No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:18
Hi and welcome to episode 408 of no crying in baseball the ingenue or sex symbol episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
I'm really glad you said that out loud, because when I looked at it, I didn't know how to pronounce that first word. And I'm really looking forward to learning it. I feel like, you know, a little bit of education every week is good for me,

Patti 0:36
sure, sure. And I'm really glad you didn't go right to which 1am I? Because I don't think that's a conversation we are equipped to have.

Pottymouth 0:45
Yeah, I thought it was in genuine. And then I was like, that's a very funny way to spend. Spend spell in genuine. Yeah, all right, don't worry, I got you covered. It'll happen in cross training. Excellent, excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing this the sex symbol. I had a quick, proud parenting moment. Yesterday, we got a text from potty mouth Jr, who was at a punk show, and it was in between bands, and they said that the opening band, who's I want to give credit to, little foot yelled out, Go Red Sox. And I responded, were there any? And this is in Brooklyn, New York, right? So it's not really something that a band, much less an opening band, really should be doing in Brooklyn, New York. So, you know, huge respect to little foot and fans weren't afraid of anything, yeah, that must be it. That was just really punk to go like it's something you can do, yeah? People pissed up. The most punk thing in New York is to say good Red Sox, I like it. So I asked if there were any anybody yelled out in the audience in support, and they said, I did. Oh and, and, Mr. Potty mouth, wrote back, we're so proud. I am very proud of

Patti 1:54
you. So you know what? You know, great work. This is somewhat very, very good parenting happening, right? You're very glad. So, you know who else had probably some pretty good parenting. I can't know for sure, but that maybe where this came from, one of your Red Sox, Oh, right. I'm so glad. Yeah, no, me too. So, um, Rob red, can tell me. Ref Snyder, the funniest thing

Pottymouth 2:16
is to hear the Spanish announcer say his name because a bunch of consonants are left out, and it's like, red neither. Yeah. So Rob Brett Snyder, Rob ref

Patti 2:23
Snyder, so yeah, in yesterday's, one of yesterday's games, he had a foul ball into the camera well, and hit Melanie Newman in the head. Melanie is, like, one of my very favorite Orioles broadcasters. She does like the sideline broadcasting, and she went to the hospital. She goes she's fine, she's fine, she's fine. She's fine, she's fine. So Rob today sent her a bottle of wine, oh good, on which she inscribed a big, long apology. And then at the end of it, he said, I'm not sure if you like red, you know, I'm just, like, took a guess, and Melanie said, I'm really sorry to have to say this, but I'm allergic to wine. Oh no. But she said, Don't worry. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, like, put this in a place of honor. She was completely touched by it. It was the right move. It was very kind. It was Yeah. And

Pottymouth 3:05
I was thinking, wow, that's so much better wine than flowers. But apparently not in this case, yeah, no, it was

Patti 3:10
a good idea. I mean, just knowing Melanie the way do from watching her, I would think adult beverage for sure, yeah? But I guess now we know not that one. Oh, that's, that's a nice thing to do.

Pottymouth 3:20
I'm glad. And just for the record, the Red Sox Orioles series just ended, and it was two and two. So we can both, you know, be happy with the draw or frustrated with the draw. Draw.

Patti 3:31
I'm thrilled with the draw because it was a big turnaround for the place Orioles. So there was that.

Pottymouth 3:37
And then there's a little bit of a silver lining for the Red Sox, even though this is like, yeah, now we're like, dipping down, and everybody in the everybody but the Yankees, is getting all mixed up. But thanks to Marcella Mayer and I said that right today, the Red Sox are the only team in Major League Baseball that has not been shut out. Wow, isn't that cool? So very cool. I'm happy that, even though things are really sucky right now for the Red Sox, in a lot of ways, that that was really cool. And Marcelo mayor, for those of you haven't heard, got brought up because Alex Bregman is going to be out for a couple months. So that's a sad for the Red Sox. We're very excited about this prospect, because he's top Red Sox prospect. He had a rough first game, but, you know, he had to,

Patti 4:19
he did great the second game, and his parents were there, and they looked very happy. So that's the key. I think his parents need to come tell the game. Speaking of keys, do you know the key story? The car key story? Please tell the car key stories. So

Pottymouth 4:29
he got called up from Worcester, which is not very far from Boston at all. It's an easy drive, and he should have hopped and they told him to hop in the car to go to go to Fenway, and he didn't know where his car keys were, and so the first joke was like, oh, where's your car keys? But then if he came out that it had been, like, days or weeks, it had been a very long time that he had not known where his car keys were, and apparently he just didn't need his car and it was sitting there in the woo socks parking lot for an extended period of time. Him. Did you know this part? No, he literally has no clue where his car keys were, and one of the club attendants had to drive him to Boston, which was good, because he was very nervous, and he looked at his phone the whole time, which I don't think is such a good idea, but, um, yeah, he made it to Boston. Car apparently still in the woo socks parking lot. But for those of you who lose your car keys. You know, there's a there's an example, all of

Patti 5:23
a sudden he's making the league minimum instead of making minor leagues. I bet he can call a dealership and have a key mate, right? I think that was probably a concern before, but I think maybe this week he's safe to do that. Probably time to do that. So he didn't hit in the very first game, but, you know, a lot of pressure. So today he got his first hit and his first extra base hit. So he got two hits, scored him on his first run. Yeah, so, yeah, no, I, I was happy for him in that way that I love a debut, yeah, well, especially because the or else won, so there's like, a win. So I could be happy about that, for sure, for sure. Um, hey, I just finished my starter beer, and it was really yummy. Um, I still had on hand, um, blind spot kolch, which was a very special beer brewed by our friends at checker, spot that I still had from opening day when we were up there, whenever we were there was that, though it was a home opener, yeah? So we just finished that, and now I'm gonna go to a

Speaker 1 6:14
south side and I join you in that. Okay, we each have the same thing. Do we

Patti 6:19
outside? Yeah. So South Side is Dennis Sims, which is hyper local to us. And you know, it's been spanked with rye, which makes it a thing that I love. So hurray for that.

Pottymouth 6:28
Yeah, and it's a some version of IPA, which is a thing that I love. There we go

Patti 6:34
on today's show. We officially make mcolord, a verb boyfriends. Feature the merry merry month of May. Welcome back Tovar. So much Soto our police blotter features Hendrix getting McCullar underage drinking and criminally bad. Colorado, we've got World Baseball, classic news and cross training with ice dancing, really cheers.

