No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Nick Hi and welcome to episode 423 of no crying in baseball, the kind of a big thing episode. My name is Patty. I'm here with my friend, potty mouth. Hey, potty mouth,

Pottymouth 0:26
Hey, there. I have a feeling maybe I usually am a little clueless with the titles, but I think I know at least what you're insinuating was kind of a big

Patti 0:34
thing. You might, you just might. It was kind of a big thing for a lot of people, and in a lot of ways. So yay. It'll be fun to talk about, yay, yeah. I like when we share the exciting things at the same time and everything, it's like, it's not just my exciting thing or your it's our exciting thing.

Pottymouth 0:46
Yeah, yeah. And it was super fun. So just to allude a little bit, it was, it has to do with the baseball game that we both went to this weekend, and my throat, like yesterday, I was kind of croaky, and I didn't know if it was just, it was baseball game or protest, or both. I think it was the composite of morning at the DC protest, afternoon at like, a very screamable baseball game. And then I was a little shot, but, you know, it's come back, so it's a good thing we didn't record last night.

Patti 1:14
So yeah, so I will say I went to the National Book Festival in the morning where I did not scream. I was very enthusiastic, and I had a lovely time. And can I just say this is my favorite, my only happy like legacy of the Bush administration is the National Book Festival, and it was fantastic. And I only went to part of it because we had to do go to the screamable baseball game. But still, I bet there were a lot of people in the local area who were taking covid tests on Sunday because they had sore throats. And I went, Oh, wait, right, no, I was yelling, it's not a symptom. Yeah, I was yelling

Pottymouth 1:46
that kind of I thought of that briefly. And then, if y'all check, you know, any social media to look at the DC protest, there was just a shit, shit ton of people. And I think I should set share some of our photos somewhere in one of our platforms. I'll try to do that. But I was excited because one of our friends posted a video from there's this point where we marched under a bridge in DC, and there are lots of people up above the bridge and around, like DuPont Circle area, taking video. And I picked us out like I could, because I remembered, like, the big signs that were around us. And so got a little screenshot of that good work. But if there are any friends out there in Chicago or any of the other areas that are about to be invaded, we have solidarity with you. Power to you. And, you know, fight the good fight. Listen to Patty's words at the end and stack up on Subway sandwiches. Yes, absolutely. Oh my god. So many good sandwich signs. So many good sandwich

Patti 2:42
I'm still waiting for my sandwich t shirt to show up. It's so good.

Pottymouth 2:45
It's so good. And in between the protests and the baseball game, we got this beer that we're drinking and or we drank, or we're in the both, both.

Patti 2:54
So the first beer was with Juniperus, yep. And that is a West Coast style IPA, which is very good from checkerspot. And now we're on our second one, because we share, we share now. Now we're back to the wrong side of the tracks, which is the cherry sour that we debuted last week. And just like so much, no glad you had another one, because making so happy.

Pottymouth 3:13
That's really good checkerspot. Like, if anybody, anybody goes to an Orioles game or just is passing through Baltimore, check out checkerspot. It's really good beer, really fun place. And what's it named after? I totally forget the state butterfly. Oh, my heirloom, the checker spot butterfly. I actually did not even know that in the first place. Yeah. I thought it was something that I forgot. Named after a butterfly. We have a state butterfly. We do the checker spot. Yeah? All right, yep. Live and learn

Patti 3:40
on today's show boyfriends, featuring The Butler Did It, and so did that woman in the Phillies gear, causing a crossover with the police blotter. We've got a tragedy of Roman proportions. We've got what we did on Saturday, featuring an almost no no, an amazing comeback and some crying in baseball. And finally, tequila.

