No Crying In Baseball

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Patti 00:17
Hi and welcome to episode 410 of no crying in baseball. The pride is a protest episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Pottymouth. You have so many colors on. Hey, happy
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Pottymouth 00:27
pride. You know I was thinking this rainbow jersey, Red Sox Jersey isn't technically pride. We did get it at Jerry Garcia night, but I think it works. It does work colorful. I'm contemplating wearing it to Camden Yards pride because I know Mr. Prime said that he was going to wear his nats pride Jersey, and I could do that too, but then we would be twinsies. And this was not twins, really. We do have so many
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Patti 00:55
you can wear, you know, a Garcia jersey, wherever the heck you want. Area, yeah, it's totally fine, all right, although you know they are gonna hand you a jersey at the door if you'd want to wear, say, an Orioles pride Jersey
Pottymouth 01:06
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there, there's that we're gonna, like, carefully keep those for very special people when being the intern who has adulting to do, sure. So can't, you know, not like us frivolous folks, can't get to the game on time. So that's Mr. Potty mouth. I think will be saving his shirt for the intern, and
to the game on time. So that's Mr. Potty mouth. I think will be saving his shirt for the intern, and my shirt will go to France or Guatemala, or wherever the clown may be, because he's very enthused, although it's very funny, because, like all the languages that he speaks, I said that I was sending him a jersey, and he's like, jersey. I'm guessing that's a shirt. I was like, wow, I would think like jersey, like New Jersey. There's a jersey in England, but house not a shirt. Yeah, cow is not shirt. Yeah, yeah. All right,
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Patti 01:45
sorts of stuff that's exciting. Hey, you had a pride adventure yesterday.
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Pottymouth 01:50
I did. It's been a very prideful weekend, and I really, I'm feeling good about it. It's it was so joyous. We went to the DC World Pride Parade yesterday, but failed to budget in the timing that it was World Pride, not like just your average DC Pride Parade. So three hours later, we made our way out and over to your porch to have some beverages. Um, but it was super fun while it lasted, and I was, I mean, we didn't see the whole thing, so I don't know if the NATs were in there, but only being the parade. Yeah, exactly. We saw three hours of the parade. This is a lot, and there are a lot, a lot, a lot of groups. And all of you know, from all over the world, all over the country, all different kinds of groups and shapes and sizes and stuff. And monumental sports was there. So those are the folks that have the caps. There was an all caps and pride colors thing, and the mystics and the wizards and go, go, which is the, I had to look it up. It's the NBA G league that's apparently practices in the RA is in the same place. Excellent. So that was pretty cool to see, you know, to see sports representative Pride Parade. So I don't know if we just missed the Nationals, or the Nationals missed an opportunity, but I missed seeing them.
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Patti 02:55
Well, let me tell you about the nets. Thank you to Mr. Potty mouth for representing the pod at nats night out we were both unable to go so that nats have been doing pride night for years and years now, and they partner up with Team DC, which is important because it benefits their scholarship fund. And some of our favorite people have benefited from the team DC scholarship fund. So yay for for you guys. Betsy Philpott, who we actually met at the see her be her showing, is the chief legal officer from the Nationals, and she said, from our end, it's a no brainer that we're going to continue having a night out again and again, because our philosophy is that baseball is for everyone. That's so good. Yeah. So one thing that I'm sad that we missed, other than all of the things that they did for pride night, was Sasha Colby and the first transgendered woman of color to win RuPaul drag race throughout the first pitch. And she said, I practiced a lot, but my mistake was I didn't do it in heels when I practiced. And those were some heels, yeah. So, yeah, it didn't go well, but it went funny, and that's okay, too. And then later, later, she said, we're feeling oppressed. Pride is a protest, so this is a perfect time to really just protest with absolute queer strength and celebration. That's our weapon of choice.
Pottymouth 04:10
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Oh, man, that is so appropriate in so many ways, because I've been, I've been really reflecting on how yesterday was so joyous, just like everybody radiating themselves, you know, looking
on how yesterday was so joyous, just like everybody radiating themselves, you know, looking however the fuck you want to look, and just being an incredibly diverse crowd. And then I thought next weekend, on Saturday, there's going to be a very different parade just a couple blocks away. Yep, and it will not be colorful. It will be cold and austere and gray, and maybe some red, white and blue thrown in, and some army green. And that's it, you know, after this, like gorgeous rainbow explosion, there's gonna be, you know, weapons of mass well, not mass destruction, but lots of destruction, tanks ripping up the fucking streets. Well,
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Patti 04:55
that's yes. The other part is Yeah, and then, and then DC is gonna have to clean up after all the destruction. These giant military vehicles are gonna do on our streets, baby, our streets. And are you gonna pay for that? You say you are, but really, really, yeah, not great, right? Not great. But in the meantime, we've have, you know, good things to build up. Yes, definitely.