Pottymouth 6:58
So I more often should not read. Well, maybe I shouldn't. I was, I was very amused while you're doing on today's show. I hadn't read through it. But the problem is, while I'm fitting you, the camera is very close to my mouth, so when I giggle it, well, I guess it would still be amusing i had i stifled my giggle. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 7:15
Well, you know, sometimes you need it. I don't, I don't. You're my personal laugh track. That's what that is. You are my personal laughter. Yeah, probably, like, just put one of those on, like, a special file to, like, play, you know, in the audio, to think that I make you laugh naturally, and you don't have to do that. Yeah, no, I'm thinking in like, other occasions, like, it like, like, when you're not really paying attention, yeah. Oh, that was funny. And what was I doing? Oh, I was looking at my phone. Then just have

Pottymouth 7:41
it on my phone, and then I could just, like, laugh. Just like, laugh, laugh on my phone. Oh, my God. Let's talk about boyfriends. Oh, right, baseball boyfriends, the guys that we super carefully picked in the off season didn't know better, right? You know, theoretically, for the baseball prowess as well as their character, they have to meet our character standards. We gotta want to hang out with them and have a beer, ideally. And I had picked Ezekiel Tovar for the Rockies, and he is my second, second week in a row that I'm talking about one of my baseball boyfriends, out for a month on the IL and here we are in the end of May. So out for a month is most of the season. So far. You may have heard that the Rockies haven't been doing well, so I think both the team and I are happy to have him back on and I'm, you know, on my roster for my fantasy team. That'll help. Yeah, I am really hoping so. I did talk about how when he first went out, it was a hip contusion that probably had gotten in spring training, just for, you know, shortstop diving stuff, and it was finally too much, and apparently a whole month was needed to repair the hip since then. So since May 16, and here we are, May 25 so this is nine days he has gone 15 for 30. Those of you who are good at math know that's a 500 average rate with two Homers. Even people who are bad at math figure that one out. I should give it as a quiz for my students tomorrow. Really don't go to work tomorrow. Oh shit, that's right, I don't have to go to work tomorrow.

Patti 9:06
For those of you who are bad at calendars, we're recording on Sunday and Monday's a holiday, there we go.

Pottymouth 9:12
All right, so I'm not working tomorrow. In his second game back, he went five for six. I was about to say that was after his first game back, his second game back. He went five for six, not bad for a second game. And then this past Friday was a memorable game for the Rockies, because he went two for four in a win over the Yankees. Oh, my God, Yankees. How the heck did that have, right? And the Rockies have, like, I mean, literally, like nine wins at this point, like very few, but one of them was against the league leading Yankees, plus he had a sexy double play on none other than Aaron judge. So yes, I'm happy to have Ezekiel back. His Ops is sitting at 1.378 I just want to give a quick nod about that win to the Yankee. That's a big fucking deal. So the Rockies pitcher really deserves a little bit of credit here, a little bit a lot, a fuckload of credit. Tanner, another Tanner, Tanner, Gordon, he came into the game. He's a guy who was up last year but has been bounced up and down both last year and this year. This is his second call up for this year, his very first career win before this win over the Yankees with this, like, shitty Colorado team. He was oh for seven with an 819, era, and he beat the Yankees. So like, Yay for Tanner Gordon character credit, because boyfriends, you know, need some character credit. Ezekiel Tovar said about the Rockies situation, when he was asked like, all right, you're back, but your team has been kind of sucking. He said, I know we're in a bad stretch right now, but things can get better. You've got to have that positive mindset moving forward, which is exactly what they need, exactly what the fans need to hear. And it's nice to hear him saying the right for real, for real. It's a good guy. It's like to have him on my roster, another guy that I didn't, you know, things just aren't going the way that I predicted, to say the least. But even though my team is struggling, Nolan Sean, well of the angels is far exceeding my predictions. And I didn't have him on at first, but luckily, I added him. He had his first career game with three extra base hits on Monday, going three for four with two doubles this past week, his batting average is 450 he went nine for 20 with six walks and a home run. And good guy credits his hitting coaches said that three of them that they helped him to see the ball differently and to look at different pitches and to be more selective about his pitches. And it's working. I tried to watch, or I did watch. I watched all 16 minutes of it, so you guys don't have to chatting practice, which is one of those, like little MLB thingies, and I liked the one with Kiki, so I gave this one a try. And the only it didn't give me any more insight into his character, other than a teeny bit of disappointment, because one of the Colin people asked him which, um, Harry Potter house he would be in. And he said he not only did he say that he didn't know which is fine, like, you know, I'm not too keen on the Potter series now that they're, you know, the author is a very vocal transphobe. That's bad. But when he referred to not knowing the answer, which is funny for a kid, kid, a guy his age, you know, to not know anything about Harry Potter, right? He said, I haven't seen the movies, so I don't know. And I was like, Oh, honey, honey. Like, read the books. They're books. They're not movies like they are movies, they're awesome, but they're really books. And the books are so much more than the movies. So I was just a teeny bit disappointed in him, but he is leading the angels in both batting average and walks, so hopefully he will be reading, oh, maybe he reads other things. Let's, let's look on the bright side, just not Harry Potter. Okay,

Patti 13:03
all right, I'm good with that. So you're probably tired of hearing me talk about Pete crow Armstrong, but he keeps doing things. He keeps doing things. So I have to say it. So I think it's just going to be a weekly thing. It's just gonna make the PCA report like we have the police flyer. So this week in the PCA report. So RBI runs better and became an official statistic in 1920 right? So pretty long time ago. So with PCs, first Career Grand Slam on Friday versus Cincinnati. Wow. He became the first co player since RBI became an official stat to have two, six RBA games, RBI games in one calendar month. First cub ever, ever since 19. That's 20 when that became an official stat. Technically, he did it in a week. Wow. I mean, the games were about a week apart, but, you know, we'll go ahead and call it the whole month of May, because that's what we're talking about here. And we always joke about the how there's a statistic for everything, his response when, when it was pointed out to him that he just had this he said, it's real cool. We always find a lot of interesting stats. In this case,

Pottymouth 14:09
we're talking like Sammy Sosa is always the name that that pops in my mind when I'm doing immaculate grid and thinking of like cubs with amazing stats. Yeah, Holy shit, that he didn't do that. I have a quick PCA sideline. So my cousin Ken was visiting this week, and we're kind of trying to talk baseball. And he's like, so this is, like, not by blood, but it's sort of his, his ex's family. I don't know there was somebody who he was talking about, who said, who he said, and their cousin, it plays for the White Sox. And I was like, really, who is it? And because I'm thinking, you know, like, or a very good player, very good player for the White Sox. And I'm like, very good player for the White Sox. Got to be a white guy. If you're talking about a relative to this person, I'm drawing a blank. And he said he has a hyphenated name. And I was like, Oh, you're talking about the Cubs. Oh yeah, the Cubs. And it's pig bro Armstrong. Wrong. So there is the city, right,

Patti 15:01
yeah. And he wasn't talking about the Pope's. There's that, right? Yeah,

Pottymouth 15:05
right. So there is some connection that there is no way that we can, we can't build on that, build on it, because there's an X involved in that. Sure doesn't fly that way, sure.

