No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
You. Hi and welcome to episode 413 of No Crying in Baseball, the Overall I'm Pretty Happy episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend. Pattymouth, hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
Hey, I am so glad to hear that, because I keep like, I'm also, overall pretty happy. And I'm in Tennessee currently, which means I'm on vacation, but I keep opening the news and that just like, it's so bad. It's just don't do that, I know, but it's like, no what? Like, take a day off.

Patti 0:45
Yeah, the bad news will be there tomorrow, and anything you do today isn't gonna like, you know, change things so much that it will also work

Pottymouth 0:51
tomorrow. I know. I just feel like I should have some fun. Call all my representatives and senators and say, What the fuck are you doing with our country? I don't. It's stressful. The thing is, I don't

Patti 1:02
think our representatives are the ones who are causing the problem, but they may not be doing enough to fix

Pottymouth 1:06
it, right? Yeah. Well, everybody has a call. All right. Happy thing. Okay, do you have a happy thing? We

Patti 1:12
went to pride night at Camden Yards, and the game sucked, but the pride part was so much fun. Yeah, they're like pride everywhere. Everybody was happy. People are wearing their new jerseys and drinking their sparkly unicorn drinks and cheering. And is it being have a great big love fest. And there were kids and old people and everybody in between. And it was chill. It was just even the temperature wasn't bad. Yeah, chill that way. It was such a lovely, lovely time. And we met some friends. We met some friends of the show

Pottymouth 1:42
there. Oh, that's right, it was Melissa, yeah. So really, really good to see you guys and anybody else listening up if you're in the area, let us know, because meetups are definitely a good thing.

Patti 1:58
They are. Oh, hey, you know how you've been talking about how the Rangers are the one team that doesn't have a, yeah, had their own pride night. And maybe, like, they should only, like everybody else should have their pride night when the Rangers head to town. Yeah. So I was initially saying, you know, that's that's good, but it's not the same as, like, taking it to the ownership. But you know what? I was reading an article in the Baltimore banner about pride night, the one that we went to, and it said, for the second year in a row, Baltimore held off until Texas came to town. So I think on purpose, nice the Orioles are scheduling their pride nights for when the Rangers visit. I

Pottymouth 2:30
think that's a good thing, and until the Rangers fucking wake up and get a pride night of their own, I think everybody should do the same thing. Because wouldn't that be glorious for them to just bounce around from pride to pride to pride throughout the month of June, so that folks can say, Get your ass in gear, people, it's fun. It was we had a really good time. It was really lovely. We did. And Jacob deGrom flirted with the no hitter, but it got broken up. He flirted with he was perfect through seven, I think,

Patti 2:59
right? He was perfect. And then Jackson holiday had a walk, and then Colton cowser had a hit, so we broke up all the things. And hooray, yeah. I mean, my guys didn't win, but it was kind of fun to, like, watch history almost happen, and also have, like, the good guys, like, make sure it didn't.

Pottymouth 3:16
So okay, yeah, yeah. Mr. Potty mouth has de gram on his team, so he was, like, very much cheering because, well, we'll, we'll find out later how He's slipping a little bit in the ranks. But, you know, spoiler alert, yeah, yeah, there we go. You went to a baseball game today. I just got back my hair still, because it was fucking hot. It was really, really fucking hot. And we were in the sun for, I would say, maybe three innings. And then, like, mercifully, the shade came across the first baseline, and it was super fun. It was the Tennessee Smokies, which is the Cubs double A, against the Birmingham barons, which is the White Sox double A. So it was all Chicago all the time. However, in Tennessee, with mountains around brand new stadium, and I have some favorite things, like, I would say, go if you're in Knoxville, if you're in Tennessee, go to the stadium. Super nice in I guess, right field there's a big ass bar that has everything you could possibly want, including a couple of local brews. And right next to the bar are couches, like comfy couches under umbrellas. I was really wondering if we were gonna make it to our seats, because that was like stop number one, which was super cool. Other cool thing you can do is you can buy a mason jar, and it's actually plastic, but if you buy the mason jar with your first beer, your refills are $6 or three on Thursday nights. So

Patti 4:42
it's, I'm just saying I bought my my plastic mason jar last year at the old stadium, and apparently it still works. So if I get to go this year, I'll bring my

Pottymouth 4:50
Yeah, actually, our host got a little bit of shit for that. She had to explain, no, this is from the old stadium. You guys have to take this Yeah, so to be to be determined, but the. It's a different shape. It's just like, it's just like, slightly different. So that enough that they can give you a little bit of shit about it, but hopefully, hopefully it will prevail. Reason will prevail, and sheep beer will prevail. And now I feel invested in coming back. And so while I was there, what did I drink? I drank, Oh, fuck. What was it called yeeha. You? Who you? It was some local I can't remember. It was an IPA, but before, actually that, what I wanted to tell you about is, before the game, we stopped for brunch at a nearby bar pizza place, and they had a Mezcal drink. And if you say mezcal, I say yes please. And it had House made grilled pineapple syrup mixed with Mezcal. It was, I need that now, right now, good. It was Brunchy. It was really good for brunch. It was smoky and pineappley. And, yeah, I don't know you figure out

Patti 5:58
how to recreate it next time we record for brunch, we can have that, because I want that very much.

