No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 409 of No Crying in Baseball, the when everyone can be who they are Episode. My name is Patti and I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth. Happy Pride.

Pottymouth 0:27
Hey, Happy Pride! It's good to like that's such a happy note to start on. Yeah, it's June 1 for us babes. Yeah, yeah. So you guys who are listening are a couple days into pride, but we're just starting. And more pride, more pride. You know, this is a big year to be celebrating loudly and frequently. So if you haven't yet, get out there, find your local pride events and and do what you can do. You can have fun with it too. And and fuck the Rangers, because they are still the only MLB team without a pride night. So so wait. So the Yankees are like, so the dainties have figured out a way to do it without cramping their style, and they actually are posting, like I even saw today, that they posted the rainbow New York symbol, and they're having, I forget what they're calling it, but they just don't do nights, right? But they had, they're titling it, and they did this last year too. There's, like, some title that fits in with the Yankees way, but still acknowledges that, yes, we're in New York City, where pride is super, Uber important. I mean, it's important everywhere, but New York is alright. Big, big, big. But fuck the Rangers. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck the Rangers. I think one of our local teams is playing the Rangers on their pride night. So I think, you know, I think that would be the best thing that other teams could do. And I know come in pride gear well as the visiting team, yeah, do that. And then also any Rangers game that they're hosting, that's when they do their pride night like that. Make that their June pride night whenever the if the Rangers, like, went around the country during the month of June and had to go from Pride night to pride night to pride night. I think that would be awesome. I think

Patti 2:06
it's pretty awesome. But I think we need to bring it to them. Oh, yeah, because it's them, it's their place. Whatever. I want to see that happen. Okay, folks, you know, people make it happen. Yep, yes, you were away and now you are back. Yes,

Pottymouth 2:18
speaking of New York City. I just got back moments ago from New York City, and it was fun. It was moments ago, plus soup. We did have to, yeah, plus soup. That's exactly what it was. So we went up to bring our friend the clown to New York and also, because our kid lives there, it's, it was like a good reason to go and bring the clown. And we did lots of fun New York City things. I want to tip my hat to my kids, New York City family. David, Linda, if you guys are listening, thank you so much for taking my kid in. And just you know, being, being the home away from home, and the parents away from parents, while my kids far away, beautiful place, and we got to stay there, so that was super fun and and they're Mets fans so much better than Yankees fans and Mets fans with a great baseball watching set up in the yard. So we watched on Friday night the Mets game. It was like fun for everybody, because we saw the Mets beat the Rockies. No great feet. Oh my god, the poor rocky Rockies. I know I do kind of feel bad for him, I do. And they did, too. And they were like, after this weekend, we would like to see the Rockies. I totally get that. And then we went from there to the Red Sox game and saw them shockingly win the end of the game. And so everybody was happy. It was just a great New York City time, and we got to have a little bit of basketball revenge. You know, not the best kind. But last time, a couple weeks ago, when I was in New York City, we watched the Knicks Celtics game. And we did see the one game that the Celtics won in the bar surrounded by Knicks fans. And this time again, we got to see a Knicks game. Sadly, it was not the Celtics, but we saw the Knicks get eliminated. So, you know, that's kind of the next I don't know. I feel bad now saying that out loud. That's really mean to have joy in other people's misery. But Indiana people are happy.

Patti 4:09
I'm a Midwesterner. I was in the state next Indiana, so I'm taking that as

Pottymouth 4:13
a win. Yeah, and Indiana was just so impressive. They were the in the stadium looked pretty small, but the fans were all on their feet most of the time, and they played beautiful ball. It was just it was gorgeous to watch. So I appreciated that. So that's my New York trip. But speaking of bringing the clown to New York, thanks to you. The clown is now a baseball fan. Wow, that one game did it, it did it, and he's an Orioles fan. Excellent.

Patti 4:39
You do? I feel like I should have sent that hat with him. Well,

Pottymouth 4:44
I we sent the t shirt with him. Oh, so he enjoyed. He was wearing the relish shirt. It

Patti 4:50
was Memorial Day, so we wore condiments. Yes, I wear my mustard shirt. I can't believe you guys didn't wear ketchup, but it's okay. That's okay, but, but he wore relish. That's how we celebrate Memorial Day is with condiments, and you

Pottymouth 4:59
brought. To get his first game at Camden Yards pin with his name on it. And he hadn't been to a baseball game since he was 10 years old, and that was a minor league game, and he didn't even understand the concept of minor league versus Major League, like he had zero baseball knowledge going into this game. And actually, the funniest thing that he said was when we were talking about the minors and the majors, he's European. He's born in France, and so he had this concept of, you know, with the soccer teams that work their way up. And we said, No, that doesn't work that way in baseball. And he said, there's no upward social mobility in baseball. And I was like, yes, there's no crying in baseball, and there's no upward social mobility. That's not really

Patti 5:37
true. There is for individual players. It's not for team right? So if you throw teams at the end of that, then he's absolutely right, in baseball teams, in baseball, for baseball teams, yes, right? Because, weirdly, it's a team sport, but you the mobility applies to an individual. Yeah, God, that's weird. It is. It's kind of, it's kind of talking that out. And I'm thinking that's like a non fiction book someone's got to write. I know, just the people. Oh, yeah, well, that sounds

Pottymouth 5:57
like a good thing, so and so, besides the relish, going to France, well, ending up in Guatemala, but going to France first, it's on. Now it's in New York. The relish t shirt

Patti 6:06
goes to France. Was he to come back with, like, a Dijon? That would be

Pottymouth 6:11
so good. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if they do relish in France. He did seem kind of confused by the concept of relish. But, like, I call her, I'm confused. Yeah, mustard really is the best answer is the problem for hot dogs in general, although ketchup did win the race, but he's, like, so excited. Maybe he's listening now, hey, piaso, he's a new Patreon member. So, so shout out to our newest Patreon member. Cheers with tiny little cups. What do we have going in our tiny, little tea cup? So another thanks to them, another, thanks to the clown. We're drinking Guatemalan moonshine, which is maybe why I sound so animated. You know, so much more than usual. But when we visited him in Guatemala, we tasted this. It's called Kucha, and it's made somewhere with something in Guatemala, I've known nothing, and I am drinking it

