No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
You. Hi and welcome to episode 422, of No Crying in Baseball, the Big and Slow episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my not so big, maybe a little slow friend, Pottymouth. How you doing?

Pottymouth 0:28
Yeah, huge, huge caveat this week, friends, I am very recently, got off a plane, off of a plane from Vegas. We left really early this morning, Vegas time, which I guess is not early this morning, East Coast time, but I'm still feeling even loopier than usual. So miles, yeah, yeah, definitely. And then there's the miles of running through airports, which is always a fun thing. And running fast, you know? Yes, oh my

Patti 0:53
god, there's avert your eyes. Just keep going. Get to the place you need to be. Avert your eyes. There

Pottymouth 0:58
are so many slot machines like, I wonder what the slot machine per capita is. If you talk about, like, the greater Vegas population, it's got to be impressive. They're just everywhere. They're everywhere. I'm going to talk more about Vegas at the end, because, you know, since I was in Vegas, I know what happens in Vegas. Is supposed to stay in Vegas, but I'm going to clue y'all in on, yeah, on, some things that happened there. But before I got so fucking jet lagged, I was thinking about, you know, baseball this week, and we got to go to Orioles Park. That feels like a very long time ago, doesn't

Patti 1:32
it? It does so many things have happened since then, yeah, but, boy, we had those really cheap seats, and they were fun, yep. And it was nice. It was nicer for you. Yeah, I still had a good time, because I enjoyed the people I was with. It

Pottymouth 1:44
was good. It was good. It was the only game of the series that was not close. The other three games were all by 11111, difference. It was a Red Sox sweep, but I feel like that balanced off the Orioles not long ago sweeping at Fenway. So it was a

Patti 2:00
sweet spot that's very magnificent, magnanimous. Oh, I can still say that, because I just got started.

Pottymouth 2:05
I cannot, yeah, but we're drinking beer. Should we talk about our opening beer? Sure,

Patti 2:10
we are open today. That's we had an opener before our starting beer. Our opening beer was from checkerspot, which we actually tasted and then both purchased before this the the Orioles game last week, which was called wrong side of the tracks, which is a cherry sour, which was kind of spectacular. So we split that a couple of different ways just now. But

Pottymouth 2:30
now, what are we on? We are on nebulous, something

Patti 2:35
nebulous limits. Oh my god, yeah. I think that's it.

Pottymouth 2:38
It's so funny that I can't figure out what's nebulous. It's um, silver branch, right here in good old Silver's branch. Okay, Silver Spring, yeah, they just came out with it. Okay, so it's good. It's really good. It is very tasty. And then there, there might be another backup beer, but that will be introduced if it happens.

Patti 2:56
So, um, hey, Happy Labor Day to those who observe. But I hope you all do, because you are, in fact, celebrating a weekend and hopefully believe in things like, you know, fair wages for for work, and, you know, things like that, yes, self worth. And, man, I had a good week this week. It's my second four day week in a row, because I took last Monday off to go to nats Park for the women's professional baseball league tryout. That's amazing, which I had so much fun with they're down to 100 players that they were not 100 players for those tryouts from the 600 that started on Friday. Fun fact, they sold $20,000 in merchandise in 24 hours. It wasn't just on site. They released everything online that day or the night before, I guess so, the 24 hour period from when the merch was was released online, plus what they sold at nets Park in one day, $20,000 and as our intern pointed off, that's pointed out, that's not even like Team branded stuff. So that's gonna happen all over again as soon as you have a favorite team, you know, like I've got, you know, we are, we've got our caps for the league. Yes, thank you so much. Yeah, sure. Why so 60 bucks out of that $20,000 was me. I was just trying to

Pottymouth 4:03
do the math, like it's a good thing you did that, because otherwise it would have had to say 19,940

Patti 4:09
Yeah, wow. You were doing so well, until you kind of slowed down at the end. It

Pottymouth 4:14
was in my head. It just had a hard time getting, you know, that route out of the

Patti 4:18
man, no, but you made it. Swear to God. But couple of things about tryouts real quick. One is maybe Blair is life goals, because after her beautiful opening pitch to Monet Davis, she went and sat in her VIP seat with her, her amazing helmet of white hair, which I think probably is a helmet to keep, like, foul, I don't think a foul ball could get through that, and her gigantic sunglasses, and she had her feet up on the seat in front of her, and I'm like, I don't know that I'm that flexible anymore. So you go, maybe. And everybody just kind of kept filing through to pay their respects. Also, little kids everywhere, primarily little girls getting autographs from these players, because see her be here. And also a bunch of people had the book, see her be her, and were taking that around and. On getting autographs in it. And it was fantastic, because that's absolutely what it was. And some people you know knew the players, and I was like, Oh my God. And everybody cheered for everybody when they got announced, because they were being announced in a freaking big league Park.

Pottymouth 5:14
Yes, that's amazing. Yeah. Like, go to some of the Instagram accounts of these folks, like Kelsey Whitmore and Ayami Sato have just really meaningful impressions of the experience. Because, yeah, it's fucking nats Park.

Patti 5:31
They were all so lovely and generous with the kids. And there were a lot of things about this. Is, this is why we're doing it. Yeah, we're doing it. We want to play pro ball, yeah? But also we understand the importance of us doing this right here in this very public way, because making a difference for all of these kids,

Pottymouth 5:47
because they remember when they were kids and they didn't have this, right? And so like to give it to somebody that they wish they could have been, you know, in those little bitty shoes.

Patti 5:55
So, yeah. So I hope you will announce the teams at the like, what the teams are called, I guess, and who owns them at the end of September, and the draft is gonna be in October. Out of these 100 women who made it that far,

Pottymouth 6:08
so good that you could be there, that is so amazing. All right, I'm quickly looking because I forgot the name of the organization. It is September 1, as we are recording, and it is the beginning of Suicide Prevention Month. So I would just like to put a few words out there to keep that in mind and to check out your local organizations to do what you can to support. And if you're looking for a way to support, one of our wonderful listeners, Callan, is doing a fundraiser for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which is a very important organization to support. So if you're interested in helping Callan with her fundraiser, check our show notes, and we will put a link in there

Patti 6:51
on today's show, Happy Labor Day. We've got boyfriends featuring a whole bunch of Jacksons and an actual home run race. We've got the police blotter featuring yet more thrown bats. We've got a very unfortunate crossover from baseball to politics. What happens in Vegas absolutely doesn't stay there. It gets reported on, no crying in baseball. And the answer to is someone with $300 million really happier than someone with $67 million gets answered today. Cheers. I

Pottymouth 7:18
am looking forward to that that's inspirational. I we've been looking at that question for a long

Patti 7:23
time. We've asked it a couple different ways, never with those exact numbers, but the answer is with those exact numbers.