Pottymouth 6:02
We're gonna have to grow some pineapple. I guess that sounds like willing to figure that out. Mr. Brian, madness for it. Oh boy. All right, one last thing before we go into the show, show, I just want to express my true sadness about the Celtics. I know this is a baseball podcast, but, man, couple years ago,

Patti 6:21
that never stopped you talking about Baltimore sports, lost in sports. There

Pottymouth 6:26
we go. There we go. And my dad joins me in this sadness that the Celtics traded away Christop brising us, but also drew holiday, which, if you guys have been listening, I was so, so excited when he came to Boston, because he and his wife, soccer star Lauren, holiday like, put their hearts and souls into Boston. Did so much philanthropic stuff. I can't believe I pronounced that, after all the I've drunk so far, but now they're going, I think it's Portland, and I'm just sad. I know it's a business. I know they did, but the reason why I first started talking about Drew is because he and his wife posted about basically what it does to a family when you're traded out of the blue. Because when they were traded from Milwaukee to Boston, they had no warning, and it was a shock, and the kids had to change schools, and it was, it was a big family thing, but then they turned it around for the good, and now they have to go through it again. So heart goes out to the holiday family. I know they have bazillion dollars and all that, they'll be just fine, but still, it's

Patti 7:29
hard, and I can't believe it gets easier. I mean, they probably know what to do more now, but doesn't make it easy emotionally, to have to cut those ties and build up new ones Absolutely. So I am kicking off by drinking a, a an alt beer from mixed breed, which is the one near my relatives in the Albany area. And it makes me very happy. I think it's the last one in my fridge. So that's the mixed breed, but it's very,

Pottymouth 7:53
very good. Right now I am drinking something from a very local brewery that is our hosts favorite brewery. It's called peaceful side. How can you not love peaceful side? I've been there because this is my whatever third beverage of the afternoon. It is a club light, so it's nice and light, but it is a big can, so it should get me through the recording. I hope

Patti 8:15
it's a nice balance, a lighter beer, but way more of it, right? Sure. It's good, sure, though, so the math should work. All right, on today's show, we've got our All Star outlook thus far, and it's not over yet, but it's pretty close. We've got yet more badly behaved fans. We've got some happy kids stories. Our police blotter has horrific men in two different sports. Yes, we're cross training with the police blotter, then we've got some banana ball and the World Baseball Classic. So cheers,

Pottymouth 8:46
cheers. Okay, so if I wasn't super clear before, and I know that I'm on a little bit of lag, because after mentioned cocktails, we are not in the same room. We are recording on squad cast. And so if the quality is a little wonky, that might be a combination of my alcohol intake plus Tennessee, whatever it is, Wi Fi service, and all of the above.

Patti 9:05
And also, I had to turn off my air conditioner for, you know, sound quality reasons, so I may just melt.

Pottymouth 9:10
Yeah, so I'm gonna lose that. I try to talk fast, for Patty's sake, I'll start. You know, did you all vote? You get to vote again. And the voting, I'm starting to feel like maybe this isn't the best way to pick the starting lineup. The good news is, like, everybody who is in the finalists, the, you know, there's down to two in every position. We've picked them at some point, like 99% of them just, you know, trust me on that. Don't have to fact check, but all those

Patti 9:40
guys are in the All Star game. Oh yeah, they've all made the all star game. So this next thing is just to pick who's going to be the starting lineup, which, as you know, is like, you know, maybe two innings, and then they're going to switch through anyway. But so the good news is, all of these guys are in the game. It's a matter, and the next round of voting is who's going to start the game. Woo hoo.

Pottymouth 9:58
So. Because so many of our formers are and these are baseball boyfriends, guys that we picked in the off season, because they're super cool. We each picked one guy per team, and we do it every year. And so we have lots of former guys who are super awesome. And you know, we were limited with our current picks this year. I have two guys on and you have one guy on. Did you fact check me on this? By the way, yes, I did one current guy, okay? Because I tried to, you know, compare it with our records very carefully. So my current guys on are Ben rice, also known as Ben arroz these days, with for his Spanish prowess, he is the American League designated hitter. He can be very happy that Rafael Devers has gone all the way over there to the other side of the country, other league, and I can just tip my hat to bring back Ronnell for swiping him because he is not on my team. But I could have done it. I made a mistake. Ben rice, the guy

Patti 10:59
to be clear. To be clear, Ben Ben rice is actually behind, right over Hearn from as the as the Al designated hitter, but that that so, just so you know, that those votes get wiped clean for the next round. But Ryan O'Hearn is also giving lots of credit to Rafael Devers for, you know, moving so to free that up.