Pottymouth 3:59
Cheers, cheers. We have so many opportunities to break out in song today. But you know, we really feel that

Patti 4:05
do, do, do, do, do, do. So I'm gonna start with boyfriends. These are the guys that we pick during the off season. We pick one each. Pick one guy per team for a variety of reasons. They're good at baseball. We would love to go have a beer with them because we think they're fun or interesting, or there's something about them. Is it philanthropy? Is it their backstory? Is it whatever? But yeah, guys, we want to get to know better, and we think they're fun to follow. So I'm gonna start with Sadan Rafaela. I really like this guy. Well, you like me. He's a Red Sox, but also he does some kind of fun things, and he's getting some opportunity because of other people being injured right now, and he's not known so much for his bat as he is for his defense. But on Tuesday, he had a four RBI night, including the hit his one of his hits get got him to a career high, 16th home run versus Cleveland. But the defense that he's known for really showed up this week. Again on Saturday, he had a home run robbery versus Corbin Carroll, where he just went way the heck over the outfield wall. And when he came down, no one knew he had caught the ball, because he was, like, kind of squatting, holding them at close to him, and it looked like he was in pain. I'm listening to, like the voice over, oh no, is he hurt? Like, did he hit something on the wall? And then there's the ball. He was actually sort of quietly celebrating there in the squat position in center field.

Pottymouth 5:25
There's so many things I love about that. So first of all, I'm happy to see him in center field because they he had been going back and forth between center and second base, and he clearly is just such an extraordinary center fielder. I like to see him out there. The cool thing about that catch too, is his cleat marks were in the wall because he literally

Patti 5:45
climbed the wall. Yep, no, for sure, and how good he is is among major league center fielders, he's number two with 16 outs above average. He's second only to Pete crow Armstrong, who's got 19 so these are two young guys who are really making a mark with the whole defense situation. So the PCA report this week is actually Pete kind of taking a little time off. So the heat on council sat him for a couple days last week because he, as we've I've mentioned, he's been slumping, and I think he just wanted to get his head right. You just needed to chill for a couple of days. So we had a of days. So we had Tuesday, Wednesday off. The cops had an off day on Thursday. So Friday, they come to Washington to play the NATs, and he drove in two runs, stole a base. Great. Like good. This worked. He's okay, yeah, he's good. Saturday, lead off double, he scored, and then in the sixth inning, he fouled a ball off his knee.

Pottymouth 6:40
Oh shit, that's bad place.

Patti 6:43
So X rays were good. They said it was knee contusion. He said it was a real Stinger, but he's back. He was day to day, and then I just got the notification this afternoon that he's okay. I think it's one of the things that hurt for a while, and then he was all right. Brian Rocchio, who is my Cleveland boyfriend hit a three run homer versus Boston on Tuesday, which gave him 39 RBI for the season, which beats last season's total in 53 fewer games. So that's pretty cool, because he hasn't been having a great season, so the fact that he that his numbers are that much better. Yeah, I mean, granted, last season where he really shown was the postseason. So we're not there yet, and but they're already talking about, no, I don't know. Is he doing enough to actually be in the postseason? If Cleveland, I mean, that's all the are they gonna get the wild card? Are they gonna what's a lot of, a lot of things would need to happen for him to show up. But he's, I think, all of a sudden, he's like, Oh yeah, okay, I can do stuff. I'm doing stuff right now. And that was a one off Garrett crochet. It was one off Garrett crochet, which was like, was like, I mean, for from the Boston point of view, that was such a painful evening, because it's like, that's the one thing that Boston fans have thought that they could count on. Yeah, holy shit. That was just, I love the crochet outing, I'm just saying. But that involves yarn. But okay, all right,

