No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:18
Hi and welcome to episode 455 of no crying in baseball, the Sorry Homie episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend. Pottymouth, hey, Pottymouth,

Pottymouth 0:25
Hey. How's it going on this sunshiny day?

Patti 0:29
Now I'm so glad you woke up to a rainy day, which was, you know, fine, but I didn't want to have to walk here in and I got a

Pottymouth 0:34
beautiful day to walk here. It worked out well, although it's a good like, 20 degrees or 30 degrees less than yesterday, things are weird. Mother Nature is definitely,

Patti 0:43
yeah, like, now it's a little bit cooler than it should be right now, as opposed to, I don't know, 30 degrees warmer than it should be right right now. But, yeah, no, it was lovely walk. I feel good. I had a pretty relaxing weekend, you know, friends hanging out on the deck at the end of last week. That was nice.

Pottymouth 0:59
I enjoyed that we're kind of like,

Patti 1:01
you know, rolling into, like, relaxing time of year. I'm feeling good about it. Yes, I

Pottymouth 1:05
totally as I'm counting down the actually, this is very cosmic. There are 42 days as of right now, left of school, the meaning of life, Jackie Robinson. And we just had Jackie Robinson day. So I feel like everything's coming together,

Patti 1:18
everything's lining up, everything's coming up. Potty mouth.

Pottymouth 1:20
It's good. Yes, yeah. Oh, speaking of everything coming up potty mouth. I got two really cool presents this week, and one I've insisted on wearing, even though I'm really warm, so I'm about to take it off. Don't worry, it's not indecent. But I got this super swanky nationalist track jacket, and it's got like, embroidery and stuff, and it says Washington Nationals embroidered on the back. And it's got this little symbol here. And I give a big shout out to my friend Catherine, who somehow gets some cool sports merch once in a while, has passed along to our students before. And I am the proud recipient of a very cool I think it on windy days when we're up high at knots park, you look good in Adidas. Thank you very much. All right, it's coming off. The other cool present that I got is, and the moral of the story is, check your like buy nothing lists. You know different. There are different neighborhood list serves or Facebook groups with Buy Nothing.

Patti 2:15
Used to be free cycle things. Now it's more buy nothing. Yeah, exactly same concept.

Pottymouth 2:19
But there I've been on this Facebook by nothing group for a while, but I haven't been on Facebook for a while. I just, you know, getting itchy about social media. I try my best folks with the podcast, but otherwise, it's just not, not so fun. But I happen to be checking Facebook for something at the right time, and somebody put out there a speaker as well as a big framed picture of Ted Williams and Babe Ruth together, unbelievable. And so I immediately wrote, yes, me, please. I am a, you know, third generation Red Sox fan. This means a lot to me. It would go really well with my Ted Williams signed baseball. And then crickets for a while, and I like reposted with a picture of my side baseball, because you have to, they get to let it, what they call simmer, and then choose the what they think make your case. Yeah, exactly. And what had happened is the person just got busy and had some stuff going on, didn't get around to it until just a few days ago. And John Wilson, thank you so so much. Of course, I mentioned that we have a podcast, and so I'm giving a shout out if you're listening. I love the picture. We're still trying to figure out how to reconfigure our Red Sox Wall of Fame in the living room so that we can put this right in the middle. Mr. Potty mouth. Was like, Can we change the Babe Ruth hat to make I was like, No, you know, yes, we're gonna have a Yankees hat on the wall. Live with it like we're gonna, we're going to be okay with this, because it's a beautiful, you know, friendship that. Well, maybe not, yeah, I think

Patti 3:45
you just put a little post it note on the glass, just kind of cover that part up that we're not actually marring the historic photo, but you're covering

Pottymouth 3:51
it up. Yeah, yeah. That's like, what I did with the poster when I got that from my classroom. Remember that the poster, like, actually had a kid in a Yankees hat, and I cut out a little b and put it over it. Sure, that's because you got to do what you got to do. Oh my gosh, as fun of a week as I have. I I'm

Patti 4:06
here with the public service announcement. So, you know, I live in a small town. So do you, as matter of fact, same small town and I had to sort of negotiate basically a sitcom. Oh, excellent. Basically a sitcom involving bamboo, which is an invasive non native species going from my neighbor's yard through my yard to my other neighbor's yard to the neighbor behind them, who called code enforcement, and so on and so on. Instead of just talking to my neighbor and saying, Hey, this bamboo is getting in my yard. It's a problem. Can you take care of it? He went like he did, the nuclear option. And this is all coming from, like, you know, three houses away. So that neighbor and I just had a conversation with the house where it's originating, and he's like, Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll take care of it. I will pay to have all of this taken care of, as opposed to calling code enforcement, having, you know, this officer up here and cite you and do all these things. Like, really, so, so friends and neighbors. Yeah. Yeah, talk to the people when you have an issue like this. I mean, don't get yourself in danger. But bamboo is not, you know, that's not a danger thing. That's a hey, just so you know, you might not even be aware this is happening, right? De escalate. De escalate. Be friends, make friends with your neighbors, and then pretty soon you can have them all over for a block party, and everybody will be happy. That's that's a good thing. That also helps, by the way you know when you know your neighbor, it's much easier to talk to them when things aren't as sunny and rosy. So public service announcement from Patty,

Pottymouth 5:27
have a block party. I just wanted to do a brief moment to of respect to Garrett Anderson, who we lost this week from the world of baseball. 53 year old former angel. He was with the angels through three city name changes. Like, that's how long he was, you know, start, what's the word? The person who sticks around for all exactly what with the angels. Thank you so much. I really appreciate having you on my like, right here. Oh, my God, there we go. Right. It's a little nerve wracking. He was with the angels from 1994 to 2008 which encompassed many years of success with the angels. Of course, their 2002 World Series that they got out of the wild card spot, as well as Al West champions for a 40507, and oh eight. He holds still the angels records for games played hits and RBI. And as a tribute, the angels are all going to be wearing GA patches for the season. I found it, you know, sort of strangely poetic that he died the day after Jackie Robinson day at the same age and for the same reason, they both were 53 and had a heart attack, so that's a little bit haunting. You know, both really important in having idols, models of great African American men in baseball, because we know that the numbers aren't so great these days, definitely not as good as when Garrett Anderson was playing better than Jackie Robinson, luckily. But there is work to be done, and it's important to hold people up who have been successful and and just good people, too. He was known as like a good guy, not so keen on Kurt Suzuki, plugging the right way as the phrase to describe it, but a good person, I think, is a good way to describe it.

Patti 7:19
On today's show, we've got boyfriends, including bombs, F bombs, comebacks, parents good and parents not so good. We've got the O's manager taking it on the chin. We've got barrier breaking. We've got record breaking. You thought your taxes were hard this week, we're cross trading with World Cup price gouging. And we've got Pope hats for everybody.

Pottymouth 7:37
Cheers, I want a pope hat.

