No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 452 of No Crying in Baseball, the I'm Not Nervous. You're Nervous episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth!

Pottymouth 0:26
You're clearly talking to me. That is so talking to me. It's not even funny. It takes me, like, all of 10 hot seconds to get into, like, baseball panic once the season starts. But I love baseball. I love the MLB season. But oh my god, I stress out way too much. You really do. I yeah, I've got it. I was saying to Mr. Potty mouth today that maybe I should stop watching for like, a couple weeks until things like, aren't every game so important, you know what I mean? So like, I mean, it's not gonna happen, but

Patti 0:56
no, because then you'll be freaking out about those games. Start early. Move through it, yeah, move through it. You'll be okay, yeah.

Pottymouth 1:03
Well, you know my new mantra to make myself feel better. So, you know, we watched all three Red Sox games. It was nice to start on a happy note. Opening Day was good, even from a distance. And then the second two games, they lost by one, run to the to the reds, the second in extras, which was stressful, and then today also stressful. So, you know, there's two things that sort of like, I'm gonna give me my mantra, like my own kind of thing. One is remembering the Nationals World Series year, and the bumpy roads thing, because I started off, you know, whatever, not winning much for the first month, and then things got much better. And then also Paul Skeens getting lit up on opening day. And granted, a couple of those were due to O'Neill Cruz, apparently not being a very good outfielder, but his era now, until he pitches again, is 67.50 on the books. And so that's not gonna last. Paul schemes is an amazing pitcher. It just makes me feel like, okay, things are whack right now, and it will, it will normalize. It will come together. There are people with, you

Patti 2:10
know, 500 averages right now, and Ops is of 1.4 because the sample size is so small, yes. So, you know, be into the game and be excited about who's doing well and be sad about they're not. But, yeah, try not. I think the key is not to spin that out into this is indicative of the entire season, right? This is how it is, right? This week.

Pottymouth 2:28
Yeah, you know, after talking to my dad, I kind of see where I get it from, sure, like I come by this, honest.

Patti 2:34
You do. I can absolutely see that I had such a great opening day.

Pottymouth 2:38
That is so awesome. I was gorgeous. It was gorgeous.

Patti 2:41
So I went to Baltimore the intern, and I went to see the O's. We had the worst seats. Where were you? We were way up at the end of the first baseline, up high, and we were, like, right next to a stairwell. So there were always people kind of walking in front of us, and so we already felt kind of far away. And you know what? I didn't care. I would rather be in terrible seats in that ballpark than not being that ballpark, especially when it was a gorgeous day, when the O's won, when the fans are happy, when you know you could see them, like welcoming all the new guys. Like, welcome to Baltimore, welcome to Baltimore. Pete Alonso, welcome to Baltimore. And that was and that first

Pottymouth 3:16
pitch, that it wasn't a first pitch, though, 109 year old guy

Patti 3:21
the ceremonial first pitch. Yeah. So you can have your, you know, heads of state and your whatever's we had, like, probably the oldest living O's fan, like 109 year old man who remembers the O's when they started beat that, right? I mean, he was incredible. The woman who sang the Star Spangled Banner was the Baltimore native who's currently playing Tina Turner on Broadway. Oh my gosh. She was so good. She also had, you know, they get, like, a jersey with their name on it. She had it on backwards and off one shoulder. So she, like, she totally diva. It Up. And she was amazing. And so it was, like, everybody was into it. It was it was just exciting. It was beautiful. It was a great day. We went to check her spot as always, and had delicious, delicious beer to start out with. And it was a lovely, lovely time. One of my favorite things is that so Ryan Housley is now the, you know, closer for, for the O's, which is huge, and they, when they bring them out, you know how every closer now has their big deal. I'm like, I know this intro. This is freaking Hell's Bells. Wow. So of course, it's Hell's so you know his last name. But if you if you know things, you know that Trevor Hoffman, who was like the first relief pitcher to use walk in music as a closer, used Hell's bells with the Padres decades ago. So you know, good for him for having, like, the right song for his last name, but I'm sure he knows the great throwback it was. And I was just like, there may be 10 of us in this entire 42,000 you know person ballpark right now. Who know this? But I'm so

Pottymouth 4:52
glad I'm one of them. Yeah. I mean, talk about good mojo too. Like, oh, he was great.

Patti 4:57
That's awesome. He was great. It was so much, so much fun. On today's show. We've got in season boyfriends, including so many kids. We've super sized the police blotter, and still no gambling reports. This is very exciting. We've got a lot more things to look forward to, like other opening days. We've got the fun cup, we've got ballpark food, and we've got our very first Fantasy League Report. Cheers, cheers.

Pottymouth 5:19
I just finished my first

Patti 5:20
beer. I don't even know what it was, okay.

Pottymouth 5:23
So for the first beer, we had a devil's alley from the place in rockville that's escaping my brain, seven locks. Thank you very much. In rockville, and it was a devil's alley, and it was 6.66% APV. So, you know. And now I just opened something from liquidity, l works, and this is what we've been drinking the past couple weeks. I think I opened the IPA. I'm pretty sure. Let's Okay, let's I think the let's pour it. It sounds like an IPA

Patti 5:54
because it's singing the IPA song.

Pottymouth 5:58
It's hard when wearing mixed glasses. This is just for There we go. Sure that looks right. We both have foamy beer, and not for long. Oh, and you have stuff. Yeah, it's the bent river sunset West Coast IPA.

Patti 6:10
That sounds beautiful cats. You know, a bent river sunset would make it a beautiful night for baseball. I'm just saying, hey, let's talk about boyfriends. If you remember, these are the guys that we pick in the offseason, which was not that long ago, we each pick one guy per team because something about them. We really like they're good at baseball, they have a good backstory. We like how their personality is, how they live their lives, whatever it is. And you know, bottom line is, would we go out and have a beer with them? Because they would be fun to talk to. So let me tell you about how some of my new boyfriends have done. So Chase the Lauder, oh my God, who I didn't put on my fantasy team, but I didn't really, really, oh, I

Pottymouth 6:45
was thinking of you so much with this.