Patti 15:15
Hey. So also, with may being a big record setting month, Jason Dominguez, my my Yankees boyfriend I talked two weeks ago, I talked about how he just become one of 16 players with a three home run game, hitting homers from both sides of the plate, which kind of was kind of a big deal. Well, he had a walk off Homer this past Wednesday, which really upped his statistics. He, with that walk off, became the first player in MLB history to hit three home runs in a game from Homer from both sides of the plate. Oh, my God, hit a grand slam and hit a walk off home run in the same month. That is insane. That's insane, and it's May. And he is also a child, yeah. So how about that? I saw

Pottymouth 15:52
a really cute interview with him where he gave credit to the mental skills coach person, which is a big fucking deal because players didn't used to be able to say stuff like that out loud, right about that? No, right? Well, people think exactly so that is pretty awesome, especially for a young guy. For real time, I'm saying something nice about a Yankee, yeah,

Patti 16:13
my once and forever boyfriend, Ellie Richmond, so because I love him dearly, I never bench him. Yeah? I bench him when they don't have a game that day, or if he's out for some reason, but I don't bench him when he's available to play, even though other people have better stats, because he's my guy. Yeah, so last Wednesday, I benched him,

Pottymouth 16:33
wow. And then he did something to make you regret it. Let me guess he

Patti 16:37
hit a three run home run in the top of the 11th Wednesday versus Milwaukee. Notice

Pottymouth 16:42
I was not looking at the notes. That's very also,

Patti 16:44
also, so I, you know, Sean Murphy is my other catcher. So I had, you know, I usually keep him active somewhere, because he's been hitting, hitting well, so I put him in his catcher, and their game got rained out. So I had, oh, you had 00, but also this was the first win for Tony mancellino, their interim manager was that night. That was kind of exciting. So you're welcome, Tony, because I feel like again, we talked about the power that we have. You know, I'm sure, unfortunately, I did put, I mean, I put Adley back, because I love him Truly, Madly, Deeply. And today, while catching Devers, hit a foul ball right into his face mask, and he played for like, another two innings, and then they took him out, and they have him listed his day to day so, but he played for two more innings, so I think he's probably shook. I'm hoping there's nothing bad. There wasn't any other news. It's still too early for other news, but yeah, so that happened, wow. All right, my pitching flock. Oh, I wonder if divers will send him a bottle of wine, because apparently foul balls hitting you in the head get you Yeah, I don't

Pottymouth 17:53
think so. I bet,

Patti 17:55
I bet Adley drinks red wine, yeah, especially if it gets hit in the face with the file. I think that may be too tame, I don't know. So we pick for our fantasy teams potty mouth, and I pick a flock of pictures. We pick pictures in the same team. So I picked the Phillies and so very briefly, I will update there. So Zach Wheeler, they played against the athletics. We had a pitch in Sacramento in their AAA Park, and he complained and complained about the mound. He's like, there's like, little pieces of concrete. It's terrible. He still pitched really well, but he said, Oh no, it's not major league quality mound. But he managed to strike out eight over six and two thirds scoreless innings Friday, and hasn't given up a run over his last three starts. So he managed to get past the terrible mound, and I reported last week that Jose Alvarado was suspended, so I finally I added Andrew painter, who's still in the minors, but there's a lot of anticipation about his call up. He's kind of an elite prospect. Oh, some things say it could be any second now. Some things say it could be a while. So he was drafted out of high school in 2020, school in 2021 and he was seriously competing for a spot in the rotation in spring training of 2023 but he was injured and ended up having Tommy John, which kept him out all of 23 and 24 but right after the season was over, in 24 he played in the Arizona fall League, and was like the pitcher, the pitcher of the year, like he got the award for the best pitcher in the Arizona fall League. So yay for that. He's doing great in triple A. So some half the things I read say, say he could be called up any second. And the other things were like, second half, they're gonna let him, like, recover more slowly and build up his pitch counts very slowly. But I grabbed him because, although I love our other managers, they're good, they're smart, they're they, yeah, so I grabbed him because, you know, I didn't have that other picture anyway. So yeah, this allows me almost every day, to get a message from Yahoo saying there are serious problems with your lineup. Like I know, I know those

Pottymouth 19:59
via. Accident kind of thing. You know, I've got the Connor Wong situation where he's just the one guy for the Red Sox right now, because no rise is, like, one of their best players, and so they're just not playing well, sure. And like, I did not expect that. I totally did not expect that. All right. Another thing I did not expect was Juan so did not shuffle so much. He doesn't have that hop in his step, and he doesn't have that shimmy in his shuffle. This year, he's been under performing, shall we say, so I'm talking about him as a former boyfriend. I picked him, I don't know, a while ago when he was on the Nats. Yeah, great. And then I dropped him when he went to the padres, because I do stuff like that, or maybe when it was to the Yankees, I think I kept him to the padres, but not Yankees. Maybe. Yeah, we need to go back into I'll need to do some research on that. So, you know, he very famously got a shit ton of money this year to go to the Mets over the Yankees and other teams. And right now, he's batting 241 on the season. This past week, 179 and he's batting 132 with renders in scoring position, which is kind of like where he's getting the shit complaints, because that's when you want people to be able to hit, is when you have guys on base last weekend. So the Mets have been also under performing like as a direct result last last weekend they were they had a series against the Yankees, where they won one and lost two, and then they had a series against the Red Sox, where they won one and lost two, and so far, at the time of recording, they're one and one against the Dodgers. So maybe they'll win, I don't know, but the whole clearly, the whole Mets Yankees match up was big for Soto, because that's where he came from, and the Yankees faithful booed him appropriately, because that's what you do. Like, you know, you lost out on this guy, and you're feeling bad about it. He was supposed to be miked up. And I got this tip from Mr. Potty mess cousin. He was supposed to be miked up by ESPN last Sunday night for the Sunday Night Baseball game. Mets Yankees, and bailed, literally at the last minute. And so there's a little bit of like, scuttlebutt about why that happened. Apparently, buster only after after Soto agreed to do it, and but before the game, buster only posted that he was going to ask him about Aaron judge. And so there's a little bit of commentary like, why the fuck does he want to get on and talk about Aaron judge on this team that he's not on anymore, and how well judge is doing compared like it's like a night and day

Patti 22:25
situation, it could be some real gotcha questions. Yeah, yeah. So, so maybe

Pottymouth 22:30
he didn't want to get Gotcha. What Mr. Pranamas cousin said that he heard somewhere, but I could not find for myself, is that maybe it was a contract issue that he actually wasn't allowed to do something like that. That could be, right? I wouldn't put that past Boris at all with, you know, there's probably, like, 20 million addendums to this huge contract, but Brandon Nimmo pinch hit very appropriately, and he got to talk about his facial hair becoming a father and the team's recent performances, which doesn't have anything to do with Aaron judge. And so he probably had a lovely conversation. I

Patti 23:04
think there's, there's been some beef between Aaron judge and Soto, yeah, and so, yeah.

