No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:18
Hi, and welcome to episode 460 of No Crying in Baseball, the Anyone Can Be the Hero episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth, my personal hero. How are you, Pottymouth?

Pottymouth 0:27
Thank you, thank you. I'm not feeling very heroic right now. I think my, you started off sounding very sultry, actually. Your opening, I think my voice is also a little off.

Patti 0:36
Yes, so try to hold back everybody. I mean, I know we're going to be like, you know, we're going to sound like it for the old people, we sound like Brent to the car for the new people. I don't know, who do we sound like? Who's the sultry voice person of the day?

Pottymouth 0:45
You know, folks, write in, because I'm not brushed up on my sultry these days.

Patti 0:50
I'm brushed up on my sultry either. Oh my god, what's happening in your life?

Pottymouth 0:53
So right now I am drinking a bottle of water, because

Patti 0:57
wait, what?

Pottymouth 0:58
Yeah, I am. I'm hungover, you know. That's one of those words, actually. As I was like writing down my state of being on our show notes, it's one of those words that has multiple translations in Spanish, depending on what country that you're in. And so, when I was in Ecuador, where I learned most of my Spanish, well, like my functional Spanish, that's like a swearing. Yeah, exactly. How to actually communicate and watch sports and shit like that, there they call a hangover chuchaki, which actually comes from the indigenous, the Quechua, indigenous language of the area, and I, of course, didn't know at that point that Ecuador is literally the only place that understands the word Chuchaki, for

Patti 1:37
it also sounds like what being hungover feels like,

Pottymouth 1:40
exactly, it's a great word. It's a really good word, chichaki. Okay, most of the Spanish-speaking world will say Resaca, which is.. I don't know, you're like, it makes me think of Seca, which is dry, so that makes sense. See,

Patti 1:53
I can't roll an R to save my life, so it'll be even harder if I were hungover. So I'm gonna go with Chichaka,

Pottymouth 1:58
okay? Or Goma, that's another one. Tango

Patti 2:01
seems pretty easy. Okay,

Pottymouth 2:02
so that's where I am right now, actually. So, all of that is because I was out last night, and they had.. have you had Golden Monkey, you know, Victory Golden Monkey? It's like

Patti 2:12
a pretty high ABD,

Pottymouth 2:14
yeah, it is. And they already tell the story, because usually when you order a golden monkey, like at um, at our usual place, olives. You get a smaller glass, it's like a tulip glass. Well, Tacoma Station gives you a pint of golden monkey, just like any other pint of beer.

Patti 2:31
Oh, tear,

Pottymouth 2:32
yeah. So, after a golden monkey, and then I don't even remember what beard I had afterwards, but it was an IPA, and yeah, the way home was was a fun walk, but this morning was

Patti 2:42
in a lot more steps, because there were more side to side. I think so, to increase the number of, I

Pottymouth 2:46
think, so mr. Boney about just kept me going straight, and was just really happy that all our bars on the way back were not open, because I was saying something about tequila shots, or

Patti 2:54
oh,

Pottymouth 2:55
is that bad?

Patti 2:56
So, okay, to be clear, we are actually recording on Memorial Day in the morning, it is clear it's before lunch, so it's a perfectly legitimate time to, would you have a check, or you would you be to check you, you,

Pottymouth 3:10
you would have a tango chukjaki, yeah, I think so.

Patti 3:14
Okay, so whatever that is, it's okay to be hungover right now, because it's still morning. This is not our usual Sunday afternoon thing, it's a Monday morning thing, right? Okay, I will say I was at a pub last night, but it was post movie and it included dinner, so there was only one beer involved, so I'm fine. So I'm allowed to have a brunch beverage. Yes, so I'm currently having a little cocktail. I'm having a pomegranate apple something, something from 10th Ward, and it is very delicious, and it's antioxidant friendly, so it's good for me. So I'm having a health food, and you're hydrating, so we're golden.

Pottymouth 3:41
Yes,

Patti 3:42
not Golden Monkey, just Golden.

Pottymouth 3:44
It should be good by midday. I do like Golden Monkey. I did want to add one more thing in the intro from when I was watching the good Red Sox games this week, which were so long ago, when they were playing the Royals on Tuesday. There's this shot, the Royal Stadium was far from sold out, so you know it's like the part of Camden Yard that's usually empty in the, in

Patti 4:04
the upper block off. They don't sell those unless they are selling out. Yeah,

Pottymouth 4:08
so there was one guy in a section like that, and around him, like two rows of seats spelled out that he lost his fantasy football. Yeah,

Patti 4:20
so he had to do this as punishment,

Pottymouth 4:21
as punishment. So I just want to put it out there. We're going to talk about our fantasy league later in the show, and we do not publicly shame nor endorse public shaming, although it did create, you know, some good banter on the broadcast.

Patti 4:33
I'm hearing that as a good idea, and you're saying we shouldn't. Okay, no, no, we probably

should. It is

Pottymouth 4:40
kind of creative, but

Patti 4:41
I'm open to suggestions for, like, light shaming, like I don't like shaming, shaming, but maybe some sort of consequence for not doing well, and I'm saying that because I'm still solidly in the

middle.

Yeah, it

Pottymouth 4:52
could be good, um, promo too, if we had a big NCIB on that. Yeah,

Patti 4:56
sure. Okay, we'll work on that. That will inspire, um. Everybody from me down to greatness,

Pottymouth 5:02
that's me

Patti 5:04
on today's show. For boyfriends, we have some notable call-ups, we have some unfortunate IL stints, and we've got some lessons in retirement. Looking at you, potty mouth, we've got foul pole home runs, top to bottom. We're talking about catching home run balls, and we're cross-training with World Cup alternative viewing options. Cheers,

Pottymouth 5:21
cheers. All right, I'm gonna hydrate while you start the boyfriends.

