No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to Episode 415 of No Crying in Baseball, the Expectations and Pressure episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
hey. I was thinking this is like all star break, and now I'm feeling like pressure, pressure. We're gonna it's

Patti 0:30
actually, no, you'll like it. You'll like it when we get there. It's kind of, it's kind of a good story, okay, and we're gonna put this out there, folks. We are recording. It's kind of immediately before the Home Run Derby. So you know a couple of things there, but also it's very dramatic outside right now. We think there's a big, big storm coming, so ideally, we'll make it through. But if you hear some weird noises that sound like, oh, I don't know, tornadoes or trees falling, that's why that would

Pottymouth 0:54
be super bad. I hope that was super bad noises like, maybe there'll be a crack of lightning or whatever is rumble of thunder. Yeah, tell us. So one of the things that we're missing out on while we are here in the nice dry house, and I guess you know this is this is our reward. We have beer. But Mike Rizzo, former general manager of our Washington Nationals, general manager when our Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series. So a lot of us still feel, and, you know, kind of warm fuzzy about him. And we, I remember him when we went to the the Bryce Harper, the dedication, dedication thing. Yeah, there were other parts about him that weren't as quite as warm and fuzzy.

Patti 1:35
No, I chatted with him. They did. I do you remember? Yes. So actually, years ago, years ago, my clothes dryer was old, and something got caught in the in the machinery, and it started burning out, and actually caught fire. So there was a small house fire. Nothing lasting. Bad happened. We caught it soon enough, but I opened the dryer, and the only things that were in there were all of my nationals T shirts. I had washed them all at one time, and they were shredded. All of my favorite ones were shredded. And a friend of mine, who was no stranger to just ask, just ask, actually, just asked. Mike Rizzo, office went directly to the freaking Office of the General Manager team and told the story, and the next thing I knew, a box showed up at my door with matching sets of shirts for me and the intern, like four different national shirts. And I'm sure that Mike Rizzo himself had nothing to do with it. But I mean, if he's got a staff like that, that's that says good things exactly, right?

Pottymouth 2:41
Exactly. If the request went to him and shit happened, that means that he had a good operation going there. So that's so cool. We should comment somewhere. Find someplace online for us to comment, because that's a good you know, like, things are it's kind of shitty to get booted. Like, that. Very shitty. Like, yeah, really

Patti 2:58
shitty. So, yeah, so was, was buying some drinks.

Pottymouth 3:01
Yes. So right now it's six o'clock in the evening on Monday, people are already enjoying free drinks from five to 7pm before the Home Run Derby. There are two bars in DC, one Walters sports bar, we know and love, right near nets Park, and also Penn Quarter sports tavern. Your first rounds on Mike Rizzo,

Patti 3:20
that's so freaking classy. Is

Pottymouth 3:23
that I am so impressed. Yeah, I love to see gestures like that. You probably do hear this crashing in the background.

Patti 3:29
That's kind of a metallic crashy thanks out there.

Pottymouth 3:33
But yes, we definitely thumbs up to, you know, people in positions where they can afford to do so, doing nice things for the fans.

Patti 3:42
He was pretty well liked from by even most people for most of the time. Yeah, which is pretty impressive, because it was a long Yeah, long time. Hey, so I was at the other ballpark this weekend.

Pottymouth 3:53
That's what the oath is for in Opus C, yeah, Oriole Park

Patti 3:57
at Camden Yards. Oh, Passy, I was there with the intern on Saturday, and we had the opposite of thunderstorms. We had heat that was so high that we didn't even get beer because we thought it would be warm by the time we got to our seats. So we went with Rita's ices instead, which were half liquid by the time we got to our seats, but we were able to drink those. But don't fear, we went out to lunch ahead of time when we pre gamed a little bit smart, so we were not completely beer free, but when it's too hot for me to order a beer at a ballpark, you know, it was mid afternoon, it was all my it was four, four o'clock game. It got better. Two hours later, it was fine, but I had not one, but two giveaway fans in my magic bag, so we were both Okay.

Pottymouth 4:39
That's a really good thing that needs to keep on the pack to be packed list. We

Patti 4:44
also had very loud men sitting behind us and next to us who had strong opinions. I was I was just about to guess that very loud voices and one of them had an unpleasant potty mouth. Your potty mouth was kind of endearing. Thank you. I His. Was, I don't know enough words to complete a sentence without throwing in multiple outside words. And also, he was wrong about a lot of things. And so the intern told me later, I'm very proud of you for not turning around multiple times and correcting him.

Pottymouth 5:13
Wow, I am impressed as well. Yeah, so I would have sort of egged you into doing that if I had been there, probably

Patti 5:21
you would have, you would have turned around said, Hey, my name is potty mouth. I mean, I think you're swearing too much, right? You can just fuck off. Oh my gosh, like that on today's show the boyfriend reports includes Little League homers, traditional homers, Derby homers, and more, all star game fun and some outdoor words, congrats to Tito the MLB draft. We're in day two right now. But what's up with high school infielders from Oklahoma? We've got terrible and some less terrible predictions. We're checking in with those from the beginning of the season. We've got WBC updates, and we're cross training with FIFA cheers,

Pottymouth 5:56
cheers, and you are dressed appropriately for the soccer, aka football Christ training

Patti 6:02
I am, if you're not taking a peek at us on Instagram, we told you a few weeks ago about how Angel City Football Club in in Los Angeles had a giveaway of immigrant city T shirts. On the back, it says, Los Angeles is for everyone. And also in Spanish,

Pottymouth 6:15
Los Angeles is part of those. Thank you. See, I think that's

Patti 6:19
what it is, what it says. And I can't roll my arts, which is why I gave you the, you know, the cue there, and you're able to order them online. And it's, it's a fundraiser for organizations that support immigrant immigrant rights, protects immigrants in Los Angeles. So I'm wearing my immigrant city

Pottymouth 6:34
t shirt. It makes me very happy. I and I appreciate you finding that and doing all the ordering, because that is a great way to spend our money, for sure. Right now, we'll go into our usual baseball chat where we talk about our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season, because there's something super cool. We each picked one guy per team, and then we made our fantasy league. And I am you will find out later how well I'm doing, not, not, absolutely not well, and I think a big reason why my team no, there's so many reasons why my team's not doing well, but catchers have been lacking, and Connor Wong, who I was very excited about picking, hasn't been playing. So I've had to play Patrick Bailey a bunch San Francisco Giants, catcher who has been struggling pretty much all year, until this week, and this was like a week to have Patrick Bailey as my boyfriend on Tuesday night. He hit, this is a catcher. Mind you. He hit a walk off inside the park three run, home run against the Phillies to win the game for the Giants after being down one to three at the start of the bottom of the night.

