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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 0:18
Hi, and welcome to episode 463 of No Crying in Baseball, the Whole Body Shiver episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth, who's got the whole shiver go. That's more of like a shimmy shake.
Pottymouth 0:28
Yeah, well, I've been doing the dancing with John on Apple Fitness, and so I'm getting better at my shimmy. I've been practicing the shimmy. Excellent, by
Patti 0:36
the time you hit retirement full on, it can shimmy like for hours a day.
Pottymouth 0:39
Yeah, absolutely, I'm going to be shimmy training. Oh my god, I - this is crazy. I've got four days left. It's pretty fucked up of my job. That is new listeners. I'm retiring in four days, so here we go. It's crazy, crazy. But we are recording remotely, and we haven't done this in a while, so you know, a couple caveats here: one, Patty's having some microphone issues that, and two, a squad cast what we've used for recording for years has changed, and it changed without me looking, so I'm hoping that this still works. If not, I guess you'll hear something totally different, but hopefully it will mean better things. Because now I'll be retired, I'll be able to study how this shit works. So,
Patti 1:28
so you'll be like a full-time podcaster, then,
Pottymouth 1:30
right?
Patti 1:31
Because there's nothing else to do all day long,
Pottymouth 1:33
at least for a short period of time. Yeah. So, why are you where you are? Because I'm in our studio. You are
Patti 1:38
in your, in your studio, but you weren't until like a little while ago, really, because you went away for the weekend, so I went away for the weekend. I went to hang with the intern in Baltimore, fancy dinner last night, and we went to the O's game today. Can I tell you it? So, the Orioles were hosting the Padres, and it was Wimpy Kid Day, which is very exciting, because that's that is a book series that's not being mean to small children. Yeah,
Patti 2:02
yeah. No, it's a fantastic, very popular book series. It's been like 20 years in the making, and we were just sitting there thinking, how great is it to have a book giveaway?
Pottymouth 2:10
Yeah,
Patti 2:11
at a baseball game. It's like you're getting kids to want to read, and you're getting kids who read to want to go outside and play, and it's like good for everybody.
Pottymouth 2:20
That's so good. Didn't the O's have a pride game this weekend? Was that yesterday?
Patti 2:24
No, that's that's that's in two weeks.
Pottymouth 2:26
Oh, okay. I plan on
Patti 2:27
going. I think you said you were going to be busy, but I plan on going.
Pottymouth 2:30
All right, I will have to look at the schedule. Yeah, so the reason why I was gone, or one reason why I was gone for the weekend, was to go to the Pride game with my kid, who lives in New York, and it was the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets low, a team, which is at Coney Island, which is just such a fun place, and man, they do pride right now. First, you know, first thing, as I got this really cool hat that those of you on our Instagram will see, but they had this all women drumming team to start things off, you know, talk about inspiration from my retirement, I had for sure several goals there, there were the drummers, there were the pacemakers, who are the over 60 dance group droop, and they were all rainbowed and sequined and jamming out there, and I posted a picture on our Patreon of me with a couple of the pacemakers, you know what I'm thinking, there's maybe a future, I mean they're trying so hard to get me to love New York, and it's starting to sort of sink in. And then the Cyclones had a super, super big win, but this was kind of a fucked up weekend to be in New York City, because the World Cup, so World Cup was actually happening in New Jersey, and we've talked about this a lot in the podcast, and I'm going to talk too much about it at the end of the podcast, but it, the transportation shift that we talked about recently, the train costing $98 instead of 12, and stuff like that, actually directly impacted a friend of ours, actually our kids, plural friend, or our friend's kid who is coming in from visiting our friend's kid who's working in New Jersey, like this, is all code, so that you'll understand, but probably nobody else would. So she was coming from New Jersey to meet us all in Central Park, and we went to, because it was Central Park, it was like the staged armored battle thing. It was super hot, so these guys with like broad swords and armor in the middle of Central Park, battling super crazy fun, but it was a two hour event. She got there five minutes before the end because all of her transportation from New Jersey was fucked up because of the World Cup.
Patti 4:28
Oh my god, and
Pottymouth 4:29
she didn't want to pay $100 for a train ticket under slightly, so she made it work. And then we went out for vegan Chinese food in the East Village, and it was all nice, and and then things got so that that was like the World Cup craziness, and then the Knicks game five, and oh my god, for this like Celtics fan with our team that crumbled this year, and the Knicks, who got in without winning the division to win it all, I was honestly happy for the fandom of New York, because it never. Hadn't won since 1973 and then only won twice before, 70 and 73 So I get the enthusiasm after a drought, and New York City was nuts, totally nuts. And mr. Potting Moth and I, after dinner, we were like, "Oh, let's just go find the bar to watch the next game. Want every bar was packed, so we got this lovely beer that will be featured in our Instagram picture, and it's called As the World Burns, which is kind of how this New Englander felt in New York City on the night that the Knicks won it all, but it's a smoked Rouch beer, and it's so good, it's so good, and I think we'll have one left in the fridge if you like smoked beer, I do like a smokey
Patti 5:42
drink. I
Pottymouth 5:43
can manage to hang on that till next week, but that was that was my weekend in New York. But to top it off, on the way out this morning, of course, we had to get some New York bagels. And huge plug for mr. Bagel Cafe in Brooklyn, they were giving out rainbow bagels for Pride month, so with every order you got a free rainbow bagel, so very nice, really, really good bagels,
Patti 6:04
excellent. Well, I think I think you know you kind of do like New York.
Pottymouth 6:08
I feel so bad. I so the, the main reason why I like, like, like, like, really like New York now is because of Mondani, like it's just so amazing. He posted a picture of him at the World Cup game with the 1000 fans that he got in for cheap, like he's doing such good things, and it's noticeable around the city. Trash cans aren't overflowing the way that they were a couple years ago, like people are super proud. I think there's a lot of pride going around, so I am really, really happy about yikes, New York City. I guess that's okay,
Patti 6:44
that's good, that's good. If we can have them as a model, as opposed to, you know, the thing to like despise. Sure, I'll take that.
Pottymouth 6:52
Yeah, and we even went out to dinner with a Yankees fan. Wow,
Patti 6:56
you're really growing, you maturing.
Pottymouth 6:59
Before I forget. I want to give a huge, huge shout out to our new Patreon, Patron Julie. Thank you so much, Julie, for joining our Patreon, and for everybody else who's wondering about how that works. Stay tuned at the end of the show. But Julie joined at the level where she gets to tell us to say something, and that could be something like, I love the Yankees, or yikes, I can't believe I just said that out loud, but well, that was a freebie, basically. Yeah, exactly. So, Julie, I don't think is a Yankees fan, but Julie, if you have like a statement or a shout out or anything that you'd like us to put out there over the airwaves, just let us know.