Patti 7:41
Well, go to the game. You can

Pottymouth 7:43
get one, damn it all right. We will get to that very soon. And last, I am definitely regretting, like, the timing of that pop hat stuff, but you know, there's always opportunities for more fun. We're gonna start off by talking about our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season. We each picked one guy per team because there was something super cool about them. And once in a while, our bets on these guys actually play pay off on the field. And I am, I think that my pick that so far this season, I'm most excited about is Sal Stewart, for sure, because it's so fun when, especially when we're doing our off season picks, and we find a name that we don't know it all at all. It's like a rookie who, you know, he played a little bit last season, but had not made that big splash. And holy shit, is he making a splash. And what I love about this piece also is that it includes a couple of F bombs, which, you know, I've been known to throw around once in a while. So he was key in Wednesday's eight to three win over the Giants. This is the Reds over the Giants. Six of those eight runs go to Sal the last six RBI game for a rookie was Ellie de la Cruz, who I picked in 2024 is my Red's boyfriend, and the way that he got those six RBI was getting three run home runs in each of the first two innings. So getting those six runs out of the way, really fast, both of those and to make it even more remarkable, both of those home runs and the home run that he hit the night before were opposite field. Six out of his seven home runs so far are opposite field, and his seven home runs so far at the shoot, I was gonna look it up right before we recorded, but I'm pretty sure he's second in the league for a number of home runs, but tied with a bunch of there's a bunch of

Patti 9:26
people tied at seven. Jordan Alvarez is actually at nine. Somebody's one or two or eight now, but there's a bunch of seven,

Pottymouth 9:33
so he's still up there. Yep, they have him in the cleanup spot, which I think is really appropriate, because he's clearly cleaning up in the cleanup so here's when the F bombs come into into discussion, and that Wednesday night. So you know, I'm sure the Giants weren't feeling great about this guy who hit two home runs and two three run home runs against him bottom of the seventh inning, he calls a timeout. Totally normal thing to do. There was no issue with it. He comes back into the box. Bucks and the pitcher. JT, brewbaker, a relief pitcher for the Giants, started his wind up before making eye contact, which is something that pisses umpires off. So the umpire, Quinn Walcott, took a time out and called a timeout and took his time about it, because he wanted to make a point to the picture that you need to make this eye contact. Well. JT got exasperated. It was like this exasperated and flabbergasted at the same time, you know, flying, you know, throwing his hands around, and had this expression, eye rolls, all this stuff, and the pitch clock hadn't started yet. This guy's kind of eating up a little bit extra time. Sal Stewart said, throw the fucking ball. And then he threw the fucking ball and singled on an 02 count, good for him. That's the way, you know, throw the fucking ball. Apparently. Barry Larkin said that on the way to first base, he made a gesture which could have been a finger up, I don't know, but on Thursday night, he gets hit in the ribs, hit by pitch. Second inning, the pitcher Landon roots said he slipped, but nothing happened from that. Nobody was ejected. Nobody was given a warning, even. And then in the eighth inning, the Reds pitcher Connor Phillips hit William Thomas also past boy, bestball boyfriend of mine, now on the giants, and he was ejected. So the Reds pitcher was ejected. So at this point, the giants are winning three to nothing, and I think the Reds are getting a little bit pissed off at maybe this non equilibrium. And who gets blamed for what? So Sal Stewart is the last pitcher up, and let's thank you very much. Sal Stewart is the last batter up and he strikes out. And when he strikes out, the relief pitcher at that point, Eric Miller, tells him to sit the fuck down.

Patti 11:48
Sure, right? Why wouldn't you right? Poke the

Pottymouth 11:50
bear Exactly. And also, like the game is over, you know, you guys got away with hitting him. Maybe it was a slip. I don't know. I wasn't there. I don't know the mind of the of the picture, but then the benches cleared for a little discussion around home plate. That was about it. I don't think it was even to the level of a kerfuffle. I forget like what the diagram was, but this is kind of the lowest level. The Cincinnati Enquirer published a great photo that has a close up of Miller, and it shows his middle finger up like it's in the newspaper. I don't know if they did that by accident, but it kind of stuck out to me when Terry Francona was asked about the fracas, or whatever it was, he said I actually missed it, because when Stuart struck out, I usually hold my head down and sulk back to the tunnel. That sounds right, right? And Sal, you know, to be a good guy, said we won the series. And things happen. You know, we're not going to talk more about it. We leave that on the field. The athletic you know, talking about Sal Stewart overall, says that his baseball savant page has more red than the team's new city crits connect uniforms, which is quite a statement, because

Patti 12:57
that's six kinds of red.

Pottymouth 12:58
New uniforms, so much red, so bright and so that means he's doing pretty well. Optustats on Twitter said that in his first 18 games, he had seven homers, 17 RBI, 13 walks, two doubles and three stolen bases, and no other MLB rookie had gotten all of those marks over any 18 game span in their rookie season, since RBI became an official stat in 1920 he's 22 so just to flip back to why I chose him in the first place, in Episode 443, he was the youngest red to debut since 1908 when he debuted last September. And what I liked about him is he when he said a lot of people play or somebody said about him, a lot of people play sports because they're good at it. No, it is him. He said a lot of people play sports because they're good at it, or their parents want them to, but I genuinely just love to play the game, and I love when that kind of passion actually shows in success. Yeah, and that's

Patti 13:59
one of the qualities that we've always said we look for in a baseball boyfriend. It's like, clear like, clearly they enjoy playing the game of baseball. That adds so much you can absolutely tell. I'm going to talk about three current boyfriends who had super slow starts, which they are turning around. One of them was a really big surprise. Nick Kurtz last year's unanimous rookie of the year with the A's super slow start this season. But Saturday, the A's were losing five nothing to the White Sox at one point. Then they started coming back and coming back in the in the bottom of the seventh, Nick Kurtz hit a two run home run to tie the game, right? It's only his second home run of the season that's surprising, considering he's known for that great big, that big Amish bat, right? So if that home run was 115.3 miles per hour off the bat, which was the hardest hit of his albeit short but illustrious career, it was the second hardest in all of MLB so far this season. Wow. You know newbie, right? Second hardest by an A's player ever, second only to Matt Chapman. And who in 2020 hit 115.9 miles an hour off the bat that came next month. See, eventually walked it off in 11. So, you know, him tying that game up really got them to extra innings.

