No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Hi and

welcome to episode 457 of No Crying in Baseball, the Super Helpful for the Mental episode. My name is Patti, here with my friend, Pottymouth. How are you? Pottymouth?

Pottymouth 0:27
I am not good on the mental like I am hoping that you have some solid advice, because it's been a fuck of a weekend for Boston sports. So depressing.

Patti 0:35
I'm so sorry.

Pottymouth 0:36
So yesterday's entertainment, air quotes. Big Air quotes. Was first we watched the Red Sox lose. Then we tuned into the fleet, which we were very excited about, and they lost

Patti 0:47
no

Pottymouth 0:48
and then we caught the end of the Celtics game to see them lose game seven and be eliminated.

Speaker 1 0:53
Oh,

Pottymouth 0:53
so it was, yeah, it was a day for drinking. We didn't even drink. We didn't even, I have a lot of catching up to do. We did no drinking in that time, which is kind of shocking.

Patti 1:02
So I pre gamed. I'm already a margarita in until before I came over. But now we're drinking a very delicious beer. Can you tell us what we're drinking? It's

Pottymouth 1:09
very delicious. Yes, we made sure, after visiting Mr. Potty mouth's dad this morning, to stop at great main brewery in Haymarket Virginia. I'm gonna Yeah, say it. Say it confidently, Haymarket Virginia, and I highly recommend it. They have something for everyone we are drinking their Coast to Coast IPA, which is not a hazy and I appreciate breweries that don't just do the juicy hazy thing. So this is like a solid IPA, I thought,

Patti 1:35
very delicious.

Pottymouth 1:36
Make us think about our road trip and then, well, I guess we'll talk about the next beer when

Patti 1:41
it comes. Yes. So I did a little guest spot. I cheated on our podcast, another podcast I have friends who have a show called The Daily deuce, which is a YouTube gig. So we will include the link I was invited on to talk about the Orioles. And guess how we started talking about the Red Sox?

Pottymouth 1:57
Really? Yes, oh, I need to listen.

Patti 2:00
You do? Well, we just recorded so your many, many takes on the massacre were fresh on my mind. So I got to, sort of like regurgitate a little bit that. And then we moved on to the Orioles. So it was fun for me to kind of do, like just a one, a one hit wonder thing for a change, instead of a little bit of this team, a little bit of that team, a little bit of context. There was no drinking or swearing, so I'm a little more family friendly,

Pottymouth 2:22
very I'm impressed I would not be able to pull that off, although, I mean, that's my day job.

Patti 2:26
They were very amused when I did explain why my partner's name is potty mouth.

Pottymouth 2:31
That's good.

Patti 2:32
So I've been on the show before, and I know exactly how long it was, because I wore my new city connect when I recorded and I looked up my last episode and I was wearing my brand new city connect last time then, so it's every couple of years whether we need it or

Pottymouth 2:46
not. Yeah, that's great. So next city Connect, you know that you're going to be a guest again.

Patti 2:50
They keep saying, Oh, no, we'll have you. I'm more often. Yeah, I don't know, but I have a good

Pottymouth 2:54
time. Maybe the city Connect is just like the little bit of a jog for the brain that reminded me of a fun fact I have about the Red Sox that I probably would forget if I let it simmer too long, and I know you don't want to miss out on this is that today they had five Venezuelans in their lineup, which is a tying MLB record. I have no clue what, who the other team that did it when, but that's

Patti 3:15
pretty

Pottymouth 3:15
quick that I just saw that. So I thought you would like to all know about that, because you know, Venezuela does well, but Red Sox, not so much. Not

Patti 3:23
so much on today's show boyfriends featuring Hey new guy, some league leaders and Vargas on a tear and so many kids. We've got managers coming and going. We are preparing for collective bargaining. We've got women and girls in baseball. We're cross training with the national anthem, and we've got more ridiculous hot dog news. Cheers. Hey, so you were saying you've had a bad weekend for sports. Can I just say that the O's are in New York and have lost three straight to the Yankees.

Pottymouth 3:51
So so, you know, the Red Sox did that too. So we're in good company that losing three straight to the Yankees. That sucks. And you know, I have to deal with the Yankees fan at my place of employment tomorrow, and he will hunt me down. Actually, he might be busy teasing or whatever, ragging on the the IT guy who's an Orioles fan, so maybe he'll take the brunt for

Patti 4:13
I would imagine. So, yeah, yeah. So you're lucky. There boyfriends,

Pottymouth 4:17
all right, baseball boyfriend. So luckily, on this podcast, there's a way to stop me talking about the Red Sox, and that's sort of, sort of,

Patti 4:25
by the way, I know

Pottymouth 4:26
there's always a connection. We'll see how this goes. I don't think there isn't this one. Well, I'll get there soon, actually. Well anyway, baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season, and this is the not Red Sox part, because we have to pick one guy per team, forcing me to look at other teams and even say nice things about the Yankees once in a while, and then now we're checking on them every week to see who's doing well, who's done something newsworthy. And I have been totally ignoring Troy Johnston of the Rockies, and I feel bad about that. I feel like I've been giving you know the teams that I don't know. Normally think of as excelling a little bit short shrift, and that would be the Rockies who are actually having a better season than the Red Sox, for sure. So he's been a big addition for Colorado. I picked him. He had been dfaed by the or not renewed by the Marlins, and I remember at that time saying, what the fuck like? He actually had really good minor league scores. He hadn't been giving given a lot of time, he showed a lot of potential. And I was like, Why did you guys let him go to Colorado? Well, I feel a little bit vindicated at this time, and just to show the impact that he's had in Colorado, but it's actually not just him. Your former pick from the angels, Mickey maniac is like a little bit ahead, I guess. I think I didn't check right before recording, which I meant to do. I think he's a little bit ahead of Troy Johnson. But the two of them together are super adorable because they have similar situations where they got battered around a little bit by their former teams. Had a bad season, got let go and ended up on the Rockies, and now they're both just doing so well. So the Rockies, at this time last year, had won six games. Right now they want to, or actually they're losing today. So I think it is still 14 last May 3. So the day we're recording, they were in last place, and they stayed that way for the entire season. In this head, this year, they are ahead of eight teams, including the Red Sox, the Phillies and the Mets. I didn't check the Orioles. I think the Orioles are doing better than them, but to until

this

we'll see, we'll see, yeah, by the time you guys here, who knows, two weekends ago? Pardon Yeah, that's not because

Patti 6:40
you actually use the word adorable in a sports context. For those of you who are new to the show, that is the drinking game of potty mouse is adorable in a sports context, we drink. So cheers to that.

