No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Hi and welcome to episode 456 of No Crying in Baseball, the I'm All About Tradition episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth,

Pottymouth 0:26
hey, that should be my mantra. I think that's a very soothing statement, and I'm looking forward to where it comes in your your things, you're going over, but I think that's going to help me come to peace with what I'm talking about,

Patti 0:37
yeah. But before that you're gonna you have a purge coming.

Pottymouth 0:39
I do totally so

Patti 0:41
I'm picturing, you know, back when we were kids, and that the maxel like cassette tape commercial, the guy sitting in the armchair with his hair just completely flown back. That's gonna be me about five

Pottymouth 0:52
minutes in about five minutes, five minutes. So we'll leave with that. So I get it out of my system. Yes, completely. But before we get to that, I want to cheers our new Patreon friend, Hannah. So thank you so much for joining Patreon and everybody else who is waiting to join. Listen up at the end of the episode, and we will tell you what to do. Welcome

Patti 1:11
Hannah. We're happy to have you. You were away for the weekend. You did some cross training. I'm so happy for you. It

Pottymouth 1:18
was so good. So we saw the Boston fleets final, final regular season game before they go to the playoffs starting this Thursday, and we brought my dad and my stepmom, and they haven't been to a sporting event in a while, and we thought that this would be a great one, because, well, they they're Boston sports fans, through and through, but my stepmom comes from a hockey family. Yeah, she does. So her dad coached at Malden Catholic High School, which was a big deal for a very long time, and then ended up coaching at Boston College. Her brother was actually drafted by the st Louis Blues and spent a few years in their farm team before an old injury stopped that career, but for her and my dad to see women playing professional hockey like for me, I kept tearing up. I really kept bursting into tears.

Patti 2:12
It's such a big frickin deal.

Pottymouth 2:13
Is there is so much crying in hockey, or there was so much crying in women's sports? Just it was amazing. And they just sat there, blown away. They were like, seeing the girls, like all these kids with their signs, and so many people in jerseys. I have never seen so many people in jerseys at any sports event. These are, like the nice player jerseys, men, women, all genders, kids, like, just jerseys and fans. And it was packed and sold out, and it was so so so much fun. And then super ironically, so we were talking about all this, and my stepmom was talking about how her parents, you know, would have been so happy to see this, and thinking about, and I was thinking about like her and her sister, and like her brother, you know, was brought up in the rink, and they were brought up watching, yeah, and her mom was, you know, the mom of the wife of the coach, the mom of the kid who got drafted the day after the game. Just totally coincidentally, her nephew came over. Her sister passed recently, and her niece and nephew have been going through the house because both, both her sister and her husband died within, like, a year or so, and they found an old trophy of her mother's so it said her mom's name on it, and it was, quote, loyal attendance at Malden Catholic games.

Speaker 4 3:39
Oh,

Pottymouth 3:39
right,

Patti 3:40
that's the thing,

Pottymouth 3:40
right? That is an attendance trophy, but it was a woman playing hockey on the top of the trophy, which was wild. So just that, like, well, you know, now we've come really far.

Patti 3:51
So when you texted me the photo of you guys in the stands, I was at an event at which I was sitting next to the intern's grad school friend who played co Ed hockey on Cape Cod. And she said, Yeah, I'm so old. Like, they didn't have women's hockey teams, but I'm like, Oh, honey. But like, you know, she remembers she played, like, you know, high school hockey. And, you know, I don't know, wasn't technically a co Ed team. I think her presence probably made it a co Ed team. And an 11 year old girl who is currently playing ice hockey. I'm like, I love this room.

Pottymouth 4:25
Yeah,

Patti 4:25
so much.

Pottymouth 4:26
So good

Patti 4:26
it was. It was so exciting. More Good Things. There more good things. Just at the event that I was at was a yarn a palooza, wearing palooza. So many paloozas. It's a palooza Palooza, really, in my life anymore, but there was a lot of yarn, long story, but to be distributed to people who will make use of it. Use of it because it came from a house where no one's gonna use it anymore. And I, you know, crochet, and I have friends who do these things, and so I'm like, This is great. So we went, we had this lovely lunch, bunch of people. It was relaxed, it was fun, it was delicious. Then we got to the yarn, which took up an entire driveway. I

Pottymouth 4:57
came

Patti 4:58
home with three garbage bags because I was showing. Straight. But the other things that happened, besides the yarn was my contribution to lunch was carrot cake baklava, which I made for the very first time. It is the best butter delivery system on the planet, and it's a vegetable, right? It counts as a vegetable. So that was good. And also, I was handed off my new gunner Henderson city connect, be more jersey at that time, which I'm proudly wearing right now. So a lot of good things happened at that event, and we started with the cross training.

Pottymouth 5:28
That's so good.

Patti 5:29
Yeah?

Pottymouth 5:29
Well, yeah, check out our Instagram for Patty and the gorgeous shirt. It is really, really nice.

Patti 5:35
Yeah, I feel like I'm wearing Camden Yards. Yeah, no, it's all it's so good on today's show, brace yourself. Potty mouth. Has some thoughts about the Red Sox, purge our boyfriends feature comebacks, gratitude and UFOs. The Mexico series is so much more than a Saturday game on a Sunday game. Earth Week and MLB go together way more than I would have expected. And there's some New York craziness ranging from a weenie weekend to the Yankees, possibly considering an alternate jersey. Who knew cheers? All right, batting on the hatches. Wait before that, what are we drinking?

Pottymouth 6:10
Okay, what did? Yeah, mine's about gone. It is from great main brewery. It's a colt. I forget the cute name of the actual beer, but it is a colt. It almost was a colt, and we usually have a huge beer stock, but now we're literally down to the end of the beer in the fridge, and what better way to finish it off than right here. So the next two beers are the ones that we've been avoiding for several weeks, but we're gonna keep, you know, plowing ahead and have some heavy beers after this.

Patti 6:38
Yeah, to be fair, I avoid the heavy beer. Because it's heavy beer, I need to be like light on my feet in order to, you know, to be at my best for this. Do you want cookies or not? Cookies for your next round. I'm gonna pour for you

Pottymouth 6:49
while you vent. I am thinking, not cookies like we end with the sweet

Patti 6:52
Okay,

Pottymouth 6:53
right, sure. All right,

Patti 6:54
okay,

Pottymouth 6:55
all right. I'm gonna take a deep breath just, you know, I when this first happened, this red sox cluster fuck on Saturday night, I was so bummed for so many reasons, like the big reason was it was a lovely day. That was the day that we saw the fleet. The fleet won so and it was such a cool game. It was tied 00 for the first and the second period, and the fleet goalie is a fucking hero. After the first period, the fleet had one shot on goal of the New York, sir on the New York sirens. The siren, yeah, I heard a little bit, but it was mighty fleet. And Bostonians are loud, so I could, I was like, listening for it. But there was, it was mostly, you know, let's go Boston or go fleet glow. And so the goalie saved the day for two periods, and then finally, in the third period, they decided to start playing offense. Like it was like, Oh, hello. And they won four to nothing. So the goalie, like, survived these two periods of just tons of shots on goal without any assist. Well, you know, there's some defense there, but it was so cool to see the end. See, and

Patti 8:07
I thought you were

gonna, you know, when you were in, talk about the game that happened right before all this. I thought it was gonna be like the 17 to one blowout over, over Baltimore.