Patti 7:34
Excellent, excellent. Okay. Well, my friends, on today's show, we've got boyfriends featuring Look, who's back from the IL. We've got multiple Homer games, we've got the Espresso Boys, we've got beer leaks for everyone, and 2500 is the new 3000 We need to talk about Miz. We can't not talk about Miz. We, as Potty Bath mentioned, will be cross training with FIFA Nuttier this time, and we've got some investigative reporting that you'll just really need to read on your own. Cheers,
Pottymouth 8:03
cheers.
Patti 8:06
Alright, boyfriends. So, these are the guys who we pick in the off season, one guy per team, because we like something about them. They're good at baseball, they have a fun back story, they're good at, we like their philanthropy. Their bottom line is, there's these are guys we'd like to go have a beer with we also, as part of this, we pick pitching flocks. We each pick one team, use their pitchers collectively for our fantasy league. I'd pick Detroit, and of course, then immediately Terex Google went out the IL while he's back. So he's.. I'm going to lead off with him. He was back 38 days after his loose body surgery, that was moving like a loose piece of bone from his elbow. He pitched in Cleveland on Saturday, four four and two thirds innings. He had five hits, three runs scored, so it wasn't great, but also he was back pretty fast. So AJ Hinch said he didn't execute at the level that we're used to seeing, but man, it was nice to see him out there. And then Scooby himself said, I need to be better, and that's plain and simple. I think if I'm, if I'm just happy to be here, that's kind of a loser mentality to me. I need to go out there and pitch and compete and give our team a chance to win, and I just didn't do that today. So, good for him for taking that responsibility. Yeah, can I
Pottymouth 9:15
ask, did he do a rehab assignment, or did he just go to..
Patti 9:19
I think he did, I think he did a little bit of rehab. I'm not on top of that, but yeah, so maybe you know, he just needed to get that out of his system. We'll see, but he's, he's got, he's got some focus. My Toronto guy, Kazumo Komodo, on Friday became the 10th player in Toronto Blue Jay franchise history, and the 19th overall in MLB to hit a home run into the 500 level at the Rogers Center. The Rogers Center opened in 1989 so 10 people, 10 players on the Blue Jays have done it. He is the 10th, 19 total, the. Including visiting teams have got to the 500 level,
Pottymouth 10:03
that's insane, that's like 500 is the new 400
Patti 10:06
right there you go, it's high up. My, my espresso boys, I picked a couple of guys, well, actually I picked these guys first, like for Seattle and for Kansas City, and then they both happened to be on Team Italy and became the Espresso Boys for me, so brief, they both did exceedingly well this week, so again I'd like to look at one week's worth of statistics, because then the math gets really focused and kind of funny. So, for instance, my Seattle boyfriend, Dominic Cano, his OPS for the week is 1.235 which is just a ridiculously high number. On Friday, after a two hour rain delay versus Washington, he hit his first career triple and his 10th home run of the season. So, the rain delay worked out kind of well for him. It does that for some teams, not for others. But the exciting thing for him is he's had six monthly hit games in the last 13, so that's a lot. His bat is hot right now, so that's actually pretty exciting when that ends up with that 1.235 ops. My other espresso guy is Kansas City, is Jack Caglione. His ops for the week is 1.387 That's wow, like again,
Pottymouth 11:15
huge
Patti 11:15
big, big numbers. So, last Friday, last week, Friday, he crashed into the right field wall in Minnesota. Right, left the game early on Saturday because his shoulder was sore. With the game, a couple days off, he didn't hit the IL, but they were just resting him a little bit right after they're banging into the wall so hard. Say, two days off. So, Tuesday he's back. They're playing Texas. He hit home runs off of both righty and lefty pitchers, which is pretty exciting. It was his second career multi-homer game, and the interesting thing about that is, this first one was a year ago, also versus Texas, and it, those that multi-hit game, those were his first and second home runs. He hit them both in the same game.
Pottymouth 11:59
That's crazy.
Patti 12:00
So, the both of the home runs hit this this week works very, very far. So the team's social media, the Royal Social Media pointed out that he hit 852 feet of home runs in two innings. So he's been streaky. He started out great at the beginning of the season, good April, May he regressed a little bit, and then the first half of June he's been terrific. Every, everything about his batting is better, and but the biggest part of improvement is even just the first two weeks of June, he's had the same number of walks as strikeouts, and prior to this, the strikeouts were so far outpacing the walks, that was bad. So, this is, this is the nice thing,
Pottymouth 12:41
they're so cheering for you,
Patti 12:43
there you go. So, Nick Kurtz, big Amish. Okay, do you know what the athletics did last week? I didn't realize this, no, right away. They played, actually, today is their last one. They were playing six games in Las Vegas,
Pottymouth 12:56
where
Patti 12:56
they in the AAA ballpark, Las Vegas ballpark, which is a triple A ballpark, so they were like, you know, doing a little preview. They were, they were the home team, they were the Las Vegas Athletics, playing in apparently what is quite a crappy AAA ballpark. So I'm saying this because I'm talking about Nick Kurtz, who is my, my athletics boyfriend this year, whose OPS was 1.37 this past week. There is a very snarky ESPN article about this visit that they made to Las Vegas, referring to the Las Vegas ballpark, the AAA ballpark as West Sacramento with more glitz, and the glitz included a different Nick, which is Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, throwing out the first pitch, they had a boxing ring announcer, Bruce Buffer, read the starting lineup, and so they got kind of like out of control with the Woohoo, or Vegas, or exciting, whatever, but also they did a good amount of kind of sucking up to the community, which is pretty important, they, the guys, and also the mascot, but the guys went to food banks, volunteered at food banks, they visited summer camps, they visited libraries, so they did some community outreach, so that's better, but back to this crazy ballpark, so apparently the balls fly out of this ballpark, but if they hit the ground, you don't know where the hell they're going to go, because the like the ground itself is like very unpredictable, but as far as the going into the sky counts, right? The first two games, the Athletics had a total of 12 home runs in those first two games alone, 1212, homers in two games. Franchise record tied the franchise record from 1996 Is
Pottymouth 14:39
that because they had dry air, I think, so altitude, right?
Patti 14:44
It's not altitude, it's dry air. Yeah, there, yeah. During the first four games out of the six, Nick Kurtz hit four home runs. He was on base 15 times for those four games. His ops was 1.641
Pottymouth 15:00
Welcome to Vegas, Nick Kurtz.