Pottymouth 7:28
So there you go. Alrighty, we're going to kick it off with our baseball boyfriends. These are the guys that we picked this very off season, because there was something really cool about them. We picked one guy per team, and then we did our fantasy leagues, and I began to just wallow at the bottom of the group. But I have some some highlights going on. Andy packages, who haven't talked about in a little while, because he had dipped a little bit since the all star break. So before the all star break, Andy pockets, who, unbeknownst to me, for a while, I was not paying attention. Had gotten really hot. He had an 804 ops before the break, and then it just dipped a bit since 736 so still okay, but not the impressive range. But this last week, his batting average was 364 with a 1030 ops. He's on a seven game hitting streak at the time of recording on Monday afternoon, and he really likes playing in Dodger Stadium at home. His average is 312 with a 942, ops, and that's for the season. So this past week, he kicked it off on Monday, last Monday, not today Labor Day, but the previous one, with two home runs and four RBI in a game off of hunter green of the reds, who he acknowledged as being a very talented pitcher. It was almost almost three home runs because he had a 361 foot sacrifice fly that apparently was at the right part of the park where it was looking really close. Didn't quite make it, but I'm hoping that Andy paquez continues to do great things, and because there's stats for that, for anything, He is the 8/8, Dodger, age 24 and under. He is 24 this season, with 23 or more home runs, 75 or more RBI and 45 or more extra base hits on the season. The last one was Cody Bellinger, when he was last in a better place on the Dodgers.

Patti 9:26
You think he remembers it? Cody? Yeah, I

Pottymouth 9:30
doubtful, as someone who just came out with a little bit of you know that Vegas haze. Um, so I want to say that my Jacksons. We talked about, you talked about three Jacksons on the O's. I have a couple other Jacksons to make a full house of Jacksons, apparently, if you want to do the counting, and my Jacksons are back, son, just I don't know, it was funnier

Patti 9:50
on the plane, wasn't

Pottymouth 9:52
it's funnier after the few beers at the breweries last night, Jackson chaudio, who I was been super excited about because he's. Supposed to be my forever boyfriend. I have had him the past two seasons, even though he is a young in in Milwaukee, he was out for a whole month with a hamstring strain, and then they activated him just a couple days ago on Saturday against the Blue Jays, who you know, Al East. I would like to see the Blue Jays get beaten, sure, because I'm a Red Sox fan, yeah. Yada yada. He jumped on the first pitch, on the top of the first inning, and it really could have, would have, should have been in a home run, but miles straw is very good at baseball, and robbed it from him exactly, exactly Rob that home run. But chowdhuryo didn't, you know, let that get him down top of the ninth. He did the home run. It went out of the park, and then Christian yelish made it back to back for the brewers. And then the Brewers scored again, and so they ended up winning the game four to one based on that go ahead home run. He had been rehabbing in triple A for a while, and he had gone one for 19 in his rehab. Doesn't sound like a successful arena, Isn't that wild? So like one for 19, and then he comes in hot. So manager Pat Murphy said, and I quote, it's like asking Whitney Houston to a barbecue. She probably wouldn't sound as good if you asked her to come to the as if you had asked her to come to the arena and sing in front of 50,000 people. So what he's saying is that choudio, you know, like Whitney Houston singing at a barbecue, playing in triple A, you're not getting the best you could, but put him in a stadium, or put her in a stadium, and that's where the big notes come out, or whatever, he

Patti 11:32
understands Whitney Houston.

Pottymouth 11:37
And I get, I get what he's trying to say, yeah. And I believe you know, the music at this bar mitzvah party that I was at in Vegas was, like, very there was so much stuff that Mr. Potty math and I looked at each other like, we've heard this, oh, we've heard this at a baseball game, like we've heard this sampled at a baseball game, but we don't really know the song. Walk up or get the crowd, get, yeah, there's so many of those crowd going songs or just ambience songs that like have that riff.

Patti 12:05
Do you think they're using, like, a bar mitzvah playlist at the stadium? First?

Pottymouth 12:10
Right, right here, right? That's, that's the question, really, yeah, I have another Jackson, okay? Jackson Merrill. He's not back yet, but much to probably a dismay of Orioles fans, he maybe hopefully, for me, will return for the series against the O's, which starts today, tonight. Yeah, in San Diego, yeah. He's been out since August 17 because he sprained his ankle in a game against the dodges. This is the young guy's third stint on the i l this season. He had a hamstring issue in April, a concussion in May, and then this ankle situation. So Jackson Merrill, I was really counting on for my fantasy league, because he's good at baseball, and he was one of those superstars that I thought was gonna hold things together for the padres, though they've actually been pretty good without him thanks to that deal that they made with the Orioles at the deadline, because Ramon Laureano has been hot, like he was doing well here. Yeah, he was doing really well. He's doing extra, really well there. So his, I think I didn't write it down, I think his average here, it was like 290 like it was in the impressive range. Since he's been with the padres, it's 305, he's hit seven home runs and 23 RBI in 28 games as a Padre you are, I am so sorry.

Patti 13:27
Also still super good at defense. I've seen a couple of extraordinary catches he's made with the Padres.

Pottymouth 13:32
So the Padres have like decisions to make. Their outfield is crowded. I don't know what they're going to do, but I really hope they play Jackson Merrill a lot, because I just would like to maybe inch up just a teeny, teeny bit. And I was just, I guess I'm going to start with the Manny. So instead of, usually it's a Kike Manny, it's going to be a Kike sandwich. It's going to be a mani Kike Manny podcast. So okay,

Patti 13:53
Manny, yeah, I ordered one of those.

Pottymouth 13:56
Maybe, I don't know, yeah. Manny, Machado, I'm

Patti 14:00
wondering Larry's a lot of cheese. It

Pottymouth 14:05
absolutely is, oh, my God, that's so perfect. That is so perfect. Um, I don't know what we can talk about Manny as a bun. Manny's buns. I don't know that. I'm wondering if San Diego is digging at the Orioles. I mean, that's, you know, they did. They planned this ahead of the season, but still, they knew the Orioles were coming to town Tuesday night in the middle of the series with the Orioles, they're giving away Manny Machado city connect basketball shirts. So that's, I don't know. It does. I don't know if Manny likes

Patti 14:35
basketball. It's warm in San Diego, so stateless is better. Yeah.