Pottymouth 7:58
yeah, what you got so many kinds of crochet outings. All right, so I got the butler so of my guys, I decided this week to focus on Lawrence Butler of the A's, because he had his breakout week. Finally, it's one of those better late than never situations. I had high hopes for Lawrence Butler all season. This past week, his average was 364, with a 107 ops, and then he had multiple hits in five of his last seven games, including two homers and five RBI. So Friday night was a big night. He had three hits, including a home run, which was his 19th of the season in a 10 to four win over the angels. And along with Butler's success there, there's a new guy for for the A's pitching, because, you know, they did a lot of dumping at the trade deadline. His name is Mason Barnett, and it was his first win on his second game being brought up. So 10 to four, all four runs Barnett gave up in the first inning. So this is like a rookie pitcher just brought up. To be able to give up four runs, not get pulled by your manager, and to go on to not give up anymore is pretty fucking amazing. And so Lawrence Butler, because he had such a knockout game, he was interviewed, and he's he was asked about, you know, what was it like to have Mason turn that around like that, along with your run support. And he said, quote, for Mason to continue to show up and pound the zone regardless of the pitches being called from the umpire. Give a little dig there and like, you know, support your pitchers saying that you know he's doing everything despite the umps crappy calls. I'm wondering about the Mason for Mason thing, because Mason was at Miller, right? Was traded to San Diego, and now they brought up Mason Barnett. And I don't personally know many masons, so I'm wondering, is this the next Tyler or Austin or Kyle? Yeah, like, is it the Mason thing? Now we have a lot of Mason.

Patti 10:00
And how many ways do we spell it, with wise and with, oh,

Pottymouth 10:04
right, because there's Mason win. I was about to say it's pitching. I don't know. It's just jarring to me.

Patti 10:10
Jason, get it? I see what you did there.

Pottymouth 10:12
That was like, not at all until this very moment. Wow. It's that's sad that sad. So to let you know how amazing it is that Lawrence Butler had this breakout week in August. All of the month of August, his average is 215 so right now this past week, 364, 215 in August, with a 676, 87 ops. On the season, he's 235 average with a 718 ops. So, you know, again, better late than never, the A's aren't doing as horribly as people thought they would do, especially being, you know, all like that. They are in the last place, but it is a L West, but they're 12 games back, which is the smallest differential between first and last place in any of the divisions the O's are the next with being 16 games back last I checked yet. All right, so the only other baseball boyfriends that I'm talking about today is my pitching flock. We pick a flock of pitchers because we don't have time for individual pitching picks. And I picked the D backs, thinking that that was gonna be great, and it's been really, really shitty, until this past weekend, when they were playing the Red Sox, so huh, yeah, ironing and all that. Yeah, exactly. Again, it's, I guess, better late than never, but holy shit, you really had to do it against the red. Sox, so both even want the points this week, right? No, I mean, I'm in 11th place, like, I'm hanging on me, and the Canadians are drinking whiskey in the basement. And that's, you know, I think that's the foreseeable future. However, I'm still gonna, like, keep tabs on my guys and see how they're doing, including my pictures. And I do like these guys. And of course, like, the main reason why I picked the deep backs is so that I could update on Brandon fat, Boston, and I'm 12, so Eduardo Rodriguez, who I also like, you know, former red sock, like to keep track of him and Brendan fat each got W's. So the D backs took two out of three. So could have been worse. They each only got tagged with one run on six innings. So fat was the one who at the end of the game, they only had one run. So he the one run that he gave up was Yoshida RBI. That was Saturday, I believe, Friday night, when the Red Sox got more runs, but not enough. Still, only one was credited to E rod, and it was hit by Nathaniel low. So who has been just hot. He really has on the Red Sox, so like that, just like a change of scenery. Sometimes it's amazing the difference. And he's a former baseball boyfriend, pick of mine. Amazing difference from the nationals to the Red Sox. For him, he got a triple. So it was the bullpen that got tagged for four more. Luckily, I guess if I were actually dependent on points. It wasn't a guy that was on my team, Jarvis, Boston, gave up 10 runs that day, so the five for the D backs was no big sweat. Sunday was my happy day, because the Red Sox won seven to four. But I think the funny thing about it is the D back starter who is on my team, Nelson also gave up one run on six innings. So all 3d backs pitchers in the series, some rut gave up one run on six innings. So I should go back to Vegas, and I think 3316, is my number right. 343, with one run on six, something like that. I don't know the D backs relief pitcher, just to attempt another joke here, but it's not going to go over pretty well, except for a selected few of you, was credited to Rashi, who is a rookie pitcher, not the Talmudic commentator, nor on my patima posse team. So Rashi gets nailed with the runs that would those wins brought the D backs back into the hopeful range. They're at 500 they maybe it's like that other like, you know, they're four and a half games back in the wild card. Who knows there's hope? I mean, there's