Pottymouth 6:48
It happens once in a while. The Rockies split a four game series against the Dodgers. That is crazy. They were the first NL team to beat the Dodgers this season, and a key to that was Troy Johnson's go ahead two run double, winning last Saturday, and then after that, they swept the Mets. And that used to be a really big brag, but this year, you know, the poor Mets, the poor Mets. So he was on an eight game hitting streak that ended yesterday, but he picked back up on it today, so he got a hit in today's game. Last week, he was on a four game RBI streak. He had two RBI in the first two games and one RBI in the second two. So I was wondering why he was at the bottom of the order. Although, when I looked at today's game, he had inched up a little bit, but still it seems like he's a little bit lower than where he should be. The fans are loving him. He's just got a lot of personality. He has a podcast. He's got to be a good guy, right? He's super Smiley. He's the vibes guy. He put his wife's birthday on the Jumbotron. If it's a jumbotron, I'm not sure what they have, but you know what? Video board, big screen. There you go. Big Screen, trademark, jumbotron in April. So just like players don't do that a lot, I think that's also adorable. So I can drink again. And then he was on MLB TV show with Mickey moniak, and I only watched and this is what my homework should have been. I meant to get back to it. They were super funny, but the Rockies home run celebration. Have you seen it? It is a big honking fur, purple fur coat, which looks fantastic on these guys. And it was Troy who was wearing it on the show. So I definitely appreciate, you know his style there. But I'm thinking, you know, it's gonna get hot, like, I know the Rockies, it's high up, but if you take it on the road, you're playing San Diego in July, you

Patti 8:39
know, wish fewer home runs on them. That's how that translates. Oh, that's a curse, like shit,

Pottymouth 8:43
shit, shit, all right, so let's hope that all works out with the purple fur coat. So yeah, reminder that he was released by the Marlins after last year, and it was episode 457, if anybody wants to go back and check my math, because my maths been super shaky. My other, only other baseball boyfriend news is my pitching squad, which is so fucked, it's not even funny. So this is, you know, Mr. Potty mouth, you can thank me yet again for taking Red Sox pitching. So we do the one boyfriend per team, but we get a whole flock of pictures from one team. And I picked the Red Sox. It was looking good. Both Sonny gray and Garrett crochet are on the IL at the time of recording good new crochet went down more recently, and I was super worried, especially after that 11 run and two inning let up thing that happened a couple weeks ago. And I was like, He's broken, but they say it's not horrible. It's just shoulder inflammation, and it will indeed be not surgery and hopefully back soon, but there's no timetable. Same with Sonny gray. He's just, he's he's eligible in a few days, May 6. He just threw live batting practice, so maybe it was just a sore thing, and now they're both going to be back and no surgeries needed to like sink my Red Sox even. And further Ranger Suarez was pulled from the game today. Oh no, after shit, I forget how many four or five scoreless innings and under 7070, pitches, I believe I was like, Oh, what the fuck. And they said it was a hamstring or something like that. So these are, this is like this the, not only the starting lineup, but it's like the the front of the starting lineup. These are the first three guys of the starting lineup. Yikes. So they bring up new guy and new guy. Of course, I have to draft onto my fantasy league because I have no fucking starting pitchers. And this is Jake Bennett. Jake seems like a lovely young man, and I would like to give him a huge shout out, because he won his game. He did his job, he shows up. He was not expected to come up Peyton totally. You know, they thought was going to come up later, and he got brought up already. So it's like, All right, who's the next guy? 25 years old. He got his win against the Astros and only let up one run, and it was a Correa solo home run, five innings, five hits, three walks. So the good news on Bennett is when he was with the woo the woo socks in Worcester, he had a 0.86 era after 21 innings. So I'm hoping that's a good thing. There's also a little bit of like hometown hero stuff here for you know, location of where he was drafted, because he was with Kate Cavalli, who's now the superstar pitcher of the Nationals. So not only were they on the nets together, they both got drafted by the nets, Cavalli, first round, Bennett, second round two years later, but they went to high school and college together, so they're Super Buddies. So I think that's going to be like good pitching Mojo, one, you know, cheer each other on.

Patti 11:37
Good luck.

Pottymouth 11:38
Yeah, keep drinking.

Patti 11:40
Okay, I think that's good, too. I have a little bit to say about a lot of boyfriends, cool. So bear with me. So starting with Drake Baldwin, my Atlanta guy. On Saturday, the Atlanta team beat Colorado nine to one, and when that happened, they set an Atlanta franchise record for not losing any of their first 11 series is so they won 10 of the first series, and they tie. They split

Pottymouth 12:09
one

Patti 12:09
of the series. So I guess the only way to say it is for not losing any of the first 11 series. That's huge.

Speaker 1 12:16
Yeah,

Patti 12:16
that's big. At that game on Saturday, Drake went three for four with a home run, a double four RBI and a walk. It was his second three hit game of the season, his third game with four RBI, and he leads the league and runs scored with 31

Pottymouth 12:31
that's crazy,

Patti 12:32
followed by a tie between Olson trout and James Wood with 30 each.

Pottymouth 12:37
That's some serious company. And I'm just saying like the no East is like all sorts of nobody thought this would be happening right in the the Atlanta team was not hugely doing well at the end of last season, and I didn't think that they would do this. And I the other teams are all over the fuck

Patti 12:57
so Nick Kurtz, my A's guy, big Amish, got a standing ovation on Friday night for a walk in the seventh inning versus Cleveland, because that walk in the seventh inning gave him his 20th straight game with a walk that ties Barry Bonds for second longest all time streak. That's crazy, that number has held since 2004 he did not walk yesterday, so he's stuck there with the tie, but it's on Saturday. Since he didn't get a walk, he had a make do with two singles, scoring a run and having an RBI without a walk. The all time record is Roy Columbine, 22 consecutive games. He was so close.

