No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Oh, hi and welcome to episode 420 of No Crying in Baseball, but just keep your swivel episode. My name is Patti.

Pottymouth 0:24
I'm your friend, Pottymouth,

Patti 0:25
who's gonna be 12 today. She's gonna embrace it. I

Pottymouth 0:29
am so 12, absolutely. Why is that potty mouth? I don't know. I it just must be my personality, or I just never like progressed past a certain age, or, I don't know, it's just because it's episode 420, yeah. Oh, that. That's it, too. I thought you just meant like in general. No, I know in general. In general, I'm 12, just because I appreciate that kind of humor. And I don't know that's, that's my, my happy place. You

Patti 0:52
also you had a lot of happy place this weekend. Yes,

Pottymouth 0:56
a big, huge high to our new friend, old friend, Russ, who I met at the Brooklyn Cyclones game, and we did a quick zoom up to New York and back, and it was actually fairly smooth. And we got to see the Brooklyn Cyclones, which, I mean, I haven't seen a lot, a lot of minor league games, but the Cyclones do it so, right? And I don't know how you cannot do it right when you have Coney Island in the fucking background, like while you're watching the game, you literally see the little cars on the roller coaster go upside down. And then there was this other ride that we were all freaked out about. It's a ball on two really big strings wires, and you go in the ball, and the ball bounces way the fuck up in the air. And you can't, like, it's, it's, you can see that it's wires, kind of, but it kind of looks like four people in a ball being thrown up into the air, very high above the roller coaster. So we were watching that, and we did, like, try to pay attention to the baseball game as well. But like, there's so much going on in the background.

Patti 2:01
And did I see that you guys all came back with Star Wars hoodies? Yes. And so

Pottymouth 2:05
it was also Star Wars night, and that was huge. They actually had a story that we didn't catch a lot of, because the PA system isn't stellar. But basically, what happened was a while before the game, and we caught the intro some Star Wars II looking people, and we'll have to refer to the other potty mouths for for exactly like who they represented. I don't know. I think it was like its own story. But there were like Darth Vader was walking around somewhere, and there was no and they even started with the scroll. They had the scroll on the scoreboard, or the whatever the big screen. So that was cool. So many, so many lightsabers. But it was a story that, like, they sort of lip synced while it was being broadcast over the loudspeakers. So the actors very, you know, skilled right there, not to mention the lightsaber battles. And there were many, and at the end, there was, like, a mighty one with, like, literally, like 40 people out there doing lightsaber stuff. And there's this one move that I really want to try. It's like, you you've seen it, they go over the head and then they kind of duck under, kind of like a meringue move. It's like a little turn. That was super popular because it looked really cool. The other one was super popular is the one that you swipe underneath and make them jump up. That was

Patti 3:17
fun. Yeah, I could totally see you leaning into the whole meringue lightsaber move for sure. Yeah, if you

Pottymouth 3:22
put the right music to it, that's pretty cool. But so that wasn't it, though. For the cosplay like that was a huge, huge, huge part. And they kept on with the story every few innings that come up and do chapter next. And I would lean to the people next to me and say, Do you know what the fuck is going on? And they'd say generally, but okay, you know, there was a story involved, and at the end, it was a huge one. But they also had a mascot race, sort of, well, they had a couple of mascot races. They had the actual mascot, which seemed to be some sort of seagull or something like that, racing with a kid. But they had Nathan's hot dogs, because Coney Island. So I feel like if the Brooklyn Cyclones can handle racing live hot dogs every game sure that Baltimore should be able to handle that too. Like, I don't understand every like, fourth game or something, right? What's the deal? Like they're, you know, able bodied hot dogs. They should just be or condiments, as you said. And you'll be happy to know the relish one.

Patti 4:14
I am happy to know the relish one. Yes, for sure, for sure.

Pottymouth 4:17
Despite the popularity of the hot dogs. We actually got Vegan Corn dogs, and I was so super excited to see on their regular menu. And like also MLB stadiums. So many of you don't do this, they had normally vegan hot dogs, but they also had a vegan pop up with really cool things, like corn dogs and excellent. Yeah, I'm so glad that was super fun. And then there was also a baseball game that was, you know, the main attraction for some of us, and I was, we were in the fourth row. So, you know what happens when I get close? Basically, the same thing happens is when I'm far away, is I get loud because I feel like I have the responsibility of cheering these guys on because I'm here. You right

Patti 5:00
now. So, I mean, don't waste that chance. You could really, you could coach them. You can encourage them. And, you know, I'm positive, right? So I'm gonna make them feel bad at any point. You're only gonna make them try harder. Absolutely,

Pottymouth 5:10
I was just like, you know, and the best thing, I think, from my perspective, of rooting for the cyclones, is they have a guy named Boston on their team. So can I tell you how excited I was? His first name, really? Yeah, his last name is Barrow, Boston. Barrow and I was screaming, go, Boston. And Boston did really well. Well he, I think he walked a couple times, but he stole second base. But apparently he got injured when he stole second base, they pulled him out for a pinch hitter. But the best part of that, I mean, I was very concerned for Boston. Sure, expressive of Boston. I know this, the kid next me or in front of me. I did do the toddler search.

Patti 5:48
You know, you can, like, adjust your language, although it

Pottymouth 5:51
was Brooklyn, so really, it didn't really matter. But the kid near us yelled, when Boston got hurt, rubbed some dirt on at Boston. Perfect. I was like, there is, like, I tried to pair happy. A big thumbs up. So you guys did them great work. This is excellent parenting. I'm so glad. Yeah. And then was topped off by fireworks. So overall, love that five stars for Brooklyn Cyclones go. And then we walked around Coney Island afterwards and saw like, lots of lights and things spinning and stuff like that. And we went to the freak bar that was a lot of fun.