Pottymouth 8:15
So the games were happening at exactly the same time. So I was, I just wanted to be present for the fleet. I didn't even check, and this is very unusual for me checking the score,

Patti 8:24
yeah.

Pottymouth 8:24
But it was so much fun, and there was so much focus, and I was so teary eyed that I was just like, and I was also so cynical about what was happening with the Red Sox, because they just got fucking swept by the Yankees, and then they lost the first game to the Orioles. And I was just like, I don't want to deal with anything bringing down this buzz, and then I opened the phone, and they won, 17 to one. And I was like, Holy shit, and even my guys. So this is the baseball boyfriend part. You know, side note. Baseball boyfriends is what we talk about at this point in the show. The guys that we picked in the off season, because they're super cool. We just got one guy per team, and I very carefully picked Caleb Durbin for the Red Sox, who has been an incredible disappointment to probably him, most himself, most of all, but for me, for sure, because he's sort of sucked, he even hit a home run. Well, okay, it was at the end of the game off the utility pitcher. The utility guy who was pitching brought in to pitch, but still, but

Patti 9:18
still,

Pottymouth 9:19
he went

Patti 9:19
counts on the stats. Yeah,

Pottymouth 9:21
he went two for four. And, you know, it counts for bringing somebody's spirit up, right? Like he's been down for so long. But just to have a little bit of success, you'd like to think that that's, like, a, I feel like he had a good series. Yeah, yeah, he so he went two for four that night, with three RBI and a stolen base. And then Sunday, he went one for four with two stolen bases. So he's like, going into this his rookie year, he was known for small ball, for being a base stealer, for getting the ball in play. Like this year, he hasn't been getting the ball in play, but he's not a big hitter, much to people like my dad's chagrin. But he's had a crazy, slow start, and he's not the only one, so it's. Not just him who has been underperforming. His is the lowest, but the two rookies who everybody was counting on. I had, you know, Roman Anthony as my MVP and Marcelo Meyer, like also was expected to do well, both of them underperforming. Trevor story, underperforming Jared Duran. You know, whatever you think about him, and for me, that's not much, super underperforming. The pitching is fucked up, and then they get swept by the Yankees. So Boston is on edge, for sure, and they want some heads to roll and but this is not the answer. So I have been through various stages of grief, I think, at this point. So there was the shock, and then there was the anger, and then there's this sort of like coming to terms with what it is and what it means. And I I'm kind of there now, but I'm still angry. Can

Patti 10:48
you say what actually happened?

Pottymouth 10:51
Big sip of beer. Sip of beer. Saturday night after this 17 to one win in Baltimore, Alex Cora, plus five or six, depending on how you count of the coaches got fired by Craig So Craig Breslow, the I guess I don't know what the fuck is. Title actually is equivalent of GM, Sam Kennedy, President, CEO, and John Henry, the owner, with all the big bucks who represents the ownership group came down personally to Baltimore to fire, mass fire, these guys. This is historic. So I spent a lot of time yesterday and today trying to find any other mass firing, because you hear about managers being fired, fired, you know, relatively often, but never. I don't think that there's ever been this kind of, like, purge, you know, it's like a coup d'etat.

Patti 11:45
Yeah, sometimes, like, if they bring in someone new, that person might want their people with them, so later on, other coaches might get replaced. But yeah, as far as, like, we're just, like, cutting everybody and to do it in Baltimore,

Pottymouth 11:58
exactly,

Patti 11:59
that was the thing was, like, what

Pottymouth 12:01
there is so much behind this?

Patti 12:03
Can I say, I do you think that Corey knew the day before, because I was watching that game, and there were a lot of cameras on his face because, you know, it was at for a few moments, it was kind of a blowout on the Oriole side, although blow out is now in perspective because of the 17 one the next day. But he had a look on his face that wasn't just like, get it together, guys. It was, it was so, like, deeply disturbed. I almost wonder if he knew something was coming.

Pottymouth 12:29
So here's my take on it, and I don't I've read a bunch of stuff. I've read most of the stuff yesterday, so I don't know if this has come out. I feel like there was some major clash between him and Breslow, because things are shitty, and Cora has been sticking to the plan. He is not wavering. He is. He hasn't pulled out Durbin. He's giving him his time. Now, granted, he did this with Bobby dalbeck And it didn't work, but, but Cora's whole and what his statement was at that point, before he got canned, the day before, was, I AM. These are young players, and I am basically nurturing them. So a lot of Boston press are like, well, that's what's supposed to happen in the minor leagues. You know, that's not what's happening here. There's a lot of criticism of that, but that was his stance, and I think that when he stated that, I don't think Craig Breslow and his team liked that. And I think I'm guessing there was some sort of crazy blowout for it to be this big of a purge, because the people who were purged were mainly the camp Cora, sure. So the there were three coaches who were there completely before Breslow, so he inherited them. Bench coach Ramon Vasquez, who's a good friend, of course. So that was, that's the one that you, like you said, like that would have gone anyway. Hitting coach Pete fatsy, third base, running base, running outfield, Coach Kyle Hudson, which is sort of interesting, because the players Well, so here's the thing, the players love, these guys.

Patti 13:59
Sure they do, yeah,

Pottymouth 14:00
especially Cora, and that's what he's known for. So that's why this is such a fucking stupid thing. They love. Not only Cora, but all of these guys, plus Kyle Hudson coaching the the outfielders. We're talking two gold gloves for Abreu and one for Rafaela. Like, that's not a common thing. And then there's Jason Varitek, who I'm wearing my veritech shirt right now. It's unclear at the time of recording what's actually happening to Jason Varitek, because at first it was reported that he was fired, and then it said that he's, quote, reassigned, but off of the major league staff, how do you do that to a Boston icon like veritech is there as a symbol of 2004 as a symbol of the team that broke the curse. So

Patti 14:42
the the Baltimore commentators, of course, were talking about this off and on throughout the game on Sunday, and they

Pottymouth 14:49
kept

Patti 14:50
bringing up veritech, of course, and the whole reassign thing. And they said that, I guess his wife posted some like, thank you. That sounded like a goodbye to Boston fans. Happens, and so you don't do that if you're hanging around.

Pottymouth 15:03
I'm wondering how this is gonna come out. Like, where else is he gonna go? So I also, I think those of you are listening might know that I, at one point made a decision to no longer buy T shirts of players who are currently playing, because I've been screwed by it so many times. You

Speaker 4 15:20
really have

Pottymouth 15:20
from Jacoby Ellsbury to Mookie Betts and then Juan Soto with the Nationals jersey. So I started buying players that I admired from the Wayback Machine, including Jason veritech. So I'm like, damn it, is it? Because I bought the t shirt like I'm wearing it right now, my Jason veritech t

Speaker 4 15:38
shirt,

Patti 15:39
you know, I believe you have a lot of power, but I think this one might be out of your range of power.