Pottymouth 05:13
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I just wanted to do, like, a little political rant. I mean, I know we always do baseball and politics and we weave things in. I just feel like, especially this weekend's been really haunting, and I just want to encourage folks to get out there and stay informed, because LA is fucking frightening, right? Because the National Guard's been called in for people protesting, who are protesting peacefully, and the mayor doesn't want them, and the LAPD don't want them, and the governor doesn't want them. And our, you know, the fascist in chief, as you call them, appropriately, has decided to send in the National Guard. So just like, keep your eyes open and be a witness. On on Friday night, we went to the fundraiser for Andre Hernandez, and it was just, it was really good, and it was cute. It was the folks from Bulwark and pod city, sure our listeners know who that is. So it was to benefit legal defense, to help Andre Hernandez, who is a Venezuelan makeup artist who did all the right things to come to this country because of being queer and living in Venezuela and being a make makeup artist. He was subject to a lot of harassment, and was in danger of his life, so he fled, coming here under asylum, which people have the right to do. He turned himself in at the border, which is what you have the right to do. He was labeled as having a justifiable fear, which is the first step in being accepted for asylum, and he was detained, and he never was released. He was deported to a concentration camp, prison, horrific place in El Salvador, which makes no fucking sense. So his lawyer was interviewed as part of the show. It was like part comedy, but you know, good political comedy and some really beautiful interviews and and his lawyer basically said, you know, with kilmar Garcia being brought back, which is a whole nother thing, it's been shown that people can get brought back. So he should be brought back. And 235, at least, at least 235, other people who had zero due process are incarcerated there, and the lack of due process is the issue. So that's, that's what we have to watch for. And it's, it's haunting just to think that there are that many people, by the fault of our government, whose Liberty has literally been taken away and and we don't even have any wellness checks, like this guy, they haven't been able to say if he's even alive at this point, which is horrible, horrible, horrible. So go out there and stay informed, and please write your legis, you know, legislators, and ask them to stay informed and to keep the pressure on, because these people need to be released. One has been sort of another, you know, side story, but that means the others can be and so we need to keep the pressure on, indeed,
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Patti 08:06
on. Today's show our boyfriends feature a new tool for junior we've got some weirdly young comps. We've got old guys and a shuffle. Our police blotter features hate crimes and hateful crimes. We've got Yelp reviews and the College World Series. Cheers, we're on our second beer. Yeah, that first beer was delicious for some of us. What was that first
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Pottymouth 08:29
beer? Oh, fuck. It was right in front of me. So let me look at it. It is from Queens, New York. We brought it back from our New York trip last week called Seven line. Amber has a really gorgeous picture on the front of the New York subway the seven line that goes to Citi Field, and it's in the Citi Field colors, and it was really yummy, until I had the worst fucking party foul and I knocked over a glass of beer, all over everything right before I recorded all over the computer, all over the little game that Patty uses to keep her mic at the proper height, all over the fucking place. And the worst part is that means I had like, two sips of that beer.
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Patti 09:03
It was a really good one. I'm sorry you missed it, but we've moved on to a checker spot beer, which is a Baltimore brewery. We're drinking fancy pants, which is a New England IPA, which is very delicious. I hope you get to enjoy this one fully, and please do not share it with any of our technical, you know, equipment anymore. Yeah, and
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Pottymouth 09:19
I do agree that I think I need an official sippy cup at this point. I was just
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Patti 09:23
thinking maybe a cup holder. But okay, yeah, that's all right too. Okay, so we're using a brand new computer. Oh
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Pottymouth 09:30
yeah. So part of the party file was, of course, me spilling the beer on the computer, which Mr. Potty mouth assures us will be fine once it dries out. But we had to, luckily, scoop up a backup, and because we live in a house with weird backups, it's one that hasn't worked in a while. Is it working? It's working. It's working. All right? Differently, differently, yeah. All right, it'll be an adventure. Excellent. All right, it'll be an adventure. And Patty's kicking off. I'm gonna start
Patti 09:57
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with the boyfriends, and these are the guys that we pick in the offseason. And one guy per team because of something that we really like about them. We don't like to have a beer with
team because of something that we really like about them. We don't like to have a beer with them because they're interesting. They're good at baseball mostly, but, you know, they've got a good backstory. They're funny, they are philanthropic. There's something about them that we relate to. So I have been starting every boyfriend report with the PCA report that Pete Carl Armstrong, because there's always something to say about him. I finally picked somebody at exactly the right time. Did you notice that I always pick guys too early or too late? That's and that Pete's like right on it right now. So I always look at on my fantasy team the stats for the last seven days, and that's how we decide who I'm to talk about. So Pete Armstrong's, you know, he's got an ops for the past seven days of 1.010 and he hit his 17th home run in Detroit. This past week. There were MVP chants, which is great, but he was in Detroit. He plays for the Cubs. Wow, yeah, so that's the whole thing. That's like, he is making an impact more widely than just among Cubs fans. What I really like is my former cubs boyfriend, say Suzuki and he are in a very friendly rivalry. They keep going back and forth on who has the most home runs for the team right now, Pete has 17. And say, I has 16, whereas, you know, Pete has 54 RBI and say it has 55 so they're like, right there they are neck and neck, and so they're the each of them is always getting interviewed about, is it a rivalry? Is you know? What is it? And apparently, in talking to say a Suzuki, he did some hand motions, like rocking a baby, and he said, everything that Pete does is like a little kid. I feel like Pete is like my little brother. And Pete responded in exactly how a little brother would. He rolled his eyes. So PCA is in first place, first place in the National League in wins above replacement. That means he's above Shohei Ohtani, right now, holy shit, right? So that's, oh my God. That's the whole thing. And the thing that I find most entertaining, he's 23 he's 23 crazy. And the headline of a story in the athletic was, could sedan Rafaela be the next Pete crow Armstrong? We're already looking at the next Pete crow Armstrong, because he's done enough to have a place that other people should like aspire to get to at 23 and say, Don is 24 Oh, so he's being like compared to somebody younger. And hey, hang in there, babe, because one day you can be like Pete. He has a baby face, though. He does Okay, sure. But the exciting thing for me is, sit down. Rafael is my Red Sox boyfriend. His his ops for the last seven days is actually higher than Pete's. It's a 1.013 so barely so refreshing. And it's nice for me to get these little notifications that he's starting to hit. Oh yes, so he is second only to Pete crow Armstrong in defensive numbers for center fielders, like league wide. That's amazing, right? That's really, really, very cool. He hit a walk of home run on Wednesday. It was his third game in a row where you hit a home run all versus the angels. That's half of his home run total for the entire season. So I don't know if it's like, you know, against the angels magic or what. Now, two of them were big home runs. Yeah, right. They cleared the green monster. They were big, impressive. This is the kind of home run you want to show to your parents and whatever. The third one was 308 feet.
