No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Hi and

welcome to episode 458 of No Crying in Baseball, the Loose Bodies episode, wow. My name is Patti here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth, Happy Mother's Day,

Pottymouth 0:28
You're not referring to me, are you?

Patti 0:29
I will hold tight. We'll get there.

Pottymouth 0:32
All right, yeah, I was, you know, sort of like loosening up my body, and my body crackles now I am so fucking old. So one of the things that Mr. Potty mouth and I have done sort of on the regular over the years is when we go hiking, I found a nice stump, and I do tree pose on top of the stump, and it's like me being a tree in the woods. And so today, for Mother's Day, we went on a mother's day hike, and I got up on a few stumps and said, This is really high, like, I don't want to take one foot off the other. But we found Finally, a couple lower stumps, same diameter, mind you, which I did tree pose on, and totally crackled like it. So my body is not loose. It's crackly, but maybe it was loose after the crackles.

Patti 1:15
So I don't crackle like my body parts don't make those noises, but I tend to make the O or ow noises vocally when I move, so that that's how I'm showing my age. I believe I had a really nice walk for Mother's Day. Also, I was up in Baltimore visiting the kid, and we took a super long walk to a street fest. Wasn't that long a walk? It was fine. It was lovely. It was a good walk and street festival, and it was super fun. And there was music and food and local beer and the walk back in this morning, when I woke up, I was really tired and sore, and I thought, Is my tolerance for drinking or walking gone down, and perhaps I should do, I don't know more of both, to build those tolerances back

Pottymouth 1:58
up. So, you know, we have a epic road and epic road trip coming up, where we will have opportunity to do both drinking and walking, I would imagine. So,

Patti 2:06
so I'm feeling like I should do a little

Pottymouth 2:08
training. Yes,

Speaker 1 2:09
yeah,

Patti 2:09
yeah. I need to be ready for that,

Pottymouth 2:11
right?

Patti 2:11
Um, did you have a nice Mother's Day? So you did the hike.

Pottymouth 2:13
So you did the hike, and I got this really cool Boston fleet hat, which is on my head right now. And maybe I'll post a picture of something I'm actually for Patreon folks, I want to say a shout out. Thanks to Haley, our new Patreon friend. And I was just thinking if, if that would be an incentive, I could post my tree picture on Patreon. Patreon.

Patti 2:32
It's worth it. I've seen

Pottymouth 2:33
with with my my fleet hat.

Patti 2:35
It's absolutely

Pottymouth 2:36
worth all those things.

Patti 2:37
Yeah. No, I think that should happen. Yeah. So I also, I did not, in fact, even being in Baltimore this weekend, did not go to an O's game to see my pal Nick Kurtz, but that's okay. What I missed on Friday was the line for the Tupac bobblehead giveaway, which started at 11am for gates opening at five. I am so

Speaker 1 2:56
blown

Pottymouth 2:56
away, because I remember when you were first talking about this, you're talking about is, like, it's going to be a hugely popular thing, and I didn't quite get it, and I still, I'm amazed.

Patti 3:06
Yeah, they're, they're, they're showing up on eBay, which we actually, we had a little conversation about this, I guess, is that fair? Because, I mean, like, it should be about the moment. Yeah, anyway, but I gotta say that giveaway would have been much better than had I gone to the game today. The giveaway was like a Mother's Day cap. It was, it's a denim cap with an O on it and crabs embroidered on it. And it doesn't seem like a cap that someone who really likes baseball would wear. I think it's the cap you would get for your mom if you like baseball, and she doesn't, but she likes you.

Pottymouth 3:36
Okay, so

Patti 3:37
I don't mind not getting that one. I'm just saying, but I have lovely brunch.

Pottymouth 3:41
That's,

Speaker 1 3:41
I love

Patti 3:42
it, lovely brunch, so I'm I felt very good about it. I also got some nice relaxation products, which will happen later. I got a little bath bomb. I got a little little scented candle. So, you know, when I come down from the all the stress involved in doing the podcast, I can do that.

Pottymouth 3:56
Yeah. And just a side note, I might be momentarily distracted. Once in a while, the fleet are playing, as we speak, they are in overtime. It's tied up, and it's a do or die game for the Boston fleet. So

Speaker 1 4:07
very exciting.

Pottymouth 4:08
Holy cow. So while

Patti 4:09
we're cross training, while we're recording,

Pottymouth 4:12
yes,

Patti 4:12
simultaneous cross training on today's show our boyfriends, feature boyfriend on boyfriend violence, please stop throwing at our boyfriends, catching up with catchers, pitching flocks in complete disarray and a cat. Our police blotter features self deportation. We are checking in with the terrible predictions. We're talking about, why the new Padres ownership really matters, and we're cross training with novelty beverage delivery systems. And we're protecting the nub. Cheers. We're drinking a delicious BlackBerry sour.

Pottymouth 4:44
It is mine. Is almost gone, yes, yeah, it's from great main brewery, which we've been sampling the past couple of weeks from Haymarket, Virginia. And they really do, I think that they do everything well, like I like their sours, I like their IPAs. They also have a cold. Gosh, there's a Dunkle in the fridge. There's something for everybody. I

Patti 5:03
love a Dunkle in the fridge. Yes, a short story, right there. Uncle in the fridge. Yeah,