Pottymouth 15:11
And that's crazy, because they had the bash brothers like ever for the A's

Patti 15:14
is a big thing, right? So Nick Kurtz currently leads all of Major League Baseball with 23 walks. Three of those walks were in this one game alone. He walks lot. So if he's not hitting at least he's what he's getting on base, right? Yeah, so that's something, right? So to give you a comparison, his first 19 games, he was hitting 219, and his last 13 games, 318, including five, multi hit games. I always look at my guys like, what are the last the stats for the last seven days. So, you know, the math is, you know, very compressed, but his ops for the last seven days is 1.167 his manager, you know, A's manager, Mark Kotze, said, the rhythm and the sink is there. I think there's going to be some really good days in front of Nick. So he's looking forward to, like, this turnaround happening right the day before all this happened was his bobblehead night. And it was his bobblehead night because that was the night where he actually got to receive on the field his Silver Slugger award. You know, he was the the Al Silver Slugger for first base from last year. So that was presented to him. And then to celebrate his day, his dad, Jeff, threw out a ceremonial first pitch to him, which was really great. It was a total Ephesus the curve on that thing. Yeah, really. But anyway, that was but, but Nick has turned things around. So yay for that. I mean, it was weird, like on my fantasy team, every once in a while, pulling him off and, like I thought he was going to be, like the guy that kept my numbers up. He's there now. Connor Norby from Miami talked about last week because he had just hit his very first home run. Finally, he hit his second home run home run on Monday, like a day after his first home run in the 10 to four win versus Atlanta, he had an eight game hitting streak going on, which just ended this past Friday. He hit 333 for the week. Again, the compressed math, we'll do that to you. I did find an interview with him. There's, like, one of those get to know the player interviews, and they asked him about his hidden talents. And he said, I don't really have a hidden talent, but I can sink. I mean, I crush Party in the USA. Okay? So, just so you know, if you ever need someone to crush Party in the USA, you got to call Connor Norby from Miami. I just swapped in boyfriend, Josh Young from Texas. I swapped out Colt Keith for Detroit, because Josh Young was having a slow start to the season, and he has turned that around. So again, I so again, I want those numbers on my primary team. He had not one hit in March, granted, you know, not a lot of games in March, but still no hits in March. He had three doubles versus Seattle on Friday alone. Oh, wow, right, so he's kind of back his second home run on Saturday, yes, his second home run, not his second home run, his second home run this season, which he hit on Saturday. Okay, got his average over 300 for the first time in exactly one year. Wow. The last time he was over 300 was last

Pottymouth 17:52
year, April. Particularly remarkable. If he had a slow start like that, he's

Patti 17:56
for the last six games he was hitting 400 he had back to back three hit games. So some switch flipped for him, and again, with the funny math, the seven days his ops for one week period was 1.393 he scored five runs and had 12 hits. So maybe that'll pull me up a little bit. I don't know.

Pottymouth 18:16
Yeah, I'm doing the same sort of like, hi. I thought this guy was supposed to be good. But wait, this guy's doing really well, and I'm just having some adjusting issue. You're out of beer, so

Patti 18:25
I'm gonna pour you a beer before you talk about Kike. So what are we drinking right now? What are we gonna drink next?

Pottymouth 18:29
So we are finishing the giant flaming zombie polar bear, which is the heavy hitter, and it's the last one. So goodbye, polar bear. It was good to know you. And that was from, you know, I can picture the can, but I can't remember the brewery. I think it's union. I'm pretty sure it's you Okay, Baltimore, and we're about to drink another liquidity ale. Works either the lager or the IPA. Yep, bursting.

Patti 18:52
What the bursteiger, Munich, logger, thank you. I don't think I've had this one yet.

Pottymouth 18:57
Oh, okay, well, this would be fun. All right,

Patti 18:59
I'm Corey while you're talking, so we like

Pottymouth 19:01
to keep an eye on our former baseball boyfriends, because we have to get new ones every year, you know, for podcast entertainment purposes. And one guy that I always love to go back to is Kiki Hernandez. I picked him in our very first season, and it's been so much fun to see him bloom, not only as a player, but as a character. He had elbow surgery in the off season, and I am happy, happy to report that he is way ahead of schedule on his recuperation. They originally didn't think he would be back until maybe all star break, and he's on the 60 day, which technically makes him back to be eligible to come back may 24 he says he's aiming for the 25th because the 24th is an away game, and he would rather come back back at home, and I'm guessing they're going to honor that request, because what a fun thing to do. He's starting rehab at the start of May, but he has been doing those quote, baseball activities like throwing and stuff like that, so he's working on it. He's doing well with the workouts, but he's got to do something with his time. Well, he. And his lovely wife, Marianna, just had baby number two. I can't remember. I think it's Santiago. I'm pretty sure that'll take up some time. Yeah, so there's that. But also, and they also have a lovely four, maybe year old four or five Penelope, who is adorable. And I think that Kike likes Pokemon on his own thing. It turns out he is a huge Pokemon fan. About three months ago, and I wanted to talk about it on the show. I don't think I did. There was a viral video of Kike at one of those Pokemon shows, like, when people go and buy cards for a shit ton of money, like, there's different booths, and so it's this guy who's got his his phone set up because he's live streaming his sales of these, like, sure fancy Pokemon cards. And the guy takes a double and goes, Wait, are you Kiki Hernandez? And Kike is, like, off screen in this video, and you hear His voice, which clearly no, saying yes. And then there's this whole conversation, like, Oh my God, you're Kiki Hernandez. And can we have the picture? And they did get a picture, and he did buy, like, three packs of Pokemon, or three cards. I think it's like individual cards for like, $1,000 I do not understand this card world, but power to him. So he is since April 1. He now has a YouTube channel called Get it Pokemon. And he even has a hat that he wears during it over his lovely blue hair. Sometimes it's just the blue hair, sometimes he's got his Pokemon hat, and it is fabulous. And so Mr. Potty mouth and I sat down last night and watched several Pokemon videos. He doesn't just do Pokemon cards. He also has NFL cards, which I totally don't get and a couple of SpongeBob ones. His daughter, Penelope, was a guest show in one of them, and his makeup was done by her. And it is very apparent. It's really adorable. So we will put a link in the show notes to Pokemon. I suggest. You know, it's like a couple minutes per video, definitely entertaining. Oh, and I have, okay, so I'm going from the best to the to the worst pick, one of my worst picks for a couple of reasons.

Patti 22:07
Well, you can define the difference between a former and an ex boyfriend, and our vocabulary which is important. So former

Pottymouth 22:13
are these guys that we keep like we're not going to ban them. And we have a list for folks who play fantasy with us, of never can be a baseball boyfriend. So if you're playing fantasy with us, this is a list of guys you just can't pick the no fly list. Yeah, perfect because they because they're assholes for one reason or another, and so Jared Duran has So

Patti 22:30
wait, pause though, those are the x's. Yes, the formers are just guys who have rotated out because it's a new season, right? But we still they're still great guys. We still follow them. We admire them. Whatever the x's have done something to get

Pottymouth 22:43
on the no fly list. Yeah, and we encourage others to pick our formers who are playing fantasy with us, but exes, Thou shalt not pick, including Jaren Duran so famously last season. I think it was no or this season, but it was during last season that he let fly a homophobic slur when he was annoyed with someone who is heckling him, which, you know the annoyance at a heckler, I am fine with you. Don't release those words unless they're part of your vocabulary. And so that's why he's still an ex, because I still don't have convincing information that he has repented enough and recognized the damage. There was the official apology. I'm just looking for a little bit more. I do see improvement, but not enough on that issue, and it's a really important thing. But he's been really outspoken about his mental health issues, and especially when the Red Sox documentary came out last year, and he absolutely came out about about suicidal, you know, ideation, and was very, very vulnerable, and has suffered as a result. So this past Tuesday, during a six to zero loss at the twins, and not only were they losing terribly that day, but they had gotten slammed the day before when Garrett crochet just broke, and I don't know what happened to him, but he let out 11 runs in two innings. I was like, There's got to be something wrong. He seems to be doing okay today. So knock on this wooden table behind me. So you know, mood has got to be down. A fan, apparently yelled at him something to the effect of, go kill yourself, you know, something absolutely targeted at the vulnerability that he had opened up on and he flipped the fan off, which I am very proud of him for. He's getting a lot of shit for it, because, you know, you should not swear in front of the crowd or use your middle finger. However, it happens a lot in baseball, and it is so much of an improvement, and it is so like the the fan was way out of line, and to just