Patti 7:41
How many people said the line? He runs pretty fast for a catcher. Yes,

Pottymouth 7:45
exactly. So the best thing you've got to if you have you seen the video on this, you really need to see it, because it is mighty entertaining, because nobody fucking expects a catcher to run that fast around the bases. And I didn't write down the sprint speed. It was actually pretty impressive, but he was like, heathen afterwards, he put his all into it. So it's Oracle Oracle Park, right? That's the San Francisco park it. There's this part on the right field wall, and it's like, there's the back of the outfield, and then there's the right side, and that's where the big brick wall is. I'm doing this with my hands, so Patty, I

Patti 8:19
understand completely what you're talking about. But I can see here, they

Pottymouth 8:22
call it triples alley, because if it bounces off that, and then it's just bouncing around the outfield, and you know, it's like, yeah, and guys have to just chase after it, Little League style. So it took a bad bounce, and then it just kept rolling, and Patrick Paley was just chugging, chugging, chugging. And the announcer like freaks out. Bailey's on the move, like sounding shocked as shit himself. So afterwards they they, you know, want to interview him. He is exhausted, and he said, quote, lot's gotta go right for me to hit an inside the park. Homer, tired. I wish it would have gone over the fence. Bet he does. You really look like you did? Um, to put this in perspective, the last walk off the park in walk off inside the park home run was hit in 2016 by Cleveland's Tyler naquin. Mm, hmm. And then the last giant to do it, and apparently the only other giant to do in history was Uncle pagan in 2013 the last catcher. So aforementioned catchers not known for their running ability, the last catcher to do is Bernie Tate of the senators in 1926 1926 the only other catcher in history. So this means Patrick Bailey is the third catcher in history to have done this with the Cubs Pat Moran in 1907 now, Bailey has not been hitting them out of the park either. This was his second home run of the season, and he's been scraping by around the Mendoza line, around that 200 but this past week. Week. I think it like just gave him bravado, confidence. I don't know, whatever you want to hit it, whatever you want to call it. He's gotten six hits in the last five games before the all star break. So today's Monday. Yesterday was the last day of games, right? Yep. So in the last seven days, he's batting 316, with an 824, ops. And comparatively on the season, he has a 203 average with a 564 ops. So I am really hoping that the all star break doesn't mean a change in energy for him, because it shows like, like he's

Patti 10:33
just seems like he needs to rest up after that run. So he might need a few days, that's right,

Pottymouth 10:37
and then he'll be back in full form, perfect. I want to just also give a special thanks to former baseball boyfriend pick of mine, Willie Adam, is shit. I think I picked him way back when he was in Florida. So you know, clearly all the teammates you know, rushed Patrick Bailey once he got across home plate, and only Willie had the wherewithal to rip off his shirt so that Patrick Bailey in the post game interview they were wearing. Also, their city connects. I really like the Giants. They just so cool. They're so like, graffiti, like, and just a very cool vibe. But the undershirt we got to see because Willie ripped it off, and it's ripped off the, you know, the outer Jersey in time, Patrick Bailey, yeah, Willie ripped up Patrick Bailey's Jersey so that Patrick Bailey could do his TV interviews, which we get to see without the jersey, with just the the shreds of the purple, like it's a tank top kind of thing. But a lot's missing, like, there's not a lot of shirt there.

Patti 11:32
Well, that's good, because, again, he was probably quite overheated after the exertion, so I'm sure it was for

Pottymouth 11:36
health reasons. Yes, yeah, he looked, he looked like, you know, by the end of the interview, feeling much right, and then you got the Gatorade dump, but sure, that'll pull you right off. Yeah, the Phillies were not happy, not nearly as amused as I am by the whole thing. And the next day, they beat the Giants 13 to nothing. Yeah,

Patti 11:52
yeah, that's the whole thing. So I'm pretty proud of our boyfriend selection over the years, because the Home Run Derby this year is 100%

Pottymouth 12:02
boyfriends and 99% you I think,

Patti 12:05
well, it's, it's seven out of eight. That math may be a little different. Ones, potty mouths. The rest of them are mine. Let me tell you who's in it. You already know. You've seen it already, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. So Cal Rowley, who is currently the home run leader for the entire

Pottymouth 12:19
league, crazy like crazy, shit, yeah,

Patti 12:23
yeah, so, um, so, yeah. He was my Seattle boyfriend in 23 James Wood is this year's nationals boyfriend for me. Byron Buxton from Minnesota, I picked in 20 I pick in 2018 for Minnesota. He went five for five, hit for the cycle on Saturday on his bobblehead day. Oh my god, and it was the first cycle ever at Target Field. Shit. Yeah. So yay for you. I hope you didn't peak early. I want, I want to, you know, I want you to give but you're all well,

Pottymouth 12:55
message for the twins. Have more Byron Buxton bobblehead days, right?

