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When Patti and her potty-mouthed friend talk baseball, you'll know this is not a baseball podcast for lightweights. This is the real deal, from real fans. Because diamonds are a strong woman's best friend, and there's no crying in baseball.
Patti 0:17
No Hi and welcome to episode 430 of No Crying in Baseball, the Misrepresentation and Hostile Acts episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth, a little taken aback by me just
Pottymouth 0:28
then. Yeah, hostile acts always makes me just a little bit nervous. But you're right. I hate with a misrepresentation. Why not? Well, I won't take that personally, and I know this is neither, neither the misrepresentation nor the hostile acts are directed toward me. Correct. I can just be at Correct. Quiet bystander,
Patti 0:43
correct. They are addressed to Canada, so we'll talk about that later. Not by US, Canada. Oh Canada. Oh Canada. There we go. There we go. So hey, you just found out something special about, you know,
Pottymouth 0:55
us, yeah, so we haven't celebrated our anniversaries before. So then that would be of starting this podcast. And yesterday was our eighth anniversary. We started on what day is today? October 27 so it'd be October 26 of 17. Yeah, that's it, yep, 2017
Patti 1:13
Yeah. We started with a 2017 World Series, and I'd never really pin a day on it, no. Now we have a day to pin on it. Yeah. So to celebrate, we're recording a podcast. And that's that's a good
Pottymouth 1:24
thing. And actually, we usually would have recorded yesterday, but you were elsewhere.
Patti 1:29
I was the beach. I was the beach with my book club friends, which was super great. October in the Delmarva on Delmarva show, sure is a lovely place to be. It was chilly, but it was sunny and pretty. And we took lots of walks, and we got our chairs down to the beach and bundled up and talked about a lot of things and just chilled. And the thing about old ladies is, even on Saturday mornings at the beach, everybody's up by seven, drinking coffee and sitting around the dining room table. And it was fine. That's funny. It was really good. And we we watched the World Series games together. Everybody was good sports about it, knowing that I was, like, the baseball nerd in the crowd, and there's another baseball fan in the crowd. Then there's varying levels among everybody else. But it turns out there's enough to talk about when one of the teams is from Canada, for instance, and we know, like, back stories on some people Sure, we could bring in the politics. We could bring in the, you know, this is what I know about this guy, you know, coming up and all of that. Yeah, it was really fun.
Pottymouth 2:21
And we can make everything interesting. We could try, we could
Patti 2:24
try really good sport. And that's okay, that's
Pottymouth 2:27
awesome. Yes, we watched Game one very enthusiastically here in the basement with Mr. Potty mouse cousin, who wasn't quite as enthusiastic as I was, but it was just, I thought it was a super fun game and and I also watched the pre game show, which I usually don't. And I watched, actually, two of them, the one, fuck, I don't remember who was on it, but of course, the one with big Poppy and a rod and Jeter, and they're just entertaining, and especially because big Poppy was the only one who was voting for Toronto, and the two Yankees were going Dodgers. And then Toronto won, but then game two didn't quite go the same, but I was not feeling so hot, so I actually missed game two. So now I'm feeling culpable, right? That I need to stay up and watch all of the games, because if not, it's clearly gonna be my fault that Toronto loses. So the
Patti 3:17
downside for me that we were en route to the beach and stopped at a sports bar so we would catch the beginning of the World Series game, no little dinner on the Remember, we're pretty much at our destination. But the problem was there was no volume, so I had to go back later and play the voices of fire choir, singing both of the anthems, because they were That was beautiful. They were incredible. And I was so glad that, you know, everything was captured somewhere to see later, because that was pretty freaking amazing. Yeah, absolutely, whereas, on the other hand, I did see that weird break where we saw the Jonas Brothers, you know, in the middle of the game, probably ruining all of the starting pitchers. Well, one of the starting pitch because of that extra making the stand up for cancer break longer, right than usual,
Pottymouth 4:03
huh? That's I had fallen asleep by then, but Mr. Potty math was still watching and,
Patti 4:09
yeah, I'm fine with the Jonas Brothers. I was not pleased with the timing, right? So much like, really
Pottymouth 4:14
now, yeah, and that's probably not their fault. No, I'm sure it's not. All right, we got stuff you want to talk about.
Patti 4:21
Things on today's show, our World Series boyfriends, featuring school love. We don't need you. And wedding planning. We've got new managers. Just how tight were those pants? The police blotter featuring yet more sports betting. We have lots of women and girls in baseball. We've got winter ball, and we're cross training with tariffs.