Pottymouth 11:23
Yeah, I think they, these guys have a lot of thinking too. And I'm so this is really interesting, though, at this point. And I just want to, like harsh, a little bit on this voting system, because it favors teams that have a big footprint, like the Dodgers and the Yankees, right? So a lot of Dodgers are on there, and Yankees. I I'm thinking, that's how I mean, Ben rice has definitely had a good year. But at this point, with Ben rice against Ryan O'Hearn, is it going to be the world against the Yankees like? Is everybody going to get the I recommend that vote Ryan O'Hearn, despite the fact that Ben's my boyfriend. But, you know, some things go deeper than boyfriend stuff, but the guy that I'm excited about, but again, read, you know, above Dodgers Andy PAC has made it, and I didn't even have confidence that I would put him on my starting lineup this year because he was a little bit of a wild card to start the year. He already has, like, almost as many home runs as he had all season last year. He is fan graphs. Have them as fifth in fan graphs, war for outfield across all of MLB, fourth in home runs, with 16 and plus he is really, you know, hopping it up in center field there. He made a game saving play this past week, on Thursday against Kansas City with a crazy throw to first base in the ninth inning. Game could have been blown, but not thanks to Andy pockets. So your guy is the PCA report of every week, Pete crow Armstrong, who is no shocker like he absolutely deserves it, and I just saw lots of Pete Crow, arms, strong stuff at the smoky stadium, because I believe he passed through there probably very, very quickly on his way up to the Cubs. So he's your guy, but another guy of yours, James Wood, got robbed, and this is where I think the fan vote screws players over who are from underperforming teams in markets that don't have as solid of a fan base. And the nationals are in an interesting, you know, situation that you know everyone in DC comes from somewhere else. It seems like, yes, there are some natives, but there are so many people who come with their fandoms, so I think it makes it that much harder to have a really solid nats fan base, and James Wood has been crazy rocking it this year. He is number three in OPS of all outfielders across the league, behind Kyle Tucker and Aaron judge, and that's it. And he's number four in war, behind those guys and Pete crow Armstrong, and he's not in the runoff. So I kind of it makes me feel even more concerned about this system. It's, I don't know what, how can we replace it? How can we tweak

Patti 14:08
what? One thing that I'm hoping for is that they're gonna pick also reserves, yeah, and I have a feeling that Woody's gonna get in when they pick reserves for for the outfield, because that's done, I think by the managers, I'm pretty sure the managers pick that, and that's when you know, you're not hiding behind a team name. You're, you know, they're, they're looking at you like, I've seen you play. I know what you can do. Yeah, yeah. So, um, currently only two players have been announced for the home runder, because they're gonna, like, just dribble those out, like, you know, a day for them, you know, until it happens. They're both former boyfriends of mine. So I'm going for you know, clearly, I'm at 100% being a representation. Cal Riley, who's currently leading the league in homers with 32 and while the CUNY Jr, who only has nine so far. But remember, he didn't like start playing until almost the end of May. He's like the. Hometown hero, because the the all star festivities are in Atlanta, because we have a short memory. Cal Raleigh, his dad's gonna pitch to him, so that's already a flag. It's like, this is gonna be very emotional and may not be effective. Who knows? No catch, no catcher has won the Home Run Derby yet. Show me a tiny has said he's not gonna do it, which I don't blame him for at all. Right? What I'm hoping for is Pete crow Armstrong and Pete Alonso will both do it, so we can have some Pete on Pete's boyfriend Smackdown. Ah, that is what I hoping for. So we will hear more, you know, a little bit every day. Yeah.

Pottymouth 15:36
So you clearly dig the long ball. You got the guys all right, but also, actually, you're well rounded. You also dig the

Patti 15:44
small wall. It's my friend, yep.

Pottymouth 15:47
All right, I'm gonna go into a little bit of shit right now. We've been talking about players who have been getting nasty comments or nasty social media posts from fans, and you know, fans just have to wake the fuck up. And I think that, you know, the players and their families are getting more and more outspoken about it. So this past week, on Tuesday night, the D backs were at the White Sox. They were winning healthy actually, Cattell Marty, who I'm talking about, got a home run early in the game. So he was at bat in the seventh inning, and a fan made a comment that visibly upset him, and at the time, it was unclear what it was. He was visibly upset. He popped out, that was it. And then it came out that it was something related to his mom, who died in 2017 when he was 23 years old. And so I went back because I had picked him as a baseball boyfriend, way back in episode 64 and at that time, you know, he had really just started so he hadn't become the huge name that he is today. He had debuted in 2015 he had been up and down in 1516, and 17, and then he was on bereavement leave because his mother died in a moped accident in Dominican Republic. And it was a shocker, you know, to the whole family, a horrific thing for the poor kid to go through. And the D backs really backed him up. He talked about how they were super supportive. And we mentioned that that at the time he went to the funeral in the dr d backs management actually sent representatives to the funeral in the DR, you know, taking care of their young player. And he had a tat. He has a tattoo on his on his arm, his left arm dedicated to his mom, and he said at that time, my mother always wanted the best for me and for me. I feel like she's with me all the time. I feel her helping me always at the same time, I know she's gone, and that's very hard to deal with, but again, I've always been one to trust in God, and I know I'll be okay. So this has been, you know, something that's affected him deeply, understandably, for many years. And so for a fan to say something directed at his mom, it caused him to break down. Tory lavolo noticed it right away, and got security and basically said, We got to eject this fan. The bottom of the inning, when he was in the field. He also started crying, and that created a whole nother conversation about players crying on the field. Yes, there is crying in baseball. You know, don't believe our episode title. There is crying in baseball. This is a time where there should be crying in baseball. There was a pitching change. He came to the mound. Tory lavolo really just did the right thing in supporting him, and also Gerardo Perdomo, who is my baseball boyfriend pick, I think, last year from the from the D backs, came out there, and levulo said he's known Catal Marte for nine years, you know, through his whole development. And he said, I quote, I hated what happened today, but I'm going to protect these guys and back them up like I'm their father. So what the right thing to do? So Marte had an online interview in Spanish that I think has been twisted a little bit out of context, because what he when he was asked, What did the fan actually say? Because, of course, everybody wants you know, the nitty gritty, what did the fans say? And he said, Well, it was something like, I sent your mom a text last night. And he said, everybody here, and actually, when, when she died back in 2008 17, he was in Chicago. So this, like the whole memories of the being in that stadium, and the fan saying that, I think all came together at the same time. And he said, everybody knows she died in an accident, so he's just assuming that when the fan made that statement, I sent your mom a text last night that he was doing it with Mal intent, knowing that his mom had died. That. That is maybe unclear. I you know who it was, a 22 year old fan, whether he knew or not what happened in 2017 at the same time. It's not okay to say that too. I mean, it's just not an okay to say thing to say to a player. So regardless of the fans intent, I think that the punishment of him being ejected and at this point, he's banned from MLB period at 22 years old. Like, that's a big statement, and I'm hoping that that big statement affects other fans. Like, that's the point is that you can't just open your mouth whenever you want at the player's detriment because they're not doing what you want. Or, you know, in this case, it was at the opposing stadium, so he's just heckling them. That's just super, super shitty. The White Sox did the right thing. Next game, they put, you know, a message of support up on the the big video board. When he went back to the D back stadium, he got a huge show of support. So yay to the D back fans for showing up. There was a message put out saying, wear pink. It was pride night. But also it was a night to support Marty. And there were a lot of people there with Cattell as my MVP short shirts. He had been doing well up to that point, and then he had a little bit of a hit list streak afterwards. So, you know these things just the effect is hard to predict, and you just have to feel for the guy. So he went 11 hitless, and then last night, Saturday night, he got a three run home run. And not only did he break that hitless streak, but he became the third in D backs history with 500 home runs for the club. So he is in the rundown for starting second base for the all star game, and it would be his second consecutive year. So I know that I will be supporting Cattell Marte. He has been having a knockout year. Just absolutely, you know, doing, doing fantastic. Just quick mention of people speaking out. So this just gives an opportunity for others to say, hey, you know me, too. So to speak, this is happening to us. Katya Lindor, who I really respect. She comes up with some fantastic statements in her social media. I really recommend following her. Came up with a very long, bilingual statement about, you know, sort of like I usually champion causes of people who are struggling. And yes, baseball players make a lot of money, but that doesn't mean that we deserve this, and that their families deserve this. And I have three young kids, and they're getting these statements, and it's really horrific. Jordan Whitlock, the wife of Garrett Whitlock, Red Sox pitcher, posted a bunch of screenshots of of just horrific stuff that people have sent to her about her and her kids. And it's I can't and a lot of it, like we talked about, was the last week of the week before, had to do with betting, like you got my under wrong and blah, blah, blah, and now you should, you know, die. Just horrible, horrible shit. So let's hope that this punishment against this kid does a little bit to just, you know, shake people a little to Don't fucking Open your mouth.