Patti 6:59
with drinking it without asking any follow up questions, with a description. Like that. Well, somebody makes it with some stuff. Okay, pour me some please, in this tiny, tiny little tea cup. Yeah,

Pottymouth 7:07
and these little tea cups came from Guatemala too, and they're just perfect for drinking this stuff. So this was our starter after, actually, we split three ways with Mr. Potty mouth, a beer imported from New York City that I'm trying to remember what it was, because it was from alewife brewery, and it was their Pilsner, and I forget the name of the Pilsner, but proceeds from buying that beer go to local food support. Yay, yes. So food bank, I think I'm a fan of that, yeah. So that, you know, buying beer for good causes, like, if you walk in and you see a sign that says, Buy this beer you're donating to our local good cause. Like, sure, sure, we'll do that. Yeah. All right, that's a lot of New York City. Well, okay, then that's enough New York City. All right,

Patti 7:52
back to the tiny little teacups. Yeah, on today's show, we've got boyfriends, featuring the 22 and unders and surprisingly meaningful home runs. Also surprisingly is the robust police blotter, which features immigration suspect use of social media and falling rocks, and then the road to the College World Series. Cheers.

Pottymouth 8:15
You look so confused by that tiny little it's we, it

Patti 8:17
is. It's so cute, and I feel like I'm going to start saying we pretty soon, because this is potent. It is potent

Pottymouth 8:23
stuff. It's also, very importantly, not breakable, because it's tin. So it's really a good thing to have into the microphone, right? Yes, things available, sure, for little drinks here and there. Just a little bit little drinks All right, so when, at some point we're going to move on to another beer, which is from checkerspot brewery, where we went pre gaming with the clown before the Orioles game. And that was an intern. It was quite the party. Yeah? Love checkerspot. Love checkerspot. So speaking of baseball, I guess we're going to start talking about our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season because they were something super cool about them, and ideally, they're also good at baseball. I've been struggling a little bit because what we do with our the guys that we picked in the off season is we make our fantasy teams, and I made perhaps some poor decisions that I'm trying to correct now. But also a lot of my guys us were struggling out of the gate and are maybe pulling it together. So I'm hopeful. You know, we're still just beginning June. There is so much baseball left. I might be at the bottom of the of the barrel right now, but who knows? Because my junior caminaro of the rays, this is like, okay, asterisk, already. Rays doing well.

Patti 9:40
They're doing so well, the rays and the Blue Jays are lighting things up, and they're pissing both of us off Absolutely,

Pottymouth 9:44
because the Red Sox are in a free fall, and the Orioles have been are already holding the bottom steady. Yeah. So there we are, the two of us at the bottom of the Al east, while Junior Camaro and his rays are starting to take off. So he had two amazingly hot games. This past week, both against the Astros. So that's okay, it's not our division, but still we're okay with Astros losing. He went, he had six RBI on let me see if I think this was fried Thursday night. Thursday night against the Astros, they won 13 to three. So it's pretty much of a route. He went three for six, including a home run and a double. And then he improved on that on Saturday night, right? Today is Sunday, yep, Saturday night, two home runs and two doubles against the Astros on Saturday night, went Four for five with five RBI, and it made him the fourth player in MLB history with two homers and two doubles in a game before turning 22 years old. Yeah, this is like a decent amount younger than our children. Yeah, no, it's a real thing. The age gap is increasing as people get older. So he's the fourth player to do that. The other three, Mel Ott, Joe DiMaggio and Miguel Cabrera. Not bad company this past week. You know, we like to look at the past week in how our baseball boyfriends are doing, since we have this podcast every week, he was batting 419 this past week, with four homers in the week. And just for comparison, in April, his average was 232 and in May, he's up to 276 so this is what I'm talking about. But my team turning around headed by junior and of course, even more important than the numbers is the attitude. And the baseball boyfriend creds is like, you know, and you want to hang out with this guy, and so we want to hang out with happy guys. And he said, quote, I need to be smiling so it can be contagious to the guys, and we'll be able to do great things, excellent. I think that's a good math. That's boyfriend cred, for sure. Contagious smiles. Can I interrupt for a second

Patti 11:45
and say, I feel like I'm sweating a little bit? Is that? What the thing in my little tin cup? It was made from some stuff by some people.

Pottymouth 11:52
It could be definitely, or it could be this warm room, because I closed the door, yeah, it's funnier. It's a thing the tin cup, though. Yeah, okay, it's, I bet it's the Tim cup. Oh, I hope so. Oh, boy. All right, Cody Clemens, I not quite sure the last time I mentioned him, but I'm pretty sure I mentioned when he got dfad by the Phillies about a month ago. He was my Phillies pick, and so that's sometimes problematic when our baseball boyfriend picks get dumped, because no good on our team at that point, but he was picked up by the twins just a couple days later, so they had to pay a little bit of money for cash, and has done spectacularly since then. So this is a guy that I picked, Cody Clemens, Roger Clemens, son. That was the novelty, and there were some fun things to talk about, and I didn't have many high hopes of him actually playing this year, so I wasn't counting on him being on my team. However, I do have a struggle at in the infield right now, a little bit of my infielders, except for junior Camaro, not doing so well. So I had a player picked from the twins that I hadn't put on my roster at all, and that's Brooks Lee, the catcher. He has not been doing what she's going to start picking up, but basically our rules are as such that you cannot have two guys from the same team, right? So that's how things work, because we talk about guys from every team in the off season. So I couldn't have Brooks Lee on my roster and put Cody Clemens on now that he is on the twins. So I kept Brooks Lee off, put Cody Clements on. Feeling a little good about it, because the first guy that he bonded with when he came to the twins was Brooks Lee. So I kind of feel like I've got, like, you know, the spirit of both of them. Apparently, he got to the twins this month ago, and they had a bunch of rain days afterwards. So they had a lot of like, downtime in the in the clubhouse together, and he beat Brooks at ping pong, and apparently did a lot of just like shooting the shit together. Brooks said he's a good personality and person, easy to have around. I don't think he had to mesh at all. He was immediately one of our guys, huge baseball boyfriend points there, and because Cody enjoyed, like, hanging out so much. One thing that they had in Philly that they didn't have in Minnesota was a little putting mat in the clubhouse, also for aforementioned rain delays and other hanging out shit. So he bought one and said, I like to shoot the shit, which I do too. Sure about you. In fact, I've done that with you. Okay, here's the next and I like to talk. And he said, I've been messing around with Brooks him and I give it back and give it back and forth to each other, but we love it. So I can kind of relate to that, too. Former boyfriend, baseball boyfriend, pick of I think it was mine from a while ago, Carlos Correa, yeah, he was mine, said, and I quote, This is impressive at this point, after a month with the team, he's calling Cody Clemens their most valuable player. Wow. Yeah. So when he was with the Phillies, he had a whopping seven at bats in six games and didn't get a hit. Now that he's been with the twins, so far, he's had six at the time of recording 66 at bats, 24 games, batting 273, with a 957, In o, p, s, so talk about, like, cranking it up and just, you know, doing amazing. That one thing that I thought was humorous because I was seeing Cody with a K, which is not how I'm used to seeing Cody spelled. Had done something cool at a local children's hospital, and I was all about to give Cody Clemens credit for it. Apparently, the twins have another Cody with a K, no way, a relief pitcher, and this is like a jersey. I wonder if anybody has Cody, Thunder Burke. Thunder Burke, he put the fun in. Thunder. Burke, sure, yeah. Someone