Patti 24:47
what was so much of an improvement,

Pottymouth 24:49
the finger, as opposed to the homophobic slur? Oh, for sure, yeah. So that is, essentially, that's what happened that, you know, caused him to react that way with the slur. But your finger can. Take 1000 words instead of using one, really, you know, the F word that I don't approve of. He's taking it really hard because he's getting shit for using his middle finger, not for me. I'm saying yes, please keep using that. He said, Honestly, it's my fault for talking about my mental health, because I kind of brought in the haters. I don't think that should be the takeaway at all. I'm hoping that he gets more support for talking about mental health. Alex Cora said, like I said last year, for him to open up, he saved lives, and that has been talked about a lot, with people crediting him for calling to get help because of the speaking out that he's done. The twins at the last I saw were investigating. I don't know how the fuck you investigate this. Well, here's how.

Patti 25:43
Here, yes, because they have been trying to investigate it, but Jaren Duran did not say anything at the time because he says, I didn't want to disrupt the game, yeah, but because he didn't say anything until after the game, everybody was gone from the ballpark, so they were able to locate some fans that were sitting somewhere around there, but they couldn't act on it in a useful way. No one has got a recording or video or anything of this happening because he only flipped them off. He didn't say, hey, that person is out of line, yeah, which I get. You know, both, he's playing a game, right? He's doing his job, but also right, that that's how you that's how you deal with the fan, is you identify that right away, which he didn't do. I don't, I don't feel good about the flipping off. I agree that it's better than what he has done in the past. It doesn't mean it's okay. I get why he did it. It was emotional, and in the moment, I also agree with you that it's not his fault that, you know, for talking about it. That's not okay the fan, if that happened, which it likely did, we just can't frickin prove it, because he didn't say anything at the time. You know, that's that's that fan who is the problem. It's not him speaking up. That's the problem. I do think you've got eyes on you, bud. Yeah, you've got eyes on you. I get your emotional, but I still feel like, I just

Pottymouth 27:05
feel like there's so much being thrown around. There is a lot

Patti 27:08
being thrown around, but also, he could have dealt with that at the time by saying, find that guy, and that's how you stop it. When fans know there are consequences that may be because fans aren't going to do the right thing, just because someone says do the right thing.

Pottymouth 27:23
I think a lot of it has to do with him getting down on himself now because he is struggling at the plate, sure. So I think what he wanted to do probably was to solve it with his bat, which he didn't right, and then when he didn't, he probably felt shitty about himself, and then just wanted to just get out of it, but also

Patti 27:41
solving it with the bat fixes things when you get mouthed, you know when other players are going after you, but that doesn't do a thing to shut up the fans. Yeah, consequences for the fans are the things that stop the fans. So I that was a missed opportunity. I get why he did what he did. I absolutely do. I also wish he would have pointed that out at the time so the fan could be held responsible for that and be held up like, Dude, you're not coming to a baseball game in the spot Park ever again because you said this and it was out

Pottymouth 28:08
of line. Yeah, I hope somebody has let them know that, because I'm guessing this is not gonna stop. You know, like people are assholes, yeah, I'm sure it's not gonna stop. I feel like, you know, it's another example, I guess, of him heading toward the right way, but not finishing it. So he has a community foundation that he launched, and it's even on the Red Sox page, and it's to sport mental mental health issues. And if you look in other places, it's specifically targeted toward men. And I'm fine with that, because I think that men, especially big brawny men need support in dealing with mental health issues. He sponsored a quote Mental Health Master Class launch event at his old high school that looked super fun with fun activities for kids like skateboarding and DJing and art projects, and it looked like it was a really good message to pass on, but his website has nothing except for a donate button, which makes me like, like and and, and always when you're talking about issues related to mental health and suicide and self harm, the LGBTQ plus community is the most At risk and should be specifically included in a welcoming way, especially after the shit that he already pulled.

Patti 29:25
I would like to invite him to have a conversation with the two of us. Yes, because we could help him. I know I was supposed to call his mom. You were supposed to call his mom, you were supposed to call his mom, but I get why you haven't. But how many days till you retire?

Pottymouth 29:37
42 the magic number.

Patti 29:39
Okay, then you call all the moms. You've got a long list of moms.

Pottymouth 29:42
God, I know Justin Crawford's mom hasn't gotten back

Patti 29:45
to me. I've got moms to come. Yeah, you really do former boyfriends for me to talk about Brandon Nimmo, who was my Mets boyfriend in 2019 now with Texas hit his 1,000th career hit at his very last at bat on Saturday night versus Seattle. So. Congratulations. He's 32 his contract with the Rangers goes through 2030 which may not be enough time to get to 2000 from 1000 but, you know, but good for you for getting to 1000 that's a big deal. We talked a couple weeks ago about how Alec Bohm was kind of going after his parents for financial, you know, misdeeds, mismanagement, there was a couple of other Miss words about what they were doing with his finances. This week, his lawyers requested a preliminary injunction to get back a very specific number of dollars, $528,000 528 618 that's a lot of dollars. 520,618 his parents withdrew that amount from a brokerage account under his name, apparently for their own legal expenses. That's not okay.

Pottymouth 30:52
That's a nice record that they left, though.

Patti 30:54
Yeah. So there's a lot. There's this. This piece in the athletic is very long and very detailed, all the things that he is accusing them of doing and all things they're saying they did. He also fired Scott Boris. He doesn't get fired very often. To go back to his former agent, he said that his parents pressured him to go with Boris, and he wasn't comfortable with that, so he got out of there. And apparently this, no, the Boris, you know, agency is like, we wish it well, they had nothing bad to say. They're staying out of it. Like, okay, you know, you can, everybody can choose that. You can hire and fire your agent. That's fine. That's fine. But it sounds like he's kind of growing up and saying, You know what, I need to make my own decisions right now. And clearly, your decisions are not in my best interest, even though you say they are mom and dad, so Wow, right?

Pottymouth 31:45
I mean, I know what happens at Christmas. I think he, I think

Patti 31:49
he out with his Phillies friends at Christmas. I don't know.