Patti 12:59
O'Neill Cruz, I picked for Pittsburgh in 2023 this season, where he got himself injured on opening day. Brent Rooker, I almost forgot that I had picked him. I picked him. He's with the athletics now. I picked him in 2022 for Minnesota. Junior. Caminaro is potty mouse. Current Tampa, boy, Bay boyfriend, he's in there. Jazz Chisholm Jr, I picked for Miami in 2022 he's a Yankee. Now he's in there. Um, last year he was kind of offered the gig, or asked if you want and he's like, no one wants to see me hit home runs. I think it's the Aaron judge hit home runs. But I think he's over there now, yeah, but if you remember, he's got that gig in the Bahamas where he runs that home run derby, where people like, you know, just hit them right out into the ocean. I think it's a big fundraiser. And then boyfriend Ronald lacuna Jr, from Atlanta has been replaced by boyfriend Matt Olson, who I had picked in 2019 for Oakland, but of course, now plays for Atlanta. So yeah, there are a lot of fun guys to watch with very big bats and a lot of power, and I think it's going to be a hoot. I'm going out on a limb, and I'm picking James Wood. I He hits far, yeah, home runs, yeah, he does. And O'Neill Cruz also hits super far home runs. But he, he strikes me as possibly a little more like, streaky, like, where I feel like I'm saying this now, because by time you hear this, you will know exactly what happened, and you know how wrong I was, or right I was or whatever, but I feel like he could be consistent. So that's kind of what you need. You need to be a little bit of a machine. You also need to hit a couple of them far so you get that extra time.

Pottymouth 14:39
Yeah, that's a really good point. What are you thinking? So a couple things on James Wood. First is, I think in the show notes, I put a link to a compilation that somebody made of him, him practicing over the years. And it's very cool to see how his style changes. He looks so much more solid now than he does in the beginning of the videos. Also the hair going. I. Like long short is amusing to see, so it's very impressive. And by the end, he looks very, very solid. The other cool thing, and reason why we should be reading for James Wood is because the nationals are gonna have a ticket deal, no matter what tickets are, 40% off for one day after the Home Run Derby. Oh, we might want to look at the calendar tonight. If he makes it to the semis, they're 50% off. If he makes it to the finals, they're 60% off if he wins the Home Run Derby, there's 70% off. Holy shit. Now I don't know if it's just selected section sections, but we need to look into it like 70% off anything is off anything is, I'll go to dance Park anytime, man. So that's pretty cool. That is great, despite all that, because we need to, you know, make things interesting here on the podcast. And because I have one guy, one fucking guy, I'm gonna pick him and and the reason why is just totally on Mojo, because he's so much fun, and I think that he does well under pressure, at least he didn't lead on right? So he's barely played. He played like 50 games last year, I think, in the bigs, and then in the off season, played for my Leones de las cohido, where he did like above and beyond in the in the postseason. He didn't play out many in the season, but then he famously got the winning home run the go ahead home run in game seven of the championship. And, you know, pimped it Big time, big time. So I think that he likes the spotlight. And I think a lot of Home Run Derby stuff is about it's just shit luck. It really like and spotlight and how it goes in, like we were saying last week, you know, who's the pitcher? Like, there's a huge variation in how the balls are getting thrown, and is that person nervous or what? And so I looked at last year's results, where to ask her, Hernandez won nobody like, I mean, maybe somebody, but not many people had predicted that he would actually win going into the Home Run Derby, he had 19 home runs on the season. So Junior Camaro has 23 James Wood has 24 Cal O'Reilly has 3030, couples. Holy shit. But Tay Oscar was, what is it? 14th in the league with his 919 last year. So like, nobody's he's not like a top home run hitter. He beat Bobby Witt in the finals, who only had 16 on the season. So neither one of them had been noted for really being a home run dude, and they both made it to the finals. And on, you know, the other side, Gunner Henderson, at that time in the season. Last year, he was third in all of MLB and home runs, he had 28 and he came in last Yeah, so you don't know. So, like, what is that like, tweaky thing that's going to make a guy win? It's it also depends on how much you're hitting in each round and what your opponent's doing and tail, like, barely won. He beat in the semis. He beat Alec bone by one hit in the swing offs because they were tied after regulation time, and then he bit beat Bobby Witt by one. I

Patti 18:08
love a shootout, yeah, so yeah. And I also like that they changed the format from a couple years ago. So you know, when the eight of them compete in that very first round, the top four goes. So it's not like, oh, I can get in by just getting one more than you, as opposed to being the first guy to go who has to swing as many as I can. Yeah. So, I mean, that's how it happens. Gonna happen later, but not at the beginning. So I'm excited about that. I'm still a little sad that that PCA is not in there. Oh yeah, he would be big fun, but I'm okay, yeah, I'm okay. Should I go on to the Peter Armstrong report?

Pottymouth 18:39
Sure. Speaking of PCA, right? If he's not hitting home runs, what's he going to be

Patti 18:43
doing? Well, home runs on Thursday. And that got him to 25 home runs, which made him the fourth fastest player in Major League history to reach 25 homers, 25 steals in a season. And you know, he got to 2020 a couple of weeks ago. There is still not another player who has a 2020 season, yeah, and he's at 2525 he's actually has stunning 27 steal. So, but crazy, yes, he's just having this crazy, crazy season. So he'll be fun to watch in the All Star game. I really wish we were watching him the home render me. But again, different skill set, like you said, who knows, who knows Kyle Stowers? So, oh my god, like, talk about a great pick of yours. So, okay, so Miami was in town, and, you know, in Baltimore for the weekend. So I went on Saturday. I said, Hey, intern, let's go see Kyle Stowers hit home runs, and he did not on Saturday. And it was a terrible game. In many ways, Kyle Stowers did not hit home runs, and the O's lost big and it was too hot for beer. So it was still better to be in the ballpark than not be in the ballpark. But the things I wanted didn't happen the next day. However, on Sunday, when I was home on my sofa, watching it on a screen, Kyle Stowers went five for five. Okay, this is important, because Kyle. HOURS. Wasn't Baltimore Oreo until the trade deadline last year, when he went to Miami, so but good for Kyle. This is one of those trades that works because he wasn't getting the time, yeah, because we had a lot of outfielders, he's, he's like, he is the all star for Miami. Now, that never would have happened if he was still in Baltimore. He went five for five. He had three home runs, three home runs. My phone kept going off with the alerts, because he's on my fantasy day. I'm like, Is that the same one? Oh no. That's a new one. Oh no. That's yet another one. Six. RBI scored another run separate from the home runs that he hit, but he said scored a run. It was his fourth multi Homer and his first five hit game ever, ever so again, so he's either hitting home runs or not doing much, also not in the Home Run Derby. But, I mean, like, how do you choose, really? But like, he would also be fun. He hits them far, and he hits them a lot. So yeah, maybe in an out year, we'll see Kyle