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Pottymouth 13:20
I was like, Thank God, made it. Just got
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Patti 13:23
around the pesky pole. The only ballpark in the country where that is a home run is Fenway. That's because the
Pottymouth 13:31
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pesky pole is just squeaked in there. That was like a heart like so one
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Patti 13:36
of the things I read was, in any other ballpark, it would be a foul ball, which I don't understand, because it's inside the pulse. I don't know about that one, but it's definitely the shortest home run in the Statcast era. Which makes me laugh that I get to say that out loud, because, you know, I've been saying things like, oh, this the hardest hit ball. No, it's the shortest term on but, but you go say down, all of a sudden, I have one infield. It's hilarious because he's playing the outfield, right? But Yahoo lets me put him in the infield in my fantasy team. Thank you, baby Jesus. Because he's like, you know, the only one who's doing anything in my in field right now, the highest ops among my fantasy team is Allie Richmond, which is surprising, because he's not been having a great season, right? It's 1.149 so it's highest by a bunch. He's hitting up a storm, and it's in June. It happened in June. We're a week into June. He's seven for 13, with two home runs, three RBI and four runs scored. He went three for four with a home run and two RBI and a run scored. Over Seattle on Thursday. Right, they swept they had a good week. They you know, so they think they knocked Seattle out of first place in their division, right? That's, that's a whole thing. So they won six straight. It was Adley is, like, second game in a row with a game tying home run, his second game in, like, the series with three hits. All of a sudden, he's kicked in. So I don't know. If it's because it's he had to wait, he's waiting for June. Or people who are analytical say, Well, you know, he's not doing that toe tap, you know, in his swing anymore. So maybe that's it. Or, or let me just float this. It could be the fact that I benched him for one game for my fantasy team, and that was when he hit a home run. And maybe now it's like, oh, yeah, I can't, I can't piss off patty. So maybe that's it. I don't know why, but thank you, Adley, my once and forever boyfriend, for getting it back in gear. I hope it stays
Pottymouth 15:25
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that way. Yeah, yeah. These are making me nervous because the Red Sox are struggling. And, you know, nobody else in the Al East is so Yikes, yikes. Speaking of Al East success stories like, you know, it's kind of like I want my boyfriends to do well, but not their teams. Yes, I know exactly what you mean. So the Tampa Bay Rays with Junior commonero Junior can do pretty much everything at this point. I don't know if he's been labeled a five tool player, but he's been showing off lots of tools, and this week, I think he added a sixth because he spent his off day on Monday, not like hanging out in the house, not doing laundry, as some of us do. Maybe he did, but no, he makes too much money for that. He hosted a camp for about 100 kids in Tampa St Pete, I think was actually in St Pete, but for Tampa St Pete kids an off day camp, and he said, even though it's an off day, it's a great day to be with the kids. There's not really an off day for me. So it's just really awesome to see this kid, who is 21 years old. So kid is legit, really, totally legit, to be giving back, you know, not just when he's on vacation, but when he's working, too. And besides that, he had a good week actually playing on the field. On Tuesday, he stole home base, which is such a sexy thing. It wasn't like a big exciting slide in. It was on a throwing ever error by Rangers catcher Kyle Higa shotka, but a steal of home nonetheless, was credited to Junior. And then on Thursday, the 21 year old kid had his first bobblehead night, which is always fun to see. And he said it kind of looked like him, but the eyebrows were wrong, and it was missing an important earring. But besides that, the bobblehead and he celebrated it buying by hitting a home run, which was his sixth home run in the past eight games, number 15 on the season. But it looks like he's heating up and then, plus, like, the magic moment of
that game was he turned Tyler wall single into a walk off hit by bolting from second base. And there was one article where it had his sprint speed, and that's why I'm thinking, like, all the tools, and then I couldn't find it because I didn't flag it. But he went really fast, and he didn't look back, and he didn't look at the third base coast. He just decided, like, I am going and Christopher Morrell is former baseball boyfriend of mine when he was on the Cubs. Now they're buddies on the rays. And Morel said, when I saw he turned the corner and he was going home, I was like, there goes my crazy guy. You know, there goes my crazy guy. So thanks to heroics from junior, the rays won four out of six last week. Both of their losses were by one run. So Holy shit, the rays are hot.
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Patti 18:08
They really are. And for two of us who are rooting for teams who are behind the rays in the standings, like, yeah, good. Good for you, buds, right? Great for you,
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Pottymouth 18:18
so happy for you. Dang it, yeah, you're nice guys, but can we just in a league, a division that I don't care quite as much about with Detroit Andy Ibanez has been sitting down to AAA, and my sad part for that from my fantasy team is that he was my utility guy because he played for second and third. His job was to hit against lefties, and that wasn't working out. He did have a better average against lefties than righties, but it was 238, to 161, so they think he needs a little bit of work in AAA, the official line is that this is a fix it kind of thing, and they're hoping to make him back. However, Detroit brought up jamai Jones, who homered on his first hit when he was pinch hitting and then went two for two for the night. Jamai is not a rookie. It's his fifth team in five years, but every year was kind of like a cup of coffee situation, so like a five shots of espresso at this point. The cool thing about jamai Jones, which like, you know, you feel kind of cosmic about certain players with certain teams, and he's in Detroit. He's not from Detroit, but both his brother and his father played for the Detroit Lions, different sport, same city, really. That's fascinating. Yeah, pretty cool. So I'm, you know, I hope the best for both of them. I just want everybody to play and have fun. I'd like to see Andy come back, because I would like that versatility however. You know how he's talking about, um, Cody, uh, Clemens. I was that he was on for infield, but he was actually playing outfield. Yahoo updated, he counts for outfield now. So he is my super utility guy. I just wish you'd do a little bit better starting now, but he for he's on for first, second, third and outfield. Wow. I hope I don't update it enough to take say down off of the I will have no infielders. Yeah, it does really bad. Like, it shouldn't be a takeaway thing. No, it's just not an add anything. It should be a nice guy thing. All right, the end of my current boyfriends is my struggling pitching flock, which explains a lot about why I'm not doing well. It seems like I'm always disappointed by pitching. I call him The Diamondbacks in the rough. We got the news. I think it was just yesterday that Corbin Burns is going to be having Tommy John surgery. So everybody who is a fan of the Orioles who is sad to see him go should just a big sigh of relief, like, who dodged that bullet? I know it's sad. Yeah,
Patti 20:29
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I don't, I don't wish ill,
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Pottymouth 20:32
but you can be sort of like, relieved that you don't have to suck up the ill. I think maybe I don't know.