Pottymouth 15:44
Yeah, well, I am going to continue to wear it proudly. I don't know what I'm going to do. I almost wore for the recording. You know, as you guys can always tell about what I'm wearing for our recording, the in Korra, we trust shirt that I have, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. So I'll go through this and like I'm still feeling like there's something that I really love about Cora, but there's also the I kind of get some of this. The the other folks who got canned were one guy who Breslow actually promoted. He didn't hire, but he promoted. His name is Joe Cronin. And I kind of freaked out, because Joe Cronin super famous, long, long time manager of the Red Sox, 13 seasons, longest tenured manager of the Red Sox organization, also manager player back in the day, Hall of Famer. And it's just weird that there's a Joe Cronin who's on the staff, and they're not related at all. Like, I don't get that. And then Breslow canned one guy that he did hire assistant hitting coach, Dylan Lawson, because this was done in Baltimore, they had to send a shuttle to pick up this massive fired coaches and shuttle them off to a plane that they had for them. And this led to two really good photo ops that are Instagram. First of all, the shuttle, because it's kind of like a van. The company is, quote, coaches for hire.

Patti 17:10
Oh, my God,

Pottymouth 17:11
it's printed on the back

Patti 17:12
of the van. Coaches number four, I've seen those vans.

Pottymouth 17:16
Yeah,

Patti 17:16
yeah. Oh, what

Speaker 4 17:17
an

Pottymouth 17:17
appropriate thing to get to, like card off these coaches. And then there's a great photo op of the bunch of them. And this is where it comes into like, how much did they know they are smiling ear to ear in front of that plane, and Jason ferret Tech has a thumbs down, so they are clearly one unit of the same mind. And, you know, I think they're, they weren't surprised. There must have been some blow up. I think there must

Patti 17:41
have been sounds like, you know, veritech is saying you could be assigned me all you want. I'm out,

Pottymouth 17:45
right?

Patti 17:45
That's what that sounds like. I am loyal, and this is who I'm loyal

Pottymouth 17:49
to. Yeah, I think so

Patti 17:50
fascinating.

Pottymouth 17:51
So I think they're buddies. So who survived? Hired by Breslow, right? So his buddy, Andrew Bailey, was the pitching coach, and, you know, they pitched to get pitchers together at the same time, bullpen Coach Chris Holt, catching instructor, Parker Gwin, one guy that he promoted, actually two guys that he promoted. So they were in the organization, but he brought them from the minors to the majors, and that's the first bit. His coach, Jose David Flores and the assistant hitting coach John saratopoulos. So Cora has been around with the Red Sox since 2018 sort of, except for that year that he was fired for cheating. So here's where it goes to like, even though I have such a soft spot for him, because the players love him, and because he handles the press so well, and he seems like such a good guy. He did cheat with the Astros. He regrets it, and he's spoken against it, and he paid for it. You know, they fired him for a whole year and then hired him back. So because of that year off, this was the beginning of his eighth season with them, and notably in the middle of a three year 20, $21.75 million contract. So he has basically, you know, the rest of this season and another year off paid hanging out with his millions of dollars

Patti 19:05
that contract. They're gonna pay off that contract.

Speaker 4 19:08
He's

Patti 19:08
not gonna work there anymore, but he's still owed that money

Pottymouth 19:10
Exactly.

Patti 19:11
That's

important.

Pottymouth 19:12
That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money to just like, throw away and let him hang out in Puerto Rico with his kids, which, you know, power to him. His record was winning barely 620, wins, 519, losses, which is a 534, average, third most wins for a Red Sox manager, but it's super skewed. By that year that he won the World Series, 2018 they won 108 games, which is crazy. They came in last place three of the years that he was coaching to. Then 21 they made it to the LCS, and then last year wild card, and that was it. So besides that World Series year, his rookie year, which you know, you're inheriting a lot of experienced players at that point, his results haven't been great. John Henry. I, I would like to throw the majority of the blame at the owners, because Breslow, I think, made some really poor decisions, like, since he's been with them, his deals have not been great, except for maybe Garrett crochet. But his deals are influenced by the money from the owners, right? So I think it's like this trickle down thing. Henry gave this big like fancy, thank you for your time. Yada yada, the official statement. And then Breslow, finally, the day after, had his press conference where he explained the time like the timing is fucked up.

Patti 20:32
It really is.

Pottymouth 20:33
We are at the end of April, right? He said that it's quote to the belief in the players, which is such bullshit, because that's what Cora was doing. Was believing in the players, and he said, By acting today, it gives us 135 games ahead of us. So the players at first, Garrett Whitlock was the first one who basically said we're not allowed to talk like they told us to just play ball, baseball, right? But then, like they there is stuff coming out because they're shocked. So many quotes are like, I was shocked. It was shocking. Blah, blah, blah, shocked. Trevor story said that there were some of the best coaches, and he's feeling bad about it, because he said it's our performance that cost them their jobs. What a shitty thing. He said, I hate this for AC. It doesn't seem fair. So back to the like. This is the end of April. Their stats right now. Yes, they're in last place of the of the American League East. It's a tough division. But yeah, they're in last place. They've played some really tough teams also to this point, they're 10 and 17. Just For perspective, when the Nationals won the World Series in 2019 may 23 a whole fucking month later, they only had 19 wins, right? Nine more in a month, and 31 losses. So it's not crazy that they're at 10 and 17 and could turn things around. There's a lot of rumor that Breslow is next. So Henry was very clear all, and Sam Kennedy too, that they're following Breslow on this one that Breslow made the decision. These are breslow's people. So Breslow is getting all the credit or all the blame. So if this doesn't go well, I think Breslow is out at the end of the season. That is my take on that, I think so who's steering the fucking ship? Like you triple A, bring in triple A minor league coaches. So two guys from the woo socks who don't have any major league experience, Chad Tracy, the manager. I mean, the bright side is the guys who are down there, either being sent down for rehab or who came up through the system know him? Well, yeah, and have a good relationship,

Patti 22:44
like a no quantity. That's, that's, I'm okay

Speaker 4 22:45
with

Pottymouth 22:46
that part. But he never played. He's not an he doesn't have any MLB experience. His dad was a coach for 11 seasons, including when Alex court was on the Dodgers. His dad coached him. So that's a little like, just funny coincidence there. And then the hitting coach came up from the Wu Sox also. And for third base coach, they brought in a guy from their double a team, the manager of the double a team, Chad Epperson. It's third base coach. So what? What the fuck like. They're all interim. But who are they gonna get for these jobs?

Patti 23:18
Wait, wait, there's two Chads,

Pottymouth 23:20
yeah. Oh my god. I guess they're the hope. They're

Patti 23:23
not lacrosse team.

Pottymouth 23:23
It's a good lacrosse team or rigged voting one or the other. Oh my god. So what's gonna happen to Alex Cora? I think he's gonna hang out in the beach for a while. The Boston Globe and others. At this point. Think that Dave Dombrowski of the Phillies is is getting a little sick of Rob Thompson and thinking like it might be, yeah, worth a change. And he hot. He hired Cora the first time around for the Red Sox when he was working for

Patti 23:48
the right yeah, that's my hunch. Is, that's where his next stop would be.