Pottymouth 20:55
there. I think he did, and I didn't write it down. So I'm just going to make sure that there's some sort of record about hitting home runs against your former club that he set with, Oh,

Patti 21:03
I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did, because that was crazy,

Pottymouth 21:07
yeah. So nice pick on your part, for sure. So since we're talking about the all star game, I went over the rosters, because we talked about that last week, and to see how things would shake out as far as baseball boyfriends and we clearly have good taste, because of all of the position players, I think only seven of them. And I should have counted up the number that there is total, because that would make this a lot more impressive. But there's at least the starters and then plus the reserves. So that's a bunch, right? There's only seven. And that's, you know, this is Al and NL combined. There's only seven that we haven't previously picked. As far as current ones, they're worth naming. And my list, again, is short, because I just have Junior commoner. I'm excited that he's going to be a starter. Yeah, he's replacing Jose Ramirez, who's not playing. So I'm excited for junior coming. Which one of us picked Jose Ramirez? I don't even remember.

Patti 21:59
I feel like I might have, because I really, really like it, yeah,

Pottymouth 22:03
I think so too. We just got to give you, like, all the credit. You also clearly Peter Armstrong, Kyle Stowers and James Wood, and then, to be continued, Zach Wheeler, dot, dot, dot.

Patti 22:17
Yeah, yeah. So I had the, you know, the Philadelphia pitchers as my pitching flock for our fantasy team, Zach Wheeler was the only one named an all star. He's sitting it out because, you know, a lot of veterans do that. They're like, you know, we're tired, we're old, we're going to rest. We would rather rest. Maybe go to Hawaii, maybe go someplace, you know, sit on a beach instead of go to this game, whatever you can choose, that's great. Give other people choices, but when we go later over our predictions, I went through some betting sites to see what are the current like favorites for various awards. Philadelphia has three, three pictures in the top five for nl. Cy Young, again, you picked well. Again, I picked well. So Zach Wheeler, obviously number one. He's not playing. But Christopher Sanchez is three, and Ranger Suarez is five. On like the top, like Cy Young, pride in the probability. Neither of them at their All Star game. There are other things going on. One of them is like, Ranger Suarez wasn't as far as wasn't eligible because he was pitching, I think maybe yesterday, and it was too close and whatever. But, but not getting picked also has other repercussions, because there are bonuses that you get for being on the team. And so it's very complicated, but it was all made worse to the Philadelphia teammates who really wanted their guys recognized when Milwaukee rookie who's doing fantastic, Jacob misrowski, got picked. He's only had five starts. He's only had five starts. I don't know that you can,

Pottymouth 23:58
yeah, it's he. Paul Skeens had, like, I forget it was double digits. It was like 11 or 12, yeah, I thought that that was fast, yeah. Like, five is just a new level of Yeah, many. So

Patti 24:09
I'm telling you what my former boyfriend said, yeah, about this situation. JT, real much. Said, That's just how MLB does it. Now, nothing against the mizraski kid, but those two, Sanchez and Suarez, are deserving of being on the team in the first place. There's no doubt. And then Nick Castellano said is turning into the savannah bananas, which, of course, he did. I put that in there for you. I think Nick and I are on the same side of those two kinds of people in the world. I'm feeling strongly about that. And you're gonna say the Trey Turner stuff because it was sweary,

Pottymouth 24:38
yeah? And because he was a former baseball boyfriend, pick of mine? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. And I think, and I would agree with you and Nick that the savannah bananas do not belong in the All Star game, like not a good match. But Trey Turner, being a pick of mine, said, What a joke. That's fucking terrible. And I agree with you, Trey Turner, and because I'm not working, I was able to check news the. Afternoon, and Ranger Suarez said, and this is the only things that I said, that I saw were what he said, not an MLB report, but he said he was actually asked, but he declined it, because he wanted to rest further. And the Phillies to give them a shit ton of credit, they're gonna give Sanchez his $50,000 bonus. The Phillies are not the Phillies. Well, that, well, the deal is, you know, when with his contract, I think those things in like, you get $50,000 if you make all star, and they're gonna give it to him anyway, even though he did,

Patti 25:34
I think technically, yeah, I think the timing was such that that the folks who make the rules were like, you're right, this is kind of fucked. Okay. Do you want to be you know? So I came a little too, little too late. And he's like, No, screw it now, but yeah, I I like the teammates defending their guy. Sure. I feel bad for the kid, yeah, because he doesn't want to hear this crap. I mean, he didn't do anything. He it wasn't his choice. It wasn't his idea. So I feel bad. I get the point of it. I do feel bad that he's taking crap for it.

Pottymouth 26:06
Yeah, and it was kind of, there's kind of like mixed arguments there, because some people were saying, Well, what? Why have the representatives from every team? Is it supposed to be like, you know, it's something for everybody, or is it supposed to be the very best players? And I'm kind of like, well, I kind of like this something for everything. Because I don't want to see, was he the orange or the Yankees? I don't think so. I can't speak to that. So I don't know if that counted into that, like at all out of the Phillies

Patti 26:34
who are frequently in first place only, only Schwarber is going, Oh, wow, that's it. I mean, um, you know, again, um, Zach chose not to go right, but so that leaves Schwarber. They had, they had arranged for a plane, figuring they'd have a couple of guys. They've got Schwarber.

Pottymouth 26:51
Oh, man, yeah, to not have them send any pictures is like, is crazy. All right. And I totally forget the second half of the the either or that I was gonna say now, but that's all right. I just we didn't talk about our beer though. Oh, but that makes us think about it. Yes, it makes me think about beer. So right now, I'm drinking a Billy Goat Trail by seven lakh spring, and it is a session IPA, which is lower, believe it or not, lower alcohol than your average IPA.