Patti 6:23
Wow. I need to start like, you know, inviting myself along. We'll do this. Yeah. Okay, sure. I did not go that far away. I went to what I'm calling lobster palooza. It has a regular name of the lobster party, but I think it should be like, crustacean sensation, or lobster Palooza, or whatever. But in any case, I went to a party at which there were like 80 people and like 280 sorry, cover your ears, lobsters and any like innumerable Maryland crabs and 4000 side dishes, and all kinds of people I had never met before, and I had a super great time. And the food was delicious, and the hosts were very generous and friendly, and they sent me home with a doggy bag, which was actually two entire steamed lobsters, which I am not. Wow. You can demand all you want. Yeah, not sharing those with you, I'm just not right. But anyway, thank you. Thank you all family for that, because it was so delicious and so much fun, and I was very happy to be included. The other thing that I've been doing the past couple days is I've been watching some O's games and leaning into them because they're doing the perfect thing, which a lot of teams are who are no longer like looking at are the the postseason, right? They're calling up their guys, and they're playing them hard, and they're putting them in positions to really show their stuff high. You know, the risk situations. This is very tricky. This is there's, you know, this could turn the game. Could turn on this, and we trust you, and this is how you're going to learn. And it's so much fun to watch these guys get up there and have this trust put on them and have them succeed. It's also because I have the mom thing. They keep finding the parents who were there for their kids call ups, and they're amazing. And the other one that I liked was Brandon Young is a pitcher who's been playing for a while, but he's from just like, 90 miles away from Houston, and the O's were just playing at the Astros, so his did pretty well there, and, like, brought a bunch of folks there, and they interviewed the parents while he was pitching a perfect game. And the sideline, you know, interviewer, guy, commentator, got a lot of shit for like, you know, supposed to interview people while they're in the middle of a perfect game, but he went on for eight and two thirds innings with a perfect game. And I gotta say, when they interview his mom, I didn't hear them introduce her. And for a second I thought, is that his girlfriend, his mom, looks super young, but they were so excited.

Pottymouth 8:38
Wait, did they pull him after in two thirds? If it was perfect. No,

Patti 8:41
no. Rios, former, former Oreo, broke up the perfect. Yeah. He got a single they had to Yeah, and then yeah, they pulled him because, okay, at this point, go ahead and give him a break. But he pitched phenomenally in front of the family, and it's so we've got, like, the whole heartwarming family got the call up the whatever. This is great. There's a bunch of them over the weekend. They were pretty exciting. These guys are like, but they're but they're having fun. And this team, who's no longer in the running, is playing freaking hard. Beat the Astros, 12, nothing yesterday. I mean, lost by like, one, you know, run the other. And seven, nothing on Friday, and so, but, but, like, I love what they're bringing up the new guys, and they're doing trial by fire, and they still look like they like playing the game. So that's made me super, super happy,

Pottymouth 9:26
right? Which totally terrifies me, because the Boston is going to be playing them this week and next week and the, you know, I don't know, but I think there's something about like we've got nothing to lose. Yeah, their

Patti 9:36
hair is on fire. Yeah, they're playing with their hair on fire. So we've had these great, wonderful things to lead up to today, when things all went to freaking Hell,

Pottymouth 9:45
yeah, so I had to go back to work today.

Patti 9:49
I thought was so terrible. So I go to work every Monday, yeah?

Pottymouth 9:52
So I am sad about this. And everybody you know, buy a bottle of wine for your favorite teacher. But you know, it's been good, ish. Um, but also, folks, we are recording right now exactly one mile, probably less, if you go that way from our nation's capital, and we're being invaded. We are being fucking invaded. And it is obscene, beyond obscene. You know, we luckily have representatives, because we live in Maryland, so we do have people who represent us in Congress. The people of DC do not, and they're being invaded and more red states are sending National Guard when they should be doing things like paying for education. I mean, the amount of money that's being wasted is obscene, if you know the moral responsibility doesn't get at you. Maybe, like, look at it. Economically, it's really, really horrid here, horrid,

Patti 10:47
yeah. And also, the numbers are fake. The crime rate in DC is better than it's been in a long time. It's lower, lower, lower. So the stuff you're hearing, oh, I need to call these people in because it's so bad. That's a lie. That is a lie. It's all for show, and it is an invasion of your nation's capital, and also in our neighborhood, with our friends, ice has been showing up like three blocks from our houses either direction, yeah, chasing down people going to work as landscapers, not committing crimes, not participating in gang activity, but going to mow someone's lawn? Yeah. So this is what's actually happening. So if you don't seeing this, trust us, please. I hope you have some trust in us. This is what is actually happening. Ice is trying to pick up people who are trying to earn a living by mowing lawns,

Pottymouth 11:34
and kids are going to be afraid to go to school. Now, I got a text, panicked text from a friend colleague last night, whose student, whose students family had just got in touch with her because the student had been detained. This is like, you know, 17 year old kid, and school starts next week, so I don't know people you know, stand your ground and and take notes and take pictures and take videos and be be observant,

Patti 12:01
right? And share that stuff widely, because a lot of people aren't seeing this because it's not happening in front of them, so they believe what they're told, because that's all they know. So you need to show them the other side of it. No, this is what's really happening. Yeah? So yeah, we're drinking a little beer, and we're talking a little bit baseball. And,

Pottymouth 12:20
yeah, yeah, I think it's gonna be a lot of beer, but

Patti 12:24
it is We apologize for how we end up.

Pottymouth 12:26
Sorry, my I'm sure tomorrow I can make it work with ibuprofen.

Patti 12:31
Ibuprofen is your friend. All right, on today's show our boyfriend report has, we're featuring Junior and some arms and some shoulders and a triple play. We've got some fun and some good from players weekend, but no nicknames, and we're not happy about that. We've got kids, drugs, women and the vodka solution. Cheers.

Pottymouth 12:52
I'm so glad you added vodka to my drugs.

Patti 12:56
You know, I prefer the vodka solution. So, there's something for everybody. All right, that's fair. There is something for

Pottymouth 13:02
everybody. Totally fair. All right, we're gonna start out with our baseball boyfriend so we can

Patti 13:07
then we're gonna end badly.