Patti 14:15
a couple weeks left. Anything could happen? Sure. Can I tell you how excited I am to say that I'm going to have a boyfriend, police blotter crossover when the boyfriend is not the perpetrator. Oh, that's a really, isn't that good news? Like they did not cause the problem, which put this in the police blotter, not the perp. However, a Phillies fan did, which may not surprise us too much, but the actual crime was committed against another Phillies fan. So that was that was kind of interesting. So you may have seen this already. So HARRISON BADER was my boyfriend a couple years ago with the Yankees. He's been on 1000 teams since now with the Phillies. The Phillies were playing Miami at Miami lone depot Park, the place with the roof. We've been there and. A HARRISON BADER Homer center field, and there's a scrum for, like, for the ball, right? Bunch of people go for it, and a dad in Philly's gear gets the ball, which is very exciting because Philly's hit the home run, and dad like, that means there's a kid involved. Yeah, yes. And the kid is a birthday boy, and so the dad, like, gets the ball, Scoots like, you know, five seats down to where his kid is, presents it to the kid, hugs the kid. Everybody says, what you just said? Ah, this is beautiful. And then enter Karen.

Pottymouth 15:29
Oh, no, I feel so bad, because we have so so many Karen friends,

Patti 15:33
yeah, yeah, I did not name this woman, Karen, but so many other people did. And the thing is, her face was captured by 1000 cameras. So her life is probably shit this week. I'm just saying so she basically, she stomped over and, I mean, stumped, and accosted this guy, this dad, and starts yelling in his face. Apparently, she believes that, you know, it was her ball, it was stolen. That does not the video record does not support that. I think she felt like it was near me, so it should be mine, even though I did not win the, you know, the smackdown to get the ball, and the dad did what I think is the right thing. He got the ball from his son's mitt, handed it to her and put his hands up. Like, wow, I give up, back off. Like, he de escalated.

Pottymouth 16:25
How big was the kid? Like, little, little, yeah.

Patti 16:27
I mean, not like, not like, but like, but like, yeah,

Pottymouth 16:31
yeah, definitely.