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Patti 20:38
No, I'm not
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Pottymouth 20:39
going there. I'm not going, okay, all right, he's, I'm sure many people are, yeah, I'm trying to be bigger than that. Yeah, he has surgery next week and but this is, this is big, so he's definitely missing this season. Yeah, there's not a lot of talk about how much more, but probably a bunch more. It's probably more than a year. And that was, you know, after this big, six year, two, $10 million contract that he's not going to be doing at least, you know, a full year plus of he had been doing pretty well, especially for the D backs. He had three and two with a 266, era and 11 starts at least. E rod is back. He was out for a while on the eye on the the Il. Yeah, that is the right thing. And I could see the alert that he was getting taken off the IL, but it wasn't fast enough for me to, like, move my little fingers and get him on my lineup. When he started on Friday night, and actually did pretty well. It was a suspended game, so I'm not quite sure how they do that with the Yahoo thing, because they wasn't finished, but he pitched five innings and gave up two runs, and the game was suspended, three three in the seventh. So at the time of the game ending, he wouldn't have lost anyway, but he wouldn't have won either. So I don't know how they're going to do that, but I need to make some moves, and I need to find another pitcher I saw an article about in The Washington Post about this, because that's actually where Corbin burns elbow did its thing and just went, there's like a quote by somebody on Twitter that does the it wasn't John boy, but somebody else who does mouth reading right after he led up a hit to CJ Abrams in like, the fifth inning, he just called out the coach and said, my arms dead, which is like, Holy fuck, like it just looked, he looked very he said, My Yeah, here it is. My elbows done. It's dead. So I was looking at the Washington Post article, which didn't make me feel any better about the Diamondbacks, because they said quote Zach gallon has been uncharacterist and uncharacteristically mediocre and promising. Righty, Brandon fat has, I just wanted to say that has been getting pummeled. So fats pummeled, gallons, mediocre and burns is, got a dead arm? Got, yeah, got a dead arm. Holy shit. I can I pick them? Or can I pick them? I'm hoping
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Patti 22:58
it's not because you picked them. I don't believe it is. I don't believe it is, yeah, no, I've been having similar situations with my, my Phillies pitchers that,
Pottymouth 23:06
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oh, actually, Alvarado had something historically bad happened. Didn't again? Yeah, there's, yeah, I
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Patti 23:13
don't know that any pitching staff is safe right now. They're throwing super hard, yeah, and they haven't figured out what the deal is yet. Why? Why does it feel like there are so many more injuries than there used to be anyone? My former boyfriends sound like the beginning of joke, like, you know, three giants players walk into a bar. They didn't that I'm aware of, not for the purpose of joke. And also, they wouldn't together, because here's what actually happened. You may remember, Buster Posey is my original Legend, my original giants boyfriend. Way back in 2018 we first started the boyfriend selection process. He is now the president of baseball operations for the Giants, right? This is first year in that role. LAMONT WADE Jr, like Lamont, I picked last year as my giants boyfriend, and Dominic Smith, I picked as my Mets Boyfriend Back in 2021, and then, you know, he moved around a little bit. So here's what happened. Buster Posey DFA, LAMONT WADE Jr, on Wednesday, because He's really He's been in a bad rut. I mean, he has not been producing.
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Pottymouth 24:20
I mean, that he's in that position, that he does the DFA? Well, yeah, and
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Patti 24:24
part of it is because when he was, when he was placed in this position as president of baseball operations, he's not that far out from playing on the team. And there was a lot of questions, like, what's going to happen when you have to take make a decision about one of your former teammates? Well, here it is because they played together in 2021 which is when Lamont became late night Lamont, and it was like historic and all this stuff was happening. And he did, was able, in fact, to do his job. And DFA him, sad as it is, he picked up Dominic Smith, who had been on a triple a contract with the Yankees. And he. Said, No, I'd want to do that. So he opted out of that. Became a free agent, and so he's been pulled on. So Lamont way Jr had been playing for space. So Dominic Smith plays first base. We'll see what happens there. But it's a little bit of a shake up, a little bit of shake up. And Buster had to do it, and he did it, and he was decisive. And, you know, he waited, he was patient. It's just gonna turn around. Nope, it's not okay. Here's what we're gonna do. So good job, Buster for you know, being brave. Sorry Lamont, and good luck, Dom. Oh,
Pottymouth 25:32
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wow, yeah, all good guys. It's hard. It's hard that it's a business, it's super hard. We talk a lot about young guys, because that's where baseball boyfriends end up, because we've been at this so long, and we pick new guys every year, and so there's so many guys that we've already picked. And I wanted to just take a moment to tip my hat to some old guys who have done stuff this week. And I appreciate the old guys because they're sort of, I'm trying to think of like, how close they are to my age, not close enough to be in the same school at the same time, but
maybe we were all in like, you know, K through 12, ish, at least. Rich Hill. Okay, rich Hill. Rich, not yet over the hill. Rich, still on top of the hill, 45 years old. So I feel like we're just a stone's throw away, sure, sure.
