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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 0:00
Hi and welcome to episode 431 of No Crying in Baseball, the "Baseball is Just a Game" episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.
Pottymouth 0:26
hey. I'm doing numerology in my head, and I'm like four plus three. Four plus three is seven. Game seven leads to number one, who is the winner of the World Series. So 431 our cosmic number, oh, leads into today's situation of us recording the day after game seven, I feel like we need to play the lottery now.
Patti 0:48
Yeah, we can do that, because that's a tax on people who can't do math. But anyway, that's okay. That's okay. Yeah, so that was a lot happened this week.
Pottymouth 0:58
It's so the good thing is the connection between game seven and daylight savings time so that we got that extra hour with those extra innings and the extra stress and all of the extra everything was so extra. Everything about it was so extra, super, super extra. I was feeling a little bit bad about missing the majority of the middle games in the middle of the week, and I had reasons. And there was this article, and I know it was tongue in cheek, or whatever the fuck you want to call it from the defector that was basically like, I wish I remembered the direct quote or wrote it down or something, but it was basically like, you're a loser if you didn't stay up for the 18 innings, like not a real fan, kind of thing. And I know they're joking, however, it's kind of like, you know, those jokes where it's like, well, you just can't take a joke when it's, you know, elitist or sexist or whatever, in any sort of situation. And you know, being able to stay up for 18 innings of baseball is a fucking privilege. It sure
Patti 1:57
is right. Some people have to work, go to work or get up and go to school, we have a choice,
Unknown Speaker 2:03
yeah, or are ill. Wait, you're putting a lot of that beer in my
Patti 2:07
I think there's, it's my I have this really round glass that that, I think beer is it? I don't know. Okay, you had you splitting a beer now, but you gave me, there's two different shaped glasses. It's hard to guess. We did. The dishwasher was not all right, so let's talk about what we're drinking. Okay, so Andrew, beers are brought to you by potty mouth, JR And Junior. Potty mouth. Thank you guys so much. Visited Raquette River Brewing. Racket, I'm sorry. Racket, I was coached on this racket. River Brewing in Tupper Lake, New York, gateway to the Adirondack so we just finished the Oktoberfest, which was very delicious, and we just poured, possibly evenly, possibly not, the Light lager, which has crossed axes on the can, which I kind of dig, and I don't know why, but, but that's okay. They're there, but, um, this very delicious, and we appreciate our the potty mouth next generation for
Pottymouth 3:05
thinking of us. Yes, yeah, while they were in the woods, camping away and all that, all of those things, that's fantastic. Oh my gosh. All right, I don't know anything else that we want to say before we talk about this shit, because it was just, it's been a week, and now, like we haven't had enough time to sort of process the fact that the season's over. I think, like we are on game seven hangover as we sure as we are recording
Patti 3:29
the beer the hair of the dog, right? Although I gotta say I didn't really drink during game seven. I had half of also from the racket River Brewing. I had a maple Porter because maple reminded me of Toronto, and Tupper Lake is really only several hours drive from Toronto. Is practically there. There's practically a suburb. It's closer to Vancouver. That was my thematic drink. You you had the spot on thematic
Pottymouth 3:57
drink? Yeah, on the way home from work on Friday, I just like, had this magnetic field take me into the liquor store and look at Canadian whiskey, which is not usually where I look, because it is not the kind of whiskey that I usually prefer to drink. But I thought, you know, I got to drink something Canadian. I guess I could have gotten for like, moles and golden or something, but I went with the whiskey. Drank a lot of whiskey, but it didn't seem to make the difference so, but I appreciate you giving it your tried. I really, really tried on today's show, as you might guess, we have some things to say about the World Series. We've got the Roberto Clemente award. We've got tributes, both the bullpen kind and the cross training kind. We've got winter ball, we've got an agent band, and we've got wise words from Max Scherzer. Cheers, cheers, yeah, that processing that like this is it? This is our last episode, sort of directly connected to the 2025 season.
Patti 4:56
We were all boba shut thinking about, this is my last you know. Game with my team before. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Pottymouth 5:02
Yeah, Although who knows? I don't know. Super emotional. There's so much emotional. And I feel kind of really lucky when we choose our baseball boyfriends, which we're gonna do again in the off season, and we each pick one guy per team, and I picked Ernie Clement, and I went back to fuck, I think I wrote it down somewhere, whatever episode it was, 300 and something or other. When I first talked about him, and I looked into why I had picked him, I was super lucky. I definitely a lot of it had to do with that funny, friendly spirit that he has, you know, and his hockey connection and upstate New yorkness and everything that I think everybody got to see on full display. And I was hopeful for his actual ability to play baseball. He had a pretty good year the previous year, but also had, you know, as folks had had mentioned, he was DFA twice before that, in 2022 by both Cleveland and Oakland. And he talked about it, basically saying, Well, I just didn't play well then, like it makes sense, and now I'm playing well, and shit happens like that. I had at that point when I talked about him, found a great quote from our guy, Terry Francona, who said quote, Ernie plays like he has a jet up his ass, which says a lot about both Francona, and it just totally fits another Ernie moment that I just love. There are just so many Ernie moments, yeah, just that face, the smile, just like the
Patti 6:28
okay. So a quick little like thing about baseball boyfriends is one of the things that we talk about is we like the guys who you can tell they like playing baseball, they enjoy another planet game, and they really love playing a game. And you can absolutely tell that
Pottymouth 6:42
when he plays, yeah, yeah. And a guy you want to hang out and have a beer with, right? Absolutely. So I would totally he's not enough for a beer. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Definitely. He there in the some of his post game interviews, it came out that his glove broke during the season, so it wasn't right before the World Series. It's just that he's being interviewed a lot now, and so he got to talk about it. It was sometime during the season, and he said that he didn't have any other gloves that were actually broken in and ready to play. So what did he do? He bought a glove on eBay, as one does, which I would think,
Patti 7:10
I mean, isn't the clubhouse guy on top of this? I mean, that just seems, or did he not know to ask the clubhouse guy?