Patti 6:47
Well, sure, but he is my pick for rookie of the year. So Okay, the first two guys want to talk to are both my rookie of the year picks and, you know, and of one weekend, it's looking good, but you know, again, like we just said, it's early days. All right, so chase the water from Cleveland. His last preseason game, he hit two, two home runs. That's great. So then his first, you know, opening day game, right? He homers in his very first at bat. He is the fifth player in the Cleveland franchise history to Homer in their first at bat. So if you remember, why are we saying first at bat? Because, remember, he debuted during the playoffs. Apparently that doesn't count for your professional statistics. Oh, only your regular season stats count. So even though he did have some at bats in the fall, they don't count for this. This is his first major league at bat. He had home run in his first major league at bat, and if that's not enough, he did have a second home run in the ninth inning, which made him the first in the franchise with multi Homer games to start his a career, right? So he got called a lot of names, by his friends, by

Pottymouth 7:49
his teammates. These are nicknames, happy names. Well, they're they

Patti 7:53
all meant well, but it's very funny. So so clear. The relief pitcher, Eric sabrowski, said he's not from this planet. He's a fucking Martian. Reese Hoskins said, Who's Yes, he's with Cleveland. Now, I kept saying, Wait, they're with that team. Now, Reese Hoskins with Cleveland now, who went three for three, by the way, at opening day. I think the coolest part, he's not afraid of the moment. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe ignorance is bliss. So now he's a Martian and he's ignorant, but all a good way, right? Ignorant Martian, all right. So the second game they planned Friday. So the second game, he homered in the first inning of that game. So two in a row. Pretty, pretty great. On Saturday, people were getting worried because it took him all the way until extra innings before he hit a home run. He had to run homer in the 10th inning. So he is now the second player in MLB history with four home runs in his first three career regular season games with Trevor story, former boyfriend.

Pottymouth 8:48
And Reese is a former pick of yours, and he's actually, I looked

Patti 8:50
that up. We just talked about him a lot. He wasn't actually a boyfriend. Isn't that crazy? So too, anyway, so that so that last home run, you know, in extra innings on Saturday, was a foot off the center of the plate. It was decidedly not in the strike zone. Wow. So now Stephen Kwan has things to say. Stephen Kwan says that's stupid. He said that's really stupid how he's able to do that. That's an elite pitcher and elite fastball to be able to do it, especially here with the wind blowing in a really big fence out and left. It's as talented as you can be. So rookie, that's so, yeah, so he's stupid, he's ignorant, and he's, you know, from space, all in a good way, all in a good way. So the the guardians have a new home run celebration, which is, you know, when you get in the dugout, you get, like, a knight's helmet and, like a crown sort of thing. And I'm like, maybe because, like the Guardian, Guardian Statues, the name for kind of have that a little bit. It's not from that. It's from spring training, when they went to medieval times as, like a two bonding activity. That's why they have it. And as of recording, he's the only guardian to have worn it. He's worn it four times. No one else, no he. Been our pal. Jose Ramirez has hit a homer yet. He's the only one to hit a homer for Cleveland, and he's hit

Pottymouth 10:04
four, I can say from experience with that monster head last year with the Red Sox is I hope that they can clean it well in between batters, because, like, you're putting some on people's heads after they've been all sweaty and running around the base. I don't know. I just think about hygiene school

Patti 10:19
teachers and parents. Man, we know what to look for. Yeah, all right, my other, my other Rookie of the Year pick, JJ, weather, St Louis. Right? His opening day, he had a 425 foot homer in the third on an oh two count. So afterwards, a reporter tells him that, you know, they were off, you know, talking to mom in the in the stands, right? And he said, you know, your mom was really nervous because you were an Owen too, so she was worried you were going to strike out. And he said, That's how she gets right? She asked if I was nervous. I said, No, I'm only nervous because I know you were nervous. I've just got to try and put on a show for her. I love her so much. I know like we completely get this that we get you. Mom, weather hold, so he's the first Cardinal to have his first hit. You have run on opening day since 1957 so on Saturday, which is what their second game, he had his first walk off. Because, you know why wait, right? He had a two run single in the 10th, which meant he was the second Cardinal to walk off in a first or second game. Kurt Ford did it in 1985 he is the first player in MLB history to Homer in his first game and walk off in the second. And he said I was just going up ready to hit. Honestly, I was in the zone singing my walk up song. It's a good spot to be. So the espresso report, Dominic can zone, my Seattle boyfriend, and opening day, Seattle lost to Cleveland. You know, see, you know, above right with C chase the ladder above six to four, but out of the four runs the Seattle got, two of them were can zone home runs. Yeah, he's my guy. Both of them were over 400 feet. He's the fourth guy in Seattle franchise history with the multi Homer game on opening day. And if you remember, he was on Team Italy in the WBC, and he was talking about how that really got him ready for the season. He said, you know, spring training is a lot like, almost like scrimmages, yeah, and the World Baseball Classic is like playoff baseball. That's so he fucking really, really got him ready. Yeah. Last new boyfriend I'm talking about is, I'm Kazuma Okamoto, Toronto. Toronto loves him already. He got a standing ovation from the home crowd on opening day. He got his first two MLB hits on opening day, and he scored the winning run on a walk off single by former boyfriend Andreas Jimenez and, I think also Homer today, by the way, he says, talking about Toronto fans, that the fans are so great here. They're great in Tokyo. But today was even louder. I felt their support right from the get go today, that was awesome. Nice job, Toronto, because we know how into the games the

Pottymouth 12:42
fan base is in Japan, yeah, and it's how much of a party it is.