Pottymouth 4:38
Cheers. So much fun, so much stuff to talk about, even though that we're down to two teams, but there's always extras, but we're going to start talking about what we usually start talking about, which is our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season, and now we're down pretty much to two a piece ish, because we have two teams. And. I just wanted to especially because you guys are going to hear this after, at least after game three, which is going to be happening tonight, if not later, we'll just give you some highlights from stuff that we have seen and appreciated. And Ernie Clement is my Toronto guy, and he has just been such a star, not only in the end of the season, but also now, are you fighting the word adorable every time you talk about that? He is pretty adorable, isn't he? He really is. And there's so much adorable. I don't know why I've seen so much of this sort of his hometown celebrating him and not all the other players. Is it just because I'm Clement focused, or is it once and now and now I'm following him, so I need to. So actually, out there for anybody who wants to contribute, if you know of hometowns who are supporting their World Series player, please let us know, because I would love to just, you know, do some hometown love comparisons, right? So bright New York reality show, right? Hometown comparison, yeah, and that's, that's perfect, because I'm going to wrap up my little spiel here with a reality. This is kind of a reality show, okay, yeah, Ernie Clement from bright New York, outside of Rochester, see last week and his, you know, I talked about his kindergarten teacher doing a little cute salute with the whole class full of adorable little kids being proud of Ernie and the superintendent giving him a shout out. And because it's upstate New York, they were sort of many of them Yankees fans, but now they're Ernie fans. Well, Brighton High School, his high school. So this, I would love to know if other high schools did it had a blue jay Friday in honor of Ernie Clement, before game one, where they all wore blue jays gear, or wore blue for Blue Jays, which you know, is so close to Dodger blue. Actually, have you seen the two side by side? They're they're very close. I keep doing
Patti 6:48
it in my head because Dodger blue I always think of is so distinctive, and it's
Pottymouth 6:52
like it's just a little deeper than blue jay blue, but it's very close. So we should do like a Can you pick the blue kind of thing? So Ernie saw all this press, and he sent a message back, shouting out all of his schools, and he named them, and I didn't write them down, but from his various primary schools and middle school and high school, and, you know, thanking them for his support. So yay, hometowns. You know, support your guy, because it makes a difference when, when these players know that they have their friends and family and hometowns behind them. My other guy is Andy pajes, who I last talked about just really kind of sucking in the postseason. He had a great season, big season, but he is starting to turn the pajes, you know, if you look at the way his name spelled, you'll understand that bad joke. He had a very so in game one, the one that I actually watched, he had the ugliest of strikeouts with bases loaded, and he struck out on a full count on a ball, so he would have walked a run in and, you know, maybe extended the game, but no did not. And therefore the Dodgers lost, Blue Jays won, yadda yadda. But in game two, he's finally breaking out, and he got another hit. He had only had three in the postseason up to this point, with like 35 or more at bats, and he got one out single in the top of the eighth, and then he made it to second, when show out Tommy got a single. And then he made it to third, when Pookie Betts got a walk and then he scored on a wild pitch. So he not only got a single but he got a run and contributed to that five to one win, even though it wasn't like a really deciding contribution. His average is still not only below the Mendoza line, but below the 100 line. Is there another word for that? Below 100
Patti 8:38
I just don't know. Near, near it's
Pottymouth 8:41
yeah, we get maybe we should create something. Is average, is 0.92
Patti 8:45
I think what it is is send down to the miners. Yeah,
Pottymouth 8:49
except for not when you're in the world zero. No miners are happening. He is the only member of the Dodgers lineup under 200 let alone 100 so I'm wondering, and you guys know this better than me. I haven't looked up the lineups for tonight, so that's my bad. Our guy from the Nationals, Alex call, might get the call, because he could sub in right there. So we'll see. I saw a really cute interview with Alex call, who is like, just starry eyed about having been traded over there at the deadline. So that feeling of being wanted, right? The like the possible greatest team in baseball wanting me. You know this guy from the Nationals, and here I am in this lineup full of superstars in the World Series, all all of a sudden, he's just like, how, right, right? So, you know, this could be his chance. We'll see what happens. One guy I cannot ignore is past baseball boyfriend Kiki Hernandez, and just to update from last week, he made that record. So he is now the Dodger with the most postseason games, 2087 at the time of recording 88 at least by the time you hear this, Justin Turner had 86 so Kike can party on and he's being. He interviewed. There are just so many Kiki interviews that I don't even know where to start. Except for the last one that I saw. Asked him if he would do Dancing with the Stars. Oh, and we like David Ross did, right? Which was just a beautiful one. And he said that he would once he's retired. So I think that would be like he can dance. He dances all over the ball field. And I would love to see Kiki Hernandez in Dancing with the Stars. The only time I've ever watched the show was when I'm probably going to butcher name Alona Mayer, the kick ass rugby player, body positive woman. She's amazing. And I'd been following her and saw that, and she was just so super, super, super cool. So I would also watch for Kike. I will
Patti 10:41
say one of, one of the fun things about watching the World Series with people who don't regularly watch baseball is when they were, like, asking me questions about, what do you know about this guy? What? And I come at them with the fun facts, right? They don't need the baseball facts, right? So for Kiki, it was his, his daughter won't let him cut his hair because he's got to be Flynn for for Halloween. And so he'd come up and like, Wait, that's the guy with the long hair his daughter, right? Like, yes, exactly. We've got this. Everybody had their little thing of why they remembered this guy. So see, and then you're more invested, and they were more interested in these guys. It is true. All right, so I'm gonna talk about some previous boyfriends, because none of my current boyfriends are doing anything in the World Series. Currently, Shohei Otani, you may have heard of him. He was my designated hitter when he was the angels. He was my guy back in 2020 I think so. Making the news recently is the fact that Toronto was recruiting him super hard, yeah, when he was, you know, approaching the free agency. And so, like, the day before he signed with the Dodgers in 2023 he was actually in Toronto. So, you know, do you remember how people were, like, reporting his rumors, like, Oh, I saw Shohei get on this plane and whatever. And he did, in fact, he was on a plane. Those guys who said who saw him on a plane in Toronto, they were not kidding. So we're watching this game, and then we hear this, like sound from the crowd, and one of my friends is, like, booing him. Are they? Know it's on the other team, but that's not okay. No, they're not booing him. And I looked up like, oh my god, they're saying. They are. They're saying, but they're saying we don't need you. At the time, it was the we don't need you chant, which was like, bottom of the ninth with two outs in game one, and then it's we don't need you because you didn't sign with us. But okay, we're fine. We're still here anyway, even without you. But it did start a boo discussion among the folks who were watching. And actually everybody there either they enjoyed sports, some sport on their own, or they are parenting kids who like so there's, there's definitely the whole sports through line there. Toronto, at the same time, have recently lost rookie Sasaki and Te ASCA Hernandez, all to the Dodgers. So they've lost a lot of people. The Post was actually very funny. They were saying, Toronto is trying to spend money. Toronto wants to spend money on players. And the quote that I really liked was they spent $500 million to Vladimir Garrett Jr, to keep him in Toronto. In so doing, handing out the biggest contract ever given by a team that has not been accused of ruining baseball with this spending, that just made me so happy. I'm gonna take a break and ask you to pour me a beer. Okay? Because I let's ask a little dry thing we were just drinking October skies. Do you want to tell us about October skies? Because