Patti 15:31
had to Yeah. And who knew was gonna be cut? Well, you could predict it. Okay. Thunder burger, sure.

Pottymouth 15:36
Roger Clemens, Dad was at the game this past Tuesday that the twins won four to two over the rays and witnessed his son getting his fifth home run of the season, which is a big fucking deal, because in the past two years with Philly, his best season was five home runs total, and he got to five home runs last I think it was last year over 120 plate appearances, and this was his 58th with the twins, and he's already at five home runs, so it seems like this is the place he's supposed to be. The other thing that I appreciate is I had to take somebody off my roster, and I think I removed Michael Massey, who was my second bass player from Kansas City, and Cody Clements, Yahoo has given me credit for first, second and third, so I've got flexibility. But on Tuesday, he played right field, so he's, yeah, can does Yahoo update during the season? Like, if he doesn't,

Patti 16:32
because I'll lose an infielder who's only been playing outfield, right? But all right, that doesn't work for me. Sorry.

Pottymouth 16:38
Well, so we'll see what happens. At least I get a little bit of credit, but you should have a dead like a little bit more credit. Always just a by the way, we talked about the Red Sox city connects, blending into the background last week, whole green screen situation, yep, apparently the rays also have that issue. And Joe Ryan, pitcher the twins, complained that he felt like his pitching suffered because the batter was blending into the background. So I'm wondering who's going to bring that up, or maybe Joe Ryan, once he goes to Fenway, he can complain again. Oh, that's funny. We'll see. Wow. Two more quick baseball person boyfriends. I want to talk about Andy paques, of the Dodgers, like another guy that I ignored at the beginning and is lighting it up now. Just got his 10th Homer of the season in Saturdays, and bless the Dodgers for this eight to two route of the Yankees, hopefully tonight they will complete the sweep, because at this point, the Dodgers have beaten the Yankees badly twice. Yamamoto is pitching tonight. You guys know more than me, but I'm like crossing all of my fingers right now, but that made Andy package the third Dodger to get to 10 homers after show Hey Otani and to ask her Hernandez, right? Because so many other Dodgers you would think would be there before this new guy is but go figure, another highlight though, from that Yankees game was that Kiki Hernandez pitched the ninth, which loves to do and now does it with his batting helmet. So there's a t shirt. Says something about, like, pitching protected, or, I don't know, wearing protective gear while pitching. So he maintained his zero era of the season. He has pitched two innings over two games, gave up three hits, no runs, no walks. My last sad pick is another Chadwick Trump. Womp number two, I talked about Chadwick Trump getting DFA by Atlanta, the team that I picked him with way back in episode 402. So that was whatever, seven weeks ago. I didn't realize he was picked up by the O's on a miners deal, huh? But the O's dfam today. Okay.

Patti 18:38
All right, yeah. All right. Um, so thankfully, yes, please. Well, here, let me make my you know you I was distracted by the tiny tin cups. Heavens, give me a second. I just

Pottymouth 18:51
had an opening situation here, explosion. That's all right. I'm not going anywhere. I can be all

Patti 18:56
right. So it was pointed out to me that a week or two ago, potty mouth said Kiki. I did not say Manny, because Kiki was sprung upon me, as I just did again. But no, I got warning. I got warning. So I'm gonna tell you one thing about Manny Machado, which is that whoever is doing social media for MLB is very young, Shocking. Shocking because after Machado hit a home run that tied up a score on May 26 they posted the video of the home run, and they said, Manny doing Manny things. And there's no reference to the fact that we both know that was said about Manny Ramirez, both when he played for Cleveland and when he played for the Red Sox. So we both have that whole Manny doing many things. So um, but that's but it was, it's made me happy, and yet, where you gotta put an asterisk there, right? Manny two. Manny two. Explain why this is important. Little Manny, here's why it's a thing. Okay, all right, um, my guys, my guys, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get, um, Pete crow Armstrong out of the way early with my PCA report, because there's always going to be one on Wednesday, the home run. He hit against Colorado again. Sorry, Colorado makes PCA the first player in the majors this season to reach 15 homers and 15 steals. He now has 18 stolen bases, but he was the first guy to get to 1515, and you know, May, that's crazy still. May he and saya Suzuki, who was my cubs boyfriend, in 2023 are the first pair of teammates with at least seven or more home runs and 27 or more RBI in a single month of May. Since 2009

Pottymouth 20:27
are we going to sing the merry month of May again?