Patti 15:02
Right, but the biggest news was that fourth game, which was Friday. He had a 16th home run that went 471 feet, which is the longest MOB home run so far this season, 471 which is kind of gigantic. So, yeah, so there's some Vegas for you,
Pottymouth 15:22
that's some big for Big Amish, like that, that tracks pretty well. Yep, that's.. I don't know, it's just so weird to think about the team in Vegas, but it was really good to hear this, because I forget that people actually live around there, despite the fact that mr. Potty Mouse's cousin lives there, but you know, just especially with the with the new place on the strip, all I think about is tourists who don't really care about a home team, but if they can, you know, reach out to the community, like you're saying, there is a community there. Yeah,
Patti 15:51
no, I had friends that lived outside of Vegas, and there are neighborhoods, and all of those things exist there, but yeah, but they have to make that connection and have the new ballpark not be just as you said, just another thing on this trip that's a tourist location. Yeah, and
Pottymouth 16:04
the thing is, the people, though, who live there don't like going to the strip, so that's the other like. But if they like,
Patti 16:09
if they like sports, they'll go, yeah,
Pottymouth 16:11
yeah. All right. Power to the A's. They've been through a lot. Speaking of folks who have been through a lot, actually, I'm going to talk about a couple of my boyfriends this week, who had two home run games, and I was so excited, like bouncing excited, which I've been known to do, that my Red Sox boyfriend, Caleb Durbin, hit two home runs this past Wednesday against the Rays. Now, before this game, he had hit one all season, and his average was pretty pathetic below the Mendoza line. I really wish he had done something since then, because at that point he was like at 200 at Mendoza, and now he's like slightly below, but I'm still hopeful, because as I was talking about, I think it was last week, about his private tutoring adjustments seem to have been paying off. So this game was especially fun for him to hit two home runs. Well, I don't know, it gave you hope. And then they were dashed because the Red Sox ended up losing five to seven, but they were down zero to five in the top of the eighth inning, and he, his home run at the top of the eighth, spurred a four run inning rally. So it was like, okay, things are looking up, and then his home run at the top of the ninth would have tied it up, because they were down zero to five then, but Justin Slayton had given up two home runs, or two runs anyway, in the previous bottom of the inning, so too bad for the Red Sox. However, it seems to have gotten them on a better foot, so this was Wednesday. They didn't play Thursday, they've won Friday and Saturday. I'm totally cursing them right now because they haven't started playing yet today, but maybe they will win. So I was wondering, of course, is this because of his G swing that he was going through. This is the thank you. Thank you for that, for those of you who didn't listen last week, or whenever I talked about this, was apparently the Red Sox hitting coaches had not been doing Caleb Durbin Wright, so he tried on a G swing and got much better because of that. Well, this week, so I thought, okay, let's see what's G swing is doing this week. Social media bomb credit comes from Aaron Judge's personal hitting coach Richard Schenck. He posted on june 10 a before and after of Caleb Durbin, and the before was where I found him, where I got him. Watch the head MOB allowed this head movement, private instructor encouraged that head movement, so dising the G swing right there. He said I stopped that head movement, and you know, apparently that was right before the two home run game. So this guy Shank is taking full credit, he has a little bit of credit because he coaches Aaron Judge, for God's sake. But then, like, in the string on X, it's hysterical, because after, like, four posts, he says, "mr. Breslow, call me. So this is Greg Breslow, the general manager of the Red Sox. He puts his number and says, "You need me. Couple posts later, he said, "Call me, this could save your job. Oh my god, he was 100% right, right? Like, a core already got fired, and the Red Sox still sucks. So, who's next? And then apparently Reza didn't call him, so that said somebody tag John Henry, please. So that's the major owner of the Red Sox owning partnership. So the all of that to say that he actually helped Caleb Durbin last year, so did that not stick? Was it because Caleb hadn't been going back to him? I don't know, but there's a lot of disagree. I'm sure it's because G Sing
Patti 19:50
undid all of his good work, and he had to fix all that.
Pottymouth 19:53
Right, it's all mid G swing. Yvonne Herrera, my cardinal's boyfriend, I. Also had a two home run game this week, home run top of the first against the Twins just yesterday, on Saturday, and then he hit the go ahead versus the Twins in the top of the seventh, of course, versus Twins, same game, second multi Homer game of his career, and he is known as a power hitter, he's been on kind of a drought, so this is a really big deal that he is hitting home runs again. However, he's also hitting for average, so his skewed stats from this past week: 400 average 1336 ops. Then I've got a couple of boyfriends that I'm excited are bouncing back and might be able to find their way onto my fantasy league. Want to put in for already that would be Jacob Wilson back sooner than I thought with the A's, so I guess he had to go to Vegas. He was out with a sub laxated shoulder, subluxated, yeah, my pronunciation is great, subluxated shoulder since may 10, and at that point we talked about the difference between that and dislocated shoulder, because it was less of it, which means he got back sooner. However, on his MLB page it says dislocated shoulder, so I'm wondering what the doctor actually said. He got a walking and scored a run on his first game back, and then on Saturday he got a two RBI single in the first inning to set that tone for a seven five win over the Rockies, so his two RBI clearly key in that win. Excited to have Jason Jacob Wilson back, because I need a really hot shortstop. I don't really need a catcher, but I've been really intrigued on following Kyle Teal of the White Sox, because he was going to be my starting catcher until All Hell Went Root Loose. Yeah, All Hell Weber Loose, that's the way it goes, and he got that hamstring injury in the World Baseball Classic, and then he was almost back, and he got a knee injury during rehab in AAA last month. Now he was interviewed because it's looking close, the doctor has given him clear for the hamstring, almost clear for the knee, and according to Kyle Till himself, he said, quote, he's a fingernail's length away from returning. So I'm wondering, how long is whose fingernail is it? Which finger is it? Because, like, my pinky nail, much shorter than the thumbnail, so I don't know, is are we talking millimeters, are we talking people
Patti 22:17
who, you know, get glamorous manicures, or those who just have the utilitarian nails, I mean, there's really the what fingernail is not, not a good.. it's like the King's yard. What does it mean, really?