Pottymouth 13:10
that you brought that back. October skies comes from the earth Eagle. It says Earth Eagle brewings. So we had a beer from them, or I had a beer from them last week when I was in Massachusetts, and I brought back a couple in my suitcase. This is an amber Laga, because it's from New Hampshire and and it was very tasty, and we have finished it, and we are moving on to the sour. The Yep, and it's, and it's, I think it's lovely because it is not too sour, but it's definitely not sweet yet. It has strawberry and I think you need more of it. Oh,
Patti 13:43
I don't mind more of it. All right. So back to what we're talking about here. So there were some jokes also about Ohtani, you know, not playing for Toronto, including the manager of Toronto, John Schneider, who said, I hope he brought his hat, the Blue Jays hat that he took from us in our meeting. I hope he brought it back finally, and the jacket for decoy, you know, remember his dog. It's like, give us our stuff back already. And it was very funny, because, like Tony later, said that his wife totally loved the trash talk. You know, she's a professional athlete too. They love the Toronto trash talk. And then through the interpreter, his response to give the stuff back was, I plan to keep it because it was something that was a gift. But I think that was just couched differently. I think what he really said was no take backsies,
Pottymouth 14:23
yeah, yeah, sure, right, sure. It's in the translation, yep. Okay, so
Patti 14:27
Will Smith was my Dodgers guy from 2021 Will Smith has a rep for being such an average, low key dude, a good batter, but okay, for instance, except when he slaps in the rock in the United States. Yeah, his the most. He has got the most common last name and the sixth most common first name. He's teased all the time for the most boring interviews, like he went to the bull dorm School of handling the media, that's I'm just looking for, you know? Yeah, I'm just trying to get the bat on the ball. I'm not trying to do too much, all of those things, right? But he. Here's what he did that was spectacular. He caught Yamamoto. He called and caught yamamoto's complete game. In Game Two, also in the same game, he had an RBI single top of the first and then, you know, Kevin Gasman had the 17 consecutive outs, but then will comes back up and hits a Go ahead solo home run. Looks at the dugout, and you can see on the screen him yelling, let's fucking go, which is not a Will Smith thing at all. Also at the beach, I was trans. I was saying, Oh my God. He just this guy who's very just yelled, let's fucking go. And wrong crowd, I don't
Pottymouth 15:34
but some of them listen
Patti 15:35
to us. But at the end of the game, he's being interviewed afterwards, yeah, and he went right back to old will. He's like, I'm just trying not to do too much, move the ball, help this offense, score fronts. It was very funny. He had his like moment in the middle, and then he's back. Somebody else referred him as the silent killer, because he was making all of his very important moves. And, you know, Assassin, I think, but not making noise. George Springer was my Houston guy in 2018 and when I profiled him, I talked about his competitive family. They're all athletes. Both sisters played softball. Their parents were athletes, like wiffle ball was like a, you know, a competitive sport in their family, right? So his sister currently has such a Lena is a softball coach at Trinity College, you know, I think she played for Ohio State. Maybe I can't remember where, but anyway, so George Springer is being asked about her. Eddie said, she knows the game. We talk a lot. She kind of gets on my case a little bit more than I'd like her to. And he was asked, What did she get on your case about? He's like, everything, everything a little sister could possibly get on your case about, she gets on my case about, for instance, last year in 2024 he didn't have a great season. And her, her response was, hey, we're springers. We got to pick it up. She is getting married on November 9. They picked this date because she was like, You guys are going all the way, wow. So she's, like, didn't plan around, you know, the end of the season. She planned around the end of the post season. So she's not going to be at the Games in Los Angeles. You know, she's in, she's in the Toronto games, but because she's having her dress fitted, right? And what she said was, I had a gut feeling this is what our October was going to look like. And so fortunately, when it comes to the wedding, everything's been planned for quite some time, and now I feel like I just need to show up to the wedding. So I'm feeling really good. I mean, that's what you want, right?
Pottymouth 17:15
That's that is so impressive. And I'm guessing that they had the bucks for some good wedding dinners.
Patti 17:21
They just might probably not on her trinity college coaching salary, but it's, I believe there are some family members who might be making many numbers with very lot of zeros at the end.
Pottymouth 17:31
I'm just happy to see Springer springing because I was very nervous
Patti 17:35
again on game two.
Pottymouth 17:36
Oh, he got hit. Yeah, that's what Mr. Potty mouth told me, okay, yeah. He went down super hard, but he had this look on his face, oh, so he his face, oh so he became to my friends at the beach. He's the guy who always gets hit. Oh, like, sure, sure, sure, sure. We'll go with that. Yeah, there was something, as I saw recently, about him doing really great interviews and him overcoming his stutter. And I totally remember you talking about that too when you first talked about him. Good guy. So some good guys, we end up talking about a bunch. There's one another one is Tanner, tight pants. Tanner Scott, who we first noticed clearly when he spent a good amount of time here at the Orioles and had his certain, you know, way of fitting pants that maybe we appreciated. And now he's with the Dodgers, and he was super struggling. I mean, the Dodgers bullpen, honestly, is their their Achilles heel at this point, and Tanner type pants was absolutely part of it. He was on the wild card roster after having some some problematic end of the season appearances, but then he was taken off for the Division Series, and he could have been brought back for the World Series, but he wasn't. So the question is, why not? He had his worst season this year since 2021 with the O's. His era was 474, this year. It was worse with the o's, 517, and actually, before that, with the o's, it was even worse. He did not do very well with the O's. His good year, only good year in the time with his O's was 2020, so that's also a little bit of a skewed year. But then when he left the O's, he did really well with Miami and with the Padres. But this year, he blew third 10 out of 33 save opportunities. That's a lot of blown saves, which is as much as the past two years, 23 and 24 combined that he
Patti 19:16
blew, yeah, and a couple of them were really notable ones.