Patti 23:18
I yeah, I don't, I don't get why people don't, ever, ever, ever think before they speak. Like, how do they think that hurting somebody like that is okay? Like, they don't. They don't understand humanity like that, that that person is also, you know, a full human. They're not just like this little video game character or something absolutely anyway, I'm gonna talk about nicer things. Oh, wow, because we need to mix it up. Yeah, even though you're in one on vacation, you should be doing happy stuff. Okay, I'm going to talk talk about some of my current boyfriends. Again. The boyfriends are the guys that we pick in the off season, one per team, because there's something special about them. We want to go have a beer with them, because there'd be cool to talk to, because they've got a good story. They're philanthropic, they're good at baseball, any of those things. So Sean Murphy from Atlanta, had was one of my catchers and, you know, along with and then we use these guys on our fantasy team. So when I would say my catch, this is what I mean, Adley, Richmond is my once and forever boyfriend who is on the IL for the very first time. So Sean Murphy is my last catcher standing right now. So I need everything to be okay with him. And one of my concerns was he's been platooning the catcher position, so he hasn't been playing every game. So I go, No, and at the beginning of the season, I would get all these great Yahoo notifications, like, Hey, Sean Murphy homeward. Hey, Sean Murphy, homeward. And then those stopped for a while. So he's gone 14 games without a home run until, until yesterday, we're recording on Sunday. So on Saturday, he had a 455 foot Grand Slam versus Philadelphia, and then another home run today. So things are looking up for Sean and for me and for Atlanta, it's his 10th home run, but it was the first Atlanta grand slam this season. So yay, Sean Murphy, welcome back and welcome back to my personal standings. Yeah, Brett wisely, was one of the reasons why I have absolutely no infield my fantasy team, because everybody got sent down or hurt, but he got called back from AAA to be able to, you know, be my second baseman for a while. But weirdly, he got called back because Justin Verlander went on maternity leave. Pater, so that would be a put, but paternity leave, yeah, because that would be a miracle. So cool. I mean, it's cool anyway, but not as cool as that would have been. That's true that she's a paternity leave. Um, so I don't know how the second baseman coming in for the starting pitcher, is it even trade, but that's okay. But you know, so Brett, it hasn't played much, but it was very exciting. He went to for four on Thursday, including a good two RBI double so yay. But in the related news, see how I led up to this. Because Justin Verlander is not a boyfriend, but I can tell you that Justin Verlander and his wife Kate Upton, welcome their son, Bellamy Brooks Verlander, his sister Genevieve, was born in 2018 so, so Bellamy's got a big sister, and Justin says, having a six and a half year old, knowing the journey that's ahead of me, it's really incredible, and I'm really looking forward to reliving some of those times. So congratulations to Justin and to Kate and to Big sis, Genevieve. Congratulations on little Bellamy Kyle Stowers is my Miami Marlins boyfriend, Miami, not in the basement anymore. Swept San Francisco last week, including winning 12 to five on Wednesday, which was a season high for runs for the Marlins. And within that, Kyle Stowers hit a three run homer, 440 feet, which is his career longest, which is pretty exciting. He homered again on Friday versus Arizona, which gives him 13 total, which is kind of like in the middle for MLB at large, but it leads Miami. So he's got the team lead on homers for our pitchers. We potty mouth and I each picked a flock of pictures for our fantasy team. I picked up Philadelphia pictures Christopher Sanchez. He Philadelphia has won the most games with him as the starter, really any other starting pitcher. So they're 11 and three when he starts the game. They're 10 and four when Zach Wheeler starts the game, and then it takes a big dive after that. But even when he they don't win the game, like on Thursday that Philadelphia lost to Houston and Sanchez still, still struck out 1111, wow. He's had no he's issued no walks in his past three starts. Wow. So a little glimmer of excitement. So we also, we hang on to boyfriends as far as we like, to keep track of them and see what's happening in there. You know, once, once, our once, our year together has moved on, and they're not our once and forever boyfriend. We still keep an eye on them, especially when they're guys like Shohei Ohtani, right? So good. Pay. You know, I had him as a batter. I don't think I've ever had him as a pitcher, because he was out on Tommy John. I think when I had the Dodgers anyway, he made his third start, right? He's coming back from Tommy John. He's been hitting all along. They didn't want him to do a pitching rehab in the minors, because then they would lose his bat in the majors. They didn't want to go so that they've been like doing bits. He's had three starts, but the first two were only one inning each where he pitched right Saturday, he pitched two shutout innings versus Kansas City, and he threw the fastest fastball of his career. This is like the third game after coming back from Tommy John surgery, 101.7 mile per hour. And then his report on that was, there's some little things I still need to work on. I'm pretty happy. Wow, yikes, right. So Elvis Andrus is one of my, you know, original boyfriends. He was just inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame. Ah, he played 16 105 games at shortstop for Texas over 12 seasons. That's the most games started at one position for any player in Rangers history. So that's pretty exciting. And then Javi Baez, also one of my original boyfriends, his son, Adrian, celebrated his seventh birthday yesterday by throwing out the first pitch to his dad. He didn't do it from the mound, but pretty far and very accurate. So you know, nature, nurture, who knows sure