Patti 20:30
Um, no, maybe not, no, but in your head, I know you're getting it, and I think that's fair, and as are three other people who are listening. Yep. Okay, so um, Sal frolic of Milwaukee haven't talked to for a little while. Sexy defense, unrecognized. Sexy defense. He has to date seven outfield assists, which leads all of Major League Baseball. That's a crazy thing to do. That's an arm, man, that's an arm. It's strength and it's accuracy, right? There are three players who have six outfield assists. So he's not leading by law, but he is, in fact, leading. The important thing for him personally is that seven is more than he had for all of last season. Whoa, again, it's the Merry, merry month of May. Well, yes, June 1, if it was, it was when he got that so Mary, you know, I always look at the last week worth of statistics for people on my fantasy team. And last week, Sal had 12 hits, 12 hits in one week, including cover your ears. He went Four for five in a game versus Boston. Yeah, I kind of remember all of them were singles. It was kind of important, because he's a Boston guy, so it was like against his hometown team. But if you remember when I first profiled him, I talked about his involvement in the organization Best Buddies, which matches, you know, people with disabilities, with other individuals. And he started that when he was in high school in the Boston area, and continued when he was in Boston College. And when he goes back, he still like has dinner with some of his friends that he's made through that. But now, you know, he's been in Milwaukee for a while, and he's trying to make the inroads there make those connections. And he went to an event that they had and that the organization had, and hung out all day, like talking to everybody who was there and all this. And one of the people that he met is a person who started a business called inclusion coffee outside of Milwaukee, and the mission is to provide employment to individuals with disabilities. And what she the owner, said, is, my idea was to give our friends with disabilities a place to work after high school, at a job they wanted, not just at a place that hires you. That's so good, which is pretty great, right? And so he said, How can I help you? I'll do whatever you need me to do. How can can I be useful to you in some way? And they said, Let's do a thing. Let's do a meet and greet. So folks are going to come to this coffee shop that they probably have never heard of before, and to meet baseball player, but also see the environment, meet the people who work there, get a feel for the importance of what it is they're doing. So it's, it's the boots on the ground thing. It's now writing them a check. It's attracting attention to people who are already doing good work in the community. So, big boyfriend. Props there to Sal freleg from Milwaukee, local boy does good. James Wood of the Nationals. Holy shit. So I wanted to say, Oh my God, His ops for one week was 1.215 remember that when I tell you what it was for the whole month, right? He here's the 22 and under category. This is not under 22 is 22 and under he is now one of three players with 16 or more homers, nine or more stolen bases and a 950 or more ops for the first 58 games of a season aged 22 or younger. The other two a rod 1998 and Fernando tatis Jr in 2021 wow, his ops for the entire month, not my weird little one week, which doesn't tell you anything. Thing is still overwhelmed. 1.014 he was the only Washington player with an ops above 1000 for the month. But that also that was helped by the two singles he hit in the first inning, in the first inning on Saturday, yesterday for us, when the NATs scored nine runs before an out was recorded versus Arizona,

Pottymouth 24:08
I was gonna say two runs in the first inning. Around nine

Patti 24:12
runs, two hits, though. So there were there were 10 total runs scored in the first inning. There were 11 consecutive base runners, which tides the longest start of game on base streak since 1961 other fun facts about that game, which are not necessarily related to James Wood, but you know he was there. Had a bunch of hits. It was the highest scoring first inning, first inning in nats history. A related Fun fact, CJ Abrams was your boyfriend in the past. He was hit by a pitch twice. Oh, my God, in the in the first inning, that's crazy, by two different pitchers. That's Arizona had five and hit five batters. Well, hit there were, there were five hit by pitches. Two of those batters were, in fact, CJ Abrams for the nationals. This was the fourth straight game with nine or more runs. I. Right? My former boyfriend, Josh Bell, who I picked back when he was on Pittsburgh, and then he was on the Nationals, then he went away. Now he's back. He's homered in three consecutive games. But he was interviewed, they're talking about, like, it seems like different members of the team, like, really kicking in gear at different times, like you're the offensive star, you're the offensive star, you're the offense. Like he was slumping, and then all of a sudden he's a home run machine. Again. He said, this is Josh Bell saying, right now, it seems like it's a different person every night, aside from Woody, it seems like it's every night for him. So it's definitely fun to be a part of it.

Pottymouth 25:29
That's crazy. Just that to get two hits in one inning and then somebody else gets two hit by pitches in one inning. It's wild. Yeah? Yay. NATS, I know that they're in also a very competitive division at this point, but you know, it's not

Patti 25:45
having a good there they are. They're looking up all right. So

Pottymouth 25:49
former baseball boyfriends, we've picked guys in past seasons, and we try to keep an eye on them, especially the fun ones. And Mookie Betts, as is always gonna hold a dear spot in my heart, because he was almost my once and forever boyfriend. He forever boyfriend. He was, for a while, was with the Red Sox and going to the Dodgers. It's, you know, he's doing well, and I am happy for him. And the Dodgers have all sorts of amazing players. And Mookie Betts at this point is day to day. They're not putting him on the IL at this point, he fractured the tip of his fourth toe in a home accident. So this is like, I had to look at a couple different articles, because there were different levels of how much he was willing to talk about it. But apparently, what I think actually happened was that he hid it on a wall while walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night, which is something I can so much relate to, like I must have had this exact same injury, is what I'm guessing, for walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night. So stubbed his toe on the wall the how do you do the fourth toe? But actually, I, when I broke my my first toe down the stairs. Yeah, I've had a lot of toe injuries. I am so like, in line with with Mookie Betts. It's

Patti 27:00
hard to tell you guys apart, frankly, right? I mean, you guys don't know that because potty mouth is so good about hiding her face for photos, but they really are Dead Ringers. Yeah, could

Pottymouth 27:07
be, could be siblings. Um, at this point, though, this what concerns me, and this is like, definitely the mom coming out, is they're saying that he's not going on the aisle, because they just have to figure out the pain management of it, because it's just, but I know that broken toes hurt, but he just has to get used to how to deal with playing with this teeny little fracture in his teeny, little toe. And I think that he's going to be doing some pinch hitting. They're going to try to keep him out of running too much. He is, you know, playing shortstop now, right? So that's, I don't know, they're gonna have to figure it out. It more interesting for the Dodgers is that this is their second bathroom injury of the season. Because I think you mentioned, Freddie Freeman had an ankle aggravating shower slip in April, and he, you know, the ankle was a big deal. He got surgery in the off season. That slip in the shower was just a little you don't want to re injure something that was bad. But he seems to be doing just fine now, but two bathroom related injuries is really like they've got to cut it out there another former baseball boyfriend pick, sort of of mine. I'm going to call him almost a pick, because he's the brother of a pick, and they have basically the same name. So this is Victor Mesa Jr, debuted this week for the Marlins, and I was so excited because I thought I had picked him, but in fact, I had picked his brother, whose name is Victor Victor mesa. And I'm not the only one who's confused about this, because when you try to look up their stats online, there are many sites that conflate them, that think that they're the same person, and they, including MLB, had like two, both brothers on one brother's page. And I don't know if that was on purpose or not, Victor, Victor Mesa was the elder, so I had picked him. He was the number one international prospect in 2018 but both brothers, both the victor, Victor and the victor. Mesa Junior signed with the Marlins in 2018 just a matter of months apart. Why do they both have the names Victor Mesa in their name is because their father the first Victor Mesa maybe, maybe he had a victor Mesa before him. So many Victors and mesas, his father was