Pottymouth 22:26
Yeah, those fingernails, those extensions are serious, really. So, we'll see. Maybe this time next week I'll be saying, 'Hey, Kyle Till is back. The guy that I love and adore, and have not put on my roster because I'm just not feeling confident enough about his hitting, is Nes was still leading all stone bases at 25 ahead of Jose Ramirez, who I heard got injured, and so probably won't be stealing much bases in the near future. The exciting thing for Nunez at the time of recording knocking on everything is that he has started hitting a little bit. He is up to the Mendoza line, so he is out doing killing Derby, and these guys actually were neck and neck for the worst averages in MLB in the past 10 games over two weeks. He's hitting 269 hugely respectable for a guy who's been way below the 200 with the 604 OPS. I think the OPS situation is really interesting with Nunez, because it's low, because he's clearly barely getting on base, he's getting singles. However, it doesn't take into account his stealing bases, right? So, your ops takes into account multi-base hits, but it doesn't take into account a guy who does singles and steals a lot of bases. So, I feel like he is better than his numbers show. Yeah, Nasim, with a Washington Nationals. I didn't say my second beer, and at this beer, maybe we can make a picture afterwards, because it's really adorable. Patty can see it right now, it's a pig with headphones on, and it's clearly righteous, which is very appropriate for me from jailbreak, also appropriate for me, but I'm gonna open that and put it my chias mug. I got this cheers from Boston mug, very
Patti 24:06
nice, various. I'm actually, I'm drinking a model, especially because that's the house beer at the intern's home.
Pottymouth 24:12
It's also yay Mexico for the World Cup,
Patti 24:15
for sure. We have boyfriends from previous years that we still like to follow. They are former boyfriends. They are not the ex-boyfriends. The ex-boyfriends are the guys who have done something in the inner room that makes us like, no, no, you are not our friends anymore, but the ones we like, we still follow. So, a couple of former boyfriends, Freddie Freeman was my original Atlanta Hammer's boyfriend, of course. You know, he's on the Dodgers. He has been for many years now. On Tuesday, he had his 20/500 career hit.
Pottymouth 24:43
Oh, the
Patti 24:46
athletic did a piece on it, calling 2500 the new 3000 because it's going to be damn near impossible to get to 3000 anymore.
Pottymouth 24:53
And Freddie,
Patti 24:55
there's a little background on that. I don't know that he wants to stay around that long. He's got his. Fourth kid, he wants to, like, you know, raise some kids,
Pottymouth 25:03
yeah. And one of his kids has had those serious health problems. So,
Patti 25:06
yeah, so Mickey Cabrera retired after 2023 with 3174 hits. Right at the time, there were no other active players with 3000 hits, or even 2500 hits when he retired, so it's been two years, so Freddie is the first guy to even get up to 2500 after those two full seasons with nobody in that area, right? So, who's coming up? Jose Altuve, who's also 36 that's what Freddie Freeman is 36 is 70 hits away, right? That's possible. Manny Machado is behind him. He's only 33 years old. He is 390 hits away, with seven years left on his contract. So,
Pottymouth 25:53
maybe
Patti 25:54
possible, but not probable. And those are like the next two closest.
Pottymouth 25:58
Wow, so
Patti 25:59
this is it seems like over time it's harder and harder to reach these big old numbers,
Pottymouth 26:05
that's that's totally wild. So, like, a couple things. One, I want to ask about seeing Manny today. How was he received at Camden Yard?
Patti 26:13
So, interesting. Okay, so here, this, this surprised me. So, I watched the game Friday night, it was the ESPN game, people were welcoming him back with cheer. I mean, he was there for seven or eight years, right? He's there for a very long time,
Pottymouth 26:27
and he's also young. Yeah,
Patti 26:30
he's also been gone for a long time. But those who are, you know, we old people remember him, and he was very popular, and for a very long time. And there's always Machado T-shirts with, you know, Orioles T-shirts at the yard. So people clapped for him. They cheered for him. They gave him warm welcomes today, which is the third game with Against the Padres. And remember, was that before, right? It was Diary of a Wimpy Kid day, right? So it's family day, so there are more kids, there are more parents with children in the ballpark. People were booing, booing
Pottymouth 27:04
many, because what
Patti 27:06
he.. because he's not an oral anymore, I guess, or they're afraid that he's gonna, like, you know, hit well. Well, he hasn't been hitting very well. He did, he was sporadic, he did, he did over the three days, he did sporadically, but it was weird, like, what was the difference between Friday night and today, and you think people would be better behaved in front of small children. Certainly, we are.
Pottymouth 27:25
Yeah,
Patti 27:26
right. And so I don't know what the heck was up with that.
Pottymouth 27:29
That's that's kind of wild. I mean, I'd understand him being booed at Fenway or by me, who holds grudges forever and ever, but not by the Orioles faithful. And though it's a.. here's number two. Speaking of Manny, so we usually have a, you say Manny, I say Kikkie thing, or I say usually I talk about Kiki way too much, and so you say Manny did sort of balance that, same as though you know I'm not too keen on Manny Machado. However, the Kik and the Freddy together, have you seen the Wheel of Fortune with Kiki, Freddy, and Vigo Burjas? Everybody, if you haven't seen it, run to whatever service you can find it on on the internet, because it is fucking hysterical. It's so, so, so good. The three of them are amazing, and actually I think it's through Wheel of Fortune Instagram. There's also some really cute videos of the three of them beforehand on a little golf cart, and prepping for it, but it's all sorts of funny, it's all sorts of funny, and the I don't want to give any spoilers about what actually happens, but beforehand, Kik, when Kik was asked who's gonna win, he's like Freddy, better win, because he's the only one who's English as his first language.
Patti 28:39
Why does that exist? I mean, what do we know? Why this? It was a celebrity
Pottymouth 28:43
wheel of fortune, and they record in LA, and so they were like, let's get some Dodgers, and who better? And they picked the three of them because of their pivotal roles in winning the World Series last year. You know, huge, huge role. The three of them together, though, they're clearly buddies, but mr. Freddie Freeman, you know, the friendliest first baseman, is so fucking polite. Like, may I please buy a vowel? May I please? Like, he's just so.. oh my god, I love him so much. Good guy, good guy.
Patti 29:14
Another longtime former boyfriend of mine, Jordan Alvarez, I picked for Houston in 2021 Friday night. I don't know if you saw the score, but Houston and Kansas City had, like, football scores happening, including a ridiculous first inning, Houston over Kansas City. Yeah, so your Nelbros hits a grand slam and a two-run home run in the first inning,
Pottymouth 29:36
both in the first inning,
Patti 29:39
both in the first inning. I think the two in Homer was first, and then the Grand Slam was like two outs in the in the first inning. He finished three for five for the day. Okay, so since RBI became a thing, it became a stat that got followed, that was 1920 Only Jordan Alvarez and David Ortiz in 2008 have hit two homers and recorded six RBI. In a first inning,
Pottymouth 30:01
wow, I love me some big poppy.