Pottymouth 7:15
I have no clue. Maybe not, maybe not. It's just great that he was like, All right, my gloves broken. I'm gonna buy a glove on eBay. The funny thing is, they so they were like, is that person, you know, all excited now that you have their glove. He doesn't know who sold it. The person deleted their eBay account, so he has no way of tracing that person. So I'm just waiting for, like, the social media world to churn, and somebody at some point to be like, Oh, my God, that was my glove that Ernie Clement has, you know, and notably, he's nominated for two Golden Glove nominations, which I think you guys might know about. I think they get announced between the time we're recording and the time that this comes out. So I'm hoping, you know, Ernie gets at least one of the two, either utility or third base, but that Golden Glove is thanks to eBay. So power to Ernie. He plays well, so it turned out really good. And this is another thing that I kind of sucked at this season with our fantasy league, is I wasn't paying attention to him enough, and I brought him on my team way too late. He set a couple of really Impressive, impressive records. With his World Series spin, he set the Blue Jays postseason hitting streak to 13 games, which was thanks to that game seven. So when you know Game Six was disappointing, if you're rooting for the Blue Jays game game seven was even more disappointing. But I thought, well, at least this gives Ernie the chance to break that record by Pat borders from 1992 who had 12 Roberto Alomar, know and love and Devin White were tied behind Pat borders at 10 and Devin white throughout the first pitch at Game Six. Another cool record that Ernie broke was Randy Rosa reina's record for a single season, postseason hits, and again, your game, your team, has to go kind of far so that you have the opportunity to get those hits. But Randy had 29 and Ernie had 30. Vladi had 28 and I bet you know, for folks who didn't know Ernie so well, going into the whole postseason, would have thought that Vladi would have been the one setting the record. But here we are. Vladi did do pretty well. The best part for Ernie is just the energy that he played with. And he just carried a lot of the movement that the Blue Jays had, you know, Game Six, the image, I think, the poster, the picture that everybody's gonna blow up and frame is after he hit a single he stole a second, you know, all that energy, and then came around and had that butt slide on home base with one leg up, that busses and that grin that was just like a kid playing, I just scored a run in the freaking world series, and I'm gonna slide on my butt. Yeah, why not? So you know the titles of the articles. I think some of these are linked. Say a lot about it, there's this Canadian Press that was, we are all Ernie Clement. You know, this is who we are now, or how Ernie Clement became a Blue Jays cult hero, manager Snyder said, my favorite, favorite thing about Ernie Clement, besides his baseball skills, is that he just doesn't give a fuck. And I think it's a fuck because I read the article, and it has damn in parentheses, like that wasn't the word that was used, but that was the intention. And I've seen a lot of other clips from John Schneider that he's been really a free flowing potty mouth, and I so appreciate that about him. Ernie was adorable talking about his friends. You know, it's like this, definitely like that little kid in Little League kind of feeling when he said that we've got the power of friendship. Like, what do you guys, what's the magic that the Blue Jays have? And he said, the power of friendship. And then right before game seven, he said that he was excited to play with 30 of my best friends.
Patti 10:53
And you said, over and over again. And all the things about, like, after after game seven was over, all the Toronto players were talking about, you know, we're sad, but we were in this together, and it was, you know, that the team mattered to us, that the guys matter, the connections we had with each other really matter. That every single person that was quoted referred to that somehow
Pottymouth 11:16
totally and Ernie was super sad in those like post game interviews, because he said, I've been crying for an hour. I thought it was done, but here I go again. Yeah, like, oh my god, I can't even imagine. I mean, this
Patti 11:27
is a team that finished last in the in the Al east in 2024 it's crazy. And they made to the World Series. So this is just amazing, easy,
Pottymouth 11:35
and they had, I, I don't know, I didn't put this in here, but like, the mom and me was super concerned about both Beau Bichette and George Springer, who are clearly playing in pain, both of them. And I just was like, oh, man, what these guys are putting into it, and what if it's another one of those what ifs, there's so many fucking what ifs in this game, like, what if they had been healthy? Who knows?
Patti 11:59
But also, I mean, they probably could have not played, right? But they have that connection, and they're like, they know I'm part of this team. I owe it to the team to do it right, yeah,
Pottymouth 12:08
was it the right decision? I don't know. So more baseball boyfriend talk, um, my other current baseball boyfriend, who is involved in the World Series, was Andy Pakis, of the Dodgers, 24 years old. He had been super sucking offensively. And his, actually, his average for the series was oh point seven, eight with a 211 ops. And I think that Dave Roberts, his strength in game seven was managing the fuck out of it, knowing his guys. He really did. Oh my god, like I give him so much credit for that win. So he, you know, believed in Andy pockets for the first four fucking games, starting him in center field. He subbed out a couple times, moved him over to the side to bring somebody else in. But then finally, it was like, go through, who are the replacements? So game five, Kiki was in center and he put Alex call in left field. Game Six, Tommy Edmond was in center center, and then they subbed in Dean, who actually has great hair, like he and he was the dude with the hands up play. Oh, my God, whatever he does. Yeah, great hair. Game seven, Edmond was back in center field to start, and then that was the moment that made it all worth it for Andy paques. So he had, you know, been not a key player in this whole fucking world series tank in the first few, but he's the defensive guy, and Dave Roberts put him in in the bottom of the ninth, in the middle, right before he made that amazing catch where he plowed into Kike, who was tracking the ball but wasn't gonna get
Patti 13:38
wasn't gonna get that ball. When I saw them put parties, and I'm like, Okay, it's gonna be a big moment. Yeah, it's gonna have to be his big moment right now.