Patti 12:46
And also, his manager was referring to him as Kaz, which I think is finally a so much better nickname than, you know, big oak and, you know, nice and handsome, and whatever,

Pottymouth 12:55
whatever it was, you know, I think I'm gonna conclude that the pitchers did not get the espresso because Greg Weiser, the Red Sox reliever who was on Team Italy, gave up runs in both of his outings in the last two games that the Red Sox lost by one run. So there's that, but there's plenty of blame to go around, and I'm going to be spreading that blame because, you know, why

Patti 13:21
not? You're allowed to

Pottymouth 13:23
part of the blame I'm going to put on the opposing team. We, although we almost lost, I almost lost another boyfriend. So, you know, the baseball boyfriend list is, mine is kind of puckered, you know, stabbed with injuries, literally, I guess. But you know, some guys have fallen onto the IL and even though it was against the Red Sox, I held my breath when Sal Stewart, on first base, got hit on like the forearm, wrist area by a line drive. And that looked awful. And so he didn't make the play. Guy got to first base, I think was Contreras. And, you know, they came out to check him out, and he stayed in the game, and I was really worried, but, like, it totally worked to hype up the crowd. And this was opening day, so they didn't win, but it was very close game. And then their second game, which was two days later, they had a day off. He had a home run on the first pitch that he saw in the second, in his second at bat against Sonny gray. So there goes my pitching. Sonny gray did not have the best outing, but you know, I'm glad Sal Stewart is doing well. I hope he continues to do well when he's not playing against the Red Sox, he's on your

Patti 14:34
fantasy team, right? He is. So

Pottymouth 14:37
this is a fantasy thing that I kind of have a policy that is, is probably not good for myself, of not putting a guy in the lineup of the Red Sox are playing against that team that day. So I know you're so bad at

Patti 14:51
math, but it was so

Pottymouth 14:52
bad I'm so good at superstition. So it's, it's like that. I don't want to put the most suspicious,

Patti 14:58
if anybody I know. Really extra

Pottymouth 15:01
superstitious, super duperstitious, yeah, I just didn't want to wish him well, and he did well, and I didn't take advantage of it. So there's that. I mean, the flip side would be, you know, that would be a consolation prize to me if I put the guy on, you know, but whatever, one guy that did well that I can wholeheartedly support, because he was not playing against the Red Sox is Justin Crawford, and then so this kind of goes into your kind of goes into your theme of the the rookies doing well, which is really lovely to see. You know, these young guys getting out there their first opening day. Justin Crawford, son of Carl Crawford, gets his first hit on his first pitch of his first at bat off of Nate ivaldi with the Rangers, and then he got his second hit at his next at bat in the bottom of the fifth inning, and scored a run from being on base because of ALEC Boom's boom his home run. So there was a crowd there cheering him on. So apparently this kid doesn't mind the pressure of having 40 friends and family members that came up on a bus with Dad to come see him. I remain team mom. So if you remember, Go, if you didn't hear it, go back to the episode where I talked about Justin Crawford because his his upbringing and family life and Mom Dad step situation is really fucking weird. Parents, apparently were never married and are not together, but get along. They were both there. I am so team mom. He gave credit to mom for the one who was actually there throughout his upbringing and taking him to games and giving him even pointers and support. But he says about mom, she went in there and asked for a Philly cheesesteak with no meat, and they looked at her absolute like she's absolutely crazy. So mom's a vegan, and he plays for Philly, any a vegan, if she had cheese Well, you know, I wonder if she spelled it with a Z, you know, maybe it was like a cheese steak with no meat. But, you know, I should write to mom because I got a vegan cheese steak in Philadelphia, there's a really good place. So I think I'm going to be, you know, trying to figure out how to get, how to get the message to mom Crawford, and then, and then, you know, maybe we can meet for a cheese steak. All that is spelled very differently than you hear it. I need to for my fantasy team. I had one moment of glory. I was in first place for opening day, and then I have fallen deeply, but I need to continue watching for the guys who were not ready, who are either in minor league or I didn't think belonged on my roster, but maybe they do so two minor league guys, Wenzel Perez, who I really thought I was going to be making opening day, he was on my first draft of my roster, and I had to sub them out after being told that he was being optioned to triple A earlier this week before their exhibition game on Tuesday versus Colorado, which he was playing in anyway, he got two home runs in that game and five RBI. And then after he got optioned to triple A on Triple A opening day, he got another home run in his first game with the Toledo Mud Hens. Now this is especially exceptional because he had not hit a home run for all the fucking spring training, and he waits till the exhibition game after he's told that he's being sent down to hit two and then another one on his he's like, all right, I guess I better kick it in gear. So let's just say he's a slow starter, sure, and let's just give him, you know, couple months, or maybe less than that. Yeah, we'll see how the rest of the Tigers do. But I'm hoping that Perez is going to be up there soon. My other outfield hope in Zach Cole also did not make opening day. To to my chagrin, however, he did get some some time in spring training with home runs two. He had two home runs in spring training with Houston, but he also struck out 20 times. That seems like a lot. It is a lot. So I look to see who had struck out more. And there are four players that had 21 and only one player with more than 21 and that was Joe Adele with 23 and I'm not sure if he made the angels list or not. I need to look into that anyways, that Cole did get sent down, but he did Homer on his opening day with the Space Cowboys. And, you know, I think it's just worth it playing with the Space Cowboys for the merch in the name stuff like that. Also, I didn't put David Hamilton, of the Brewers on my on my roster, despite the fact that he's a former Red Sox who I love and adore, because, especially because his wheels, he's amazing runner, base stealer, but not the best with the bat. 223, average, 647, ops over his career. So I thought maybe let's keep him, you know, in the side for a while. On his first game, opening day, he reached four times. And here this he is such a Moneyball guy, you know, you just got to get him on base and he's going to score. The first time he got on base was catchers interference. He said he thinks it's the first time he based with catchers interference in his career. Then he got a single so he did hit, and then he walked twice, stole one base. Got two runs. The Brewers did win that game, 14 to two, and he said, I'm definitely loving it here. So there's the, you know, small sample, and we'll see how that. I'm going to wait a little while see how he does, and maybe he will make the potty mouth posse. I have to give a little side note of severe disappointment. You know, it, which was started by my dad when I talked to him last night. Caleb Durbin, my Red Sox guy, hasn't gotten a hit yet three games. Not only has he not gotten a hit, but he came to bat in at least two that I can think of right now. But probably more pressure situations where he was there were two outs, two guys on he could have hit the tying or go ahead run, and he didn't. So I really, really hope he gets his shit together before he gets back to Boston, or the fans at Fenway are not going to welcome him in a pretty way.