Patti 5:25
All right, so boyfriends are these guys that we pick in the off season. We each pick one guy per team, new guy every year, except for one carry over. We're on one carry over every year, and we like these guys for whatever reasons. They're good, they're good at baseball, they clearly have fun playing the game, they've got a good back story. We like what they do, and their off time, their philanthropy, whatever it is. Bottom line is, guys, we'd like to have a have a beer with Nick Hertz from The Athletics, is sort of like my star guy right now, and we've been following him because he has like this active streak of on base, you know, games where he's been on base. On Saturday, he tied Ricky Frick and Henderson for the third longest on base streak in team history. Then he had another one on Sunday, so he passed Ricky Henderson. He tied Jimmy Fox.

Pottymouth 6:10
Wow, Jimmy

Patti 6:11
Fox is 37 straight games getting.. I'm sorry, 47 straight games getting on base. It's from 1932 the last one standing for doing this within one season is Mark McGuire at 48 that could get tied today. So, we'll see what happens. Mark McGuire has the longest on-base streak, which spans seasons. It starts in one season and ends in nine season at 62 games, so that's pretty long. But Mark McGuire is kind of in reach for the single season. Currently, Nick Kurtz leads MLB with 51 walks.

Pottymouth 6:46
That's a lot. That is so cool.

Patti 6:48
It's also surprising because he made the big splash last year with his bat, you know, all the home runs, like the multi-houn run games and all that stuff. All right, another guy who's been making his name with the bat is now on the IL, my Atlanta boyfriend, catcher Drake Baldwin, went to the IL on Tuesday. He's got a grade one oblique strain, apparently he had pain during an at-bat on Monday, so they pulled him from the catcher stint, and they put in San Diego, and then they got scans, and whatever, and he, he's out for probably at least a couple weeks, you know, we've been, we know a lot of guys go out on oblique strings, and it's usually a couple of weeks of recovery time. So, for the Hammers for the Atlanta team, it happened kind of at a not bad time, because Ronald Acuna Jr. just came back from the IL, so they've got a super good bat for a really good bat, so that's that's helpful for them, but they're a little bit worried about where they're at with catching, so they've got San Diego, and who's a veteran, and they called up your former guide, Chadwick Trump, as backup. They also just grabbed Maverick Hanley off waivers from the Orioles, who just DFAd him a couple of days ago, and he's stashed in AAA, just in case, because, as you and I know from fantasy baseball, you can't have enough catchers, and right now I have one catcher, so in my fantasy team, so yeah, I'm feeling that. So I also had to do a call up, so when I put Drake Baldwin on my IL, I added Spencer Horowitz, who's my Pittsburgh boyfriend. He had his first home run in 15 games on Wednesday versus

St. Louis.

So then yesterday in Toronto, this is important. He homered off of Dylan Cease's first pitch in Toronto, and he said definitely one of my favorite homers so far. It's his first trip back to Toronto, so to be able to do it back here and do it with the team I'm wanted on is definitely great. So, you may or may not remember when I profiled Spencer Horowitz months ago, he was, and I'm going to quote Spencer, the last 24th round pick in Blue Jays history. That round doesn't exist anymore. So they, they, you know, they drafted him at the rock, rock bottom. You said take that to the grave, I guess. So it was, it was kind of like one of those kind of affirming things to go back to that place that got rid of you and say, huh, you know, Homer off the first pitch, Amy. The other thing that I feel good about him is he grew up in Timonium, Maryland, which is not too far from Baltimore, so I feel like he's kind of a hometown guy. So I'm happy to have Spencer Horowitz on my fantasy team. Well, actually, he'll be there on Wednesday because I don't do a trade to get him.

Pottymouth 9:17
Ah, yeah, yeah. Actually, speaking of that, I had to do a bunch of that. Also, didn't Dylan Cease get hurt in that game? I'm thinking that he was on the aisle, and also all these like names connected with teams, like hearing Spencer Horwitz with Pittsburgh and Dylan Cease with Toronto. My brain's just really old, and I get set in my ways, and but talking about guys who I remember from a different team, very excited that Justinson Garcia and I didn't put that down phonetically, so I'm really proud of myself for remembering how to pronounce. I was wondering how

Patti 9:50
that was gonna go. I'm so impressed with you. You are, in fact, my hero.

Pottymouth 9:53
That's, you know, a lot of folks are struggling with, so this

Patti 9:56
is Justinson.

Pottymouth 9:57
Yeah, look at the name and print. And his nickname is the password for a good reason, and you know, mate, now I'm thinking I do have to change my computer password at work. I just got that little alert.

Patti 10:08
It's a good thing you're incognito, because now everybody who listens knows your work password. If you ever need to break into a public school system,

Pottymouth 10:15
right, in the next way, in the next 17 work days. So, Justin Garcia got called up for Pittsburgh on Monday, and this is the tale of service time. So, these are the next two guys I'm going to talk about, are guys that I was wondering if I was picking prematurely, because they would be rookies this year. They are rookies at this point this year, unclear if they'd be called up, but they weren't called up until now, because we're enough into the season that this year doesn't count toward their service time, so they're being manipulated a little bit, but that's the way that a lot of teams work, and I know you've talked about that there are incentives for your really stellar rookies to get play time from the beginning of the year, because if they get sorts of awards, the team gets incentivized, right?

Patti 10:59
Yes, absolutely.