Pottymouth 13:09
Start out fun. These are guys we picked in the off season because they're all just super cool for one reason or another, and ideally, they play well, which is something that I'm not really good at for seeing it seems, however, I have one really hot guy on my team. Well, I'm many of them are hot, but this guy is actually doing well at baseball. That's Junior commonero of the Tampa Bay Rays. He is now the seventh player in MLB history with 35 or more homers in his age 21 season. And here we are August 18, so he just hit 35 we'll see where that goes, if you want to know for that trivia night at the local bar, the other the other six are Eddie Matthews, Frank Robinson, a rod, Albert Pujols, Cody Bellinger and Ronald Acuna Jr. So kind of impressive crowd for junior to be hanging out with a rod

Patti 14:01
is the only one I would have guessed for sure. Yeah, I might have gotten around to Acuna, but I don't know.

Pottymouth 14:06
Yeah, yeah. I think also a rod is kind of the obvious, yet not fun, for sure. For sure. Um, so as far as the raise, though, like a season record for homers is with Carlos Pena has a record of 46 so coming arrows at 35 right now, that is doable. He's got to get hot, but he's got a teammate who they have a little friendly competition going on, which is, you know, good for both of them, and then good for the team, which is not good for us. So, um, I don't know how much to cheer for this, but Brandon Lau, I think that's the LAO right. Is at 24 so not quite that close to Junior. But what's been happening six times over the season, and literally four times this past week, is when LAO has hit a home run one. Junior follows up with another home run. And so Lao said at this point, I kind of yell at him every single time, like, how am I supposed to close the gap? Like, I'm trying to catch up with you. So Junior Cameron arrow is also currently, I believe, let's say, link this year, so I could make sure that I'm actually correct six in MLB right now, and probably

Patti 15:20
about right 4344 is like the top right, yeah, and

Pottymouth 15:24
my LinkedIn work just then, and I lost my notes. So let's just go with that 6/6, overall for MLB, and he is the second for third base. Guys after Yo, kenio Suarez,

Patti 15:41
second after first base guys, third base guys, third base Yeah, Junior is number six. Um, Cal Rowley is still first with 47 okay. And then Shohei and Kyle Schwarber are tied at 43 Oh, and he's actually

Pottymouth 15:53
behind you. Kenio Now, yeah, all right, so he's honestly number six all by himself, but he's ahead of one Soto by five runs, five home runs. Okay, that's not bad. So

Patti 16:02
for our fantasy teams, potty mouth and I just pick pictures from one team, we have a flock of pictures from one team. I of course, picked Philadelphia, and Zach Wheeler has been the rock. He has been like the steady, steady guy. He's been having, like, a career season. It's been great. Well, Friday, Friday, he came out of the game after five innings and 97 pitches, saying, I've got new symptoms. He has shoulder soreness last week, this week, he was placed on the IL for a blood clot near his shoulder. That's scary. That is super scary. As a family who is a we've had some blood clots in the family, which result in things like, you know, strokes. So it's really a big, big deal. So he's on the il 15 day il for now, this testing is going to happen this week. There's no timetable, because it depends what they find. You don't want to jar loose a blood clot, because that could, in fact, kill you any shoulder. That's, it's pretty close to, yeah, yes. So that's that's very bad. So until when this happened, because he's 35 he leads the National League with 195 strikeouts. He leads in whip at point 935, he is second to pass gains in the Cy Young voting with current like the odds for sigh. So he's having this career season. But safety first, we care about him. He's on the IL for testing, for all those things. So this they activated Aaron Nola, who's been out since May, right? And he was out because he had a sprained ankle and a fractured rib. He had a bunch of things he was recovering over. So he's been gone for a while, so his first game back, initially they were going to have a six man rotation. They were going to add him in and have a six, six man rotation. But now that Zach is asked, okay, back to Five Guys. Aaron Nola, in his first game back, allowed six runs in two and a third innings in the first game back since May 14, versus the NATs yesterday, they still won 11 and nine. But what a crazy game. Seven consecutive batters reached base in between those guys, he still, you know, struck out four, but six runs in two and a third innings. That's not like, Oh, this is not a one for one replacement. This is bad for comparison. Alec Baum, for a former boyfriend of mine for the Phillies, also was activated yesterday after a fractured rim. Oh, and he, in his first game in a month, went two for four and hit a three run homer, so he had a little bit of a better hand back than Aaron Nola. Maybe Aaron Nola just needs to, like, shake out a couple of things and it's gonna be okay, but I don't know, but I'm really very concerned and wishing well to, um, to Zach Wheeler, because that's a scary, scary thing. Yeah,