Patti 29:21
another been Victor. Mesa would have been the third. He would have been Junior, right? Yeah, his dad would have been Junior, unless his dad would, yeah, his I mean, they referred to his dad as senior, so yes, he would be there. He's the OG. Yeah, Victor, the first table at the but then they ran out of Victors after giving his older brother two of two Victor names. I'm sorry, we've only got one Victor left.

Pottymouth 29:39
I'm wondering if there's another sibling with some other Victoria, right, right, right? That that's really what it should be. So with their father, though, the Cuban hero, he won the Olympic gold in 2090 No, so many wrongs there. I'm back in the middle, yeah. 1992 Two. That's the year when Cuban Cuba won the gold in the base in the baseball in the Olympics. That whole thing. He also made no

Patti 30:07
more Tiny Tim teacups for you. Just saying,

Pottymouth 30:12
I will. I can have the cup. I just can't fill it again. Fair enough. He managed the national team. And I think the coolest stat about Victor Mesa senior is that he held the Cuban league he still holds the Cuban League record of nine steals of home base. Wow, that's pretty fucking cool. So victimizer Jr came in this past Monday's defensive sub, and then on Tuesday, he had his very first start, and his very first hit. And family was there, at least the senior. I'm not quite sure who else, but all right. All right, that's enough of the maces and the victors.

Speaker 1 30:43
Yeah, you stop and have more to drink while I talk. That'll work out well. So a

Patti 30:48
couple things about former boyfriends. I picked O'Neill Cruz in 2023 which was the season where he was injured on opening day and didn't play for the whole season. So that was the wrong year, but he's still doing amazing baseball things. So last Sunday versus Milwaukee, he on the third inning, he had a 432 foot Homer into the Allegheny River. But the important thing about that it was not just that it was very long and very far and it was a home run, is that it went 122.9 miles per hour off the bat, which sets the record for the hardest hit ball in Statcast history, right? That's insane. That's really insane. And you know what the old record was, his record, his own record, from 2022 when he hit the ball, only 122.4 miles an hour,

Pottymouth 31:33
that is a dangerous projectile. Can you ladies, holy shit, it's a good thing you hit the river. Well,

Patti 31:38
yeah, you know. And people are always out there on the boats trying to catch something. It's like, watch out. Get it all the bounce. Get out of the bounce. Cal Rowley, who was my Seattle boyfriend in 23 hit three home runs in a 24 hour period, two Friday night and then one on Saturday. But the important thing about that was that allowed him to tie Shohei freaking Ohtani for the MLB MLB lead with 22 Homers. Aaron judge had only 20 at the time. It's 21 now. He's also the first catcher in MLB history to reach 20 home runs by the end of the merry merry month in May, right? Oh, and after he hit that Homer that made him tie with Joey Tony, the fire alarm went off in the ballpark, and there was some video of an alarm going off, and like, no one really leaving. They stopped play, and everyone stood around the field and in the stands, like looking at each other. And when we go to nats games, they're very clear about there will be evacuation routes follow the floating arrows. There will be like, animated, flowing, floating arrows in front of you that will tell you, show you which way to go. I haven't seen that in other ballpark, so maybe they're just they didn't have arrows, so they didn't know where to go.

Pottymouth 32:44
I bet they just thought that the ball was smoking after that hit. Maybe that's why the fire alarm went off. Maybe,

Patti 32:51
all right, so with the Yankees in Los Angeles for this weekend, that's a lot of attention because it's a rematch of the World Series and all of that, which means there's also a lot of attention on Freddie Freeman because of his, you know, his iconic walk off Grand Slam in game one of the last World Series of he was telling stories about, you know, fans are always stopping him and talking about, like, that was like the moment, right? And fans have tattoos of that moment. Crazy. He did say later, I hope I never do anything to make them disappointed. They have that tattoo. I hope the tattoo is holed up. But then he told the story about this really meaningful thing, and one of these conversations about this moment, yeah, this guy said I was in the fans. I was I was fan. I was sitting in the right field section with my kids, and all I could think about was I had to remain sober to be present for my kids, my I went with my two sons. I need to hold it together to be present for my sons. The Home Run Ball went right over their heads. He said all his sons wanted to do was play baseball. The next morning. They were so excited about this moment. And he said he Freeman says that this fan told him, usually he'd be too hungover to join them, and he said this time I had the energy to play all day and hadn't touched alcohol since that moment, had this like lifelong effect on this dad who just wanted to be better for his kids, but had, you know, this problem, and as Freddie said, you know, when I was 10, you know, we lost my mom and my dad and I played a lot of baseball together, and that was kind of a way we dealt with things that were hard. And so he understands why, like being able to play ball with your kids is such a meaningful thing. And he said, and when you come full circle 25 years later, when you're 35 and you create a moment for someone, that's what this is all about. For me, I love winning and championships, but to know that I was able to impact someone's life in such a positive way, I still don't know if I can grasp it.

Pottymouth 34:48
And that's like, probably just the tip of the iceberg. Like, there's so many people who he's influenced in a positive way, you know.