Pottymouth 23:09
So that brings the, you know, that brings up the the comment that for one of so does early excuses, right? That he made about not doing well is that he's no longer hitting in front of judge, and so they're pitching to him differently. Well, he's sitting in front of Peter Alonso is doing pretty fucking well also. So that was that was like a dis to so many people, and I think it probably got blown out of proportion, including by me. So then they went from the Yankees to the Red Sox, which is quite a route for the Mets, and he got a lot of shit for not hustling out of the box after a hit off the green monster. I think he thought it was out of the park, but it's the green monster, and he ended up with a single on what probably could have been a double. Manager, Carlos Mendoza, was very clear that they were going to have a talk. No word on what happened with that talk, but the rumor mill this week has been just kind of exploding, especially after these really two huge matchups. So Michael K the Yankees play by play guy, said that he has inside Intel, because he's a Yankees play by play guy. So of course, he knows you know, fucking everything. And he said that, according to his source sources, that Soto himself really wanted to stay with the Yankees, but it was family pressure that made him take the Mets deal. Apparently, his family really liked Steve Cohen for some reason, according to Michael Kay, this is all like through his blinders or whatever. So at that point, when that came out, Soto, for some reason, started bringing up the other offers that he had, and mentioned publicly that the Red Sox were a very strong offer. And I'm thinking like, Thank God he didn't go to the Red Sox, because I don't want to deal with this craziness, and I don't know how they would have made room for him and what you know that money should be going to other places, but holy shit. Apparently, the Red Sox were number three. Be after the Yankees and the Mets, the Red

Patti 25:02
Sox would not have ended up with Bregman. Oh, right, because they had to pay for soda. They could not pay for Bregman, absolutely.

Pottymouth 25:07
And that would have been before then, you're totally right. It would have been a shit show. So I'm, I'm very glad Scott Boris to add, you know, fuel to this, like explosion, admits that there's a degree of regret with signing with the Mets, and he said that in a very couch. I know that's such the wrong way to say he said it, and in that, Soto had so many amazing offers, including the Dodgers, and I forget what other team that he said. Any place he went, there would be some regret. So this is part of it, but that was just a fucking stupid thing to say. So maybe last night was the beginning of the redemption tour. He got a clutch hit. So as I said before, he had not been hitting with guys in storing scoring position, he got a Bases Loaded double, which made the difference to let the Yankees win that game against the Dodgers. And you guys know how they did tonight, and I don't know. So just a little reminder, 15 years 760, $5 million is the largest contract in history that we're talking about for this guy who is, you know, it's early in the season. And that's what Mr. Prime's cousin, the Mets fan, you know, kept saying, is it's early he could, you know, look what happened to Rafael Devers. Everybody was sitting on him for the first few weeks of the season, and now he's doing amazing. So who knows? Also in the Mets favor. I mean, look, this past week they had the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Dodgers, like, What a fucking week. Next week they have the White Sox and the Rockies. So time will tell to see what happens. I find it very amusing that the it is, they're at home also with the White Sox and the Rockies. So like, huge advantage there, the entire Rocky series. All three games, they have a Hello Kitty giveaway. I want that. Yeah, we could go. I'll actually be there next weekend, but the game doesn't fit into quite our schedule. But Hello Kitty giveaway. All three games against the Rockies.

Patti 27:02
You know, if anybody's going and does not want their Hello Kitty bobble I sure do. I'll pay for shipping.

Pottymouth 27:07
Okay, yep, it's wearing a Mets uniform. That's okay, okay, I think that's gonna it's kind of cute, pretty fun. It is, it is. It's amazing. It's

Patti 27:15
amazing. Amazing. Mets. Hey, so my former boyfriend from a long time ago from Atlanta, from the hammers, mile, dacuna Jr. We haven't talked about him a lot because he hasn't been playing, because he spent a year recovering from a torn ACL. He finally came back, triumphant return on Friday, and heavy on the triumphant return, because his very first pitch versus San Diego, not only did he Homer, but he hit it 467 feet. 467 that's very, very far. That's very far. So his manager, you know, Brian snicker said he's one of those players that you better not go get a beer or whatever, because you might miss something really cool. You know,

Pottymouth 27:57
wow. They got to be happy to have him, yeah, because they've had some struggles.

Patti 28:01
And maybe this is going to be a little turnaround. We'll see what happens with the

Pottymouth 28:05
hammer first pitch that is so beautiful. And in that honor, I am wearing my Acuna jersey, not jersey, t shirt, t shirt, my Venezuela Acuna number 40 2t shirt from the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, you are all right. Vocabulary, yep, and shit, stuff, the bad one. So last week, Patty talked about Lance McCullers getting death threats, like, I can't even say it out loud for

Patti 28:31
his family and his children, his wife and children,

Pottymouth 28:35
because he pitched poorly in a game. Yeah, and we're talking about family, and it's just insane. So I it's now a thing. So Liam Hendricks got mccollore This week, so that's the new vocabulary word to get. Mccollore means getting death threats to you and your family because of pitching poorly. Liam blew it up on a red Instagram story very purposefully. And the whole thing you should read, but part of it at the very end, he said, I think I speak for all players who had to deal with in their careers when I say enough is enough. And there's a good MLB article, which I think I put for the show notes, where he talks about how this is rampant in sports, and people don't talk about it enough. So yay for Lance McCullers to mention it last week and for Hendrix to build on it.

Patti 29:27
Also, do you know that he, he, he talked about it too on a podcast? Yeah? So all of a sudden, yeah, you're right, the floodgates are open, and people say, Oh yeah, me too. It's a me too, yeah. Thing is, what's happening here, right? Because

Pottymouth 29:39
it's something that they've just sort of accepted, you know, this is just the way it is. This is the way, you know, assholes deal with sports and when they want to get out their frustrations. I don't know, he said that at some point somebody has to make a stand. And it's one thing where the more eyes we get on it, the more voices we get talking about it. Hopefully. We can push it in the right direction. And what he's looking for is some sort of punishment. Like, I don't know how you do that, because he's, you know, of course, a lot of people do this from burner accounts, but he said also some people are using their actual accounts. Somebody needs to do something about this, especially when it's a social media issue, right?

Patti 30:19
Yeah. What I thought was interesting is Hendrix pointed out that a lot of the ones that he was the victim of were definitely sports betting related. Oh, really, yeah, which has happened in the past for sure. Oh, my God, people are stupidly betting on sports and losing money on things and then blaming the player, as opposed to taking responsibility for the fact that they are playing a game of chance, yeah, and there's no guarantee. And there the one of the articles I read was putting in the context of the green monster, there are ads for sports betting, you know, nearby, all around, all all stadiums. You know, they sponsor restaurants and bars and all of this is sports betting. And then the people who are deep into it are very deep into it, and blame the players when they're not winning their bets and they're off their freaking rockers in a way that they are threatening players for them making a decision to bet money and then lose because didn't work out the way they want it to work. And and a lot of these threats are very detailed and scary. That's so gross, they're very scary. So these people that, so these players are on road trips, leaving their spouses and their kids at home when they're getting these threats, and they can't they're not there to, like, be sure that their family is safe. How freaking scary is that it's not okay. It's not okay. No, I'm 100% sure that no one listens to our show, right?

