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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 465 of No Crying in Baseball, the Which Fans Don't You Want episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth. Hey Pottymouth,
Pottymouth 0:26
hey there. How's it going?
Patti 0:28
It's going okay.
Pottymouth 0:29
I like your shirt.
Patti 0:30
Thank you. I'm wearing my, my Pride jersey, which was the giveaway Friday night from the Orioles Pride Night, which was lovely. It was a super fun night. They do a really nice job at that ballpark. They have a lot of visuals, like all the flags are changed in the flag court. There were signage all the way up on the on the warehouse. There were things on the field, so you know, things rotating through on the video board and highlighting people like on the video board who were celebrating Pride with, you know, signs or flags or just the jerseys or whatever, and they invited, like, that a guest, a guest splasher for the splash stone, who was Heidi in closet. She was lovely, and so that was fun. And so they really did incorporate the theme pretty well throughout. So I will say they did, towards the end of the night, they started showing, you know, all the shirtless preteens doing the like tarps off stuff, and I think they spent too much time on them, because it wasn't tarps off night, it was pride night. Yeah, and maybe I mean one could say that there is a shirtless man aspect to pride activities often, but not those guys. Yeah, that's not who those guys were. Yeah, so no thanks, and they've gotten
Pottymouth 1:38
enough attention, like they're getting plenty, plenty of it. They were getting a little bit more
Patti 1:41
air time than was required, I think, for a night that wasn't about them.
Pottymouth 1:44
Yeah,
Patti 1:45
but other than that, the night was very good. And I will say, you know, Pete Alonso has been using Money for Nothing as his walk-up song, which has been stuck in my head for weeks. But then they, then they, they played Queen Don't Stop Me Now, and I was like, okay, that's that's replaced the ear worm, so thank you, Pride Night, for taking care of one ear worm with another one that I can go with for a couple of weeks.
Pottymouth 2:09
Did they have that audience vote for the song of the, yeah, that was Dancing Queen, of course. Oh, that's awesome, which,
Patti 2:14
you know, there were a fair number of us who, in fact, did dance and know all the words too, and that was actually played at my wedding. I was introduced as the dance, the introduction of the bride was essentially an orchestral version of Dancing Queen, so it was very, very funny. That's class. Everyone was like looking and looking, all of a sudden started snickering. I know what this is,
Pottymouth 2:31
so good. Yeah. Oh, that sounds lovely. And I'm impressed that they integrated so many things on that jersey, like that. They've got the color from the old City Connect, well, plus the Pride Co, plus the B from the new City Connect, plus the Pride flag, Progress Pride flag on that sleeve. It's well, yeah,
Patti 2:48
it's really very nicely done. So, I was pretty excited about that.
Pottymouth 2:51
That's so good.
Patti 2:52
Yes.
Pottymouth 2:52
Well, you had a better weekend than I, which I mean, we went to one funeral memorial service together yesterday. I had another one today, and I was at the detention center on Friday, and I just wanted to say a couple words about that, because I want to remind folks that we have detention centers with innocent people of the in them all over this country, and if you don't know somebody, or if you're not directly involved, you might not see it, but the people who are in these centers are all kinds of people, young, old, different genders from different countries, and what they have in common is the great majority of them have zero criminal record, and they're being held too long. And what I realized from my volunteer opportunity on Friday, now I'm not allowed to talk about the name of the organization I went with nor specific cases. If anybody's interested, please contact me offline, and I would love to chat about it. Do
Patti 3:46
you want to say specifically these are immigrant detention centers? This is very specific, it's not just jail, generally. Exactly. Yeah,
Pottymouth 3:54
yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah, immigration detention centers, most of which you can't get into, so that's why this organization is so careful to not talk too much about what they're doing, because they want to continue to have the access, but I walked out with two kind of general ideas that are sticking with me that I think are fine to say publicly. One is the system has changed, so that people are being detained for longer periods of time than last time I did this volunteer gig, basically all the applications that used to be one step are now two steps, and the whole purpose is to keep people detained longer, so that the private companies that are running these centers are making more money, so that is super, super shitty, and the other thing that I learned is the judges who have all been fired, so immigration judges who are administrative have been fired by the current, you know, fascist in chief administration, and the judges, at least in this district, who are replacing those judges are completely unqualified, coming from areas that are not immigration backgrounds and are all white men, and I said something to. One of the lawyers, like, oh, well, that's, you know, clearly a trend all around, and she was like, no, no, they're all literally all of them are white men, so it seems that, you know, the anti-DEI crowd basically believes that if you're not a white man, you're not qualified for the job.
Patti 5:17
Dang,
Pottymouth 5:18
yeah,
Patti 5:18
dang. And can I interrupt this public service announcement to say, listeners have often heard me say, Patti Math, you're my hero, but this is another time where I want to say that, because you are spending, you know, you are newly retired, this is your free time, summer vacation has begun, and you were doing this when it was only summer vacation, too, not I'm retired and I have more time, and you are spending your time driving hours away to go to a detention center to spend hours there to help people who really need the help, and I appreciate that about you so much.
Pottymouth 5:44
Well, that's.. I feel like that's why I wanted to say something out loud to you all, because I feel like I did it to keep it in my brain, you know what I mean? I like to see it, to bear witness, yeah, be able to tell other people about my experience. So, if anybody wants to hear more, please get in touch with us. Yep, one way you can do it is on Patreon, which we'll talk about at the end of the show. And our new one of our new Patreon pals, Julie, gave us her two cents to stay on the air. So, if you join our Patreon at a very reasonable rate of $5 a month, you get to have us say whatever you would like. It can be something nice about the Yankees, but Julie ends up being a Cubs fan, so Julie says, "Go, Cubs, go, and I think, like many other folks, for every team except for Detroit, says, "Please trade for Scooble. So, if Google goes to the Cubs next year, Julie, you can thank me, because I put it out there on the airwaves, and I'm sure that you know, I
Patti 6:36
don't think she wants next year, I think she wants the trade deadline, I think she wants July, yeah, which is going to screw my, you know, fantasy team, but that's okay, Julie. Because welcome. All
Pottymouth 6:44
right, there we go. Patty's following. I'm in seventh place
Patti 6:48
anyway. Even, even school can't, can't save me.
Pottymouth 6:50
Gosh, I am such a negligent manager.
Patti 6:53
On today's show, we've got boyfriends featuring triumphant returns, crosstown trades, not quite Iron Men, and some Yankees hate, but not by us. We've got the earthquake in Venezuela, and MLB's response to that. We've got Pride and Prejudice, the sequel. We've got more World Cup cross training, and a very good dog. Cheers. Hey, we're drinking yummy smoked beer.