Pottymouth 13:45
And that's it. Like, it's like, you believe in me, and I'm gonna, like, live up to that. And he gave it his all. So, holy shit. And of course, it was the catch of what could have been a hit by Ernie Clement, my other guy. So it was like, I was like, Oh my God, I've got all this boyfriend and boyfriend stuff and trampling Kike my like, you know, best boyfriend pick ever, I think kind of, I don't know, I'm feeling very mixed about the Kike drama at this point. So Ernie Clement avoiding that walk off. And then another former baseball boyfriend pick of mine was Miggy Roja. So this is like the the young and the old, sort of like juxtaposition here. So Andy Pak has second year on the team. Young dude, clearly, like trying to still figure things out. Maybe he's in where Ernie used to be, you know, right before things clicked. Miggy Rojas, 36 years old, another one who hadn't been put in this starting lineup and this game, both game six and seven, Dave Roberts was like, This is my guy, like the elder statesman, whatever, the guy with the wherewithal to put him in the infield, and he fucking hits the home run. And I just was like, I was happy for him on one sense. But then I was. Like, Oh my God, here we go. Like, this is went, Yeah, it was the beginning of the extras and the beginning of like, Oh fuck. Like, where are we going here? So before that, me, so Mickey Rojas was starting in both game six and seven. He hadn't been starting in any of the World Series games or any of the Championship Series games. The last time he was on a starting lineup was the nlds. He had one extra base hit before this in 20 postseason appearances, and he hits the game tying home run to bring for like two months. Oh, my god, yeah, it's insane. It's insane. And then there's Kiki Hernandez, who you know, his magic was more notable in game six, although in game seven, when you saw him, he looked like he was about to run through a fucking brick wall. He just had this like, determination and energy about him that scared me, because I thought, oh shit. Like, I really don't want you guys to win right now. Love you, Kike, but let's not do this. But that that catch that he made in game six, where he said that he didn't even see the ball. He's like, running at it. It was a double play, because he caught the ball and then managed to throw it into home, and he's running at it. And he said, what he he heard the crack of the bat in that moment of silence, and he knew it was a broken bat. And so he expected the ball to be like, right about where the ball was, and then he got in, like, who does that? Who does that? A guy who's, like, super focused, as we said, like, this is his like superpower. He can focus in the off season. He, you know, again, was sort of the life of the party in that, you know, champagne soaked, beer soaked situation. And I've been adoring Kike for years, and I'm wondering if he's sort of starting to sort of morph in my brain to like, the the annoying little brother kind of thing who, like, is funny once in a while, but when you're around him like too much, you're like, all right, all right. This is an interesting I don't, I don't know, like, he's like, you're, he kind of is, but he was so, like, I was
Patti 16:58
surprised by the level of anger he struck out a lot, and he was livid. He was livid every time it was quite a thing.
Pottymouth 17:06
Yep, my last comment I want to make about this game is the impact of immigrants. And I want to, like, flashback a couple weeks when we talked about the Dodgers ownership being very involved in the industry, that that keeps ice going, that keeps people detained, that does the the facial recognition and the AI and all that bullshit. So, you know, the Dodgers wouldn't have won without the immigrants. So Andy pajes from Cuba and Miggy Rojas from Venezuela, both Cuba and Venezuela, who had been on special visas, had both countries had special status until the current fascist in chief was like no no more special status for Venezuela and Cuba. So these guys get to be here because they're winning at baseball. But you know, Mickey rochas family, he hasn't seen in a really long time, both of them actually also MVP Yamamoto, right? Three Japanese pitchers who absolutely made a difference for the team. And then Teo Hernandez, Dominican Republic and Hae Sung Kim from South Korea, yep.
Patti 18:15
So I would like if the Dodgers frickin go to the White House, I would like all the immigrants to say, Nope, too dangerous for us to go there, right? Nope, we're not going there. Yeah, I would love that.
Pottymouth 18:27
And meanwhile, you know, I put them in danger, though, you guys, you guys, have all seen whatever happened to the parade, because the parade is going to be tomorrow, Monday. So, you know, this theoretically, is a city that is super dangerous. La, right, they were invaded by the government with the National Guard, and ice is all over the place. And on fucking Halloween, The Guardian reports ICE agents around LA in Halloween masks, just to be fucking creepy, fucking creepy, yet they can have a World Series parade, right? Sure, so. But you know, maybe immigrants won't be going to it. So I don't know. I think that you know, Kike, to date, is still the only one who has been who has made an outspoken statement about the injustices that were happening are happening in LA. And I would like to see more of that.
Patti 19:15
Yeah, so there was, in fact, ice activity half a block from my house on Halloween in the morning, no masks were involved. My neighbors were on top of it and got video, and the neighborhood ice watch folks were all over it. But basically what happened was someone got pulled over because he was driving a white pickup truck while Brown. That's all it was. He's gone. Now. Who knows? Who knows? So really, please, please where you are if you're not seeing this yourself. Please understand that it's not what you're hearing from the propaganda machine. It's we're just trying to make up numbers. We're just gonna grab people because they look like they might be, you know, those people,
Pottymouth 19:51
and there's no official compliable, like something that you can trust, accounting of this, right? You know, people are piecing this together. But we know of plenty of situations blocks from our homes that have already happened and it's fucked up. It's happening and Chicago is a fucking mess.
Patti 20:09
Yep, yep, hey, I'm talking about my boyfriends. I had almost none playing in the World Series. So most of these guys were boyfriends previously for me, but were playing in the World Series. I have to start with Freddie Freeman, who in game three, that 18 inning game, friendliest first baseman, friendliest first baseman, that six hour, 39 minute game, and then on a Freddie Freeman, walk off home run, he's got a thing now, yeah, if it's a World Series, at some point, Freddie Freeman, two for two was gonna hit a walk off home run. That 18 inning game, had 31 hits and a combined 609 pitches. It's a lot. That's a lot shit. And just to give you some perspective, like it feels like baseball games can go forever, right? Because, remember, they don't have those rules about the automatic runners and all of that to kind of like, cut off the extensive overtimes. So for instance, NBA Finals and NHL, Stanley Cup games, several have gone to three overtimes. Oh, my God, but those overtimes are like, right there, short, 15 minute long. You know, whatever that is, it's not gonna go all night long, which is, what a whole second game long. So it was really quite a thing with no beer. All right, let's talk about, yeah, let's talk about game seven a little bit. So Shohei, again, former boyfriend of mine in the good pick the DH category. So the first time I thought this is really game seven ish, yeah, while watching was when he was getting all of this extra time to warm up as a pitcher. And even the commentators were were commenting like, this doesn't seem right. He just took a long time in the dugout. He's just coming out now. We're back from commercial. That was that three minute break already. Why he should be warmed up.