Pottymouth 23:50
He could be doing that,

Patti 23:51
hopefully on the beach

Pottymouth 23:53
for a little while. He totally does. He totally ran the fucking Boston Marathon like he is such a Boston guy. And you know, the messages are coming in pouring from all the old players who like David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez, and lots of folks who are like, crushed by this because they love the guy. So I went back to sort of feel like, how historic is this in terms of my Red Sox fandom and being disappointed. And I think we can all relate to our teams disappointing us sometimes. For sure, this is like, monumental. This is super, super fucked up. But the Red Sox, I don't know if it's Moneyball or if it's like their version of Moneyball just kind of doing it on the cheap, but they've kind of done this for my life, is what? Well, actually, that's not true since, since John Henry has been in the in the steering and but before John Henry, they had the Yaquis for a long time, and they were fucking racists, like years and years of racist owners, and now cheap ass owners who are like, not keeping players that you love. So I don't know, like I. Think I'd rather have that than racist, but it's not great. They, you know, they fucked over Pedro Martinez after they won, and he moved away. They didn't keep him same with Johnny Damon. And then, of course, my Mookie Betts, Xander Bogart, they should have kept and then they, they always, like, overcompensate, and that's when they signed Devers to this huge thing, and that ended up not working well. John Lester, who, you know, Terry Francona, went to the hospital with when he was, when he was recovering from cancer, trade him away. There's like, this feeling of these guys that you just fall for when they get ripped away, and they're such like, you know, Boston folks, are you for any team is that guy who is dedicated to the city, who's doing the charity. And how do you you lose those people, even Kyle Schwarber, who is from Waltham for God's sake. Well, not really, really. We like to think that was the thing. And then, you know, this guy, Breslow, fucked up with not keeping Bregman. Bregman is doing really well now. And then there's the Red Sox treatment of their winning managers. So Terry Francona, who we both love, won two fucking world series after decades of the curse, and nobody thinking that the Red Sox would ever win anything. But they don't make the playoffs two years and he's gone. They have one really bad, you know, reforming year, and then John Farrell comes in, wins the World Series. 2013 has the last place for two years, but then two years first place, and then they don't resign him. So like, what do you fucking expect? The Red Sox are the only team with four World Series wins since 2000 the only team I

Patti 26:44
wouldn't have guessed that

Speaker 4 26:45
I got that

Pottymouth 26:46
wrong, isn't that crazy? So there are two teams with three, and that is the Dodgers. So there is the the model of spend a lot of money, and San Francisco Giants, who were doing the even year thing for a while, and then that ended. And then with two you have the Yankees, if you count 2000 which I was generous enough to do, and St Louis and then Houston. One is very questionable. There are 10 teams with just one win, and that's kind of the way that you like it, right? You want teams to have this experience. I kind of think it's interesting that of the teams who have had multiple wins. Most of them are clustered, like LA has the back to back San Francisco had the every other year. Red Sox were actually dispersed. So it's kind of like the rebuilding, the cheaping out and waiting for it to come back has worked for them. So they're doing it again, but kind of on steroids. So I was also looking at all right? What's happening with other managers who else gets canned because they're not performing within this really limited timeframe and really high expectations? Kevin cash in Tampa has been there for 12 years with no World Series, right? Dave Roberts and Terry lavolo both have 11 years. Dave, of course, has the World Series is, but Tory hasn't had any the D backs, one in 2001 before he got there. And then Aaron Boone, whose head seems to be on the chopping block every year, nine years with the Yankees without a World Series. But hey and they,

Patti 28:14
but hey

Pottymouth 28:14
and they do this purge, like absolute fucking purge. All right, Was that enough? That was too much.

Patti 28:21
It was a lot. It

Pottymouth 28:22
was

Patti 28:23
a lot. I think, I think my hair is still attached to my head, though. I think you showed a lot of restraint. You didn't actually down that entire beer while you were inventing that the whole thing.

Pottymouth 28:32
Yeah, so I don't know what you know, I was going into the depths of despair. I think Saturday night, I was like, What do I do? We were gonna paint our house like we have our whole Red Sox wall, and my like, is our team that shitty? Is this ownership that shitty that I have to like, we're I'm not going to see the Red Sox this year. We don't have any tickets, and I don't have any plans to get tickets at

Patti 28:53
this point. So this is where you decide if you are going to believe in the players or believe in the franchise, right? You know, I have my long standing beef with Atlanta,

Pottymouth 29:04
yeah, and

Patti 29:05
it's with Atlanta as a franchise,

Pottymouth 29:07
yeah,

Patti 29:07
I, like so many of the guys who play for that team, I will happily go see them, but I in my head, I go, nope, nope, sorry. I can't ever root for them. I mean, I've got these long standing biases, and and a lot of them are about ownership, or, you know, yeah? So you can decide it's like, you know what, I like these guys, I want to see these guys play, which is different than saying, Oh, the Red Sox as an organization are stellar,

Pottymouth 29:33
yeah? And it's a family thing. Like, what you're saying, tradition? Like, it's, yeah, tradition, it's my connection to my dad, my connection to my grandfather, my connection to

Patti 29:41
my grandma doing with all this,

Pottymouth 29:42
um, he was taking a minute to digest it. He was calling for Cora to be removed. He was not happy with Cora for a while.

Patti 29:51
Okay, interesting.

Pottymouth 29:52
So I thought that was kind of interesting. I think he's kind of waiting to see how this kind of, you know, settles down. But

Speaker 4 29:59
yeah, I love.

Patti 30:00
Always, I'm always interested when it's a manager that goes because if it's a manager, it's got to be decisions that they made, and lineups in, pitching in whatever it is, and you know, calling what's going to happen next. It's not, oh, the team like is on a losing streak.

Pottymouth 30:21
Yeah,

Patti 30:22
unless you can pin it to managerial decisions, why is it him and not the guy who's not hitting like he's supposed to, or the guy who's not pitching like he's supposed to?