Pottymouth 7:16
Yes, this one has been imported from New York, so we brought it back from Brooklyn. It's I drank it, I think I drank it last week, or maybe the week before. No, I drank it two weeks ago. So we're actually doing the smoked beer drink off right now. So we're drinking As the World Burns, and I don't remember the name of the brewery, but it's in Brooklyn right now, and it's a Rosh beer, something like that. My German is not good. And then after that we're going to turn to the Massachusetts beer, so we've got our own little New York Massachusetts beat down, and we really, and
Patti 7:46
so we're really, really close to switching to that one. So this one's called Little Fire, and let's Little Campfire on there.
Pottymouth 7:53
Yeah, it's from Treehouse. It's the one I was drinking last week.
Patti 7:56
Okay,
Pottymouth 7:56
so this is this is they're different kinds of smoky beer, but they're both smoked, so we'll find out which one. So, I like that
Patti 8:02
it's like a smoke beer off and not a smoke off.
Pottymouth 8:04
Yes, because it could have been that we're smoking, that's what it is. All right, we're smoking all the way to our baseball boyfriends. These are the guys we talk about every week. Those of you been around for a while know this gig. We picked one guy per team, each of us in the off season, because they're super cool, and now we're checking in on them, and I have some trading going on this week. So, what happened with our baseball boyfriends is we put a selection of them on our lineups for fantasy, and then stashed a few away on our backup team, so that we could trade in and out, and I get to put my starting catcher on my team for the first time this season, Halle fucking Luya. Although I had a bunch of catchers, but this worked out well for me, because I'm going back and forth through Chicago. Kyle Teal of the White Sox was activated just this past week, June 22 He had, he was on the 60 day list, he had a hamstring injury from the World baseball classic, when he was playing for Italy, and then had a knee sprain when he was rehabbing in May, and now we are very happy to have him back. The White Sox are doing amazing. Oh,
Patti 9:09
20 was a 22 to one, I mean, there was some crazy score this couple days ago,
Pottymouth 9:14
22 coming
Patti 9:15
into Baltimore for a series, yay, yeah, that's gonna be fun for us. Oh,
Pottymouth 9:18
yeah, and isn't your brother-in-law going to, yeah, the intern Wednesday,
Patti 9:21
yeah, they're coming tomorrow.
Pottymouth 9:23
Wow, power to them. Well, they, they, so Teal, he got a hit on his second game, the 24th but in that monster game on the 25th he joined the party. I mean, a whole bunch of them had, I think five of them had, oh, right,
Patti 9:35
mathematically, many of them had to get
Pottymouth 9:38
22 or could have been a shit ton of small ball, but he went two for five with a home run, home run, and three RBI. Yeah, there were five homers that game, including Miguel Vargas, who was my prior Dodgers boyfriend before he got traded over, and there's that famous picture of him with a very, very sad face when he got traded from the Dodgers, but now he's come around, and I think that, you know, things are looking pretty bright. For the White Sox, as well as Jacob Gonzalez, your guy Andrew Ben intend the formerly of the other shade of socks, and Tristan Peters had a grand slam, so you got to get those runs in there somehow. So Teal goes up, and another one of my many catchers, Moises Ballesteros, got option to AAA from the Cubs on the other side of town. He went down on the 19th, so the timing of this really worked in my favor by a status I thought was going to be up for the season. He had an amazing 22 games in April with a 382 average and a 1171 ops for this rookie, and then in May he just crashed out, and I don't know, honestly, what happened. So to go for a 382 average in April 21 game, 22 games to 21 in May with a 102 average. Oh dear, and his ops in May was lower than his average in April. His ops in May was 359 That's just possible. Oh no, he just kind of bombed out, and he didn't improve in June, so basically they think he needs to get his confidence back. He's a young guy, this is his first time up. He had only, well, he had played 20 games in 2025 most of them in September when he was really solid, 333 average. He went 13 for 39 in September 2025 So hopefully he'll be coming around. He is rocking the lucky seven in AAA right now. He's been there for seven games at the time of recording, and has gone seven for 26 with seven RPI. All right, so I said RBI, RBI, not. We know
Patti 11:30
what you meant.
Pottymouth 11:30
Yeah, we're with you. All right, thanks. All more trading. My other trade is Hidden Gem, according to the article that I read. Eli White of the Atlanta team is coming up, and I realized that I don't know why the fuck I hadn't dropped Ramon Laureano off my off my roster, because I knew very well that he is very, very injured and probably won't be back all season, and at the very least is on the 60 day right now. So Ramon is making room for Eli White, who has been struggling at the plate, but this past actually little over a week ago, he sealed the win in a three to two win over Milwaukee by throwing out Jackson Chowdio from at the plate from the outfield, so he has a really good fielding percentage, really good ability to both make crazy catches and crazy throws, and Atlanta needs that now, because Ronda Cunha Jr. is out with a hamstring for, yeah, again until sometime in July, so you know they need it. He, Eli White, had been doing like the fourth guy outfield, but I think he's gonna get more consistent time, and I'm really hoping that's good for his bat. So I
Patti 12:38
hope so too. I'm gonna let you open the new beer while I tell you about some of my guys, including Adley Richmond. We do get to carry over one guy from year to year, and Adley has been my once and forever boyfriend for a couple of years now. That catcher from Baltimore, he just came back today for today's game. I'm back from the seven day concussion list. Remember, he was hit in the ear by a throw from Colt Emerson, the shortstop for the Mariners, while he was running to first base, and that was his unprotected side on the batting helmet. So it was not good, but he came back great. He not only singled at his first at bat, he threw out James Wood trying to steal second, so he had a pretty good day on both offensively and defensively, the O's, interestingly, are keeping three catchers on the active roster, including Chadwick Trump. He's back again. Remember how he was agreed, an O, and then he was in Atlanta, and all that. So they had called him back, but they hadn't called him up. They kind of had him waiting in the wings, because they had Sam Huff, and they had some other guys doing that third spot, but yesterday's game Chadwick Trump went two for three with an RBI and a run score. They're like, okay, you are the most recent, you know, backup catcher to show us good stuff, so we'll keep you, wow, and you know, send the other guy back down.