Pottymouth 19:20
Yeah, yeah. End of the game. They're winning. And oops, there we go. So why is he not pitching Now, besides the fact that he's had a really crappy season, he has a medical excuse. So the official line from the Dodgers press is, quote, an abscess incision in his lower body. So lower body leaves a lot of room to sort of euphemism, right? John Heyman went right there and said, let's just say. He's hoping to put it quote behind him. Hint there. So there you get it. So the Dodgers fessed up and said that he had a cyst on his butt. Tanner said it was an affection it could really actually not affect. Okay, anything affectionate. Maybe I just got that confused with with his tight pants. But he had sorry about he he could have had an infected cyst on his butt, which is something nobody really wants to picture. But, you know, I'm putting it out. No, we can't help it. Thank you for that. I'm so sorry, but you've got to wonder what role the tight pants had on that, you know, is it safe to wear your pants that tight? I don't know. Maybe it's not good for your butt. It's good for the butt
Patti 20:29
depending on what right why are we doing this right
Pottymouth 20:33
now? I'll shut up now. Oh my God, to drink my beer.
Patti 20:36
A couple of new managers were just hired, and I have opinions. So Kurt Suzuki, who we remember well, from the Nationals. He was the catcher, you know, on the the World Series winning team from Washington in 2019 the angels signed him for a one year managerial contract. That doesn't seem like enough time to do anything. It's their sixth manager in eight years. It seems to me, like, maybe you should give him a little more time to build relationships, to turn things around. It's like, what if you can't do it? Like, in the first two months, you can't do it
Pottymouth 21:08
well, especially this is no fucking experience. So he's like, yeah,
Patti 21:12
come from well, he's laughing, saying, I have a lot of experience with one year contracts. He said, I feel like I feel like I was born to do this, to lead players, to help players get better. I feel like I've done it on a yearly basis, with 29 or 30 pitchers right throughout a whole season, trying to understand how to get the best out of each player. And that's what excites me. And he said, obviously you play this game to win also, but what excites me is being able to help kids reach their potential, which sounds like summer camp more than a major league team, but Okay, yeah.
Pottymouth 21:40
And maybe he should have started managing somewhere else first, like anywhere else first. Besides,
Patti 21:45
wasn't, well, okay, so, and he beat out
Pottymouth 21:49
Albert Pujols, yeah, so that's fucking weird. My biggest memory of Kurt Suzuki from the World Series was feeling incredible, like loving him during the game and then feeling incredibly disappointed when he went to the White House and the President literally felt him up from behind, like, That picture is just kind of burned, like, yeah, place I would like to erase, but, yeah, you
Patti 22:09
talk about infected, you know. Okay, fine, but I think they're equally not to be talked about so much anyway. So the O's kind of disappointed me. I really liked Tony mancelino, who was their interim manager when they fired Brandon. Hi, I thought Tony was doing a good job. He did not get hired. Craig albernas got hired. I don't know anything about him, like I haven't watched him in action. I do like some of his experience, again, it's not a lot, but his last two seasons he spent in Cleveland on the coaching staff, and I really respect Stephen Vogt, right? And I think we both like him a lot. So he started as the bench coach, and then he was the associate manager for the second season. He has managed two single a teams long ago, and he must interview great because he was a finalist for both the White Sox and the Marlins when they were hiring, and he took himself out of the running because he wanted to stay working with Stephen vote for longer, really. So I got to respect that. Yeah, I got to respect that. So we'll see how that goes. A little sad about Tony, but you know, I like, I like what I'm learning about Craig right now. So we will see what happens
Pottymouth 23:16
there. All right, I heard that Brandon Hyde is being considered for the nationals job, which I, you know, at least it would be an easy distance
Patti 23:26
like Brandon Hyde. I, you know, I don't
Pottymouth 23:30
know, right? If the question is, was it
Patti 23:32
his fault? Is it so many guys were on the IL I mean, yeah, but, you know, Tony did turn it around a little bit. Oh, absolutely. All right, we're gonna move on to the police. Plotter is a big one. It's well, yeah, so you, I'm sure you've all heard about the sports betting. You know scandal of the week is in basketball. It's in the NBA. Three former NBA players have been arrested during two different scandals, big FBI investigation, long term investigation, about sports betting. So of course, baseball is going to be asked about this. So Rob mad friend is asked about this, and he's making some excuses. And here's how it sounds. Here's here. I'm going to tell you what he said. I'm going to watch your face when I tell you what he said. We didn't ask to have legalized sports betting. It kind of came, and that's the environment in which we operate now. We don't have a lot of choice about that. If it's going to change, broadly change, probably the only way it would happen is the federal government. So yeah, there's that I have opinions about that. He defended MLB relationship with the actual gambling companies. I mean, there are, you know, financial relationships between MLB and these companies. And he says, well, MLB needs access to their data, because how else would we point at, know the what the irregularities are if we didn't have their data? I'm like, you wouldn't need. That data. If you weren't doing sports betting, we're app. We're like, cart before the horse ink here. Like crazy,
Pottymouth 25:09
yeah, y'all have stats, folks like, there are people who can run numbers.