Pottymouth 11:00
So apparently that's that was not the case with Justinson. He just got called up, he singled in the eighth inning on his first game, which was a loss to St. Louis in 10 innings, but knock on the wood behind me, he has had a hit in every game so far since then until the time of recording on Monday morning, his second game, he had two hits with an RBI, so that's not bad. He played five games in the bigs with the Red Sox last year, but that still wasn't enough to push him past that service time limit. This year, his numbers don't look great for his minor league, because he had a rough start, and I think it was due to the injury that ended up ended him up on the IL at the end of April. His March and April numbers don't look pretty, but since he came back off the IL, his 12 games in May, his average in AAA was 357 with a 1250 ops. So I think that was just a rocky start, and he's going to do really well for the Pirates, and I need a bat, I need everything on my team. So, yes, he is pending trade. Hopefully, he will be on the Pottymouth Posse in a few days, and I'm excited because in the end of July, mr. Potty Mouth and I are going to see the Double A Red Sox in Portland, Maine, Portland Sea Dogs, and his brother Johann Fran, whose nickname is username, sure is there now, so hopefully I don't know, maybe he'll get to Worcester by the end of July, but right now he's in Portland, so be very cool to see another Garcia. The reason why Justinson was able to get pulled out is my past boyfriend from the O's, which, who I didn't realize was on or is on the Pirates, Ryan O'Hearn. I picked him in 2024 with the O's, has a quad injury, and so he could be out for several weeks at the same time. My last year's pick, Nick York, who also had Red Sox roots, has not been doing well with the Pirates, and so they optioned him, so things are going around right now. When you're like evaluating trades, Justinson got traded for Johan Noveto, who's a stellar pitcher, did great with spring training with Red Sox, and is now on the 60 day IL. So, oops, too bad. And talking about sad teams, I mean, Red Sox are a sad team. The Mets are another sad team. Nick Morabito debuted Monday night at Nationals Park for the Mets, and the cool thing about that for him, and I talked about, you know, him in the off season, is that it's his hometown, his hometown team. He grew up in McLean. He went to Guns, which is

Patti 13:38
Northern Virginia, for those of you who are not immediately.

Pottymouth 13:40
Thank you very much. Went to Gonzaga, which is in DC, right, private high school in DC. And so, actually, he said, like, from his, I probably stayed with the parents before the game, and going to Nats Park was like his high school commute to Gonzaga, and also he's on the same team now as Juan Soto, who you know, I still think of as the Nationals baby, because he was then, but it was like, you know, he watched Soto when he was in high school, when Nick Morabito was in high school, watched Soto playing for the Nationals, so that's pretty cool for him. He has not hit his debut, he was very busy in the outfield, he got a couple good catches, little bit of a misplay, and he has, at the time of recording, played in three games without a hit. The controversy about his call-up was that he wore number eight for one day, and one day only. It's unclear if he chose number eight or if it was given to him. I saw one article that said given to him, and the question is why, because number eight has not been worn by a Mets player for 2425 25 years, since 2001 Desi Reliford, who I have no clue that was, was the last to wear it, but the reason why it's not used is to honor Gary Carter from the miraculous 86 Mets, who I, you know, very much. Intent for winning the World Series that year, he played for the Mets for five years, you know, beloved, and it was his number. However, it's not retired, it's not

Patti 15:10
technically up for grabs,

Pottymouth 15:11
exactly.

Patti 15:12
Yeah,

Pottymouth 15:12
exactly, but fans don't want to see somebody wearing Gary Carter's number, and even their, um, their radio person, like, totally started criticizing heavily, criticizing, let's say, the team for giving this kid number eight, so Morabito moved to number 55 the next day, so the deal is, though, if you don't want somebody to wear a number, then fucking retire a damn number, retire the number, I don't know, it's a big week this week for 1986 flashback flashbacks, the day that this podcast drops, if you're in New York City, hurry up, go to Citi Field, because you can get the 1986 retro T-shirt for that team, but the best giveaway is Friday, a Bobby Valentine disguise, complete with the mustache, so that's a good thing. Anyway, I wish the best for Nick. I'm hoping that he hits soon, and that this, you know, number kerfuffle doesn't affect his mental well-being. About your falling welcome, right? Right, like, welcome to the team. Oh, you can't have that. No,

Patti 16:17
just kidding, right? Yoink,

Pottymouth 16:19
I had to stop, so I've been trying to move my fantasy team around. I don't have really great aspirations, but I'd like to do a teeny bit better. And so yesterday I started, yeah, baby steps. Saturday I started doing like trades, and I was looking at my choice for my Nationals boyfriend, and I came into this conundrum because we can't have two guys on the same team, and I picked Jorbit Vivas when he was actually on the Yankees, and then he got traded to the Nationals, so I'm stuck with two guys, Nasim Nunez, Jorbit Vivas. I can only have one of them. I had been going strong with Jorbit, but notice that I'm at a lack of a short stop, and Jorbit doesn't count for shortstop, whereas Nasim does, and I was like, I will just do a little switch, so I switched, and moments later I got the alert that Jorbit Vivas hit his first home run of the season, like moments later. So, of course, I took that as a sign that I should not trade him off my team,

Patti 17:17
or did he do well because he traded him?

Pottymouth 17:18
Oh, well, now I'm all fucked up, because I canceled the trade pretty much immediately. Yeah, he and Dylan Cruz won the game. They won two to nothing over Atlanta, which is, you know, the hottest. And welcome back to Cruise season. Yeah, absolutely. That's, you know, I maybe should pick in the future. Blew it last year, but I don't know. So, Jorbit also was the only player with multiple hits that game, he got two hits in Nasem, went oh for four with three strikeouts. So, Nasim, I mean, the strength for Nassim is the flexibility in positions and his base stealing, but he's got to get on base, so I don't know, this is, you know, to be determined. Meanwhile, in order to fill that shortstop position, I brought up David Hamilton from Milwaukee. He is doing, doing pretty well, and he's also fast on the base path, so maybe he's a good, like, does both of their work for my team, because he stole two bases on Tuesday, went three for four with on Wednesday, including a little league home run, because Pete Crow Armstrong bobbled the ball in the outfields, and he rounded the bases in 15.07 seconds, which I hear is pretty fucking fast,

Patti 18:30
pretty fucking fast.