Pottymouth 13:54
All right,
Patti 13:54
Bisayo, usually what happens is either Samuel Bisayo or Adley Ruchman catches, and the other one DHS today. They mix it up, and I think it might have been for comic relief. They had Pete Alonso as the DH, which makes total sense, and they have Sam Bisayo playing first, which he did adequately. And also, there were a couple of like humorous things, like, well, it's funny because he actually got the out, and if he hadn't gotten the out, that little dive wouldn't been a good thing at all. My Toronto guy is everybody's favorite, Kazumo Akimoto, who keeps hitting home runs. This past week, he hit home runs 18 and 19 on consecutive days, Thursday and Friday, which puts him in a six-way tie for 12th in the league, for, you know, for a number of home runs, but he's only second to only junior Caminero for third baseman, so that's pretty good. Cass also had an eight RBI week, and his OPS for the week - I love doing the seven day math - was 1.288
Pottymouth 14:51
I keep getting confused with him on third and Clement on second, because Ernie used to be third, but Toronto is. Very well endowed
Patti 15:05
on that note, I'm gonna say the word groin, so
Pottymouth 15:09
I know how to set you up. I was looking at your, my
Patti 15:12
Kansas City guy was scratched from the Orioles lineup today due to left groin soreness, but I'm not talking about him because of the ability to stay growing for like several weeks,
Pottymouth 15:23
third week in a row in
Patti 15:24
a row, but it may explain why in his last four games he was only one for 15, I mean the one hit was a triple, but still that was like a bad four weeks, but immediately prior to that, on Tuesday, right before those four not good games, he had his third multi home run game in June, so June's been very good for him. On Tuesday, he had two home runs at the Trout. Both of them were over 400 feet. He's had six homes, he had six home runs in the five games, like that one and the four prior games. So he had this like huge immediate rush than this little down time, but that huge immediate rush was gigantic, and like, record-setting for the franchise, and all of this stuff. For him, it was fun, because if you remember when I profiled him, he grew up in Tampa, and he also, you know, in college, he was a Gator, so, like, he spent all of his time around there, and so he was, I guess, like, the family seats were like behind the home dugout, and all of that. So, this being there was really important to him. So, of course, he was asked about, you know, hitting home runs at the Trop, and he said a home run here, even if it's not for the Rays, is still a really cool special moment for me. That's great, and you know, also got a lot of friends and family there, because, you know, that's where he's from, so that's kind of exciting, and I have a feeling that, you know, in the Trop, they were extra noisy, because everything bounces off.
Pottymouth 16:38
Yes, yeah, echoes.
Patti 16:39
Um, also back from the IL is Chase De Lauder of my Cleveland guy. He was on the 10 day IL for a right rib fracture from a collision with the outfield wall on june 13 versus Detroit. So, my, my deepest wish for you, Chase, is to kind of, can you get like right back in that Rookie of the Year race for me, please?
Pottymouth 16:56
I thought the wall in the wall won.
Patti 16:58
Yep, that's exactly it. Yep,
Pottymouth 17:00
I didn't even sing it. No,
Patti 17:02
I shouldn't.
Pottymouth 17:04
All right, so we don't like to let our former boyfriends go because we chose them for a reason, and even though we can't keep them from year to year because we need stuff to talk about, we keep an eye on them. And I want to say that I'm very proud of my pick of Wilson Contreras. I had picked him when he was not on the Red Sox, and I'm trying to remember when I picked him. I didn't write that down, if it was when he was, because he's been around, but both him and Sonny Gray made the good first impression in Boston by basically saying we are very willing to hate the Yankees, which, you know, as a Boston-born third-generation Red Sox fan, I very much appreciate Sonny Gray said, quote, in his info interview, "It's good to go to a place where it's easy to hate the Yankees, and he had some bitter feelings about his actual two years there. Wilson did not play for the Yankees, but he just knew how to welcome himself to Boston, where he said, "They're probably going to start hating me whenever we play against each other, but I'm going to play with fire, I'm gonna play with emotions and show them that we can win. And going into this Red Sox Yankees series this weekend, I was feeling a little trepidatious, because holy shit, the Red Sox have been sucking, and now we're playing the Yankees, and all the cards are out, and they're playing at Fenway, which one would think would be good playing at home, but the Red Sox record at home this year is shit, it's worse than their record away by far, which is insane. So, I did not have my expectations high, and so far I'm going to knock on everything. They've won three out of four games at the time of recording, so I'm really, really, really hoping for the sweep tonight. I'm going to cross fingers and do whatever superstitious things that I can do to wish the best for Sunny Great tonight. Actually, so I am going against the Yankees. Please, please, please do well. But there was a kerfuffle yesterday, or a brouhaha, and I don't know where is that chart that we had that that Deborah made of the sliding scale. We've got it somewhere, but the
Patti 18:57
important thing here was this one was not categorized, categorized as any of those things. What was it? It was a bench clearing
Pottymouth 19:01
picnic? Yeah, so that I think would
Patti 19:03
be like the negative numbers as far as how that graph goes. I think we'd have to like add a like lower, lower, yeah,
Pottymouth 19:08
yeah. Well, we've had like the bench clearing discussion, yeah, that's kind of, yeah, I think picnic is a little friendlier than discussion, which is why
Patti 19:14
I think it's like even lower impact, because yeah,
Pottymouth 19:17
it's something that if you have a four quadrant, like we're not
Patti 19:20
even ignoring each other, we're actively having a good time together,
Pottymouth 19:23
so that I've got to give credit where credit's due. That quote goes to the manager, I'm still choking on that, Chad Tracy, who said, you know, so what basically what happened is Contreras was up there, according to the Yankees feed, and it's so funny to listen to the two different feeds and hear a totally different narration of the exact same thing, so the Yankees focus in on Contreras crowding the plate, and even John Boy, you know, famous Yankees fan, and does the breakdowns, has this framed shot of the first pitch where Contreras' hands are over the plate, and he has the. Line that show it shows his hands being over the plate, and yes, he's crowding the plate, but you know, fucking throw strike or just throw your pitch, like that. Then you just play you as a pitcher, your responsibility is to pitch. If he's crowding the plate, you make him back up, and basically that's what the pitcher will Warren said. I'm trying to get in the zone, and he's playing games in the box, so the pitcher is saying that I'm just trying to pitch in the zone, and he's playing games, but that first pitch, yes, he was in there, and I don't know if it was a strike, a strike, or a ball that first pitch, but after that he was not, so John Boy kind of played fast and loose with the video there, because he ended up walking, so there were pitches that were outside of the box because they were balls, and so he walked, and two of those pitches that were balls were up and in, and yes, he's crowding the plate, so maybe you want to pitch up and in to make him back off, but he also has the right to get pissed off at that, because it's a ball,
Patti 20:56
and up and in is where your head is.