Pottymouth 13:42
22 he

Speaker 1 13:43
was

Patti 13:43
so close. He had 20 he was so close. That was that's been holding steady since 1947. Nick hurts leads the league in walks with 34 total walks.

Pottymouth 13:53
Well, there's time. Maybe he'll streak again.

Patti 13:55
Maybe he will. Josh Young from Texas, I've brought him up last week the week before, because he's one of those guys that turned around his that turned around his season. And I will tell you how much he turned around this season, because April was quite a thing for him. He went hit list his first four games, right? So he was starting with like zero all the way across in April. For the month of April, he hit 381, he was the league leader in average for the month of April. His his season average right now is 317, which you know,

Pottymouth 14:24
being

Patti 14:25
zero for the first four games is pretty much a leap. And what he said was, is just sticking to the process no matter what, every day come in, the slate is 00, how can I get better? How can I improve my swing? To attack that starter so he's definitely from like the the media school, right? Don't say too much. That's

Pottymouth 14:43
really good, yeah. And the regiment said something like that today after, after the game. And I totally don't remember the quote, but it was totally like, alright, tomorrow's another

day. Let's

Patti 14:52
go, yep, yep. JJ, weather hold, who I'm still looking forward to seeing on our on our road trip, our epic road trip. You know, he's my he's my guy. And say. Lewis. He's from Pittsburgh, so St Louis just had their series against his hometown team in Pittsburgh right Monday through Thursday. So all last week, four games with cbdo playing against his hometown team. His home run at the first game on Monday was his third straight game with a homer on Thursday, the very first pitch he's ever seen in his whole life from Paul Skeens hit for a home

Pottymouth 15:24
run. That's crazy. That's going to be some sort of stat. How many people have done that? Yeah,

Patti 15:28
well, that was his sixth straight game with an extra base hit. He's the youngest Cardinal. He's 23 the youngest Cardinal since Albert Pujols to do that, to have, you know, to have six straight games with an extra base hit, and that was in 2003 also in April, he said a different team record, he was hit by pitch in five straight games. So there's that. His manager, the St Louis manager, Ali marmal, said, when we committed to leading him off, this is why we did it. He has this and more in him. This is a hard worker who's super talented. So I think, quite honestly, he's just getting started. So I mean, he was my pick for rookie of the year, so I hope that's true. One of my espresso guys, Jack caglione, he hit all of his three home runs so far this season, in the last nine games, and he's all of a sudden, the clutch guy. So Friday night, he had a solo home run in a game they won by one run, right? That was his third. However, on Friday, he went one for three with a solo home run. When that was a seven and six win over the mariner. Saturday versus Seattle, two outs top of the ninth, he's at bat. He hits the game tying RBI single. So he's like, the guy when they need that guy, right? That was his fifth multi hit game. It was his second game. It was second, second game tying RBI that he hit in the ninth inning or later. Again, he's the clutch guy. It's

Pottymouth 16:56
crazy.

Patti 16:57
And I think he's got a little Cody Bellinger in him. And here's what I mean by that he was talking about. He talks like Cody Bellinger, looks

Pottymouth 17:06
he sounds high,

Patti 17:07
let me tell you. So he was talking about how he's really learning a lot from the veterans. You're right on St Louis, like, you know, Salvi, Perez, Vinnie, pasconti, no. He said, file, I'm sorry that the Royals. I said, yeah, the Royals said following their lead on that has been super helpful for the mental and honestly, it's kind of freed the mind up for the day to day.

Pottymouth 17:32
Yeah, yeah, surfer dude,

Patti 17:34
yeah,

Pottymouth 17:35
sure, yeah. There's a lot, a lot of things that could go into that and that I'm going to totally adopt that I need to be super helpful for the mental is that

Patti 17:43
it? Yeah, that's it. Super

Pottymouth 17:45
helpful. Chase the

Patti 17:46
water. My Cleveland guy went perfect. Was perfect on Friday versus the A's. He went four for four with two doubles, a walk, hit two, RBI, one run, scored an eight to five win for the week. Again. Fun With math this seven day, numbers, 632, average and 1.4850 PS, he had a hell of a week. He also had a home run today, which doesn't count towards

Pottymouth 18:08
that is, he is rookie.

Patti 18:10
Yes, he's he's the one who started in the playoffs last year.

Pottymouth 18:13
Oh, right.

Patti 18:13
So this is technically his rookie year.

Pottymouth 18:15
You've got some serious rookie I guess. Hours,

Patti 18:17
yes, he's another one. The 23 year olds. Kazuma Okamoto hit his sixth and seventh home runs on Friday versus Minnesota. His last at bat. He flied out to the warning track. It was so close to a third home run. And what he said was, I did not have my pre game quesadilla today.

Pottymouth 18:35
I would not have guessed

Patti 18:38
that. I think if I'd had that, it would have been a home run.

Pottymouth 18:40
Yeah,

Patti 18:41
it was his first career multi home Homer game for hit. The celebration, you know, they have that. This is, this is Toronto. They have that little, that

Pottymouth 18:48
jacket that they

Speaker 1 18:49
wear,

Patti 18:49
right? He hit the subway, and he came into the dugout, they put the jacket on him, and they all bowed to him, which he was really honored by. So that that's, he didn't expect that. That was really very sweet. All in the same time, gave him a bow.

Pottymouth 18:59
That's pretty amazing.

Patti 19:00
That third hard one happened the next day, a 453 foot home run on Saturday. And I just checked my phone, he homered again today, so his slow start is over. He's kicking in and it's a lot of fun.

Pottymouth 19:13
Are they gonna keep bowing like I want to see them bow to everybody now they should. That should be part of the

Patti 19:18
well, you have to ask them, I don't know.

Pottymouth 19:19
All right. Hey, Toronto, keep that. Keep that as part of the Sally. Because, you know, they had the jacket last year. You got to do something new, something new. So I think that would be, you know, an honorific. He also counts as a rookie, right?