Pottymouth 5:07
we got to work on that. So time for baseball and our baseball boyfriends. These are the guys that we picked in the off season. Go back to our off season episodes if you want to hear about why we picked these super cool guys. And we each got one guy per team, and now we check in on them over the over the course of the season, although pitching flocks you'll get to in a moment. So a couple weeks ago, I talked about an F bomb exchange between my baseball boyfriend, Sal Stewart, and at that point, should I should have taken notes. You know, I can go back to the episode and another pitcher who swore at him, he swore back. I totally, you know, condone that kind of behavior. I do not condone pictures. However, throwing at my boyfriend swearing is okay, especially if you know there's mutual swearing going on. I don't condone mutual throwing or throwing in one direction. So I missed this last week, but the news kind of came off out after recording anyway, because of the suspension coming down. Pirates pitcher Chris davinski was suspended for throwing at Sal Stewart last Saturday night, the first of May, at home, the pirates were winning by a shit ton. So it's kind of like, why do this to the guy? They were up by nine in the seventh inning, and davinski was was working fast. And so I guess it comes down to when you're annoyed. How do you express being annoyed? So he was annoyed because he was trying to pitch quickly. Get, you know, get Sal out, understandably tough batter, and Sal called time, so he hit him on the next pitch, is it clearly an intentional hit? That's how it was. He was actually suspended. So that's what Sal says. That's what Terry says. Sal said that what was, it was pretty blatantly obvious. So I'm glad that umpires took care of it. So of course, you know the pitcher's going to deny it. It was originally three game. They had negotiations with the MLBPA, which I'm not quite sure like what was said by whom, but it went down to two. Don Kelly, the manager, got an automatic suspension for one game anyway, because davinsky was ejected during the game, and apparently that means an automatic one game suspension for the manager, which I was not aware of before. So the pirates still won 17 to seven. But by the way, Sal Stewart is a really good player, and I'm you know there, my team is suffering. My fantasy team is not doing well, but it's not Sal's fault. He got Rookie of the month, not year, working of the Month for April. But he ended it really poorly, which means he, like, came out, you know, like wildfire. At the beginning, went over 19 at the end. Was kind of cranky about that, so he's been checking in with his buddies regularly, Manny Machado. And I don't have anything to say about Kike, so I feel very bad saying this. But, you know, it's me talking about Manny Machado and and yonder Alonso. Just, you know, footnote there we usually have a I say Kike. You say Manny, or you say Manny. I say Kike thing on the podcast, but this time I'm saying Manny. So there it is. He and yonder Alonso have been sort of like, you know, big brother figures, mentors to Sal Stewart from the get go. And I talked about that back in at 443 when I first introduced Sal to, you know, to us, to myself, and that that's still going on. And I think that's, that's super cool. So Sal Stewart's dad is Cuban from Miami, as is yonder Alonso's family. So they had that, like, close family connection. So he's still, you know, he's coming back a little bit. His average dipped at the end of April, beginning of May, but he did hit his 10th home run this week and got his eighth stolen base. Not bad, and fans want to lock him down. So I think Red's fans are not happy with things not going their way with Elie de la Cruz last year, the Boris boy who wanted to take it to take it to free agency. Understandably, he's Elio de la Cruz, but when Sal was asked about being locked down by the Cincinnati Inquirer, he actually said, I'm open to it because they took a chance on me when I was young, and I want to do it for this city.

Speaker 1 9:14
Nice.

Pottymouth 9:14
Fans love that. Fans

Patti 9:16
do love that. So my question is, what happened to

Pottymouth 9:20
the warning? I don't know,

Patti 9:21
because clearly he didn't get warned. He just got suspended. The picture there, I don't so I

Pottymouth 9:26
didn't look into it that much. I don't know if there was a warning, but that's a good question, because

Patti 9:30
what I'm talking about right now there was no warning. So boyfriend and boyfriend violence, as potty month alluded to, although we pick one guy per team for our official boyfriends, when we pick our pitchers for our fantasy team. The two of us each pick a pitching flock. We pick pitchers from like my team, I picked only Detroit pitchers, right and that is biting me in the butt in 14 different ways right now, but one of them is forever Valdez, who

Speaker 1 9:59
do.

Patti 10:00
Beamed Trevor story in the middle of the back Trevor story was my Colorado boyfriend in 2018 so boyfriend and boyfriend violence. So here's the context for Amber Valdez does not throw four seam fastballs. He does. He threw five all of last season. For whatever reason, he decides to try to throw one during this game. It hit Trevor story the middle of the back at 94 miles an hour, yeah. Benches cleared immediately. He did not get involved in the kerfuffle. Punches were thrown. It's one of those everybody runs out and just kind of stares at each other. He had nothing to do with that. He and absolutely hit Trevor story, the middle to back with a pitch,

Pottymouth 10:41
yeah. And

Patti 10:42
then he stood there,

Pottymouth 10:43
yeah.

Patti 10:43
He did nothing. He did nothing. He received a six game suspension, which has since been reduced to five games. AJ Hinch, the manager, was fined and suspended one game due to, and I quote, Valdez's intentional actions, yeah. So here's the larger context. This pitch happened immediately after he gave up back to back solo home runs to Contreras and my boyfriend, Abreu, immediately before. So that happened, and both of them did the whole kind of admiring their shot, which I don't care about, but apparently pitchers care about, you know, and then doing their jog around. So sure, there was context in which some pitchers may then get pissed and punish the next guy. Also, he was throwing a pitch he hasn't thrown. Sometimes pitches go awry, I don't know. And did they take the time to figure it out? I don't know. Anyway, separately from all of this, Eric Hosmer is shit stirring.

Pottymouth 11:38
Wow, that's what he does,

Patti 11:39
and here's what he was doing. He released video saying, hey, look, Boston runners, when they're on second base, are figuring out the pitches from Valdez's grip like behind his back, and they're communicating it to the batters. And Trevor story was one of those players who was on second base at

Speaker 1 11:55
one

Pottymouth 11:56
which is miraculous, which

Speaker 1 11:57
is

Patti 11:57
miraculous on

Pottymouth 11:58
its own. Driver's story beyond base and

Patti 12:00
has more then says this is why story ended up getting drilled.

Speaker 1 12:03
Okay,

Patti 12:03
so here's more context. Yeah, right. It's not illegal to, you know, if you're tipping pitches and somebody on base exactly,

Pottymouth 12:11
and

Speaker 1 12:11
as

Patti 12:11
long as they're not using technology, they can do whatever they want. So you might not like it, but it's not wrong. And also, when those two back to back home runs were hit, remember when I said there was solo

Speaker 1 12:20
home runs?

Patti 12:20
Yeah, there was nobody on base. So there was no, you know, communication about what pitch was going to be thrown. So that's just Eric Hosmer stirring up shit.

Pottymouth 12:28
Yeah,

Patti 12:28
that's irrelevant based on the immediate context in which this pitch was

Pottymouth 12:32
thrown. So we watched that game, and the take at the time by the Boston announcers, which I think holds some validity, is Valdez was having a bad game overall.

Patti 12:42
He sure did. He

Pottymouth 12:42
was having a really bad game, and he wanted to get out of it. And he just gave up two home runs. So I think what they were inferring, which I think is plausible, it wasn't so much against story personally, it was, I got to get out of this game. So he kind of he, I don't think he wanted a five game suspension, but I think he just wanted to be ejected and out of there. That's what they were saying.

Patti 13:02
So Valdez said that there were as unintentional. And he said they're always gonna say that, I get that. But and if pitches were being tipped, I quote, if they got something on me that I was tipping my pitches, of course, that would be good for them, because I wasn't doing my job.