Pottymouth 18:31
Yeah, so my short stuff problem is because both Brandon Donovan and Jacob Wilson are on the IL. Donovan was back for a week, and then he re-aggravated a groin injury, and apparently his off-season surgery, it makes him susceptible to this, so I am not feeling good about that. And he was like my flexible guy on playing a bazillion positions, but he went three for five against the Astros, and then went off the off the roster. He's getting a couple injections, it's going to be at least two to three weeks. Jacob Wilson injured his shoulder, which I realized I found out that a subluxation is different than dislocation. It's not a completely dislocated shoulder, but it's kind of related to that. It's no timetable. He's going to be rehabbing soon, but no clue when he's actually going to be back, and if that wasn't dire enough, so then I started doing a deep dive into who the fuck can I bring up on my team, Manuel Rodriguez of the Twins, which he was really touted as having a really good chance of debuting this year. I was hoping I'd give him in the same breath as Justinson and Nick Morabito, but no, he had surgery to repair a UCL tear in his left thumb. At first, they thought it was just a strain, but oh no, he is their number four prospect. But it looks like he might be out for the season, at least three months, which sounds like the season to me. The worst drop that we need to do, and I. Believe he's on our backup team now, and we've got to totally, I believe, take him off NCIB qualifications. Is Nathan Lucas, and I always want to say Luke's, because that's how his name is spelled, but Nathan Lucas is rehabbing, so he was on the IL, so he was not on my team, but we had him on our backup team. He's rehabbing with single A Dunadin Blue Jays, and there is a clear view in the picture that they put on their social media of him working out of a tattoo on his inner forearm, and that tattoo is a Batman logo, starting off good, but it has the stars and stripes of the American flag and a thin blue

Patti 20:41
line. Hell no.

Pottymouth 20:44
Yeah, so this is the first Batman. Exactly, exactly. So that's the thing, that's the thing. There's so many reasons why this is bad, and why I feel like you should never be a boyfriend. So, first of all, for those who don't know, the thin blue line is sort of the police answer to Black lives matter. It's this blue lives matter thing, and it's a very problematic stance, you know, of supporting police point of view, regardless of what's actually happening. And the idea of putting that on.. now I'm not a Batman expert. There are some in my

Patti 21:17
house,

clearly. Neither is he,

Pottymouth 21:19
right?

Patti 21:19
And that's like, you know, so there's like.. I have two levels: one's the political level, and one is you don't know your superhero, exactly.

Pottymouth 21:25
Yeah, yeah. So, as far as I understand, Batman, the whole thing is, he comes in when the police are fucking up. He's an anti-hero, for sure. Yeah, he's not the law-abiding guy, he's super smart, super rich anti-hero. Yeah, and you know, really reveals corruption that's going on in the police department, so apparently he's had this tattoo for a very long time. It's in honor of his older brother, who is a deputy sheriff in Sacramento County, and as kids they loved Batman together. I don't understand how he put that all together, and I just, you know, I got this lead from Craig Casa Tara's blog, which is really good, and then found out, you know, got the more the details from a Toronto Sun article, but I'm dropping them. I just don't need any thin blue lines on my team.

Patti 22:12
Yeah, so this is one of those cases where Potty Mouth and I will refer to him as an ex-boyfriend. Ex-boyfriends are guys that, you know, we don't know, there's no future for us. We do talk about former boyfriends, guys we've picked in the past that we still want to follow, that are still good guys, as far as we know, and do things that we think are notable. He's not going to be one of them. I don't think we can put him on the no fly list, because other people may not share the appreciation for staying true to your superhero lore and also politics, that's on you, that's on you guys. If you're, you know, that's yeah, wow. So, former boyfriends, James Woods, my last year's Nationals boyfriend. This is a teaching moment. Official scoring matters. If you remember, a couple weeks ago I talked about JJ Weatherholt, you know, knock on wood, future, you know, rookie of the year, his little league grand slam, but I finished the story with it was scored as a single with two RBI, and there was an error in there, right, it snuck, you know, it was a grounder that snuck past Tatis Junior's glove, and all this happened, so although it, you know, he did come all the way around, and you know, there were four runs that were scored. It's not technically a grand slam, and this is important, because for my birthday, thank you, James Woods hit a legit inside the park grand slam versus again the Mets rounded the bases in 15.1 seconds, which is pretty fast, but your guys faster.

Pottymouth 23:43
Wow,

Patti 23:44
your guy's faster. So it's super fast, and I think that you need

Pottymouth 23:47
barely,

Patti 23:47
you need to add one other boyfriend aspect to this inside the park grand slam,

Pottymouth 23:52
right? So that makes me feel much better, because Nick Morabito was the outfielder that the ball got by, but apparently it's not his fault. Yeah, it

Patti 24:01
wasn't an error. He just didn't, you know, he just couldn't get there because it was James Frick and Woods.

Pottymouth 24:05
Yeah,

Patti 24:06
so this is very exciting. Now, here's why it's even more exciting. He is the second national to hit an inside the park grand slam. The first one was former boyfriend Michael A. Taylor in 2017 versus Philadelphia, but even more interesting than that. In the past 10 years, there have only been three inside the park grand slams, and then freaking Nationals have two of them.

Pottymouth 24:28
That's crazy.

Patti 24:28
The other one is right now Tapia, who hit one in July 2022 That's it for 10 years.

Pottymouth 24:34
Tapia was a former pick of mine when he was with the Rockies. There we go. So we like fast guys.

Patti 24:39
So what I like about the Nats is okay, so James Woods hits this inside the park, Grand Slam, you know, four runs hit the board, his teammates trash talk him for not being able to just go ahead and clear the wall, you know, oh yeah,

Pottymouth 24:53
wow, you know,

Patti 24:55
I love this, so right now the Nats are, you know, 500 ish, I can't, no. Today they may be over or under by a little bit, I'm not sure, but different guys are showing up and making like the big play at different times.