Patti 27:18
So we did split a tall world, okay, with tech support. Before that was that one that was a real the nice, like 1970s stuff happening, I know, is

Pottymouth 27:29
from port the one in Virginia, port, something, port city? Yeah, that's, oh, my God. I'm thinking Port Authority,

Patti 27:41
and the word city is, in fact, staring you in the face on my T shirt. But that's okay. That's okay. Oh, it was tasty, so I'm drinking, I'm just telling you the hills are freaking alive with the sound of music because I am drinking something, a pilsner from von Trapp. So it's an Australia you know, it's an Austrian style, but it's from somewhere, not in Austria. The printing is way too small in the cancel island, but it's not, I don't think it's local, but it's tasty, and it gets me. There's many songs I can sing, you know, how do you solve a problem like potty mouth? It's right, really, really where I'm going with that. So speaking

Pottymouth 28:18
of that, I remembered, which was that the kid is named by asking, yeah, thank you. Was chosen by Dave Roberts, so he's the one really to blame, right? It was just, right,

Patti 28:31
yeah, no, I feel bad for the kid. I hope he's got a good support network. It's like, just get out there and pitch the fuck out of your game and be good.

Pottymouth 28:36
Yeah. I mean, he looks like he knows what he's doing. All right. So far, you know, who knows what he's doing? Tito Francona, somebody we both love and adore, is now the 13th manager in major league baseball history to reach 2000 wins. That is a long time. So cheers to Tito. And I love that it happened at like just this pause of a moment, the last game before the all star break above the Rockies, so it gave them a chance to celebrate. So there's only one active manager with more than 2000 hits, and that's Bruce Bucha, right? Bruce Bucha, 2219 and I believe that Bucha, yeah, Buchi, dusty and Tito are the only three of that group of 13 managers who aren't in the Hall of Fame for obvious reasons, because they don't qualify yet, but I'm sure they've no doubt. So I think this is, like, you know, an absolute Welcome to Hall of Fame for Tito. And it also kind of made me realize, like, why come out of retirement? Like he only had 50 games to go at the beginning of this year, and we talked about all his health issues, and he's had a lot of stuff, of concern, but he's doing all right.

Patti 29:47
But also, I can't see him sitting still, right? He barely said still what he had the health

Pottymouth 29:51
concerns, right? Oh, my God. So before he managed he played for the reds in 1987 so out of those 13 men. Managers with more than 2000 wins, only four of them got them managing a club that they actually played for, including Tito Francona. So he played for the reds in 1987 his biggest amount of time was actually with the Expos in the early 80s, from 81 to I didn't write it down. And he also played with the Cubs, the reds, Cleveland and the brewers. He won two World Series

Patti 30:23
West action there.

Pottymouth 30:25
Wow, he kind of fits in. He's got that, like, very chill kind of vibe with his scooter and all he when I'm so grateful, because, yeah, he, you know, broke all of the barriers with the Red Sox, winning World Series in oh four and oh seven, and then, importantly, brought Cleveland to the to the table in 2016 unfortunately, the cubs were just a little bit more sad. So I know that was no need, no need, no But yay. Tito. He also managed the Phillies before the Red Sox, not quite as successful there. So, you know, raising my glass Cheers to a guy we love.

Patti 31:00
So today's day two of the draft. I love that they do it kind of in conjunction with all star week. That's kind of fun to guys do a lot all at one time. Yeah. So what the heck is in the water in the high school drinking fountains in Oklahoma?

Pottymouth 31:15
Oh, Oklahoma. Actually, that's believable Oklahoma. Well,

Patti 31:20
it's magic, apparently is in the water, because the number one draft pick surprising some people so Washington, the nationals have the number one draft pick. They picked 17 year old Eli Willets, who's a switch hitting shortstop from Oklahoma out of high school, just out of high school. He is the son of a for a former Los Angeles Angels outfielder, Reggie Willetts, who's got that going on. He, you know how they always, like, they have cameras on the people who, and usually it's like, somebody's living room. I think he was in a church, because up behind him was this giant cross that looked like something that had to be in a church. This is not like somebody's like, little, you know, crucifix on the wall, or anything on the wall. So there was that. And he also said that he wrote in his Bible two years ago that he wanted to be the first round draft pick. So I'm just saying he's he, you know, had the intentions. He did the work, and I got there. So, you know, I may not have a lot to talk to him about when I for the beer, but I will say this, these, this thing that he said just now, but I'm going to tell you, is absolutely boyfriend material. He says, I want to be described as a guy that plays harder than everyone else, but at the end of the day, I want to be described as a great human being that is good to people off the field and good to teammates. Wow. That's really perfect. That sounds like a good pick for you. That is, it is definitely pretty good. He is the third youngest person ever to be the very first draft pick. Wow. So another infielder drafted out of high school from Oklahoma, this time, Stillwater Oklahoma. This is the one that a lot of people thought were going to go first. Okay, this would be Ethan holiday. Oh, this is actually young draft picks. I think of Jackson holiday. This is actually magical, because Colorado drafted him in the fourth round. They weren't sure he would last that long. But you may remember that his dad played for the Rockies. And there is footage of both Ethan and Jackson as small children running around on the field, when with their dad, when Colorado made the World Series and like so like this is like in their blood. Like so Matt was an all star three times for Colorado. So he's an 18 year old infielder, so he's way, way older than Eli. I saw a quick they had Jackson do, like a little player evaluation of him, which was actually kind of sweet. And a lot of the other folks evaluating say, Well, you know, his bats not as good as Jackson's yet, but you know his Fielding, or whatever. Jackson said that Ethan's got a cannon, and I'm really jealous of his cannon for an arm, which was pretty cool. The other like the the experts that were talking about him compared Ethan both to Cal Ripken JR and Corey Seager, super like tall, short stoppy guys who make fielding look super easy. Geez. So that, I think more like with Seeger, a lot of it was the swing. They had him side by side, like, yeah, and Cal was, like, the, I am an absolute natural disposition. So that's pretty cool. So I can't wait to watch these guys play against each other

Pottymouth 34:33
absolutely, you know, Jackson got up really fast. Let's see what. Yeah, it was 18

Patti 34:38
months, yeah. So they, they expect, probably pretty close to the same. And frankly, you know, as we know, Colorado can, needs all the help it can get, but that's okay, yeah, this is all good. So yeah, I mean, there's, there's lots to read. You know, the zillion guys got drafted. Read up on that. See what, see what your team is. I just wanted to talk about these two in particular today, and the draft is. Going on today.