Pottymouth 30:30
Yeah,

Patti 30:31
I find that fascinating. Is it one of those? Well, we got to do something. Well, no, what do you want

Pottymouth 30:35
to do? Let's get rid of everybody. I'm just imagining a huge blow up between the two sides, and I don't know All right, to dig myself out of this mess, I'm gonna talk about really quickly one more baseball boyfriend who's breaking out, Jacob Marcy of Miami, who I haven't talked about at all because he's been sucking, sort of on the Caleb Durbin level of sucking. And I know these guys are more upset about themselves sucking than I am, so I've got that sympathy going into the game on Tuesday, he was doing Super City. He was tied fourth lowest in batting average in the whole league, with 149 but he also had eight steals, which was the fourth highest. And then on Tuesday, he finally went three for four, got his first home run of the season, and then went on a four game hitting streak that ended yesterday, unfortunately, but he is still tied for fourth highest in steals with O'Neill Cruz, and he is now ninth lowest for average with my buddy Caleb Durbin. Is seven, but that home run is really important. It was his first step out of the game, going up there. Super frustrated, fouling it off. So we fouled it off badly, and the pat the bat flew, and it got caught in the netting. So a young fan, like a sweet young fan, like climbed out, got the bat out of the netting and went to hand it back

Patti 31:53
to him. Oh my gosh. So

Pottymouth 31:56
Jacob Marcy said, I just told him to keep it. I didn't have any hits in it. Next pitch, home run with a different bat, with a different bat. So it's good that the kid hit the bat. It was a contentious home run. Actually, they thought that they had thrown him out at third. They had to, like, review the play, and it ended up being ruled a home run. And then it ended up being a three hit game for him in his first one of the season, and he was on base four times. So Jacob Marcy said quote I really love to play. So just remember, just remember that. And just try to enjoy every moment this could get taken away so quick. As we can see,

Patti 32:33
love it. Love the attitude. Okay, I'm gonna go through my boyfriend's kind of quickly. I have just a couple of quick little reports. So Dalen Lyle, who's my nationals guy, who we love, had a little bit of a, you know, slow again, again, with the hood of comebacky things. His comeback, you thing, he's, he's kind of in the shadow right now of James Wood and CJ Abrams,

Pottymouth 32:54
who are so good,

Patti 32:55
who are so good, they're so but so now is Dalen Lyle. He had three homers in a five game stretch, wow, including a three run homer Wednesday that's lost to Atlanta eight to six. But a three run home run for somebody who was slumping is pretty good. He totaled six runs scored and six RBI in seven days. And because math is fun, his seven day Ops is 1.184 so he's still behind wooden Abrams in like the team stats, but not by very much. So that's kind of fun. My espresso boys. Dominic can zone on Seattle again. Math is fun. He had a great ops this week of 1.144 he had his third home run on Monday versus the A's. He went five for eight with three extra base hits in his last two games yesterday. Actually, that was Saturday. Now he went in the in the game that was that they won 11 to nine over St Louis, that Seattle won 11 to nine. He pinch hit the game tying RBI in that game, the 33 combined hits between Seattle and St Louis ties the MLB record for a nine inning game,

Pottymouth 34:06
for

Patti 34:07
the number of hits from 1932 they tied Cleveland versus the Philadelphia Athletics 33 combined hits in a nine inning game. My Toronto guy on Kazuma, Okamoto, again, another guy who has been slumping has really kicked it in gear. One thing that he started doing with a handful of other guys on the team and some of the coaches, is, before games, having a moment of gratitude, which I'm picturing exactly like every Thanksgiving table I've ever sat in. It was like, kind of go around, like, what's the thing that you're thankful for? And it could be a serious thing, it could be a big thing, it could be a joke. It could be whatever. But they're taking a minute to, kind of like, center, it's not team wide. It's like, you know, it's a handful of guys, but he's, he's doing that, and kind of, as this is going on, he had three homers in six games, including a 430 foot home run, and then the next day, a 425 foot home run. So because. Decade of days way over 400 foot Homers. So his again a week, a one week of math is fun, hitting 359, and an ops of 1.330 my once and forever boyfriend, Adley Richmond came off the IL Yay. Thank you last Tuesday and hit a two run homer in the eighth versus Kansas City. Kansas City ended up walking it off, but fine. Adley was back hitting the Homer.

Pottymouth 35:26
Yeah?

Patti 35:26
All good, all good. That same game. Different guy, my pal, Kobe mayo, who I still think needs a condiment shirt. Yeah, he had been like, Not hitting, not hitting big for sure, he hit a 439 foot three run homer in the second the that was good for him, that was good for the team, but it also led to a super weird coincidence that I just love, and thank you intern for pointing this out. So Ben McDonald, Hall of Fame pitcher, regular commentator on Madison, said his call for that home run was they say about 30% of people believe in UFOs. I think that number just went up after that, which is funny and clever and whatever, but, but also it's weird, because 34 years ago, Ben McDonald was on the mound for the Orioles in Camden Yards. He pitched to Mickey titleton of Detroit, who then hit the first home run to ever leave the yard and land on Utah Street. Right the commentator

Pottymouth 36:30
John

Patti 36:30
Lowenstein, who Ben never heard because Ben's playing the game. He's not listening to the game. He never heard this call. Ben Lowenstein said, over 50% of all Americans believe in UFOs, and that figure jumped a little bit after that blast.

Pottymouth 36:43
Wow, is

Patti 36:44
that the craziest thing you've ever heard.

Pottymouth 36:46
That's why,

Patti 36:46
what a crazy, crazy coincidence. All right, back to Adley, because he's my once and forever boyfriend. Friday in the win over Boston, he hit two homers, tied his career high of six. RBI led to a total over the week of eight RBI and a 1.616 ops for the week. Please. Adley, stay

Pottymouth 37:07
healthy back.

Patti 37:08
Please stay healthy. I you know last season was too much like going off and on the IL I need you to stay put. One former boyfriend report James Wood, because boy did he spoil a debut Washington played Atlanta this last week, Atlanta brought up their pitching prospect they were looking forward to for so long, JR Richie. He debuted the very first pitch he threw because James Wood hits lead off. He hit a home run off the very first pitch. So Jr Richie now has an absolute trivia question attached to him, once and forever. That was James's 10th home run. It was his third consecutive game with a Homer, and it tied him with Aaron judge for second in the league for number of homers, behind Jordan Alvarez and Murakami, who are tied with

Pottymouth 38:00
11. This is no joke. I'm excited to go back to the next nats game that we're going to for your birthday. Yays, guys, because James wins. CJ Abrams, like, who we knew from the get go. We're gonna be something big. Are there, and I'm gonna be there to see it. So much fun. All right, vamos a Mexico. And the Mexico series, I'm almost at the end of this beer. These are only half beers. This is the porter. Did we talk about what this was?

Patti 38:30
No, we didn't talk about

Speaker 4 38:31
what this

Pottymouth 38:32
was. Manner Hill brewing Porter, yes,

Speaker 4 38:34
yeah.

Patti 38:34
Manor Hill brewing Porter, which is lovely,

Pottymouth 38:36
and I'm just so I'm not

Patti 38:37
gonna interrupt you, but you're gonna take one more sip of that, and then I'm gonna pour the crazy leftover Christmas holiday beer from Great Lakes brewery. So this is a Cleveland brewery, but again, this is a very specific Christmas holiday, winter holiday beer that was sitting in the back of your fridge. So I'm never going to bring you

Pottymouth 38:53
beer again,

Patti 38:55
but it's the cookie exchange milk stout. So we're having that for dessert in a few moments from Great Lakes brewing, and we will get beer from Great Lakes brewing when we go to a game in Cleveland in August.