Pottymouth 18:42
well, and I know the Phillies are, like, trying to hang on to that first place. Yeah. You know, Mets fans are feeling pretty frustrated right now. We got a huge ear full of that being in the Queens, Brooklyn area, and I'm sure you did, um, but if you want to talk about rough pitching, I've been talking about my diamond backs in the rough, and they're so much rougher. Like, it's just, you know, it's just, goes to show that pre season is really anybody's guess. Like, I didn't think of this deep backs thing all by myself. I actually, like, looked up other people's recommendations, and it seemed like it was going to be a good pitching squad. Was a good idea at the time, alas, and a lack so I've already done a bazillion subs. One of the subs that I put in May, Kendall Graveman, this past week, got DFA cleared waivers and then just outright released because it's he's just has a bad year. He's 713, era and 17.2 innings. Yeah. So Ryan Thompson, who is on my team, despite being on the IL has been out since July 5 with his shoulder strain, but I'm hoping and it looks like he's gonna be back soon. He did throw three bullpen sessions this week, and is due to face some hitters and apparently the D. Tax, you know, surprising. No, not me, because depending on their pitching, their bullpen melted down to equate to losses over the weekend. So Ryan Thompson is probably going to be back as soon as possible. And just for notes, I put Ryan Thompson on my original team instead of picking Merrill Kelly, which I kicked myself for it for very long, because Meryl Kelly was doing the best, but now Meryl Kelly is on the Rangers, so I wouldn't have been able to have him anyway, so it's going to be fine. Thompson's going to be back this week. I will have yet another one of my original picks, because right now, there's only three out of the original eight who are actually playing, and they're all starters. Wow. So all the bullpen that I picked did not last. I picked Zach gallon, Eduardo Rodriguez and Brandon fat, because I'm 12 and from Boston, and I get to say fat again. So they're the only guys who are still pitching from my original picks, Justin Martinez and AJ Puck, who, when I was so excited to say, get the puck out of here. They were splitting the closer role, and they're closed. Both of them are closed. Kevin Ginkel, Ryan Thompson is hopefully back. Corbin Burns is closed. And so here's where I need to appeal to commission judgment. Because I was like, Where is the pitcher for the D backs? And I picked Juan Burgos because he seemed okay. I wanted to pick Andrew solfrink, but I didn't because I wasn't sure if it was a good idea. And I'm guessing you're gonna say it's not against the rules, but it's probably not a good idea. So he was suspended for a year for betting in the minors. He was suspended because he bet $445.87 on 28 MLB games that he was not involved with directly, so it wasn't that kind of bet, and one college baseball parlay between September of 21 and March of 22 and so he was suspended for a whole year for that. Has he paid his penance? I

Patti 21:55
would not put him on the no fly list. Okay? I would question his judgment as a human, yeah, but that does not make him ineligible for you to pick for your

Pottymouth 22:05
team. Okay? I mean, I am in 11th place right now, and it probably doesn't matter too much,

Patti 22:10
however, not have an effect on how

Pottymouth 22:13
decision. However, he seems to be doing very well, and maybe I should be encouraging the comeback. It's either him or Nabil, Chris Matt, who just got pulled up from triple A despite the fact that he's never started before in Major League he got pulled up to start. I don't think his start went well. He does have relief experience with San Diego and St Louis and the Dodgers. And his big claim to fame was pitching in the Columbia for Columbia in the World Baseball Classic in 2017 and 2023 so that's my pitching situation. My situation

Patti 22:47
is, Why Am I almost done with my beer and you are not?

Pottymouth 22:51
Oh, sorry, I talking too much. It's because I'm talking too much because

Patti 22:55
usually I'm catching up to you. Yeah, catching up to you. Pardon me while I finish my beer? Oh, does

Pottymouth 22:59
that mean tech support? Small beer, large beer, some beer. Okay, so

Patti 23:03
former boyfriends. These are guys who we've picked in previous years, and we still follow because they're still, you know, there's we have, you know, some affection for them, and want to see them do well, and they haven't done anything to piss us off. So Zach Netto was my last year's Los Angeles Angels guy. He turned a triple play versus Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday, right? So two men on no outs. Ohtani is at bat. You think, Okay, three runs are gonna happen right now. So Zach was at short, right behind second base. He caught the line drive from Ohtani, stepped on second base, which got Miguel Rojas up because he had gone he had a lead already too far away, and he got it to first before Dalton rushing got back, because he had a pretty good lead, he turned to freaking triple play. It was not only the first triple play that he turned it was the first triple play that he had seen in a game. He's never seen one live, so, yeah, I've seen him on like, you know, on YouTube, but I've never actually seen one happen. It's also the second for the angels in three years. And before that, they hadn't turned a triple play since 1997 so these are not common, common things. So later in the game, of course, oh, Tani hit his 43rd home run in the ninth to break the tie, and Zach joked that the triple play must have pissed him off.

Pottymouth 24:24
So you his, his

Patti 24:26
response to, what about Thank you, tech support. You are my favorite his. You know? He says, Okay, what were you thinking about when this was happening, when the triple play and when this ball is coming at you? He's like, just keep your swivel and try to make a play. So I'm gonna, like, in my head, I think every morning when I'm brushing my teeth and I'm looking at the mirror trying to psych up for my day in the face of ice in the neighborhood, and who knows what's gonna happen at work and all of these things that are happening to me, I'm gonna say, just keep your swivel and try to make the play.

Pottymouth 24:58
I love it. You.

Patti 25:00
Maybe we should get T shirts, or maybe we should get magnets. Yeah, no, I think we need to just keep your swivel T shirts. Yeah. All right, hey, so Christian yeology, you might know as a previous actually was a once and forever boyfriend for me a while back. So last year, he's, he was, so he's the one of the Brewers, right? He got to be very close with Bob Euchre, who passed away on the off season. And so for last year's players weekend, Christian yelch had a bob Euchre bat created that had his picture on it. It had his home run call. It had, you know, just a bit outside on all of these things. And he made a second one that he gave to Bob Euchre. And then Christian Yelich didn't play players weekend because he had season ending back surgery, so he had his bat and didn't use it. Since then, you know, Bob has died, and he was like, Okay, I don't know if I should use it. Is it weird, or is it good? Is it bad, or whatever? And the there, the Brewers equipment manager said, You got to use it at least once. You have to. You have to. So he used it on Friday versus Cincinnati, and hit a Homer, hit his hit, his 24th Homer leading off the second inning, and then went on to get four hits in the game, including a Go ahead home run, five. RBI and Milwaukee came back from a seven run deficit to set their franchise record with or tie their tie their franchise record with their 13th straight win. So, yeah, using that eucharbat, just the ones holy. That seemed to be a very, very good idea. So that

Pottymouth 26:28
was Friday, right? Yeah. So that means they broke it on Saturday, and then they lost, they lost it, that's correct, yeah. So the reds, the mighty, mighty reds finally stop that crazy.

Patti 26:39
I'm gonna open the warm town. Be happy. IPA, I think that's a good choice. Yeah, yeah. So what did we drink? We drank something from silver branch. It was the nefarious boundaries. I think it was something with nebulous Yes, right? We were pushing our nebulous boundaries. Okay, so I am ahead of the game with the beer, which is why I can't do this

Pottymouth 27:00
nebulous and nefarious. I think that should be the episode.