Pottymouth 13:16
Yeah,

Patti 13:17
and they said the umpires are doing their job. They're doing their best. They made the decision of getting me ejected. As you can see on the video, I was not even feisty. I was not even angry against them, neither the umpire nor the team. But again, I consider that a very unfair situation that shouldn't happen. They should have given me a warning, and I know in the past, they've always done warnings. Somebody gets hit by a pitch, and they they point at the pitcher, and they give them a warning, like, next time you're out. And that didn't happen here, and I don't I'm wondering if that happened in the, you know, in this situation, have the rules changed? I'm almost wondering if, like, when you were talking about them going to the MLB, PA, is there something in the contract that kind of guides what the consequences can be? Maybe there is, like, you know, step by step, and like, the first step is a warning, the second step is an injection. I don't know that's what that was. That's

Pottymouth 14:03
a good point, because both of them got reduced by one so maybe that was the result of not having a warning. I think that's a pretty good inference. If that's the case, I think it's interesting that AJ Hinch got a lot of note afterwards for not only not sticking up for Valdez, but he actually called, I can't. It's so hard for me to still say this Chad Tracy, the manager of the Red Sox afterwards, not exactly to apologize, but sort of to do that, like sort of saying, like, no hard feelings about this whole thing, which is weird. And the quote that I saw in the article was quote from Hinch. We play a really good brand of baseball here that didn't feel like it. It's not judging intent. I have no idea. But when you go out on the field and you end up in these sort of confrontations, you usually feel like you're in the right and it didn't feel good being out there. He didn't feel like it. And at the moment, it did kind of seem out of the blue. But, you know. Know, I don't know shit happens.

Patti 15:01
So bottom line for me is, I'm screwed. I will never get out of sixth place because I have no pictures. Because you may also know other Detroit pictures by the names of you know two times Cy Young winner, Tarek skuboll, for instance. Oh, my God. Just had successful surgery on Wednesday to remove what they're calling a loose body from the elbow, which I've also heard being referred to as like a bone fragment. Yeah, I think, but loose body is what I've seen most often, so I'm kind of amused, but that explains why he was sometimes having discomfort and sometimes not because I was moving around. Sometimes it was in a place that hurt, sometimes it wasn't, which made it kind of hard to diagnose. So he's rehabbing at their spring training facility. There is not yet a timetable. It could be four weeks. Could be six weeks. It could be longer. Everyone's like, oh, we'll be back in a month. Yeah, I don't know,

Pottymouth 15:48
but he's not getting the site young again.

Patti 15:50
It could be afro, you know,

Pottymouth 15:52
yeah,

Patti 15:53
quarter of the season, not half. It's Justin ferlander, just today. Okay, I made these notes yesterday saying, well, he's starting his rehab on his left hip inflammation. There's no timetable. Today. They moved his, his onto the 60 day.

Pottymouth 16:05
I'm just saying left hip inflammation, like screams old guy.

Patti 16:09
What I was gonna say? Yes, he has an old guy injury, right? Me too bad. Put me on the 60 day.

Pottymouth 16:16
And

Patti 16:17
then also Casey, my says at a right adductor strain. But he's already throwing bullpen. He's close, so he may be back soon, but, oh my aces. Man,

Pottymouth 16:25
me too, man. I mean, let's, I've got the Red Sox and they're all on. I

Speaker 1 16:29
mean,

Pottymouth 16:29
Sunny green is back, but crochet is out. Hopefully Ranger Suarez is coming back, but my three top of the rotation has been Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:38
We

Pottymouth 16:38
are here. We are at the bottom of the

Patti 16:40
Yep. Hold and steady there,

Pottymouth 16:43
yep. But what I do have, so I don't have pictures, you don't have pictures. I have so many fucking catchers. It's ridiculous. I think this is sort of like a catcher reaction syndrome that I have, because there was one year where I got stuck not having enough catchers. So I think I did this both last year and this year, which is just too many catchers. But the problem is too many good catchers. I think what I need to do, like mental note for the future for fantasy, is to have real backup catchers, like guys that maybe if a catcher gets injured, I can put in, but I have three catchers who are all doing really well, and so I have one on my lineup, and then usually one in the utility role, and then I have somebody on the bench, and now I'm gonna have a fourth catcher coming back. So who are these guys? Carter Jensen still in the Rookie of the Year conversation. He's getting a lot more time behind the plate because Salvador para is old, you know, just old. It's his time. This was the whole

Patti 17:36
left hip, I don't know,

Pottymouth 17:38
probably

Patti 17:39
his knees,

Pottymouth 17:39
probably, yeah. I mean, he's just not, can't crouch that much anymore, right? Geez. Carter Jensen is tied for fourth currently, with folks like Shay langleyers, who I'm going to talk about later, Adley Richmond and Freddie Firmin and catching guys stealing, he only has one error on the season, along with nine other catchers, and there are only four that have zero. So he's doing really well defensively, except for blocking. He's having a hard time catching those pitches going by him. He also had a really good April offensively. And May has not started as well, but here we are, May 10. Recording things could get better. He has three hits so far, and in April he was like five or six a week. So I'm hoping for better things for Carter Jensen, especially. I'd like to get him back in that work of the year conversation, because that was my pick. Yvonne Herrera from St Louis is currently on a 25 on base streak, knocking on wood as I speak. This is through yesterday. I haven't I don't think he's played yet today, or at least I didn't check, and it's against the Padres. He is. This is the current longest current streak for a catcher or a cardinal, but not overall. Read big Amish, who you'll hear about in a little bit. For May. So far in these 10 days of May, he's batting 375, average, 929, ops. Catcher number three, who's raking is also in the Rookie of their discussion, my cubs guy. So you know, these guys weren't locks. I guess you know, when I picked I didn't know they were all going to be great catchers. He's been doing mostly DH, but it counts on Yahoo, he started the season at the bottom of the Cubs lineup. But you may hear, you may know that the cubs are doing really fucking well. He's now Batting second when he's batting in April, the whole month, his average was 382, 1.171 ops, rookie catcher, ish, dH, May. He's not doing as well, but he has much less time, because Michael conforto is super, super hot. The cubs are just super hot. So I don't know, you know, Moises is part of that lineup. And then last but not least, the guy who was gonna be my starting catcher, Kyle teal, from the White Sox, could start rehabbing this week coming up. So just a reminder, he injured his hamstring in the World Baseball Classic, playing for Italy, and it was supposed to be a four to six week. Recovery, and it's been eight so far, so those pesky hamstrings. Oh, we need another beer.