Patti 25:13
And the numbers he's talking about are the numbers that show that there's, you know, influence of sports betting. I'm like, well, sports betting is the problem. Know, your access to data. And then he starts getting CBA questions, right? Because, you know, everyone's talking about that's coming up soon. And he says, Oh, I'm not interested in talking about labor. You know? He said, Oh, of course, right before Game Two is again, I got a game to watch, right? I'm not interested. But, you know, guess what? He said, a year from now, we'll have plenty of time to talk about labor. It seems to me that sports betting is a labor issue. I'm just saying, for instance, for instance, Tony Clark, who is the head of the players union the MLB PA, he said there are safety concerns for athletes because of sports betting. I didn't know this part. You actually referred to 2018 when sports betting was legalized. He said, the day after that, players started saying that they were being followed, they were being held, like all of that, like that. Stuff started happening immediately, or people were after them because of, you know, the bets that were placed. So he said, every time there's a situation that arises related to gambling like this, NBA, one the concern doesn't lessen, it gets greater, right? It's nothing's getting any better. Now, MLB is not the only one with ties to these companies, to the gambling companies. Individual players have sponsorship relationships, right? They earn money by being like the spokesperson or appearing in a commercial for even if they're in the background for a sports betting company. So Tony Clark framed it, not bad, right? Not bad. He didn't say, oh, let's let the government handle this. He said, Well, here's an idea. One is, he suggested the elimination of prop bets. Those are the ones that are player specific, like this picture is going to strike out so many, or this batter is going to hit a home run or whatever, and that pins blame on one individual, and it's not the person making the bat, it's the person didn't do the thing that the batter thought. And that's the thing that turns into getting hounded on social media to the threats to all of those things. And so basically, it's and also it means that player is vulnerable to being manipulated. Like, I've got a big bet on you, so you need to, like, you know, follow this up, or do this right, or whatever, so it gets them on both ends right. So getting rid of that would protect the players in a lot of ways. And so when he was asked, he's like, Okay, well, how do you balance this? You say, That's not great, but then you got your players making money. He said, right at the point in time health and safety is jeopardized, that's where the line is for me. So he's got a
Pottymouth 27:47
line, yeah, I mean, I got a lot of at least there's a line, but that's a fuzzy line. It's a fuzzy line because it's not clear until it happens, right? Like, what's gonna jeopardize
Patti 27:57
so, I mean, so he's got a solution that may be enough to get a conversation started to maybe we need better guard rails around sports betting. If we can't get it to go away, how do we keep people safer so? But I was, I was quite interested in both the MLB conversation with the commissioner, yeah, and the player conversation with the head of the Union. There were still these. You're making money off of this.
Pottymouth 28:22
Yeah. And as far as the whole NBA thing goes, it's sort of like, who they're choosing to put the blame on, is definitely suspect, right? So we're talking about, I believe it's pretty much African American players, and past player manager and cash Battelle, the head of the FBI, kind of needs a win at this point to show that he knows how to do his job. So Aren't there a lot of like, you know, if you go up another level, there's the owners of these betting companies, and I just feel like there's bigger fish in the sea than what they're focusing on now. So it just seems like a little bit of a convenient, you know, item for him to
Patti 29:03
I don't disagree with that. I don't know if there is a strategy there about if we get these guys, if we arrest these guys, then we get them to flip on the next I mean, I've watched enough episodes of the wire that I know your goal is to get them to flip on the next level up. I'm just saying,
Pottymouth 29:19
unless you are the people who are running our government right now who I don't trust, don't trust for anything, anything. So they're totally like they're looking for scapegoats.
Patti 29:28
More about looking for scapegoats with the federal government in a few minutes.
Pottymouth 29:31
Hey, but first we're gonna take a happy diversion to women and girls in baseball. We've got a few announcements here. MLB sponsoring National Girls and Women in Sports Day on February 4, and this is a networking event that's happening at MLB headquarters in New York City. And the reason why I'm talking about it now is because applications are open now. So if you are or know anybody who is currently a baseball or softball player. Teacher who is in junior and senior in college, or has graduated within the last three years, or is a current baseball or softball college coach, you can apply for this amazing networking event, which leads to real jobs in baseball, which we know are increasing every year, all the time, with women, and it's nice to see MLB making this really solid overture toward increasing that even when you're not allowed to say the words that dei stand for, this is due November 20. So get your applications together if you're friends with the younger set, 12 to 14 year olds. The Trailblazer series is going to continue to happen next year, April, 16 to 19th of 2026 those applications are due November 11. So links will be provided. Get those applications in support any girls and women you know who are in the baseball world,
Patti 30:54
and if you are a woman baseball player, who made it to the top 100 players, who came to the W PBL tryouts here in your nation's capital A couple of months ago, your draft is coming up in November, and we now know what, what cities are hosting these teams for the inaugural season? Right? We've got Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston. It says they were selected for fan support, market size, media presence, and their rich baseball histories. So I am a little disappointed that Washington wasn't considered because they were so supportive in this early part by, you know, using nats Park and all of those things seem like a pretty good contribution, but maybe they're like, Okay, we're gonna share the wealth, yeah, and move there. I've heard a couple of different things about how games are gonna be are they gonna be played only in those cities? Are they gonna Barnstorm? Are they gonna play elsewhere? I know that the all star game is going to be played at some they call it a neutral city. Okay? So that will be somewhere else, but there's a whole middle of the country that's not getting the love. But I get you on early on. You want the attention? Yeah. So I want to know more than fan support market size me. Is it? Because your idea is hook people in the big media markets and let it spread? Yeah, towards the middle, or what's going on there? But anyway, so the next thing that happens is those four teams will draft out of the women who placed in the top 100 from the tryouts that they held recently in DC.