Pottymouth 29:08
to get a head start like that. Oh, and he's absolutely adorable. Cheers, Matt. All right, you had said we hang on to boyfriends. Sometimes we just report on them because we're we're ending the relationship, but following up with what they're doing is which is the case with wander Franco, who I picked before I knew better, in 2022 for the raise, when he had just gotten this big honking contract, and he was the future of the rays, and then he went and had a relationship with a 14 year old and paid the mother for it and had a trial, and the trial has now ended for this part. Side note, there is still a trial coming up on his weapons charges, because in November, he was caught with a gun, which you're not supposed to have when you're on. One, whatever it is for the other offense, yeah, and he didn't have a license, and all that stuff that you should have when you have a gun. So the prosecutors ended up asking for five years in prison for Juan de Franco, despite the fact that the maximum for the offenses that he had, and they had a huge string of them, you know, when they get down to the details, was 30 years. So I was thinking, wow, asking for five. And then he gets two suspended, so he is not serving any jail time. And part of the suspension is that he's not allowed to approach minors with sexual intentions, which you would think you don't do anyway. So I don't quite understand that restriction, but

Patti 30:42
Well, clearly he didn't understand. That's how we got here. That's

Pottymouth 30:46
the point. That's the point the mother of the victim, who was part of, you know, receiving payments from wonder Franco during this relationship, and there's a paper trail behind that, or whatever electronic trail behind that, she did get the 10 years that the prosecutors asked for. So, of course, the skeptical little voice in the back of my head thinking about Dominican Republic justice system is like, was there some money involved that got him out of actually serving jail time? Who knows that is not going to be anything that can be verified, I think. But he does have this conviction, and this conviction will have consequences. MLB still has to do their investigation, and I can't even imagine them saying that, because he has this conviction, that he could play baseball again, but even if they did, which isn't gonna happen, he's not gonna be able to enter the United States with a felony conviction, even though he didn't serve jail time. That is gonna disqualify him for any kind of fucking visa, especially in this day and age. So his career is indeed over. I guess his ass is saved a little bit from having to run in jail. But that's, that's the situation. Um, the court officially, when, when asked about why was the sentence reduced, gave a few reasons. They said he was young at the time. He's He's 24 now, but he was 21 so barely what? I don't know, whatever, when, when it happened that it was his first infraction. But this part gets me. They said that he has sustained damage to his career, so basically saying that, you know, he's not going to play again, and that's a lot of suffering for this guy. Well, he his contract was $182 million he's still owed, you know, technically, until this gets finalized by MLB, $165 million but according to baseball reference, he's earned 14,000,880 $18 and wait, $14,818,182 $118,182 that's the number at this point, which is more than I will probably earn in my lifetime. Like it's still a lot of money. I'm sure a lot went to his legal defense and other source associated expenses on this thing. But

Patti 33:18
he brought it on himself. Why are we? Why we cut him a break for damage to his career when he made a choice, that was a choice to damage his

Pottymouth 33:26
career, right? And this young woman is scarred for life. You know, she's scarred for life, and she, she is, is going to be taken out of her home because her mother is now in jail for 10 years and and clearly not a suitable mother, because all sorts of stuff about how she had been doing this, so basically selling her kid before he came around. But she's gonna be put into sort of like a, you know, a home for foster home, you know, I don't know what do you call it? Like a group home for adolescents. And so