Patti 19:33
Yes. I mean, he played for years, yeah, in Japan, but technically, his first rookie year, so

Pottymouth 19:37
much rookie, like power, yeah. And I'm guessing one of the rookies. I don't know. I think one of the rookies of the year will be ncib boyfriend. Who knows which one at this point? So we keep tabs on former guys, and I've been watching il de Mario Vargas, and I feel kind of guilty about this. I meant to talk about it last week while he was still Street. King, and the streak has now been struck, but it's still impressive enough to mention, because the man is 35 years old, 35 years old, and he's having his breakout season, which is all kinds of wild. So I picked him as my D backs Boyfriend Back in 2020 and he just finished the longest streak of the season with 27 games, and it ended when they got shut out by the Cubs. He did set a record for Venezuelan. So he is now officially the Venezuelan with the longest MLB streak, beating our old friend Wilson Ramos the buffalo, who had 26 in 2019 what

Patti 20:41
is the streak for doing? What

Pottymouth 20:43
for? Oh, consecutive games with a hit? Yeah, hitting streak. Hitting, hitting, all right, I thought I started that out, but no, I'm just thinking about streaking. I don't know. Well, I could just be streaking. I've been drinking. Yeah? Well, then, you know, my mind goes elsewhere. So there's that, yeah. El demato, hitting streak. Really good stuff. He missed the D backs record for hitting streak by three games. Luis Gonzalez had 30 in 1999 so much fun about Vargas, though, and a lot of the reason why I picked him in 2020 He is Mr. Utility. He has played every position at the major league level, except for catcher and center fielder, which is wild, and it used to be first base, but they added first base this year. So not only was he playing all over the place, but they were like, Yeah, let's see. And he's done most of his time at first base this year. He is, I believe I'm going to do a click to confirm this. I believe that he is leading the MLB in is that that's the wrong thing to say the MLB. You just say MLB, right,

Patti 21:46
correct.

Pottymouth 21:46
All right. He is. I feel really bad he is leading, and he still is. And actually, that's really ridiculous.

Patti 21:52
He's

leading MLB in

Pottymouth 21:53
batting average. All right, I am at the I have one more sip. I'm going to sip so that you can refill when you finish,

Patti 22:01
I'm on

it.

Pottymouth 22:03
So I can't believe that I checked myself on this, because he's leading MLB and batting average by almost 40 points. He currently has a 382 average. Ben rice is number two past pick of mine, also with 343

Patti 22:18
I'm really mad at Ben rice because of this whole like,

Pottymouth 22:20
Oh, I am so mad at Ben, so good as well. He is. He hits the ball far a lot, but you know, and he does it often too, which is the other that's a bad combination for somebody on the Yankees. So he's number three in OPS, so turning 35 in July, he's not quite 35 but here's what he's been through since I picked him in 2020 and he was with the D backs. He started. He got brought up with the D backs. Then he was traded to Minnesota. DFA ed by Minnesota, picked up by the Cubs. DFA by the Cubs picked up by Pittsburgh. DFA ed by Pittsburgh picked up by Arizona, again for a one year contract, which expired, and they let him go as a free agent. He was signed by the Cubs again, DFA by the Cubs again, and then he was signed to a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. So he did have a decent amount of playing time with the NATs, but not a full season. And they let him go after 24 not resigning him. He became a free agent. He got a minor league contract with Arizona this year, worked his way up through spring training, and holy shit, has paid off big time. But where he really got his cred, or, I don't know, I think, is a big source of this breakout is his time in Venezuelan baseball. He was the captain of the cardinales de Lara for the past several years. He had played with them since 2015 except for one year, the 2019 20 year, which was after his first big MLB year. So that was the year that the team was like, You're not gonna play winter ball. But then he kind of sucked in MLB the following year. So, you know, I think the motto of the story is, you just don't know. It depends on the player under his captainship. For most of this, the cardinales made it to the playoffs in Venezuela for 10 straight years, winning three of them, and he now in cardinales fame. So setting records in various countries, is all time, third in hits, second postseason, all time in hits, all time, second and RBI, both regular and postseason all time, or second all time in runs, and third all time in home runs and steals. And he's going to keep going. So I'm super happy for il de Mario Vargas, 35 you know a young 35 you never know and power to the D backs quick mention of another past baseball boyfriend of mine, Shay lairs of the of the athletics. I picked him in 2023 when he had a 205 average and a 681 ops. He. Is currently. And I am going to click this one last I checked was 336 average. Still at 336 average. 1.01 7o, p, s. And I know somebody in our fantasy league, I can't remember who somebody just picked just picked him up, and that is a really good pick. He is leading the A's in average home run, three way tie, actually, in home run for me will be the last I checked, but that's probably gone down and RBI, so yay to say sorry I missed it

Patti 25:35
bad

time.

Sometimes we pick guys a little too early, yeah, but who knew? Especially like Vargas. I mean 35 right? Anytime we would have picked, it would have been too early, because who picks the 35 year old? And now we know now sometimes you pick the 35 year

Pottymouth 25:47
old, yeah, or older, or older. Why not?

Patti 25:50
Collective bargaining is coming up for the MLBPA, the players union and the owners the athletic just had a really, pretty comprehensive piece that kind of walks through both the timing of what collective bargaining will likely look like, but also kind of highlights the issues. So I'm going to link to that in the notes if anybody wants to nerd out on whether the economic implications and all that, but just a quick little overview. So the CBA negotiations are probably going to start the next few weeks, the current agreement, the current CBA, expires December 1, right? But if past practices are any, are any indication they're probably not going to have an agreement till spring, which means probably a lockout. More about that in a second. The process starts like any collective bargaining. Starts with the different sides exchanging initial proposals, right? That I don't think that's happened yet. The last time there was a bargaining cycle, it was 2021 both sides had their initial presentations in April, so we're already late, right? The players, the MLBPA, offered their first economic proposals in May, the owners, not until August. Their agreement finally happened on March 10. They

Pottymouth 27:07
didn't even offer until August.