Pottymouth 31:53
All right, I have a little bit of a happy with neon shining bright. Felix neon, neon, Okay, I gotta get the accent right. Felix neon became the second ever Dominican born empire in MLB. I find that fucking fascinating, because different

Patti 32:11
players, yeah,

Pottymouth 32:12
all over the place, and the second Dominican umpire, wow. So he debuted Friday night first, and he was at first base. I meant to check before he recorded to see if he because you know how the same crew goes around. So I don't know where he went after Friday night, but he was on first base for the Boston, Detroit game at Fenway on Friday night. He's only 29 years old. If you look at many articles, they will say that he's 30. I looked up I was I got very confused, so I looked up his birthday. He's born in October of 96 so you know, you got to look at that fine print. He's actually still 29 in 2018 he graduated from the academic Dominicana de arbitros de baseball. Arbitro is umpire the adab, and then jumped over to MLB camp in 2019 worked in the Dominican summer league. Single a in 21 delayed that for a year because of covid, so he would have been there in 20 but he also worked for eight winters. So eight seasons in lead on the Dominican winter League and the lead on President vitelio Mejia Ortiz said that his about, about neon, said that his call up, his calling up shows that lead on also can form professionals of a big of a high level in arbitrage, umping, arbitration, no, it's not arbitration. What umpires do. Arbitrage is umpire. So arbitrage is like the work of umpiring. Umpiring, umping, sure. Umping the first umpire, just to give him, you know, number one, Ramon Ferrer, debuted in April 22 2016 so not that long ago, also with Detroit on the field, but that time with Cleveland, and he had been in the miners since oh nine while I was looking at UMP stuff, because umps get a lot of shit. And, you know, I'm hoping that neon does very well, because there have been, you know, some umps getting called out by that new ABS system. But umps do good things. There's umps care online auction happening now until April 27 10pm so put that on your calendars, because there's a lot of really cool things. So you know, just it's a silent auction online. Go in and put your bid. They've been doing this for 18 years, and the proceeds go to the umps care charities, programs, which do a lot of really cool things, including giving free training courses to folks who want to be umpires and can't afford it, they have Meet and Greet events like, come meet the umpires at the game for kids and military at all of the MLB parks and some of the minor league parks. I think it's all triple A and a couple of double A. They do college scholarships, and they have this really cute Build A Bear thing. For kids with really serious conditions in hospitals. So umps do care. Sometimes we give umps a lot of shit, but it's a hard job. It's very hard job. Is it

Patti 35:10
thankless job? Yeah, I have a question for you. You have him umping in single a in 2021, and then you have eight years of lead. Um Was he also doing so the minors since then? Yeah, so

Pottymouth 35:23
is the winter, and he's doing the summers in single a and double A and stuff. Thank you. While Liam is going back and forth, I'm

Patti 35:30
just making sure, because, you know, we were talking about Jen Powell several weeks ago about how this extensive experience, and I wanted to make sure that he had, yeah. I mean, I'm all for this. Yeah, I there's a lot more equity that needs to be happening right in the world of umpiring, for sure. I'm just apples and oranges here, for sure.

Pottymouth 35:49
Yeah. So he was working double time. Summer's here, winter's there. So Jen

Patti 35:52
Powell was actually upping a game at the O's had on last Monday. I know this because the intern was there, and I was very excited about this, but it was more known because Craig Albert, as the manager of the O's, got hit in the jaw while standing in the dugout by a line drive foul ball hit by Jeremiah Jackson fifth inning. It broke his jaw, and he has seven cheek fractures. That sounds

Pottymouth 36:19
awful, like I when I saw that, was like, how can he still be working? Like, I

Patti 36:22
don't get it. So okay, well, so he's so, you know, the Orioles are known for their Iron Man, so that might be a little thing here, but here, here's a couple things that have happened for him, right? So here's a scary thing as a parent, as a spouse, his wife and kids were not at the game because his son had a baseball game. They were listening to the O's game in the car driving back from the son's baseball game. When they heard that this happened, oh my God, when they heard that their husband, their dad, got hit in the head with a 70 mile an hour Foul ball. So he Craig was very quick. I'll be the call. Be was very quick to FaceTime his family and say, I'm okay, good, I'm okay, okay. So he's not really okay, but he was okay enough, right? So temporarily, while they first checked him out, he was in his office, right? You know, he left the dugout. They walked him out of the he said he actually covered his face when left the ducks. He was worried that his family was watching on TV, and he didn't know what it looked like, and he didn't want to scare didn't want to scare them. It must have looked horrible. So when he came out, it wasn't that bad. It was bruising. And anyway, so he's watching the game from his office. And so Jeremiah Jackson, who hit the style ball that got him in the head at his next at bat, hit a grand slam, which I'll be heard from his office. He said I heard the crowd, and I was like, You know what? Fuck this. I'm going to the dugout. So he goes back out to the dugout in time to hug Jeremiah Jackson, both in the I'm okay, and, holy crap, you just hit a grand slam, right? So there's that. So give him a hug. And then his head trainer kind of looked at him, was like, you really need to go to the hospital. Now. We're out of here. We're going, we're going to the hospital. So we got, you know, scans and treatment, all this, everything. But he was like, home by midnight. Because sometimes when you go to the hospital and you're a manager of the home team, you get out of there faster. So he doesn't have a wired shut jaw. He has to, it's gonna all the things are gonna heal on their own. He can't blow his nose for like six weeks. He has to have, you know, smoothies. He calls it, yeah, soft things for like six weeks and all that. So Jeremiah Jackson, who's my new favorite Oriole, got the Grand Slam ball for him and signed it and wrote, sorry, homie. Oh, that's great, because he is an Iron Man. He was back at work in the dugout the next day. He he was also standing in the same spot in the dugout. He has not changed his work like, he's not like cowering in the back. He made a joke about, you know, we have a raven's helmet back here. Maybe I'll wear that. But, you know, so they made some jokes, but he's just standing in the same spot, doing his job, going back to work. He's striking twice. He said, This is what we're here for. We're here for the players. We have a game. I'm physically able to be here, so let's go. If my jaw was wired shut, I'd still be here. Wow. So they're the O's are just finishing up a sadly disappointing series in Cleveland. They lost three in one one. But anyway, if you remember, I'll be worked for Stephen vote in Cleveland for two years before getting the job with Baltimore. And they're friends, right? They're friends. So he they also are known for playing practical jokes and pranks are one other. So, so Stephen vote welcomed his you know, former protege who's now a major league manager back by redecorating the visiting manager's office and downsizing it like a kid's room. Kid size desk, yeah, because he's like a rookie manager, right? Kid size desk, Kid size chairs, everything in the bathroom. They hung a Spider Man curtain. Well, that part's pretty cool. They really like they made and they had some sort of like. Uh, like Junior managers kit. They didn't say what was in it for him, sweet. So Albie says, I'm having it all packed up and sent back to Baltimore. We're gonna Bill Steve and vote for the shipping because he appreciated he thought it was pretty funny. So I think he really certainly inspired the team. Yeah, at the time, I'm just wow, but Cleveland, just wow. Anyway, that's my story. He is there for the guys. The guys love him. That's good. So, like, he's like, you know, I'm here. It's just my job.

Pottymouth 40:29
That's awesome. That is crazy. I don't, you know, I just feel bad because I always kind of, you know, bristle when it's like, just tough it out, you know, just, you know, rub it off, whatever. Shake it off and just keep doing it. I'm like, that's like, face is fractured. Maybe you could just rest a little bit.