Pottymouth 14:39
And those colors go well with a with a tank top. So it just happens to be when the Orioles are there. And you know, he was really good on the Orioles. So that's kind of hard, though. You said a nice thing about Manny Machado that well he was, yeah, he plays baseball. Well,

Patti 14:53
I can say I should only talk to you about Manny Machado when you are jet lagged

Pottymouth 14:56
and a couple beers in or beer in half. And I. What? Tipping my hat to the padres, they're giving it out to the first 40,000 fans. PECO Park seats, 39,860 so I'm wondering what they're doing with the extra quick 140 shirts. Sending one to me, that would be the thing to do. Somebody should and I checked to see if there were tickets. Like, I don't know. We're not going to San Diego, but only obstructed view. Tickets are officially left on the San Diego views at Petco Park. Interesting, yeah, at least that's what it said in the byline.

Patti 15:28
Fascinating. Fascinating. All right, so when you were saying, Oh, these guys were like, Great before the break, and then not so good, I feel like I've been saying that a lot, yeah, like, it seems like everybody's peaking early, and then they have the all star break, and then they're coming back, and they're in ruts. Wyatt Langford is kind of the exception that he had a not great first half, but my Texas boyfriend is having had a fantastic August like, all of a sudden he's kind of back, and he's consistent, which is huge, because he was very streaky earlier. So he hit his 20th home run on Saturday, which gets him. He's two stolen bases away from a 2020 season, which is pretty exciting. And I checked and there are 13 players who are currently in the we're in a 2020 season, and one of them is P CRO Armstrong, and the other 12 are all previous, no crying and baseball boyfriends. So we're good with the 2020 guys. That's impressive. So moving on to pico Armstrong, he is one of the aforementioned people who are slumping in the second half. So at the All Star break, his season was at 25 home runs, 27 stolen bases. Now like six weeks later, maybe five or six weeks later, he's at 29 home runs and 31 stolen bases. That's not a huge difference. So this, again, is the danger of things that we tend to do, like, we try to we, like, play out, like, rates of production, like, Oh, they've gotten this so far. By the end of the season, they may have here is a very sad example of why that's not a good idea. So he's, you know, knock on wood. He's, you know, he's one home run away from having a 3030 season. 3030 seasons are notable and very exciting. And I gotta say, everyone's gonna be disappointed if that's where he ends up, because two months ago, like, Oh, he's gonna get 4040, it's gonna be amazing. He's in the MVP conversation. He's not right anymore, but he's absolutely still very Gold Glove ish, because his defense still, is still in the remarkable range. So yay for that. And he's young, and he's young, so if not this year, but he really he's he just rocked it so hard before breaking now it's like, oh, oh, you're human now we like to better when you were in humans. I hope people are supportive of him. Yeah, honestly, God, it's the whole cubs. I mean, the cubs were, like, on a streak. They, I think they went about 500 for ox, as opposed to, like, their incredible streak before the break. So we always say we never have enough catchers on our fantasy teams. So, you know, Adley moments, forever, boyfriend is out, maybe for 15 days, maybe for the rest of the season. It's not that different than 15 days, whether it's September already, which these mean Sean Murphy, who at the beginning of the season was hitting Homer after Homer after Homer. So his playing time went down a little bit because they started platooning him with this is, this is with the hammers Atlanta, tuning him with their their young catcher, who was doing really well. And so what was happening was one of them would catch the other one with DH, because Marcela Zuna had been out, so he had been there their DH. Now he's been back a little bit, and with their younger catcher having more time, Sean just hasn't been playing a lot, right? So Ozuna is not doing great. So they put in John Murphy on Saturday as a designated hitter. Nothing happened for him. Today. Yesterday, he started a catcher. Nothing happened for him. So I think he's one of these guys that suffers from not having regular play time, like inconsistent playing time. He totally killed his bat. So never enough catchers, and I need to ask the commissioner, since my you know, my once forever boyfriend is out for the season. Probably Can I have Sam Lobo style, and the commissioner is going to say no, right? Which is bad. I'm the commissioner, so that's how, you know I'm at my job and I'm not the fascist in chief, because I'm not self serving, even though I really want Sam Lobo style. Anyway, so you talked about Milwaukee a little bit with one of your Jacksons self relic is my guy from Milwaukee. We haven't talked about Milwaukee enough. They have the best record in raising baseball, right? They have 85 wins. The closest is Detroit, not the Dodgers, not the padres, not the Yankees, it's Detroit at 85 games behind. They are incredible. So Sal, My guy is leading the brewers in batting average. Wow. He's second in total hits, and he's fourth in ops for the team that is currently has the best record in baseball. So that's pretty exciting. So yay. And he's pretty consistent. He shows up pretty high up. A lot of the batting stats all around.

Pottymouth 20:04
Oh, my turn. All right. I was just watching, Like listening so intently, and didn't notice the notes were moving. All right. Former boyfriend, so we choose new guys every year, but we keep tabs on special old ones, and the guy that I always go back to is Kiki Hernandez, and he just got activated off of a stint on the IL much to, I think, the happiness of of Dodgers fans we actually met and chatted with, because, as one does it, but Bar Mitzvahs at with some Dodgers fans at the bar mitzvah in Vegas, everywhere. They're

Patti 20:41
animals, just everywhere as Red Sox, yeah,

Pottymouth 20:46
yeah. And actually, they live here in Baltimore, like a couple of them, and so they're going to be going to sure Camden Yards, which I think we should do too. But that's, that's something we should talk about that actually, okay, at the end. Okay, um, so Kiki Hernandez right back in time for his bobblehead night, which was yesterday, August 31 and I highly recommend looking up the video of his adorable daughter. Cheers. That's the drinking, drinking word for this podcast. His adorable daughter, Penelope, threw out the first pitch. She is super cute. How old is she? Good question she lives. I would say, like, four or five, something like that. I

Patti 21:25
bet you to flip out too. Did she I

Pottymouth 21:29
didn't quite look like it, but I think she's wearing really cute sunglasses. And yes, they are having, I think Mariana is his wife's name. They're having another baby on the way. Yay. So congratulations to the Hernandez clan. So he was activated before his bobblehead night on August 26 against the reds. He had been out since July 6 with left elbow inflammation, but his first game back, he went right to work with two hits in RBI. Second game back, one hit and two RBI and was key in the Dodgers sweeping those reds. So I think what the Dodgers are hoping for, and Dodgers fans, is Kiki to do his Kiki thing in October, because despite him having a 236, average for his career, with a 708 ops in the postseason, his average jumps up to 278, with an 875, ops over his career. And some of that was that one year that he helped the Red Sox get to the postseason, the only, only time since they last, won the World Series in 2018 and that was, you know, some of my finest memories of Kiki is when he was on this side. I've always also cheered Kike on in his versatility, right? That is a great characteristic, especially for somebody on our, you know, fantasy league that he has played every position except for catcher. And he actually pitched five games this season. And there was, I didn't read the full article, because in five games, right, right? Yeah, he pitched the whole game. Okay? He pitched in five times this season. There you go, right, probably around. Actually, I think one was over an inning. I'm 99% sure, really, yeah. And there was an article, I believe it was in the LA Times, basically saying, like, let's just stop this. Because it's really kind of not fun to watch Kiki pitch. He did reasonably the first couple times, which is why I think they kept doing it. And he's funny. So I think like watching in pitch is just, you know, something the crowd wants