Patti 33:59
my question about the mom got 10 years that, just for this very specific accusation, or like you said, she clearly had been doing this. So I'm wondering if the multiple times affected, I still agree with you 100% right. There is something very fishy about about all of that. But I do wonder if she had, sort of like layers, because she has, she, there was a record of her having done this before, right, right, so I don't know, but yeah, no, that's, that's not okay in any Yeah. Anyway,

Pottymouth 34:32
I super wonder about that. And apparently, Franco's mother was also involved. She didn't get any punishment, but some of the payments went from him to her through to the other mother. It's so it's, it's just really icky. At the time of recording, the prosecution has not appealed yet, but they can if they want to, but I don't, because of aforementioned reasons. Don't see that happening.

Patti 34:57
Yeah, yeah, no, I really don't. Absolutely just to make a point that just horrific, horrific men play in multiple sports. We're gonna cross train with the NFL briefly. So former ravens kicker Justin Tucker was just suspended for 10 weeks for a violation of the NFL personal conduct policy. He was accused of inappropriate behavior by 16 massage therapists from eight different spas over a several year period, 16 massage therapists. There's a Baltimore banner article that actually gives details on some of the things he was accused of doing. I am not going to speak those words. It's a family show. It's all the it's many things that you would think about, considering what one wears when they get a massage. And if you're a real jerk, oh my god, things you might do if you know you are a, you know, sort of very full of yourself, rich male athlete, and you've got a, you know, a female massage therapist trying to earn a living at your disposal. It's bad. It's bad. His if things proceed as they are, his suspension will start August 26 and go through November 11. They talked to several of the the massage therapists who were the ones who brought these charges. And one woman said, I don't think it's enough. He got 10 weeks, and we have to deal with this the rest of our lives. Right, right? Another one actually left this work and moved out of state and said it's the bare minimum. I had to walk away from a career because of that man. But on the other hand, the NFL did take it seriously. They didn't make apologies for him. Like, they weren't like, oh, you know, boys will be boys. Oh, come on. They didn't try to, like, you know, do what he said. She said, they took all the interviews very seriously. So the attorneys, there's a couple of attorneys that represented many of the therapists, not all of them, but many. And they said there have been too many instances in history when women's stories have been summarily dismissed without any investigation or empathy for their experiences, we're grateful the NFL provided a space for our clients to be collectively hurt. Wow. So super baby steps, the minimum if you are found guilty under this policy is six weeks. So there's that the largest that's been doled out ever is 11 weeks. So Justin Tucker, the kicker, continues to deny the allegations stick. Latin people, wow. And but he's not going to appeal this. He's going to, like, you know, just do the suspension. And again, the suspicion is, if you do appeal it, all of the findings from these interviews become public. Sure, wouldn't want that to happen, right? But at the same time. Okay? So he's a seven time pro bowler. He's good at football, right? He's played 13 seasons with the Ravens. He was released by Baltimore last month for football reasons, football reasons. So if he's signed before the season starts by another team. He would get to go to training camp, but then he would start a suspension at the beginning of the regular season. So those 10 weeks would be the most impactful time, because, you know, you don't get paid those weeks. So he's currently not employed by a football

Pottymouth 38:15
team. I hope that he doesn't get to be like this. Sounds that the Ravens did the right thing under the circumstances.

Patti 38:22
Yeah, and maybe their football reasons are we have a conscience. Yeah, you know, I'm okay with that. That could be a

Pottymouth 38:28
football reason. Yep. All right. I was hoping that this story would be more humorous by the time of recording, but unfortunately, it isn't so Red Sox pitching has been struggling. You might know that I'm a Red Sox fan and cut a cravad. Best name for a pitcher in baseball is out for the season, and he never came in. So he has been on the aisle due to a knee injury, and we were hoping that he was going to be back any day, but he now has a right wrist injury, which is his throwing arm, and he is going to have surgery, and he's going to be out for the season. So what happened? We don't know. It was a quote off field accident. So I'm thinking like, you know, Sally Perez's luggage incident, or wild boars, yeah, wild boars or Chris sale on the bicycle. Like, there's so many options that was with the boards, right? And I think it was, yeah, so there's so many options, but the Red Sox have super clamped down on this, and is at the time of recording, there is no news about what the off field accident was Alex Cora said on record he wasn't doing anything irresponsible. So accidents will be accidents, I guess, and

Patti 39:52
irresponsible is in the eye of the beholder. Also Exactly, exactly like, what does mom think it was irresponsible? That's the real test. Yeah, because my. Moms know, right. Moms know. So quick. Quick aside about hitting for the cycle. I think we have joked in the past about, like, you know, do you make different choices about base running if you're like, close to, like, getting a cycle or whatever? So tree Turner in a giant win. They were like, 13 to nothing. I think was over Atlanta. He has, right. He's has three cycles there. There are several players who have hit for the cycle three times. No one's hit four times, right? Wow, he was, he was a triple short, and in this game, and they had a position player pitching, he managed to hit it out of the park. So, oh, darn, he hit a second home run instead of the triple. But he said, after he ran around, after he, you know, finished, he said, you know, if I would have just missed hitting home plate, would that have counted as a triple? And he was kind of joking about it, and he said he never considered it like, you know, in the process, later, he was like, Huh, I wonder. But then he jokes, and the baseball gods would not have looked kindly on absolutely so clearly, he would not have done it. But I enjoy the fact that later he was like, so close, yeah, that would not be the way. But you know what? I bet he'll still do it. Yeah, he's, I bet he'll still do it. He just seems like this unlikely cycle hitter, and yet he just, you know, we've seen a couple of