Pottymouth 21:49
What's happening? And Schneider's face was getting redder and redder. I get nervous about his red face. Oh yeah. He was, he was getting his
Patti 21:56
watch. Okay? So the first after the first inning, top of the first Shohei was stranded at third base at the end of the top of the first, and then he had to come out and pitch, but he didn't come out to the mound until after that whole three minute break. And the umpires gave him that whole warm up time. And then it happened again in the third inning. Yeah, he ended he was the last batter the top of top of the third. He flew out and then didn't come out until it was time to actually start the inning, and that's when he started his warm up. So MLB rules, it's a show, hey, rule, it's a show, hey, rule, this is off for him. So it says the three minutes between inning starts at the time of when the last out is made. Unless there are a couple of exceptions, but one of them is a show. Hey? Rule, if the pitcher is on base, on deck or at bat, when the ending ends, the timer begins when the pitcher leaves the dugout for the mound. But it doesn't limit how much time he can hang out in the dugout, like he could spend an hour in there, if we're gonna follow the letter of this law, right? And not so that that's something that needs to be paid attention. Yeah, umpires may provide extra time if warranted by special circumstances. That covers things like, if the catcher is the last batter and they need time to get back into all their equipment. Yeah, you know that makes sense, but what's he doing in there? And how long do we give him in the dugout before he comes out? And I like Shohei Ohtani, sure, it's not that, but it's like, why he shouldn't be getting special rules. He's a special guy, but not to like bend the rules to this extent. My former Guardian's boyfriend Andre semen is I love him. So second time I thought, second time I thought, this is really game seven. Ish was when he was a bat, and his at bat resulted in a bench clearing kerfuffle, right? Which doesn't happen often in the World Series, game seven, the game seven, so bottom of the fourth robleski was was pitching to him, and he had three, like, inside fastballs in a row. The second one, people were like, yeah, he tried to get hit by that one. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know maybe Sure, but he did get hit by the third one, right? So he was pissed. I mean, three inside pitches in a row, yeah, he was pissed. He yelled, pitcher yelled back, I didn't do a good job of lip reading, but I think there was some
Pottymouth 24:11
it was, it was Fuck you, and then it was Fuck you, motherfucker. Oh, thank you. Yeah,
Patti 24:16
thank you. Thank you for Yeah, yeah. So, of course everybody came out was holding everybody back, and then, you know, you had the pause for everybody from the bullpens to come, you know, trudging across the field and then go back and all that. So there were no punches, there were no warnings. There was a warning or warrant. Both teams were warned, but there were no ejections, just everybody was tired because of the whole track from the bullpen. So it is rare that the bench was cleared during the World Series. The most notable one in recent history is game two of the 2000 World Series when Roger Clemens threw part of a like a like a shard of a broken bat back at Mike Piazza, yeah, so that was kind of a thing. Even there, no one got
Pottymouth 24:57
bad look. No one got ejected that one either. Yeah. No. Believe is on the Yankees at that point. Yeah, that was a Yankees
Patti 25:02
Mets World Series game Bob Bichette, who we alluded to before he's going to be a free agent now. So that his three run homer, which was a big deal, yay. And we thought that was a good way to account for the fact that he was injured and couldn't run. Yeah, it was actually his first playoff home run of his career, because they just don't go to the playoffs very often. But the, you know, all anybody wanted to talk about after the series was over was, what's gonna happen in the in free agency is like, you know, I want to be here, meaning he wants to stay in Toronto, said, but I just lost a game
Pottymouth 25:34
seven. Yeah, he's just sad. He just needs time to process it. But I think he wants to be there, like the series of the big heart strings were the series of the vladian bow picks from back in the minors together, and then long hair together, and then short hair together, yeah. And they're just, you know, and the sons of of players that kind of bond and going through the ranks together is, is so fucking huge. And I was kind of wondering, I mean, this doesn't happen now, but you know how Vladi had promised he was going to give his dad the ring? Yeah, because I was wondering if Dante would be like so beau, you know, Vlad, he's going to give his dad his ring. And then, you know, then Dalton, Varsha, also, Gary, you know, is this a thing all the kids got to give their dads? We don't
Patti 26:19
want to go through with that, but they did. You could see them supporting each other throughout the game, and it was really pretty great. So Will Smith, who, last week we talked about, you know, common name, quiet guy, all this stuff, another huge, huge home run. Okay, so hit the winning home run off of Shane Bieber in the 11th inning. Okay, that's a big Ouch. That's a big deal. But you know what? He caught 73 innings in the World Series. That's the most ever. That's incredible. I mean, his knees. He shouldn't have to, like, use his knees for the next three months. He got a 10 year contract extension back in March, and I bet whoever signed, I was like, Yeah, this is that was smart. That was smart, but it's also the longest contract ever for a catcher. Again. See knees right above, right. So I think we did this last year, which has changed the numbers every year for the past six seasons. Now, the winning World Series team has had a Will Smith. Three of those were this Will Smith, catcher from Dodgers. The other three wore the same pitcher who was who won a World Series with three different teams. So what Will Smith pitcher one with Atlanta, Houston and then with the Rangers, that's some good luck. So yeah. So six consecutive years, the winning World Series team has had a Will Smith on the roster. I Sung Kim, who we mentioned before, you listed as the South Korean immigrant playing for for Major League Baseball right now. He is my only current boyfriend who was in the World Series. Didn't do very much, but the important thing is, Dave Roberts lost a race to him. All right, so funny. So he was going to race Kim from first base to third base. He was given a lead. I said Kim was starting at first base and and Dave got to start where his he would have taken a lead, right if you've been on first base, and then he face planted rounding second base. Since what he said was I was trying to add a little levity. I wasn't trying to do a faceplant at shortstop, and yet the legs just gave way. That was the last full sprint I ever do in my life. And I paid my debt because there was a little wager, so I did owe up. So yeah, but the his, his team appreciate, like, he was, like, just trying to break the tension. Like this was, you know, in Toronto before Game Six, it's like, Okay, we got to, just like, we got to get it together and,
Pottymouth 28:33
and, you know, back in the day, Dave Roberts had some legs. He stole that base to get the Red Sox to win the World Series. So, like,
Patti 28:39
apparently, those legs are showing their age now, but good for him. I like that. He tried to do that. Yeah, I threw Yoshi no boo Yamamoto in here because I think last year I had Los Angeles as my pitching flock. So almost a boyfriend situation, because he was on my fantasy team. I just want you to know that his arms were so tired that he needed help hoisting his MVP trophy as World Series MVP trophy. So just a quick rundown. He pitched two and two thirds scoreless innings to end game seven. That was the longest any that was the longest any Dodgers pitcher pitched that whole game, holy shit. And that was like in relief, in in, you know, in extra innings, that was
Unknown Speaker 29:21
more than a tiny
Patti 29:22
Yeah, yeah. He was like, yeah, yeah. He got pulled. He got pulled with boba shed so run. But that, as you were starting to say, it was the day after he threw 96 pitches in game six, and that complete game in game two, his postseason era, covering all the postseason rounds, 1.451 1.45 1.45 he is the first to win three games in the same world series since Randy Johnson in 2001
Pottymouth 29:50
you know, I feel bad for Josh Reddick, because when Yamamoto was signed for 320 $5 million he tweeted, who's gonna sign a guy for 320 By a million, who's never played an MLB game. And now everybody is reposting that because he's like, Oh, well, it actually works out.