Patti 23:33
to see in the game, the game has

Pottymouth 23:34
already gone off the rails. Yeah, yeah, one way or the other, like they've done it both with them being crazy ahead and with them being crazy behind, and the time that ballooned his era, because it was looking pretty impressive at the beginning of the season, after his first, I guess, three opportunities. But in his last opportunity was June 22 so they haven't done this in a while against the Nationals, when they brought him in the top of the ninth, when the Dodgers were beating the NATs 13 to three, and he gave up four runs on one out, and then they took him out and put in Alex vesia. So I don't think he gets pitched since then, but my thing has always been, well, he should catch because that would just, wouldn't that be cool to have done everything? And he actually doesn't want to, I don't Is he said, quote, guys throw really hard with a lot of movement, and it's got to be a boxing match back there. So I'm cool. Never catching in the big leagues. I don't know. The other thing that he's really cool at is, like, anything that is an ad, and if you there are lots of them. So he spent his month productively, at least, like, making money for the family. There's lots of promos that he's done, lots of funny interviews, but the cutest one that I think it reaches a level of adorable, it's going to be linked in the show notes, is the bit that he did for Corona beer. You know, could be a better beer, but, yeah, that's, that's the message behind it. And MLB is, I don't know. Is it a slogan or a movement for El baseball de sotro cosa, where they're, you know, trying to bring in more interest and more credit to Latino players. They did a promo with with him and Mookie Betts, another one of my very favorite, dodgers, and the two of them are hanging out together. And Kike makes, with the help of Corona beer, makes like an ad hoc little bowling alley that he's sort of like in the in the little commercial, it's four minutes, so it's more than a commercial. Presents to Mookie and they hang out and drink Coronas and bowl together. So like this is how he's spending his off time, sure. Except for we know that Mookie Betts is literally a championship bowler, right? And Kiki Hernandez is not and so my favorite quotation from the little scene was when Kike says, I don't get why your pins keep going down and mine stay up. So I highly recommend watching it and put on your Hawaiian shirt and grab your favorite beer, even if it's a Corona go for it and watch the little video. Another guy I want to talk about is Kyle Schwab, a who I picked. Was he still in the Phillies when I picked him, I don't remember where he was. He's been all over. I mean, he was with the Nats. He was with the Red Sox. So we miss him, having him on our teams, near and dear to the heart. But man, the Phillies love him, and man, he is like such a good Phillies guy. He really does. I think he's good for the city, and he's been just raking this year. So this past Thursday, just a couple days ago, and the game against Atlanta, the Phillies crushed them, 19 to four. But nine of those 19 were thanks to Kyle Schwarber, nine RBI in one game with four right? It's crazy. So I didn't write it down here, but I think I put it on blue sky that was more than like 10 teams that played that day like the whole team didn't get nine runs in the game. You know, there were very few games where the team had gotten as many runs as Kyle Schwarber had, based on his four home runs, he came so close to five because the Atlanta in their you know, lag put in a position player past boyfriend baseball, boyfriend, pick of mine, Vida brujan In the eighth inning. And so here's the opportunity for home run number five. You're up against a position player, and he popped out and and Schwarber was just joking that he stinks against position players. He leads all of MLB and RBI 119 he's first in the n out for home runs with 49 but he's down one run from Cal rally. So much, so crazy, so crazy. He has already beat his career high for homers, which was last year with 47 He's third in OPS after Aaron judge and Shohei Ohtani. And so there's all this. Is it gonna be judge and show Hey for MVP, or is it gonna be rally and Schwarber and what do you weigh? And is it do people's you know, tired of the judge in Shohei always getting the attention. Does that factor into it? I don't know, but they're pretty impressive. There's

Patti 28:06
actually, there was an article in the athletic that called it the voter fatigue that said, Yeah, should voter fatigue be a thing? Would that be why you would vote for somebody who's not judge or Ohtani or do you'd go by the numbers? Yeah, as Yeah. So it

Pottymouth 28:21
could, yeah, yeah, but then it's which numbers do you know, right? Yes. So I don't know. I think there's just a lot of wiggle room there. And interesting, only 21 players in MLB history have hit for homers in a game. Three of those happened this season, and the first was, you can use Suarez, and then Kurt's from and you just talked about athletics, yeah? Nick, Nick, right, yeah, Kurt's. Nick

Patti 28:48
Amish, so my next year, boyfriend, dibs, okay, recorded all right. So speaking of colorally, he, this past week became the first primary catcher to have 50 home runs in a season. He is the first player to hit, yes, to hit at least 20 from each side of the plate in a season. Wow, which means he's coming after Mickey Mantle, who has the record for switch hitter home runs in a season at 54 So Cal is at 50 which one you know, two months ago had been like, Oh, that's easy. But now he's in his like, post all star game, not as, not wreck, you know, raking up the numbers like he was before. So here the other, the other like records that he's going after, right? Ken Griffey Jr has the Seattle record for a season of 56 he's pretty close to that, wow. You know, Aaron judge has the single season record at 62 he's got nine multi Homer games. He may need a few of those to, like, reach these records, if he's going at the slower pace, and he's got Kyle Schwarber all of a sudden nipping at his heels, which wasn't happening before. So all of the sudden we have a home run race, which we really haven't had in a long. Long testing this. I mean, like, Schwarber is getting hotter, and Cal Rowley is kind of like easing back a little bit. So I think really could be either of them right now, which is pretty exciting. All right, for our fantasy teams, potty mouth and I pick a flock of pitchers. I had Phillies, as you know, I had a filly with a blood clot who went out for the season, crazy shit, so I had to plug him in somewhere. So hey, enter Walker Bueller, who weirdly was on one of my previous flocks when I had the Dodgers. Yeah, as the flock says, you know, Boston released him last Friday because he was doing terribly.