Patti 34:55
And like you said, Oh, hey, that was great. That really that, you know, that made my day. Maybe. Happy. It was great. Oh, we always wanted to see the win, and we got it, and then to have this thing that is, in fact, life changing is just kind of stunning. So

Pottymouth 35:07
there props to Freddy. All right, continuing with former baseball boyfriends, but I'm also segwaying into our police blotter segment. Cue the sirens here. And one thing that pissed me off today, so if our former baseball boyfriends have done horrible things, then we ask them, right? They're no longer even a former they're an ex. They're just, you know, banned from anything good that we're gonna say, I don't know what to do when it's the wife of a former baseball boyfriend who does something that I think is maybe not something that would put them on the never going to be a boyfriend list officially for our podcast, but for me personally, is just a big no no. And this is Gladys Arias Luis Arias wife, I noticed that she posted an Instagram today promotion for Trump International Beach Resort. Oh, dear, yeah. So all sorts of sexy. I mean, she's an incredibly gorgeous woman, sexy pictures of her at the beach resort, close up of her Margarita in a Trump branded glass. So it just says Trump right there. I hate to say this word over and over, but holy fuck. I mean that. I don't know where Luis stands politically, but he's Venezuelan, and just this past week, the Supreme Court in a very vague way that I think is gonna can more lawsuits are gonna follow, but they're at this point upholding the executive order that Trump wrote terminating to temporary protected status for Venezuelans. So we're talking about 350,000 immigrants in this country who were on a safe, legal status working permits that's suddenly being pulled out from under them, and they're going to be theoretically, and there's the timeline isn't out there yet, so I don't know how long they have, but they're supposed to go back to Venezuela, which is not an easy place by any means. So I looked up, you know, current situation in Venezuela, and if you look at the State Department's travel advisory, it is all read in capital letters and literally says, Do not travel to Venezuela, highest level of warning. And it talks clearly about how there is active repression, and you know, jailing and disappearing of people. Anybody who is critical of the Maduro government,

Patti 37:36
that seems like you would come here for asylum if that was happening in your home country, exactly. But that's not what we're doing. We're saying, Sorry, even though you're here on a legal program, you have to go back to this place that's very dangerous. Yeah,

Pottymouth 37:47
and TPS Trump, fair protective status is something that sort of streamlines. I mean, the process of getting asylum is long and difficult, and so when there is a crisis in a country that country has for the past several decades, you know, depending on the president, earned this temporary protected status. It was granted to Haitians. It was granted to Cubans. And Cubans and Venezuelans have been particularly safe for a long time because their governments are so anti democratic, anti American, anti capitalist. You know, communist leaning, but I hate to use that word, because they're so they're dictatorial communist governments that have great amount of oppression that this country had recognized and given Cubans and Venezuelans a status above many other very deserving immigrants because they were from Cuba in Venezuela. So this, this regime, our United States regimes, act of stripping that away from all of these people is unconscionable. And for for Gladys Arias to just blithely have this like very sexy yay Trump Hotel Resort post just seems really, you know, not paying attention, just like going with blinders on. And, you know, just for another juxtaposition, Cabernet Ruiz here in nationals, two weeks ago, there was this big article in the Washington Post about how his parents saw him play for the first time, he was drafted in 2016 he is Venezuelan. His parents have not been able to get here in nine years because of all this shit that's going on. They had applied for travel visas five times and been denied. And a lot of this has to do with the fact that the US doesn't have any relations with Venezuela. There's no embassy, there's no consulate, there's no way for people to go through any sort of legal process from Venezuela here, because there's no place to go. So I am hugely disappointed in MS Reyes and I commented on her thread and. See if we get any support on that. So damn it, fuck it. But you know, to go from bad to worse. I just want to mention Wanda Franco, uh, past, definitely, ex baseball boyfriend, pick of mine from the Dominican Republic. We've talked a lot about his um, current legal status because of kidnapping and raping a minor, basically, yeah, that not basically, that's the way it was underage relationship. So he is now not being paid by MLB because he's on that which status is, it's not, oh,

Patti 40:35
the restricted No, it's an eligible list, but it's no longer administrative leave. Administrative leave. Administrative leave is you can't play, but we'll go ahead and

Pottymouth 40:45
pay you. No, it's not that anymore, right? So because that the Dominican the law enforcement judicial system, oh, no, there we go. The Dominican judicial system is involved, and his trial is yesterday for you guys and tomorrow for us. So I just wanted to mention it today to know that we do have it on the radar. You guys might know more than us. But the weird thing about this is, for the past several weeks, he's come back to social media. So he had stopped his social media completely when he went on, you know, the first ineligible list, the administrative leave list, he went quiet. And then a few weeks ago, he started doing sort of just little Instagram stories. And the only thing that he actually posted that you can still see is when he brought a bunch of bags of stuff to an old folks home, and it was sort of like, look at me doing this good thing for this old folks home here in the Dominican Republic, there were lots of supermarket bags sitting around that looked like he brought stuff there. There's been posts on his story of him playing baseball with a friend on some field somewhere, and some Bible verses, including the most recent from Genesis quote, you intended to harm me, but God turned it into good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. I think he's saying that he is turning things around or, I mean, he's pleading not guilty. So we'll see what happens to this. But you know, last blush, it didn't look so great. He does have a very fancy lawyer behind him. The other person who is also on trial, who I believe is also going to be tried on the same day, June 2, which is tomorrow for us, yesterday for you guys, is the victim's mother, because she was complicit in this basically doing horrible things like she it's not the first person that she kind of sold her daughter to. So she has been essentially on on house arrest, and doesn't have nearly as many resources as Wanda Franco did because of, you know, his his previous salary and signing bonus and stuff that he probably had left over, but they impounded her car as part of her punishment, and apparently she saw her car on the street, so maybe she can get out. She saw her car and videotaped it being driven by some Dominican political person who changed the plates and was typing it around. So the layers, yeah, the layers, she took video of her car on the streets of Santo Domingo, and, you know, published it, or whatever, posted it. And who knows, who knows?