Pottymouth 31:46
But talk to your friends about it. Yeah. Hendrix did say, you know, I mean, there are a lot of us who are, you know, just very upset about this and express that. And so he said he has gotten an outpouring and love. And that thing that you said about being on the road, he said that even, like the security at the building where he lives, said, we've got your back. We're gonna he moved. Oh my god,

Patti 32:08
he moved because someone said, I'm gonna come in your sliding glass door. And he lived in a house with the sliding glass door. That is, they moved into a secure apartment building. That's,

Pottymouth 32:16
yes, it's so gross. I talked about this with a friend of mine in Ecuador Hi Santiago. And he said that, you know this, this is international. So I was thinking, Oh, this is like a sign of the times, and the way that everybody feels free to just be an asshole these days, but it's been going on a long time. And actually, Mr. Patty mass cousin pointed out from 1994 World Cup, a player was actually killed. So So Andres Escobar was a Colombian player who got an own goal again. So bad, you know, scored a goal for the other team against the United States in the World Baseball Classic. But this is exactly it betting. It's totally it still had to do with betting. Unfortunately, it was betting by the drug cartels, and then they just killed us. Killed them because they lost a lot of money because of his own goal, which is just like people, it's they're all games. These are people doing their job. They're working. This is just

Patti 33:14
it's interesting, because the McCullers threats, none of them were tied to betting, none of them were explicit, whereas a lot of the ones that Hendrix was talking about, they referenced very specific bets that they lost because of you, therefore you should suffer for this. So part of it is absolutely in the hands of why is sports betting allowed in this pervasive way that is clearly off the charts. But also it's people who are just, you know, I care deeply about my how my team does, but I don't even boo, for God's sake, right? I mean, please, please, get put things in perspective. And

Pottymouth 33:53
that thing you're saying about betting too, because betting is at the stage now where you're not just betting on a team win, you're betting on stats, yes, betting on pictures and you're better like it's because it's so micro. Yes, it lets people target exactly so much more. I just want to give Liam Hendricks a huge fucking amount of applause, because of all people. I mean, nobody deserves this. Nobody deserves this, but especially Liam Hendricks, because he is the definition of a good guy. Despite being on the aisle all of 2024 he was the Red Sox Clemente nominee because of him hitting the ground in Boston and doing the charity work before he's even fucking playing. He had also been nominated in 2021 22 and 23 by the White Sox for the Clemente award. And we all know this is for somebody who's going above and beyond to do good things outside of the ballpark. Beyond that, he was nominated in 2017 and 19 by the A's, also for folks who don't know, he missed most of 23 due to cancer treatment, which was part of the the horrible things that were said against him. And then won the. Comeback Player of the Year. Yeah. By the way, for those who like to do the grid, along with the A's White Sox and Red Sox, he played for the twins Blue Jays and Royals,

Patti 35:08
and he had a very good inning against my Orioles today. Oh, that's

Pottymouth 35:12
good, because no ish, yeah. And that was happy for him that day of the of the of the horrible death threats. It was another thing where it's like, it he had a great inning, and then he had a bad inning, and he shouldn't have been put back in for that second inning he had, I was really impressed at his first one, and so it's not, yeah. All right, more shit. More shit. All

Patti 35:31
right, so I'm gonna consider that police blotter stuff, and I'm gonna move on to more police blotter. We're back to Pittsburgh. We're back to 20 year old Kevin markwood, who is the guy who fell, you know, 30 feet in PNC Park, right? So on Tuesday, police charged a 21 year old friend of Kevin Mark Woods with 2/3 degree misdemeanor counts of furnishing alcohol to an underage person. Because Kevin is 20 there, so big brother is watching. My friends, don't get caught. You know, do what your heart tells you is okay to do. I'm not big brother, but big brother is watching you because they had on camera this 21 year old buying two beers, and then moments later, he and Kevin, the underage guy, walking around the stadium, each carrying one of those beers. He admitted, yes, I did that. But also he this guy who was just, you know, is now was charged with this, has a criminal record of public drunkenness, and was charged twice while under age for buying alcohol as an underage person while he was 18, and again, while he was 19. He's got a hearing on June 23 so again, we're trying, they're trying to figure out, how did this happen? There's a lot of reasons. One of them maybe he was drinking beer he shouldn't have had. But I don't know that we can, like, lean into that and say maybe there's some other things here, like, maybe the railings need to be higher. Maybe there's a lot. There's a lot of things here, but yeah, cameras everywhere. So, you know, Don't get cute. I

Pottymouth 37:08
saw a video recently of Bucha from behind him when he jumped over instead, you know, there's been a lot of him falling from the front, but he was, like, exuberantly Jumping, yeah, and he just, like, exuberated too far. Yeah,

Patti 37:20
yeah, yes, yep, for sure, the Rockies we referenced before, they are criminally bad in a lot of ways. So with their loss to Philadelphia last week, they set a record. There were eight and 42 which is the worst record through the first 50 games of a season in the modern Major League Baseball era, worst ever for the first 50 games. The previous was 41 losses. What that was the senators in 1904 in 1904 is the worst first 50 games since 1904 that's a lot. That same day where that record was set, Colorado security did not recognize your 2024 Philly's boyfriend, Johan Rojas, oh, really, pregame, pregame. So he wasn't in uniform yet, okay, had hopped over into the stands to take a phone call like the game, nowhere near the game time, right? And then wants to hop back over onto the field because they were doing their play baseball, because I play baseball, right? So the security guard stopped him because the Colorado guy did not recognize him. And it took Zach Wheeler coming over and saying, he's my teammate, my teammate, to let get him back on the field. So that was fun.

Pottymouth 38:33
Oh, wow. You know, I wish I knew what I was about to say, like I had stats behind it, but when I saw you had a criminally bad Colorado Do you about the guy who's suing? Like he got hit by a ball and he's suing, and I wish, once again, I'm gonna have to look this up and put in the show notes somehow, there's a guy who's suing the Rockies because he got hit, which usually is like, you know, you're in the stands. You should pay the back of your ticket. Says, Yeah, right. So he says that he wasn't paying attention because they were so bad. So he's saying that they were so bad.

Patti 39:06
How could he possibly be responsible for his own actions? Right?