Pottymouth 30:34
I know he was so mixed about this. Maybe I can say this at the end, because I have opinions about Boston. Yeah. Well,

Patti 30:40
shockingly, he wasn't doing well, and they relegated him to the bullpen, and he still wasn't doing very well, so they finally released him on Friday, on Sunday, he agreed to a minor league deal with the Phillies. Boston remains on the hook for the remainder of his $21 million one year deal. So, I mean, it's almost done, but they still to pay the balance of that, whereas Philadelphia only has to pay like, one month of league minimum, and there's no guarantee they'll keep him on in the post season, but he's eligible for that so that. So he'll have one start this next weekend in triple A Lehigh Valley, and then get called up to the Phils for at about the 12th of September, so he'll probably get like, two starts, yeah, you know, in September, and then we'll see what happens in the postseason. So two reasons why they want him. One is he has fantastic postseason experience. That's exactly right. I mean, he's been on, you know, winning World Series teams before, and also it allows them to have a six man rotation, because their guys have been ending up on the IL so to give them that extra day of rest with somebody who has the potential. He's been good in the past. He's hasn't been good recently, maybe the switch is what he needs. Yeah, tell me your feelings. He

Pottymouth 31:56
was, I think he was the winning pitcher for World Series. Was season last year, you know, the end of the last game, I feel like I feel conflicted, because I feel like he wasn't terrible all the time with Boston. I think that he had some glimmers. And what it really concerns me is that they just got Dustin May, who also, you know, had been okay with the Dodgers. It was a really weird trade line acquisition by the Red Sox, but I felt like having Bueller there, having like a fellow Dodger, was important for May. And may had a little bit of a rocky start. He did, I think it was he lost two and won one in his first few outings. But right after they released Bueller. He tanked shitty game, and I'm just wondering if that is gonna, you know, bite him in the butt. So I don't know. I'm concerned about the vibe. Like I yeah, I don't know. I put a lot of cred in the vibe.

Patti 32:54
Vibes important. Yeah. Vibes important. Do you want to hear the big and slow story? So Josh Naylor, who I picked when he was with San Diego in 2020 as my boyfriend. And then he made me very happy by going to my Cleveland team for a while with his bro, with his bro, with Bo. And then just this year, he went to the Diamondbacks for a little while, and then halfway through, at the trade deadline, got sent to Seattle. He has currently a career high 23 stolen bases, right? Wow. 12 of those are in the past month. Holy the past month. The only person who has that many is jazz Chisholm Jr,

Pottymouth 33:30
wow. Josh Naylor.

Patti 33:34
He's only been caught stealing twice this season. The last time was in April. One of those times he was trying to steal hope, super hard to do. Yeah. So when you think of people stealing bases, you think of the guys who run super fast. His sprint speed ranks 532 out of 546 players. Oh, I have been clocked 10 or more times. That's crazy. So he is doing slow. He's also very sturdily built, right? He is the only player six foot or under and 235 pounds or more to steal 20 bases in a season. Now, there's a stat, right? I mean, he's, he's, he's got a body type, right? Yeah, he probably wore the Husky clothes when he was a kid, and we called him that, I don't know, but he is stealing bases like a madman. You know, in the past, he was the guy who hid behind the fast guys, so the fast guys would get on base, and then he would be the power hitter that got them in all right? So he debuted with Seattle on July 25 and he has stolen multiple bases in three games since then, multiple, multiple bases. He's stole third base a couple of times so far. So the athletic half to his brother Bo at the Guardians. And Bo's take on it as that. He's brainy. It's intellectual. He says, You compare him to someone who. Just has crazy speed. They can just trust their legs to do the work. If you're fast, you just need your legs. So he's all about, like, he can read what's happening. He can see the patterns that's he's super smart. So Seattle played at Cleveland this past weekend, which means you have, like, the brother and brother situation, though, as the catcher, who is, you know, who you're gonna look at to, like, throw out the people stealing bases, right? And of course, their parents are going to be there, because, you know, the two kids that are in the major leagues are playing against each other. So Beau was asked, Will the slowest base stealer in the major leagues try to swipe a bag against his little brother with mom and dad in the stands? Wow? And Beau said, Oh, 100% yeah. He said, I'd be shocked if he didn't, to be honest, he did steal a base yesterday on Sunday, when Austin hedges was catching, uh huh. So I don't know if he tried or like he already didn't try, because Beau was Becky wasn't caught stealing at all, but he did manage to steal one more base so big and slow. Remember, brains over speed can help you, or, you know, speed over brains can also help you, but if you have one, you got a good shot. That's sweet. Yes, here's the other part of the Manny sandwich. Yeah, congratulations man Machado, who got his 1000 hit as the Padre on Saturday versus Minnesota, which led the Padres comeback from a three to one deficit to a 12 to three win.

Pottymouth 36:19
Holy shit.

Patti 36:21
As you said good at baseball.

Pottymouth 36:22
What wasn't there a thing called a man, which Am I making

Patti 36:26
that up there we go. Sloppy Joseph,

Pottymouth 36:29
sure, a man, which right here? Sure, which was some cheese in the middle? Yeah. So cheesy. That's great. All right,

Patti 36:36
so the police blotter, more about throwing Wilson Contreras from the Cardinals, had was, was, I want to say, rewarded. Was given a six game suspension and fine last Monday, a week ago versus Pittsburgh because he argued a three strike call, got into it with the home plate umpire, who then injected him. Apparently, there was some he said. He said thing the umpire felt like bad. Things were said. And Wilson's like, oh, I don't think so. And he got ejected. His manager came out. Also got ejected. And while leaving the field, Wilson Contreras picks up his bat, throws it towards the field, hits the batting coach on the arm, totally inadvertently, but does right? The Cardinals batting coach, I just not clear. Okay, must be, because he's on, you know, I don't know. He's on that side. He is. He's going to his dugout. Okay, right? I don't know. Oops. And then doesn't stop there. He grabs, like, the bucket of care, the big league shoe, or whatever it's called, his throws that on the field too. So, so He's appealing this six game suspension, and he's still playing six games, six games. So he's not like, I don't know why these appeals take so long, yeah, but he's playing while the appeal is happening. So we don't know what's gonna happen yet, but you know anyway. So if you remember, we talked about Victor. Victor Robles last week, he was who got a 10 game suspension, which he appealed for an incident in triple A where he threw a bat in the general direction of the pitcher when he was almost but not actually hit by a pitch. His appeal knocked his suspension from back from 10 games to seven games, which now has to start serving. So it's still seven games. That's a lot, yeah, but he started that on Friday, so it's gonna finish up this week. Stop throwing bats. Just don't. Just don't, don't, don't throw things where people are in or in the way in public people are watching. Don't do it. Big, heavy, dangerous. Yeah, right, yeah. Even the candy not so smart. Back to sports betting. If you remember two Cleveland pictures, Emanuel Class A and Louise Matisse were both on they're calling it disciplinary paid leave, which I think is just admin leave, right? It's not, sorry, non disciplinary paid leave, this admin leave. But now we have more words while they were under investigation for sports betting situation, which absolutely involved very specific games that Cleveland played in. So that's big, if it turns out poorly, this paid leave was supposed to end on August 31 and MLB and the players union both agreed to go ahead and extend it indefinitely. So this investigation continues. These guys are probably not going to play anymore this season, but they're going to get paid anyway. They're going to get paid because there's still, it's an investigation. Yeah, so we want people to be protected until proven guilty. Sure. Yep. Do you need me to