Patti 30:05
Right, so currently Alvarez is tied with Cal Schwarber for league leading 24 home runs, and with Aaron Judge out, all of a sudden the MVP race is a little different now for the American League. So your Nalvaris has got a real shot at this. Bobby Witt is kind of his only competition with, like, these big numbers right now, but, like, with aggressive one Homer and six RBI and one, you sort of start making a name for yourself. So I'm curious to see how that goes, but he's definitely on the top of a lot of lists for looking at the MVP risk,
Pottymouth 30:41
plus those biceps, man,
Patti 30:43
for sure,
Pottymouth 30:43
crazy. All right, I'm really hoping that this recording goes well, because I'm getting warnings that you're not focused, and I'm struggling, and I'm wondering if that's just like some sort of.. it's like a mental state, or is that a..
Patti 30:55
yeah,
Pottymouth 30:56
I don't know. I think I'm both on the regular. So, for my former baseball boyfriends, my guy from 2018 we've been doing this for so long. My pick for Toronto 2018 was Josh Donaldson, and he is retired. He retired in March 2024 Can I stop you for one second? Because you
Patti 31:15
said about Toronto, he's one of the guys that hit the 500 level in the Rogers Center,
Pottymouth 31:19
that tracks that figures, okay, good, totally figures. I mean, he was, he was a AO MVP in 2015 of course. I picked him slightly after his prime, but still a pretty good year. So he signed for one day with a local beer softball team that that plays an hour north of Toronto. Now this is a beer league. This is like your neighborhood dudes who like get together, have a beer, and play softball. They did the official one day signing, just sort of.. they did a
Patti 31:50
signing. That's my question. They didn't actually.. he had to sign something to play with,
Pottymouth 31:55
apparently. I think it was part of them telling the rest of the league that this isn't going to go on, and maybe just, you know, getting them there and saying this is all you're doing one day, so I have, so this is awesome. Also, the name of the team is the Brew Jays, so he shows up with his Blue Jays uniform with a camera crew, and he plays the whole fucking nine innings with these softball beer guys. How did they get him on just a whim? One of them was like, let's DM them, and their team was super struggling, and continues to struggle. They still lost the game, besides him playing like he hit a home run, he fielded half of the half of the defense, and they lost 12 to nine. So there's a struggling beer league, but they had the guts to just like say, "What the fuck? I'm gonna send him a DM. He answered, they settled on a date, and he showed up, like that, which is, you know, I love to say, like, a salve move. Like, I remember Salvador Perez just stopping by and playing with Wiffle ball with the kids in the neighborhood, but this is pretty fucking cool. The Brew, the Brew Jays, so
Patti 33:01
I want there to be, and, and, and also he took them all out to a sports bar afterwards. I mean, I really want that to be like the happy ending at it, but I love this. I love this so much.
Pottymouth 33:11
Maybe, maybe we're not like privy to all the details.
Patti 33:16
Maybe part of that signing was an NDA. Who knows? Yeah,
Pottymouth 33:19
right.
Patti 33:20
Who knows. Okay, so I don't know why we haven't talked about Jacob Misrawski of Milwaukee, but we can't not talk about Miz any longer after this past Friday. This past Friday was a game, a pitching performance for the ages, right? So Friday was the one year anniversary of his major league debut, exactly one year he threw a Maddox. That's crazy. He threw a Maddox, which is a complete game shutout under 100 pitches, right? His Maddox, however, was only 95 pitches. There was one hit and 15 strikeouts. This is a record for the 15 Ks. It's a record for a Maddox, and it's mrs. Personal best. He also, even with the one hit, only faced the minimum because he gave up a hit to Schwarber. I'm going to talk about Schwarber a lot today. How weird. And then got him out on a double play, so the double play basically erased the hit, so he still only faced the minimum number of batters. He also threw all nine innings, never went to a three ball count. He almost never went to a two ball count.
Speaker 1 34:35
Insane,
Patti 34:36
he threw in the first inning the fastest pitch ever recorded by a starting pitcher, 104.5 miles per hour.
Pottymouth 34:46
I don't understand how that's humanly possible, and I hope his arm is okay. Like, holy, I just can't consider the ninth
Patti 34:53
inning. In the ninth inning, he was still throwing 103.19 Innings later, I am waiting for his arm to come right out of the socket prior to this full like complete game shut out. He had never pitched past the seventh inning in 27 major league starts, so he never never gone that far in a game. He said later, he said, when I walked out for the ninth, my whole body shivered, and the adrenaline really kicked in. How cool is that?
Pottymouth 35:30
I, he's 24 years old, like that's.. I really, really hope he has great strength and conditioning coaching, because he's got to like keep that up, although you know, like, look at Chris Sale, is a similar, like, there's a tall Nike dude, right? So Sale has had his bumps, but he's also having an amazing year now in his old age.
Patti 35:52
So, like, this game was so notable while it was going on, it was distracting other people from their day jobs. For instance, as I mentioned, the Orioles San Diego game was on ESPN, so I'm watching not the local guys, although one of the local guys, Kevin Brown, was in fact the play-by-play guy for the ESPN thing, but but also it, David Ross was on it, and Adam Oviedo was was on it. They kept stopping talking about the game in front of them to say, "Wait, are you seeing this? Are you seeing what's happening here? That's how notable it was, like distracting everybody else, because this has never happened before. And who's who knows if it'll happen again? It's just amazing.
Pottymouth 36:30
Well, maybe one of us will be having the brews for our pitching squad for next year.
Patti 36:36
Yeah, boy, I'm hoping our timing works out on our road trip. Let me just say some pictures I would love to see.