Pottymouth 35:00
You appreciate that? I totally appreciate that, because it is like overwhelming amount of information. So you found, like the two golden nugget sprayed in there. Sounds good and local news. So going to not so local news? Well, in some ways, World Baseball, classic update. Want to keep you posted on who is signing up to play so that you're excited to pay attention, because the players love it. We love it. We highly recommend watching say it on Rafaela Patty picks it again. Is joining Xander bogarts on Team Netherlands. We like Team Netherlands because we made some really good friends from Team Netherlands, fans of Team little bit. Yeah, that that's it. That's it. The fans, we didn't actually beat the team. No, that would have been really cool, but oh well, for say Don, it's his first time. Bogaerts has done this before, and say, Don, holy shit. Talk about like a good pick for you. Now he has caught fire. Really nice. This last week, he batted 440 with four home runs in the week, and they were playing Tampa, and I know the rest of the Al East really appreciates this. But on Friday, he had a walk off home run against Tampa, and then on Sunday, at a two run home run also against Tampa. So right now it's batting 271, with a 797, ops, and I am happy about the Red Sox like going into the all star break. You guys are 10. Yeah, you are on the street. Yep, it's good. And it makes me feel a little bit like on the right side, at least for the time being, until somebody proves me wrong about the whole Devers trade, because he has been sucking since the trade. I mean, I, I don't mean, I mean, yes, I do mean it, I guess, but I, but I feel bad. It's, I know he's probably trying very hard, but he's also got an attitude issue. Anyway, Red Sox doing really well enough of Raphael and the Red Sox on to the Orioles. Dean Kramer is joining HARRISON BADER and Garrett Stubbs for Team Israel, which is the one that I'm not feeling really good about anything that's representing the Israeli government. I really want to make sure to be clear about that before talking about it further. I do admire Dean Kramer's fealty, or, like, you know, attachment, but it's, it's just a shitty situation right now. He was on Team Israel, both in the magic 2017 team, where they made it further than anybody thought past the first round and then last time where they didn't do as well? Nobody, nobody predicted it, and they didn't do it in 2023 so that's going on. You know, I was noticing that team Israel. I believe I really should do research before I say shit on on the air. But I think that they're in Miami, so you can do sort of like a double boycott there, like, oh, you know, you don't go to Miami and you don't watch team Israel.

Patti 37:46
Perfect. You have to choose where to go to express your displeasure,

Pottymouth 37:49
right? It's a twofer. It's a twofer. Twofer. It has, I hope this has happened by the time you guys hear this. Garrett crochet expressed interest in Team USA. He has not been selected, but he said on the record, I don't know how it works, or when people reach out, if I was asked, I'd definitely enjoy participating, and I'd love to participate. So somebody please ask him, he is doing so well.

Patti 38:13
He is number two in line, you know, for the current, you know, odds for Cy So, yeah,

Pottymouth 38:19
all right. So I think he should qualify for team USA. If you want to get tickets, I don't recommend Miami, but the information and timing announcement was announced last Tuesday, and so there's a link in show notes. I think if you want to get your full strip, like every game of the thing you can do that now, ish depending on which of the pools you're going to. Single games are coming later, but again, it depends on the pool, so sign up for the reminders that'll make things easier. Yeah, so

Patti 38:51
at the beginning of the season, we make predictions, and usually we check in every month, and we haven't been so I figured we needed to

Pottymouth 38:58
know who keeps us honest. I am not, you know, I'm not on that. You will be

Patti 39:03
surprised. Okay, for the American League, which is the one that is near and dear to our hearts and our upbringing and all this stuff, we suck rocks, yeah, well, we're biased, but National League, we're really, actually pretty good. So let me tell you about this. So currently leading the Al East is Toronto, which you had as a wild card? Okay, leading the Al Central is Detroit, who we both had as a wild card. I bet leading the Al West is Houston, who we completely ignored.

Pottymouth 39:32
Well, there's both of us. That makes sense, though. So for the three

Patti 39:35
wild card teams, Yankees are in there right now. I had them leading the Al east. Boston is in there as a wild card. You had them was leading the Al east, and then Seattle's in there, who we ignored completely. So let's talk instead, okay, about the National League. You know, who's leading the NL East, the Phillies, you know, who had those? Both of us. Wow.

Pottymouth 39:58
I'm feeling a little guilty now that I like. And cozy with a bunch of Mets fans, but

Patti 40:02
All right, that's okay, because I'm right that we're right about them again later. So just, just hold that thought, right. Al Central, you had cubs. You were right. Oh, wow. No, West, that was an easy one. We both picked the Dodgers, and it is, in fact, the Dodgers. But for wild card, Milwaukee's in there right now, I had them as winning the central we both had the Mets as wild cards. The Mets are right now in the wild card race. We were right. All right, about the Mets? Excellent. And we both had friends, San Diego, and San Diego is currently in there. So we kind of rocked the National League predictions, wild. All right, let's talk a little bit about the individual awards. This is where no a struggle. No, not so much. So currently, school ball is leading for the Cy Young for the American League. I picked him. You picked Garrett crochet, who's currently second.

Pottymouth 40:58
That's wild. Second that is wild. That we got a one two punch on that. Guess

Patti 41:01
what? For the National League, I picked Zach Wheeler. He's number one. You pick plus kings, he's number two. We did it twice.

Pottymouth 41:07
That's bizarre. We did it twice. I just want to give an acknowledgement to the thunder that is Thunder that's happening behind us,

Patti 41:13
and really scary lightning. Yeah. So we still have power. So yay for that. We suck with Rookie of the Year. I'm currently that's a hard one. Leading the American League is Jacob Wilson of The athletics I had picked Jason Dominguez. He's currently fourth. That was our only like. And then the aforementioned kid, yeah, who is getting all the crap? Jacobsky for um, is leading for National League rookie of the year starting pitcher, um, we've got nothing yet anywhere. He was anywhere, not on their radar. So we're ignoring the top we very carefully did not pick Aaron judge or Shohei Ohtani for MVP. So I'm looking at Where did our picks land. Good, right? So you had Jose Ramirez. He's currently in sixth. I had Bobby Witt JR. He's currently in ninth for the American League, for the National League. You had one Soto, who's currently third, and I had Ellie de la Cruz, who's 14. But we didn't suck with those. And we made choices not to pick the of course, it's going to be, you know, unless anything super weird happens, it's going to be, you know, oh, Tony, I really want Pete crow Armstrong, yeah, because he's, like, having this outstanding season, and it's like, okay, Shohei again. Who has will earn it or but

Pottymouth 42:29
we need a Shohei award, and then we need, like, a other, yeah,

Patti 42:32
yeah, there's two kinds of players in the world, the one that's shohe Otani and the one that's everybody else.