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Patti 26:24
And I like, that's a weird thing, yeah, sure, sure. Depends
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Pottymouth 26:28
on how far you throw that stone.
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Patti 26:29
I can't throw very weird.
Pottymouth 26:33
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We've got a pitcher here who can do it for us. I'm sure rich Hill could throw a stone really far. He debuted in MLB in 2005 so we've been watching him for a long time. He's been on 13 teams, and just recently, in June, he started playing with the Royals AAA Omaha, storm chasers. And if you go to the storm chasers website, there are five like the you know the latest, like, hot videos. There are six videos. There's the little grid, and two by two by three. And five of the six are Jack caglione, which I is like the guy who just got brought up. He's their hot rookie. He was like, doing amazing there. I don't understand. I listened to it several times, and it sounds like caglione, but there's an a and an n there that are silent, and I just don't understand how that works. But power to Jack rich Hill, much easier to say was video number six, because he yesterday. Today's Sunday, June 8. Yesterday, June 7. He went six innings. That's a lot for an old guy, probably past his bedtime, giving up one hit, one run, six strikeouts and one walk, nice. And it was a win. And it was his second game after his first debut, which is debut for this year, which was June 1. So that's two wins out of two appearances with a 245, era. Not bad. He was on the Red Sox four times. I'm thinking, Boy, they could use him. Now, he's Boston born, so the Red Sox were like a really good connection to him, but if or when he's brought up, I mean, I haven't really looked into the Royals pitching and them fitting him in, but it seems like you know he at least should be able to do a bullpen job. He will tie the MLB record of most teams, it'll be 14. And so the record of a player playing for 14 teams was Edwin Jackson. He's currently tied for second with Otavio Octavio Dotel, who is the player who was killed in the Dominican nightclub collapse. Yeah. So talk about weird stories, like coming together, but 13 is a lot. 14 is more. And, you know, who knows? Maybe he'll play somebody else next year. That wouldn't that be cool? Yay. And so for another guy who just keeps on pitching, Craig Kimbrel, who we've both seen, you know, pitch and maybe implode in time. I mean, he was great for a while with the Red Sox Orioles. Was not a good for sure. He's 30. I was Spry, 37 years old. He debuted in MLB in 2010 and he's only played with a mere eight teams. He started with Atlanta, and he's back there now. So he started this season. He basically called Atlanta ownership and said, like, I can do this. And he and Kenley Jansen last year were like, neck and neck for like that next save record, yep, on most saves somewhere. So
I think he, you know, wants to play, Kenley, is playing in in the angels, with the angels. And so he started the season in double A Columbus. So that's in the Atlanta, you know, teams, the Columbus cling stones. I don't know what a cling stone is. No idea what he had last played in in Columbus, cling stones in 2009 oh, man. So he played there for three games, was doing pretty well, got promoted to the Gwinnett stripers. Played 15 games there, was credited with one win and one loss, which you know for for a closer relief, at the very least, is is not too bad, with three saves, 60. In innings. Pitched a two era. So that looks solid to me. So he was brought up for Atlanta Friday night, and apparently a stressful and miserable game for them, and pitched a scoreless seventh inning. Atlanta ended up losing in 10 to San Francisco Giants, five to four. But it was not Craig Kimball's fault. However, he was DFA on Saturday. So the question is, Atlanta has been under performing for sure, and struggling, and so I think they're trying to figure out what to do. And is it that you pay this old guy who looks good now, but we saw him implode last year with another team? What would be the equivalent of a prorated $2 million contract, or do you pay league minimum to some guy, which might be a better long term, or
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Patti 30:46
there is a cap on how many times you can be optioned to the minor leagues, and he's been playing for freaking ever. Yeah, so it could be that he's out of options. When you're out of options, and they don't want to keep you on the major league team, you get DFA, and they might end up keeping him. I mean, there's, there's a way around that, where you end up keeping him, but you can't just option him back down if he's at, I don't know. I haven't looked into
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Pottymouth 31:07
it. I think he signed a minor league contract because that's where. So I don't, I don't know how that works,
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Patti 31:11
yeah, but you can only do it so many times. And I wonder if that's it. I also, I also wonder, I think, for when you're playing that long. Yeah, and you've had bad seasons, like last year, yeah, and he's had, yeah, some, like, really horrific outcomes. I could see maybe, if it's I need to get back there, because I'm in there, I'm in there with Kenley for a record, maybe, yeah, but otherwise, you wonder you have to be kind of set up financially after all of this time, you know, playing in the major leagues and the same thing with rich shell. I mean, God bless him, yeah. But what keeps you going? Why do you want to keep doing that when it could go badly? Like, do you want to risk getting hurt? Do you want to risk all of these things when you could probably just have a good time now? Yeah. Or
Pottymouth 31:58
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do you want to go up on top, go out on top? But for rich Hill, I can see, like that record thing that's pretty sweet. And also, I didn't see anything from Craig Kimbrough, but I did see an interview with with rich Hill, basically saying that he just loves the competition and just loves
playing. And even though, you know, in the minors, he was playing with kids less than half his age, right, he was still like, you know, enjoying and just enjoying playing the game. So maybe you just don't want to stop. Sometimes, one more guy who doesn't want to stop. Actually, Robinson can no 42 years old. Mldb debut in 2005 so same year as rich Hill. He only played with a mere five teams. But, you know, he spent a shitload of time in New York between the Yankees and the Mets. I had actually picked him as a baseball boyfriend our very first season when he was with Seattle. And so I think after that, he went to the Mets, and after that, he had that suspension. And I don't need to dig that up, but you know, he's he, he didn't manage to bounce back after his ped extensive suspension. However, he did have a lot of success in other places. And he had a lot of success in the Dominican summer league with, well, not the Dominican Summer League, the Dominican league that happens when baseball is not having so it's actually winter Dominican winter League. Yeah, that
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Patti 33:12
other season. I like watching him talk, yeah.