Pottymouth 36:41
Oh my god, that would be amazing. That would be so amazing. All right, stay tuned, folks. I apologies in advance. I'm about to spend too much time on a sport that's not baseball, but I feel like it's because I'm not actually talking about the sport of soccer or football to the rest of the world, more following a lot of little stories that we've talked about over the past few weeks, but also these are themes that affect international sports, so sports, when you're dealing with players from different countries, which, of course, you know MLB is, and then also we love the World Baseball Classic, international tournaments are really important, and so I think we need to keep an eye on these really shitty developments that have happened with this iteration of the World Cup, and you know that these scandals aren't new to FIFA. FIFA as an organization sucks, but people's passion for the sport of soccer, football is intense all over the world, and I saw an article recently about how we can still love the game even though we hate the organization. It's I feel like it's sort of like with a lot of our teams, like me with the Red Sox right now, you can still feel connected to the team but be pissed as hell as the ownership, and FIFA is just like that on steroids. So the big deal with the tournament in the United States is this country isn't really friendly to foreigners these days, and we've got bans on people traveling here and getting visas and shit like that. So, there's a full ban on three countries that are participating in the World Cup, and that would be Iran, Iraq, and Haiti. So, I haven't seen anything specific on Haiti, but Iran, as far as you know, their official media, which is also kind of sketchy, but still claims between 12 and 15 visa denials, depending on who you're looking at, and those are folks who are involved with the team. So part of this deal was, okay, the players can come, but there's a lot of entourage around that. So, what about the coaches? What about the press? What about the photographers? What about the fans? So, in the World Cup, I just found out that fan bases actually get 8% of the tickets to their match get offered to the fan bases for those countries. Iran's 8% were taken back from FIFA, and nobody is like claiming blame to that, so their fans, they were didn't want to try to get them pieces here, because it was, it wasn't gonna happen anyway, right? But there's
Patti 39:10
when they revoke those fan tickets that go back to the host country to themselves, yeah, anybody else that's not, wow,
Pottymouth 39:18
back to the general pool of fucking overpriced tickets for Iraq, their main player, their striker was held for seven hours upon arrival to this country with interrogation, was finally let go, is playing for Iraq, but he said afterwards, Why is the United States hosting if it's so hostile to foreign nationals? Good, no shit, no shit,
Patti 39:42
good question. Who approved this? Well, buddies of the fascist and cheap approved this.
Pottymouth 39:46
Yeah, and you can see a lot of side by side videos between players coming into the US and players coming into, like, Mexico and Canada, where Mexico and Canada is like all this celebration, look, these teams are arriving, and US, it's like, all right, straight to the like shakedown, and the. Check these guys out, it's so freaking scary. So, on top of those full bands, we know that lots of countries are having other obstacles coming in. You know, there's just the general, like, hard to get a visa thing, but our fascist in chief has created a $15,000 travel visa bond program, theoretically, to stop folks who overstay their travel visas. So, if you pay $15,000 you can, as a bond, you can come in on a travel visa, and that includes the following World Cup countries. So, these are countries that are playing in the World Cup: Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Tunisia, so they also got the 8% fan thing, and you know, this is like these are folks who have means, right, they're traveling from these countries, they're paying these exorbitant prices for tickets, but on top of that, they get to pay another $15,000 they are only exempted from those $15,000 so there was this whole like, okay, for the World Cup, we got to do something different, but they had to have bought their tickets before April 15 and opted in for FIFA's quote priority appointment scheduling system, the FIFA pass, and that pass only prioritizes your interview, meaning that you get like sped up for going through the visa process, but it doesn't guarantee any any success with the visa process, so fun stuff there. Another country on the travel ban that's not playing in the World Cup, but is affected by this, and I mentioned this really briefly last week, because it happened right before we recorded, is Somalia. Omar Artung was denied entry last Saturday night in Miami, and he, he's a referee, so he was one of the 52 worldwide exclusively chosen lead refs who was supposed to be, you know, working for the World Cup. He was detained for 11 hours in the Miami airport. I can't even imagine how hellish that is. Like, I get freaked out if I have a layover for two hours. Right? He said I had the right papers and everything. I had the right visa, no good. So, the first like reactions was, well, Canada and Mexico will let him in, but that wasn't going to work, because all of the refs had to train in Miami before going to the games, and they needed that consistent training, so the United States cited betting concerns, and said, quote, they suspected association with suspected members of terror organizations. Unclear about this. I mean, this, this guy is is an elite referee. This is a worldwide organization with, with amazing, you know, very strict regulations. The head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, said, quote, maybe sometimes it's good as well to chill, relax, like basically saying everybody's getting so worked up about this visa stuff, we just have to chill. So we'll link to that article, because then he got a lot of, you know, push back on that, and he clarified that he didn't mean chill means do nothing, it just means that we shouldn't be so stressed out about these issues that we should take them in a relaxed kind of, how the fuck do you stay relaxed after these guys are getting detained in airports for seven and 11 hours, I don't know, and then there's the pricing thing, of course. So, side note, though, sometimes denying entry is a good thing, and Canada is denying entry to the captain of the Ghana team, Thomas Parte, because he is currently facing seven counts of rape and one count of sexual assault by four different women between the years of 2020 and 2022 because of his fame with soccer, the trial has been this week, we saw this with Wander Franco, it can take fucking forever if you have enough money, delay things right now. His trial is delayed conveniently until 2027 so that means that he is missing game one against Panama in Toronto this Wednesday. But wait, it gets better.
Pottymouth 44:13
Ghana is not on those US lists of visa bans or even bonds, so therefore the United States said it's okay for him to come play here, so the United States said, quote, the State Department, this is fucking mind-blowing. They're aware of the pending court claims, court case. However, at this time, he has not been convicted of a crime and was admitted to the United States after being issued a visa, so he could play in Boston or Foxboro, really, on june 23 and in Philadelphia on june 27 and if that happens, I don't know. Holy fuck, it's that you know you're not guilty until you're proven guilty, but there is..
Patti 44:56
this is such a weird sliding scale about this applies to you. You, oh, this doesn't apply to you. You're fine. No, this applies to you, because I want it to apply to you. There's no system here. This is just made-up crap.
Pottymouth 45:08
It's super fucked up. It's just that's just disgusting. That's just disgusting with that many counts. I mean, I understand the system, but this is a privilege to play in the World Cup. It's not saying that he goes to jail. It's saying that this is a credible charge against him. Maybe he shouldn't be playing in the World Cup. You know who is getting limited is the press. So the International Sports Press Association, International Press Association has been complaining to FIFA that, shocker, Iranian and African press members have not been given visas, or they're being given single entry visas, which means they get to come in once, but that doesn't work if you have three countries sponsoring the World Cup, because that doesn't mean that they can go US to Canada, US to Mexico. It doesn't work for the way the World Cup is set up. Their president, Gianni Merlo, said, quote, the cases are countless, and I repeat, unacceptable. Politicians always say that sport unites and builds bridges between young people in countries in conflict, but in this case, we're going in the opposite direction. And isn't that what it's all about?