Patti 43:33
So two quick things, it is, in fact, the restricted list that means you're not getting paid, and no one can, okay, you know how to play. No What? No one, no one can hire you to play. And the other one is, I think the Genesis quote that you're looking for is actually, there must be some misunderstanding. Thank you. Thank you. Oh,

Pottymouth 43:50
that's so good. That is so much better. You're so much better. All right. I just wanted a little post script. Um, while I'm talking police bladder, Sean Newcomb, who that just sounds new. That makes makes me think of Bill Durham Newcomb. But anyway, new I can't pronounce it enough. He was pitching for the Red Sox, much to my chagrin, because we knew him previously, when he was on the Atlanta team, and there had been investigation to horrible past post that he did as a high school student, but there were multiple homophobic, really nasty things, and so when he I haven't seen any evidence of him, what do you call it, just distancing himself from that, or repenting, or any sort of good thing. So when he was with the Red Sox, I promised to PL to pay $10 for each win to Bagley, which is Boston Area gay and lesbian youth organization. And I figured I would cash out because he has been now traded to the A's, so I'm very happy to have him off the Red Sox. He's going to not to Oakland, but to the A's, wherever they may be right now in Sacramento. And maybe he'll stick with them through their next move. But he didn't get any wins, so I don't have to pay up. I guess I feel. You know, it's Pride Month, I think you should write him a little check. Yeah. Well, alright, so I am still adding up the money that I owe for Jaron Duran. So at this point he has cost me 35 $34 so far in RBI, plus $8 in home run. And yes, we're just through the merry month of May, so hopefully that will add up a little bit. I'll give it like maybe I'll do a Sean Newcomb Roundup. Is that? Is that all for Bagley? That's all for Okay, okay, yeah. But the other piece is roldish Chapman that I'm going to be donating to battered women's shelters in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island for his saves, and he's doing really well. He's doing so much better than I thought he would. So it's that's 40 bucks so far. Anyway, if you all are cheering for a team and you don't feel good about a player, find out a local organization that undoes the shit that that player did, or, you know, tries to help people who are suffering because of whatever that player did, and do a little bit of a, you know, challenge to yourself for every RBI or save or whatever. Yeah, credit

Patti 46:11
to career. Fancy stats are coming up with a good method to allow you to keep rooting for your team, even when they take on somebody that you cannot stand. Right, yep, yep. More police blotter. Dodger Stadium is the third only, oldest stadium in the major is potty month, one of the first two. That would be Fenway Park in Wrigley Field. You got it? Bing, bing, bing. So again, this big weekend, right? The Yankees are in town. The whole,

Pottymouth 46:40
sorry, this kind of makes

Patti 46:41
me Yeah, because everybody's okay. It's funny. Yeah, it could have

Pottymouth 46:45
been right. So much worse. I wouldn't giggle if this

Patti 46:47
stadium basically dropped rocks on Yankees fans. The stadium has a mind of its own. It's an old, old stadium, so the underside of the upper deck actually a hunk of concrete fell onto what turned out to be a Yankees fan visiting from Mexico City. By the way, in the reserve section on the first baseline, it hit him in the back, okay, and he did get checked out by medical. He was given like, okay, it hurts. They gave him an ice pack. He wanted to stay for the game. My question is, wouldn't you clear that section. If a hunk of the stadium above your head fell out, even if it was just one hunk, wouldn't you say, Hey, we don't. Can. Let's move you guys over here. There

Pottymouth 47:31
must have been some free seats somewhere, somewhere, super expensive seats. There's usually

Patti 47:35
there's a couple somewhere. But So since then, they have done like a bit of a safety review. They've put up netting over like a two foot section, and they're gonna do a much more extensive review. Of course, once you know this big high ticket item game series is done, yeah, we'll take it seriously. But Ouch, yeah? I mean, because it didn't turn out to be a disaster, it's a little funny that Dodger Stadium dropped things on Yankees fans. Yeah, only a little bit. I mean, what if it was a kid? I mean, it could have been so much worse. It could have been so much worse. But yeah, there's that also quick follow up to Lance McCullers, Houston ended up hiring 24 hours security for the McCullar family. Remember, Lance McCullers is the pitcher for Houston who was receiving death threats by social media. And then Liam Hendricks said, Yep, that happens, and it's happening. You know, it's happened to me, and others have come forward. This came out again because he's got two, two kids, and the kids were also threatened. Right? His five year old daughter, Ava, overheard her mom talking to somebody on the phone about these threats. And Lance McCullers comes home, and the kid says she asked me when I came home daddy, like, what is threats? Who wants to hurt us? Who wants to hurt me? A five year old, a five year old, not okay, not okay. So Houston and also Boston. Liam Hendricks, those teams are working, continue to work with MLB security to figure out how to go after these threats that are being made on social media. So they are doing things to protect their players, like both of those T and a lot of teams actually station actual like, not just security, but police officers near the family sections in the in the ballpark. But clearly these, these kinds of threats go outside of that. So, yeah, 24 hour security plans. McCullers. Would I imagine for other people too? I

Pottymouth 49:25
hope Boston can cough up and do the same thing. I know that. I I'm pretty sure that Hendrix just went on the aisle to get a really bad outing, and he was really harsh on himself because of that. Yes, I feel bad. Hey, you're wearing an

Patti 49:39
LSU t shirt.

Pottymouth 49:40
I am so I promise, Hi Brian, I promise that I would wear this for recording. So you got guys can all appreciate this gift from, I think it was our 300 I don't remember which, which gift. You know we're not on video, right? All right. There's that. You look great. You look great in that shirt. Speaking of that, I we should have used our and and maybe I could pretend that we're actually using our. LSU koozie, which from, from our latest gift. I love the purple. I think it's great. And yay, LSU. So here we are in the College World Series. Well, not the World Series quite, but we're in the NCAA division one college, almost World Series playoffs. At the time of recording, the regionals are almost over. So there were 16 double elimination regional contests with four teams each that started on Friday that end tomorrow. So those are winding up most. Most of them are kind of decided at this point. And once that happens, there's going to be eight best of three games, Super Regional Super Regionals. June 5 to eighth. And then you can all head over to Omaha, Nebraska, where there are going to be eight teams, eight college teams, competing in the College World Series. June 12 to either the 21st or 22nd depending on how things go last year. Who won? I did not remember at all. Tennessee won last year over Texas A and M and Tennessee was only the second number one seed in all of college world series history to actually win the game, which just goes to show you, number one seed doesn't predict what's going to happen. Miami also did this in 1999 was also Tennessee's first title. Vanderbilt is the number one seed this year the Vandy boys, so we will see what happens to them. But this podcast is officially a go LSU podcast, because we have the best LSU merch thanks to our friend Brian, they went in as the number six seed. But as soon as they get out of the regionals, which is going to happen, they're doing very well. They're going to be hosting the first two super rounds. So they will continue to do well. They won their first two games of the regionals with shutouts. First game seven to nothing, second game 12 to nothing, and they're playing tonight, but I think they are a shoe in, you know, despite whatever happens tonight, Game Two is pitched by a name to remember, which is Cade Anderson. He is their hot shot pitcher, and he's just a he's just finishing up his sophomore year. He went nine and one in his sophomore season, including a complete game shutout. And the thing I think that that the LSP fans especially love about him is he's from Louisiana, and he's a lifelong Tigers fan. I am just