Pottymouth 39:06
Oh, and I have so much beer in my dad's basement because I couldn't not get the 12 pack of the Boston athletes from Sam Adams. So it's now in the basement, plus the smokey hell is that I forgot from last time, which is now three instead of four, because we drank one so good that was from tree house. Anyway, back to Mexico, they have beer there too. I've heard it. Diamondbacks in the Padres were hanging out there this weekend. It seems like they had a really fun time at the Estadio Alfredo arpelu in Mexico City, which is the home of the Diablos rojos of the Mexican league. And they split the series. Game one, the Padres won six to four. In Game Two, the Diamondbacks took 12 to seven. Now note the Estadio ARP elu, Alfredo ARP elu in Mexico City, is at 7300 feet, 50 feet, 7300 And 50.

Patti 40:00
That's so up there

Pottymouth 40:01
the rocky stadium that we talk about balls flying out of this 5289 feet. So no wonder they like having series is there because they get to watch lots of home runs. And you know, it's

Patti 40:16
two of them on Sunday,

Pottymouth 40:17
and they look good doing it because they got to wear their city connects on game one, the serpient is for the D backs. And then the new one with the the the what do you call Dia de los Muertos, the symbol on the sleeve? So this Mexican connection for the Padres and what an awesome mashup mashup. The second game, they went back to Padres Brown, but they had the patches, and the D Becks went black. Now, out of both of those teams, only one player was on the Mexican World Baseball Classic team, and that is Alec Thomas. His mom is from Sonora, you know, not, not dad that that last name Thomas kind of gives it away. But during the introductions, he brought out the Mexican flag on the field, huge applause. His parents were there, and he hit a two run home run in game one, even though the Padres took that game. Other cool thing about the Padres connection is the new owners that you just talked about last week, right? Jose Feliciano and his wife, Kwanzaa Jones, were there in the box with our Palu himself. Now I didn't realize that the guy the stadium is named after is still alive and kicking and doing very well, very wealthy businessman in Mexico City, and he's actually been a minority owner in the Padres since 2012 and now he's hanging out with the new owners, negotiating a little bit bigger of an A minority ownership stake, because he's planning on continuing that. So there's a little fun and family, a little business. The D backs were technically the home team, but they get reimbursed by MLB, because they lose all that revenue from hosting games at home, so they actually get that money back. I don't quite know the numbers on that. However, the Padres really had the crowd because they've been making that connection. And these new city connect uniforms, big deal. And the Padres did a clinic with 250 kids at the Liga infantil de baseball on Mecca, which is like the kids league. And it was sponsored shoot I actually is sponsored by ViaSat global tech company. The kids all got city connect jerseys, so cute to see the pictures of it, and like the padres, big players were there. There was one kid that kept asking Xander bogarts to adopt him, for instance. But Manny Machado was there and the Mason Miller, right is that his name the closer, lots and lots of the big name players were there doing instruction, and the kids got a free lunch along with the city connect jerseys. Last time we talked about the Mexico series, we talked about an organization promoting education, medical care and psychological support for people with Down syndrome in Mexico. Organization that's been going on for 54 years, and they continued that again. There was a play ball event. There were just two sort of reps from each team. The D back sent two players, Juan Murillo, pitcher and infielder, Jose Fernandez, the Padres sort of, it's interesting to see that they sent big name former players, Mark Loretta and Jake Peavy, plus, of course, the mascots get to go in that so it's just good to see. I mean, I'm, you know, a big fan of all the international events period. But while you're there, make connections and do stuff and put the players where they should be, like, their face forward with all of these events. Yeah,

Patti 43:46
they're when you do those kids clinics and those fundraisers, you are growing the game in a way much more than just, hey, we're bringing you a game to sit in the stands and watch. Yeah, we are helping you to love this game and maybe play this game work. How cool would that be, in like, 20 years when there's this star kid on the Mexican World Baseball Classic team who says, like, I played catch with manna Machado when I was 10 years old, yep, yep. Doesn't Junior Kevin era say that?

Pottymouth 44:13
Yeah, he actually does, right? He does with man shadow, absolutely. Okay.

Patti 44:18
You get to pour this beer.

Pottymouth 44:19
I'm going to talk

Patti 44:20
about Earth Earth Week, which was last week MLB. This has been going on for a couple of years, and I've missed this. MLB actually has sustainability awards that it gives out during Earth Week. So on Earth Day, they they bestowed a couple of these. They have this long running program with WM, used to be called waste management, about how to bring sustainability issues and energy conservation issues and all this to MLB teams, to front offices like all levels, all levels. So their awards, I saw this because on on the Nats. Age, they were actually advertising their award. They were given the H 2h 2o home run award for water use reduction versus the prior year. The nats have this comprehensive water conservation program that they say saves about 3.6 million gallons annually and also reduces consumption by 30% this is a big deal when you're talking stadium level work, right? The twins got the green Glove Award, which was for waste diversion. The White Sox got the Power Pitch Award, which was a reduction in energy usage. And again, this is always like, this is this year or the most recent season compared to the previous season, right? Atlanta, I got this really interesting innovate Innovation Award, I think is new. It's called the Eco slugger Innovation Award. They have a new initiative to divert plastic film so as deliveries come into the stadium, they have trained their staff how to like process all of the plastic film that wraps all of the things that you get at a giant commercial level into a way that recycles it, instead of just getting it out of the way and pitching it. So that was innovative and was a big deal. San Diego has a diamond diversion Award, which is sort of more like a lifetime award for day to day waste diversion so the over the past couple of years. So a couple of things I learned when nats Park was built. It was the first major sports facility in the United States to earn the LEED certified silver designation by the US Green Building Council, which is a huge no idea freaking deal. I mean, we've been trying to get, like, LEED certification for some of the new municipal buildings, and it's really hard to do. It's really hard to do. Then they kind of this article that I'll link to, went through what is happening league wide, which is kind of a big deal for sustainability. All 30 clubs are playing a ballparks with LED field lighting. All 30 clubs have fan facing water refill stations in their ballpark. 29 clubs have bike and scooter parking available for fans. 28 clubs slacker operate food donation programs. 26 clubs have have composting as one of their waste streams, right? So food waste, as opposed to just, you know, paper and cans and all of that. 20 through 23 clubs conduct a post game, dual stream bowl pick to collect recyclable items. So they like they're going through again at the end, like not just sweeping everything into the trash. They're really trying to to make some good decisions. 20 clubs have EV charters, chargers at the ballpark. 15 ballparks have on site gardens. We've seen the one at at nats park when we go up the

Pottymouth 47:38
escalators anyway, has it?

Patti 47:39
Yep. So there's a whole lot of stats about,

Pottymouth 47:44
like,

Patti 47:45
sort of like, overall savings, and I'm just going to share one with you, because food insecurity reduction is kind of near and dear to my heart professionally right now. So Major League Baseball, including the regular season games all star week and special things like the other Speedway event and all of that during all of those games, they donated 180 tons of excess food, providing 300,575 meals to local communities. That's

Speaker 4 48:12
huge.

Patti 48:13
That's huge. And all this is invisible, right? I mean, they don't advertise the stuff. This is just because it's so weird for me to say that MLB is being a good corporate citizen. Yeah, holy shit. In sustainability world, they are. And, you know, I believe in, you know, acknowledging good where it's happening, knowing there's all kinds of places where it's not, but this is, this is really good work, and I'm pretty freaking impressed by this.