Patti 27:09
No, and they have this year. They haven't had their initial proposals yet. So we are, we're late. So, um, Zach Britton has been writing about this a little bit. He was, you know, part of the, you know, the the committee last time. He's since retired, right? But he's been writing about this process, and he said, right now, this initial time before anything really happens, he said it's for posturing. He said both sides. This is normal. That's how every negotiation starts. The fall is when this gets real. So there's gonna be a work stoppage because they're starting so late, and you need to keep in mind, and they need to keep in mind the people who do the bargaining to keep it's not just the players, because if there are no games, all the people that work in the ballparks, the people who are broadcasters, the people who have game day things, the people who are umpires or coaches or other like support staff are all affected when games don't happen. So it's not just players and owners local

Pottymouth 28:08
businesses,

Patti 28:09
local businesses. Exactly right. If you go down to the ballpark and you have a drink before you have dinner after whatever you do, that's not going to happen if those games aren't happening. So there's a lot of ripple effects of an agreement not happening in a timely way, and work stopping. We've been talking we've been using the word lockout. And let me just give you the definition of lockout from this article. It's a work stoppage. It means MLB is completely shut down. Nothing can happen. Trades can't happen. Signings can't happen. It's a freeze. You remember last time, like, players couldn't go see the trainers, if they were they couldn't use MLB trainers to do their rehab and to their recovery. It's a big freaking deal. It's like a strike, except for a lockout is like, the players initiate a strike. A lockout is initiated by management, okay, if it's still so this could happen as early as December 1, like, you know, if they don't have an agreement by an agreement by the end of the day, at midnight, you know, the end of the day, December 1, then the owners could say, We're locking you out if games end up getting canceled because they don't get things figured out. First of all, are we missing spring training?

Pottymouth 29:17
Yeah. So

Patti 29:18
what does that mean? Are we pushing games? Are we cutting out games. What happens there? But if it happens that so games might get canceled, the owners don't have to lock out the players. That's a choice commonly right now, people are like, yeah, they're gonna make that

choice.

Pottymouth 29:34
That's shitty.

Patti 29:35
So I'm gonna link to this article, so if you want to kind of catch up on what are the economic issues that are the highest, most contentious things you can learn about that and there's more detail about this process. So that's my story. I'm sticking

with

Pottymouth 29:49
it. You know? It just super, super sucks because, I mean, I have bad enough feelings about ownership to begin with. This is just why they have so much money.

Patti 29:59
It's.

Much

Pottymouth 30:00
money. So Crazy. Crazy. Much Money.

Patti 30:02
Yep,

Pottymouth 30:03
and you know, they like to not take any blame for anything like not take any blame for not spending their money, which I think kind of trickles down into firing managers being the easiest option when things go wrong, instead of like looking inward and thinking, well, what could they be spending their money on better for this team? And this past week, after my rant last week about the Red Sox, we get to talk about it again, because three days later, last Tuesday, Rob Thompson of the Phillies got axed. And this was right, three days after Korra, 28 games into his fifth season, and his contract was extended last December, so he is like, brand new into the end of what would have been his old contract, and hasn't even gotten to the extension yet. That's next season. So he's being paid through 2027 so this is another case of like, Alright. Well, just like, go have fun and chill out and not work all four years that he ended with the Phillies, so he came in part way into the season I'm gonna talk about in a minute. And then the other three years, they made it to the playoffs. Like so many teams have not made it to the playoffs in this time, all four years, he made it to the playoffs. His overall win, loss ratio. 355, wins to 270, losses. 568, average. That is the best winning percentage of any Phillies manager since 1895 This is so crazy. So I was like railing about this with Cora last week. Cora had about double the time. 620, wins, 519, losses, and a 534, average. And I thought that was like, you know enough to say he shouldn't be fired so early in the season last year, Rob Thompson was third in Manager of the Year votes. So it's it's so much crazy he didn't even want to be manager to begin with. He was the Phillies bench coach from 2018 to 2022 and he was manager when Joe Girardi was fired. And so here's another like, the owners need to do something visible to make the fans feel like they're doing something.

Patti 32:16
Something's actually happening, right? We're dealing with this. What are you going to do?

Pottymouth 32:19
Like you can, you know, let one player go. That's not gonna be a big deal. So it's like the manager. It's between the manager and the GM, or, you know, whatever they call that person who is above the manager, and a manager is so much more visible to the fandom. So I think they're just, you know, easy, but it's so fucking close. So Girardi made it 51 games before he worked as bench coach under Girardi. He had coaching positions with the Tigers, where he ended up after playing in the minor league with the Tigers, because he said, quote, I wasn't a good enough player, and he wanted to stick around, so he got into coaching, and then he went with the dreaded Yankees, and actually won five World Series as a coach with the Yankees. He has five Yankees rings. Wow. Holy shit. He actually almost got the manager position when Girardi was fired from the Yankees. So he's like, Gerardi gets fired. Thompson's right there. So Girardi got fired from the Yankees. Thompson was there, but Aaron Boone got the job, and he's still there. So at that point, it wasn't good for Thompson to hang out with the Yankees. He ended up getting hired by, I think it was Gabe Kapler at the time with the Phillies. Has stuck around since then. So when 22 came around, he was actually thinking retirement. He thought that he's had a good career. You know, this is a good way to wind things up. Going to do one more year and then call it quits, and then he gets brought in, and he got super caught up, and the Phillies made his the World Series in 2022 so he stayed on. Things were good, until now, Dave Dombrowski has decided that, okay, we got to blame somebody for the Phillies being not even at the bottom, close to the bottom, but not at the bottom. So

Patti 33:59
surprisingly bad.

Pottymouth 34:00
Yeah, yeah, my first instinct, and a whole bunch of people thought that he would hire Alex Cora, because Cora had just, you know, been fired. And so he actually talked to Cora before he fired Thompson on Saturday night

Patti 34:15
before he fired, yeah.