Patti 27:05
Oh, my God, okay, right. All right. Tell us more about like, players

Pottymouth 27:09
weekend. So speaking of players weekend, the Red Sox did some fun stuff. So, you know, I'm a Red Sox person, so I'm gonna talk that socks they threw signed baseballs into the stands. Oh, that's great. That's just a red like, it's not hard to do. It doesn't cost a lot of money. It just, you know, the ink and the ball, and it makes a lot of people happy. So yay for the Red Sox to do that, and also yay for a bunch of them, including Alex Cora to go on the record to say, we want our nicknames back. We want the nickname jerseys, which I it's just fun. It's it's fun, and I think the players want it. So why the fuck not, right now, I mean, they're enjoying the custom cleats and gloves and bats and batting gloves, however, also put their fucking nickname on their back for the best. It would be lovely. Yes, one guy who did good things with the custom glove is Catal Marte, who I've talked about, and he had a bat to honor his mom. And we've talked about his relationship with his mom a couple times. She died in a tragic accident in the Dominican Republic in 2017 and then just this past year, he was heckled at the White Sox, and the White Sox all did the right thing and got the guy out, but they

Patti 28:20
were heckled. He was heckled about his mom very specifically, which is very important to the story, I think,

Pottymouth 28:25
yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And then during the all star break, his home was robbed with like, he lost like, $400,000 worth of stuff. And just, I think it was more than the money, because, of course, these guys have a shit ton of money. It's the invasion of your privacy, and you have a family, and it's scary, right? So he's had a rough season, and the D backs fans have had his back, and they have donated 1000s to the D backs Foundation in honor of his mom, especially after what happened in Chicago. So there's some really weird, shitty rumors that I just don't want to really acknowledge right now about que del Marte, his relationship with other players, and it's rumors, so read them if you want. But I feel like this guy has done a lot this season. He's done a lot for a quote, the club, and he's just a world class player. Um, the other thing about players weekend, which I know you've mentioned in the past, is that it gives players an opportunity to highlight the charities that the causes that they that they support. And there was a lot of that this year, including Atlanta, give them some credit, because they all auction their cleats for personally chosen charities. So each player had stylish cleats that got auctioned off. The money goes to a good place. I actually don't have a current pick for Atlanta, because weird things happen with Chadwick Trump, and I think he's still in Worcester, but, uh, Ozzy albies was, I think, one of my favorite Atlanta picks from the past, and he is really big on animal causes. He he has seven rescue dogs himself. And a whole shit ton of fish, over 200 fish, and they're, I feel, you know, a little mixed about the whole, like, putting a risk. And it's kind of like, like putting a fish in an aquarium seems to be, like, really limiting for their natural

Patti 30:14
habitat, what they're, you know, what, what he's rescuing them from. I mean, you know, yeah, and he had a much smaller glass bowls,

Pottymouth 30:20
and I think he really has a huge fucking tank. These fish are treated very, very well by Ozzie and Mrs. Ozzy. So his charity, the Ozzie obese Foundation, does stuff for Animal Rescue. And what I love about it is that it's not just finding animals homes, but it's making sure that people actually have the financial means to then support the animal and have the training to take care of the animal. So it's a really great, I think, model for, you know, how this it's bigger than just one thing. You've got to look at the full picture for what's better for, you know, Fido and owner,

Patti 30:59
for sure, for sure, a little more players weekend stuff that's a little less deep, but these are some of my boyfriends and what they had on their bats. There were a bunch of food related bats, and I enjoy all of these foods, so I don't at all mind that Bobby wit Jr had a burger and fries on his bat, and Jason Dominguez had avocados, oh, wow, on his bat, and Carson Kelly had a Chicago dog. I think a hot dog on a bat is really pretty funny. That's awesome, right? You're kind of leaning into the whole bat shape and all that. And this week's PCA report, the Pete crow Armstrong report is that he had two bats made for players weekend, one for Bob Marley, which was an absolute roster value. I haven't Pete I don't know why. I want to find out why, but it was definitely like a Rasta bat. And his second one was for his mom. It was for the 90s movie Little Big League which his mom, the actress Ashley Crow, starred in as the mom of the Little League players. So he had a bat out saluting this movie that honors his

Pottymouth 31:58
mom. So you know, his bat Seg segues into our next two topics. One is Little League, and the other, with Bob Marley, is the whole 420 thing. So I think that's it's all

Patti 32:08
played together pizza and look in your beer

Pottymouth 32:10
glasses last track. So I have not refilled, so you have no this time,

Patti 32:16
right? Yes. So I'm going to tell you about the Little League bat flip being monetized. If you remember a lot, well, it's a lot of it. I don't know if I took all half, but yeah, there we go. That's fine. It's all good. So remember Marco Rocco, Little League player, got suspended for flipping his bat because it was deemed horse play, which is in the eye of the beholder, right? And then his dad, the attorney, was smart enough to appeal that and got him reinstated so he could participate in their last game. They did not make it to the World Series. Okay? So you may know that Little League World Series is famous for players trading pins with other players from other places, right? So friends said, Hey, you guys should do a bat flip pin. And they did, and they said, We're not gonna do a lot of we're gonna do like 75 of them, right? We're not gonna like, flood the place, but we're gonna be like, 75 pins of Marco flipping his bat, right? And they're they, you know, we're taking them to the world, see the Little League World Series, and trading them. So that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. But separate from that part of the it's all about who you know, conversation like, you know, dad was an attorney, so he was smart enough to get the kid you know, to get the appeal and get the kid reinstated his bat, the Flipped bat, is going to go up for auction, I think, right now, because guess what, one of his teammates, Paul golden, his dad, Ken golden is the founder of golden auctions and the star of a Netflix reality show called King of collectibles, the golden touch. So though Marco knows a lot of people, Marco may have a skewed view on how the world works, because he knows all these people, but the bat flip is also now monetized via auctioning off the the bat itself. Wow, how about that? They're

Pottymouth 34:08
in New Jersey, right? I believe. Yeah. So that kind of like tracks, like New Jersey's got, like, all that stuff. I'm fine.