Pottymouth 25:07
Yeah, actually yesterday I looked, because I saw this article a few days ago, so I checked the stats yesterday. The Nats continue to lead the league in runs scored as well as runs allowed.

Patti 25:19
Wow, that's crazy! Well, that makes you about 500 doesn't it? What James Wood said about this Nats offense, about like, you know, different people taking the lead on different days, that it's been fun to watch. It feels like any given day, anyone can be the hero. Oh, so yay. Can we get his mom on the show?

Pottymouth 25:34
More superhero, that would be so good.

Patti 25:36
So I want to talk about Chris Taylor, but I'm going to warn you, potty mouth, do not follow in Chris Taylor's footsteps. How many days till you retire?

Pottymouth 25:42
Well, 17 working days, and then you know, I don't know, it's four weeks, so that's pretty good.

Patti 25:49
And when you retire, you're done, you're really retiring, you're not.. oh, don't, don't say, well,

Pottymouth 25:55
well, they.. so there's this deal that I'm thinking, you, if you at the time of retirement sign up to be a substitute teacher, like at that time, instead of waiting. You don't have to go through the whole application process, so I'm technically allowed to continue subbing even after retirement. So I'm contemplating that. So I'm wondering if Chris Taylor is going to encourage me to do that or discourage me to do that. Well,

Patti 26:19
Chris Taylor, the former boyfriend, former Dodgers boyfriend of mine, 35 years old, two-time World Series champion, had been playing with the Dodgers AAA team in Salt Lake City this past Wednesday. He fractured his wrist, so on Friday he said, "I'm out, I'm going to retire, I am retiring, I am done. On Saturday, you said, "I'm back, I'm back. I'm not, I'm not retiring. Just kidding. On Sunday, he said no. I meant it, and I know Sunday was real because he made an Instagram official.

Pottymouth 26:50
Okay,

Patti 26:50
so what he posted was clearing up any confusion. I've officially decided to retire from the game. I've dedicated my entire life. Wow, I do not want to like no take backsies

Pottymouth 26:59
for you. Okay,

Patti 27:00
I think you really need to retire, and if you sub a little bit, yeah, that's different. That's not like

Pottymouth 27:03
it, yeah,

Patti 27:04
that's not like saying, oh, the kids need me, you know, because you, you would say that, because the kids, you know, that's that's because you're my hero, yeah, but you know, I need you to retire, so we can go on epic road trips, and you know, no, you have to go around the school year,

Pottymouth 27:16
yeah, exactly, if this like something, so the good thing about the sub thing is to stay on the sub rolls, you only need to sub like five days a year, so I could maybe handle that. We'll see. All right, to be to be seen. Just quick, a couple, my one of my very favorite former baseball boyfriends, Salvador Perez, from our very first..

Patti 27:35
he's not

like him. I mean, how can you not like him, right?

Pottymouth 27:37
Everybody loves him. He is such a sweet guy, and I enjoyed the Red Sox Royal Series, not just because the Red Sox were winning games, but also because Salvador Perez was behind the plate, and Red Sox this year is like Team Venezuela, and so there are five members of the Red Sox from Venezuela, three of whom were on the World Baseball Classic team, and just to see them come up to the plate with him there, and you know, because the catcher gets to like greet people, yeah, and he's such a friendly guy, and there was lots of chatting, but my favorite scene was when Ranger Suarez was pitching and Salvato Perez was at bat, and they couldn't stop laughing, like they were cracking each other up. It ended in a, you know, full count, walked him, which, not a surprise, Red Sox luckily won that game, but the sweetest interaction is a NES in New England Sports Network YouTube video that we will, that will link of Carlos Narvaez, the Red Sox catcher, who's Venezuelan, with Salvador Perez, and Narvaez is talking about him being his idol, and that in this off season they worked out together, and just how that friendship started, and basically Narvaez was just tenacious, and I've got to meet this guy, like I'm making to the big leagues, I'm going to be Salvi's buddy, and now they are, and Salvador Perez just so smiley, and saying things like, you know, he realizes he's getting old, he just like, I don't want to say old, but I probably only have a little bit of time left, and wanting to pass my skills down to these guys. The coolest quote from the video was Narvaez saying, quote, this guy's always happy, bro, like just loving that energy. So, cheers to Sally. I'm looking forward to continuing watching, probably for at least this season. He hasn't announced anything yet. I think he's got another one in him. We'll see. Georchela, I picked in 2021 from the Yankees. He is retiring, so no takes back, take backsies for Geo, but he got a new job already, so he's definitely not unretiring. He played for eight teams in MLB over the course of 10 years,

Patti 29:41
Tommy Fam says, 'Hold my beer.

Pottymouth 29:42
Yeah, yeah. So, Geo is like your, your fall back, I guess, for the Immaculate Grid. Cleveland, Toronto, New York, Yankees, Minnesota, LA Angels, Detroit, Atlanta, and the A's. And he's 34 years old. So, that's like a very well-rounded career. You got the 10 years in. This year he tried to come back, minor league contract with the Twins, and he was released, so he's, you know, cashing his chips in. But immediately the next day he was announced to be managing Team Columbia, the national baseball team. He was on Team Columbia for the World Baseball Classic this year, 2026 as well as 23 and 17. There are other international tournaments that happen, besides the World Baseball Classic, and the first one he'll be managing in is in just a couple months this summer. There's a Caribbean Central American Games in the DR, end of July, beginning of August. So I wish the best for Geo, and it's really cool for the Colombian team to have a manager with that much cred and that much experience.

Patti 30:41
I want to talk about home runs hit around foul poles, and I want to hit talk about some home run balls getting caught by fans. First, the actual home runs a couple weeks ago, my former boyfriend O'Neill Cruz hit a home run that hit the top of the right field foul pole.