Patti 16:32
Elementary School, okay, yeah, like, so he totally de escalated, which I thought was okay. This is a good teaching moment. Yeah, this woman is clearly out of control. People around are booing, because clearly, she's going to take a ball from a child who got it fair and square, and even if not, if she got the ball, frankly, she should have given it to the other kid, because they were in Philly's gear, right? They were also Phillies fans, right? Like she should have been guilted into giving him the ball anyway, if she had come up with it. So there's many reasons why that boy should have ended up with a ball and not this woman affiliated. So she gets it. She stomps off and she's gone. I have no idea what happened to her. I'm hoping she gets a lot of shame. I'm hoping a lot of people who know her say, God, Karen, I can't believe you did that. Yeah, that was wrong. And here are the reasons it was wrong. So on the bright side, the teams know what to do. So good. So Miami, the home team sends a staff person up there. They put it on the big board, on the big video board, big honking swag bag. Wow, that they give to the birthday boy, you know, and apologize for the behavior of the fans, and give this kid a lot of things. And the Phillies say, and also, this was a HARRISON BADER home run. Come on down and meet HARRISON BADER after the game. So, so Bader met him outside the clubhouse. Has a picture of him talking to the kid the family's in the background, and he gives the kid an autographed bat. So, so the teams did the right thing. They're like, what what happened to you was not okay? Yeah, and we can't undo that, but we can tell you that we know that that's not okay. And also, freaking happy birthday kid, right? So, yeah, so the fans are cheering when the swag bag comes. I have no idea what happened to this person, but not done yet. Not done yet, because you may remember the company Camping World as like sponsoring like, spring training games and all this stuff. The CEO of camping world, who also was on a reality show, I guess, gets on x and promises to send birthday boy and his dad to the World Series, holy shit. And then says, oh yeah. You also just won an RV what that seemed kind of flipped to me. So I don't know that. I believe that piece of it, but I bet he's going to come through with sending these two people to the World Series. And, you know, also not bad, you know, publicity for a camping world, right? You know, also good, but, but there you go. So, um, that's a lot. That is a lot of things. That's a lot of things that happened and, um, yeah. So hi friends, right? You know what? If you get a ball, you can keep the ball. If you get a ball and there's a kid nearby who's from the team of the ball came from, and you feel up to it, give the kid the ball, if you're okay, you know, I get wanting to keep the ball. I get that. But also, there's a kid, and you're gonna change that kid's life, yeah, that kid is gonna be so much more happy than you are, unless, okay, if it's Shohei, Ohtani is, you know, like, you know, remarkable, whatever. I get that. But if it's just, it's a home run, they happen, whatever. Just be. Just have a little grace. Have a little grace. Dad had grace. Dad was like, okay, he put his hands up in the All right, here you go. You see me taking this from my child's mitt and handing it to you. I hope you feel good. I hope you sleep at night. Yeah, it probably does. I don't know. I don't know, but, yeah, it was quite a situation. I. I'm I'm better now, yeah.

Pottymouth 20:01
And the other thing too is there are so many cameras out there now, so whatever, if you don't give the kid the ball, like this, it could be on social media. So yes, better to do the nice thing if you're going to do it, like, from your heart or just because you don't want to be fucked in the end. Like, right? You know, either way, give the ball. Yeah, yeah. All right. Speaking of tragedy, I'm gonna really briefly mention this Roman Anthony, which, you know, within our in our fantasy league. I think it was Beau dropped Roman Anthony right before he started doing well. And wicked awesome team picked him up. And I was like, ooh. And then Roman Anthony started doing really well, this is Red Sox rookie. He's been up since June, the beginning of June, and this past week he got hurt, and that was right before the Red Sox started tanking. So I kind of feel like it's, it's it's tragic. It's clearly tragic. And then I thought about his name being Roman, Anthony, and there's another guy whose last name is Anthony, who was Roman, who is a famous for a tragedy, and that would be Mark Anthony. And so I'm hoping that this ends up a little bit better than that, because, you know, hubris and all that, Roman, Anthony has strained his oblique, and it was Tuesday against the Guardians, and he took a big swing, and he held his side, and Loomer lonely the Red Sox commentator on Nesson, like, immediately said, Oh, dear. And then he, like, tried to, like, wish it not being so bad. Like, wish it out of existence. Like, well, that looked really bad, but hey, maybe it's this or this, and it couldn't be that bad, but you knew, like, in the back of his mind, he was thinking, oh shit. So yeah, he's out four to six weeks, which brings him not only like, through the season, but if the Red Sox makes to the playoffs, he won't, if they keep like doing well in the playoffs, he wouldn't be eligible, probably into the ALCS. So Alex Cora said, you know, to pump him up, because this poor dude is like, now super depressed because he had been really contributing to the team they've been losing since he's been out. He said, I told them to envision ALCS first at bat. Nice. So just to put that in perspective, since his since he started June 9 and Roman Anthony got off to a very rack rocky start. There was a lot of frustration in the beginning. So despite a rocky start, he's now averaging 292, with an 859, ops and 32 RBI since June 9. And then there were, I think, four losses since he's been out, no more tragedy.

Patti 22:39
So Saturday night. We had such a time. We had so much fun. We had such a good time.