Patti 40:46
I think one day a difference for him. It's like, you know, other than talking, it's not like, he's like, needs to, like, run on it, or catch with it, or do those very physical things. So I was thinking the same thing. It's like, we always say, no, these guys really need to, like, take care of their things. Our mom instinct, is that out and we want to protect them? Like, you know what? He's fine, yeah, that's

Pottymouth 41:06
funny, though. The talking, like, that's what his job is. He's got to be able to talk. Yeah, you can't blow his nose or eat real food, but he can talk.

Patti 41:12
Okay, apparently. I mean, he's done both press conferences and, yeah, all right, they actually, there was one point where he had to go out and talk to an umpire, and the the broadcasters were like, Oh no, this is the thing he shouldn't do. But he was fine.

Pottymouth 41:25
Think about like, sneezing, like, there's got to be a lot so much involved with your face, so

Patti 41:31
much face.

Pottymouth 41:33
All right, I just want to go back to Friday night at Fenway Park for a minute. I would love to go back to Friday night at Fenway Park. So Friday night at Fenway Park this year is city connect greens, which it's fun when you have city connects to choose from. Actually the Red Sox Old City connect the Boston Marathon, the yellow and blue one is an actual uniform. Now it's part of their rotation. And so their city connect that counts as city Connect is that green one that blends into the background, but brings a shit ton of luck. So last year, they were six or five, which doesn't sound like a great record with the city connects, but all six of those wins were walk off wins. The first game that they wore the city connects this past Friday with with the Fenway greens, was a walk off win, and it was, it was such a fun game to watch. It was Ranger Suarez doing amazing against Casey Mize like it was a pitching game, zero to zero. Yoshida comes. I shit. I think it was the 10th and one to nothing. Did the walk off? Wow. So the camouflage remains. Any wall at Fenway is sort of game for fading into it if you're wearing the city connects, but I need to get something in that color, like my house, like your house, yeah, actually, like that his

Patti 42:50
house could be the green monster. Yeah, that's we're

Pottymouth 42:52
really planning this. So Benjamin Moore paint used to actually have the colors of Fenway Park, and they do not have it for sale anymore. However, on the internets, you can find lots of like, if you mix this and this, or if you get this coat of this kind of paint, it's pretty close. So I did do the Googles for a while and got it, you know, pretty close. So our dream, at some point, when we have the funding for it, is to paint the most of the house that's not brick monster green. And then the the drain pipes are going to be foul pole yellow. And then the eaves on the top will be the Navy and the red.

Patti 43:30
Can your address be the little scoreboard number?

Pottymouth 43:33
Right? See, we've got to make

Patti 43:35
this better yet. There's, I think, I think, yeah, the address numbers need to be the how the scoreboard numbers look. Yeah, I'm all for this, everything. I am absolutely

Pottymouth 43:42
someday after retirement, and

Patti 43:44
I like when you say our because I'm wondering, is it really both of you, or is it your plan?

Pottymouth 43:49
Oh, no, yeah, no, Mr. Potty, math is 120%

Patti 43:52
behind this. Okay? Your math is so bad. 200% 1,000% right? He's batting I don't teach math anymore, right? No, not even. Okay, so your beer is gone. Mine's gonna be gone right now, and we're gonna be on our third But can I just say we're drinking only tiny beers today? It is. We're splitting tiny beers. Absolutely. I'll let you pour while I talk about the Padres.

Pottymouth 44:12
Okay, that is the sound of the West Coast. IPA, all right.

Patti 44:17
Padres this week still to be approved by the other owners. But no one sees a problem with that project sold for a record breaking $3.9 billion billion with a B to a group led by a husband and wife, Jose e Feliciano, who is the co owner of the English Premier League club Chelsea, and Kwanzaa Jones, who is a professional singer and a music producer. Right? So, married couple leading this ownership Power team, power couple, for sure. They would be MLB is first Puerto Rican, which would be Jose and African American, Kwanzaa majority owners. That's amazing. So that's super, super cool.

Pottymouth 44:57
And so good for San Diego like that, right? Great fit, right?

Patti 45:01
It absolutely is this $3.9 billion is five times the sale price when last time that the franchise was sold in 2012 Wow. It's also the previous record. It's 62% more than the New York Mets $2.4 billion sale in 2020 it is the sixth highest sale price in North American sports history. Wow. You say Kiki, I say Manny. Manny Machado said, I don't want to hear anybody talk about us being a small market no more. If you're bidding that high, it kind of tells you everything about what you want for the organization. I don't know. So other owners are absolutely going to approve the sale, but they're also kind of screwed a little bit with the next CBA negotiation, because the owners have been saying we need a salary cap to increase the franchise valuations, and then this team, which is supposed to be a small market team, sells for $3.9 billion so clearly you don't need A salary cap to

Pottymouth 46:00
that's not the takeaway that, right?

Patti 46:03
So they don't just find one person. So they kind of took a sledgehammer to the whole salary cap argument. So we'll see what happens with this. But it's very easy to say no, because look No. Look at this. This team is now $3.9 billion No. And the meantime, you know, nationals and other teams are trying to sell. They're not getting so I think this will encourage those things to happen.

Pottymouth 46:29
I feel like that man in Machado, you know, for I actually want to say nice things about him once in a while, that that acquisition started this whole, like, improvement of San Diego Padres, like making them a really serious team. They put out money for him, and then they put out money

Patti 46:44
for a whole bunch of other folks. They did, and he said he hasn't met the new owners in person. He did talk to them on the phone. So they had reached out to other players to talk about the team with players, which I think is kind of cool, and the players that were quoted publicly have good media training, because they were all very supportive of this, but they weren't very much like this is showing a real investment in us. They really want us to, you know, they believe in us. It's not just a, you know, sink some money in here as a loss leader or something, all 12 short stops.

Pottymouth 47:13
All right, can't let this go by without tipping our hat to the girls Trailblazer series, because it's because of stuff like that that we have a Women's League starting this year, because MLB put their name and invested in bringing up girls and encouraging them to play baseball. That stuff is happening, and they're still doing it. And I feel like it's just been growing year to year. It started in 2017 I think that's we started 17 or 16.

Patti 47:42
We started the World Series in 2017

Pottymouth 47:44
Yeah, wow. So we've been following this since it's an inception. It's Elite Series. So there's a lot of you know, like the baseball for all that has all in their annual tournament. But it's also important to encourage this sort of elite coaching and competition to really bring people up to that next level. So it's for girls aged 11 to 18. It's been annual since 2017 except for those pandemic years and 2021, was virtual. And what I love looking at the list of coaches through the years is how it's expanded, and it's all strong female coaches who have playing experience at the highest of levels. Tons of US women's national team members. Veronica Alvarez has been there since the beginning, no shocker, and now she's got the baby. Oh my god, it looks so cute in the little A's outfit. Plus Chelsea Falzone, who's the twins manager of youth engagement, and a couple of folks who have been develop development coaches in MLB organizations at the minor league level, Bree nasty and Caravan drew Bree nasty of the Mets and Caravan drew of the reds. So to have this long list of accomplished women coaching, elite coaching for girls. It's just gonna mean good things for the future of the women's professional league.