Speaker 2 46:18
I want to go back to that earlier statement about why the heck is the US allowed to host. Yes,
Pottymouth 46:24
yes,
Patti 46:25
if you can't make this work for the people you know are going to be participating, this is not a surprise. If you cannot make this work, you are not eligible to host. That should be a very simple hurdle that you have to be able to jump over. If you can't make this work, you are not. You should not be allowed to host. Yeah,
Pottymouth 46:47
and that's been like so many folks are saying exactly that over and over. And one thing I saw, like at the tail end today, that I should have verified is that a country actively at war is not supposed to host. I think that's true, and you know, so there's that. There's that. Another thing that the United States is imposing on soccer is commercials, because that's the American way, and a lot of folks say that's why soccer hasn't taken off as much as other sports in this country, is because of the lack of opportunity for commercial breaks. Well, in December, FIFA came up with a new rule for hydration breaks, and it was couched in the way that World Cup is happening in the summer. We've got really hot places, these guys, we protect those players, right? They need to hydrate. So, what's happening is these hydration breaks have to happen, whether or not people need hydrating, whether or not they're playing in, say, a covered stadium or in cool weather, and they're giving those breaks to commercials, and already it is affected momentum, like once when a team going on a run, and then you got to take the hydration break, so you got to stop up, is affected people watching, so sometimes the commercials don't end soon enough, and you miss a couple minutes of play as a viewer. It's totally, totally screwed up. The one like shining light here is Univision, which is not putting ads into hydration breaks. They're treating them like soccer has always been treated with hydration breaks, which means it's time to check out what's going on in the players. Look at the crowd, like it's three minutes, you can. It's not a big deal. They can do other things rather than break for commercials, so that kind of sucks. A couple more political notes: one is Haiti had to change their jersey because of imperialism, so they were told that they couldn't have their original design because it was a political statement. The statement was a group of folks raising the flag during the Haitian independence. Now, Haiti is, I think, the only, the only country that was that was formed after a successful slave rebellion could be people who were enslaved, sorry, that was the wrong term. So people who were enslaved in Haiti rebelled and became free, and this is a huge, you know, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist statement, and for them to want to celebrate that on the front of their soccer jersey should be allowed, I would think, but it was deemed too political. Now you're going to love this side story about this, because Polish people are involved as heroes. So I had no clue, but at this time, so we're talking early 1800s 1802 to 1804 I think was the revolution, 1803 was the this picture of the final battle Poland at that point did not have independence, and apparently was trying, folks were trying to win favor with Napoleon, and so Napoleon sent 5000 Polish troops to Haiti to put down this rebellion. When the Polish troops got there. And saw what was going on in Haiti. They did not put down the rebellion. In fact, they supported the enslaved folks who are fighting for independence. So, in the Haitian Constitution, the.. and I don't know if this still tracks, but at that time, anyway, Polish folks had Haitian citizenship. That's amazing. Yeah, I mean, Haiti now is a complete fucking mess, but you know that's that's yay for the Polish folks who went there and did the right thing, and so that, and even the athletic got this wrong. I like looked at a whole bunch of different articles, the flag that they were raising on the front of that shirt was a Polish flag, really. Yeah, yeah, so
Patti 50:42
there's so many layers here. This is an onion of a story. It's a
Pottymouth 50:45
crazy, crazy story. And the players wore it. I mean, the players feel strongly about this shirt. They wore it in one of the warm-up matches, you know, the pre-world cup matches, then when they were playing Peru, who's not in the World Cup last week. So power to the Polish folks for supporting the Haitian Revolution, but,
Patti 51:04
but Haiti was told you cannot use this jersey.
Pottymouth 51:07
Yeah,
Speaker 1 51:08
no,
Pottymouth 51:08
yeah, so they can't wear it for the World Cup, which I like. That's mind-blowing. Can you imagine, like, if the United States had something about the American Revolution on their jersey? Do you think anybody would bat an eye? No,
Patti 51:20
no, because wow, that's such a good story, right? We're America 250 baby,
Pottymouth 51:24
yeah, yeah, we
Patti 51:25
have, we have cage matches celebrated America to safety, you can't tell us we can't put a revolutionary
Pottymouth 51:30
war thing on
Patti 51:30
our jerseys,
Pottymouth 51:31
so much better. All right, I have a couple quick, hopefully quick more things, I've been talking about Mexico and the protests going on in Mexico about the World Cup, apparently things are going on in Mexico. The matches are happening, but Claudia Scheinbaum, in a very Mamdani-esque sort of move, said that the prices determined by FIFA are just too high, and she didn't feel like it was responsible of her to take advantage of that and go to her VIP booth at the match for opening day in Mexico. She said, as president, it's better that I give my place to someone who couldn't have gone, who loves football, especially a young woman, and I can celebrate it with the people for free. So she actually went to a watch party, so she had a contest where people submitted videos to earn this VIP presidential ticket, and it went to Yolette Cervantes, wait, Cuaca, I think that's it. Who sent in a video of her juggling a football in her full sort of native traditional clothing from Veracruz, and it goes on and on, and she juggles, and she spins. She is so good. The Dodgers recently published a social media thing of who could juggle the longest, and Andy Paques was awesome. He got like 40. She puts that to shame. She is better than any of the Dodgers. She found out that she won when she was working in the fields with her mother, so it's a little bit unclear if Shine Bam was maybe also avoiding the opportunity to get booed because of all the protests that we talked about last week that are going on around Mexico, so she didn't want to be there, but she did it in a really classy way that you know made it special for somebody, as opposed to our fascist in chief, who, when he skipped the opener in LA, and we know that he likes sporting events. I mean, he went to the Knicks, he's doing the cage fighting. He decided to skip opening the opening game in LA for the US. He sent little Marco Rubio, Secretary of Transportation Mark Duffy, Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullins, fabulous guys, who did go to the game, and met, and Rubio met with the Paraguayan President Santiago Pena. The big story with that is actually the United States surprisingly won, and won in probably the best game that the US men have played. No, men, women have played amazing games in the World Cup. The men have not done so well, but they did very well in this game. So, we'll see how far they go, and then I'm going to end on a happy. There are six women refereeing in the World Cup. There are 170 total referees, but six of them are female. They're all from North America, Central America, or the Caribbean Conocof, which is the unit of the qualification for this area of the world. Two of them are lead referees, so there were 52 of them, minus the guy from Somalia, now 51 So two of them are women, and so the other four are, I think, three are assistant, and one is the video referee, which is a special role last World Cup in 2022 in Qatar, there were actually five women, so pretty close, three of them were lead and two were assistant, so from 22 to now has been a minor, maybe. Improvement, which isn't as impressive when you consider that in 2022 there were 139 refs, and now there are 170 so they added 31 more refs, but only one more woman, so that
Patti 55:14
percentage is not working. Yeah, favor there. Yeah,
Pottymouth 55:17
well, at least we have some women in there, and it's I don't know, you gotta have hope, so I know,
Patti 55:23
I know, the bar is so low, we're celebrating, because it's true, that's really cool, and yet, oh my god,
Pottymouth 55:29
exactly.