Pottymouth 20:57
Yes, exactly, exactly. So that's the biggest thing, so I guess one of the pitches, you know, it was before ball four was more upper and inner, and you pissed him off, and then ball four was also up and in, and it was the sixth pitch, and so he said something with four letters, I mean, I, that's fine if you're almost getting hit in the face saying fuck you to the pitcher, I think is totally acceptable in the potty mouth rules. Well, the pitcher said something back, probably another four letters of something, and there was just a little back and forth. And then, and then is what Chad Tracy said. Everybody went out and had a picnic. What I loved about the Red Sox feed was a sigh and saying we're back to normal, because, like, things have been so fucked up this season. The Red Sox have not felt like the Red Sox. There's this whole like coaching manager firing, and just this, oh, there's a.. there's a something with the brouhaha, or Fuffle picnic, whatever, with the Yankees on the field. We can be normal again. This is how we are, you know. And Contreras said, quote, it's part of the game, that's it. Like, it is part of the game, like that's how you play, so I'm happy about that.
Patti 22:03
Okay, then the only former boyfriend I'm gonna talk about right now is Pete Alonso, who was my Mets guy in 2020 because he today was celebrating his 500th consecutive game, so he's played every one of the past 500 games, which is pretty freaking impressive. He's second only to former boyfriend Matt Olsen, who was my A's guy in 2019 He was at about 850 games. You see, how many are in between the 500 and the 850 That's
Pottymouth 22:35
a bunch,
Patti 22:36
but also how many are between the 850 and Cal Ripken? That's what record, which you know, if you math it out, Matt Olsen might have to play 12 more seasons of no, missing a game. How no one is ever going to beat the Iron Man. They're just not congrats to Pete Alonso for getting to 500 and also celebrating it by hitting his 19th home run, which has him won as one of those six people who is now tied for 12th in home runs for MLB.
Pottymouth 23:01
I hope he got like a personal something from Cal Ripken, I mean, or at least like a shout from his seat behind the plane. He
Patti 23:06
wasn't, he wasn't in a seat today, so yeah, but also it's like, okay, so I have, you know, 31 over 3000 games, and you have 500 more of a pat on the head at that point, right? Sure,
Pottymouth 23:18
sure. Well, we saw a Mets fan today who's very pissed at the Mets for letting Pia Dallonso go. A lot of them are very, very pissed, especially.
Patti 23:29
Yeah. All
Pottymouth 23:30
right, so I didn't mention Wilson Contreras being from Venezuela, but I just saw an Instagram ad, whatever Instagram post from the Red Sox Foundation with both him and William Brayu talking about donations for the Venezuelan earthquake, so I feel like it's important to talk about this event because it's affecting so many baseball players, every
Patti 23:59
single team, right? Yeah, almost
Pottymouth 24:01
all but four. Wow. And actually, the Orioles don't have the Venezuelan, which I was really doing. The
Patti 24:06
relief picture today is Venezuela, all
Pottymouth 24:09
right? Has he been in all season? Yeah. When I did a search, yeah, because I
Patti 24:12
think I was paying attention, because before Friday night's game they had a moment of silence before they got around to the to the anthem, and all of that. And so I was actually watching, and there were several, there were multiple Venezuelan players between the nationals and the O's. Okay, yeah, no,
Pottymouth 24:28
that's interesting, because I mean, I need to check my sources, then, because I found one national and no O's, but there were no, and the other ones I have to look at is A's, Texas, and Pittsburgh. Those are the ones that I thought didn't have Venezuelan players, but I don't know. They're 86 theoretically, overall, in case, unless I missed a whole bunch more. Boston does have the most Venezuelans, at least as starters, with five, and the Giants have four, and most teams have three or two, or one. But yeah, it's affecting all over the place, and you know, not to mention baseball internationally, with Venezuelan players playing in many other countries, as well as currently in Venezuela. Just to sort of review what happened with this earthquake, it was actually two earthquakes that happened around 6o'clock in the evening on june 24 39 seconds apart, two major earthquakes. So, it wasn't an earthquake in an aftershock, it was a 7.2 and a 7.5 and the two of them count as the second and fourth strongest earthquakes in Venezuelan history since 1900 Yesterday, there was a 5.5 aftershock, which is also pretty serious. There is at least $6.7 million in damage. I'm thinking that that's a low number, and right now we're at the point where a lot of countries are sending aid and sending people, because it is direly needed, because the government in Venezuela is unable to react in the way that they should be reacting, for a variety of reasons, including historic US sanctions, although we're supporting the new government now, there's the damage has been done, and the infrastructure, also, you know, with having lost their president a few months ago, is not working clearly, and there have been a lot of Instagram posts about people being frustrated that volunteers can't get where volunteers want to go just because of government bureaucracy, so you know, in a lot of ways MLB stepping up to the plate, you know, the players are sending money home and the players are starting to speak out more and more, and you probably know more than I do now, because I feel like the first couple days were so much shock, and I didn't mention that 14 1430 people at least have died, and that number is going to go live.
Patti 26:53
Yeah,
Pottymouth 26:53
3238 injured, but they have the government at least has a way for people to report missing people, and there's over 50,000 missing at this point, so who knows how that's going to shake out. It's horrific, absolutely horrific. William Contreras, little brother of Wilson Contreras, was the, I think, the first sort of like public emotional face, because he - I had picked him as my baseball boyfriend when he was at Atlanta in 2022 He's currently with Milwaukee, and he wore his World Baseball Classic gear, had writing all over the chest plate and on his hat, and was interviewed after the game super teary eyed, basically saying, Forgive me for not being there to help my people, like I have to be here, but I want to be there. He ended up hitting a two run home run with teammate Jackson Cheerio on base, and they had us to win over the Cubs, and both Cheerio and Contreras are from Puerto Cabello, which is in the middle of the area affected, which is right on the coast, which is mostly the region of La Guayra, and are the place that we love, stupid face Cara Bobo, but that that whole coastal area has been just so intensely affected. Jackson Chariot said, regardless of what's happening, you still have to play. I can't stop thinking about all the Venezuelans who are suffering, so all these guys, you know, at least these 86 or more guys who still have to report to work every day and play baseball because their fans are yelling for it are thinking about their country suffering and a lot of players have the VZ on their hats, some it's full teams and some it's just a few players, at least the Giants, Dodgers, Padres, Red Sox, O's I've seen so far, actually, I saw Royals to MOB has given permission for this to happen, and
Patti 28:44
what MLB has said was they're starting with the players who are from Venezuela, just because in order to get it done takes some time, so they're prioritizing the people who actually are from Venezuela, and then I think if others want to show support, they can also do it, but they wanted to make sure that those people were able to immediately be able to express that,
Pottymouth 29:05
that's so good, that's so important. I mean, and that's just a good way of MLB showing doing the right thing for once, you know, showing some support to people who are suffering. I, you know, I think that I have taken credit for Miguel Rojas, and when I looked it up, you picked him in 2020 when he was with Miami. So, sorry about that, but he's such a good guy with the Dodgers. His wife and kids were in a hotel in Caracas that was two blocks away from another building that collapsed. So, there's a lot of just sort of anecdotes here that I'm going to go through about personal connections that bring it home. He was wearing the VZ on his hat yesterday, and he pitched, so this is infielder Miguel Rojas, pitched the ninth inning with which he's done before, but yesterday he pitched the ninth inning, no hits on five pitches, including Fernando Tatis Junior ground out and most. Merrill and Jackson Merrill flying out to end that inning. A Giants rookie, Victor Bericoto, is from Maracai. He just debuted at the end of May, so brand new rookie. He hit his first walk-off home run on june 24 the day of the earthquake. He had heard about it before his walk off, but he didn't know about the intensity of it, and the next day he learned that his brother's girlfriend had died, his, he had another home run, so he found out about that next day, hit another home run Thursday, 445 feet, so this sort of like channeling that energy into beating the hell out of the baseball.