Patti 34:16
You should go ahead and drink. Drink some not drink while we're drinking the beer. Just talk about some drugs,

Pottymouth 34:22
right? This is episode 420 and because I'm the resident 12 year old and not 12, so flip that 21 year old. On the podcast, I'm going to do a little bit of a deep dive into the relationship between major league baseball and marijuana, because here we are, Episode 420 play. So the drug policy officially says that players should be prohibited from using, possessing, selling, facilitating the sale, of distributing, or facilitating the distribution of any drug of abuse, and the D and the A are capitalized. I hope you heard that in my voice, performance enhancing substance. Yes, stimulant, D, H, E, a diuretic and or masking agent, masking. Yeah, so we've talked about a lot of that stuff, and the one that makes the most sense for banning for baseball is anything that affects improves, especially your performance doing baseball right. You wouldn't think that you would need to really regulate anything that's the opposite of improving, making worse your performance in baseball, inhibiting and that would be it. And that would be a cannabis and natural cannabinoids. Did I say that? Right?

Patti 35:34
I have. I've never seen the word cannabinoid in my life.

Pottymouth 35:37
Yeah. So there was video, and it went and actually, when the when the when the substance when the drug policy I am so close to the middle of this next year? Oh, we are a mess. In the beginning, drugs of abuse weren't actually included, and they came in later, and it, I couldn't find out when that was added to it. It, yeah, please try to Google along. But when it was added, it did include cannabis in 2019 there was an adjustment to the drug policy, and cannabis came off and opioids came on, which is a really important switch for a bunch of reasons. So before the switch, when cannabis was included as a no no for MLB, there was sort of a undercover dugout quote saying, smoke your way to the 40 man. And that's because, thanks to the union, yes, thanks to the union, if you were on the 40 man roster, you could only be drug tested for drugs of abuse if there was reasonable cause or if it was part of some sort of treatment program.

Patti 36:59
However, like random drug test, right? Anywhere once around the 40 man, right,

Pottymouth 37:02
really, but minor league players had plenty of random testing. And there was this old article from the athletic that quoted a bunch of former players, LJ hose, who was a outfielder for both Houston and Baltimore, basically said that it was rigged because he said that he was using, he admits to it, and passed somehow the drug test when he was doing very well. However, his 50 game suspension came in 2017 when he was a minor league free agent, and he was having a hard time that week because a friend of his had been murdered the week before. So yes, he was smoking some pot and ended up suspended for 50 games. And the way that it worked, he must have had a warning before then, because the first time was supposed to at least be a warning. But who knows? Second time 50 games. Third time 100 games. Andrew Lambo, who was a right fielder for both Pittsburgh and Oakland, said that he was put on the 50 shit. Is it 50 games or 50 days? 50 games makes more sense. Let's just go with 50 games. And he said that he was in this treatment center with a bunch of meth and coke addicts who are like, quote, weed. Are you fucking kidding, bro? Like, what are you doing in with us? So talking about, like, sort of the comparables, with that much suspension. There are only four players in MLB history who have had 100 day suspensions for domestic violence, 100 days or more for domestic violence. Yet the third offense for smoking pot was for a minor leaguer 100 day which could have been career breaking at that point, because you're you're fragile when you're in the minor leagues. So as far as famous folks who have been a little bit connected with maybe some cannabis use in MLB, Tim Lincecum, otherwise known as the freak, former Cy Young Winner, winner, there are still let Timmy smokes T shirts. Let Timmy smoke T shirts available on eBay. They were all the rage after he was pulled over in 2009 which was, I believe, the year after he won his first Cy Young, going 74 in a 60 mile an hour area, and he was cut with 3.3 grams of marijuana on him, which I believe is an eighth of an ounce. Don't ask me how I know. And he was, he was determined to not be impaired, though, so so they pulled him over for speeding. Open the door. Smells like pot, sure. So God the number of times yeah, he I believe him when he says it that he had not imbibed before driving. He just probably had some quality stuff, and 3.3 grams is probably enough. Probably is what I'm guessing, enough to make the inside of your car smell like weed. He had a fine for like a couple 100 bucks. He was not penalized in any way by MLB. He was in the middle of a giant streak of doing really good things. So no. Nothing happened to him as far as his baseball goes. The same cannot be said for John Singleton, who almost lost his career and now it's kind of on the rocks again, because he missed a ton of years because of his suspension for smoking weed in the miners. So he made a comeback in 2023 did well that year, last year, not quite so good. And this year, I think he's just bouncing around the miners again. Hopefully he's not still smoking weed, because, well, actually, I think the miners are now covered under this new thing too. So power to him. He said he's from California, so it was kind of like a culture shock, you know. And just to do put it all in kind of timeline perspective, medical marijuana first, first became legalized in California in 1996 recreational in California was 2016 but both Colorado and Washington were 2012 so Tim Lincecum, thing was after The Medical before recreational, it was right after Prop 19 in California went down, but barely, which was the first sort of like attempt toward recreational. And now it's, you know, really all over the place. So John Singleton talks today about how he was just it was the wrong time for him, right? So he, when he was signed, they thought great things were going to happen to him. And he was one of these guys who got locked in at this five year contract at a very early age. He was also one of these guys who said, you know, it was actually good for me because it was that solid, like, I know the money's coming. A lot of people said, oh, you should have waited and got more. Well, actually, they ended up being wrong because of the other stuff that happened to him, but for him at that time, it was money in the bank, and it was good for him and it was good for his family. So he was drafted by the Phillies, traded to Houston in 2011 and Houston did the put him on the 40 man thing. So he was on the 40 man probably a little bit early, because they knew that this was an issue for him, and this was to protect him. Wow. So he debuted in 2014 but he did not do well. He did not do as well as as expected. So he was sent down in 2017 and unprotected. And then he got suspended. And then he got suspended, and he was released after his 100 day suspension 2018 but then made his way back in 23 so not an easy road. And I kind of, you know, sad to see what, what's happening now, but it's, it's never too late, right? I don't know. I think he's 30 now, so he's getting there as far as the marijuana coming off of the prohibited drugs of abuse at the same time, opium going on, or opioids. Rather, sorry, opioids going on. Tyler Skaggs, which we've talked about a lot, his death was key for that rules change, because that's when it was noticed that, you know, actually it's the opioids that are dangerous, not the pot, and in 2017 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and medicine, said, quote, conclusive or substantial evidence that cannabis is effective for chronic pain treatment in adults. So maybe better that these guys who are suffering so much smoke a little dope instead of killing themselves with opioids. At the current date, all of MLB right now is in a state where there's some level of legal marijuana. Pot is only completely legal in the non major league baseball states of Idaho, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska. Minor league teams there, clearly, but no major league teams. Texas does have to watch out the Astros, rangers and Wisconsin, because it's only legal for limited medical use of CBD oils with low THC only. I don't know what low means. I honestly don't know all of Canada. It's legal, not an issue up there. So the basic thing is, don't show up high. Don't go to the game high. It's treated like alcohol. So if you're high, or if you look, you know, like you're you've been using, you're going to have some sort of mandatory evaluation, same thing for alcohol, and maybe a treatment program, which seems to be the right way to go about things. There are some former players who, now that they're not playing anymore, can speak a lot more freely and act a lot more freely. Ryan Tucker was a pitcher for the Marlins and the Rangers, and had ended his career because of injuries. He is now the CEO of a cannabis dispensary, and said that cannabis literally saved his life. He had a torn labrum, went through depression because the injury, and he saw teammates and other players go through the horrible spiral with painkillers and alcohol and then caffeine to get yourself back up and the damage that it did to their bodies, and he feels like smoking a little dope. Helped him a little bit, and now he is, you know, keen in distributing the love to others, as is love what he's distributing, yeah? Well, maybe that's the brand Love flower or love edibles. I don't could be, could be, all right, big Poppy has big Poppy, yeah. So we've talked about this before, I was very impressed by David Ortiz that started his big Poppy weed in 2022 I didn't know, and I don't think I said this when we first talked about it back then, that he did it to support his dad, who had prostate