Pottymouth 42:39
All right, I'm gonna take a little bit of a curve in cross training to the FIFA World Cup. So I don't know if you pay attention to soccer, or football, as the rest of the world calls it, but the the club, FIFA Club World Cup, was just happening in this country, and the final was yesterday, which would be Sunday, July 13, at the MetLife state Stadium in New Jersey. Just anecdotally, Chelsea Football Club won over Paris Saint Germain, three to nothing. Now this is the Club World Cup, and it works kind of like the Serie A decaribe, where it's the team for the country that wins that country's competition, that goes to the Club World Cup. So it's kind of like, you know, when the Leo escojido win from the DR and they go to the seria.

Patti 43:29
So it's not like the official national team, it's a team that competes and then represents their

Pottymouth 43:33
nation, exactly, okay, exactly. So because of that, it's not as huge and well known as the FIFA World Cup, but it's kind of like, you know, like a practice run. It's big, but just not quite as big. So the important to to realize the actual FIFA World Cup will be happening next year, 2026 and it's going to be hosted by Mexico, the United States and Canada, working together,

Patti 44:02
I have so many follow up questions, and the one that I think you're going to address is, Are people allowed to come here?

Pottymouth 44:10
Yeah, all right, so there's just so many things to cover with this. You know, clearly, this was all organized before the current leader in power of the United States became in power and also did all these things to, you know, make Mexican and Canada really enjoy being right next door to us, importantly, because it seems like the fascist in chief. As I want to give you full credit for the name that I love, because I can't say anything else about this man. He seems to like sports. So he, you know, cost the taxpayers a shit ton of money to go to the Super Bowl and then to go to the NASCAR racing and so he's going, he went to the FIFA Club World Cup finals. And I don't know how much money that. Cost us, but he marched out on stage appropriately during the national anthem to a rain of boos. And you can judge, there are a lot of there's a lot of comment online about whether it's the USA, USA chant or the booze. You can hear both. I think that the boos went out, but just that, it's like even a question means that there's a lot of dissent there, and it was during the fucking national anthem too. Like, it's one thing to boo the president, but it's another thing to do it during. Like people are pissed if they're doing it during the anthem, because there are a lot of like, Anthem lovers, comfort country lovers, who are not happy with the current situation. So that happened. He also apparently stayed on stage a little bit longer than he should have, shocking. And there's a guy, literally from the team, who's getting awarded right behind him, who's like, what's going on like because the President thinks that everybody's clapping for him, and they're really clapping because they want to see this team getting their awards. Wow. So there's all that leading up to that. We get the actual FIFA World Cup next year. So out of that three country sharing situation, the United States has shocking the lion's share, 11 US cities, three in Mexico and two in Canada. On either end, I know that those are Toronto and Vancouver, but it kicks off in Los Angeles, which, holy shit, right, right, which is currently still being controlled by the National Guard. There are 4000 National Guard troops on the ground right now in LA, doing whatever the fuck they're doing, because there's nothing for them to be guarding. Because the protests have basically ended at this point, but they're still there because the fascist in chief wants to control LA. So LA, people are clearly pissed now. There's not protests happening right now, not because people aren't pissed anymore, but they're strategizing, you know. So they've been protesting. They've got that. There's a lot of monitoring going on. There are people watching out in, say, Home Depot parking lots to look out for ice, to see if they're gonna pick anybody up, there's a lot of educating around your light rights, and there's a lot of planning for next steps. So what that means that this is kicking off in LA next year is, like, scary, like, it's totally scary. And then there's what you said before, who can come because of the travel ban. So what I hadn't noticed last week, or whenever I talked about this before, that the current travel ban actually has this exemption written into it. It says, quote, any athlete or member of an athletic team, including coaches, persons performing a necessary support role, and immediate relatives traveling for the World Cup Olympics. That's 2028 so that'll be another thing to look out for, or their major sporting event, as determined by the Secretary of State, are exempt from this Tavel ban, but fans aren't. So you're going to have teams coming without the usual and you know, fans. And then also there's, you know, the people who are living in this country who might be afraid to come out because of their status, even if they do have documentation, because all sorts of shit is happening right now. Of course it is.

Patti 48:28
And you know that. You know what fans do. They spend money when they travel. They get hotel rooms, they eat out for every freaking meal, and they go to see other things that are at the sports you are wrecking economies on top of all the morally reprehensible things, huge that are happening