Pottymouth 39:11
Right. Welcome to America people. Wow. All right, wow. Okay, so because clearly, you need more things to keep your attention. It seems like MLB is taking a page out of this Savannah bananas playbook and doing stuff to get attention of people. I mean, I just like going to watch baseball, but we talked before about the speedway classic happening on August 2, which is just, you know, making it a little bit novel by putting it on a huge speedway. So putting the baseball diamond in the middle of one of these big like NASCAR or something like that speedways in in Tennessee, Bristol, Tennessee. And we, we talked about thinking that that it would be a fun thing to go to, would be a fun thing to go to that, yeah, unfortunately, so this is, uh, since. And I reds are playing against Atlanta, by the way, and it's happening August 2. It would be a fun thing to go to. I am very sad to say that I now have a calendar conflict because my cousin's kid is getting married, so I am going to the Great North that weekend. And then I saw I was thinking that to make me not feel so bad they are having like a musical accompaniment to the game, and Tim McGraw is headlining, and I went in a bad stereotyping way, and I saw his cowboy hat, and I just thought, Oh, we're on a speedway. There's a guy in a cowboy hat singing, this is probably something I don't want to be involved with. Well, I was wrong. You were wrong, so I better get my stuff straight. Tim McGraw is actually a very nice guy. I looked into it. So those of you who are contemplating going, I think it would be good things. So he is married to another wonderful singer, Faith Hill. He has three daughters, and apparently, before the election, he posted something about quote, let's honor the women in our lives with respect and make sure that we fight for the rights right alongside them. And that's all he posted. He didn't outwardly say that he was voting for Harris, but he did very much imply that he was in favor of women having control over their own bodies, which is, holy shit, like

Patti 41:20
you, seems like, you know, a pretty low bar,

Pottymouth 41:23
right? So he got mccullared by Maga hats about this and all sorts of nasty things about his wife and daughters, because, apparently, it was interpreted and probably correctly that he was, you know, expressing himself as a country singer, but still voting, you know, supporting those blue people. So I don't know, I Blue Man Group, yeah, something like that. Those of us who lean to the blue, there are going to be some special guests to be announced. So if you are in the Tennessee area and free on August 2, unfortunately, I'm not. I would say, like, check it out. It seems like there's still tickets available, and it's a novel, fun thing. And I am, in general, pro anything that's just fun, and especially if it's related to baseball and not hurting anybody. So this sounds like a good thing, another fun crazy, like banana ish spin off, that's happening right now in the rest of the summers, Home Run Derby x, which we've talked about in past weeks. And I'm just going to tell you to check the link in the show notes, because there are too many names to mention, although I got to say Manny Ramirez, because that was very exciting, and Adrian Gonzalez. Anyway, there's lots of names involved in this, but the coolest thing is that there are women involved. So each team is made up of people of different genders, including Alex Hugo and Ashton Lanzo. Put two women who are on the women's USA baseball team. There are also women involved in softball. The action is starting July 13, and it's in all sorts of places where are not too close to where we live, but probably good for getting baseball to where there's not a lot of baseball, right? Georgia, well, I guess they have Atlanta. I've never mind. I've got a team. Yeah? All right, so Georgia, it's a big state, yeah. And so is Texas, so I'm actually sure where they're in Texas, but North Carolina, they have the Durham Bulls, but they don't have a major league team. As far as I know. Oklahoma, I know they have basketball. Iowa. There's no baseball in Iowa, but there's

Patti 43:30
a lot of but, boy, there are a lot of blackouts and are blacked out dreams.

Pottymouth 43:35
Is Iowa, and then there's TBA. I don't you know that's I love. That's my favorite place to go. And they end up in Salt Lake City of all wholesome places, all right, so check out Home Run Derby X to just it, and it's like a home run derby, but there's defense. So meaning you they get, they get points for catching balls. Okay, yeah, so it's just all sorts of craziness. And why not? You get to see Manny Ramirez. His hair is like, down to his ass right now. It's, it'll be fun to watch him playing around.

Patti 44:05
I like it, or I like it. We are gonna cross train with ice dance. I love this. It's very summery. It's, yeah, so I was laughing that, like, we've cross trained with ice related sports a lot, but they always usually end with the word hockey, yeah. Now this is ice dancing. So there was a story in the Washington Post that I thought was fascinating on a lot of levels. It's many layers. I miss this, yes, well, you're gonna read it now, because, okay, you're gonna want to read this. It's very interesting. So three years ago, skate Canada, which is like the, you know, the National Federation that oversees all the ice skating, you know, tournaments and all that they they changed their definition of of an ice dancing team from one man and one woman to two skaters. Wow. They are the still, still. Three years later, the only country, only Federation, national federation, anywhere in the world, to have done that and the internet. National skating union, which oversees, like all like the World Championships and the Olympics, forbids single gender teams, like overtly, wow, forbids that, which, you know, I not have noticed a long time ago, right? And now it's like, well, what the hell? Well.

Pottymouth 45:16
And also, I would I just assume that they do that just because of custom, not because of rules, right? And

Patti 45:23
custom has a lot to do with this, because the whole feel of ice dancing is a love story and romance in a very, very traditional way, right? A very traditional okay. So anyway, there are two women who are gold medalists in the Olympics from ice dancing teams, Madison Hubble and Gabriella Papadakis, right? They have been friends for years because their teams shared practice rinks. They've been friends so they like, skated together, you know, just for fun, whatever. So they there were, there was a video of the two of them as as you know, skating together in ice dancing, like choreographed ice dancing. And they got put online, right as a couple, as a couple, all right? They were the team, but they were doing it for fun in this practice rink right there. You know, they're they are retired from competition. They're not even competing. They're not competing. But the Swiss art on ice exhibition invited them to please come sure and skate. And do you know, do your, you know, a routine doing it's, it's, you know, no competition. It's an exhibition. And they were so well reviewed. It was lovely. It was wonderful. It was fantastic. I believe, was one of the words used. It was amazing, right? So what papadaca said was, we made people see other realities, right? And so there's a good there's a lot of levels of this. One of them is your pre, you know, your notions, your preconceived notions, about what romance should look like, right? Because there's, you know, that's always a love story, kind of in presentation with ice dancing. But there's also an inequity in numbers of skaters of different genders. So there are way more female ice dancing skaters than there are males. So if you are a competent male skater looking for a partner for ice dancing, you can audition 100 100 girls, 100 women. Yeah, right. And the girls and the women don't have that same opportunity, but if they were allowed to skate with each other, they would be able to compete in their chosen Wow sport. So there's a whole equity thing on top of the sort of the bias thing, right? So there's other levels. So also, it is a judged sport, right? It's not a you hit a home run or you, you know, you made a touchdown, you you know, hit the the ball or the puck into the net. It's you are judged numerically by judges who have come with their own biases. So that feeds into this too. So there's another skater, Caitlin Weaver, who's an American, who competed internationally with her. Her male counterpart in her ice dancing team was Canadian, so she's got a lot of Canadian experience. So skate Canada appointed her to a task force to look at diversity. Wow. So you know, stories about a lot of, a lot of men in ice skating who have come out publicly, but it doesn't mean they're accepted, right? It's so they there's a lot of microaggressions, there's a lot of crap, and there's a lot of assumptions, right? Which is one of the reasons why there are so far so many fewer men competing. That makes sense. So they identified this task force, you know, gender complexities as like the start. And so changing this rule was a big first step. But they need to change ideas. They need to change, you know, the long standing biases and all of that. And what, what Caitlin said was, with women, we are so scrutinized in sports, you are one of two things, the ingenue or the sex symbol. Those are only two identities. You can't go outside of those identities, right? And she sees that as holding back skating, right? Because there are generations, much younger generations, who don't give a shit about it being a man and a woman, they want to see a sport. They want to see technical and artistic execution. They don't care who's doing it. It doesn't matter, not like the 85 year old judges who come with it with their preconceived notions. So there has been a decline in ratings, in watching competitions. Fan interest all of this thing, and she's like, you know, there's a way to, you know, appeal to a whole other demographic that we're losing. What she what she closed with, was, part of my mission is to keep the sport from going down to grandma and grandpa's VCR in the basement. So I love this story because it looks at this issue on. So many different levels. So I'm going to put a link in there. I hope you read it and think about it, because it's not just, is it fair? Is that they're competing? All of the pieces in these arguments are very, very layered, and I was very interested in that. So I hope you are too.