Patti 20:06
You

Pottymouth 20:08
want to take care of that? You? Cheers. Okay, let's see. We're gonna go with the jailbreak crab town classic,

Patti 20:18
which

Pottymouth 20:19
looks it's a very classic Baltimore scene. I think it's a lager. I think it's proudly brewed in Maryland. Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's

Speaker 1 20:26
a lager.

Patti 20:27
Okay, lager

Speaker 1 20:28
that

Patti 20:28
sounds very confident. Yeah. So I'm going to talk about big Amish, because he just finished a series playing in Baltimore. Perfect. So the big thing about Nick Kurtz, my athletics boyfriend, is I did not, in fact, go see him play in Baltimore this past weekend, which means I did not wasn't there in the stands to see him hit a two run triple in a win over the O's. So you know that might have been nice to see it for Nick to do, but I'm glad I didn't see him do it over my Orioles. So there's that I want to talk about. The series before that, when the athletics played in Philadelphia, if you remember, big Amish is big Amish because we grew up in Amish country, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

Pottymouth 21:05
was there yesterday. I didn't even think of that. I should go visit Mr. And Mrs. Amish,

Patti 21:10
or as a case

Speaker 1 21:11
of me, who

Patti 21:12
may have actually been in Baltimore because their kid was not too

Speaker 1 21:14
far away,

Pottymouth 21:15
good point.

Patti 21:15
But anyway, he grew up as a Phillies fan, because that's, you know, that's, that's like the hometown team, right? And so when they were playing there, he had like 30 friends and family in the stands to see him. So turns out, because they've been fans of the Phillies for so long, they have a string of pets named after Philly's players, including a cat named Harper, which he got when he was in college, which was not too long ago, but as he said, was that was before I knew all this was going to happen to me,

Pottymouth 21:45
understand?

Patti 21:46
Because then now, now it's a little bit weird. They also had dogs named for Chase Utley and Hunter Pence

Pottymouth 21:51
safer picks, right?

Patti 21:52
So Bryce talked about, you know, he singled, you know, Nick Kurtz plays first base. So they chatted when they were both at first base, and Bryce Harper said, Well, we chatted about his walk streak, but the pet thing didn't come up. Can you imagine how embarrassing and weird that would be? Like, hey, I have a cat

Pottymouth 22:12
named

Patti 22:13
after he. Harper did say that he's used to like these younger rookie guys saying, God, you were my favorite player when I was a kid. So

Pottymouth 22:20
Wow. Which is

Patti 22:20
like, you know, remember, like he was teenager when he came up.

Pottymouth 22:23
I was just gonna say, I feel so fucking old, because I remember when he was the baby on the Nationals, yeah, oh my god, yeah,

Patti 22:28
like 19 or something. And now and now, he's the ones getting told, Hey, old guy, you are my hero. Yeah. Also this the walk streak, as we mentioned last week ended at 20 but the on base Street, because you alluded to is still active at 33 which is currently the best in MLB. My Minnesota guy, Luke keshaw, has for one or one week period. Again, I like to these one week stats because the math is so freaking fun. His ops for one week is 1.230 they recently were playing against Washington, like last Tuesday, he got on base four times. He singled, he walked three times. And the one stolen base he had during that game made him eight for eight on stolen base attempts the season, which is, I hear 100% is pretty good.

Pottymouth 23:15
It is pretty good.

Patti 23:16
Yep.

Pottymouth 23:16
I'm like, you know, amazed at this 1230, thing that nice? Yeah, to put it in order like, yeah, yeah, remember

Patti 23:23
for sure, um, it would not be as impressive. It was backwards,

Pottymouth 23:26
right? That's all calculated,

Patti 23:29
yeah. So, JJ, weatherhold, my, my st louis guy had a little league Grand Slam

Pottymouth 23:36
that's crazy

Patti 23:37
on Friday, and a six to nothing win over San Diego. So in the fifth inning, he had a ground ball that rolled right under the Gold Glove of right fielder Fernando tatis Jr, and it rolled all the way to the outfield wall, which was a long run back, because tatis had run in to field the ball. So by the time they got back, it ended up being a home run at Grand Slam, except for it was scored as a single and two RBI, because that was an error. And so it was all, like, all of these things happened. And yet, apparently, not just the third base coach, but the entire dugout was waving him in, so he pretty much had to

Pottymouth 24:17
go. Must be a scene.

Patti 24:18
And JJ said, it's like the most fun. It's like the most I've ran in probably four years. It was fun, though. He also hit an inside the park Grand Slam in college once.

Pottymouth 24:29
That's super

Speaker 1 24:30
and

Patti 24:30
said. And no doubt, Grand Slam might be like, a little more exciting, because you feel like you earned it more. But I mean, at the end of the day, four runs scored in a big spot. So that's pretty cool. Yeah. And then, of course, later on yesterday, Bobby Wood Jr, my last year's boyfriend from the Royals, had it inside the park home run, which is pretty cool. And that's his the second one that he's done. He's like, he was the fourth fastest to ground to the bases for an inside the park home run. He's like, I want to be first.

Pottymouth 24:57
He's got to do it again. I'm thinking that. Know, inside the park is more exciting because it's more time to, like, be cheering it on like, no doubt or it's done. Boom, excitement.

Speaker 1 25:06
Yeah,

Patti 25:06
yeah. I want a quick update on last week when I talked about Kazuma Okamoto from Toronto, who also for the week, 1.227 ops, I talked about him saying, Oh, that third, you know, hit would have been a home run had I had my quesadilla. So now, of course, road aware has created quesadilla power t shirts,

Pottymouth 25:27
excellent,

Patti 25:28
which the entire team wore last week during batting practice at the at the raise. So you two could get a quesadilla power t shirt.