Patti 55:31
All right, when someone tells you they get married at a courthouse, what do you picture
Pottymouth 55:36
a couple of folks, maybe their parents, maybe just a friend, and the justice of peace in five minutes,
Patti 55:44
five minutes, kind of casual, you know. So David Rubenstein, owner, lead owner of the Baltimore Orioles, got married to Karen Zucker a week ago, Friday. Wow, courthouse, how might be courthouse
Pottymouth 55:58
a bazillionaire, isn't he?
Patti 56:00
Yes, he is the courthouse. However, was the Supreme Court the Supreme Court, and it was officiate, officiated by the Chief Justice General. All
Pottymouth 56:08
right. Well, there goes the bazillionaire.
Patti 56:11
Apparently, it was pretty low key, as far as you know, in the vein, I guess. You, if you take it low key, and then just, you know, drop it into the Supreme Court, but the photographer, who was actually a friend of both, you know, both David Riverside and Karen Zucker, he was sort of the official photographer, that it was so low key that he didn't realize it was a wedding until 15 minutes in. Now, good for them. I wonder if they have a prenup.
Speaker 2 56:40
Um, she's, she's pretty powerful on her own. I imagine that they do, but best wishes. Go get them.
Pottymouth 56:48
Absolutely,
Speaker 2 56:49
I'm going to end with something that will bring out that only potty mouth that my in a 12 year old.
Pottymouth 56:54
It doesn't take much.
Patti 56:57
The athletic investigative reporting on why catchers are getting hit in the groin so often.
Pottymouth 57:03
Oh dear,
Patti 57:04
these days the short answer is catchers have adopted that one knee stance, right, instead of, you know, going down into crouch, and so it exposes a little more to
Pottymouth 57:17
interesting,
Patti 57:18
but I'm gonna like link to this, so you can read it yourself, because the article is kind of hilarious if you are not a catcher yourself and don't have the parts that are involved in the descriptions, because the long answer includes phrases like Who hit you with a sledgehammer, inner thigh quad in nut shots, guys are keeling over, and hex on his family jewels.
Pottymouth 57:43
Oh, wow.
Patti 57:44
So, please enjoy reading this, which is a very, very scientific, you know, investigative report into why catchers are being hit in the groin.
Pottymouth 57:52
Yeah, I, you know, I would do, they have like special catcher cups, like steel plateds. They
Patti 57:57
do, they do, they have very the names with great puns. You'll learn that also in this story. They're also often illustrated. Oh, wow, like little decorations on them, so that you will also learn by reading this article. So, yeah, so that's my little treat, treat for you.
Pottymouth 58:14
That's great. I will definitely check that out, and look up my favorite catchers, and I'm glad that they have special protection, because I'm trying to remember who it was, but the Red Sox, whatever, announcer recently was, was amazed about somebody who chose not to wear a cup. Like, how can you possibly play like that? What are you thinking? One
Patti 58:36
of the points made in this article was like that the protective cups don't reduce the pain, they just reduce the hospital visits. Oh
Pottymouth 58:45
dear,
Patti 58:47
so there's that.
Pottymouth 58:48
Wow, I remember the testicular torsion, that was like one of our very early, early episodes with Beltre. I'm pretty sure, yeah. Go back, go way back in the time machine, folks.
Patti 59:00
Oh my god. Okay, so like we've got this week coming up, and you know, so Potty Mouth is retiring, and Potty Mouth has been using the name Potty Mouth for a couple of reasons, but one is to stay anonymous because of her day job. So, Potty Mouth, what's gonna happen when you retire?
Pottymouth 59:16
I don't know, I guess I have like no nothing to lose, so we did our squad shot for this week, and I didn't put.. I mean, I usually have really a classy disguise of sunglasses and a beer in the middle of my face, like what could go wrong there? But this week's squat shot is my full smile, so I think that I'm no longer completely incognito, but I think that for the show potty mouth, like that's I'm used to iteration, is
Patti 59:47
still our friend. Yeah, I can see your whole face now. If there's a beer in front of your face, it's because you're drinking it, not because you're hiding.
Pottymouth 59:52
And actually, that when I was posing with the with the two guys from the pacemakers at the Cyclones, I was holding up a beer. It, and one of the guys put his rainbow fan in front of my beer, and I was like, "Oh no, that's okay, like the beer, and I'm okay with holding the beer.
Patti 1:00:09
That's pretty funny. Oh my gosh, okay. So we've been working on our epic road trip, and finally you were able to complete a very important set for us this week.
Pottymouth 1:00:18
Oh my god, folks, run to the Women's Professional Baseball League website and get your single game tickets now. We got ours from august 19 and 20th, so if you can fit those dates into your travel plans, that would be super, super fun. We are going to be in the fifth row behind on plate, and I am so stinking excited for these games, and there's, you know, follow them online, because there's so much joy, there's so much excitement, and I am thrilled, thrilled, thrilled that we're going to be there.
Patti 1:00:52
Yay, I can't wait to finish up our planning. We're so close, yeah, so close. I'm so excited about this. So, again, our friends out there, if you have tips for us at the various ballparks that we're going, or the cities we're going to stay in, especially now, for sure, we're going to Springfield, Illinois. Tell us, tell us some places to go, neighborhoods to stay in, bars to try. What's your favorite brewery there? What's the special food out of place? Please share this information with us on social media. Party month, where can they find us?
Pottymouth 1:01:18
We need to know. Tell us on Blue Sky NCI B podcast. Well, so check those Twitter messages, Facebook, and Instagram, and No Crying and B Ball. But if you like Julie, want to make sure that this podcast keeps going, there is one and only one way to do that, and that is to go to our Patreon page, P A T R E O n.com/no Crying and B Ball, and for a buck a month for intro, and really like our high end is $5 like this is so affordable, folks, and it's because we believe in the multitudes doing a little bit, and it makes stuff happen, and it is making things happen. And then now that I'm retiring, oh my god, my next podcast going to be retired, this is so fucked up, but I'm gonna have more time to think about putting more fun stuff on Patreon. It's a really good way to contact us, and yeah, please, please give it a shot.
Patti 1:02:10
Yay, yay! So be like Patty, the party mouth that goes through some live baseball, fight the man. It is the right thing to do. Send your gay balls to Meredith, and until next week, say goodbye now.
Pottymouth 1:02:21
Good night. Bye now.
Patti 1:02:40
About putting the Bible back, because I don't need it anymore,
Pottymouth 1:02:42
right? So, wait, what was the Bible on top of?
Patti 1:02:45
It was on top of decolonizing methodologies, and it was below fundamentals of labor arbitration.