Wow, the

top of the right field. This is, I think, this was in Houston. The top is 432 feet, and that's like up, up super high, right? It was the hardest hit home run so far this season. So that was a big deal. The athletic kind of thing about what's harder to do that, or like a moon shot, I mean, like it's really like a whole thing. So this week I'm watching the Orioles host the Tigers. Right, Jackson Holiday is back from handmade surgery. Right, handmade surgery - we've always had, gives you superpowers. We thought it gave you strength. It may give you luck, because here's what Jackson Holiday did Friday night: he hit a home run that landed inside the left field foul pole by inside the pole, inside I mean it snuck under the bottom metal rung of the pole and landed on top of the concrete base.

Pottymouth 31:51
Wow,

Patti 31:52
and it was there for a hot second before a fan just reached in and grabbed it, but it landed like I mean it was 333 feet. It was scored later at 337 so I don't know where they, they, you know, mark the beginning of the, the home run out, it was Stack House is different than the people on the landscaping with the measure tape, I don't know, but it could barely, barely got out of the park, it was barely fair, but it counted the same as O'Neill Cruz hitting 432 feet to the very top of the foul pole. Yeah, so it's like, okay, this is again, it's worth the same.

Pottymouth 32:27
Yeah, that's it. Doesn't matter where onto the pole you hit, you're hitting the pole.

Patti 32:31
And he joked, like, oh, I think it was my farthest home run ever. Let's talk about catching home run balls. Okay, so how do you like if you catch a home run ball and it's meaningful to the batter, how do you think that batter gets that ball back? I thought, like, Usher's went after you. Yeah,

Pottymouth 32:47
I thought that they sent, like, somebody from the team out in the stands

Patti 32:52
to talk to you. It's actually a negotiating team,

Pottymouth 32:54
so it's like an official position

Patti 32:56
in Toronto. We're talking about Pittsburgh a weirdly lot today. So the Pirates were playing in Toronto, right? As Merlin Valdez debuted for Pittsburgh yesterday, Sunday, in Toronto, his very first career hit was a home run in this extending, caught by a kid. It was right near the visiting team's bullpen, so all the guys in the bullpen rushed out to go chat with, with the try to find this ball.

Pottymouth 33:24
Wow,

Patti 33:25
right. So they took it on themselves, so it wasn't like, okay, we think they.. so this was like led by relief pitcher Justin Lawrence, right? So they went out and found him, and he says, once we found it, the kid came running up, and in my head I was like, kind of like, thank goodness it's a kid, this should be easy, but right away the kid says, I think I'm gonna keep it, so all of these relief pitchers from Pittsburgh are negotiating with this child who's very savvy, and the kid ends up giving up the ball for like an autographed bat and a hat, so he was very smart, but I was so amused by, oh God, the whole bullpen runs up there, say, "Hey, hey, this is really important. The kids like, "Yeah, it's mine. The other home run balls, I want to talk about this whole like beating the odds thing. I don't know if you saw the story, I feel like it's a pseudonym, because the couple of evolvers named the Johnsons. I'm like, sure they are sure they are,

Pottymouth 34:11
and their friends is Smiths, and the

Patti 34:12
Joneses, right? Okay, so this happens in Chase Fields, right? So the Diamondbacks are hosting the Giants, so on Tuesday the Johnsons like have a night of it, right? They gotta go out to dinner, they have a drink, they go to the ballpark, they scan their tickets, they realize, oh crap, these tickets are for tomorrow, and like, well, we're already here, let's get tickets and go to this game,

Pottymouth 34:32
the right thing to do,

Patti 34:33
which is the right thing to do, you're already at the ballpark, so they get tickets like in the same general area near the foul pole, right, the left field foul pole, and they stay the second inning. Giants are up. Willie Adams hits a home run that lands immediately in AJ Johnson's glove. I mean, he did not have to work for it.

Pottymouth 34:50
Wow,

Patti 34:50
he put up his glove, he caught a home run ball from Willie Thomas. This is amazing. It's like, oh my god, we weren't even supposed to be here, we're here. I caught this home run ball. This is incredible. What are the odds, right?

How.

So the next day they make arrangements with the Giants to come early, so Adamus can autograph the baseball. Very cool, he's very excited. He's Sean holding it up for pictures. Right, this is fantastic. And they go to their regular seats, pretty much in the same spot, near the left field foul pole. Second inning, Willie Adams comes up, hits another fricking home run. This one doesn't go right to AJ Johnson, it bounces out of the bullpen and then into his glove.

Pottymouth 35:26
Wow,

Patti 35:26
again, did not have to work for it. It's like, oh, hey, where did this come from?

Pottymouth 35:30
The moral of the story is, I'm feeling like we don't have outfield tickets on our road trip. Like,

Patti 35:35
I know I was thinking about this. I don't like sitting in the outfits. I feel like I'm not as engaged in the game,

Pottymouth 35:40
however,

Patti 35:40
because you know clearly, if the Johnsons right can catch two home real balls, why wouldn't we be able to catch one at every one of the ballparks we go to this summer?

Pottymouth 35:48
Yeah, I think we've got a couple of holes there, maybe like with the with the women's games, we can do one in field, one outfield, if they would put them on sale,

Patti 35:57
if they put them on sale.

Pottymouth 35:58
Yeah, actually, I feel like we got deep on that one,

Patti 36:01
we did,

Pottymouth 36:01
because,

Patti 36:02
yeah, kidding,

Pottymouth 36:03
they, and they,

Patti 36:04
Bobby Witt,

Pottymouth 36:05
because they said they were going on sale a week the week after the schedule, and then that didn't happen, and then they're like, okay, just kidding, next week, and then it's like, oh, yes, they're on sale if you're buying season tickets, but single games aren't on sale till june 11,

Patti 36:20
it's like, can only be there for two nights. We have other plans. We are not local.