Pottymouth 25:35
Sure that sounds good. When I went out for lunch in Lancaster, the person I was with got a crunch wrap. Is that that's kind of close to a quesadilla, and it was in Lancaster, not Toronto, but I don't know, celebrating with food is always a good thing. We keep tabs on our former baseball boyfriends, guys we've picked in past years. We can only hold over one each year because, you know, we need stuff to talk about in the off season, picking new guys. But I have this habit, and I think it's becoming more frequent as we have to pick guys when they're younger in order to not do the repeats that guys that I picked before are doing much better now than when I picked them. So I'm very happy for them, and maybe I get some credit for like, you know, predicting that these guys would be good someday, Andy pajes and CJ Abrams both had quite a week. I talked about Shay lairs last week, and I started this bit thinking, like, okay, you know, like they're telling Shay, hold my beer. We've got it. But actually, Shay is the one with, I don't know, a six pack or a case or something like that, because his power does not stop. Andy pajes did better as a boyfriend than Shea did. So I picked him last year when he had a 272, average. Not bad, 774, ops. Shay, when I picked him in 23 was batting 2056. 81 but Andy Pax is now tied for the league for fourth in batting average, behind Shea, who's number three. So there's that on May 6 this past week, Andy Pakis hit had a three home run game against Houston with six RBI. So it was a 12 to two win. Half of those go to Andy Pak has it was his third home run. Was the most notable because at that point, with the huge blowout, the Astros had brought in rookie catcher who had barely played Cesar Salazar. Salazar like all right, roast you. Let's put you into pitch in the ninth inning, and he threw a 53.7 mile per hour Ephesus that pockets managed to power somehow into a home run.

Patti 27:37
God, you got to be strong to hit a ballpark, right? So that doesn't

Pottymouth 27:41
usually happen like a bunch of hits, maybe. And that was the only hit that Salazar gave up. So after that, he got three outs. So power to the kid. CJ Abrams is leading short stops in ops and RBI. So he has 36 RBI, yeah. So he has 36 RBI. La de la Cruz has 29 so he's leading by a lot this past week, on Wednesday, he went three for five with a grand slam against the twins. And then there's Shea laers, who is has his power. I think there's both pre and post birth dad power, because he's had himself a season, and he was on paternity leave this past week for three games because his wife, Reagan gave birth to their son, adorable, adorable son. Owen Wade, please go to the Instagram link that we will put because it's got the whole like his outfit with his name and the baseball on the side and the little bat. And he's a cute little guy. So it, you know, he had been doing well before then and then, when he came back, of course, his very first at bat in the first inning, he had a two run home run the they beat the athletics beat the Phillies, 12 to one on Thursday. Many thanks, you know, to Shay langleyers Having a part setting that, that theme right from the first inning, the starter for that night, JT, Jin said the general consensus was that he was going to go deep tonight in the first at bat, and he did. His wife, Reagan is impressive in her own right. She is a physical therapist, and she has a DPT, which is like a Doctorate of physical therapy, which is super impressive. And if you go to her Instagram, she posted crazy workout videos throughout her pregnancy, like lifting weights with a huge belly. And just a little fun fact, because I do the rabbit holes on a regular basis. Her sister Catherine Paget had a summer fling with a rod right after the J Lo breakup. So right after you break up with with Jennifer Lopez, he had this summer fling. He was 47 at the time. She was 25 but, you know, this sort of like, it's kind of weird to have this baseball sister thing. It didn't last long. Apparently, they're still friends, and now he is has been dating since then, actually, since that fall, the much more age appropriate. Jacqueline Cordero, she's 47 Six, and he's currently 50, so I think the athletics are happy to have Shea back. They lost two out of three without him, and they have been winning so far since his return. I have not checked on today's game,

Patti 30:10
those one today, but they I had to realize

Pottymouth 30:13
it was close to I did see that

Patti 30:15
the O's were suffering from the dad power. You know, advantage on the other side too

Pottymouth 30:20
well and athletics, just like everybody has predicted, is leading. Are leading the Al West, right?

Patti 30:26
Yeah, well, and thank you for that lead in, because, you know, we make ridiculous predictions in the beginning of the season. We're about a quarter of the way through the current season. So I thought I would check in to see how we're doing. We are doing really pretty well with individuals and really sucky with teams?

Pottymouth 30:41
Well, they athletics are leading the West.

Patti 30:44
Yeah, there's a lot of surprise teams making surprise kind of moves right now. So for instance, for the American League, we both had Seattle and Detroit as leading their respective conferences, which they are not, but they are both in, currently in wild card positions. So I'm giving us partial credit for that. We had nothing anywhere near anything else in our American League. Predictions for the National League. Of course, we both had the Dodgers leading the NL West. That was an easy one, though. I mean, that's not surprising anybody that sure you did better because you picked Milwaukee and San Diego for the wild card, and they're sitting in wild card spots right now, I had picked Milwaukee to lead the no see. So I'm giving myself very minimal partial credit, because they're

Pottymouth 31:27
totally fair,

Patti 31:28
but that's like, that's it for teams we did. We're doing very badly, but I think a lot of people are doing predictions they made in March for what teams will be doing, what so let's talk about the actual players. So for the American League, Cy Young, nobody we picked is anywhere near it. Yeah. So anyway, we'll just keep moving on. Yeah. For the National League, though, you picked Christopher Sanchez and I picked Yamamoto, and they're both in the Ronnie they're both in the top couple currently.

Pottymouth 31:57
That's amazing.

Patti 31:57
So that's, you know, knock on all the things for rookie of the year for the American League, you mentioned Carter Jensen, who you picked? And I picked chase the Lotter of the Guardians. They're both in the top five currently, so they are absolutely in the running for that national league. I picked JJ weatherhold, and he's in the top five. So I'm doing I'm doing well now one so for MVP, don't mention mine. American League, you know, Bobby, Bobby Witt is in the top five, so I'm, you know, good there, but the National League, Soto and Acuna Jr are still both in the top shocking five. So, I mean, a lot of things, it's early, it's early, but it's kind of fun to see that we don't completely suck when it comes to identifying specific players, at least this year. Not so much with teams, but I don't think we're alone.

Speaker 1 32:44
So

Pottymouth 32:45
much is like luck, right? So much is injury like, look at Terry school bowl, like, you know, I'm sure a lot of people picked him and want, want loose bodies. There you go.

Patti 32:55
Loose bodies.

Pottymouth 32:56
So there are other unfortunate events that happen to take players out of the running, and I'm going to go into our police bladder segment this year with a young man whose name is Umberto Federico Cruz Guajardo. And I am feeling bad for this guy, the athletic had a in depth article, but when you dig a little deeper and think a little more. It ends up feeling just very sad. This is a young kid. So this is a right handed pitcher in the Padre system from Monterrey, Mexico.