Pottymouth 50:16
Yeah, I am super curious to know if anybody's gonna follow in Canada's footsteps? I mean, I just never even thought about that being an actual rule, like I'm thinking about any sort of paired competition.

Patti 50:29
Well. And also they point out that, you know, even though the image is, it's a romantic, right, artistic thing, very, very few teams are actual couples. In fact, some teams, their partners are married to, like, other other team, like, you know, like, so the woman from this team is married to the male partner on that team, and, like, and so, so it's not real anyway, yeah? So who cares, yeah, who cares? They're all acting. They're all acting, right?

Pottymouth 50:58
Yeah. It makes me think of it. We have a Latin dance competition montgomery county, yeah, and I remember the year that I went, and they have an alumni, and one of the alumni pairs were two men dancing together in a very romantic way. And it was awesome. And it was so cool, especially in that environment, to see two guys willing to do that, and they were amazing. And they were, I don't remember if they place first and second they or second they play, they play somewhere, but, but we just need people need to get out there and do this. Because, yep. Why not? Yep? All right. Global events, World Baseball Classic, one of our very favorite things, happening in 2026 and we're all gearing up, and announcements keep being made. I think it's just it's fun to hear how excited, even players who are playing for the US of A are excited about the World Baseball Classic, just thinking that this is such a different level than what they're used to, even in MLB, I like that.

Patti 51:59
You said us

Pottymouth 52:02
all right, I'm heading to the end of my south side here. Andrew Jones is going to be managing the Netherlands. So Andrew Jones, famously of the Atlanta team, has five World Series under does that five World Series is that? I think that's what ws stands for, yeah, 10 gold gloves. He's from Curacao, which is zoned by the narrow Netherlands, and there's a whole another international discussion. But he played in the World Baseball Classic for the Netherlands in oh six and 13, and then worked as a bench coach in 2017 and 23 so the Netherlands best showing was in 2013 where they came in fourth. We know that they didn't make it to the semis in 2023 because we were there with a whole bunch of Netherlands fans in front of us who had great shirts. They were so much fun, but no team to root for. Yeah, they really wanted a team to root for, but they were really nice guys. So yay for the Netherlands. We'll see where they go in 2026 I think, I mean, there's so much hype around this world, but I just wish we could go. Maybe we can go to Puerto Rico, I don't know, but the semis are going to be, you know, in Florida and Texas. We

Patti 53:12
don't, you know, want to play Sun City. Not fun, yeah.

Pottymouth 53:17
Okay. I would really like to know how many of listeners know that reference, probably a lot of you, how many of you aren't gonna play so yeah, but they all missed

Patti 53:25
the merry merry month of May, way up at the top, though. So Steven foster probably doesn't resonate with a lot of people, but okay,

Pottymouth 53:30
this song stick with me. Yeah, ain't gonna play some city. All right. Miguel Cabrera is going to be a hitting coach for Team Venezuela, or maybe he will play so I don't know. Right now, on paper, he is committed to being a hitting coach. He has decided to play again, however, so very famously, Miguel Cabrera has retired from Major League Baseball after a really amazing career with the Detroit Tigers. There were a lot of hits, lots and lots. He's so good for immaculate grid. But apparently he has decided to do a Nelson Cruz style post retirement farewell tour. So Nelson Cruz did this. He retired from MLB, and then he went and played with Leones de los gojiro In the Dominican in lead on Dominican Republic for his last like hurrah, to be in his country and get celebrated all over the place. So Miggy is going to do this in Venezuela. He's going to be playing for the Tigres de Arawa next winter, where he got his first professional baseball hit at the age of 16. So what a way to like bookend your career. And so we'll see what happens with him in the World Baseball Classic, the aforementioned Juan Soto has declared that he wants to play for the Dominican Republic, and I believe he will get a shot at that unless things go really, really, really south. But he is buddies with Nelson Cruz, the general manager, Albert Pujols will be managing the DR and. What? What slipped under my like radar, I guess, is the assistant manager with Albert Bucha. This is Gilbert Gomez, who I recalled the name from being the youngest lead on manager to win the championship with the Tigres daily say. And they won in 24 and then last year they came number two to my in his desk, but they were in the playoffs. What I didn't know about Gilbert Gomez is that he is currently managing the Brooklyn cyclone.

Patti 55:31
Wait a minute,

Pottymouth 55:32
I have a hat. I have a hat

Patti 55:35
and a fan. So, right?