Patti 52:33
noting that is Cade with a K, I am. And so I think we have a whole thing happening. Apparently, all the Cody's with the K were taken, so they moved to Cade with a K,

Pottymouth 52:40
yeah, and he's a pitcher, so he likes the K's, right, right? I think Roger Clemens named his kids with the K's because he liked the K's. But you know, as the other side of the field, all right? So Kate with K, I was all excited also to have the second team to root for, but they're eliminated and short lived, yeah, Northeastern University. So home, you know, from Boston. So I was excited about that. I have lots of friends and relatives who went to Northeastern the Huskies, a really cute mascot. They entered the the playoffs, championship, whatever, Road to the World Series, on a 27 game winning streak. So they had won 27 games, and then they lost two, which, you know, cut them out of the playoffs. And each of the two games that they lost, though they lost by one run. So how sad is that to end the season that way? But, you know, Go Huskies. There is a name to remember for the future. Will Jones is their starting pitchers? So in the case involved? Yeah, well, I guess there is some case involved, but not in his name. He, he had five shutout games in the regular season, five of the 17 shutouts that the new the north eastern Huskies, any, yeah, any, I get confused Northeastern Huskies had done. And the northeastern Huskies had led all of those college teams in era with a 292, team, yeah, go team. Era will Jones, all by himself. Went 11 and oh well, you know, with the team behind him, but his stats, his solo stats, 11 and oh, 182, era, not bad.

Patti 54:26
Everybody, please stop what you're doing and go watch the Seattle Mariners pride video. I will do that right now, right now. It is stunning. Thanks to our intern for for highlighting this. For me, it is beautiful. It is daring. It is political. It is calling out Major League Baseball. It is doing a lot of things, and it's doing it in a lovely, lovely way. The visual is only someone cutting the red threads off of a baseball and reselling it with rainbow thread. That's the only visual, and there's like you. Read the words over the top of it, and I just pulled out some of them. I'm not gonna read the whole thing to you, please. Please watch it. But it says, Every action pulls our communities closer together, and that's more important than ever, because there's work to do. Wow. And when everyone can be who they are and love out loud, everyone wins,

Pottymouth 55:17
so good, especially in these difficult times that we're in right now. I felt very reassured opening social media today and seeing all the teams still posting their happy pride, you know, except the fucking Rangers posting their happy Pride stuff. And I am really appreciative, because, you know, sports is a place where it's especially difficult, and it's been especially challenging that teams are still outwardly saying, No, we're still doing our pride nights. We're still doing this, yeah,

Patti 55:47
and baseball is a super conservative sport, and to be able to, you know, doing the pride night is taking a stand, and then to see some teams go with that little bit extra, yeah, and it is, really, is very meaningful right now. So, so yeah, if you see any other pride things that you think are especially meaningful, please do share those with us so we can circulate that we have a fantasy team with terrible, terrible, silly rules, and we're kind of stuck ish for a while. I'm stuck. Our top five remains the same. The only actual position change this week is last week. Karen's crew and I were tied for six to now she's got me by half a point. That's how close everything is. That's how much the same order is. So Wow. For that. I don't know why we're so stuck, but we are, but we are, oh my gosh. Okay, so what's going on this week? So

Pottymouth 56:43
I'm not entirely sure, but I think there's a lot of pride stuff to find. So I'm just going to encourage people to go out there and find your pride night, or find your local Pride Parade, or your anything, anything to go out and do. So I'm going to keep my eyes open. I know that DC next Saturday is a pride parade. So hoping to make that Friday night, we're actually going to a fundraiser thing for the combo immigration and pride this, you know, talk about horrible things that have happened to immigrants. There's one of the hundreds of people who were sent off to the concentration camp in El Salvador the horrific prison was a gay Venezuelan man, hairdresser who had not committed any crimes is being sent to a prison that is just horrific situation in El Salvador. No reason for him to be there. So there's a fundraiser Friday night for his legal defense and also for legal defense, hopefully, of a lot of other people too. So we're doing that good, good. Well,

Patti 57:47
that makes my thing to feel very No, but yeah, so I'm cat sitting for the intern this coming weekend. But you know what? I think I might get paid in swag. Apparently, the intern was in attendance for the Orioles bowling shirt giveaway that already went by, that already went by, and I am holding out hope. I'm holding out hope that, you know, with the delivery of the cat, I will also get a delivery of swag. We'll see. I'll report back if that's successful. You may see this on me. You know, for next week, we'll, we'll find out

Pottymouth 58:22
the cat wrapped in the bowling shirt. No,

Patti 58:24
no, that you know, the cat is very fine, but I will be the one wrapped in the bowling shirt. Thank you very much.

Pottymouth 58:30
What a great giveaway concept, by the way. Yeah, yeah.

Patti 58:33
Well, you know cross training. Cross training is key, my friend. Yeah. And some

Pottymouth 58:37
of our favorite baseball players are bowlers, monkey bets. Oh, in case our listeners forgot what's Andre.

Patti 58:45
Is his hand injured? Is it his bowling hand? No, it's his toe. Oh, that's right. Oh, but it, but that'd be a car for his like, whole approach, right? Oh, no. I hope his bowling career is not over. Well, he can sit next to me with the bowling shirt on, and we'll just cheer for our teams while he's out. That sounds like a great thing to do. All right, my friends, please, if you attend some pride things, or you see some pride things that you want to make sure that we share on your behalf, please find us on social media, potty

Unknown Speaker 59:11
mouthware. You

Pottymouth 59:12
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Patti 59:50
Yeah. Also, the other thing I would like to love to hear from you about is, if there are other names that come up that are spelled with a K that probably shouldn't be, please let us know about those, because they're probably coming soon to a baseball. Team near you? Yeah,

Pottymouth 1:00:01
coming with K

Patti 1:00:04
but I'm bum. All right. All right. My friends get boosted. Fight the man is the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth. Good night. You.

Pottymouth 1:00:20
Oh, yeah, and this is, I definitely poured myself too much. That's all right, too much is all.

Patti 1:00:35
You're not going anywhere, right?