Speaker 1 33:30
He signed

Pottymouth 33:30
in February 2024, not too long ago, at age 17, with a $750,000 bonus. So this goes into that. You know, international player signings at very young ages, and I feel like this is something that I want to dig into more analytically for the future, because I the more I think about it, the more squeamish I am that we have two different standards that, you know, US born players have to graduate from high school, and foreign players do not. And not only do they not, but we're picking or MLB is sort of, it's like a golden ticket for so many of these guys, right? This is like your hope, and they pour themselves into it. This kid, from like age 11, was like, I'm gonna be a baseball player, and there's not much else developed. And so that I feel like the teams have a responsibility to take care of these kids, you know, not only just giving them a shit ton of money, but also doing some sort of education or understanding, or, you know, cultural development or something. He was in the top five prospects. He's missing 2026 anyway, due to elbow surgery. So drafted in 24 he played a couple years in the minor leagues, and is missing 2026 due to elbow surgery. I'm talking about him now because he pled guilty to human smuggling, which sounds horrific like when you say that as sort of a byline, just all sorts of images come into your mind, right? Human smuggling and. This was back in November. So why this story came out now is another big question. It took four months for minor league baseball to put him on the restricted list. So this happened when he was arrested and pled guilty in November. It was one month before his 19th birthday. Oh, geez. So this is a baby, and what happened was he was observed driving one way toward the border alone and then the other way with two passengers. So I'm guessing he was stopped for driving while Brown, and you know, had been observed. And you know so that, in and of itself, doesn't seem startling, right? You're

Patti 35:39
saying driving to the border and driving back, starting from where? From the south States to Mexico,

Pottymouth 35:44
yeah, so from the United States toward Mexico with

Patti 35:46
nobody

Speaker 1 35:47
it,

Pottymouth 35:47
with nobody in the car. I believe he was in Arizona at this time and but he didn't go all the way to the border. He went to a point and somehow was being observed. So I feel like there's a lot more to this story. Like, how did he get pulled over, driving from two points in Arizona and back? So I'm thinking that there must be some sort of border

Patti 36:08
patrol spends their time,

Pottymouth 36:10
yeah, and they must be investigating whatever this is, because what he did was he responded to a make money quick thing on social media, which is basically you drive guys from point A to point B, and you get $1,000 per guy. So he's an 18 year old kid Now, granted, he had this huge signing bonus. So I'm kind of wondering where did that $750,000 go, which is something that we see often with young kids, that this money disappears because there's no framework for what do you do with this much money when you've never had money at this age, and you're seven, you know? So I'm wondering if that's part of it, or if it was just youthful stupidity. He came out with a very lengthy like, way too long for me to quote, apology to everybody, to the team, to the fans, everybody for what he did, taking full responsibility for it. So the two passengers, I missed this part, the two passengers that he drove from point B back to point a back toward toward Tucson or Phoenix, or both actually to toward Phoenix, were both undocumented. He said he knew about them. One of them had been deported four days earlier. No other information about the two individuals, whether they were, you know, criminals in any sort of way, or they're just undocumented folks trying to, you know, make a living in this country. So the article in the athletics said he, quote, waived his Miranda rights. So I'm thinking an 18 year old kid from Monterrey, Mexico. What in the fuck does he know about Miranda rights, and does he have the ability to waive those rights right? So I think I don't know. You can infer a lot of stuff. He's under pressure. He's been pulled over by the cops feeling guilty shitty, and just admits everything. So he admitted everything after, quote, waiving his rights. He did made a plea deal, because they said that he could go to jail for a very long time, up to 10 years. So he pled guilty, and he got 30 days suspended credit for time served. So I'm not quite sure if he's they were holding him for bail, which would be really weird, if there were anything left of that $750,000 so I'm not sure how many days he actually served, but part of the guilty plea and the plea deal was waiving all rights to appeal or modify the sentence, so basically saying this is it, and that's basically a guarantee for being deported. So if you have a guilty plea, you're going to be deported. So he self deported, he went willingly, which means that you do have a chance in the future of coming back, although unclear with that guilty charge, and it's, you know, depends on what the fuck happens with immigration law. So this is an example of a kid who had been focused on baseball his whole life. He went to the Academia de baseball, Alfredo arpelu, which is, we've mentioned that stadium before, named after that guy, because that's where the Diablos rojos play in Mexico. So he went to their Academy. He had an agent when he was 15 years old. He was signed with the Diablos at age 16, he played in the Mexican league at age 16, which is unheard of, and he has just one game on record in which he didn't do very well. In one inning, he let up three runs and four hits, but he still got signed by the Padre padres. After that point, also with the padres, it's kind of like it's not looking like his future was stellar. So in 2024 when he was only 17, he played in the Arizona complex league just two games, one in each did well, just gave up a hit and a walk. 2025 though, when he had more time and he was 18, he started in the Arizona complex League, not as well. 831, era on 17 innings. And went out, and then they still moved him up to single A, where his era went down a bit to 697, on 20.2 innings. He was still listed in the Padres top prospects. So maybe somebody else knows more than I do. At the time of recording, I couldn't find any comments from anybody on this. Nothing from MLB, nothing from the padres, nothing from his lawyers or his agent, only his very lengthy apology. So I find this just super sad. I think that when you see a byline of Mexican guy arrested for human smuggling, you know MLB player, it looks shitty, but he was 18 years old. He was driving two guys for 1000 bucks each from point B to point A.

Patti 40:46
So yeah, I want to know more about your question. Where did his sighting bonus go? Because initially I thought, okay, if he's not playing this season because of his elbow surgery, is he getting paid and or is he scrambling to try to make a living. So he's answering these ridiculous ads and doing that. But where is that?

Pottymouth 41:05
I know there's so many questions. Agent maybe, like, could it have been something like that? Who knows? So I feel, yeah, I would love to see more investigative reporting on this issue for sure.