Patti 49:06
Excellent. I love that. So Tax Day was this past week.

Pottymouth 49:10
Oh shit, yeah, right, yeah.

Patti 49:13
So I'm guessing you're not involved in your

Pottymouth 49:14
family's taxes. No, I am terrible, terrible, terrible at not having anything to do with that besides passing. So first,

Patti 49:21
it's just a quick question, bad you don't have to answer, does Mr. Potty mouth do the taxes, or do you have someone do the taxes?

Pottymouth 49:27
I, honest to God, don't know. I love it so much. Isn't that terrible? Because Mr. Potty mouth does have a business, and I know that for a while it made sense for whoever was your business to do the family. I have no fucking clue if that's what magic happens. I hand over my W twos and say, there we go.

Patti 49:47
I love that. I love that for you. So it's just me. I do my own I do it on Turbo Tax and takes me less than an hour. And I usually wait till the last minute, because I, you know, tend to say, oh shit, right? It's, you know, April, whatever. Ever, but I get them done on time. Turbo Tax, the athletic did a piece on what it's like to be an MLB player as far as taxes are concerned, and it really made me feel good about my life. Okay? I mean, I not that I would turn away, right? The kind of pay that even the lowest paid MLB players get, but they have to track where they are like, city wise, every single day state they have to, some of them, they have to do like, 20 or more state taxes. Because hysterical, because, you know, so you're at Oriole, but you're playing in New York, you're working in California, you're working in, you know, in Georgia, you're working in Minnesota. All of those things involve separate state tax returns, and then, oh yeah, there's Canada. So that's the whole thing. There's residency. Where do you actually live? Because that makes a difference on your, like, your total tax base. Did you spend some of the time in the minor leagues? Right? So different pay levels that you might be going through different tax brackets. So it's kind of crazy. So this piece in the athletic was going through. One player is actually the child of tax preparers who, like, got him started, like, the first time, and then said, yeah, no, we're sending this out. Like, we know how to do this, but this is our job. We're going to do it for people who are paying us and, you know, but they and one player is, like, I did it myself once. It took, like, a whole week to enter all the state stuff, and then I will never see Turbo Tax again, because I am never going to do this myself again, because it's just so freaking complicated. So congratulations. Those of you who have one job or two jobs in your family that have to pay taxes, and you can probably get it done on your own if you need to, because with the glamorous salaries of professional sports, comes

Pottymouth 51:47
this, right? So the moral of the story, I would say, is, if you're a tax person, like an accountant for your business, this is a really good gig, like, definitely, like, these are folks with disposable income, sure, probably don't want the headache of doing their taxes. So somebody should specialize, I'm sure, specialist

Patti 52:05
so well actually, so I have the Detroit pitchers, you know, for my pitching flock. And will vest is one of my guys, a reliever. He has a finance degree, and he is kind of known for kind of managing his own like his investment accounts and those things. And he was asked, Well, do you do all this stuff? Do you do your own taxes? And his response was just laughing out loud, yeah, right. He's like, Yeah,

Pottymouth 52:27
I'm making money now. All right, international stuff. Really brief today, the Liga Mexicana de baseball, the LMB, started Friday, woo hoo, and we're recording on Sundays. So there is baseball happening south of the border in Mexico. The Toros de Tijuana, apparently are the new potty mouth pick. So I know that I previously had the noranjeros de el Marcio as my team that I loved, but I feel like I've got to change allegiances, because I have two baseball boyfriends on this team right now, my 21 Royals pick Frenchy Cordero and just announced my 2019 Dodgers. Pick Justin Turner is going to yet another country he played. I mean, after his long time with the Dodgers, and his goal, actually, with this is to get enough cred to retire with the Dodgers. He would really like to be picked up by the Dodgers last year, but since the Dodgers, he went to the Red Sox. He went to Toronto. His baby was born in Toronto, and now he's down in Mexico. So he's just like and he was with the Cubs. He's his wife also has a podcast, lovely, lovely couple. And I wish the best for an RV. It must be a really right, right, but that's a lot of moving around. Yeah, I think they call him la barbaroha, red beard and and he's all for it. So if you're following Mexican baseball, they've started now their championship series in September, September 8 to the 16th. So let's see how Justin Turner does see.

Patti 54:09
He's the kind of player that you would see, like the Dodgers hiring under one of those special assistant kind of titles, just to kind of get him in the fold, but he wants to play. Yeah. So good for him. Yeah, good for him. I think that's kind

Pottymouth 54:23
of fun, actually. Yeah, Robinson Cano is still playing too. So Chugga, chugga, chugga on the Diablos.

Patti 54:29
So we have our crazy fantasy league, and I'm kind of amused. I have amused this week because so many pairs flipped, oh, within the standings. Okay, not wicked awesome. Wicked awesome is still winning, but so like the three and four, okay, Bono's boyfriends flipped to three, pushing the all star cobalt, 112, down to four, right? You and I flipped. I you know you were one ahead of me. I am now six, and you're seven, but we just flipped from. Last week, and the McLean mean pitching machine and Sonny Slammers flipped from last week, so McLean's now at eight, and Sonny Slammers are at nine. So it's not huge changes, but like within it, there's all these little, little tiny flips, tridents and tap rooms is, you know, holding steady at five, and everybody else held a carrots crew holding steady at number two, and then everything in between, a little flip, a little flip, a little flip.

Pottymouth 55:25
So we get awesome. Asked me if I was going to continue saying that he owes me for taking the Red Sox pitch. You really

Patti 55:31
do kind of beat that with a, you know, whatever. Yeah, yeah. So are you Well, I did. I just did. You just did? Oh, here we go. The answer is yes. Sorry, Mr. Patty Mo, and I have no control over this. You know that? All right, I