Pottymouth 48:35
That makes me feel better in so many ways. You know, it really does, because I wasn't aware of all that the Nationals, like, that's amazing. So that makes me feel better going to the ballpark, because I've been really pissy about their overpriced beer, and then also with, you know, my Red Sox. Like, it's beyond, I don't know it's beyond the ownership. There's like, a whole culture and a whole workforce, and people who have important jobs, who are doing really good things in different ballparks, who deserve recognition. And I think that's really awesome that you shown a spotlight on this important part. Yeah,

Patti 49:09
if you have a spare minute, read the article that I'll link to in the notes, because I was really so impressed with the work that's being doing, again, invisibly to the to us,

Pottymouth 49:18
yay. I'll drink to that. Actually, this is really good. I was, you bugged me. I was, I was delaying because I thought it was really heavy, but it's, it smells amazing. This, I'm talking about the beer folks, and it really tastes good. And this

Patti 49:31
is the cookie exchange for your

Pottymouth 49:32
good. So good. All right, we're having Christmas in April. And because, you know, I think I've been a little too serious this whole fucking episode, I want to give a worst minor league promo award Now, granted, the minor leagues have some whack stuff out there, and I would really love listeners to sort of write in with your favorite whack minor league situation.

Patti 49:54
You know, I read your notes, and I'm trying to figure out what you don't like about it, because I'm enjoying

Pottymouth 49:58
all of this. Okay, it's. The puke potential of it. Okay? Fair, problem, fair. So the Brooklyn Cyclones, who my kid used to live very close, and now is not quite as close, but still, it's their home based team, and we are love the cyclones, you know, they're Mets, and I'm okay with that. I'm gonna be okay with that. So they have a hot dog jog. Coming up hot dog jog.

Patti 50:22
This is not an in between hot dog mascot race. So

Pottymouth 50:26
no, this is actual people. You run around the bases one time, and you eat a hot dog, and then you run around the bases again, and then you eat another hot dog, and you do that four times for adults. So that's four hot dogs and four laps around the bases. And I'm just wondering, number one, who thought of this? And number two, do they have enough hoses to clear off? What's gonna happen with people eating four hot dogs and running? You know, I

Patti 50:56
certainly I couldn't run four laps around a ballpark regardless, but I probably also couldn't eat for a hot dog. So clearly, I am not the target market for this.

Pottymouth 51:04
And just the idea of running after eating anything kind of turns my stomach, like you just don't, especially something like, I mean, I don't know very much from the hot dog, because I haven't eaten one in bazillion years, but it can't be good feeling to run after eating a processed meat product.

Patti 51:21
It probably can't feel good, even if you were having, you know, what a veggie dog that you get? I can't imagine the

Pottymouth 51:27
bun and stuff. I think the buns involved. Buns are involved in this. So here's the worst part. So this is like consenting adults do this. They have the kids division, so kids ages 1010, to 17 years old. Can do two laps and two hot dogs. Oh,

Patti 51:43
they have iron stomachs.

Pottymouth 51:44
I was just thinking of a 10 year old lit they're they'll just puke it and go, keep going. They'll, like, you know, eat a dog, run around, Puke that dog, go around again,

Patti 51:52
purge, refill, repeat, sure. And just, they're saying that, like, it's a bad thing.

Pottymouth 51:57
It's crazy. This is happening. In case you want to see this in person. Coney Island, of course, you know the hot dog thing, Sunday, May, 31 and nine o'clock in the morning. And then this is the adorable part. So cheers the kids race is called the cocktail Franks. Sure

Patti 52:12
they are.

Pottymouth 52:12
And the adult is the foot long Franks. And everybody who participates gets a cyclones foam hot dog cap, which my kid already owns. So luckily, my kid does not have to contemplate, I don't know if they have a vegetarian option, the concept of running to get the hot dog hat.

Patti 52:30
So this is a separate event. This is not happening in the course of the game. No, this is a whole morning thing. So they have time to hose down the field before a game,

Pottymouth 52:37
exactly. Yeah. So that's what I'm thinking they need. So there is a, you know, a fee involved, I guess, production value. And all adults do pay $10 more than kids. But if you're 21 and over, you also get to drink vouchers, to to, you know,

Patti 52:55
to calm your stomach after you've purged the four hot dogs you had to eat in order to run the four laps.

Pottymouth 53:00
Yeah, I'm thinking the 18 to 2020. Year olds get super hosed because they have to pay the adult price because they're 18 and up, but they don't get their drink vouchers. I don't know if you're finished. You get a big wiener certificate. You're a big wiener. And they are encouraging costumes,

Patti 53:15
sure.

Pottymouth 53:16
So of course, this is part of weenie weekend. So the whole weekend is a hot dog festival may 29 to May 31 quote to kick off summer, we will be celebrating weenie weekend as we pay homage to the tubed meat delicacy with giveaways special Coney Island Frank's uniform, the first ever and possibly the last hot dog jog. And more. And even better, on the 31st which is the day that I feel like we should really figure out how to be there. It's halfway to Halloween day, and they have Halloween themed

Patti 53:48
are they having

Pottymouth 53:49
Halloween? You know, they really should. If somebody hasn't thought of that, I'm gonna have to write that in and give you full credit. Holy shit. Yeah, it's the best and worst of times

Patti 54:01
the worst, yeah, like Yeah.

Pottymouth 54:03
Worst. If you go to the to the website, you can chat with their virtual assistant. That's a little Coney Island Frank hot dog with a smiley face, just a little added fun. So I don't know. I'm thinking, I kind of want to go with you. Now, we kind of want to go with you. Yeah, I don't. It's like, I don't know if I really want to watch it or just like, hear about it. But the costumes, man, they've got to be good. I mean, New York does shit, right?

Patti 54:37
Sure. Yeah. Some

Pottymouth 54:38
things, yeah, some things, holy shit. I can't believe I said that out loud on the pie I know

Patti 54:42
it's

Pottymouth 54:42
been I know, oh my god, is the

Patti 54:44
cookie

Pottymouth 54:45
beer. I'm gonna blame it on the cookie beer.

Patti 54:49
Oh my gosh. Okay, so we have this really crazy and fun fantasy league where the rules are incredibly difficult to maintain, but we're doing great, everybody with. Awesome. I can't believe you're still in first place. Congratulations. You're doing fantastic. The only change this week was tridents and tap rooms. Big congratulations to you. You jumped two places to third, which knocked Bono's boyfriends and all star cobalt down to four and five. But it was just like that, one big jump that you made, and you're pretty close to to one and two, there's a big clump at the top and the first five not too far apart, then a big gap before me at six, and then a big gap. And everybody else, put your machine in. Sonia Slammers, but congrats. Tried in some tap rooms. Good. Good work.

Pottymouth 55:38
Who's new this year? So

Patti 55:39
they're right. Yes, work. Ricky wards, so the other crazy thing that's happening in New York that's sort of shaking the world of tradition, yeah, is that the Yankees players are saying, can we please have alternate roads?