Pottymouth 22:46
I got so sucked in.

Patti 22:47
We went to Camden Yards because it was the 30th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr, breaking Lou Gehrig record for consecutive games, which stood for 56 years. And that would be 2131 right? That was, that was the record breaking. I showed up to work thing. We got to the ballpark, and the skies opened and started raining. And we thought, Oh no, because, you know, when it rains at a ballpark, that means you're going to be two hours late. Oh no. Hey, we were 20 minutes late. Yeah. So that was like, miraculous. The skies open, it cleared, it cleared. And then the sun shone for Cal Ripken, Jr,

Pottymouth 23:23
and we showed up, and somebody bought us around a beer. So it was like, Yes, we spent that 20 minutes very well.

Patti 23:28
We did. We really, really did. So talk a little bit about the pre game ceremony where Cal was honored, and then we'll talk a bit about the game. A lot of the references around Cal Ripken was he saved baseball because baseball was coming out of the longest strike. Yeah, they've ever had the longest work stoppage. And they said, Oh, well, you know, there's, like, these home run races and all this stuff, but you can't relate to that. You can cheer for it. We can't relate to it, but everybody can relate to having to go to work every day. Yeah, and it was, he was absolutely the man of the people, and this was the streak of the people, right? He started that day, the 2131 day, by taking his daughter, Rachel, to her first day of kindergarten. Oh, I mean, he's like, he's like, does the dad thing? You take your kid to school and then you go to work, right? He showed up to work. So a couple things that he said in his remarks that I thought really resonated was he said that night was a celebration of an old Oriel principle that we show up each and every day to meet whatever challenge is thrown our way, to count on each other. And this next part, I think, actually applies to the here and now, as much as it did to then what's really important is how you keep coming back day after day, no matter what I've learned that it's the hard times that you learn the most about yourself, persevering and pushing forward are traits not just found in baseball, but in life. Wow. And, you know, here we are, right? So this was an interesting thing that I didn't know. So when the strike happened, you know, no games, right? Run strike. The streak was at 2009 games. Oh, wow. Cal Ripken, friend of labor, said he refuses to cross a picket line because the teams were starting to line up replacement players. And he's like, No, yeah, I will not cross that picket line. Wow. Weirdly, Peter Angeles, I've never been a friend a fan of this, former owner of the Orioles, said he was not going to feel the replacement team really, which is huge. I would not have guessed that, right? But other other like replacement teams, were getting in place, and they were going to start with replacement teams so ugly the strike end of the day, before those replacement players have taken the field so but, but Major League Baseball had to stop and say, Huh, what happens to this amazing streak if we start playing games, and Cal's not going to play those games, they're going to be fucked too. Yeah, right. So a lot of things were going to happen. But, friend of labor, I did not know that. So that's that's pretty cool, right? Also, in his remarks, he noted that September 6 of the following year was also very important, because Eddie Murray hit his 500th home run on September 6 the following year. So they were bringing out all of these former teammates of Cal Ripken. It was amazing. It was amazing. Goosebumps. So Eddie Murray comes out, and the whole like the sold out crowd starts chanting, Eddie, Eddie, just like the old days. And we were cheering with our steady Eddie beers with the picture on the can. I was like, look, it's right here, right? And then also, oh, and then the only player ever to hit the warehouse with the home run, Ken Griffey Jr. Hey, Ken Griffey Jr is here. And all of these guys that I've watched for years with the Orioles, the Brady Anderson is the Rafael Primero, all of these guys, like, they're all right there, and they're all like, yeah, that we were all part of this moment, you know? And I was, I got very, very mushy about this. The other thing that happened as they started this pregame event, we had a moment of silence for David Johnson, who had had passed away the day before. Died at 82 he was a world series champion with the Orioles in the 66 and was 70 and 1970 he managed five teams over 17 years, including had winning records with every single team. He managed every single team that he managed, including a stint with the Orioles, which is important because he is the manager who moved Cal Ripken from shortstop to third base, really, which was hugely controversial. Yes, worked out just fine, but at the time was like, You did you what? How you can't he's, I kind of you can't do. And it was fun. He is one of only seven managers to be the Manager of the Year in both the American League and the National so I was pleased they acknowledged that, because he was really very important to what was happening that night. Yeah, right. No, it was like not just baseball writ large, but also Oriole specific and Cal Ripken specific. So the record he played 500 more games right after that record. So the current record sits at 20 632 games, and camera. It's like I would always say, if I can do it, certainly somebody else can. That's not how people are playing baseball right now, that guys are getting arrested all the time. They're throwing harder, they're batting harder, so there's more rest in between because of threat