Patti 30:07
Yeah, yeah. So um, and we saw him pitch against the O's where he almost had, oh my god, a no hitter, yeah. And then the O's taken over at the very end. So we have seen him in person, be electric, and he was pretty stunning. He was he was pretty stunning.
Pottymouth 30:23
Totally the other, like, cute post game interview, I think both him and Dave Roberts, where he said he didn't think he was gonna end up pitching right, like he wasn't, didn't expect to be pitching. And Dave was like, I'm really glad I didn't know that. Oh, boy. Holy shit. All right, another Dodger who I admire, adore, is Mookie Betts. You know, started loving him with his days with the Red Sox, and now not only is he a World Series winner, but he is the 2025 Roberto Clemente award winner. I feel like the timing of the announcement of that award makes it get buried, because it was in the middle of the World Series. And Mookie Betts has done a lot of amazing things since he got to LA. I mean, he was a young kid with the with the Red Sox. I'm sure he was doing good things then, but he founded his foundation called the 5050 foundation in 2021 and it's focused on helping youth in both LA and Nashville, where he's on, where he's from, and with a focus on physical fitness, mental and emotional health, nutrition and financial literacy, basically, what does a young person need to survive? Especially if they're coming from a background of not having resources or stressed out, it is general. So like, I think those categories cast a pretty wide net, because they ended up giving support to LA area fire victims, for example, especially with all this talk about Dodgers going to the White House and the fact that they fucking went last time. And Mookie Betts actually went last time. His foundation partnered with the Obama Foundation. I think that's notable, to donate sports equipment to schools, and he had a bets on us. Adorable found at the UCLA Children's Hospital, providing resources to pediatric patients there. Beyond that, he sponsored baseball and basketball teams like he's he was a multi sport guy, still a multi sport guy in Nashville bowling, including bowling, he's got all the B sports I'm sure he's very good at badminton as well. It's got to be and importantly, he's been behind a lot of efforts in the Los Angeles area area to promote the inclusion of black players and fans in baseball. He had a rough year that some of us forget about, and and he was getting a lot of crap for his postseason slumping. What I loved about it, though, is David Ortiz, as much as he was LA's guy and rooting for the Blue Jays and projected predicted the Blue Jays win, he also took note of Mookie slump and was really cheering for him, both online and on TV. And, you know, game seven, he finally broke through and got that, that key hit. Wait, what's that six or seven? That was seven? No, it was six. It was six because he had that. It was Game Six. It was part of the win in game six because he had the post game interview with big Poppy and got the dog shirt that he was all excited about. So he finally did break through that, but the beginning of the year. And also notable that the year started in Tokyo and ended in Canada, so not in the United States. But he missed the Tokyo series because he had a weird illness that actually never got diagnosed, as far as I could tell, and he lost almost 20 pounds, and he said that he felt almost normal otherwise, except for the fact that he couldn't keep anything down. Isn't that crazy? And I think it's super crazy that after losing that almost 20 pounds, he kind of played the start of the season with them, as soon as they got back from Tokyo, you know, somehow he stopped puking, but he, you know, was playing, and somehow he started really strong in that little bit of March where he had five hits in the first three games. And then I think he used up all that adrenaline, and it was back to this body that had lost a lot of mass, and he had a really stressful, difficult April. And then in May, he fractured his toe. June, he was still not doing well, fractured toe recuperation, mystery, illness recuperation. He was batting 205, with a 568, ops in July, when his stepfather died. So we had another layer of shit to deal with. Fought back in August, and then had an emotional interview where he talked about one thing that his stepfather had always done with him was whenever he hit a home run, he would get a text from his stepfather that said, home run, Mookie time, and it would be the number of the home run. So his first home run in August, super difficult. So despite that, you know, struggling season, he battled back in September with a 299 average 900 ops, and then struggled in the World Series until that, yep, Game six, two big RBI single in game six, that was key to the win, because they won three to one. Notably, Mookie Betts is now the only active player with four World Series rings, because he got one with the Red Sox and now three with the
Patti 35:28
Dodgers. Yeah, was about to get to start with
Speaker 1 35:31
the Dodgers. Yeah. So has earned, earned four. But
Patti 35:36
someone's gonna like, you know, fact check us and they don't have the rings yet. There you go. Yay, Pookie. Yeah, yay, Pookie. I'm gonna talk about two tributes that happened during the
Pottymouth 35:46
World Series cheers. Then I'll cheers with my Canadian little whiskey. Here it's because I
Patti 35:49
finished my beer really, very cute, very cute. I can't get such a tiny little beer stein. Yeah, like, wow,
Pottymouth 35:56
yeah. But I figured I still, you know, oh, Canada, we're still, we're still admiring you. Yes, we are
Patti 36:01
all right, you do that. Well, I talk about the bullpens. So Dodgers reliever, Alex vesia has been out for a while due to, and I quote, a deeply personal family matter. No one is giving up any details. Privacy is being protected, and he was unavailable for the World Series. So the Dodgers bullpen, possibly all of the pitchers started wearing his number 51 on their caps, beginning in game three. Game Six, some of the Toronto relievers started also doing it. And game seven, all of them wrote 51 just on the side of their caps and just in support, right? Just in support. Again, it's not public news what's happening. I don't know if these guys know what's going on. They know it's a family thing, but they're supporting another player. Dave Roberts says, who didn't know until the game was over this was going on? He said, it's everything. I didn't learn that until after the game last night. I think it really speaks to the brotherhood of athletes. It just speaks to how much respect and love they have for one another. It's a huge, huge tribute to Alex and then Kike. I love this because I referenced how angry he was after his strikeouts so he got he struck out with Chris Bassett, and he said I was looking up at the board to see the replay, and that's when I saw that he had 51 right. Instead of being mad that I struck out, I was kind of going back to the deck. I thinking, Did Bassett play with Bessie at some point? And then after the game, was told that everybody had them for those guys to do that. It's incredible. They're trying to win a World Series, but they understand that life is bigger than baseball, and baseball is just a