Patti 20:51
Just for perspective, gutter Henderson took till today to get his first hit, and he was a single. Thank you. Okay, that's good. Yeah, he was not happy for a very long time. He wasn't happy. There was only a single but that's okay, right? That's okay. I'm talking a couple of guys who are former boyfriends of mine. We tend to keep our eye on them, because we pick them for a reason, and we keep watching what they're doing. Dominic Smith, who I picked in 2021 with the Mets. He's been with a lot of teams so far. He's now with Atlanta. So on Saturday, he became the very first player in MLB history to hit a walk off Grand Slam in his debut with a new team.

Pottymouth 21:26
That's amazing,

Patti 21:27
which is amazing, and it's a big deal. It's also kind of poignant. His mom died like a little over a week ago from cancer. She was only diagnosed last September, so things happened very quickly. In fact, he went back to be with her in California at the beginning of spring training, because it looked like, you know, final days then, and then she was hanging in there. So we came back, he went back to work, right? So he was not with her when she passed. But he said the team was so, so supportive of him, needing that time and like being, you know, gentle and supportive. What he said was, you know, I'm trying to hold back tears now. I feel her every day. I miss her dearly. It's not a moment I don't think about her. And like I said, I'm just so thankful because this team knows what I'm going through, so they really picked me up in the last few weeks. That's good. So good job.

Pottymouth 22:13
Atlanta team, yeah, absolutely. I'm

Patti 22:14
speaking of Atlanta team. I picked Freddie Freeman back in 2018 when he was with the Atlanta team. You may know him now from that Dodgers team. So he had the best out ever. Did you see this out?

Pottymouth 22:26
I love Freddie Freeman. This first baseball. This is,

Patti 22:28
this is the best out ever, right? So Dodgers are playing Arizona. Freeman hits a ground ball goes, you know, right to the infielder who throws it to Kendall Marty, who's on first. So Marty's like, ready to tag him out. And instead of tagging him, he opens up his arms for a hug, instead of tagging Freddie out on a base path. And then Freddie says, like, this was what went through his head. He said, I stopped, and I was like, Is there a way around this? If I go out of the baseline, I'm out, if I run back, he'll just run to second. He gave me a little come here. And I was like, All right, let's just do it. In. Bring it in. So, so Freddie Freeman was hugged out at first, which is absolutely baseball boyfriend material. I know that

Pottymouth 23:09
Kittel Marty was a past pick of mine on the D backs, and I don't remember when, but, yeah, yeah, we go for huggers. We do. We don't hit the huggers. All right, this is, you know, bring in the sirens. It's time for the police bladder. Extended version today. Oh boy. I'm, you know, blaming the Dodgers. I think it's a crime when the Dodgers won't spend their fucking money because they have a lot. Yes, they're spending it on players, but I think they also need to spend it on their fan base, who apparently are paying a shit ton of money for things like concessions. Did you see that there? I don't know if you have this later, the Otani cup kerfuffle thing. No, they were charging, and I really should have taken notes. They were charging like $75 I believe, for a commemorative cup that was otani's Jersey, and it was the kind of like reusable cup that you'd usually pay a few bucks extra for so you could get free refills that day. So it was like 75 bucks for with free refills. The first time they put it out, it was like for the day people actually bought it, but then they changed it to it's but then somebody said, I'm just bringing this back every game, like, how are they going to know? And they did change it officially to for the season. So I guess if you drink a lot of soda, it's going to be worth it at some point. But you know those Dodgers? So just as a point of Dodgers making money, they're making money on your tickets. They're making money on concessions. 82 year old man who has been a seasoned ticket holder for 50 years, was denied his request for paper tickets. I'm picturing my dad, right, who does not do electronic stuff very much. You know, uses the computer, the hand computer, for news and things like that, but isn't going to get tickets on his phone. So this 50 year old doesn't even have a smartphone. He has a flip phone so he can. Not use electronic tickets. He also said that he recently had a heart procedure, and in his email to the account executive guy, said, quote, I don't think I'm long for this earth. The response from Alexander Perdomo, account executive membership services for the Dodgers said, quote, I have read your email and understand that we have granted your request in the past. However, this year and going forward, we won't be accommodating that request. This decision is final.

Patti 25:31
Does he still have a job? I

Pottymouth 25:33
wonder, and I'm wondering if this is going to break news more. So I was hesitant to say this because I saw it in one source, the Los Angeles Cerritos community news. They did provide screenshots of the emails, and it seemed it's been a news source newspaper that has like 86,000 like, printed circulation, like, it seems like it's legit.