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Pottymouth 33:15
Sometimes it takes a while with, I think with my Leon is, no, he was with stressor Orientales. He played a little bit with a lot of different teams there, but then also wound up in the Mexican league last year. So he is Dominican, so lead on was a good fit. But you know, something to do in the summer to be in the Liga Mexicana de baseball. Last year, he started with the Diablos rojos, and he's still playing this year at age 42 he's de aging, and he just celebrated 200 hits in two years. That is not bad. Last year, he ended up being MVP of the league. His team is currently in first place, and he is leading the team in hits with 59 RBI with 43 and doubles with 26 and his quotation es una proveda de que cuando una hue la con no more in trigger like that, no importance. So he's saying it's a it's a test that when, or it's proof that when you play with love and investment, that age doesn't important, isn't important, nice, yeah, like it. I believe that.
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It's weird to say I want to emulate Robinson in some very specific ways. I absolutely do. And from there, from those like, you know, guys working hard and sticking with it, we're going to a sad thing, the police plotter. We've got vandalism murals of Jackie Robinson and Minnie minoso In Miami's Dorsey Park, which is a historic Negro League park in a neighborhood which is known as the Harlem of the southwest of the South, were vandalized. They were vandalized with swastikas and racial slurs last week. They currently have like plywood up over the parts that were. Uh, that were marked, that were tagged. I think they're trying to figure out if they can undo it, or if they're just going to have to, you know, scrap it and start over again. But the Miami Police are investigating it as a hate crime. So the artist, whose name is Kyle Holbrook, he painted the mural in 2012 he says this, this was an act of hate, but it will not define us. This mural was born from a community's pride History and power. We will restore it stronger, bolder and with even more purpose. Black history is American history, and no spray paint can erase that truth. Amen. Yeah, all right, if you don't know, everyone is aware of Jackie Robinson,
because he gets a lot of mention. A mini munozo does not get as much mention if you don't know who he is, he's Cuban, and he was the first black Latino player in the league. And he actually started with Cleveland in 1949 so he was another one who broke a barrier, important.
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Pottymouth 36:01
Oh, man, I hope they can put that together. I'm gonna continue on the police blotter with, fuck, this just sucks. So last last week, I said that I would update y'all on the wander Franco trial. I didn't see much about it in the baseball world, no. So I definitely just had to look it up in Dominican newspapers. The short answer, which, of course, I'm not going to stop there, but the short answer is, it's not over yet. The trial is supposed to continue tomorrow, June 9, and then after that. The weird part is unclear, because apparently it's taking longer than planned, and they are backlogged. The trial itself was taking longer, yeah, and so they're not sure where it's going to fit in. Beyond tomorrow, there might be a little bit more of a gap, which seems a little bit weird to me. It does seem like, you know, despite the probably big bucks lawyer that wonder Franco has, who, and I forget it was somebody with, like, this kind of like, you know, represents celebrities who are in trouble. Kind of person, it seems like the judicial system has given the prosecution a lot of leeway, like they've been able to set shorter hours per day in the court, and the prosecution has been able to order presentation of evidence. So I think it's looking a little bleak for him, but understandably, they said that they had quote, and this is from listing the audio one of the Dominican newspapers a parade of witnesses this week, 11 so far, including the victim's mother's cousin so Roman also. It really does seem like both are on trial right now. Both wonder Franco and the victim's mother in collusion for kidnapping this young woman, and then for, well, for him paying the mother money so that he could be with this underage girl. I think it was 14. I mean, it's basically statutory rate, but there's, there's the mother's on trial for essentially selling her kid, and not just this time, but other
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Patti 38:04
times as well. No, I didn't realize it was more than just this one. Yeah, it's
Pottymouth 38:09
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a really ugly, ugly story. The so the victim's mother's cousin said that she had actually offered refuge to the victim on multiple occasions because of this being a frequent occurrence with the mom, she also testified that she had to deposit 2,000,100 pesos, which is almost 34,034,030 $4,000 to an account. And it was, you know, hide this money kind of account, the Oh, shit. I didn't look this up in English. Assistant, it's like the fiscal somebody who works for the Puerto Plato government, assistant of some important person in that government. If anyone knows fiscal titular, please write in somebody who is involved firsthand with the rescue of the victim so got her out of wherever wonder Franco had her stashed away. Apparently, he said that on the witness stand that in his first conversations with a victim, he quickly realized that she didn't have a normal adolescent because of her mother constantly selling her basically, the prosecution is also alleging that the money that they're proving went from Franco to the mother was hush money regarding the relationship, especially because there's evidence of monthly payments that were ongoing. So it seems like he was trying to keep her quiet about their relationship. 12 to 14 witnesses to go, depending on who you listen to, and the