Pottymouth 34:16
And then, I believe, shoot, yeah. And then he he offered in the job before the actual firing and core declined. He's like, you know, I'm getting paid to hang out with my family for a couple years. Why not my momentary World Series fantasy, though, like when all this was going down was, wouldn't it be cool if Korra did get hired by the Phillies, and both the Red Sox and the Phillies made is the World Series like, this is my, you know, Dream fantasy. Yeah, it's just think of happy things when your team's in the gutter. So that could have been, but now it's definitely not. Don Mattingly. Donnie baseball is now the manager, theoretically, 832 years old. Yeah. Who's close. He's working for his son. His son's the GM, so that's going to be a weird dynamic. And like, you know, Sunday dinner with the family. So Dad, why the fuck did you pull the put your you know, I don't know. He has a lot of management experience. As you said, he's under and 32, years old, five years with the Dodgers, seven years with the Marlins. He actually has a losing record, though, like worse than the other two guys. We were just talking about 889, wins, 950, losses. So that's a shit ton, right? But he was voted Manager of the Year in 2020 because of the magic that he worked with Marlins briefly only Don Mattingly, Frank Robinson and Joe Torre have won all of the following awards, MVP, Gold Glove and Manager of the Year, crazy. He's been doing all right. The Phillies have only lost once since Tuesday. They swept the Giants and they won a series against the mylons. So the Phillies are doing better than the Red Sox are doing since Cora got axed. The Red Sox are struggling a little bit more, I think. Yeah, three wins, five losses. Not good, not good. And there's so much gossip now. So this is, I don't know if you got into this at all on your show, but there's a lot of gossip about why the massacre, right? So, like the Phillies fired Thompson in the normal way, you fire the manager, not fire the manager and the entire fucking coaching staff

Patti 36:23
while they're on the road.

Pottymouth 36:24
Yeah, right, and it's so they flew down in John Henry's private plane. It's just like, holy, you know, so much money. These guys have so much money to fly them down in a private plane to fire the manager. So they're saying that Cora has been sticking up for his coaches, and that apparently Breslow really wanted to clean house. So there's also a lot of anger at Breslow that when he came in, he was trying to clean house without cleaning out Cora, but Cora refused to let the coaches be fired. Oh, really. And there's even some scuttlebutt. There's an athletic article about bregman's involvement in this and that Bregman last year, you know, being like that, that elder statesman and sort of like Team guy, stuck up for the coaches as well. And maybe that's why Breslow wasn't so key on, you know, not giving him his no trade clause for this year. So fun fact that I found out while I was looking through one of the magazines that I got from my cousin on eBay. Two I was looking through the 2013 Red Sox because I picked all the good years, and both Craig Breslow and Andrew Bailey, his pitching coach and best buddy, were on the pitching staff in 2013 which was John Farrell's first year. So when John Farrell came in, and nobody really expected much, and he didn't have, like, he had, you know, plenty of coaching experience, but he hadn't been a manager. So maybe I'm thinking that that, like, tweaked breslow's perception, and that, hey, we can just start over with new guy, and everything's going to be great. And speaking of starting over with new guy, so you know, not only is their acting interim manager from the woo socks, but a ton of their coaches are minor leaguers, so they've got, like, Baby players, like all these rookies plus minor league coaching staff. What could go wrong? Drew Erhard, who they just hired on the coaching staff as bullpen catcher, interim, of course, just came from the sea dogs playing. He was the second baseman for the sea dogs. Oh, and that was on the coaching staff for the Red Sox. So I don't know, I am not a manager, a GM or anything, but this just all sounds really weird to me. So I just like wanted to put some perspective on this, on this firing the manager thing, and how hard is it for managers to win admiration. Only 50 managers, and that's a nice round number all time have won the World Series, 50 since 1903, 26. Of them did it one time. 13 of them did it twice. 11 of them did it three or more times, and the maximum is seven by those Yankees guys. I don't want to talk about that so it just there's not a lot of guys who are doing what these guys are supposed to be doing. And, you know, look at Thompson. He made you to the playoffs four times. What more do you want? You can't all win the World Series. We have 30 managers out there now, you know, that's not much less than 50 comparatively, if you're comparing since 1903. Anyway. And just more perspective. Five MLB teams have never won the World Series, Tampa, Milwaukee, padres, Colorado and Seattle, and Colorado and Seattle haven't even made it. So the Mets, everybody's saying, well, the Phillies fired their manager. The Mets are doing so piss poor. It's it's crazy. I feel for Mets fans. But not only are the Mets doing piss poor, but they are number two in payroll. So yeah. So the whole thing about, like, my Red Sox frustration is, damn it, if you would just spend more money, and now I'm like, Well, that didn't fix the Mets. They spent money, and they're still sucking. So I don't know. I think it's, you know, the comedy. Maybe it's just too many stars. On one team

Patti 40:00
you're spending the money on not just one thing

Pottymouth 40:04
and how you gel them, right? Yep, how you bring them together, yep. So I always thought that this was like the Yankees problem, that they can't get further because they have too many prima donnas who, you know, can't play nice with others. I think they're getting past, past that that maybe that's the Mets. Phillies are number four in payroll red. Sox are number seven. All of them are gonna get hit by the luxury tax. So there's that. Carlos Mendoza has been reassured that David Stearns, the president baseball ops, this past weekend, called him and said, We don't view this as a manager problem, and we don't intend to make a change. That's for now. We'll see what happens. That's, you know, it's in print. It's been quoted. Last year, four managers were fired during the season. We're already at two. One GM only was fired during the season, and then there were four more managers and two more GMs who didn't get renewed from last year to this year. But as far as like actual in season action. Last year, four managers won GM, and that was Mike Rizzo, which was all sorts of weird. I have recommended reading as well. Fan graphs did a really good analysis on does it help to fire the manager? And the answer is not, really. Maybe it's negligible, and then the athletic has a lot of dirt, both on John Henry and Craig Breslow, that's worth diving into if you are of interest to Red Sox stuff,

Patti 41:27
that's just so much. But yeah, you're right. I think, I think it's a visibility things like, look, we're doing something.

Yeah, it's

never been effective. But okay, we're doing

Pottymouth 41:34
it anyway, exactly. And look at these two guys who are both super successful by any other comparison.

Patti 41:40
Yep, yep. I think maybe we should think about hiring some women.

Pottymouth 41:44
Yes, let's

Patti 41:45
see what happens.

Pottymouth 41:47
Yes, that would be amazing.