Pottymouth 39:41
open another beer? Sure? When? I mean, take your time and then, oh, the next beer is, I think we've had this before. It is, it's blue. It's the interdependence India Pale Ale from the brew farm. All right, the beer, yeah, Brookville, beer, beer farm, yeah. Okay. So. I What a great after, after

Patti 40:02
all this beer, going to rant? That's why I wanted to see if you needed a beer. Yeah, I,

Pottymouth 40:07
I hope I don't rant too much. Who knows? I I sometimes hold grudges, especially when they're against asshole Yankees, but I never could stand mark to share. I just want to put that right out there his name, which is a big, yeah, I can at least be respectful with pronunciation. But he is now running for Congress to represent the Texas 21st District. Apparently, Chip Roy, who is currently in that congressional position, is leaving to run for Texas Attorney General. So Mark to share, who has been a chip, chip, chip. Roy supporter is going to probably just go into that seat. And I think it is handy for him that his nickname has always been Tex, and he's running in Texas. He is not from Texas. He is actually born in Annapolis, Maryland, of all fucking places. Wow. What went wrong, right? So they're saying now that he moved back, quote, to Texas in 2021 with his kids, and back to is because he was drafted by the Rangers, so he had to live there for four and a half years because he was playing for with the Rangers. So that's not, I don't know. It's not kind of, it's not the same as you choosing a place to live or being born in a place. You're playing there, and I guess you were hired to live there, yeah, but you can become, you know, one with the community. And I always respect players who do that, yeah. So I guess I should say that out loud. He started there with the Rangers in 2003 and then after that, four and a half years, went to Atlanta for just a brief moment, and then la angels. And then was the big where's Mark to share going to go. He had been doing incredibly well. He did really well with the Rangers. And followed that up, and there was a big bidding war, which the Red Sox were involved in. And this is sort of like a rod ish in my memory, in that the Red Sox were super involved in trying to get this player. They lost out. And then I proceeded to hate this player, and also hates a very strong word I really shouldn't say that dislike intensely, and also then be like, Well, I didn't want him anyway. So right, right. So that's kind of how I feel about Mark to share. Like, fine. Like he went to the Yankees, like, you can have him, yeah, he got a ring that first year with them in 2009 but then he tanked after that. He actually did pretty poorly the next, like, seven years he was with them till 2016 and really his best years were pre Yankees years. But he is very beloved by the Yankees because of that 2009 thing, which is the last time that they won the World Series. But let me talk about his politics a little bit before I go back to his is baseball. So he is, quote, a proud Texan. So he is now in, you know, taking that term, I am a Texan, he says he's a lifelong conservative, and he doesn't have any actual political experience. He hasn't even really like worked as a volunteer in any sort of political organization, but he has, quote, championed political causes, and he's a big fan of the governor and of the president. And here's one that those of us in Washington DC will really respect, a quotation from his fucking website where he says, you see what President Trump is doing in Washington DC right now. It's working with

Patti 43:36
the whole occupation, the whole, you know, possible political or the military coup, right sort of situation? Yeah, I just want it that way so I can. I don't need your stinking laws stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's literally for him. Yeah.

Pottymouth 43:50
It's clearly bringing a crime down in DC that was already down before they came in. And now they're cleaning up the parks, because they fired all the park people. So now they have the National Guard in there to do that, the

Patti 44:01
National Guard who they've taken from their homes and families in order to break mulch, right or carry guns to do law enforcement that they're not

Pottymouth 44:08
qualified. Yeah, and, and it's costing a shit ton more than it would have to just have the national parks people there. So yeah, I really respect his opinion there. Also, if you delve into his website, he says things like God given right to carry guns. Oh, god given

Patti 44:25
no right that in the Bible, right? Show me any reference to guns in the Bible,

Pottymouth 44:30
right? So this is really convenient, and just sort of like hammering in my dis days for Mark to share up. I so I remembered the DIS days more than the facts, which is like, just general for me, I'm just, I'm a little, you know, sort of wavy with the facts there once in a while. So I just looked into it and just, yeah, so I but I knew that there were facts. I just had to find them

Patti 44:58
for that. I did, you know. Head and shoulders above a lot of people who talk about wavy

Pottymouth 45:02
facts and and I found three that were, oh yeah, like, I remember, I support your opinion, right, just like the Republicans. So the first one was his first season with the Yankees, where he was trying to sort of make his name with the Yankees. And of course, what better way for a new Yankee to make his name than to do something impressive against the Red Sox. Because this, you know, situation, goes two ways. So bottom of the eighth, it was August, 9, 10th, end of the season. And, you know, ouchy season, because it's the one that the Yankees eventually won the World Series. He hit a Go ahead home run against the Red Sox, and that's when he started what came to be known as his statue of liberty pose. So before running to first base, he holds up the bat. It's New York. He holds up the bat like Statue of Liberty. So the irony here is, if you go to his fucking website, number one issue is border security, does he know what the Statue of Liberty actually

Patti 46:02
tired and poor while I'm holding a baseball bat to keep them

Pottymouth 46:06
out. That's I guess that's it. Yeah, this is no longer a torch. It's a bat because we are using it to keep these people out of the country. That's the new statue of liberty under mark to share a he was also the second Yankee after Lou Gehrig to hit three home runs in a game against the Red Sox. That happened the following year in 2010 and in that game, he also hit five RBI. And he has plenty of accolades. He had multiple art all star visits, multiple silver sluggers, multiple gold gloves, yada yada. Overall, which 400 Congress, right, right? And that so the last little bit was the end of his career. 2016 was of it probably his worst season. He was barely above the Mendoza line, struggling all season, he had announced his retirement, so he wanted to go out with a bang. And this was his bang. September 28 2016 walk off Grand Slam, against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. And so he, there's a lot of quotations by him about, you know, this is the way to go out. You know, against the Red Sox walk off Grand Slam. But what happened after that was that the Red Sox, to no credit of their own, had actually clinched the postseason that day because of the Orioles. Thank you very much beating the Blue Jays, hey. And so all that that prevented was the Red Sox celebrating on the field, which is a lot. And even JoJo already said, you know that is the worst thing is to see your rival celebrate on your field. So they did get to celebrate in the clubhouse under Yankee Stadium, but not within view of the actual Yankees. And so the Yankees were out of the postseason that year. So with a little bit of a last laugh, but then you actually get the complete last laugh, because that's when the Cleveland beat the Red Sox in the for the ALS DS and then went on to the World Series, where stop, yeah, we're gonna stop right there.