Patti 25:53
I mean, they Dox this guy, he's out. Yeah, there's no way. There's no way people are gonna stand for this. That's crazy. I mean, of all the things that we have complained about Dodgers, ownership, about like, structural things, about ice and like, policy states. This is going to be the thing, right? This is going to be a thing because people get this right. It's like, how could you not find a way let this one guy right, get in the door with a paper ticket, yeah. And another, you have his own damn parking spot at entrance.

Pottymouth 26:19
Another thing he said too, is that, and this is kind of sad, that sort of nostalgia, of, when you open up the envelope with the season tickets, like, I'm thinking of fever pitch, right? Is that just, like, like, just sheets and sheets, those are the days, man. I mean, although I gotta say I'm happy to open my ballpark app and see all our tickets for this summer. But anyway, there's the Dodgers.

Patti 26:41
Wow, wow. So now we've got inner family problems that are actually legal problems. This is bizarre. This is crazy, although I think we could have seen this coming. So Alex, who was my Phillies pick in 2021, at the time, when he was much more of a kid, his parents were managing his finances, including a little bit of philanthropic stuff, but you kind of think they're real estate agents, Hmm, why? Why? And at the time, they said, Oh, well, you know, we're worried someone else would take advantage of him. Okay, turns out they're taking advantage of him. But allegedly, wow, allegedly. So Alex Bell has sued his parents, his parents for a misappropriation of funds and mismanagement of the their LLC. He's asking for a three, $3 million judgment, plus documentation and information says he does not have access to he's just trying to get them to say, here are the tax returns we filed. Here are, you know, here's the, here are the financial records for this LLC, where your money goes, and they wouldn't do it. And apparently they used to be at the ballpark and be at the games. And like, once he asked us, like, last year, they sort of vanished. They said no, and they kind of vanished, which makes them look guilty again, yeah, we don't know. Like, Alex bones, like, I'm not talking about this. You can ask me about the games. Absolutely, I'm talking about the parents are talking about, they're like, Oh, we love him. He's our son. We don't want, you know, we want to take care of him. We want to protect him. Bloody blah. So they've always managed his money. But you know, as soon as he made that request, like, show me the documentation, they just went off the

Pottymouth 28:21
that's off. That's so sad. I just like, it just makes me very sad.

Patti 28:26
Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah. So that. So finally, we have parents. We don't care for that. We talk about the show. That's Frank Thomas, who I love. Hello, Frank Thomas, so much. He's got beef with the white socks. I say have beef with the White Sox for a long time. They don't give him love like he feels like he deserves, which he probably does deserve, in fact. But now he's suing the White Sox Nike and fanatics because they're selling city connect jerseys with his name and number on it without his consent. That's fucked up, and he's received no compensation for them using his name and his likeness. The Jersey is still for sale, even though he said, I have not given you permission for this. The White Sox retired his number in 2010 I mean, he was a white sock for a very long time. He was, you know, their first black manager, the third one in MLB. He is a huge deal. He's, you know, a Hall of Famer this. And he's not a happy guy because he's being taken advantage of. And that's not okay. That's not okay. So, you know, hold tight. Then the big one, the big one, which I don't know if I want to call disorder and violence or disruptive and unruly, because both of those phrases were used to describe what happened on the streets of Cincinnati, in a place where we have been to after opening day. When we were there, it seemed lovely. It is lovely. And, yes, okay, so here's, here's what happened. And boy, do I like reading different sources. Yeah, because some of them are Ooh, the bad guys, and some of them are like, okay, there were a couple of things, right,

Pottymouth 29:55
right? That's, I'm super curious.

Patti 29:57
I tend to go with, there were a couple of things, yeah. So again. So Cincinnati loses to Boston on opening day, and we've been to this neighborhood right there's this great area right outside of the ballpark with a bunch of restaurants and things, and they block off the street, so it's like a pedestrian walkway. You know, the bars are there, the restaurants are there. You can go hang out there. The party there before they had called it a block party before the game started. No problems. And then every it's like the exit. Everyone's got to go that way. Right? In the past, they've had a curfew for under 21 because all the bars, right, a curfew at like, 10 o'clock at night. They waive that for opening day. I mean, you got to get through there. If you parked there, right? What are you going to do? I don't know. Anyway, there were so many people there. Yes, there's gonna be some fights. Yeah, there are. So a couple of fights broke up. A couple of things happened. There were just a ginormous number of people there. So when all was said and done, there were 17 arrests made. That's a lot from people between the ages of 14. They arrested 14 year olds through 50 year olds for here's a list of things that people may or may not have been arrested for, disorderly conduct, possession of weapons while intoxicated, not just possession of weapons, which you know I have issues, failure to comply, assault, resisting arrest. Six people appeared in court on Friday. The joke was, some of them are still wearing their red scare at that time. So that neighborhood is called the banks. That's we hung out there, right? Also over the Rhine, which is a great neighborhood with a bunch of restaurants. I go there annually with my family for Christmas dinner. It's a lovely place, right? Fountain Square, which is like the middle of downtown. So there are multiple flights. There were people blocking traffic. They were just too many people. Yeah, they were not prepared for that many people. So I saw a video with SWAT vans coming in, a bunch of cops on bikes, which I feel good about. That seems like a reasonable way to approach this. They called in the County Sheriff's Department and the State Highway Patrol to get enough bodies there to deal with this. So what they did, and this is fine, if it gets out of hand, you can clear the area. And they started to clear that section of the banks by just, you know, lining up guys on bikes and just, sort of like, moving the crowd out. The trouble is bunch people, the crowd didn't know what was happening, right? So then they freaked out. Of course, they're gonna freak out all of a sudden, these people are kind

Pottymouth 32:24
of getting shoved their way because it's more crowd condensing, yes, more stress,