Pottymouth 32:24
Do you know if it's staying at four? Because I had a online conversation with somebody who said that they originally announced that it was going to be six teams and there might be two more coming in, but I didn't see any other evidence of that, so
Patti 32:35
I thought I originally heard six. But I'm wondering if based on these things, these reasons, I selected it, or finances, or whatever. Maybe those two are like the next round, like the next season, but also, you only have 100 players, yeah, so that's not you spreading that around six teams would be cutting things a little bit close, so I don't know. But I initially, I thought I heard six as well, but it's four for now, and I think that's for the first
Pottymouth 32:58
season. Well, we will make a pilgrimage to somewhere on the East Coast, because we know folks in both those cities, and there's four, yeah, well, that both. I mean, it would be fun to go to LA or San Francisco, but I know, I bet we know people there too, yeah, that would actually, that would be super cool. All right, I'm gonna go a little bit International, a little bit local, to start off with there's a group called La gente del Barrio and that is promoting baseball for good causes. We love people who promote baseball for good causes. Vladimir Gary Jr also has his very own foundation. He's collaborating with la gente del Barrio to do a home run derby celebrity softball game in Miami on December 6, so he's not going to get too much of a rest after this World Series situation, and go right back to loan depot in Miami. And the names on this home run derby look a lot like the homeroom Derby that has happened, or home runs Derby, home run derbies, home run derbies, yeah, the derby is a thing. Home run derbies in the past. Vladimir Guerrero Jr, past winner, Junior commonero did pretty well to Oscar Hernandez, past winner. Ang labor Torres have all committed to show up, and there will probably be more. So if you are in the Florida area or don't have qualms about traveling to Florida, which is a whole nother discussion that we get into from time to time, there are ticks available@marlins.com you have to go to the lone depot Park and then the events to get there. Oh yeah. Legend of barrio say that they promote youth empowerment, education and community well being. And Vladimir Greer Jr focuses on youth projects in the Dominican Republic and Canada, because we know he, not only does he play for Canada, he was born in Canada, so he's a dual citizen between Dr and Canada. I found out that there is another international Americas tournament happening this November, called the Copa de America del baseball. All, and it's the first ever. It's under the World Baseball and softball. And I always forget the C commission, coalition committee, Confederate, Confederation, Confederation. Why are there so many C WORDS anyway there, it's an important thing because it counts points toward qualifier of their other events. So it's happening November 13 to the 22nd there's going to be a super round on the 19th, and then the medal game will be on the 22nd there's 12 countries participating. So right now, that's more than the than the city of the Caribbean. And what I'm trying to figure out is who is representing, who is playing on these national teams. So just to run down the countries, group A is Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Group B is Argentina, Brazil. So a couple of really new, up and coming countries for baseball, Canada, Colombia, Panama and Puerto Rico, which counts as a country hosted by Panama. At first it was gonna be a Panama Venezuela combo, but things in Venezuela are not going so well. You might been reading some news about exploding boats and shit like that, so I really hope that everything goes well in Panama, it's really close to Venezuela Puerto Rico at this point, Puerto Rico and Cuba are the only ones who have announced their rosters. And so here is my first experience with AI doing my notes. Oh, okay, here we go. So, holy shit, I so I'm taking this with a grain of salt that I will later put on a margarita glass, probably because you should not use AI without fact checking it. And even says that right underneath, like this is prone to error. However, it gives you the stuff that you can check a lot easier than if you go through the stuff yourself. So basically, what I did was I found the list that came out of the Puerto Rican team and the Cuban team, and I saw a whole bunch of names. And what I wanted to know is, are any of these names MLB? Are any of these names minor league baseball? Are any of these names national for did I do that one? I might have not done that one now. Yeah, that play in the actual league in that country. Like, do they play in the Liga, the baseball professional, Roberto Clemente, if they're Puerto Rico, or do they play in the city of national for Cuba? So I was able to say to AI, if you give AI very specific directions, it will come back at you. What drives me crazy about AI is I feel like it was invented by a bunch of guys who really need their egos boosted because it's so fucking polite to you. It's like you did great. Like, that's a great list. Here are my suggestions. Would you like? It's kind of like Dobby and Harry Potter, like Master, would you like me to do something better for you? And you say, Yeah, fucking do it better. And they're like, Okay, so it's really kind of the interface. It just puts me off just a little bit. However, I think I got the information. So I looked at the Puerto Rico lost roster. They put in 26 players. It's aI told me two of them had MLB experience. I fact checked they actually do yadda. Rivera was a short stop from 2015 to 20. He had five cups of coffee, which means he was just up a little bit every year, three of them with Milwaukee, one with Miami, one with Texas. So if you follow any of those teams, maybe remember yadio Rivera for his cups of coffee. He actually had one year where I think he drank about three quarters of a pot, because he was up for 111 games with Miami in 2018 not great numbers, so he didn't stay up. But hey, now he's representing Puerto Rico on this Copa de las Americas. The only other guy with MLB experience was hesmuel Valentin, who played 46 games with Philadelphia in 2018 so if you're a Philly fan, you remember hes well, please let me know he there are 12 guys who had minor league experience and eight guys who currently play on the League of baseball professional Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rico team, to the two guys who played in MLB did all three. So they did MLB, they did minor league, and they did lb PRC, and then there are seven guys who did both minor league and LB PRC. So all that got put out in just like a little graph for me, and I was able to fact check it pretty easily. The other thing that I liked about this, AI thing, is that it gave me sources. So it actually said, this is where I'm looking for your information. You can check here. And they were valid sources. It also identified ambiguity, like, there's a guy named Jose Cruz, and they were like, you know, there are a lot of Jose cruises who have played baseball. It could be this guy. Could be this guy. I doubt it's this guy, because he'd be really old. So it couched it that way too. AI has always made me a little itchy, but I kind of enjoyed this experience. I do think that the verifying part is really important. However, that doesn't always happen. And so definitely question stuff. You know, trust but verify us as those of us in the 80s remember very well on the Cuba side. I don't know why, but they got 59 names. That seems just ridiculous. Ai only found 37 of them, all but two had played in the serie, a national. And I think that those two, if I had looked into them more, probably are not even baseball players that were not Cuban, five of them, though, and this is because Cuba. You would think, if they're playing for Cuba in a representing the country of Cuba in an international competition, that they wouldn't have been in Major League Baseball, because that would entail, you know, leaving Cuba, but two of them had actually played in Major League Baseball, Alexei Ramirez, who was a shortstop with the White Sox for eight years, 2008 to 2016 plus. He that last year he spent a little bit of time in San Diego and Tampa and then arise. What is that? Who was a pitcher with the Dodgers in 2014 so I got all that info, like, pretty easily.