Pottymouth 37:35
game. I love that, that life's bigger than baseball. I mean, because it does come down to that. And there we've talked about so many players who have gone through just huge, you know, you have this fan pressure, but life happens, and so for other players to be supporting that, even in like, the, you know, most confrontational of games of the year, is huge, yeah. And
Patti 37:57
Steiner was saying, the manager of uptrend was saying, No, these are good guys, and they are husbands and they are fathers, and they get what you just said, that stuff happens, and they just want to support each other. Vladi also had a tribute that I really loved, right? He came to game seven wearing a game worn Team Canada jersey from Marie Philippe Polan, who is the captain clutch of Canadian hockey. She is the only player ever to score in four Olympic gold medal games, including three in which she scored the game winning goal. Man three, three of those gold, you know, gold medal games, the whole Canadian Women's Hockey team was at Game six, and at the time of this article was, you know, when they saw him in in her jersey, she was planning on the game seven. I don't know if that was confirmed or not, but like, he's, he's cross training, and he is, he was channeling this clutch player who knows how to win for Canada, and has for years, for so much like she's placed on the professional team now, but for years, she has just epitomized Canada hockey and clutch hockey. So she's pretty incredible. And I love that Vladi was wearing not just her jersey, but a game worn
Pottymouth 39:09
jersey. That's amazing. Yeah, that is amazing. And then, you know, even more heartbreaking that they couldn't pull it off, and he had a rough game seven compared to the rest. But oh man, oh man. You know, that made me think of also the boba shit home run they had intentionally walked Vladdy right before him. And so it was a little bit like, Fuck y'all Yep. All right, so baseball is gonna keep going. You know, these two teams out of 30 have terminated the season, and we're gonna start hearing news about stuff happening and people moving and getting ready for next season. And the first thing that I have noticed at this point was Rachel folden, who have talked about for many years, I think we talked about when she first was hired by the cubs in 2019 she moved up through as a coach, starting. With the rookie leads. Actually, she was hired by Theo Epstein in 2019 and by the by last year, she was in triple A Iowa. So it seemed like this was a strong, long connection with the Cubs. Maybe she would be getting a promotion we're waiting for. You know, a woman hitting coach in the Major League would be amazing. And she's moving to the Mets, and I find that super interesting. So she posted on her Instagram. I saw one article about it, that she's going to double A Binghamton to start. Not a lot of information. Just she had a very respectful Thank you, cubs, looking forward to being in New York with the Mets. And, I mean, they're rivals, so that's, that's an interesting move. We'll see what happens there. But Power Tour, I just, you know, love to see women playing for or coaching, working with a variety of teams is a good thing for baseball, yep, for
Patti 40:55
sure, for sure. Some union news. This is fun because it's, you know, got intrigue. I love, I love some intrigue. All right, so the MLB pa has banned an agent, Jim Murray Oh, from negotiating player contracts for four years, and they find him $100,000 so the union has to certify agents so that they are able to work with the people they represent. He has in the past, represented my boyfriends, Ian happ and Anthony Volpe. So you know what he did? He was a mole. He was a frickin mole during union negotiations. Oh, my God. He apparently revealed confidential information to the league, including texting the commissioner of baseball during the 2020 negotiations over covid 19. Remember, they were negotiating how, how and how much are players going to get paid? Like, what's the schedule of games? Who's playing? You know, all of that was very complicated, right? With the pandemic, you know, in in full force and the lockdowns and all of that. So apparently, there were hundreds of text messages between this agent and the commissioner and other people, you know, high up in the league the so the union referred to him as a mole, and, quote, a de facto member of the commissioners bargaining team. And then he shot himself in the foot because a bio that he wrote for some public thing he said, Jim also played a significant role in unprecedented labor negotiations in 2020 helping bring baseball back on the field during the pandemic, but dude, you just outed yourself because you were not part of a negotiating team, so you just volunteered that information. But okay, so, and then his spokespeople say, well, he wasn't banned. He voluntarily agreed to not regardless, he can't represent players for four years if he wants to do it again, he has to pay $150,000 to recertification.
Pottymouth 42:43
But meanwhile, he was doing this with the commissioner. Does the commissioner get any slap on the wrist or anything from the clearly talking to somebody you shouldn't have been talking to? Well,
Patti 42:55
I mean, I'm sure he would say, I'm just receiving these texts. What am I gonna do? All right? I mean,
Speaker 1 42:59
text goes one, yeah, who knows? I don't know. That's kind of shitty.
Patti 43:03
I mean, also the, you know, the players union can't, doesn't have any restrictions really, that they can put on the commissioner baseball. They can control. They can control, yeah, they can say, you can't talk, you know, you can't work with our players.