Pottymouth 41:18
them, and he's a former pick of mine from the way back machine. But I don't remember what years it's gonna be. One of our first couple

Patti 41:24
years, yeah. So yeah, there's two kinds of people in the world, yes, the kind that spend their Friday nights at nets Park watching the savannah bananas, and the kind of say no, thank you. We you have one of each with you

Pottymouth 41:35
today. And I went and did the banana thing, because, you know that I am absolutely bananas. So that kind of tracks I can report back on banana ball. It was packed. It was sold out. Packed like I haven't seen that kind of energy at nats park since the playoffs in 2019 it was crazy packed. And I was blown away by so many banana fans, like people who already had the merch, let alone the merch lines were crazy long, so I didn't go anywhere near that. I was like, you know, power to everybody, but they do have a fandom, and they put on a really good show. Is it baseball? No, is it good baseball? Definitely not, but it is non stop action for not only the two hours, and they time it. So banana ball lasts two hours, and you know, there's this thing at the end, if it's tied, I don't know. I guess stuff happens, and some it might go a little bit beyond, but you know that you're there for two hours. But at least at nats Park, they had the whole afternoon also, because the game was at 630 I want to say and it starting at two, they had stuff going on, like, meet the players, player antics. It's great for little kids. Just stuff going on every place. And during the game, it's super fan interactive. And we were in the three hundreds, we actually had pretty good, good seats, because first row of the three hundreds and there were players up by us, like they go all over the stadium, doing crazy things. We had one of the the dad bod cheerleaders by us a couple times, and they're pretty humorous. So I liked that part. It definitely isn't a baseball game and but I don't think you know, I'm not gonna weigh in an opinion as to whether it's good or bad for baseball. I think it was fun. There's no betting involved, so that's a good, yay, right? It's just a lot of party, but there's no break. So we were supposed to meet up with Mr. Potty mouse, aunt and uncle at something like, we're like, between innings, there is no break, because between innings there are kid games, and they're hysterical. And the soundtrack is just a consistent like little it's like all of the hype songs back to back to back to back that you can imagine. It's a little bit like you feel like you've just been drinking five cups of coffee at the end with a shot of espresso, like you're it's very jittery, but I would recommend it if you're into that kind of energy. The one super, super weird thing that we noticed is every kid who was picked for a thing was blonde, I swear to God, and there were, we lost count, after like 10 kids, Mr. Bynum says that, like two were light brown hair, and I'm maybe, maybe, but they were so close to being blonde. So I'm kind of wondering what the bananas have with blonde kids. But

Patti 44:38
was the audience more diverse than the, yeah, was that representative of who was

Pottymouth 44:43
there? You know, it's DC. I think it was a little bit more diverse. I think it was, you know, whiter than your typical nats crowd. But still, but still, like they could have made an effort. It was a little weird, and there was a lot. Of girls in the beginning. So it was a lot of like, little blonde girls after little blonde girls. I don't know it was, I thought it was a little bit weird, but check out banana ball in your closest home stadium. There's going to be a link in the show notes about checking on their schedule. They are sold out pretty much everywhere. Tickets have gone on sale. But I'm interested to see that they have some September stuff lined up that I'm guessing hasn't gone on sale yet. So you could get in, including Petco Park and Yankee Stadium, which I find bizarre. Like I would not think that the Yankees would go for something like this happening in their like, you know, hallowed halls, but apparently it is. But if banana ball isn't crazy enough for you, all right, I got to take it. I'm going to cough, so I'm taking a sip of

Patti 45:49
beer. I think you know, medicinal is okay.

Pottymouth 45:52
Okay. There is another, like, wacky baseball thing that has just started, and I didn't do such a good job with my notes. So this is going to be a little bit incomplete. It's called Cosmic baseball. It started outside of Richmond, Virginia, but apparently, banana ballesque. I guess they're going to be touring because it's gotten popular. So they're going to be going, I think this year, it's just to Minor League clubs. But I can see this kind of thing building the deal with the cosmic baseball that's different from the banana ball is that they start out when it's light out, but they end the game in the dark with black lights. And everybody wears day glow stuff so that you can play in the dark. But like the ball itself is day glow. So there was a interview with a player that I saw that was like, you know, it's impossible to hit a baseball as it is, let alone in the dark in a day Glo baseball, but we do it. So I don't know, Sign me up. I would, I would sure, check out cosmic baseball.

Patti 46:51
I would do that. I would do that. I think, though the black lights would, would, you know, would push me over the edge, and they're calling it baseball, right? So I think I would prefer to see, I know and absolutely. But at a ball, they make it clear we're not playing baseball. We're playing our own

Pottymouth 47:06
sport. Yeah, so pace of play is, like, it's, it's rapid fire, because you can't step, step out of the box. So, like all of their rules that are not baseball rules, are rules that accelerate the play Absolutely. So you can't step out of the box. Every inning has a winner. So if, you know, as soon as the whoever's batting at the end of the inning, if they go ahead for that inning, then the innings over because they won the inning. So things move really, really fast. So I don't think MLB should adopt any of this, but it makes it for, you know, a fun, a fun pace of play for the night.

Patti 47:42
So our fantasy league does not have a fun pace of play.

