. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Did I blow it? You
Patti 53:42
did well. I can edit that out. You you you've you've blown it if you were acting in the play because then you've wished bad luck on it. So if you are associated with the play, you have to call the Scottish play. Have you not been around people? Sorry, sorry. Anyway, so Shakespeare into the stars to kick us off, and then we've got the very last night in Cincinnati. We're seeing classical music Mozart, also Frank Zappa. So we've got like very non-baseball things to start and end our trip, and in between 2500 miles, five or six six ballparks, five professional men like MLB ballparks plus the women's ballpark.
Pottymouth 54:14
Isn't it six
Patti 54:15
many games? I
Pottymouth 54:16
think we have six ballpark. Do we have
Patti 54:17
six ballparks? 12346, ballparks, six major league ballparks, plus the women's league ballpark, plus all kinds of things and bourbon.
Pottymouth 54:27
Yes, everybody, say a prayer for my Subaru, please. Yeah, my 2013 Subaru.
Patti 54:32
Daily, yes, daily. It's going to be great. We will be posting things online so you can follow us around.
Pottymouth 54:38
Yes, and and like I'm so excited. Our new like toy are the little mini microphones I got for like our on the spot thing, and it is the cutest little bag. I just showed it to because I have furry little
Patti 54:49
hats. They're so cute. They're so cute. So we can record anywhere at this point. We can do interviews. It's going to be fun. We're just going to grab people and ask them questions. The way we do. It'll be great. Sure, sure, yeah. So, hanging out with us on our trip. If again, if you have last minute suggestions for what we should be eating, drinking, seeing in the cities or the ballparks of I'm going to do it real fast. Ready? Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, St. Louis, and in between Springfield, Illinois, for the women's league, and then a little bit of bourbon and a little bit of Lulu the Slugger at the end in Kentucky. Finishing up at Cincinnati, we got that part covered. If you have anything, please find us on social media and say don't forget to do this.
Pottymouth 55:29
You are so good. I could have never done that. Okay, but social media, I got this. No, I don't. Blue Sky and Twitter are NCAIB podcast. Facebook and Instagram, no crying and b-ball. But go to Patreon, p a t r e o n.com/no crying and be ball. You are the folks that keep us afloat, that make sure that we can pay the bills and keep this podcast going. And we will be doing more stuff on Patreon for sure during this road trip than we are going to be doing elsewhere, so it's a buck a month, folks. You know, and you get access to whatever craziness we're doing on this. And there will be some. There will be there will be plenty of craziness. There's going to be me after several beers in the middle of the night, grabbing the little microphones, and we'll we'll put. You'll be happy to know that
Patti 56:17
almost all the Airbnbs in which we're staying are within walking distance of the ballparks, that was not that was not you know random. That was a very very serious choice.
Pottymouth 56:26
Yeah, and we just found out that one of them is like two blocks from a brewery.
Patti 56:30
Yes,
Pottymouth 56:30
so we're we're good folks. We're fine. We're very good folks. I think we'll be traveling safely.
Patti 56:35
Yes, we will. All right. Okay, my friends, go see some live baseball. Lord knows we're going to be doing that pretty soon. Fight the man is the right thing to do. Send your gay balls to Meredith, and until next week, say good night, Potty Math.
Pottymouth 56:44
Good night, Potty Math. And we get to remember our first at the ballpark. I was wondering if that becomes
Patti 57:07
Anna Crown.
Pottymouth 57:08
It's
Patti 57:08
my first visit to Kauffman Stadium with Anna Crown.
Pottymouth 57:11
That would be good.
Patti 57:12
I would like that very much. I think I think I'll look at Intiara's. Yes, please.
Pottymouth 57:15
Yeah, you do absolutely, absolutely.