Patti 41:06
So here's my takeaway from that, is that you compared AI to a house elf favorably.
Pottymouth 41:15
Yeah, I think there is a lot of a lot of, you know, comparables and and if it were me, yeah, I would
Patti 41:21
give AI a sock so it would be free and go away,
Pottymouth 41:26
go live your own life. Yeah, yeah, it's a weird fucking thing. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I would have never been able to, because I looked at those and I was like, Am I really gonna look up these 29 names and try to like, that would take a long time. It would, but Dobby is there for you? Yeah, yeah, good old Dobby AI. What I can talk about with a much easier search is lead on the Dominican league that did not play a lot this week. And so I just want everybody's I can't say thoughts and prayers out loud, hearts and emotions and sympathies going down to the Dominican Republic, because if you don't know, there's a horrible fucking hurricane going through there right now, that's really, I mean, Jamaica is, is looking scary for the next couple days. It's going to be Category Five hitting Jamaica probably, as I'm talking, this past weekend, all of the lead on games were postponed. Actually, they've been postponed since October 21 due to the hurricane, I've been in touch with my my little buddy in in the Dominican Republic, and things are rough there. If you look at there's flooding all over the place. Lead on, said that they're starting back up today. And I thought that was kind of weird, because the hurricane is continuing to intensify. But if you look at the path, it's, I'm doing this visually, So Patty can see him. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's kind of going right over Jamaica. The entire of Jamaica is really in serious trouble here. And then it's kind of squishing between Hispaniola, which is the island that is half Haiti and half Dominican Republic, but it's on the Haiti side, and then very eastern Cuba. So Western Haiti and eastern Cuba are in big trouble the next couple days. But where the baseball parks are are, interestingly, really far east on the Dominican Republic, and the north, which is are the parts that are not getting affected as much. So they might actually be playing baseball this week, but the south of the DR and the west of the DR is still in big trouble. So please, you know, stay, stay afloat. Stay stay watching the news coming out of the Caribbean, because they're going to need some serious aid. And the way that the United States is going these days, who knows how much aid we're going to be able to give out internationally?
Patti 43:41
I've heard people there don't look like the president, so probably not
Pottymouth 43:44
very much. It's really fucking scary. Really fucking scary. Because, I mean, and if you look at the structures that people live in there, they're not going to hold up to these wins. I'm definitely nervous about what's going to happen Venezuela. You know, despite all the insanity that's happening between our country and Venezuela looks like, you know, maybe we'll be invading them sometime soon. I don't fucking know. The world is upside down. They are still having baseball and a bass baseball boyfriend pick of mine, elmaro Vargas, who spent some time with the Nationals and a couple of other teams, is back as the capitan of the cardinales de Lara, the champions from last year, which is also the team that I have adopted. So I'm very excited to see il de Maro back there, but I am more excited to see that Venezuela has the first female umpire in the Venezuelan League, who is 22 year old, Juan de Rodriguez. We talked about her last season because she did some postseason stuff, but now she is working full time in the LV BP. She debuted on third base in the opening game of the cardinales versus the tiburones, and it sounds like she has a lot of really good support there.
Patti 44:54
So 20 super young to be an umpire, and basically what the equivalent would be of a major league. League. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, good for her. We're gonna cross train with tariffs. And I've got to say that I think that this commercial may be the reason that at least one of my companions at the beach was actually watching the game, helping to see this. So the fascist in chief was very ticked about an ad quoting Ronald Reagan, describing why tariffs are best, not just quoting Ronald Reagan, it's actually Reagan. It's actually Ronald Reagan saying in his own words why tariffs are bad. It was his speech in his you know, down home, how can you not trust me? Flannel shirt telling you why tariffs are bad. So fascist in chief, in a tizzy, canceled the trade talks with Canada and threatened a 10% increase in tariffs, and his quote was because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts and hostile acts, which means, like, I think the interpreter got that wrong. I think what he meant was, I didn't like that. You showed a video of a former Republican president that people
Pottymouth 45:56
liked, right? And this is exactly why Congress has the power of the purse. However, things are so fucked up, like it's not supposed to happen, that a president can just go in a tizzy and decide to change tariffs overnight and then change them back the next day. And you know, it's fucked
Patti 46:11
up. So this ad was sponsored by Ontario, right? It was sponsored by the province of Ontario, and it was said that we're going to stop showing this as of Monday, which meant two World Series games which are getting a lot more eyeballs on them, especially in Canada, but they're breaking a couple of records for, you know, for for viewership. Got to see this ad both during game one and during game two. So I don't know who thought of the Monday thing, but they were brilliant. Because not only did this ad get more air time, but people were also primed to watch for it. Yeah, it's like, oh my God, I am not leaving my TV because I need to see this ad that pissed off the big orange baby. That's right. So, but also their question, does it like I don't think MLB selects these. I think fox, fox, right, sells this ad time. Fox, yeah, Fox Sports. I mean, I know they're not Fox News, but they're the same umbrella company. How did they get away with this? And will they continue to I don't know, but I'm fascinated. And, you know, there I'm looking at Reagan, saying, God, there are so many times we're looking at him and just give him. At him and just give me the EBG, because I'm, like, on the scale. I mean, still not, but yeah,
Pottymouth 47:28
I know, yeah. Two comments. One is, wait till he finds out what Reagan did with immigration, because Reagan was the last president to do a sweeping amnesty of about 3 million people. So you know, if you think you don't agree with them on tariffs, well, you know, look at the immigration situation.