government attorney has submitted a shit ton of paperwork. They have evidence out the wazoo of bakes, bank statements, checks, shipping receipts, just proving this connection between Franco and the mom, according to listing the audio, 151 pieces of evidence have been submitted so far, and they're aiming. For 165 and the evidence that's been submitted before, before has been accepted. And it's, you know, it's sort of like the same process here that you can't spring something during the trial. It's submitted before the trial, and it's validated and it's accepted before the hearing. Apparently, there was, like one of this, 165 I guess, total, that had been submitted before the hearing that was dubious. And the guy, it's an ESPN in Spanish, little video that I think will link, said basically that one, you know, not going to argue about it like they could have tried to get it submitted, but they already have 165, and the phrase, which I love, which I learned from a Puerto Rican colleague that they used in this video was due this sobre mojado, which means it rains on something that's already wet, already Yeah. So I think that's since this is Dominican, and that was pretty I think that's a very like a Caribbean hurricane II kind of saying with, like, if it's still raining, whatever it's already wet. It's a three judge panel, which I found kind of interesting. The all I could see, so I'm like, What the fuck is the defense seeing? All I could see is that they're saying that the victim had an interview with, I guess, you know, official police. That refutes everything, but I believe that she spoke before then, and I don't know, I think that's kind of questionable. Also, you mentioned earlier that there's another case against Juan de Franco regarding illegal firearm possession in November, and that case is moving forward as well. The prosecutor's office is requesting a trial. There's plenty of evidence on that. It was like a Glock, something that was not, he didn't have any kind of license or and he's also, like, you know, on probation. He shouldn't be having a fucking gun in his
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Patti 41:48
car. Al Capone getting mailed for tax evasion is that we're talking about here, and that's the one that's gonna stick, and not horrific abuse of a child, I
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Pottymouth 41:56
don't know. Well, we'll see what happens starting tomorrow. I It's, you know, like I said last week. Like he I haven't seen any new Instagram y things now, but he was trying to give this like, you know, I found God, you know, gonna move beyond this kind of thing. But I think it's too late, too
Patti 42:14
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little, too late. There's 165 other things that say no, right, that you have not in fact, and we're gonna talk some Yelp reviews now. So what I have noticed is a there's a pattern of when a team goes to play Tampa or the athletics and those home parks, they talk about them later, like, what was your experience playing a major league game in a minor league Park? It's like, it's expected. Now there's going to be an article about that, like, Well, what did you think when you did this? So they come off very much like Yelp reviews of the situation. So the twins just recently played in both places. They played in Tampa and then in in Sacramento, which is where the athletics are playing. Carlos Correa sat out the last two games of the series versus the athletics because he said the batter's box was rock hard, and if you watch, the batters are
slipping while they're in the box. Oh my. And he said it was causing him back pain, which he actually tested by like batting in cages and on other surfaces, and it didn't bother him, but something about that surface bothered him. But he said in the Yelp review. Way I like the park. The ball travels very well. The facilities are good. They did it right. The plate is the only problem. And I'm not going to sacrifice two months of my season, because a couple of at bats here smart. So that was pretty smart. So I've been paying attention to the Sacramento park because the the Orioles have a series there right now. So I watched a little bit, and I got to actually witness all these guys just sort of Trump all the way across the field, because both clubhouses are behind the outfield wall. They're not adjacent to so weird the dugouts, so there's no quick like between inning visits. The joke was, if you get ejected, there's an actual walk of shame or triumph, depending, because you've got to walk across the whole field instead of just duck in behind the dugout and put on your fake mustache and come back out. But like, like, Gunner Henderson, from the from the O said he usually, like, if he's on the rare occasions where he's pinch hitting, as opposed to, you know, starting the game, he absolutely goes down into the clubhouse and does a couple of swings in the cages if he's going to pinch hit. He said, I couldn't do that because that wasn't there. He ended up with a walk in. But it's something that you kind of expect, and it's your routine, and it's different. In Tampa, the Yelp reviews will tell you that there's terrible lighting there, and the foul poles are short enough that sometimes you have to really eyeball. Did the ball? It was the ball fair or foul? Because going over the top of it, that doesn't always work out. But in both cases, there's no third deck because they're minor league parks, so they're shorter and so they're windier, and the Yelp review will tell you that, especially in Tampa, the winds are swirling. And unpredictable,
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Pottymouth 45:00
and they're not used to that, because they used to have a roof, sure,
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Patti 45:04
sure. But even teams that aren't coming from that are like the visiting teams who play outside, as baseball is meant to be played. So you absolutely see where that ball is going. It's going foul, it's going foul, it's going foul. Oh crap, the wind caught it. It's coming fair. Now I've got to dive for this,
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Pottymouth 45:19
this ball, right? So just quick, is it that George Steinbrenner field is a spring training facility, not a minor league, right? Correct?
Patti 45:26
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Yes, yeah, it is a spring training you are lesser. You are correct? Yes, absolutely, that. That is important point to make. But the clubhouses and the other like, off field facilities are rated really high on both of those things. I mean, yeah, the Steinbrenner fellows were created for the Yankees. So you know, it's that's gonna be top notch. And then Sutter Health in Sacramento was redone in order to have those kinds of things meet Major League standards. So those kinds
of facilities are rated pretty highly. So I liked hearing what Ramon Laureano had to say, because he played for Oakland for six years. He's now in Baltimore. So it's like the Coliseum meant a lot to me, but we're here in Sacramento, and at the end of the day, I love playing anywhere, at any place. So that was very politic of him, whereas Zach Eflin said, it's not Oakland, it's not like a big league stadium or anything, but it's a place to play baseball, I guess. So. I think he's reading it like six out of 10. You know, it's not up. Would definitely go back, but he's gonna have to, yeah, those definitely sound like guilt. Peruse, but I do. I do. I'm amused that it seems like every time another team comes through one of those parks, there's a new article with, with, with the Yelp reviews, yeah.
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Pottymouth 46:35
And I just wonder about Tampa to the like, losing sight of the ball thing, like that was such an issue with the with the dome. Yeah. Anyway, so this is just like a new it's now, it's just unpredictable. Now you can see where the
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Patti 46:47
ball is. It's just not where you think it's gonna be.