Patti 45:36
cancer. That's news. No, that was not part of it, yeah.

Pottymouth 45:39
And the other part that is incredibly sad news is that his dad died just a little while ago on August 7, and so he posted about it. Actually the most endearing video that I saw was a video that he posted of him washing his father's feet and massaging his dad's feet while he was ill. So they they had a very close relationship. It's a huge I mean condolences to the whole Ortiz family, but that, you know, David Ortiz had a reason for starting his own wheat Emporium. Started in Massachusetts right now. Apparently it's also expanded to Maine. You can get big Poppy sweet sluggers, which are his blunts, moonshot vape cartridges, and now he has also included Grand Slam gummies. Of course, he has right sluggers moonshot and gummies. You can get them in Cranberry raspberry flavor or passion fruit, whichever you prefer. For

Patti 46:33
sponsorship, feels like you're looking for a sponsorship.

Pottymouth 46:38
Wouldn't that be the coolest I think I need to write to big Poppy. You know, we have this podcast, and I've already said, really, you know, impressive things about your product. Here he is also, though, if we want to do sort of like something that we can both embrace here, he's moved on to premium rum. He has a new brim of rum called Osama, which apparently is a river in the Dominican Republic, and it's to pay homage to his homeland while providing a platform to give back to his community. So it's like one of those Win Win Win situations. So when rum coming from the DR, win us drinking the rum, and then win profits going back into the DR,

Patti 47:17
you are so good at math, you think you're not good at math, but you are acing limits. It's a triple win. It's a triple win all a win all the time. Yeah. How do I follow this? How Okay? From

Pottymouth 47:30
kids to drugs to women,

Patti 47:32
that's right. Um, we mentioned last week that the women's professional baseball league tryouts are happening here in your nation's capital. See something good is happening in your nation's capital. So this coming weekend, we are hosting the first women's professional baseball tryouts in

Pottymouth 47:49
80 years. In the middle of a fucking invasion like I just trying to picture the scene around nats Park is not that far from Union Station. I've literally, literally walked from Union Station to nats Park. This is

Patti 48:00
true. So Friday through Sunday, the tryouts are going to be at the nationals Academy. And in my head, I read it like, Oh, they're going to do cuts every day. The way they worded it on their website is, we're going to invite the most successful players back the next day. Look at how that gaming works, that it seems. Look at that very women oriented. So there will be fewer people invited, you know, from day to day, and then on Monday, that's when the people who have made it through the weekend and continue to get their invitations are going to play games at nets Park. And it's not just going to be the players. And you know, me, who are there? Maybelle Blair is going to be there, because why wouldn't she go to a women's professional baseball try out? Ayami, Sato, Ali Schroeder, other international players are going to be there. I don't believe that any of them are trying out. I think that they're as advisors to the league, but there are. But international players are invited to try out for this league. And interestingly, they said on their website, if you can't get here to try out, which may be accommodating, the whole visa weirdness, or maybe it's accommodating, it's expensive, or whatever, people are encouraged to send videos, wow. So they can at least submit their names for consideration if they're from other places and can't get here for this. So if you are in the neighborhood, or can get to the neighborhood on Monday, the games on Monday, which are the final round of the tryouts, are open to the public. You do need to pre register. We will have that RSVP form in the notes, but there are day games, so you will have to take time off of your day job. Thankfully, I have a supervisor who believes in women's sports. He is so good, you know, a season ticket holder for women's soccer, so yay. Thank you, my supervisor. But the games are between 9:15am and 3:45pm on Monday the 25th Yeah. So if you can come, you know, find me, because that's going to be pretty, pretty good. They're going to do the four. Final cuts, or the final invitations, depending how you're looking at on Monday, and they want to end up with about 150 players who are then eligible for the draft that's going to be held in October. Wow, that's pretty cool. Justin Siegel, founder of baseball for all who's you know, of course, one of the folks behind all of this excitement says, At tryouts, you're going to see many of the best baseball players in the world. You're going to see curveballs stealing power hitters all led by passion. At the tryouts, you will see dreams come true. Oh,