Pottymouth 47:45
I can't believe that I changed for Well, for the worse, but holy shit, I had been so stable, so stable,

Patti 47:54
and now you have lowered your center of gravity, yeah. So for a while, nothing changed, yep, and then last couple of weeks, people started moving around in the standings. And sure enough, like last week, pandemonium took over first place, and it was earth shattering. This week, pandemonium is down to second because Beau knows boyfriends, man, both, you know, took a big jump. So those two switched. Other than that, the top five remain the same. Ah. The other disturbance in this, in the force here, is the kids, yep, have moved up to 10th, and potty mouse posse moved down to 11. So there's been a little change at the top and a little change at the bottom middle, fairly stable. Is a pretty good clump in the middle where all the all the numbers are kind of close together. But you know, bonus boyfriends is is pulling ahead again,

Pottymouth 48:45
and he's a two time winner. So this is so Mr. Potty mouth is a little bit stressed about this. I wouldn't say stress, but he feels like, you know, it's definitely reflective of the Red Sox pitching woes. So we'll see what happens. But I'm wondering if I can drink whiskey with the Canadians in the basement. Can we do that Canadian whiskey? Right? That's a thing.

Patti 49:06
I think that's a thing. Yeah. And I don't think that that standing should really, you know, impact that at all. I think we should all join the Canadians in the basement drink. We may have to bring the whiskey. We'll bring the whiskey. Oh, my goodness. All right. What else we got? We got some World Baseball Classic

Pottymouth 49:22
updates. Just a quick update. The Team USA is starting to form a little bit. Bobby Witt Jr is going to be a great short stop for team USA, joining Paul keans and Captain Aaron judge, and they are the ones who have committed so far. And I don't think anybody is gonna get in their way. So there's a, I think there's this balance between the guys like of the bobby Witt Jr, Paul Skeens, Aaron judge level, which is a very, very elite club, who are like, I will do it. And then there's a bazillion guys who are like, please, please take me. Can I make it in? So we'll see how that all. All flushes out, but it's gonna be fun to watch him. Team Puerto Rico is going to be coached by Yadier Molina for the second year, which I think is, is fantastic, especially after reading the Molina brothers story. And I highly recommend that, because Yadier was like, you know, the golden child, the youngest of the of the three, and got a lot of attention. And now look at what he's doing last year. Under his leadership, they not last year to that went out 23 last series, they made it to the quarterfinals, which was huge, because they beat out Dominican Republic, amazingly, but then they were beaten by Mexico, so it didn't go any further this year there or upcoming year 2026 they're hosting. So that's fun. Hint, like we should check out flight prices to Puerto Rico. They're going to be hosting pool a with Canada, Panama, Cuba and the captain of Puerto Rico has been announced as Francisco Lindor. I am waiting, waiting, for Kike Hernandez to announce that he's joining them. And I think like when that announcement happens is when we start looking at flight prices. It's going to be March 6 to 11th. 2026, we will put the link in the show notes so you can register to get updates on ticketing. And if you live in Florida or Texas, those are places you can watch it. Also, I really don't recommend traveling to those places, because we know that the politics are kind of icky.

Patti 51:29
Just briefly, because you said, Kiki, I'm going to say that Manny Machado is in, you know, all star game for third base. So there you go. Feel free to vote Manny to get him into the starting lineup. All right, so this week is the fourth of July, and our hometown has the the longest consecutively run Independence Day Parade in the country. So some of us will be doing that on Friday morning. If you want to join us for that, let us know. We'll tell you where we're hanging out. You can come visit us there. I think we might be doing some baseball next weekend. Oh,

Pottymouth 52:04
that's right, Nest Park. The Red Sox are going to be in town, so they're going to be there for July 4, fifth and sixth. And we have tickets for the sixth, and we'll just hope that it's not really, really, really hot, which, of course it will be, because I think our tickets are in the sunshine, so but the but they'll sure it'll be fun. It'll be fun. We'll see. It'll be very, I don't know, nervous about the fucking Red Sox, but so

Patti 52:29
let us know how your guys are doing with the with the all star team. Are you guys making it? Are you? Are you? Are you voting what? Who are your favorites? Are you stay? Are you beating the heat? Are you going to games anyway, and saying, I don't care about this climate change thing. I can sit outside and watch a baseball game. Let us know about these things on social media. Pine month, where can they find us?

Pottymouth 52:47
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Patti 53:36
A subset of that is actually the free part of Patreon, which is where we've been posting our transcripts. So if reading transcripts of these podcasts will would help you or your friends and family participate in the podcast, please check there or in our show notes. There's links in our show notes to the to the transcripts as well. We don't go through and edit them carefully, so they're probably pretty funny. They

Pottymouth 54:01
they are pretty amusing. Usually what I do is I look at the first paragraph, and I always I can't believe they can't remember how to fucking spell your name and my name, but I correct those two in the first paragraph, and then figure that people can figure that out for the rest of the time. Yep, yep, for

Patti 54:15
sure. Oh my gosh, my friends, please get boosted. Fight the man all the freaking time. It's the right thing to do, send your game balls to Meredith and until Next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth, goodnight. Potty mouth, you

Pottymouth 54:44
I'm opening my beer, and I'm gonna look at it to see if I can remember what it is. But this is the end of the day. I can't believe I'm just opened. Okay? It's a light. It's club light by peaceful side,

Patti 54:56
okay, club light, because that's, that's like. Light for the cool people, I guess so I.