Pottymouth 55:52
We have some fun too. Like, look at all this fun that's happening. Why can't we get fun?

Patti 55:57
Okay, they moderate your excitement, because the fun they want is to wear their, their their batting practice, which are navy blue.

Pottymouth 56:04
Well, it's like, I

Patti 56:05
mean, they look good, yeah, and they're different. But it's not like they're like, whoo, or city connecting. We're using neons and, like, you know, graffiti and, you know,

Pottymouth 56:13
I think they understand this is, like, Yankees level fun. Like, this is the this is, like, trying to crack things open. I mean, they got the beard thing. Like, that's

Patti 56:21
they got that one. So now, now it's a slippery slope, right now they want navy blue. For God's sake. They want Navy solid, navy blue. So Aaron judge was hilarious to me, like he was getting confronted with all of these questions about, but you know, you're bucking tradition. And, like, you know, how can you do that? And he's like, I'm all about tradition, but we got a patch on our sleeves. Because, sure enough, they do, they have an advertising patch on the pinstripes that there's like, Oh no, we can't screw with the pinstripes. Like, you've already screwed with the pinstripes. So, Aaron judge, you know, good for you for saying you got a patch.

Pottymouth 56:54
Yeah.

Patti 56:55
Jokowi Stanton is talking about what it was asked, What do you think? What are the fans gonna think? Because clearly, the players want it. They've all said. None of the players have spoken against this. They all the players would like, please, may we have something else. Stan says about the fans that I'm sure if we're to do it and we play well, then it's okay if we don't play well, it's because of the jersey, whatever works, we got to play well regardless. It is the owner's decisions, a Steinbrenner decision, so there's no hurry. They're in no hurry to do this, which is kind of, this is the thing that surprises me about the Yankees. It seems like they would do anything to make a buck. And, you know, dipping into this whole we're making, like with city connect jerseys or alternate jerseys, or, you know, special event jerseys, that would like increase an already huge revenue stream, but they're whatever. But does a reminder, the Yankees, with the A's are the only team without a city connect jersey and for perspective, the A's don't have a city to connect with right now. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it so good. Oh my god, what you got going

Pottymouth 57:58
on? Let's see what's going on this week. Actually, tomorrow night, we are going to see Fishbone at the at the Black Cat. The black cat, I haven't been

Patti 58:07
the black cat that good,

Pottymouth 58:09
yeah, the last show we saw there was also, like, old punkers was PIL we saw there with Johnny Rotten, which was crazy. I mean, he was super old and but it's a tiny place, yeah? Not at all, not at all and but I'm psyched to see Fishbone the last time I saw them, actually, I think I've seen them since then, but I did see them when I was in grad school. They played at UMass, so it's gonna be crazy, and I'll be tired at work on Wednesday, but that's okay. Please

Patti 58:33
report back if anyone breaks

Pottymouth 58:34
the hip. Absolutely, absolutely. I also want to put in a shameless plug, so after my stressful Saturday night, not sleeping, I get up, and then the aforementioned step cousin comes over with the truth trophy, and we're talking about, what are you doing? Blah, blah, blah, and he has an eBay business called found books and stuff such found books and such on eBay. And I looked him up, and not only does he have really cool found books, like all sorts of antique stuff or, you know, rare print things like that, he he also has some music, but he also has a lot of sports themed stuff. And I went in and I went shopping for all these really cool yearbooks, Red Sox yearbooks from key years past. So like 1986 2004 like 1976 like all these really like important personal years, but also, like for the team. And I got a whole bunch of stuff. So if you are a Red Sox fan, I suggest you go to found books and such. I doubt he has stuff beyond New England. But also, if you're just a bookie and you bookie, not an actual bookie, not like you know, right? If you're a book nerd and you like rare or fun books, go to found books and such on eBay. And maybe if you. Write to to him that you found this out on no crying in baseball, you can get some sort of shipping deal or something like that.

Patti 1:00:07
Look at you. Promising

Pottymouth 1:00:08
for someone else. Yeah, I'm gonna let him know that he's gonna do this. But yeah, just just say that you heard from body mouth that that this was a good place to go. And I, I'm excited to get my package at the end of the week, it's gonna be very cool,

Patti 1:00:21
yay. That's fun. Good for you. I'm dating another podcast this week.

Pottymouth 1:00:26
Oh,

Patti 1:00:27
I'm cheating on us,

Pottymouth 1:00:28
all right. I

Patti 1:00:29
was invited to go back on the daily deuce.

Pottymouth 1:00:32
Oh, nice,

Patti 1:00:32
which is run by one of my co workers to specifically talk about the Orioles. I haven't

been

Pottymouth 1:00:38
know something about them.

Patti 1:00:39
I haven't been on for two years. So I think it's every two years where they need me. I think, I think it's on the occasion of releasing a new city connect jersey, because I went back to see how long ago it was before, since my last appearance, and I was wearing the other city connect

Speaker 4 1:00:53
jersey.

Patti 1:00:53
And I have my new one now. So I think it's gonna be in every couple of two or three years of it,

Pottymouth 1:00:59
right? There's a video on that, right?

Patti 1:01:00
Yeah. So this is a YouTube situation, so we'll link to it in case you want to watch it. I don't even know if it's available on just audio, but it's definitely it's a whole YouTube thing, so I have to pay attention to actually, the expressions on my face.

Pottymouth 1:01:13
You're good. I can vouch for you. You do that very well on the regular.

Patti 1:01:18
Okay, okay,

Pottymouth 1:01:20
just be your normal charming self. You'll do great.

Patti 1:01:22
That's my plan. That's my plan. So the daily Deuce will hook you up. Okay, friends, wow. Let us know what's happening by you. Please tell us that you're going to see live baseball and as potty mouse said, if you've encountered any completely wacky minor league promos, please let us know where they are. Find us on social media,

Pottymouth 1:01:42
yeah, if you can beat the hot dog jog, let us know on blue sky and Twitter we are at n, C, i, b, podcast, Facebook and Instagram are no crying and B ball, but please join the fun on Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, O, n.com/no, crying and B ball. And for $1 a month, you can rest assured that we can keep going. And you know, Patreons patrons, Patreon patrons come and Patreon patrons go. And we really depend on you guys, especially the incoming folks, to keep this podcast going. So if you can spare a buck a month, check out patreon and let us know what you'd like to see there, because we throw, you know, some extras on there once in a while.

Patti 1:02:22
And you know we are gearing up for the epic road trip. So who knows what's gonna happen on the epic road trip

Pottymouth 1:02:26
that's gonna be big, that's gonna join before August, and you will find all of the details of this crazy road trip. Wow.

Patti 1:02:32
Wow. All right, my friends, go see some live baseball fight the man is the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith, and until next week, say goodnight

Pottymouth 1:02:40
mouth. Good night.

Patti 1:02:59
You know, I had a pretty relaxed weekend without you. I did go joy riding, you know, and you know,

do

Pottymouth 1:03:04
wheelies.

Patti 1:03:05
Well, I been, I did Master the Trader Joe's parking lot.