Patti 32:29
right, right? So there was, like, no communication. It was done badly. They blocked the bridges to Kentucky. I'm not sure if that was to get people to not come in or not let people leave, which is ridiculous, like, get people out of there. Yeah, that wasn't very clear. The police chief was very proud of the fact that they weren't like ready for a riot. Said it's important to know officers were not deployed in riot gear. However, when large crowds began to create safety concerns, fair, loud, large crowds did, in fact, create safety concerns our officers. Officers did implement standard crowd control techniques to disperse groups and restore order. These measures are designed to prevent situations from escalating and to protect everyone pleasant. Everyone present, not pleasant. It wasn't pleasant for anybody. But okay, so that sounds fine. And again, standard crowd control techniques, like you know, just, you know, moving people out without weaponry, or, you know, threats, just, you know, move them out. Get get people moving along. Close down early. That's all fine, not how it felt to everybody, right? So I'm glad you highlighted this part to me, because I got a new vocabulary word the police were armed with, and I quote, non lethal shotguns and pepper spray. So I look it up.

Pottymouth 33:37
That's so bizarre. You

Patti 33:39
want? You want to hear what a non lethal shot? Yes, yes. Another term for it is a less lethal shotgun, which is not the same.

Pottymouth 33:49
It's like 1%

Patti 33:51
it's very different. So a non lethal, or less lethal shotgun is a quote, firearm designed to incapacitate, deter or control individuals without causing fatal injuries, usually firing specialized ammunition, ammunition like bean bags, rubber pellets or plastic projectors,

Pottymouth 34:06
are all very different.

Patti 34:07
These weapons are used by law enforcement for crowd control and in home defense. So that's your vocabulary today, the non lethal, or less lethal shotgun. So the mayor, the mayor is setting this up as wants a crackdown. The mayor was out of town. How can you not be an opening day,

Pottymouth 34:25
right? Where was he?

Patti 34:27
Was spring break. Yeah,

Pottymouth 34:29
that was family. That was it with family

Patti 34:30
on spring break? Yeah? So good for you, right? So apps that the phrases the mayor used were absolutely setting this up for a week and ramp up. Yeah. He's like, Oh no, we got to crack down harder on the crowd control and this and that. So, you know, there's going to be, like, more curfew situations. There's going to be probably more armed forces there. It's going to be bad. My favorite thing, though, was a council member who blamed the disruption on, quote, a bunch of hooligans, which I think is code for mass holes. I think he's trying to place the ball. Blame elsewhere, which is negated by the fact that people who went to court were wearing

Pottymouth 35:03
red scare. So I immediately, when I saw these thought, Oh no, this is my people causing trouble. What I'm concerned about is, I think it's even more problematic. I think it's youth of color that they are blaming and trying to control, because apparently there's like a dynamic between the police and the government on this tough on crime thing, and whose responsibility is it, and who's being soft on crime and who's being tough on crime. So this is, like you're saying, this is an excuse for them to crack down, basically on minority youth, which is really

Patti 35:40
problematic, and sounds like I'm not at all surprised about happening in Cincinnati. I'm not. I'm just not. Yikes, I'm just not. I'm for perspective, that's like two blocks away from the Underground Railroad Museum.

Pottymouth 35:51
Wow, yeah, so we're calling the police on the police bladder, or we're policing, yes, on the police block. Well, we're citing the police.

Patti 35:59
That's maybe the first time we've ever said the word police during police. Oh, my gosh.

Pottymouth 36:04
Oh, I hope things well, you know, the Reds won the next two games. So I guess things calm down a little bit as we're talking about opening day. I just wanted to point us toward other opening days, because at this point in the show, I used to be doing stuff on winter ball, and I just want to bring up the fact that there's still baseball going on all over the world, and in fact, right now, there are other other leagues that have their season pretty much in the same time as MLB. So in Japan, the NPB has started on March 27 the CPBL in Taiwan, march 28 and the KBO, also in Korea, march 28 had a huge opening day. Everything was sold out, five stadiums, 10 teams. For reference, in case you want to watch other leagues, it's kind of nice that this can be breakfast baseball for Eastern Standard Time, Taipei is 12 hours ahead, and Tokyo and Seoul are 11 hours ahead. So that's like, if you get up at five or six for breakfast before work, you can catch or even seven the games are still going on. So have some breakfast baseball. Check out the links and see what you can watch. In Mexico, they had a winter League, but they also have LMB, the League of Mexicano de baseball, which is a little bit later than us. It's starting on April 16. But more about that in just a minute. As I'm looking at the other leagues, I wanted to keep up with former baseball boyfriends who have maybe gone abroad because they're, you know, opportunities here weren't as lucrative as going abroad, and we've seen a lot of guys who have gone abroad done better and then been able to get picked up and come back. So in Japan, which is probably the most elite of all of these leagues, two of my former Red Sox picks are playing there, Bobby Dalbec, my 20 pick with the yamiary giants, and my 21 pick for the Red Sox Jeter Downs is playing with the Fukuoka soft bank hawk. So two guys in Japan to watch out for your 20 Tigers picked Victor rays is in the KBO with the latte giants, and has done very well in the in his first couple of games, with three hits in the Liga mexicana. Oops, I wrote a p, but I meant a B, the day baseball in Mexico. Your so this is actually the Mexican League. Is a little bit early, because, as I said, it's not starting until April. So with they're still fleshing things out a little bit. But it seems like your 22 pirates pick, Roberto baybo Perez is going to be playing with the Caliente de Durango. My O's pick from 2021 Rio Ruiz and my 18 mariners pick Robinson Cano are both playing with the Diablos rojos, which are the former champs champs. So the Diablos rojos as the champions from last year this past week, and actually right now, we're recording on March 29 so shit, I didn't look at what happened with the final I meant to do that. Maybe I can click over, we'll see there is a international Champions League that has happened this week from March 24 to 29th at the Estadio Alfredo harpeu, which is this gorgeous new stadium in Mexico City for the Diablos rojos, and they're hosting four other teams. So it's the Champions League, and as we're coming out of, like the serie de Caribe and then the the other seria de las Americas, those were all winners of something, right, that come together and have some sort of, you know, playoff conference. So you would think these would all be winners. It's the Diablos rojos who won in 2025 the cocodrilos de Matanzas who won in Cuba. So the Cuban champs get to do something. The Dantos from Nicaragua, they were the champions of the Nicaraguan league. And then the Kane county cougars, who were the champions of an indie League. The American Association of Professional baseball, which. Is connected to MLB somehow. But I just thought that was kind of fascinating, that they picked them and then all the way from Taiwan. So note that all those other four teams are within, you know, pretty close time zones from Taiwan. As I said, like another 12 hours away. The CtbC brothers came and they did not win the CPBL last year, the monkeys won. Your team, the monkeys won, but the brothers get to come. So I don't know actually, who's the winner in this and why the brothers came. I mean, the brothers have, you know, won, I think the most championships of the CPBL. They're kind of like, known as their Yankees. But why them? However, it might not be a great move because their league is just starting, so to come travel across the globe to do this little tournament and then go back and have to play actual real games that are that