Pottymouth 43:14
There should just be a fucking giant spotlight on them saying, hey, slimeball. All right. So fear not even though MLB is over, there is lots of more baseball that's going to be happening through the winter that will keep us going until spring training. And you know, one of our favorites is lead um, the Dominican Republic, and it was almost coming here, at least, to Citi Field. So next weekend, I don't know I can't do it's the second, eighth and ninth. There was supposed to be a game between the ageless and the giantess de Cibao in Citi Field. Last year there was a game between Tigres de Lisa and aguiles ceballenas. And it was huge, and it was sold out, and it was a big party, and they were like, All right, great. This thing works. Let's make this an annual thing. Pick a different team and have it at Citi Field again. And what could go wrong? Well, they just canceled it a couple days ago. Now, this is a big deal because they are in their season, so to schedule, it's kind of like scheduling the Tokyo Game, but not quite as far, but you know what? Maybe the Mexico game. So when you're scheduling an out of country game in season, you've got to balance your schedules. You've got to make time for it. And so lead on had made time for this, and at the very last minute, whoever, whatever organization, and I didn't write down their name, but who is responsible for the actual logistics? Said, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to cancel this last minute. So now there's a lot of rumor about, why did they cancel it last minute? And they're talking about, maybe it's low ticket sales due to ice activity and people being afraid to come out to a games perfect that is the Dominican Republic. Sure. Sure, so I'm I don't know it. I read a couple articles, both of them pointed to that as suspicion, but nothing founded lead on is is angry, because it's definitely fucked up their whole schedule. And they're saying that, well, people went to the Mets over the summer like the Met sales were great this season, so, but things have changed since then, so I'm not really sure. The week after the Dominican Republic versus Puerto Rico All Star showdown is still scheduled for November 15, I went online. There are plenty of tickets still on sale. I talked about this before, so I'm not sure if there are plenty of tickets still on sale because people are afraid, or because they're too fucking expensive, although it seems like one section has gone down since last I checked, because you can get tickets for 88 bucks in the Coca Cola corner. And I swear to God, last time I checked, everything was over 100 and then it goes over 100 and up to 232 they're gonna it's gonna be a big party, all day, Block Party starting at 1030 in the morning. Gates opening at 1130 games at one. There's actually really good deals on StubHub. So if you're thinking of going, but is it gonna actually happen? Is that gonna get canceled last minute? Who knows? If you live in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania, go to the Mets website and look under Events, because there's a giveaway. So you know, doesn't hurt to enter. Might as well put your name in. But it'll be interesting to see if that happens, especially after this other event has been questioned.
Patti 46:33
So this Dr versus PR All Star showdown, are these teams from those places, or are those, generally, MLB players who are from those places?
Pottymouth 46:48
So I can't find the rosters. The only thing that I've seen is that this is being touted as Robin Robinson canoes, probable last game on US soil. So he's going to be on there. So I think it's going to be like an amalgamation of former MLB players. I doubt that there are going to be current players actually playing, but I think it'll be, you know, former players from both MLB and from the Liga, Roberta Clemente and lead on, who are involved, my guess. So we'll see what happens. I don't know I if we could, if only I had a New York address that I could enter to talk to somebody, see what happens. My last lead on piece is Martin Maldonado machete. I missed announcing a couple weeks ago when he retired from MLB. So congratulations to Martin Maldonado, because he had a 15 year career, very noted as his nickname machete goes for his defense, he was amazing with throw outs. However, he never got it together with the offense. It's kind of amazing to last 15 years in MLB with a 203 average and 620 ops. So he was good at the catching, but little bit of problem there he is, however, still playing on my very favorite team, the reigning champions of lead um the Leones de los cogilo So Martin Maldonado retired from lb, however, still playing, and I kind of get it, because he qualifies for the MLB pension because he played for more than 10 years. Play for 10 years to be exactly, but he can't start withdrawing until age 45 he's currently 39 and that's partial withdrawal. You can withdraw your full pension at age 62 so good thing. US teachers don't have to wait that long. But I think his pension is a little bit better than mine's gonna be anyway. Maybe he's just like paying the bills, or maybe he just likes playing. There he is Puerto Rican of his own birth. But you know, it's fun to play and lead on. So power to part Martin. He did play for escojito before. So this is an ongoing thing. The other attention that I'm going to be giving is into Venezuelan League, the League of Venezuela de baseball professional and another like I did so well in the winter leagues. Last year, both my teams won the championship, cardinales de Lara, reigning championships. They had their first famous debut earlier than anticipated. Baby Luis angelacunha, your boyfriend. It debuted on Halloween. He's playing shortstop now for the Cardinals. He didn't have any hits on his debut, but he walked and but he did have two hits in his second game on Saturday, when they won 10 to four over the Bravo Bravos de Margarita. And he's in a pretty MLB ish team at this point because il de Mario Vargas, second base, he'll be playing, doing some double plays with him. Rafael Ortega, former baseball boyfriend, ex baseball boyfriend, cut him off after his transphobic remark, but you know, here he is on. Cardinal de Lara in center field, Juan Yepes, who I had picked when he was on the American cardinals, and he is dh and Luis angelicunia had underperformed with the Mets this year. He had 41 hits in 95 games, betting 234, with the 567, ops and no home runs. So he needs a little bit more training. And so why not do it at home in Venezuela? Why not? Yeah, the other like by line that we were watching is your boyfriend, Andres Jimenez is actually from barquisite, which is where the Cardenas de Lara are, and he had played for the cardinales. And had he won the World Series, he would have been the first guy from barquisite to do it, so he had the cardinalities behind him, but alas, day it didn't happen. Sip some Canadian whiskey to that. This is actually pretty good. I'm glad, yeah, I'm glad it
Patti 50:54
just looks like you're using, like, doll glassware.
Pottymouth 50:58
Yeah, it keeps me paced. Well, if I had a bigger glass, that's a portion controller. I had a bigger glass, there would be more
Patti 51:06
shot glasses that are the right size. But this is a tiny, tiny beer style, which is makes me it has a handle. It makes it handy. I just want to, like, end with Max Scherzer. Oh, Max. We love Max. Oh, my God. You know, we've loved him since he was with the Nationals and, you know, earlier in the playoffs, you know, we had those, like, knock down, drag outs from the mound. You're not taking me off. You know, out of the game. When he got pulled in game seven, it was, like, at the right time, yeah, and he was showing so much love to the crowd. You know, he's, like, pounding his chest and waving at the crowd like I never I usually see him stomp off when he gets pulled but he was like, No, this is important. Fans are with me, and they were showing love to him, like standard information, totally, yeah, they really were. And he appreciated and he acknowledged them, which is, you know, he can't, usually gets around to it, but he's usually too mad, because after the game, after the loss, he was in tears. Max Scherzer in tears. Hard to believe, but I just want to read what he said, because it's kind of meaningful to me. I'm going to be in tears. Yeah, you are. I'm 41 years old, and I never thought I could love baseball this much. My love for the game was so strong because of their love for the game, that loss is so tough because you're so close to everybody. This team had that closeness, had that camaraderie. We had that passion, not only for the game, but for each other.