Patti 41:18
All right, we're gonna go again. We're sticking with the padres, but now we're talking about the new ownership of the padres, which we've talked about before. It still isn't finalized. The other owners all have to vote. No one sees any problems with this new partnership. As the lead owners, I'm going to refer you to a piece that William Rhoden wrote in and escape, because it's beautifully written, and I is, you know, I can't speak for this. He can speak for this. He is really putting this in the context of these two people being owners of a major league baseball team. Is beyond, if you can see it, you can be it. It's more of a it's power. You're establishing real, actual, meaningful power. Kwanzaa Jones is the first black woman to be a majority owner of an MLB team. Jose e Feliciano is the first majority owner of Puerto Rican descent. This is a big deal. This is a very big deal. Rodin says black bodies have helped build enormous wealth for sports teams and leagues, but ownership remains an economic and cultural mountain that largely has remained out of view. And then this is the part that was the most meaningful to me when I read this piece. He kind of brings home why this is an important step, as opposed to there just aren't any of these. And now there are some of these, you know, people in these positions of ownership, right? He says ownership determines who profits from player labor. Ownership establishes an institution's values. Ownership determines who hires executives and coaches. Ownership determines who controls media narratives. That is a whole different level of power than a handful of athletes making millions of dollars. This is power in empire building, in decision making, in building a structure in which you are deciding who gets chances to succeed and who hasn't been getting historically, getting chances to succeed in the past. So I will link to this in the show notes. It's a really good read. I was pretty impressed by this

Pottymouth 43:21
well, and I hopefully that can connect to the previous issue of when you're, you know, drafting young kids like ownership can also provide more structure for developing your prospects. Absolutely provide more guidance. And, you know, make sure that these kids aren't getting ripped off by their agents. If that's what the case is like, who knows. But yeah, that's a good thing. I am hopeful for the Padres. I wish the best for the Padres. They've been suffering. So we are waiting still to buy our tickets for the women's professional baseball league. We're supposed to have been able to buy them by now. We said last week that the it was going to be announced this week, but it hasn't been announced. I haven't seen

Patti 43:58
I haven't seen

Speaker 1 43:58
anything. No,

Pottymouth 43:59
that schedule is

Patti 44:01
there that says there'll be games when we're planning on being there, but yet no, no tickets.

Pottymouth 44:06
Yeah, we want to see the young women, the amazing young women that we interviewed past episodes. Just hit us up if you need a little guidance on where to find that. And we interviewed Brittany Apgar, amazing young woman who's going to she was the only non Boston player that we interviewed, right? I think she's playing for LA, yeah, I'm pretty sure. Please follow her on Instagram, because she has, she started this really fascinating series this past week called Protect the nub. So Brittany has a limb difference. One of her arms is not fully developed, and she calls it her nub. And four days ago, she posted that an 80 mile per hour pitch or or faster will split my nub open. So the way that she holds her nub, the bat with her nub, the impact is not good. So she's basically crowd source, sourcing one. What can I do to protect my nub? And the response has been fantastic. It's gone absolutely viral. There's people coming in from all sorts of different perspectives about and she's really big on, you know, DIY stuff. Like, what can I do in my house? What kind of materials do

Speaker 1 45:15
you

Patti 45:15
recommend? Her dad always like building things and like creating these, like, you know, accessibility. Remember when we interviewed her, Your memory is

Pottymouth 45:23
so much better in mind. But yes, I just need a little bit of a little nudge there. And yes, I totally remember that. Yeah, so she's getting a huge response and that that focus on do it your own stuff is interesting for a couple of reasons, like, clearly that, that home, you know, family connection, but also, one person who commented said something about which doctors to see, and she said, I don't have insurance. So I'm thinking, what the fuck she's a professional baseball player. Why doesn't she have

Patti 45:57
doesn't have insurance for their players?

Pottymouth 45:59
I can't imagine. I mean, she said in a comment that she doesn't have insurance. So I'm thinking, I know it's a baby league. I know they haven't sold stuff yet, besides merch,

Patti 46:09
but also, you have to have insurance.

Pottymouth 46:11
You should. Maybe that doesn't start until they start playing. I don't

Speaker 1 46:15
know. But

Patti 46:15
I don't even mean, like, through the league. I mean,

Speaker 1 46:18
yeah,

Patti 46:18
individuals, who you know are taxpayers and whatnot, have to have insurance. Well,

Pottymouth 46:24
health insurance. Not everybody has health insurance. Yeah,

Speaker 2 46:28
no.

Pottymouth 46:29
I mean, they should, but that the way this country is going. It's getting harder and harder. So I feel like, you know, Major League Baseball has a lot of money, and they could at least support the Women's League for the time being. Maybe, I mean, I'd be interested. Maybe we can talk back with these young women. Hopefully, when we go to the game and say, Hey, what's happening with your insurance? Her first game is August 1, so she needs to solve this problem fast. Yeah,

Patti 46:55
she does. My next bit here is not going to solve her problem. Hopefully it will abuse you.

Pottymouth 47:02
Okay,

Patti 47:02
we are cross training. We're cross training with the souvenir beverage delivery systems that are not in Major League Baseball, because, as the athletic pointed out, Major League Baseball is falling behind with their souvenir beverage delivery systems. Seattle did like, bring out their Trident cup. If you look at the cup, all the pointy parts are pointing down so you won't hurt anybody. Like, when you bring the trident to your face, you're not gonna, like, put

Pottymouth 47:25
it Seattle hockey, not Seattle

Patti 47:27
the bearders.

Pottymouth 47:28
Oh, really, they're

Patti 47:29
the only MLB team that has, like, anything interesting. Like,

Pottymouth 47:32
okay, we have the bats all over the place.

Patti 47:33
Yeah, he's the bats. But that's not that. Who cares, right? But, but thank you, hockey. So buffalo the sabers have a beer saber, which is cool looking, but bad in delivery. Apparently, you just can't not spill when you drink out of a saber. But the winner, the winner, winner, chicken dinner is the Carolina Hurricanes beer skate. It's a skate shaped beer mug for $19 empty or $12 plus the cost of whatever you fill it with.

Pottymouth 48:04
Well, how much does it hold? That's the big I

Patti 48:07
could not find that. That's

Pottymouth 48:09
an important

Patti 48:10
nobody, only you and I care about that, because here's what happened, the hurricanes debuted the beer skate in game one of their second round Stanley Cup playoff series, their series their series against Philadelphia, they sold 4687 beer skates, which equals 1/4 of the attendance at that game. They completely sold out of all of them that they were planning on having for the whole series. In the second period of game one, game one, they can't they couldn't restock,

Pottymouth 48:45
oh no, for

Patti 48:46
the rest of the series. But if you really want one, you can go on eBay and buy one for $200 which is going back to if you didn't stand in line for your bobblehead, you shouldn't be able to buy one somewhere else. Detroit Pistons, so NBA is doing a little bit of that. They have a see through sneaker Cup, which, again, you can fill it. And I think this is true for the skate. Also, it's not just for beer. You can fill it with beer or cocktails or soda or or candy or candy. You can buy, like a skate or, you know, a sneaker full of candy. And the little video that I watched with the skate where they were, like, they had it under a tap, and it looked like they were putting it in an actual ice skate, which was gross. But then when they pulled it away, like, no, the top of it is black, but then it's clear, and it's very it's, it's, it is clear, and also obvious that it is, in fact, a mug, okay, but yeah, MLB needs to kind of like, get in gear, because they're, if they're falling behind my friends.