Patti 40:54
counts, yeah,

Pottymouth 40:56
I am not sure if they, you know, maybe the monkeys were like, That's okay, you guys can go right. So just to let you know how things go, the finals happened today at two, and I didn't see the results, and it was going to be the Diablos, the home team, against the American team, the United States in team mejor dijo the Kane County. So I'm not quite sure what happened today, so to be determined, but I do know that the way that the Diablos, the devils, got in is they beat the Cuban team yesterday. I had to look at this like five times to make sure this was really the score, 36 to 13. No. So I was like, I showed Mr. Prime method. Is this like a baseball game to you? I that you know that old football joke really kind of holds true here. Apparently, the Cuban team, the cocodrillos, were leading two to nothing in the middle of the second, and then all hell fucking broke loose. The Devil's got eight runs then. And then every single inning got multiple runs, as did you know, the crocodiles.

Patti 41:57
So no mercy roll in the champions. No,

Pottymouth 42:00
apparently not. I also didn't see how long that game was, but holy shit, the lone baseball boyfriend in all of this is my guy, Rio Ruiz. He's been on the Diablos and he did very well in four games. Well, you know, I guess everybody did well in the Diablos, because in 17 at bats, he got a Homer, five, RBI that runs out to 412, average, 1.121 ops. But we'll see what happened today. I'm kind of curious. Maybe while you're while you're on your the fantasy thing. I'll check it out. But before that, I just want to invite everybody to get ready for fun. We're all about the fun, the Copa de diversion, right? The fun cup in the minor leagues. I am so behind this is the minor leagues. Sort of nod to the Latino fan base, and having alternate identities that connect in different ways. And it's really fascinating to read about the reason behind the different identities. There's a lot of thought put into it. Some of them are translations. Some of them have to do with something about that area that's meaningful. They're all worth reading. So please go to the link, because there are two brand new teams participating this year, as well as five rebrands. And I just want to talk about the one that I think that is the very best. And I'm really looking at their merch, which is the hub city. Spartanburgers, which is high a for the Rangers, guzanos de Mezcal de Berg, which is the Mezcal worm. So that worm that you get at the bottom of your Mezcal bottle, that is this team, and the logo is the best, because it's got a worm with the mustache, the Sombrero, the maracas and a shot of

Patti 43:36
Mezcal. This is speaking to me.

Pottymouth 43:38
It's so good they said that it was a nod to the Spartanburg area our agricultural workers, because they tied that into the agricultural workers for picking the agave, for the Mezcal,

Patti 43:49
worst important for compost.

Pottymouth 43:52
There's nothing connection. Come on, yeah, yeah, I would. I'm just happy to have excuse to drink Mexico at the baseball

Patti 43:58
Sure, whatever you order get to, right? Yeah,

Pottymouth 44:00
they're in South Carolina, so that's not convenient, but, you know, the merch, we don't have

Patti 44:04
to go we can support them visually. I like it. I like it. We started our fantasy league. I'm so excited. We have a bunch of new people. We've got a bunch of returning people. It's all good. Just so you know, newbies that we do stats for the week, we check in the morning on Sundays before the Sunday games start. So once a week we will put you can check your where your standings are anytime you want. But as far as public acknowledgement, it's going to happen on Sundays, and it's going to be where you stood before the game started on Sunday. And I'm very excited. Well, first I was excited that on Friday after opening day, potty mouth was in first place. I was very excited. I was excited that on Saturday, crochet, after everybody had had an opening day, I was tied for first place above potty mouth, wow. And today, on Sunday, I'm super excited that one of our newbies, Bri is in first place. Tridents and. Half rooms. Great is number one, followed by old favorites, Karen's crew and bonus boyfriends and wicked awesome team, all former winners. And then me as number five, McClain, mean pitching machine, all star cobalt. And then the sunny Slammers and potty mouths.

Pottymouth 45:19
So sad. Yeah, I have fallen from grace.

Patti 45:22
You have fallen, you know, and now that you've said things like, I don't play guys when they're playing against the Red Sox, even if they're gonna hit multiple times, yeah? So now this surprises me less, right? But anyway, congratulations on your early lead again. Yes, small sample size, but nice start. I like it, and we'll check in every single week.