Pottymouth 52:29
It was kind of inferred that he would be retiring, but he said, I just can't believe that that was my last
Patti 52:38
pitch. Yeah, he's, like, unwilling to, like, it seemed like he wanted to, like, sit on this for a little while. Yeah, before I made any decisions, yeah,
Pottymouth 52:47
we'll see what happens. I mean, he really did pull it together at the end,
Patti 52:50
it's going out on a standing ovation at a game seven of a World Series. If that is the end, that's a pretty good way to go out just
Unknown Speaker 52:57
the last game seven that I know,
Patti 52:59
I know, heartbreaking. So stuff that's gonna happen between now and when you guys hear this, yep,
Pottymouth 53:05
there'll be a parade. So you guys can tell us about how dangerous it was for the bystanders, or whatever. There's gonna be a bunch of rewards in the next couple weeks. So this week coming up tonight. Fuck tonight, tonight, Tonight, or tomorrow, tonight, soon, very soon, the Gold Glove is gonna be announced. And when that Gold Glove is announced, please get on it and vote for the platinum glove. I miss this every fucking year because I think it's World Series hangover, but the platinum glove is gonna be announced on Friday. So this is the after all, the Gold Glove people are announced. One gets voted on by fans for platinum. So Ernie Clement, please, if he gets one of the gold gloves, vote for Ernie. He deserves some happy, and then Silver Slugger is going to be it said either Thursday or Friday, the sixth or seventh. That seems like weirdly vague, but
Patti 53:59
yeah, yeah. We will come back to you with how we did with our terrible, terrible, terrible predictions once all the awards are out. Yeah, because, you know, we did. We predicted, you know, how teams would finish, but we also predicted the awards. So we'll wait till those are announced before we tell you how badly we did on those,
Pottymouth 54:14
yeah, and we have a couple other we need to report. We got to do our prize packs for our fantasy league that's gonna come together, and I have to total up my Owings for the shitty Red Sox, for both Earl this Chapman and for Jaren Duran, and how much I'm gonna be donating that will all be prepared for next week. Excellent. Maybe I gotta do my homework.
Patti 54:37
Excellent. Couple things this week. Tuesday is election day for a lot of people. If you have opinions, if you have thoughts, if you want to see things go a certain way, please go vote. Please help other people vote. Know, somebody's have a hard time getting to the polls. Get them to the polls. This is one of the most important elections we've got for a while. Vote them if you got them.
Unknown Speaker 55:00
Yeah, absolutely. On
Patti 55:01
a related note, you may have heard that a lot of people are losing their SNAP benefits. These are nutritional benefits provided by the federal government. Most of this is because of the shutdown. Some of this may be coming back, but it's very complicated to reinstate it. So this means that children, families, seniors are going to be hungry because the federal government got closed, and the federal government is ruled by somebody who is cruel, and they're trying to get you to believe that it's just people that are trying to game the system that get these benefits. It's not these are children and families and old people who need help. So yes, so keep that in mind as you vote. But also, if you have local organizations that work on food insecurity reduction, that do food distributions, that do any of that, and you've got a little time or you got a little money, please help them get food to people who need food, because people are going to be hungry because of this fuck up,
Pottymouth 56:01
yeah, and don't buy that line. I mean, even if there were some corruption, it's not 100% people. There are people who are going to be starving and kids and elder people who have no other resources. And don't buy people like I talked not too long, long ago, about Mark to share his former Yankee campaign going on in Texas. I'm sure he's going to march into it, but he's spreading a lot of these lies at this point about the snap corruption and that it's all fraud and yada yada, but that that's not reality. That is not reality. There are people who will be starving because of this. So yes, what Patty said? Go help. Just go help. Just
Patti 56:47
go help. And states and local governments don't have it in their budgets to make up the difference. They will all do what they can, but they didn't predict this need, because this was something that was covered by the federal government because about keeping people fed and keeping people alive and healthy. So please help if you can
Pottymouth 57:07
help. Yep, yep. All right. On the bright side, only 123 days into the World Baseball Classic, and one thing that keikiernan just said in a lot of his interviews with Puerto Rican press is, God willing, I will be in Puerto Rico, because I want to play the World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, which they're going to be hosting. So all right, look for Kike there, and we will see if he has cut his hair by then, because Halloween will have been over. I want to see those news of him in costume. Yes. And did you notice that there was a lot of advertising the World Baseball Classic during the playoffs? I don't remember that in previous years? I think it's growing. Yeah, I think it's growing. This is very cool. I like to see good thing. I like to see it Okay, friends, tell us how you did with your predictions this year. Tell us what's going on in your life. What now that MLB is done? Where are you going to get your baseball fix? You can find us on social media. Sure Find us on blue sky. That would be ncib podcast. We'll also check our Twitter messages at that very same handle, Facebook and Instagram. However, are no crying in B ball, and we would really, really, really, super appreciate more help on our Patreon to make sure that we can keep doing this, because the same Patreon folks can't always keep going. So that's P, A, T, R, E, O, n.com/no, crying and B ball and $1 a month, and you get in and you have the satisfaction of knowing that that dollar makes sure that our bills are being paid and that we are not paying to do the podcast for you all, which we really enjoy doing, and we want to keep it up for
Patti 58:38
sure, for sure. Hey, if you can get if you can get vaccinated, you should get your booster shot. Fight the man all the time. It's the right thing to do now more than ever, send those game balls to Meredith and until next week, say good night
Unknown Speaker 58:51
potty mouth. Good night pie mouth. You
Pottymouth 59:11
I think it's all right, all right, except for I'm almost out of beer.
Patti 59:16
On the bright side, we've got another one right here by almost out of being completely out of beer.
Pottymouth 59:20
Well, I was almost out of beer until I took that sip. Now I'm completely out of beer. So timing is everything I can beer. All right, you don't have to chug on my account.
Patti 59:34
I don't check on your account. I don't chug usually, but it's really only one sip left.
Speaker 1 59:38
All right. Here I'm already reaching for the whiskey. I.