Pottymouth 55:42
get to try to do a quick cross training. The rumor, the story is there's enough gouging to go around, but I don't know who holds fault for this gouging. So we're going to the FIFA World Cup. Oh my god, is coming to this country very soon, and it is a hot fucking mess. And I really don't know what to expect. Besides, you know, huge, overpriced everything, and who knows how many fans are going to be coming in, and apparently it's just for the very, very wealthy at this point, because they released a whole nother layer of tickets that they had been guarding. Of the very close tickets were, which are even more insanely expensive. But not only are the fans paying crazy amounts of money for the tickets, but now they're going to have to pay crazy amounts of money to get to the game. This is a rumor, but you know, it's never been past me to promote rumors, but the athletic said it. So if the athletic is spreading rumors, I feel okay like reporting on what the athletics said that the New Jersey Transit is planning to charge over $100 to get from Penn Station to the MetLife Stadium for the FIFA games. This trip usually cost 1250 during the FIFA World Cup club games that they had last season. Nothing changed, and that was when you know you had your club champion from each country coming to play, but there were a lot of fans, but it was nowhere near the level of craziness with the fees and the ticket prices that we're seeing right now. And to top that, like not only does that suck, but in the plans, there's no exceptions for seniors, kids or disabled, which currently with New Jersey Transit. There are different Fee Scales. The New Jersey Transit spokesperson on this article emphasized that this is not final. This is just quote speculation, but the main issue behind it is figuring out how to pay for all these FIFA costs that FIFA, despite charging shit ton of money for these tickets, they're not paying for the cities to deal with this influx of fans and moving them around. So New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who's not my favorite Democrat by any stretch of the imagination, like, oh my god, we need new leadership. But Schumer has a point where he said that quote, fifa's hosting agreement dumps added transportation and security costs onto states and cities, while FIFA keeps the revenue from the tickets, broadcasting and concessions. So FIFA is raking it in. And the cities have to suck it up, because there is sanitation issues. They have to deal with the trash. They have to deal with so many things, and they should be getting a little bit of money. And there's so many politicians involved between, you know, this is kind of like that, New York, New Jersey line, New York Governor Hochul said, we're not doing this on the MTA like that. We're not overcharging. This is not happening. The governor Cheryl of New Jersey said that, basically, we need to figure out how to pass these costs over to those attending the games, not the New Jersey taxpayers. However, those attending the games are already playing a shit ton of money. And to boot this transportation means that these lines are going to be closed to commuters like this is just for shuttling fans around. For a comparison, in Boston, they're also trying to deal with this. So the MBTA in Boston is increasing their shuttle to Foxboro that from Boston for the NFL. They usually charge 20 bucks to get from Boston to Foxboro, and now it's going to be like 75 to 95 depending on who you talk to. I don't know if they're going to get through with this. I just feel like FIFA is so fucking corrupt. These prices that they're charging for tickets are ridiculous. I'm really wondering how this is all going to shake down and affect these cities that have to deal with all these folks coming in.

Patti 59:42
Yeah, yeah. So, um, I agree with the don't expose all the taxpayers right to this. I do think, yeah, FIFA should be picking, should be kicking in for this. That's important. But FIFA apparently is in bed with the fascist in chief, yes. So there's gonna be no cozy, cozy, no feet held to the. Fire for that. But wow, that's that's just stunning. I mean, in our tiny, tiny town, when events are held, we have to do the math like, what is the impact on public works, who are picking up the trash? What is the impact on police who are having to, like, do traffic control and security? What is the impact on all of the different departments, because it's not just like, Oh, hey, it's the fourth of July. We're gonna have a party. It's like, okay, it there is a cost to that. It's a taxpayer cost, because that's who's paying those salaries, who's paying that overtime. So, wow, yeah, that's,

Pottymouth 1:00:33
it's crazy, because when, when the World Cup was in Qatar, like the, you know, most super, super rich, rich country, and also just foul with all the human rights abuses that went into constructing the stadium there, but the ticket prices sort of folded in the transportation costs like there was a package in that. Yeah, and I

Patti 1:00:52
wouldn't be surprised if there were, if there were fans of the World Cup who will find it cheaper to go to other countries to watch games there, instead of put up with all of this crap, like

Pottymouth 1:01:04
Mexico, which will be hosting games.

Patti 1:01:06
For instance, hey, pop hats for everybody. I want a pop I know you do. I know you do. So the White Sox had this promo for 1500 White Sox branded pop hats with a special ticket giveaway, similar to the Hello Kitty giveaway, right? You buy a special ticket, or, you know, specific colleges, or whatever it is. You buy a special ticket, you get a special bit of swag, and you sit in certain places. This I thought was going to be similar to like the Orioles ordering 5000 more to pack, you know, bobble heads, because they had all this interest. No, no, it's way bigger because, you know, it's the Pope. Yeah, it is the Pope. So they quickly realized, holy crap, huh, very holy. I didn't mean that the holiest of crap, the holiest of Craps like this is like out of control that we've already sold out people, everybody, everybody who doesn't want to pop out. So I can say, originally, I didn't want to put that, but we're getting to that in a second. So they decided everyone should get a pop out. So they have now changed it, so every single person, not the first 10,000 every single person through the game is gonna get a pope hat. Well, ask the question, what happens to all those people who order those special tickets? Yeah, yeah, no. Ask the question, Oh, what

Pottymouth 1:02:29
happened all those people who ordered this? They're gonna

Patti 1:02:31
get a yet to be named second, Pope related piece of swag.

Pottymouth 1:02:34
Second, what else is like?

Patti 1:02:37
I don't know anything could be like a little scepter thing. It could maybe it's the whole like Ravens. I don't know what it's gonna be. Maybe it involves black smoke. It could be anything. I just don't know. I just don't know. But my favorite thing that I read was The full giveaway to everybody. It honors the charitable spirit. So when you first pointed this out to me, I mean, I'm a recovering Catholic, right? I was raised Catholic. I don't go to church. I don't do any Catholic things anymore, but, you know, it was ingrained to me for, you know, many, couple of decades. And I'm like, is this weird? Is this like, I questioned the appropriateness and the White Sox say several churches and other Catholic groups have already purchased group tickets. That's like, you know, like, you know, boxes and, you know, seating for this. So I'm like, All right, okay, I love it. And apparently they did actually check they kind of like they talked to the diocese and all of that to say, Is this okay to do? There's no likeness of the Pope on there, and no one's gonna confuse someone wearing a white sox branded Pope hat with the actual Pope. So you're probably okay.

Pottymouth 1:03:41
It's so funny. I was thinking, like, the first iteration of this when they were, like, specialized tickets, I think they were out in the bleachers, and I was just picturing this, like group of drunken folks in pop hats. And the

Patti 1:03:52
problem with the pop hat is they're tall, and if you can't see over them, like I'm gonna be if I was, I picked if I was sitting behind somebody in a pop hat, and I can't see first

Pottymouth 1:04:00
base, big issue. It's a big issue that's, that's gonna be, there's

Patti 1:04:05
gonna be people, that's Pope hats, brawling, which is not good objects, right?

Pottymouth 1:04:10
You know? But right now, who doesn't love the pope for sticking up to the fucking fascist and right? Like, I think I love this getting more folks, you know, Popey, popish, popish, popish. Yeah, popish is better.

Patti 1:04:25
Wow. I am pro Popey. Okay, so just saying, this is actually the week before we're in Chicago, so we're not going to be part of this whole pop up Palooza situation that's happening here. That's the best. But you know. So if you are planning on going to pop upalooza, we hope you include us with photos and all of that and let us know about that. Yeah, so tell us we know your plans for these crazy promo deals, what you're most looking forward to find us on social media

Pottymouth 1:04:57
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Patti 1:05:29
Go see some live baseball. Fight the man, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith, and until next week, say goodnight.

Pottymouth 1:05:35
Potty mouth, good night. Potty mouth, you

and then I went up, and then my tire light came on, and the whole trip up took a lot longer than I thought. So I missed all the tailgating, and just got there for hanging out for an hour before the award ceremony. I'm trying to remember what was the main idea of that story, my memory.

Oh, that was so bad. Now I'm really worried about my memory. Holy, phone, here, yeah.