Patti 30:40
Yeah, can I tell you about Robinson Chirinos before you go on to, like, the other piece of yours? Absolutely. So, Robinson Chirino said, so you had mentioned the Rangers. There are at least a couple of former,
Pottymouth 30:50
yeah,
Patti 30:50
Texas players, including Robinson Torinos, and also Elvis Andrus, a former boyfriend of mine. So, Robinson Chirinos, this is really kind of spoke. He was supposed to be in Venezuela, and at the last minute didn't go, because his son David was just accepted as the MLB draft combine in Phoenix. Oh, wow, so he stayed, and like, David was like, you know, on the field at this draft combine on Wednesday, like, when all this happened, they, he would have been there, he would have been in Venezuela, so, but his sister's husband and their 15 year old son were killed.
Pottymouth 31:24
Oh my god.
Patti 31:25
And he said, my soul has been painful. I'm trying to stay calm, but it hurts right now. I'm trying to figure out stuff to do to help. He said, ever since it happened, I feel like I've been on the phone using my energy and whatever connections I have in any way possible to help, so he and Andrus have been trying to like get in touch with MLB officials to kind of help coordinate like the overall thing, but also the teams they've been on, so they've been in touch with the Rangers and with the Orioles and also local churches, so they are like, like you said, they're kind of scrambling, yeah, it's like what can we do to help, and he's doing that, even having lost two people that close to him, and so, and that's that's just one example, you know, and on this whole bunch of examples of people having to move forward with this unimaginable tragedy, yeah, happening in their lives.
Pottymouth 32:11
I think he has a foundation, he does have a foundation some of the time that's
Patti 32:14
going through his foundation,
Pottymouth 32:15
that's really good, he's trying
Patti 32:16
to, like, you know, increase that, you know, to amplify that with, I, you know, I was part of this team, and I was part of that team, and you know, and the league itself needs to do something bigger than maybe what it's thinking about now, and
Pottymouth 32:28
so if you want to contribute, I think we'll put - I know we'll put stuff in in the show notes about ways to contribute. Um, it's, it's overwhelming to think about, but like the Red Sox piece that I saw with Contreras and William Bray, you both speaking, talked about it as grains of sand, sand, like every grain of sand is important toward the goal. The MOB Players Association, doing the right thing, players trust is donating $100,000 and Big Poppy, who is Dominican, has been really the face of the Red Sox Foundation in encouraging people to donate, and so they actually have a specific website, Red Sox foundation.org/relief that's going straight to Venezuela. What I have been remiss in talking about is the Venezuelan summer league, so we talk a lot in the winter about the League of Venezolana de baseball profesional LVBP, but in 2021 they actually started a summer league to just, you know, more baseball, more more opportunities for Venezuelan players, and so that's been going on since then, and they were about to start a game at the time of the earthquake, so it was the Delphines de la Guayra, and La Guayra is the state that's near the coast, which is where the impact, the biggest impact of the earthquake. They were about to start this game against the Semanes de Aragua, and you've a lot of people have seen this online. It's them in their dugouts, and in the background you can see the the smoke from the buildings collapsing, so the there's a couple different video feeds, but things start shaking. The guys are in the dugouts, everybody knows to run out into center field. They see the dust in the background, and they know that their families are staying in a hotel nearby. And literally, so equipment manager Alvaro Espinosa said, when we saw the cloud of dust in right field, what I hear is the families, everybody's screaming, "My family, my family, and they jumped the left field fence to run to the hotel.
Patti 34:31
Oh my god,
Pottymouth 34:32
and show up and I can't even like the video of it. And if you want to see this, there's a CNN article that's actually really good that has this slider where you can see before and after buildings from the earthquake from like the Google view, and it's just, just so impactful, like it's unbelievable. And the thought of standing there, and then there's this video of these players standing outside this rubble and fearing that their love. Ones are in there, Gorky Hernandez, who spent several years in MLB with the Red Sox, but previously was with Pittsburgh, the Giants, Miami. He played in the Winter League in Venezuela for the Caribbees and Swategy, Cardinals de Lara, and most recently Tigres de Aragua. His wife died in that hotel in the collapse, there was another former MLB player, San Francisco Giants catcher, Eliezer Alfonso. He's currently a coach with the Delfines. At the time of recording, still doesn't know where his wife and daughter are, but they were in that hotel. And then, you know, talk about those moments of, oh my god, it could have happened, Henry Mejia, who was a pitcher with the Mets for a long time, currently pitching with the Delphines. He was in the hotel gym, working out, and he was going to take the elevator to his room on the sixth floor and press the wrong button and ended up in the lobby and got out, like literally, as the building was collapsing. Oh my god, unreal. Another one, Jose Alberto El Cafe Martinez, who is a long time pitcher with St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Chicago Cubs. He was MVP one year in the Winter League in Venezuela, MVP one year of the Seria de Caribe with Tigres de Aragua, he's currently the hitting coach for the other team, the visitors, the semanes de Aragua. His mother wasn't going to go to the game that day, because she said, 'You guys always lose, I'm not going to go watch a game, but she decided to go that day, and her building collapsed. So it's, it's like, you know, I don't know, the wheel of luck is staggering, because it goes both ways, and I don't know if y'all have seen some of this video, but it's, it's terrifying seeing people pulled from rubble, and what a year Venezuela has had. So, you know, we start off with, with the leader being abducted, I mean, and yes, Maduro is a horrible, horrific leader, just the abduction was clearly not the way to make this transition work in the Venezuelan government. So he was captured by the United States january 3, so it's kicking off the year. And then we've got this high of them winning the World Baseball Classic to sort of show the world, yes, like baseball is important here, we can make it happen. They won in March, march 17 was the final, and here we are in June with this horrific earthquake. So, my heart goes out to Venezuelans. I want to encourage anybody who has the means to put in your grain of sand toward helping this country rebuild, because it's going to take a lot from a lot of sources to, I don't know, to come back from this, yeah. And just anecdotally, the the league has been canceled. The summer league has been canceled for the rest of the season, because what are you going to do?