Pottymouth 55:37
That absolutely. So now I'm excited about Gilbert Gomez being, I haven't even told potty mess Jr about this. Like that. They have to be extra excited about the Brooklyn cycle. Must be. We've got, like, an exciting connection to the manager through, like, I don't know, seven stages of connection. Juan Soto sang out loud, however, that he wants to play for the World Baseball Classic is a little bit of PTSD for Mets fans, because they might recall that Edwin Diaz was out for the season after busting his knee because of a celebration when he pitched and Puerto Rico beat the DR and everybody was so excited that they jumped on him and he blew out his knee for the fucking season. So Mets fans might be a little itchy about the World Baseball Classic changing some rules and but as an aside, Edwin Diaz has also said that he wants to play again for lightning doesn't strike twice. He wants to play again for Puerto Rico, that kind of thing. Yeah, oh shit. Here's one knocking right here, knocking, knocking, knocking, hoping that both of them get permission from the Mets organization to play because we love a good WBC. We sure

Patti 56:44
do? We sure do we also love a good fantasy league. I don't know if guys are great. Is a Yeah, I love, I love the people in our fantasy league. We have ridiculous rules, and mostly people abide by them. And I appreciate that our top five are still the top five, but things moved within the top five. Bo knows boyfriends jumped to number two. That was, that was a couple levels there, and, um, leftist field jumped over pandemonium. I love both of them, right? I Well, we

Pottymouth 57:12
love everybody. Yeah. You guys are all great. This is all like, oh yeah,

Patti 57:16
matter, yeah, oh my god. Straight face, like a straight face, I know, I know. And Karen's crew hopped over, bring back ridnell To time II, in sixth place. So there was a little bit of, you know, of change below that is pretty solid, pretty

Pottymouth 57:34
solid. Before, I'm noticing that the Canadians aren't in the basement anymore. Well, they weren't in the basement last week either. Oh, all right. We talked about kids being naturally in the basement, right? All right,

Patti 57:43
no, that's weird. But okay, okay, hey, what do you have going on this week? I'm

Pottymouth 57:49
going back to New York City next weekend. Yeah, that feels weird, but Okay,

Patti 57:55
love it, yeah, enjoy your time in New York City. Yeah,

Pottymouth 57:59
my kids there, so I want to go see the kid. We've got the clown visiting. That's our friend from Guatemala, who is an actual clown. And so he shows up tomorrow morning. I'm going to Dallas airport at six in the

Patti 58:10
morning. Good thing you're the day, yeah, good thing you're not giving a quiz about whatever we'd say. We give me a quiz not Yeah, I'm

Pottymouth 58:16
gonna pop the clown in the car. Luckily, we have a good clown car and bring him back here, and he will be here for the week. I made a very poor decision to get us concert tickets for Wednesday night at the anthem in DC, right? So Thursday, I'm going to be toast at work, and Friday, I'm going to be sick because we're going to be driving to New York. I hope none of you know who I am, so we're not nobody's going to bust me for my pre emptive Sick Day. On Friday, we're going to go to New York City, and once there, we are going to see the child and go see the Book of Mormon on Broadway, because the clown has Mormon ancestry, and I've always thought it would be great to see Book of Mormon with him.

Patti 58:58
I think that's an excellent choice. That is an excellent choice. Wow. So well, I'll miss you, but I hope I get to see the clown. I'm here all week, as they say. So I look for opportunities to hang with the clown, for sure. Also consult with potty mouth on social media about how you can commit very painless voter fraud to get me a local born. Right? Do you want to say why you're so proud of I am

Pottymouth 59:20
so excited. Patty is the best. So Patty's been nominated for what's called an azalea Award, which is a premier award in our little city of takoma park. We are famous for our azaleas. And these awards go to people who have done wonderful things in a variety of categories. What's your official category? Civil Servant? All right, so patty is, I feel like the description, if you go to the website for takoma park government, the description does not know it's Tacoma foundation. Oh, Tacoma Foundation, yeah,

Patti 59:47
the city would not nominate any of its staff. That would be silly. No, no. Well, I was just

Pottymouth 59:51
thinking like, as being the outpost of the stuff. But yeah, Tacoma Foundation, which is, you know, does good things for grants of. Deserving, deserving groups in Takoma Park, and also the azalea awards and their description view does not do justice, because Patty has done so so many things for our lovely city of takoma park. You guys know that also, Patty has been on the board of the Thunderbolts, the local collegiate wooden bat league amongst as well as working in currently grants and then previously human relations, and then previously housing, and then previously computer center and then previously library. So like basically any job give a bingo card, and Patty has done it for our fair city, more than deserving of the zalia Award. So if you go to the Tacoma Foundation website, which I'm hoping will be in the show notes, and if you happen to be a resident of takoma park, the zip code is 20912, then you can vote for Patty, because that's your identification. You have to know the zip code, right?

Patti 1:01:01
And I feel like that's harmless voter fraud, right? Right? Exactly. Yeah, no, it's fine. No. Honestly, I'm really touched to be nominated for this award. And it is really, it's a very cool thing, and it's been going on for many, many years, and I'm the only city staff person this year, but there's usually a city staff person or two every year, which I

Pottymouth 1:01:22
appreciate. That's I thought that it was a city step, but it wasn't, yeah, servant, yeah. It's

Patti 1:01:27
civil servant. So it's a public employee. So there's a lot of like, you know, public school teachers who are also very, very worthy. But the cool thing about this is, reading through all of these nominations, you see what makes the community right? These are the people who are working within the schools or the city government, or they are activists, or they're people in your neighborhood who make a difference on your block, and all of those things go together to make a community. So I hope you live in that kind of rich, wonderful community where lots of people work together to make things better

Pottymouth 1:01:55
for people. Yeah, and I missed you being on board of Tacoma foundation previously, like there's so many things you've done years

Patti 1:02:01
ago, and I used to run the book sale for the for the library that, yeah, so a lot of things over a lot of time, right? So I feel like there should be, like, a mini recipe. This is the civil servant stuff. So this is very, very reflective of what I do now. But again, lots of people, and there's a business category which talks about how a lot of small businesses in in our neighborhood make a difference for the people who live here. And I think that's really cool, that they're acknowledging all those different areas and why all of them are important. Huge. Yep. So you can always find us on social media to double check that that that ballot link and and to tell us what we got wrong and what you're doing for fun with baseball right now. Where can people find us? You can find

Pottymouth 1:02:41
us on blue sky and x if you need to at ncib podcast face. Did I say x? I said that out loud? I don't think I've ever said X. It's always been Twitter. To me. It's Twitter, and then there's Facebook and Instagram, which are no crying, and B ball, and then there's Patreon. It's $1 folks, and I really appreciate that. We have a lot of folks putting in a buck, or maybe three bucks or five bucks, depending on the person, but still, $1 gets you into Patreon, and knowing that you're keeping us afloat. We really, really, really appreciate and depend very much on our Patreon folks for keeping this podcast out there. That's P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying, be ball, and you can be part of that fun for

Patti 1:03:24
sure. For sure. Okay, so in the meantime, my friends, are you up to date on your boosters? Because I still see people wearing masks around because you know what they're you know, we're traveling. It's getting we're getting close to people going on vacation, holiday stuff, all the things, fight the man. Oh, my God, that's never been more important to fight the man. It's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty

Pottymouth 1:03:44
mouth, good night. Potty mouth, you

did you watch was zoom? Just a Boston thing? Oh, no. I mean it

Patti 1:04:08
was, it was out of Boston, but we're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom, everybody, come on, give it a try. Yeah,

Pottymouth 1:04:13
I didn't know it was, did you speak abd or did you do remember the, like, the hand thing? I got the hand thing? Yeah, that was like a big recess thing, yeah? Oh, for sure, I remember that. That's good to know, yeah, oh, 2134,