Patti 41:49
Cross training today is with the national anthem, one

Pottymouth 41:52
of our favorite pets, actually

Patti 41:53
multiple national anthems, which makes it kind of interesting. I really, I really like this story. Okay, we're kind of cross training with the National Hockey League. So Seymour Knox's father and uncle founded the buffalo sabers in 1970 buffalo is pretty close to Canada. Right at the time, they decreed that for every game, no matter who the opposing team is, we're going to play the Star Spangled Banner, and, oh, Canada,

Pottymouth 42:22
that helped me so much. I was so confused. Thank you. Thank you. Because I was watching this series,

Patti 42:27
yeah,

Pottymouth 42:28
and I did not know. So

Patti 42:29
for every game, for every game, we're going to play both, because there's a lot of Canadian players. They're close to Canada. A lot of Canadian fans come down. They want to, they want to be inclusive. Thank you. Pretty big deal for the 70s, right? So they've been doing all this time.

Yes.

So if you go to hockey games in Buffalo, you probably know the words to O Canada, right? I happen to really like, oh, Canada. I don't know the words I know, like the words that are O Canada, yeah, that's what you know. But I can hit the notes, so I like to belt those couple of words out anyway, Tuesday cover your ears as a playoff game against the Bruins.

Pottymouth 43:00
But

Patti 43:01
during the presentation of O Canada, a woman named CAMI klun was singing into the microphone, and three lines in the microphone malfunction had cut out. The entire arena joined in to sing O Canada. So

Pottymouth 43:20
good.

Patti 43:20
Everybody, 19,000 people, sang, Oh Canada, because the she kept singing, but she was no longer miked. But it didn't matter, because everybody sang, and they sang loudly, and they supported each other and they supported her, and it was pretty cool. So in the stands is the parents of Josh Doan. Josh is the forward for the sabers. His dad said, with all the things in the world, we're bombarded with somebody please make a big deal out of this. He said, People are always so quick to point out the things that separate us, and realistically, there isn't much you hope that people understood how special that was.

Pottymouth 43:57
Seymour

Patti 43:58
Nox, the you know, the Son and nephew of the founders of this team said, I think it was one of the highlights in the 30 years of the arena. My favorite quote is a historian from actually Andrew Nichols, who was born in Ontario, but has lived in Buffalo for 30 years. He said, having lived here for 30 years, this is kind of the equivalent of 19,000 people pulling over in a snowstorm to help somebody whose car is stuck in a snow bank. That's just what people here do.

Pottymouth 44:25
Wow. That makes me feel a little bit better about them beating the Bruins. It was a little heartbreaking, but all right, at least they're good folks with good fans and and I appreciate that. Holy cow. All right, I think you're right though about getting more women to run things, and there are a lot of women who are going to be playing a lot of baseball in the very near future that we're really excited about. Before the Women's League kicks off, there's a women's baseball World Cup group stage. So these are, like the semis. The finals are in 2027 and there was one, actually, there were two. Space. Is still left to see who's going to be playing at the end of July in Rockford, Canada swept Puerto Rico in three games in Puerto Rico, including two really ugly shutouts with a lot of runs on the part of Canada and zero on the part of Puerto Rico. Overall, they outscored them 32 to three, and those three were in one game, that was three to eight, so there were a lot of scores in the other games. But for those of us who are excited about the women's professional baseball league and folks like me who are super excited about the Boston team, our soon to be star pitcher, Ally Schroeder, pitched five scoreless innings with two hits and one walk, go ally. I'm hoping that we get to see her this summer. So the next stop is when Canada gets to join Mexico, the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, and Korea in Rockford, and in the end of August, Taiwan is going to have host the other group, with Taiwan playing and Japan, Venezuela, Cuban, Great Britain, and a wild card team to be assigned Tuesday, so the same day that you guys are hearing us, perhaps by the World Baseball and Softball commission. No, I always get that wrong, those C words, so I don't know. It would be kind of funny if they pick Puerto Rico. I don't know whether other teams are in contention, but we will find out. You might already know. I'm going to give a little shout out to local heroes who are going to be participating in one of my very favorite girls series. And it's so cool that there are various national girls series now. And shout out to DC girls baseball, who does all the good things all the time, four of their players, coral, Isabel, Alina and Charlie. And I'm sorry if I mispronounced any of your names, because I'm that does look like Charlie, right? It does. Yeah. Okay. You've all been selected for the Maria Pepe series that's going to be happening June 5 to seventh in Williamsport, home of Little League. This is their third year hosting this series in Williamsport, under the auspices right of Little League International. The series had been held five years previously. So five the not the exact five previous years, because the 2020 got skipped. But you know, in there, co sponsored by New York girls baseball and baseball for all in Maria Pepes, home state of New Jersey. But you know, it's super poetic that little league who would not admit Maria Pepe and so this is the girl who broke that barrier, who wanted to play Little League wasn't allowed. Went to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court ruled in her favor. However, she was too old to play herself by the time the decision came down. But now hundreds and hundreds of girls are playing in her name at Little League. So, you know, the once in a while, the good guys win. Once in a while,

Patti 47:54
I like it.

Pottymouth 47:55
You know, we change beers.

Patti 47:56
Oh, we did.

Pottymouth 47:57
We did? We're drinking. Which Berry is this?

It's the

raspberry, sour, also from great Maine. What do you think

Patti 48:02
it's pretty tasty?

Yeah, it's

a little sharp. That's okay. It's sour. It's supposed to be a little sharp. Yeah, maybe I'll have one more

sip.

Pottymouth 48:08
It's pretty good that. So for reference, they also have blackberry and mango, and maybe the guest tonight will let you take a sip of her mango, because that does what I had when we had the party there. Yummy.

Patti 48:20
All right, sounds good. The other thing we have is a crazy fantasy league. There was such a shake up. Yeah, remember last last week, I was like, Oh, nothing really happened this week. Everything happened. Everything happened. Sorry, wicked awesome. Bono's boyfriend made a big old jump to number one. Karen's crew made a big old jump to number two. Wicked awesome has fall into a tie in third place with tridents and tap rooms. That's pretty exciting. The other big change was the McLean mean pitching machine hopped over potty mouth in the standing whoops. So we've got the top five in order, our bonus boyfriends, Karen's crew, wicked awesome team, tried as a tap room and all star cobalt, 112 then me sitting there at number six, because that's where I sit, followed by McLean pitching machine, then potty mouse posse and the sunny Slammers at number nine. But the top couple are really close together, so I think things are getting a little exciting.