Patti 37:49
Also, keep an eye on your local team, because it's very likely that there will be local fundraising for that, and if you feel better about donating locally, that's an option too. But we absolutely will put links for things that we are already aware about.
Pottymouth 38:02
Really good point, because some people are collecting material aid, like if you have stuff to donate,
Patti 38:07
yeah,
Pottymouth 38:07
look for that.
Patti 38:08
Yes, I want to follow up on the Pride and Prejudice piece we did last week, mainly about the Giants pictures and the waste of taxpayer dollars around all of that, and now there's.. we're going to add finger pointing to that, and then I, you talked about, like, the difference of how the Red Sox and the Yankees, you know, commentators, the two views, yeah, hold my beer. Okay, just wait.
Pottymouth 38:35
Actually, because this is really good, Massachusetts wins. I'm just saying, does it? Yes, I like this
Patti 38:40
better.
Pottymouth 38:40
It's taken me a while to get used to this one, so the other one was a really, really strong smoky, and then I took a sip of this one, and I thought that's not so, but it's growing on me. Yeah, it's a slow
Patti 38:50
burn.
Pottymouth 38:50
Yeah, this
Patti 38:51
little fire is a slow burn.
Pottymouth 38:52
There we go.
Patti 38:53
Yes. All right, so if you remember last week, Republican Senator Josh Hawley was like, oh, MLB, you're picking on, you know, your players because of their religions, because MLB issued their very standard. Hey guys, you can't wear that hat because you wrote on it, you're not allowed to write on your uniform, generic, you know, warning, not it wasn't disciplined. I think I said, like, 17 times in all caps. They were not disciplined.
Pottymouth 39:23
I can't tell you how many times I've quoted you on that this week. I keep saying they weren't punished. It wasn't a disciplinary action. This is what happened. It
Patti 39:31
was, yeah, it was. It was a content-free, generic word. But anyway, so, so the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob Manfred, writes a three-page letter in response to Senator
Pottymouth 39:40
Hawley, oh my god,
Patti 39:42
and points the finger at the Giants because he says that the team, the front office, did not inform the players that they could choose not to wear the Pride gear, like that's an option, if you notice, like no other teams other than the Dodgers and. The and the Giants actually wear Pride year on the field, they're grandfathered in because they were early adopters of Pride Day, and so they are allowed to do that. Other teams don't, they can't, which
Pottymouth 40:10
is fucked up from MLB, like that's an MLB rule, and it's MLB rule for that, because sucks.
Patti 40:15
Part of that rule is, if you don't want to wear it, you don't have to, you can wear your standard uniform,
Pottymouth 40:20
right? So
Patti 40:21
Manfred is shaking his finger at the Giants, you know, the front office saying you clearly did not make it clear to your players, and now look what you've caused. You are the reason that this bedlam is happening, right? You said Giants' communication with players was inadequate and not clear, which led to the rule breaking by the pitchers, so Howley sees this,
Pottymouth 40:43
of course,
Patti 40:44
and his interpretation is MLB. They were wrong to threaten the Giants players over Bible verses and promises never to find or discipline these players or any players for their religious beliefs.
Pottymouth 40:56
What?
Patti 40:57
Yeah, so nothing about what Manfred said is like they're talking two different directions, but the important thing is Manfred is blaming giants' lack of communication with their players. Okay, so my former boyfriend, Buster Posey, has now a leader, only he's not showing any leadership, so they put him up for the press conference, and yet they don't actually prepare him, or they're well, how does he not have talking points on how to respond to pride things? He's like, we're not going to talk about that, just give me baseball questions, and every single question about that, which is very important in San Francisco. Thank you. And larger picture right now, and he's like, can't talk about that, no, baseball related, edited up, so he's not saying either way, where did the Giants, in fact, inform their players or anything, or
Pottymouth 41:46
doesn't want to talk about it, even to ignore it and let it go away.
Patti 41:48
They want, you know, we're getting ready for the draft, you know, whatever. The pitchers themselves remember, they spoke back against all of, like, these attorneys general and DOJ, saying, "Oh, you're discriminating against these pitchers. They even said we're not being discriminated against, right? So, they said that. So, even the bigots are saying you guys are wrong, right?
Pottymouth 42:08
The
Patti 42:09
pitchers themselves said they did not feel forced to wear the pride caps.