Pottymouth 49:40
So I'm guessing you drink out of the part that the foot goes in. Like, yes at the top, yeah. There's different, you know, options of, yeah, how to sip your skate. So what would be a good mob connection? Is what I'm thinking. Like, do we need an Orioles bird want to drink out of the bird beak? Like, what? What has a good like? You. Know, sort of shape for drinking,

Patti 50:02
maybe other problems is, like, you know, somebody like MLB names don't necessarily, like, lead themselves to

Pottymouth 50:09
right to shape.

Patti 50:10
I mean, like, look at the athletics. Okay, no,

Pottymouth 50:14
yeah, we got so,

Speaker 1 50:16
like,

Patti 50:16
other other are doing things with food. Like, yeah, you know, a popcorn holder shaped like, you know, Citi Field, or Yankees. I think it's Yankee Stadium. Is the one they have, somebody's got, actually, it's an NHL team that's got, like, a Zamboni to hold french

Speaker 1 50:35
fries.

Pottymouth 50:35
So good.

Speaker 1 50:36
But

Patti 50:36
so I think food, you're seeing more of it, but the beverage delivery systems, I think, is where we need to do some

Pottymouth 50:42
work. Yeah? All right. Well, on our epic road trip, we should go, like, Park by Park, and try to analyze the possibilities for what, like a Royals crown that could maybe,

Patti 50:52
right? That will totally poke somebody out when

Pottymouth 50:54
you That's true,

Patti 50:55
yeah?

Pottymouth 50:56
All right. All right. Well, see,

Patti 50:57
this is, this is part of the problem, right?

Speaker 1 50:59
Yes, like, it

Patti 51:00
can't be dangerous.

Pottymouth 51:01
It is. And just for an update. So speaking about hockey, they're still tied three to three in overtime.

Patti 51:06
Are we still in the first overtime or yeah, in overtime? Yeah,

Pottymouth 51:10
first overtime.

Patti 51:11
Wow. Okay, so while you're you're doing that, I've been talking about our crazy, our crazy fantasy league, which got shook this week.

Speaker 1 51:18
It

Patti 51:18
got shook. Bad, crazy things are happening. And I don't mean bad in a terrible way. I mean it got like seriously shook. So all star cobalt 112 made a huge jump to tie with Karen's crew for number one. All

Pottymouth 51:33
Star has been moving stuff around,

Patti 51:35
right?

Pottymouth 51:36
Yeah.

Patti 51:36
Photos, boyfriends got booted to just below that tie, but only by half a point.

Pottymouth 51:42
Oh, they're so close.

Speaker 1 51:43
They

Patti 51:43
are so close, right? Tri dance and tap rooms leapfrogged over the wicked, awesome team. So those are four and five, and you leapfrogged over a McLean, mean pitching machine. So you guys are seven and eight, but let me just say that that Sonny Slammers and I are holding steady. We haven't budged for a while, so we're holding our spots where they are, but that was a lot of movement for a one week period, and the fact that those top three teams are so frickin close,

Pottymouth 52:13
yeah,

Patti 52:13
it's kind of stunning.

Pottymouth 52:14
Yep, fun stuff.

Patti 52:17
What's happening this week? Oh,

Pottymouth 52:19
we are going to see baseball next week. Yeah, and it's your birthday celebration game, even though it's not quite your birthday yet, that's the following week. So we can talk about that when we record next

Patti 52:27
they observed.

Pottymouth 52:28
Yes, birthday observed in the ballpark. That's such a good I have a November birthday, which is just no fun, because there's not baseball with it's come close like it's been creeping up over the years, but, but you we get to celebrate your birthday in the ballpark with lots of friends. We'll be

Patti 52:44
at nats Park, and they'll be hosting the Orioles, so I'll be torn, but hopefully pretty happy.

Pottymouth 52:48
Yeah. I mean, it's a win win situation. Yes, that's it. Look at it. Half full. The beer mug will be half

Patti 52:54
or the beer skate. If only we had beer skates.

Pottymouth 52:56
The bats, I think, did they have the bats at Nats? I mean, they're, they're crazy expensive.

Patti 53:03
Everyone they hold very much. I don't know they have, like, the long, the elongated cocktail things. I don't

Speaker 1 53:08
know.

Pottymouth 53:08
It doesn't look easy to drink all over,

Patti 53:11
right? So no sabers for you, right? No, I saw video people trying to drink out of those sabers.

Speaker 1 53:15
Like, no, no. Don't

Patti 53:16
even do

Pottymouth 53:16
it. I could have puck would maybe. I don't know it's, like, it good. Flask, Puck shaped flask. Yeah. Okay, we're now, I'm going into hard okay, so actually,

Patti 53:26
um, you all can help us. If you have ideas for MLB teams, what they should be doing for their their beverage delivery, like they're, you know, they're, they're, you know, at their concession stands. What's the souvenir thing? Let us know on social media. Potty move, sure.

Pottymouth 53:37
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Patti 54:12
And we will not spend that money on beer skates.

Pottymouth 54:14
No,

Patti 54:15
those will be for private funds only.

Pottymouth 54:17
Yeah, yeah. The money will go to, you know, us hosted the various things that we need to keep this podcast going, like the aforementioned. Actually, we didn't mention any of the squad cast when we were record remotely. And then the transcripts, which I've been really shitty at putting on Patreon, but you always put them on our show notes, so they're out there. They're our expenses, so we need to pay those bills.

Patti 54:40
So thank you. Thank you for sticking with us and helping us meet that so we can keep coming back every week for 458 weeks so far. Holy crap,

Pottymouth 54:49
that's a lot. Okay,

Patti 54:49
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. Potty mouth, good

Pottymouth 54:57
night. Potty mouth,

Speaker 1 54:59
you.

Pottymouth 55:16
I tried to be a little shorter, especially with my guys, I know I'm usually pretty short, but like long winded, short body, where do you keep all the wind? Oh, I get it. Yeah. All right, that's that's gonna be my excuse for why the wind escapes.