Pottymouth 45:44
Excellent. So I just got the quick update on that game in Mexico, and the gringos are ahead six to one in the bottom of the six. So we'll see what happens. But it looks like the Kane county cougars, you know, have something going Yes, whatever title that's going to be,

Patti 45:59
yes. Hey, you're excited about this coming week. Yeah, is

Pottymouth 46:02
it too late to open our last beer? No, no. All right, I'm gonna open our last it's important

Patti 46:09
that we get through the beer in your house, right? Oh,

Pottymouth 46:10
actually, that is so, so so true. I really appreciate that, because we are trying to get rid of all our grain based goodness. So what's happening this week I am spring cleaning, getting ready for Passover. Happy Pesach to all. Shouldn't you be at work? I have spring break. Yeah, it is so well it's, it's really good though, that the spring cleaning and the spring break are together because, yeah, first Seder is Wednesday night. We're going to be celebrating here. And actually, we can report on this next week. I haven't read it yet, but I got a baseball based haggadah for Seder that will be our main haggadah that we will be using. So I have no clue what that will bring us.

Patti 46:48
But now I've been here before, so I know what haggadah is. But can you explain that? For those

Pottymouth 46:52
who are new to this, sure it's the little book that kind of guides you, step by step of what to do throughout the Seder. So the word Seder literally means order. So there's a very specific order of things that you do and what you include, and there's a lot of really good takes on that with various haggadot. So the baseball haggadah just seemed kind of appropriate for this household. Yeah, so, so it goes.

Patti 47:13
So that's all very exciting. It does mean, however, that starting that day, you have no more beer for how long?

Pottymouth 47:18
For a week, eight days. I don't know why eight days, because we always, like, err on the side of what, just in case. I mean, I think it's supposed to be a week, but we do eight days. Like, as a people like, this is where I get my worrying from. Like, I think I get this, like, like, this, oh, superstitious, just in case. It's I like

Patti 47:34
that you round up on Seder, yeah, yeah.

Pottymouth 47:36
So, you know, the problem, of course, there is the NATs home opener is in that time, so we will not be getting our traditional beers at the ballpark. However, I do know that they do have those canned cocktails in both tequila and rum, which are both not grain based. So it's good

Patti 47:54
since we'll be there together. My question for you is, and I know the answer already, I think, is, do you feel Would it be weird for me to have a beer in front

Pottymouth 48:00
of you? Oh, you can totally have a beer. See, you actually, you should. You should, because there

Patti 48:05
near you, then on opening day, exactly,

Pottymouth 48:07
okay, I can be part of the celebration. Okay, yep, all right, so I'm gonna be doing the french fries and rum or something.

Patti 48:16
Breakfast of Champions. So speaking of ballpark food, the the athletic did their review on the best new ballpark food in stadiums across the country. They didn't do like one per stadium. They did their top 10 or so, and only two of them are places that I can actually get to. The rest of them were things that are not near us, are not on our epic road trip. But we did not eat at Orioles park because we ate at checker spot on opening day. But they have crab smashed tacos, which are some sort of crab cake taco situation, which I promised to have, and report back to the class when we're on the epic road trip when we go to Wrigley, I will take it upon myself to try the chicken and churros.

Pottymouth 48:57
Yeah, not many of those are vegetarian. I think the chocolate mousse, and I don't eat chocolates, right?

Patti 49:02
Yeah, so I'm happy to take it for the team, except that there aren't any more on our road trip. So I'm gonna put this out there to our listeners. You know where we're headed on our epic road trip, we'll be in Cleveland, and, oh, I have a Detroit story for you. Oh my gosh. While I was waiting, I was in front of checker spot, and I made friends shocking, who were wearing Minnesota gear at shocking that I'm making friends with folks coming in, you know, to, you know, as the away team. And they said, Oh, hey, are there other good breweries around here? I'm like, Well, yes, and I'm telling you about that, and I'm like, Well, are you going to go to your home opener? Like, well, actually, we live in Omaha. Oh, so I they a whole bunch of things. Got them there. But anyway, that was, it was, it was very funny. I'm like, Okay. And the guy was like, I'm checking off ballparks. We talked about that. And I said, Oh, well, I'm going on this epic road trip, and we're going to these places. And I said, I've been to like, two of them, but not to the other ones. And he's like, you're going to Detroit. Detroit's. My favorite, wow. And his wife said Detroit is my favorite too. And I'm like, I've never heard anybody say that the Detroit ballpark is their favorite, and they there's Tiger gargoyles, there's this and that. And you need to go this museum and do so, they had all of these really great things, which made me very happy, and also made me say, You know what? We have listeners who probably have really good recommendations, right for us. So part of what I want to ask you, dear listeners, is, what ballpark food should we be looking for at Detroit and and in Milwaukee and Kansas City and St Louis? Yeah, help us with that. And also, if you have things that we should do while we're there or place, you know, ideas for you should be in this neighborhood or stay in a place like this, we'd love to hear you. So find us on social media and tell us these

Pottymouth 50:44
things that would be great. Or if you want to meet up with us, that would be so much fun. Yeah, some of you guys on this road trip. So find us on the in the blue sky at ncib Podcast. I'm still checking the Twitter messages as well. Facebook and Instagram are no crying and B ball, but the very best way, absolutely is on Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, O N, slash, no crying and B ball, and for just a buck a month, you can chat with us there, give us ideas, get a shout out things like that, and just rest assured knowing that you are keeping this podcast going, because It is that grassroots effort on Patreon with folks doing a buck a month or three bucks a month that really make this happen.

Patti 51:26
Yes, thank you so much for helping with your support. So okay, my friends, I hope you had a really good opening day and an opening day weekend. I look forward to lots more baseball in person, and so I'm just going to tell you to do things like be healthy. Make sure you got your boosters. Please fight the man. It's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth, good night. Potty mouth,

Pottymouth 52:02
you and steak is thematic for today's episode, is it? Yeah, I have a steak mention. Okay, sort of a pseudo steak fix.

Patti 52:18
Take the old fake steak. I.