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Pottymouth 46:51
Alright. I'm gonna give an update that you guys know more about than me. So it's gonna be short, which is the College World Series, the super round, or whatever it's called. I know they're super involved, has started, and it's the best of three. And so nothing is been sealed, almost nothing has been sealed. At the time of recording, there are four teams that had Game Two yesterday, and so if somebody won both of those games, they're done. But that only happened in one out of those four matchups, and that would be limiting Auburn and Coastal Carolina, moves on. So the other three, I have no fucking clue they had game three today. Some of them were actually before recording, but I am a miss, and I didn't catch those. And then there's the other four, which were playing game two today. And so they might have sealed the deal today, or they might be going on tomorrow. So you know, look at your college world series update. But the important part is, for us, in Friends of the pod is LSU could seal the deal. They had a pretty commanding win in game one. So I'm going to say, Go Tigers, because we got the koozies and the shirts to prove it. Hey Brian and maybe they are selling the deal right now. Actually, they started playing at six and at six and at 630 so we could check in on them and maybe celebrate extra could
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be it could happen. Wicked awesome team continues to celebrate leading by a boatload in our fantasy league with its ridiculous rules. Again, again, the top five remain the top five, although pandemonium and leftist field are now tied for third. So that's pretty exciting. Our West Coast correspondent, and for the bring back Renault team, jumps from eighth place to sixth place. Congratulations. That was huge. That was a lot of numbers. I my, my terrible infield, my absent in field, and I have been pushed down to eight, and then the rest is pretty much the same. But
um, yeah, I just don't know what to do because, because of our ridiculous rules potty mouth, and I have a very, very small universe of players to draw from. And yeah, yeah, not working out in my favor.
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Pottymouth 48:59
I know, yeah. And I'm even lower there. I'm in the 10th spot. Mighty you know, every day I open it up potty mouth, you're in 10th place. No shit. I was
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Patti 49:07
in sixth place for a couple of days this past week, but not when it counted, yeah, not when the freeze frame happened, not when the freeze frame happened. Oh, does Jake Iles, Jay Giles, yeah. Was it? Yeah? Wow. I can't do math on my hex. I know the Jay Kyles free scream, wow. All right, hey, what's going on this week? Um,
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Pottymouth 49:24
I, I feel a little bit guilty, but a little bit excited that I get to count down my days of school. Of course. Mr. Potty mouth was like, Yeah, I only have six and a half months more of work this week, this year, this week. It feels like so me. I'm one of the lucky ones. I have seven official days left of school. Day number eight, our usual professional day has been waived because we're, you know, like, if we get all our shit done, because the superintendent's actually being pretty cool about this, because we have to do two extra days because of the snow days situation. But the two extra days are half days. It's actually, I. Like, I'm not envisioning a lot of hard work in the next seven days.
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Patti 50:03
Oh, thank God, because I would feel terrible. I would feel so bad for you.
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Pottymouth 50:07
I do have to clean out my classroom. That is going to be a hard work. But of the like, manual labor kind and just trying to figure out where to push it and how do I organize all this stuff? But yeah, you know, my brain will be chill. So,
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you know, I did not win the azalea award that we talked about in previous weeks, but I'm okay with it, you know. And I lost to a public school teacher, which I'm totally okay with. But now I'm feeling a little bitter, because that whole, you know, I'm almost done with work for the yes summer like maybe I don't feel, as, you know, generous towards I don't mind at all losing to a public school teacher. They should have their own category, some of my public school
category, best friends or public school teachers, it turns out, hey. So now as potty math alluded to, next Saturday is a horrible, horrible military parade in downtown DC, but also lots of corresponding protests. The under no kings is that correct? No the no kings protest. It's also a birthday party for a distillery that we like. So it could be, we might protest, we might go to the distillery. Maybe, if we smart, we can do both. I think we can fit both. I think we can fit both in because we should have a rich life that encompasses many kinds of experiences, and we should be celebrating as well as being righteously indignant about fascism. I think we can do
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Pottymouth 51:21
both, and they're both Uber local, like the the no kings local protest is, like, just right over there. It's, it's super close, excellent.
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Patti 51:27
Well. And the fact that they're both convenient that allows us to do things that are good for our soul and good for our soul, yeah? And have it also be nearby is a big plus,
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Pottymouth 51:35
yeah? And I think, you know, I encourage others to sort of join that, because you're gonna go fucking nuts. If all you do is protest and get out there, you need to rejuvenate a little bit like, you know, listen to our podcast. Have a little fun. Go. Yeah. Have
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Patti 51:49
a little fun. Um, tell us how you're coping. We want to know how you're coping. We hope you are. We hope we're finding you're finding creative ways to to deal with all of the stuff that's happening in the world. Please find us on social media and tell us about that
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Pottymouth 52:01
Sure thing, blue sky, and see IB podcast or, you know that Twitter place is a weird fucking situation. I actually was kind of grateful that we kept our Twitter account, because I could read the meltdown.
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Patti 52:14
I went back there just to look at the meltdown like, Oh, crap. I have now. I'm gonna be like, back in there. I cannot. I'm not back in there.
Pottymouth 52:19
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Yeah, it's, um, it's some weird shit going down there, but, you know, we gotta be witness. I Not sure if it's a good or bad thing, but we gotta, we gotta keep watching anyway. That's a Twitter, right? Facebook and Instagram are no crying and B ball. Or you can join our lovely community on Patreon. Hey, Patreon friends. That's P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying and B ball. And for $1 a
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Patti 53:03
if you don't know if it's a problem or not, because no one's going to tell us that anymore. Fight the man and in very specific ways that we could help you locate and send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight, potty mouth. Good night. No, be careful. Be very, very careful. Do we need a cup holder? Do we institute cup holders on the card table. You
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Pottymouth 53:41
know, I think that's probably a good idea. I really should put one on the drums anyway, for when I start drumming this summer. That's my goal. Aren't
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Patti 53:47
you both hands busy when you're with the drums? Well,
Pottymouth 53:49
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I take breaks, right?