Pottymouth 50:32
man, shivers. That's absolutely it's we're fucking here, like it's that gives me hope in the future amid all this crap that, like in the time that we've done this podcast, it's gone from, wouldn't that be a cool thing, to, oh my god, there's happening. Yep, right here, right here, in our invaded national capital. That's right. That's right. And

Patti 50:52
I'm gonna go down to nets park because I'm a very old blonde woman, and I don't fear forgetting, you know, not gonna all stop. But you know, no one's paying attention to me. Yeah, no one is and also, you know, high ice, I

Pottymouth 51:04
am not your ally, right? Which t shirt are you gonna wear? You've got so many options.

Patti 51:08
I'm considering taking nominations for the t shirt collection to see what it is I'm going to wear. Hey, we have this fantasy league with ridiculous rules, and nothing has changed at the top, it's still the same top five, wicked awesome, followed by bonus boyfriends and pandemonium, left his field and Karen's crew. But weirdly, there's been a little change at the other end of things, the rant has taken over number eight, pushing back, bring back renell to number nine. That is the only change in our standings for the entire, entire week. And now I'm here for public service announcement. If you go to games and you see the mascots and they're giant furry things or whatever, and you think that must be so uncomfortable, yeah, that must be so very, very hot, how do you manage? How do you not pass out in this giant, giant fuzzy costume, or this, you know, novelty baseball head that makes you look like an animatronic baseball, which I don't feel good about anyway. So some of the costumes have strategically placed vents. Some of them actually have fans in them. And some of them have like ways, like little harnesses inside, where, where the mascot can have, like, a little water bottle so they can, like, you know, under the costume, surreptitiously, have some water. But the fanatic, the Philly Phanatic, who I give a little crap to, because I think he's weird, but I don't care. He's really funny, though he's very funny. He's very funny. And he has, what I think is an option that you may want to embrace. He has a spray bottle in which he mixes one part vodka and two parts water, and he doesn't drink it. He sprays it on his face because that's gonna, like, evaporate, right? Wow. Him down. So there is a vodka solution to the overheating mascot problem. That's excellent, and I am here for it. And thank you, Philly fanatic, for being so innovative and speaking to us in words we understand.

Pottymouth 53:06
Yeah, I was really worried about all the stormtroopers, you know, ironically, at Brooklyn Cyclones, because that looked hot. It was warm. That looked hot. Darth Vader looked hot, of course. You know, sympathy for stormtroopers and Darth Vader is really something I shouldn't admit in this household, for sure, but, you know, right,

Patti 53:23
I would do, I think Anakin is much more hot than Darth Vader. That's okay. I'm fine with this. I'm fine with this. What do you have coming up this week? Besides, you know, you're back at work.

Pottymouth 53:33
Fuck, um, you know it's, yeah, back at work. Neener. Neener, it feels like the fun has dried up, like I forgot to talk about, I did, like, pack in the fun the week before work started, and went to two concerts. I did talk about one last week. But also the drop kick Murphys. Oh, my God, are my fucking heroes, fucking heroes. And talk about, like, Boston sports lovers. They definitely embody that vibe. But also politically, like, just go check out their stuff, because they're making a really good statement. I felt super, super good about supporting them because they had a couple of, like, video montages that were just killer against the current administration for songs like, um, first class loser. And, yeah, excellent. Bury the bones. Yeah, yeah.

Patti 54:19
So, um, for me, I, you know, I gotta do work stuff or whatever we're talking about, maybe stimulating local economy for restaurants that may be suffering because of the immigration crackdowns and all this. So those things are happening. I'm looking forward to the WPL. Try us next week again. I'm putting the link in the notes if you want to RSVP to make sure you can get into the park. If you're going to be there, feel free to find us on social media and let us know. So we can say hi, or I can say hi, I'm sorry that you have to do the day job thing. Where can people find us on social media? Podcast,

Pottymouth 54:51
my first day with real life students. We'll see how that goes. But on social media, you can find us at Blue Sky. That would be ncib. Podcast, we will. Check our Twitter messages. But you know that's a hell hole. Facebook and Instagram are, wait, did I say ncib podcast? Blue Sky is ncib podcast. I know this now I'm really not even finished with my second half of beer. Facebook and it's my third half of beer. I'm also bad at math. My Facebook and Instagram are the no crying and B ball ones and see a B podcast, blue sky, no crying B ball, Facebook and Instagram and Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, O, n.com/no, crying B ball. And we really love you guys. You are the best, and you keep this going. And I'm not just getting mushy because I'm at the end of the beer, but we really do appreciate you guys. And also, I feel like we have met a whole bunch of people this summer at baseball games, and it's really fun. So if you're going to a game anywhere in our vicinity, or if you think that we should be going to a game in your vicinity, please let us know, because you guys are awesome. You've been super, super fun to hang out

Patti 55:58
with. Absolutely okay, my friends, please get boosted, even though who knows when the next round is going to come out of vaccines, because that's all also kind of a hell hole. Please fight the man. It's the right thing to do, and now more than ever, send your game balls to Meredith until next week. Say goodnight. Goodnight. Fight you.

Pottymouth 56:35
Oh, no, I don't have to be ready for that yet. Okay, yeah, I'm ready. Are

Patti 56:38
you good? You feel all right? Are you sure we're gonna talk about drugs for a long time, right? I you do well on drugs for a long time.

Pottymouth 56:46
I really need to, okay, prepare better for them. Okay, all right. You good? I think so sure. Are you gonna get going? I say 420 Yes, absolutely. Okay.