Pottymouth 48:45
that translates to jobs, right local people who are working in those restaurants, who are doing concessions and things like that. I looked into the travel ban a little bit more carefully. It includes 19 countries, 12 of which are completely barred. Seven have restrictions, but there are 36 more that are on this sort of like warning that they're in this 60 day that I believe began in the middle of June, if 60 days to meet some sort of fucking benchmark or expectations that the fascist chief has put out there. I don't know what they are, but they're, it's all open to change by whim, sure, like if he's going to include four more, if he's going to take a few away in the 12 completely barred countries includes Iran, which has already qualified for the World Cup, so Iran will be there. Fans probably won't, and then it definitely bogs down the visa system too. So even people who are coming here through these exemptions have to go through the bureaucracy, and because of these travel bans, it's possible that shit can still happen. They're probable. It's exactly, exactly that's much better. It's definitely probable. There are still qualifiers going on. So. You don't know how many more countries that are part of the ban are going to be included. Apparently, Cuba, which I was surprised, actually is one with restrictions. It's not a complete one. Haiti, I believe that's a complete restriction one. And Sudan, where we're going to, for some reason, ship immigrants. I don't know. This whole thing doesn't make any fucking sense. Anyway, they they're all possible to qualify. I want to give a little shout out just because, and this has nothing to do with this stream of thought, but it makes me a little bit happy that Brazil and Ecuador both qualified to be in the World Cup. And Ecuador, it like holds a warm place in my heart, because that's where I went and learned Spanish way back a million years ago. And they're not that. I mean, they're not a usual World Cup team for sure, for South America. So they qualified with conocop This past week, which was around here. So Whoo, yay. Corduro, I thought that the Washington Post really gets the quote award of this whole thing because they were talking about the fascist and chiefs Connection to different sports, and kind of unaware of how he's so buddy buddy with soccer now, although he's like been chummy with the really corrupt head of FIFA. So there's all of that, but they said that his biggest connection to soccer at this point is apparently his golf caddies had have nicknamed him Pele because he cheats by kicking the ball. That's fantastic. I've heard all day. No, I know. Oh, thank you so much for that. Yes, so cheers to the Washington Post on that one, I think so much. We'll just alternate between fascist and chief and Pele, depending on the context, I guess. Oh, my God. Well, I mean, I don't want to denigrate Pele, right? Oh, God, absolutely. All right, just when you thought that this couldn't get any better, have no fear, we actually have a World Cup Task Force, and they're gonna handle all these little inconvenient details. And you know how you can confide in them. Rudy Giuliani's son, Andrew is the executive director. That seems right, so I am sure that he earned that position of his own. I mean, oh my god, there's just so many. It's probably worse if he got it because of his father. But also this huge fucking bill that just passed includes 620, $5 million for, quote, security and other costs. And so then there's the big question about, what's ice gonna do when the games are going on?

Patti 52:27
I hear soccer is popular with a lot of people from a lot of countries that, you know,

Pottymouth 52:33
yep, yep. And there was a little bit of scuttle butt with the the cup, the, what I call it the World Cup club, the club World Cup, the one that just finished here, because not ice, but Customs and Border Patrol. And the differentiation between the two is a little bit fuzzy, but basically, Customs and Border Patrol are supposed to be in charge of the borders and the area around the border, people coming in the show yeah and ice does sort of internal stuff. Despite that, the official X account from for customs and border patrol had briefly posted that they were quote, suited and booted, ready to provide security for the first round of games for the Club World Cup, suited, booted. I know that sounds so endearing. Fucking believe this shit. I like it's this is, I'm not making this up, folks. I'm like, this is for real. They deleted the post. So whatever that means, apparently, neither CPB nor ice targeted stadiums in the Club World Cup. So hopefully they will stay the fuck away when the actual World Cup is happening, because it lasts a lot longer. It's going to be from June 15 through July 19, next summer. That's one long month. If you want to know where and how you can get tickets, there's a link that we'll put in the show notes, and you can register online, and they will give you updates for how to get ticks for that. Yay. So that's the fun cross training update.

Patti 54:08
Wow. I love learning about that. I don't love what the answers are, but I love learning about that. Thank you. All right, thank you. Hey, we have this crazy Oh my god, fantasy league, and it's been shook again again, with the shaking

Pottymouth 54:23
of up. You know, I heard about this immediately on Sunday morning, by the way, I

Patti 54:27
bet you did, because who's now in first place, that would be wicked awesome, who big increase in points jumped over the, you know, previous leader, and also pandemonium, moved up to second, which means Bono's boyfriend dropped from first to third. What is up with that? Now granted, only half a point behind pandemonium, but still, but still, legitimately third place. I am barely edging out dingers and dinos for six. Place. So the top five are still the top five, but the order has changed. Wicked awesome. Number one, pandemonium. Number two, Bono's boyfriend. Number three, leftist field, number four, and Karen's crew, number five, and then I jumped to number six, and then everyone else is still, you know, remains in the same order. It was. It's very exciting. I always liked my favorite thing that happened, though, was usually midweek, I bounce up to six, but by the time I do the Sunday morning thing, I'm back down to seventh or eighth. So this time I caught it just

Pottymouth 55:31
right. That's impressive. I'm the 1110 and I'm back down to 11. So cheers, Canadians. We'll hang out together

Patti 55:40
in the basement. Yay. So like, happy all star break. We've got, you know, the home of Derby to watch and see how, just how badly we made our predictions. We've got the all star game to watch to say, Hey, this is fun. Is it still fun? I can't remember if this is fun to watch or not. We've got a lot of things going

Pottymouth 55:53
on. Yeah, um, I and we don't have any games together, like any MLB games on the schedule, so we need to look at the schedule. Well, apparently, yes, games are

Patti 56:03
gonna go on a sliding scale of cheaper to Whoa, give us the tickets for free. We should

Pottymouth 56:08
probably do some advance like checking so that we can hop on that. I do have two minor league games on deck. Woo socks on August, 1 with our friend Callen. Hey, there. We're so excited for that. And the Brooklyn Cyclones on August 16, Star Wars night. How? Oh, most excellent. Venn diagram,

Patti 56:28
most excellent. So, yeah. So please find us on social media. Tell us how you did with your home run. Derby predictions, what games you're excited about going to in the second half. Where can people find us? You

Pottymouth 56:41
can find us at ncib podcast on that would be blue sky and Twitter, oh my god, we're almost done. And then Facebook and Instagram are no crying. Be ball. Join Patreon. Thank you. Patreon folks, that's p, A, T, R, E, O, N, slash, no crying. And B ball last week, I promised to check there first, and I am that I did uphold the promise I believe, but I was still a little bit behind. Our friend Melissa commented on your nick Castellanos button judgment, and was wondering about our feelings of Ahmed Rosario and I, we had just talked about how he went to the Nick Castellanos School of buttoning.

Patti 57:22
We did. We were worried that it slowed him down, because that's just got to catch some wins. It's not aerodynamic when you're when your jersey is unbuttoned quite that far, but it looks good. So that's fine. All right. You know, get boosted if you can. You know, do that. Still fight the man, because it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty

Pottymouth 57:42
mouth, goodnight, potty mouth.

Patti 58:01
That was lightning. That was exciting. It was gonna be a very dramatic, yeah, that was absolutely, really dramatic. Out the window. All right,

Pottymouth 58:08
we should say something, okay, in case, no, it's not gonna you.