Patti 48:14
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, so we have this ridiculous fantasy league which is super fun and has terrible rules, and there may be some preparations for celebrations, because wicked awesome is still holding on to first place. The top teams are still in order. That has not changed. The only change is bring back. Renell took eighth place from the rant, but I believe the rant has been distracted because the rant got engaged recently. So congratulations to the ranch, and sorry that you went down a spot in the ranking. But I think you know, if you have to pick one, you pick the right

Pottymouth 48:53
one. Sure that's that's actually a good segue to Vegas, because I just get married in Vegas. We didn't get married, but so we were in Vegas this weekend. It was because of the family Bar Mitzvah. But while in Vegas, we took the final day where we had some free time to do stuff. And the connection to the Getting married is the first thing that we decided to do was to go to the pinball Hall of Fame, which was really fucking cool. And a parade of guys walked by, and there was a guy wearing one of those sashes that said, groomed to be. I've seen lots of bride to be things, and it was a groom to be. And I said, Congratulations. And he said, thank you. And what a great way to celebrate your bachelor, whatever, than the pinball Hall of Fame. Well, the our decision to go to the pinball Hall of flame was was based around the fact that I was like, All right, we got a few hours in Vegas to kill I'm not going to casino because they're all over the place, and we're walking through it in the hotel. Anyway, I would like to see the construction site. I know I don't want to go there as a fan site. The the A's fucking. John Fisher's construction site, moving the A's from Oakland, where they could have done wonderful things to the community, to the pit of Las Vegas on the strip. So I don't know, folks, if how many of you guys have been to Vegas and can sort of picture the strip, but it's such a scene like the Statue of Liberty is there, and so is a pyramid, and so are all sorts of fountains and lights and huge fucking hotels. And right there, across from the Excalibur, which looks like a castle, is going to be a stadium.

Patti 50:36
Now, I gotta say, I think that's a great place for a stadium. I absolutely do think right in the middle of everything, it's a great place for a stadium. It sucks. It's for the A's. Yeah, absolutely. But if you were to pick a place right for a stadium, I want them. I want it downtown. I want it right middle of tourist land. I want a place easy to get to,

Pottymouth 50:54
which is what you know. So what I was thinking about that, though, is for most cities, I feel like that totally tracks. But do Vegas locals really hang out on the Strip? Like how many? I don't know the people, the very few that I, that I sort of chatted with, who live out in the environs of Las Vegas really don't like going

Patti 51:14
to the strip, but would they go there for a baseball game, and then, as long as they're there, have something to eat, right? Right? Maybe that's that's part of it, right? It draws people, it's central, but it draws people,

Pottymouth 51:23
but it's such a yucky, I mean, like, there's so that was the other question that we were wondering about, how many slot machines? I mean, there's definitely going to be sports betting out the wazoo, sure. And there's probably going to be slots in this stadium. There's slots everywhere. There's slots in the airport. So that's the, that's the it the yucky that I felt about this stadium popping up on the strip is that it's part of this whole gambling culture, which we're pissed off enough about how baseball is so involved and like, even, you know, nats park, you can't get in without looking at the betting thing. But Vegas is like, you know, steroids, betting on steroids. So you know,

Patti 52:02
to your head on steroids, we get you kicked out twice.

Pottymouth 52:05
That would be a bad thing, especially if you're a player. But the location, you're absolutely 100% right? So it's at the end of two monorails. There's one monorail, which is a free one that we took from the somebody Bay Hotel to the Excalibur, and then that monorail ends, and then there's a paid but it's like bus price monorail that starts at MGM, which is right next to where this stadium is going to be, and goes all the way up the strip. So to get there, easy, plenty of public transportation, seven minutes from the airport. So what I'm envisioning is, like a lot of people from surrounding areas who come to Vegas for the weekend are going to be going to the games, which, which also, though, adds to my question, and I wonder how it's going to be, how much local fan base are they going to have, and how much is just going to be visitors coming in for their teams to see it, you know, in Vegas and get a cheap hotel and gamble or whatever.

Patti 53:04
So I will say, I mean, UNLV has got a pretty spectacular baseball culture already. I mean, he might have heard of, like, you know, Bryce Harper and other guys came out of you. So, I mean, yeah, maybe I think the strip, we'll see, yeah, see, yeah, you know it's not, I mean, it's not a family friendly place, but there are things that try to make it that way. I again again. I don't want the A's to be there. I want the ace to be in Oakland. I want to make that absolutely clear. But if there's going to be a baseball park in Vegas, I think this is a good place for it.

Pottymouth 53:33
So we went to the pinball Hall of Fame because it seemed to be the closest place to the construction site without being dropped off by our Uber at the construction site. Because we were like, All right, we need to, you know, take a lift into the city. Let's look around here for where we actually want to go. That's pretty close. We got dropped off at the pinball Hall of Fame. Super fun. Played everything from like old wooden 1950s pinball machines to like asteroids and Space Invaders, very cool. And then walked a couple blocks, which on paper or on computer screen looked like not a big deal. It was 104 degrees, yeah, outside, which made me think about how much energy, also, this ballpark is going to be using, because this is, I mean, we're at the end of August, so the whole fucking summer, it's gonna be over 100 degrees, yeah, but if you want to invest, I mean, I don't, I don't know if you want to go to this ballpark right now, for a non refundable $19.01 you can get priority access to Buy tickets. And there is not a lot more information linked to the website than that. This does not credit you toward your tickets. It could be regular tickets. Access to buying tickets Exactly, exactly. Wow. So the only information they have in timing is that they will be ready for opening day. 2028 mm. Um, they say that the current folks in Sacramento who have season tickets have, quote, highest priority, but they still have to pay the 1901 to lock it in. So I don't know. Those are words that all got put together. I don't know. In order to get priority access, you have to pay $19.01 so this is quote in honor of the founding of the A's in 1901 which is why they're doing this, $19.01 they also said the order of priority in which priority access holders will be contacted by the A's to purchase season tickets will be determined by the A's. So that's the information that you can find on this website. On the website, also, you can find a link to the ballpark cam, which is a live video feed of the progress of the construction. So you can see the bulldozers moving. Dirt is where we're at right now. Dirt. There's a lot of dirt

Patti 55:56
bookmarks, so you can you

Pottymouth 55:57
watch this regularly. Yeah, check in. Someone's watching the fireplace. Pretty much, pretty much. Oh, the other video that I failed to mention, that you can also find, is when they demoed the Tropicana hotel to make space for that. And that happened October 9, 2024 and they had fireworks and drones. So first there's like the huge, massive collapse of this old hotel, and then there's fireworks and drones. So yeah, you can check all of that stuff out.