Pottymouth 42:13
So, why is the government getting involved at
Patti 42:17
all, right? And so, and why is Manfred saying? Because these guys said no, clearly they knew they could just wear the other cap if they wanted to. They wanted to make a point. They chose a politically charged action, and they got a warning, and it should have been done with that. I don't, you know, agree with their political action, but okay, they knew what would happen to them, and that was, you're going to get this little written warning, and you just don't ever wear that cap again, but now it got spun out of control because people have culture wars to fight. Sure, so in a longer piece in The Athletic, there's a bit of an interview with Kurt Weaver, who's the executive director of You Can Play, and I really liked a lot of the things he had to say. I mean, this is an organization that started around hockey, but it's about really being inclusive of the gay community to play in organized team sports at all levels, from neighborhood local leagues all the way to professional leagues, and what he said about this blowing up of this act, he said when you have an issue where someone doesn't wear something or they write on the thing they're being asked to wear, it's a good reminder. There's a reason this work is being done. There's a reason someone still doesn't feel comfortable sitting there in that stadium. That means they aren't a ticket buyer, they don't buy a jersey, they don't buy food and beverages, they don't support the team by watching on TV. That's disappointing. It's a question of which fans don't you want, which I thought was very, very well put. It's like you guys are making our point for us, right there,
Pottymouth 43:46
exactly. And there are no MOB players who are out, and why is that? You know, there are definitely some gay players out there, but they don't feel comfortable because of shit like this. And I think it speaks volumes that 29 teams continue to have Pride night because it works, because people love it, you know. Pride night, I'm guessing around the country is one of the biggest sellers, and people are so joyous to be there, and there's a reason for that, like it's the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do. Yep, so as we end Pride month, keep your pride out there, speaking of Pride Month activities, I'm gonna cross train again with FIFA, because you know it's a big fucking deal. The World Cup, and this past weekend, well, we're the 28th so this is on Friday, June 26 Seattle had declared a year and a half ago that the game that they were hosting on june 26 during Pride month, was going to be the Pride match, and this was the host committee of Seattle. They had the right to say this, and they did it before they knew what countries were going to be playing that match. Well, as fate would have it, the match ended up being Iran versus Egypt, which are two of the worst countries in regards. To laws specifically punishing the LGBTQ community in the world, so when they found this out in December, both of the governments got a little upset about this and complained to FIFA. So FIFA was in, you know, and of course I've said lovely things about FIFA up to now. They were in this sort of situation where this is the host committee's decision, it's not a FIFA decision, so they actually maybe couldn't do anything about it, but what they said was they guaranteed that they, they weren't going to do anything about it. So FIFA didn't do anything official to acknowledge that this was a pride match during the game. However, they didn't stop, or maybe they couldn't stop the Seattle committee from continuing to say that this was a pride match, and Seattle was like, "fuck it, we made our decision, we stand by it. This is a pride match. They basically, it was a BYOR, so bring your own rainbows, so like people could bring rainbow stuff into the into the stadium. They weren't going to be stopped for bringing in your own rainbows, but FIFA did not supply any of the four mentioned rainbows. There was plenty of pre-game celebrations on the outside, but not in the inside. And, of course, the Iranian Egyptian players have been grilled about this and are not very happy about it. The team captain of Iran, Mehdi Terimi, tried to sort of, you know, tried to get away from these questions, and said, quote, "Our religion doesn't accept that, but we accept all the LGBTQ people, whatever that means, you know, it's better than condemning the whole thing. On a political note, so FIFA does have rules about bringing in political items into the into the stadium, and the quote is, you can't bring in anything that is quote a political offensive and or discriminatory, discriminatory nature. So, there's a big Iranian community in LA, especially, which is where Iran played before going to Seattle, that doesn't approve of the current Iranian government, as many people don't, and wanted to bring in their flags of the pre-revolutionary Iran, which are also kind. I mean, this is a very politically charged on both sides of it, and FIFA said no, and there was a local organization, the Institute for Voice of Liberty. I don't know if that's just a cover for pre-revolutionary Iranian folks, but they sued and lost, so FIFA's rule, because apparently it's a private stadium, could stand. People protested anyway. People's, I mean, a flag is not a hard thing to smuggle in, and there was this one interview that I saw of somebody who had brought in their flag and said that the usher said if you're wearing it it's okay, you can't hold a flag, so they just like wore it as a cape and it was fine. So I think there were is a sliding scale of enforcement there.
Pottymouth 47:52
There was some protests, so that there were a lot of Iranian fans who went to support the players but not the country, and so that was a whole thing, some people turned their backs during the anthem, and then on the other protest, which we had talked about last week, with Iran not actually being allowed to stay in the United States for more than 24 hours, and having to stay in Mexico was complained about, you know, the two games in LA was one thing, LA to wherever they were based in Mexico is a flight, but it's a shorter flight, but all the way up to Seattle is more of a big fucking deal, and it was their last game, and the most important one, because they were right on the edge, I think all of their, all of their games had been draws at that point, so they could have qualified to go on to the next round, so at the last minute FIFA agrees to let them stay in Seattle prior to the game for training for two days, two days only. They still had to get out of there within 24 hours after the game, and the Seattle game was a one to one draw. So that means that Iran did not lose any games and did not win any games. All three games that they played were draws, but that wasn't enough for them to move on in their group. Egypt, even though they had that draw, did actually have a win against New Zealand that I watched, and it was super exciting game, because they got all three goals in the second half, but Egypt had one win and two draws, so they moved on, along with I think it's Belgium, was it was the other one, but the whole moving on this year is super fucking weird, because it used to be that there were all these groups, four teams a group, top two teams move on, but they expanded it this year, so there are 12 groups, and actually all of but four of those 12 had three teams move on, so the way that they figured that out is who had the most points out of everyone, so top two teams of all 12 groups move on, and then their whatever they had left over, they looked at the most points, so everybody who was a third place team that got to move on had four points. Points, Iran had three, so if like one more thing had gone their way, and actually it would, they weren't officially eliminated until the day after this draw with Seattle, because of stuff that happened with other teams, and who ended up being moving on, but I think they have a really good argument here that the conditions that they were forced to play under sure
Pottymouth 50:21
affected their play absolutely, and so fuck that for a little bit of cultural sensitivity. The trophies that the player of the match, so every game has a player of the match, and you get a trophy, and that's a nice thing. They were sponsored by Michelob Ultra, who put their brand right smack in the middle of that trophy, so the trophy, it's not very appeasing. So, what they did agree to do was take off the Michelob Ultra symbol for Muslims, because they don't drink. So, if you're Muslim, you get a trophy without the Michelob Ultra symbol. I have follow-up questions,
Patti 51:02
like, what if you don't drink Michelob because you drink better beer?
Pottymouth 51:05
Exactly, that's what my tact was. Like, I think that folks with a good taste in beer should also be able to remove the Michelob from their trophy, but I don't think that flies. But it's funny, is how big
Patti 51:16
the logo is. Maybe just cover up the sticker. I'm throwing stickers everywhere.