Pottymouth 36:25
Yeah, if we were local, absolutely, we would so be senior season ticket holders, right? That is not the case. Yeah, so, of course, I'm like, they can't sell out. They were,

Patti 36:33
you know,

we'll be..

we know people

Pottymouth 36:35
well. Yeah, yeah, we get to pull those strings. Please,

Patti 36:39
please.

Pottymouth 36:40
All right, I will cross train with another sport, with football, because we've been keeping a little bit of an eye on the World Cup, because it's kind of a big fucking deal for most of the world, although I think it was The Athletic that had an article recently about how popularity the World Cup is actually decreasing, and I think that World Cup leadership needs to take a fucking hint, and maybe it has to do with astronomical prices and all sorts of stuff, but every year it's going down, or every World Cup it's been going down a little bit at a time, and I think there's just been too much drama, but there's more drama. So folks in this country are pissed off about trying to find tickets to the World Cup because they are hard to come by and incredibly fucking expensive,

Patti 37:22
and all the things around it, also stupid expensive, like getting there and staying there and parking there, and all that stuff, all of the above,

Pottymouth 37:28
all of the above, and you know, a lot of countries can't send their fans because of travel bans and things like that, so there's so much scandal going around the World Cup, but the good news, good news, bad news is there are other options besides watching in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. So, this is a three country host team for the World Cup, because this year's World Cup expanded the number of teams playing. So, because of the number of games, US, Canada, and Mexico decided, let's go at it together, we'll get a better chance, because we can actually host this number of 104 total games. The split is not even close to even. There's 13 games happening in Canada between two stadiums, 13 happening in Mexico between three stadiums, and 75% of the games, 78 of them, are happening in the United States across seven stadiums. The US also gets all the quarter finals, semi finals, and finals games. I mean, Canada and Mexico are such tiny countries, right? How could they possibly host war games? How could they possibly find, like, additional cities? Yeah, you host, I can't imagine, can't imagine. So, you know, I think there were some strings pulled, but you know, if folks were feeling uncomfortable coming to the United States from other countries, you'd think maybe we should look into those 13 games in either Canada or Mexico. Well, Mexican teachers, which I fully support, are planning to strike and march right before the World Cup games, because they know where their chips are, and they're going to put them on the table. And the first game in Mexico, actually, the opening game is happening in Mexico City, june 11. The teachers are threatening their strikes, starting June 1, and strategically planning the strike in the march in the zone of Mexico City, where they're going to have an amazing fan fest, and you know, just another sidebar, like, kudos to Mexico, they're having a 5490 square foot LED screen, huge, showing all of the games for free in this plaza.

Patti 39:30
That's the right thing to do,

Pottymouth 39:32
isn't that amazing?

Patti 39:32
But

Pottymouth 39:33
the game, if the teachers get there first, then it's going to be, yeah, it's not going to be accessible to other folks, unless then this is the danger that the teachers have already announced this, starting june 1. So, what's going to happen, you know, May 30-first if the Mexican government blocks it off and says, "No, actually, teachers, you can't get into this plaza. We'll see. So, the teachers are striking because of quote dignity wanting quote dignified pensions. Fair wages, job security, and an education that serves the people, not corporate interests. Fight the man sounds so familiar, you know. And just solidarity. I'm in a teacher's union, solidarity with teachers union in another country. You know, I found it interesting that the opening game in Mexico is Mexico against South Africa, so talking about other countries being able to get into the United States, I don't know if you saw this week, there's an article, I think, in the Post about how all of the refugees, except for three people, like three people since October, have come been white South Africans being allowed into the United States. Really, yeah, yeah, so the white South Africans being allowed into the United States probably can have an easy time getting to Mexico City to see this game, but not other immigrants, because they wouldn't be able to get back into the United States, probably. Anyway, the other thing is, this is happening in June and July, and you would think that school would be out, or at least that's my framework for the United States, but apparently in Mexico, the school year actually ends july 15. I know they have a much bigger break around Christmas, so that's probably why it gets booted, so to speak, further down here. So, the school year ends July 15, the World Cup ends July 19, so school and World Cup are totally overlapping the Ministry of Public Education actually tried to end the school year early because of this. They tried to end the school year june 5, that would be six weeks early.

Patti 41:32
You thought snow days were sorry, World Cup, I mean, we can't possibly, kids aren't going to show up for six weeks anyway, so

Pottymouth 41:38
why no other right? And that the traffic, and you know, all those things six weeks early, so people complained. Parents read parents, and so that that didn't last very

Patti 41:49
wanted to go to the World Cup games without taking their kids.

Pottymouth 41:51
Yeah,

Patti 41:52
that's

the plan.

Pottymouth 41:52
That's the plan. So President Shine Bomb, Claudia Shine Bomb has insisted that she's going to take care of this before the World Cup. You know, I always want the best for this woman, because she's in an incredibly challenging position. You know, a lot of the stuff that she's done has been positive. However, this, you know, there's always a sticking point. She actually offered a raise about a week ago, less than a week ago to the to the teachers, they met, and they rejected it. So, depending on which article you read, is what the raise was consisted of, and how she's trying to make it look bigger than it actually was between benefits and salary, but the National Education Union has said if there's no solution, the ball won't roll, and it sounds much better in Spanish. So, you know, I said Lucille No Roda el ballon. Oh,

Patti 42:47
that's how better,

Pottymouth 42:48
isn't that cool? Yeah. So, meanwhile, here in New York City, you could see the World Cup for, if you're really lucky, Mamdani just does everything, like I did. This man, I wish we could like clone him and put him in every major city in this country, because his magic has extended to World Cup soccer. If you live in New York City, starting today, there is a lottery that you can enter every day until may 30 for $50 $50 World Cup tickets and free transportation to Met Life Stadium for 1000 New Yorkers. You have to live in New York City. I should have really texted my kid first thing and said, "Get on this, because you register on this website. You can enter once a day through may 30, and then they announce the winners on June 3, and each winner can buy two tickets to the World Cup for 50 bucks each and free transportation. I like this is magic. He just said that he negotiated with the President of FIFA and made this happen. Who knows what cards he played to get this done, but man, Mamdani can write Move Mountains, is what it seems like. That's crazy,

Patti 44:01
that's fantastic. Yeah, all right. I'm so impressed with that, and the fact that you even said, "Hey, what can I do to make this better?