Pottymouth 49:18
Yeah, and no worries, Slammers, half of my pictures are on the IL so I'm sure

Patti 49:21
that you will be jumping over me before next week. My last thing I want to talk about is, you know, you brought up the Cyclones last week with the hot dog jog, which we had some, you know, issues with about, can you keep that hot dog down

Pottymouth 49:35
right while running, while running, after running.

Patti 49:37
So

Pottymouth 49:37
before running, before running,

Patti 49:39
is a Miami Grand Prix has their own little hot dog situation. They basically said, you got your hot dog. Hold my champagne. This is a little fancy, little

Pottymouth 49:50
fancy Miami. So Miami,

Patti 49:53
Brooklyn, they're selling $100 Golden glizzies or glitzys. I'm not sure. How to say it, G, l, I, z, z, y, in the champagne garden?

Pottymouth 50:04
Sure.

Patti 50:04
So this hot dog. This is a hot dog for $100 it's a Wagyu beef on a croissant bun topped with creme, fresh mascarpone, 30 grams of sturgeon Roe, caviar, chives. And my favorite part, absolutely tasteless, but pretty shiny, 24 karat edible gold flakes.

Pottymouth 50:25
Oh, my God, 400 bucks.

Patti 50:27

bucks. Is it worth it to you? All you do is take a selfie with it,

Pottymouth 50:31
right?

Patti 50:31
So somebody on the athletic actually tried and said it was pretty tasty, but I'm never gonna buy one again. That's because it's high quality beef. And if you're immediate, that's high quality beef, but, but you need all this? No?

Pottymouth 50:42
Yeah.

Patti 50:43
I mean, I've already. Can I just say, when I was on the on the daily Deuce couple days ago, we talked about our favorite foods at Camden Yards, and I did say, I really do like the hot dog top with crab mac and cheese, which looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes very delicious. This one looks very pretty and sparkly, and I don't want to go near it,

Pottymouth 51:01
yeah,

Patti 51:02
but okay,

Pottymouth 51:03
there's so much better that people could be doing with their like, so $100 minus, like, say, like, super inflated ballpark price of a hot dog would be maybe 15 bucks if you get, like, a fancy one. Like, take that 85 bucks and give it to somebody

Patti 51:16
who needs it. Do some good. Give it to the people who are standing outside saying,

Pottymouth 51:20
Hey, I'm

hungry Exactly.

Patti 51:21
Please

Pottymouth 51:23
help me. Oh, boy,

Patti 51:24
yeah. What's going on?

Pottymouth 51:25
That's Grand Prix. Oh, so much. So I have a announcement or an alert for anybody who's interested in the All Star game. Apparently, you can enter a lottery like we remember this when the all star game was here in DC, that it was pretty much you're a season ticket holder and you get in, and if you're not too bad folks, but it's going to be happening at the Phillies stadium this year, and you can register for the ticket strip, which is basically you buy all this stuff, which is the Home Run Derby and the all star game and all this stuff around it. If you register online, and I couldn't put the link in, because it automatically, like fills your stuff if you have an MLB account, if you don't have an account, it makes you have an account. So go find it. Just look all star. You can figure it out before May 14, if you have a bunch of disposable income, because it is going to be expensive. The prices were not on there, but I did look at the season ticket holder prices. And, yeah, it's like standing room hole only is a couple 100 bucks for the all star game. And, you know, I don't know fancy stuff is for the rich. Apparently, that's the way it goes. But if you want a much more reasonable thing to do this week, you can get women's professional baseball league. I can't believe it. They said it's going to be announced any day that tickets will actually go on sale.

Patti 52:44
They did publish the schedule and on our epic road trip the two nights we reserved for being in Springfield to have games both of those nights.

Pottymouth 52:50
So as soon as the tickets are announced, we are buying tickets. Yeah, you should get in there too. You can get on their mailing list or just check their Instagram. Two more little public service announcements, appreciated teacher this week. This is Teacher Appreciation Week, starting

Patti 53:06
potty mouth all the time. I really do. We're

Pottymouth 53:08
getting croissants in the morning. That's going to

Patti 53:11
be our first active No, if it puts a Wagyu beef on there and a little bit

Pottymouth 53:14
of gold flakes, you can charge for that. I'll take mine just, please, just the buttery. Yeah, it sounds good. And I just want to say one last go fleet, the Boston fleet, one to one against Ottawa shit. I wish I remember what their names were, but they're going to Ottawa. That's far away. They don't play again till Friday. Mr. Party mouth is like, they could be in Ottawa today. Like, why do they have to wait till Friday got lost up? Yeah, sure. All right, so go fleet. All

Patti 53:39
right, that's very exciting. I maybe will try to go to the O's this weekend. They're hosting the athletics, and I really want to see big Amish,

Pottymouth 53:47
yeah, well, oh and ah, really go well together. Oh and a yeah, oh

Patti 53:50
yeah. But it's Mother's Day weekend. So for those of you who are moms, or are celebrating moms, have a lovely weekend. I hope it all goes well, either if it's coming or going, depending on where you are. The mom scale, please check in with us and let you. Let us know what's happening with you. On social media.

Pottymouth 54:08
Find us on blue sky. That would be ncib podcast. Actually, I just got it, speaking of Mother's Day, I just got a text from my from my offspring, who sent me a picture of a chachos cocktail. So that's, that's great, because we in a bottle of chachos with the kid. Okay, yeah, blue sky, let you squirrel squirrel. Ncib podcast, Twitter, we'll check that out too if we have to. But you know, it's, it's there Facebook and Instagram, no crying and B ball, and we highly recommend that you join Patreon. That's P, A, T, R, E, O, n.com/no, crying, B ball. I'm really hoping that I didn't forget anybody this week. I have a sinking feeling that I might be don't if I forgot about you for a shout out, I will be doing it next week, and you guys keep us afloat, and we really appreciate it. Very reasonable joining Ray. It's a buck a month, and it really makes this podcast happen, because we believe in grassroots organized

Patti 55:06
Yeah, we do, yes, we do. 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

Pottymouth 55:15
goodnight. Potty mouth, good

night. Potty mouth, you

and then I have to boost you.

Patti 55:36
I feel good, I feel supported, I feel loved, I feel like you know you're my own personal booster club. Yeah, sure, that's great.