Patti 56:27
Wow, wow, wow. Are auctions related to betting, maybe a little, maybe a little. We have, we had an auctions friendlier we talked about for a couple weeks now, the the Little Leaguer Marco Rocco, who was suspended for a game for his bat flip, for horse play and all of that whatnot. Who that that then got, you know, put back. He played. He played in the playoffs anyway. So his bat of the aforementioned flip went up for auction. Because not only is his dad an attorney, but another man on a dad on the team has an auction house and a reality show about auctions. It's Jersey so he knows people this the the auction went for 10 days. There were 68 bids. Is sold for almost $10,000 and God bless them, all the proceeds went to, went to the Haddonfield Little League, 10,000 like, that's, that's life changing for a little easy, yeah. So yay for that. Um, also, while we're talking about money, here we are to the question about, are, you know, how many zeros is like, qualitatively different in in your quality of life, right, right? So, um, Samuel visayo, who is the Orioles catcher who got that contract extension, you know, like, you know, a game and a half into his profession, into his, like, major league career, he got a $67 million many year extension. So he was asked a lot of questions about, okay, well, why now? Because you've met Juan Soto, right, right. He turned down a gigantic thing because you knew when he was a free agent, he'd get more. And we talked about this. It's like, do you want to lock it in now? Do you want to take the risk of terrible things happening and you not being good enough to get more, or maybe you get 16 times as much money? So Samuel says, Well, I don't think money is everything. I don't think I need $300 million to be happy. Wow. I told my dad, if I was able to live and be happy with $1 million when I signed, I think 67 million is just fine. Wow. So you know, at the end of the day, this is the organization that signed me, that I grew with, that I know everyone in this organization. I'm happy to be here, happy to be part of this team. I think that matters just as much as money, man. So this kid grew up with a very good head on his shoulders. I want to balance this with owners or billionaires, right, right? But also I like the fact that he has made a choice, yeah, you know, this was offered to him. It was like, you know, if you hold out, you can be one Soto. But he's like, You know what? This is a huge amount of money. This is, you know, he's been a bought a house for his parents. I mean, he's doing all the things that you do. He's taking care of his family. He's got plenty of money to do all those things, and he's locked in. He's got a career. No matter what happens to him, he's got security, and it's still a lot of money. It's not stupid a lot, right? But it's a lot. So I just, you know, good head on his shoulders, and I hope the O's treat him well,

Pottymouth 59:38
right, right? That's the thing. You just don't want to feel like the owners are taking advantage of somebody with a good heart. And you want to see them putting their money then to rebuilding other parts of the team and signing other, you know, using it for good. So

Patti 59:52
yep, they need to do for sure. Is it for good? Hey, what do you got going on

Pottymouth 59:55
this week? So, boy, it's nice that it's a short week. I have. A shit ton of work that I don't want to think about right now. But next weekend, there's going to be a big protest in DC that I am planning, hoping to attend, because there's a lot to fucking protest.

Patti 1:00:12
Is it a focused protest, or is it the whole country is going to hell right now?

Pottymouth 1:00:17
Yeah, well, it's, it's focused, it's should. I can't remember the name of the organizations, like DC one or DC. I mean, it's basically like a free DC, yeah, yeah, that's it, free DC, free DC, right? Which is kind of that's what we need to support. And I know that there's a lot more on top of that, because, of course, there's ramifications with what's happening with immigration enforcement and all that bullshit. So why not? There's going to be something big in DC. I know there have been stuff around the country today for Labor Day, and I think there's going to be more next week. So find something local to do, or come join us in DC. And then the other thing happening next weekend is the Dodgers in town at the O's. So I think we need to.

Patti 1:01:00
It's the 2131 celebration of Cal ripkens record setting game on Saturday.

Pottymouth 1:01:05
So the Saturday game is actually Saturday night, yes. So I'm interested. We could do protest and that game,

Patti 1:01:13
it seems like we'd be very well rounded humans if we did both. That's true. The

Pottymouth 1:01:17
protest is like 11 to four. I think I would do that. And, you know, protest is okay, wavy time and

Patti 1:01:25
wavy time. And also, apparently, just a shit ton of Hall of Famers are gonna be there

Pottymouth 1:01:31
to celebrate. Wow, see, I didn't even think about that, so I looked at it's a big deal online. Those tickets are, you know, not great, but step up. Has a good

Patti 1:01:41
stuff. Let's talk more. Sunday next week is our is our hometowns Folk Festival, and that's that'll be fun. I'm planning on going to that. And what I think is gonna be the most fun is we are a town of lefty people who mean well. And so I think people are going to, like, do their best to wear their best protest T shirts? Yeah? I mean, I walked through the farmers market yesterday and there were a bunch of people like, Hey, look at me. I've got a protest t shirt on which good for you? Yeah? I mean, sure, I do that too. But I'm thinking, oh my god, the Folk Festival, people are going to be coming out of the woodwork to say, Look at me. I want to change the world, but I'm going to hang out here on the grass, you know, and eat frying food on a stick. And I'm going to be one of them, yeah,

Pottymouth 1:02:27
but we're supporting local musicians and folk music, of you know, all genres is known, possibly local

Patti 1:02:33
artists, because craft show there, right? I'm looking forward to it. I think it's going to be fun. And also, I got to figure out which shirt to wear, all right? I think it's going to be, I think it's gonna be smokey says resist. I'm just saying pretty good. Okay, so let us know if you are able to have a little more baseball fun in this last full month of the regular season. If you are fighting the man in ways that you think we'd be interested in, if you are finding ways to honor Suicide Prevention Month, yeah, please let us know about that. Where can people find

Pottymouth 1:03:00
us? You can find us on blue sky. And then once in a while, I do check that Twitter account that would be ncib podcast, Facebook and Instagram, or no crying and be ball, or join the fun at Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying in B ball. And that keeps us going. We ask for $1 a month, and if you want to give more, sure, cool. But I really love the feeling that it's a lot of people who do a little that makes us continue, and we really appreciate that.

Patti 1:03:30
Thank you so much for your support all the time. So until next week, if you are able to get boosted, if you qualify, Jesus do that, because everybody and their brother is getting covid right now. Fight the man. Now, more than ever, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to marathon until next week. Say goodnight. Potty mouth, goodnight. Potty mouth, you

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