Pottymouth 44:07
Exactly.

Patti 44:08
Yeah, Eddie found an answer. Wow, what can I do to make our fantasy team better? Nothing. It's still freaking exciting. Way at the top, things are happening again. Congratulations to Tridents and Tap Rooms for jumping up to take the lead, Karen's crew, sorry, dropped two spots, and Bono's boyfriends is just barely edging out Karen's crude for the number two spot by like half a point. Everybody else stayed the same, four all the way down, wicked awesome, all-star cobalt 112, me, Sonny Slammers, you, McClain, mean pitching machine all the way down, absolutely the same, but the top three are shuffling, and that's fun to watch.

Pottymouth 44:48
Wow, they're

Patti 44:49
making moves, they're making moves.

Pottymouth 44:50
We'll see what happens after our moves this week. Go Justin,

Patti 44:54
yeah, that's it, that's it. All right, do you have anything fun happening this week? I remember to go to work tomorrow, I'll be. Monday days off really kind of messed me up with, oh wait, my alarm went off today, but didn't have to act on it. So, what's gonna happen tomorrow? Is my body gonna say, oh no, you can ignore that, or am I gonna be, oh right, go to the office.

Pottymouth 45:10
Yeah, I have a weird week because we have Monday and Wednesday off. Wednesday is Eid number two, and we get it off from school, so I'm wondering how many students I'm going to have tomorrow and Tuesday, if Monday and Wednesday are both off, and my other excitement this week is herding teenagers onto the metro for a field trip on Friday, and it includes changing lines, so I'm a little bit concerned.

Patti 45:37
Oh,

Pottymouth 45:37
but you know, as long as hopefully the weather will be better than it's been the past couple days, and just wish me luck, because

Patti 45:44
so I would guess that largely your students have been on the metro. This is not like, oh, this is a new shiny thing, we've done this before,

Pottymouth 45:53
that's what I'm hoping.

Patti 45:55
So it's more of a matter of keeping them together than it is like, okay, shiny thing,

Pottymouth 45:58
right? Right, that, and everybody has a cell phone, and now Metro's accepting, just like, you don't even need to download the app, you can just Apple Pay your way onto the Metro. So I'm hoping that mostly there's the one kid who is like, I need to buy a card, I don't have a credit card, I don't know how to do this, but I think all the other 18 of them should be

Patti 46:21
metro just yesterday, and there's a new, like, one of the lanes going in says DC Student Lane.

Pottymouth 46:27
Oh,

Patti 46:27
so check that out. Really, yes, really. And it wouldn't - I didn't see that until I like hit it with my card, and it wouldn't let me through.

Pottymouth 46:34
Wow,

Patti 46:35
so I think it may be a dedicated line. So, you need to even

Pottymouth 46:37
at our local,

Patti 46:38
our local metro.

Pottymouth 46:39
Wow,

Patti 46:40
so yes, I went to the movies yesterday. I saw Devil Wears Prada two, and can I say it wasn't good? It was super fun, because how could it not be with the cast? But I was just like, wow, this is so freaking bad. But I really had a good time, and it reminded me that I like going to the movies, because I don't do it nearly enough. And then, you know, there was a pup after, so that was good. That was like the last official of Patty's birthday

season

celebration, so that was super fun. So, I don't know, I'm just gonna like flounder this week with, wait, no one's paying attention to me. All right, it'll be fine.

Pottymouth 47:12
Moving on,

Patti 47:12
moving on. Yep, yep, all right. So, gosh, what are we asking our friends to do on social media? Do we, do we have anything we need to know about?

Pottymouth 47:20
Well, wait, there was something at the beginning of the show, but I'm hungover, so now I'm forgetting. Wasn't there was totally something that we said that we needed help on? What was it?

Patti 47:31
Well, gosh,

Pottymouth 47:32
all right. Well, you guys just listen to us, so maybe you'll remember, and you can reach out. Brain freeze. Holy shit! Oh my gosh, out to us on Blue Sky at NC NC IB Podcast. You can find us on Twitter there, if you must. Facebook and Instagram, No Crying B Ball. And then all the fun is on Patreon, P A T R E O n.com/no Crying and B Ball. And for a buck a month, you can be part of our Patreon Posse, no, that's my Potty Moth Posse Patreon. What's a good alliteration? That is a group of people on Patreon flock. All right, if you can think of the name for the Patreon crew, let us know. There you go. Just a buck a month, and it keeps us going, because you know we do have some expenses, and we try to spread those equally amongst listeners, so for a buck you can help make sure that happens,

Patti 48:25
and we were supposed to have a business meeting today to do some more planning on our epic baseball road trip, which we have to postpone, not the road trip, but the meeting today, so you still have time to let us know about the different ballparks, like what should we, where should we stay, what should we eat, what should we not miss, what's the cool thing in that city, what's the cool thing in that ballpark? So that's how you find us. Thank you so very much. In the meantime, please go see some live baseball fight the man, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith. And until next week, say good night, Potty Mouth.

Pottymouth 48:53
Good night,

Patti 48:54
Pie Mouth. It

feels like my job half the time in the whole world is to cut everybody's like verbiage by 20% and remove some commas and exclamation,

Pottymouth 49:18
that's that's exactly, yeah, with me it's a lot of exclamation points, even just all out,

yeah, because.