Patti 47:46
I wonder if there are enough people who you know, would say, Wait a minute. Why are you picking on Reagan?
Pottymouth 47:52
I love that guy fucking airport now and but I don't know if that
Patti 47:56
was just too long ago for the people who are currently enamored with the fascist in chief,
Pottymouth 48:00
I don't know, or they're the people whose memories are starting to go, don't make fun of an old person. No, that's us. That's us. My memories starting to go, meanwhile. Well, God no, yeah, no, meanwhile. What
Patti 48:10
all Canada is probably even more rallying behind Toronto right now, even though, because it's their only team in the whole country that plays in MLB. But also now there's extra reasons to be pissed and to say, you know, Nina, Nina. So there are quotes like, oh yeah. So my friends at work who never watch baseball are running around in Toronto gear and all of that. So, so he's growing the game, yeah?
Pottymouth 48:34
All right, growing the game looking on the bright side. Yeah. There's also a really great video. I think it's just on social media. I don't think it's an ad, but it's between the shit. I don't know what the title is, the head guy of Toronto, the Prime Minister. It's just, sorry, not Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, the province. So the provincial leader and Gavin Newsom of California have a bet going, but they got the bet backwards. So this is what I think is hysterical. It was like, if I win, I'm gonna give you this stuff, which is, like, a nice person's back,
Speaker 1 49:07
because it's Canada's people, right? Makes all the sense in the world. Because they're like, we're friends, right? This
Pottymouth 49:14
is what friends do. That's hysterical, yeah. So, so from Ontario, if they win, they're giving maple syrup in a tin can to Gavin Newsom. And if Dodgers win, he's giving them some wine. But he added a dig at the end that was like, if you know, he can get by the tariffs, that's right, right.
Patti 49:33
That seems right. Who? Oh my gosh, all right, oh my gosh. We have to. We have a game to watch pretty soon.
Pottymouth 49:38
Oh, right. So, yeah, editing and watching. Yeah, you are so
Patti 49:42
Okay, so we're one on one, you know, out of Toronto, moving to to Los Angeles. What do you think's gonna happen?
Pottymouth 49:49
So I always pray for it. So I'm definitely going with the heart, not the head here, although my head is a little bit wishy washy anyway, so I can't trust that, but I'm super, super glad that there's not going to be a. Weep because I have plans Tuesday night for a concert, so I can't watch Game four. So yay for no sweep. I am hoping for seven games, because I love a game seven. And I'm also hoping for the Blue Jays. And I'm definitely slanted, because I saw game one and I didn't watch all of game two. And also I had a lively discussion with the Yankees fan employee with whom I work, who is very much convinced that the Dodgers are absolutely no no doubt going to take it. So I just had to take the other side. So I say blue Jason
Patti 50:30
seven. Yeah. Okay, so I want the Blue Jays in seven. Yeah, I think that Toronto is going to be lucky to squeak one out in Dodger Stadium. But I hope they do. So I'm hoping they do enough that I'm going to say Dodgers and six, not what I want, but what I predict it's gonna happen. I just think, man, they, they, yeah, they just have this magic happening that I think all of the the the weirdness and the cocktail of Toronto fans, all of all those things, oh no, see, it was a cocktail of Seattle cocktails in other places. Oh, I've got a cocktail to tell you about anyway. Sorry, distracted, but I do. I think the Dodgers are gonna take it. I'd rather they didn't, but there you have it. Yeah. What else we got going on?
Pottymouth 51:13
The last thing I want to mention was, usually at this time we talk about our fantasy league, but that is long over, and we are putting together those prize packs, but not right now, because we're very focused on the World Series. So very soon after the World Series, our winners will be and because there was a tie, they're both going to be getting prize packs, and you guys will hear about it when they go out.
Patti 51:35
All right, that sounds great. So if you have predictions about what you think is going to happen, I know you do have predictions. Please feel free to share them with us on social media, yeah, tell
Pottymouth 51:45
us about the Hometown Heroes. You can find us on blue sky at ncib podcast. We will check that Twitter account as well. But you know how I feel about that dude. Not so happy with Facebook and Instagram either. But you know, we need methods of communication. If you guys can think of something better let us know. But Facebook and Instagram are no crying and B ball. But you know, Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying and B ball is incredibly affordable, $1 a month. And you can make sure that we keep going, and you can communicate with us without making me, you know, make little faces and crunch my teeth and stuff like that guy I said blue sky first, and then maybe Twitter. I don't know, blue sky, ncib podcast, okay, just
Patti 52:28
in case. Well, you know, again, I'm just, you know, sitting and drinking and very in demand. So what do I know it is? It's very good. This little sour. I like it a lot. Yes, my friends, I like a lot. Okay, so get boosted if you can figure out how right fight the man because it's the right thing to do and he's being really ridiculous, and also continues to be cruel and send your game balls to Meredith And until next week, say goodnight, potty mouth.
Speaker 2 53:02
Good night. Okay,
Patti 53:11
sounds like us. Okay, I'll probably sit up straight and everything you know ish, oh,
Pottymouth 53:15
fuck, where's my there? Now it definitely sounds like us
Patti 53:20
bit more. So now.