Pottymouth 51:19
It's unfortunately way too big, really. Yeah, it's crazy. I'll show you a picture. It's, it's definitely uncalled for, except for, you know, Michelle people. Also, follow up from last week, the mom of the 40 year old, bless him, I love the old guys, goalie from Cape Verde Vo Zina. His mom made it, so this is someone who had been kept out because of the not the travel ban, but the forced $15,000 bond for some countries to get a travel visa, so there's a lot of uproar. He had done amazing in saving his country against Spain, and actually Cape Verde is moving on, which is a huge fucking deal, and maybe it's because his mom finally made it, and so there'll be a link to an Instagram message from her to the fans, thanking them for the support, and that she got to be there. Cape Verde had three draws, but because of their group that they were in, they actually get to go on their next match. However, is this Friday against Argentina? I hear they're pretty good, but on the bright side, the goalie's Instagram feed went from 20,000 followers to 16 point 7 million. Like, gotta be the biggest increase if that have to do to get to 16 points. Pay attention. Yeah, okay. All right, so folks, talk, talk us up. I also want to just encourage people to, and I think I've already been a bad example. I
Patti 52:44
certainly have. Yeah, we
Pottymouth 52:45
need to say men's World Cup, because next year is going to be the Women's World Cup in Brazil. So, right now is the Men's World Cup. We can't just say World Cup. I guess it's because it's happening. Maybe next year, while the Women's World Cup is going on, we can just call it the World Cup, because it's the only one that's going to be happening. But check the bracket that we will link in the notes for when you should watch which round of 32 the knockout round. I'm going to encourage everybody who's listening right now, if you listen to when this podcast drops on Tuesday, check out Mexico versus Ecuador at night and go Ecuador, because it's near and dear to my heart, 9pm Eastern Standard Time, the United States is playing against Bosnia Herzegovina Wednesday at 8pm and that should be politically interesting, because the Bosnian fans have been chanting "Free Palestine" doesn't go over very well with US crowds, but apparently there's a genus experience of genocide solidarity, how horrific, from the Bosnian war, which some of us of a certain age remember very well, in the mid 90s, when there was an actual genocide of 1000s of Muslims by the Serbians, and even the Holocaust Museum in DC is willing to call it a genocide, which they are not for the Palestinians, but they also should qualify at this point, and we also need to remember the horror that's going on in Palestine, and so listen up, listen up.
Patti 54:11
Wow, okay, all right, my friends,
Pottymouth 54:13
cheery stuff today, damn
Patti 54:14
it. Well, okay, well, here we go. So we have this really kind of wacky fantasy league, for which I am the Lord Provost, and the only change, the only change this year, that this week from last week is that Bono's Boyfriends has swapped with All-Star Cobalt 112 and actually Bono's Boyfriend's score is exactly the same as last week. So, what happened was All-Star Cobalt 112 dropped a couple of points, so the switch is between three and four, but other than that, we are exactly the same as the prior week, which is freaking me out just a little bit.
Pottymouth 54:48
So, do you want to name the 123, I can do that. One, two should get Trident,
Patti 54:53
and tap rooms remains number one. Karen's crew remains number two. Boy, and his photos, boyfriends at three, all-star cobalt 112, at four, and we. Awesome team at five, Sunny Slammers at six, and me, and then Clay mean pitching machine at eight, and there's me in the body. I want to end with a good story that is such a good thing. I so appreciate that about you. We say a lot of things about how much we dislike policies in Florida, and things we don't like about Florida, and we were right, we are right to say those things, of course, we're right, but we're also going to say every once in a while something happens in the state of Florida that we can get behind. This is one of those things. So, Monday at Lone Depot Park, where the Marlins play, it was Bark in the Park Day, and there was a very lovely video that a little went around social media of a very happy pup eating a hot dog, which is what you always see at bark in the park. In the background is a dog with very, very sad eyes watching this other dog eat a hot dog, and the very good dog in the background is just watching. He's not going for the hot dog, he's sitting still because he's a very good boy, and he's just watching, wishing it was him, right. And so the Marlins saw this and said he's a very good dog. Who is he? And they put it out on social media, and the grown-up human that belongs to this dog wrote in and said, this is Jonah. Jonah is six, he's a rescue from Aruba. Wow, his hobbies include catching fly balls, chasing squirrels, and eating ice cream. Of course, they are. So, the Marlins have promised Jonah, the very good dog, a dream day at the ballpark. It's going to be july 12, which is during the All-Star break. They haven't said what's going to happen, but it's guaranteed to include hot dogs. So, good for you, Jonah, you very, very good dog,
Pottymouth 56:40
I think Xander Bogart says, like, the Reuben player should go over and meet this dog.
Patti 56:45
Sure, maybe that'll
Pottymouth 56:47
be the package deal, not a Marlin. Maybe it will happen, but,
Patti 56:50
um, but the human that belongs to Jonah has said, I really hope that Jonah gets to run around on the field.
Pottymouth 56:56
Yeah, because that's what would make him happy. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. For you've
Patti 57:01
got happy things happening starting tomorrow.
Pottymouth 57:03
Yes, we have a clown visiting, so our friend Bobo Lop is coming from, well, heading toward Guatemala from France, but very excited. Also, one of our Patreon sponsors. So, yay, very much, Bobo Lop, the clown.
Patti 57:17
Excellent, excellent. So, I did some math when I wrote the number 500 for Peter Lawns. I was like, I was looking at our number, you know, word 465 for episodes, and I sort of counted, but in a lazy way, while drinking coffee. So, please feel free to check my math, but I believe we're going to record the 500th episode on Leap Day of 2028 which I think is super cool. That
Pottymouth 57:38
is so amazing. We're gonna record
Patti 57:39
on a day that doesn't exist for, like, you know, three out of four
Pottymouth 57:43
years,
Patti 57:44
so someone checked my math, and there's all that. And if I'm wrong, you know how to use the corrections department on social media, Potty Mother. Where do they find us on social media?
Pottymouth 57:54
Sure, you can plan your 500th episode gifts and send them to that, would be NCIB podcast on on the blue sky and the Twitter messages No Crying and B Ball on Facebook and Instagram, and if you want to join the fun and make us get us to do it, you're a shout out for you, or make us say something really funny or otherwise interesting or important to you, find us on Patreon, P A T R E O n.com/no crying and B ball, and for a very, very reasonable rate, you can make sure we get to keep doing this, and I'm retired now, so what am I going to do if I can't do this? So, please, like, help us out here. Plus, incomes going down,
Patti 58:33
you have, you have a big old list of things that you're going to do, so you see detention centers above, right? Also, see Epic Baseball Road Trip, and I have a feeling that the Patreon folks might get a little bit more behind the scenes reporting from the field, but anyway, my friends, please go see some live baseball fight the man, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith, and until next week, say good night, Body Mouth.
Pottymouth 58:52
Good night, Potty Mouth,
Patti 58:58
you You all
Pottymouth 59:10
right, there's always an oops here and there. There
Patti 59:13
is always an oops here and there. That's what makes it exciting.
Pottymouth 59:16
It is, it is. So,
Patti 59:17
you never know where the oops is going to be.
Pottymouth 59:18
Yep, but we weather oops very well, weather the oops, you
Patti 59:22
weather the oops,
Pottymouth 59:23
whether we weather the oops,
Patti 59:24
that's actually the new tagline for the show. No crying in baseball, we weather the oops.