Pottymouth 28:15
of invested I thought you said arrested. That's

Patti 28:19
happening more or less. We just know about it more often rested. They're there. They're getting sat more, yeah, for you, like, the closest person is my former boyfriend, Matt Olson, who is at 760 odd games. It's for him to catch get to get there. He'd have to play every single game for the next 11 and a half seasons, including, like, every day it was like 43rd year. You know, at age 43 year. So I just don't,

Pottymouth 28:44
I know, I'm trying to do the math. So you said 54 years, right? Between lyrics, 56 between garrigue and Cal Yeah,

Patti 28:50
now it's 3030 Well, 3030 since the record broke, but then it was a couple more years worth of games, right? Because he kept playing. He didn't still at the street, not consecutive, though it was consecutive until he got to 2600 and wow, the 2131 which is breaking the record, but the record increased every single game that he played, and now sits at 2632

Pottymouth 29:09
Yeah, that's never be broken, right? Never gonna be broken.

Patti 29:13
So after all this, there was an actual baseball game. So much fun, against the Dodgers, my God, and crazy. So yobu Yamamoto took a freaking No No to the bottom of the ninth, and no one was leaving. There were a lot of Dodgers fans in the group, and no like so this is one of the things where, okay, you're you're the home team. Your team's getting beat, not by a lot, it's three nothing, but it's shut out still. But you're going to hang around, because, are you going to see a no hitter, because, oh my god, a no hitter, you don't want your team to be no hit, but, oh my god, you could say I was there and I saw this no hitter

Pottymouth 29:47
as somebody who is definitely not an Orioles fan. And being there, I was screaming, because I just felt like we can't get we like they couldn't get no hit on Cal's night. Like, how. Always Show some respect. Come on, get it together and and

Patti 30:04
then it resonated with with Jackson holiday, because with two outs in the ninth inning, Oh,

Pottymouth 30:08
guys like, that's so poetic. Yeah,

Patti 30:10
it's absolutely poetic. Hen Yamamoto is 100 and 12th pitch, yeah, which is a career high. Jackson holiday hits a home run, yeah, breaks up the no hitter, breaks up the shutout.

Pottymouth 30:23
And it was like a home run that you held your breath on because it bounced barely clear the war. Like, where did it hit? Like, is it over the wall? Is it it

Patti 30:33
was even holiday running around second. Was looking at the umpire to make sure he was doing the run signal, because it just barely just, I mean, it would have

Pottymouth 30:40
been a hit, right? I was thinking it was a double. I was just like, All right, we broke it up. All right, good, right? And then

Patti 30:46
potty mouth and I rally capped, yes, yes. And we are absolutely are responsible for that crazy full credit. Two out rally in the bottom of the ninth. And I think everyone just got into gear. We're like, Holy fuck, we actually have a chance. Yeah, right, right. Now, three to one Jeremiah Jackson was, it was a two Jackson game. Jeremiah Jackson, you know, had a double gun or get so this is the bingo card, right,

Pottymouth 31:11
right. But they pulled Yamamoto at that point, right? So this is, like, trying to, like, try it,

Patti 31:15
yeah? So, Yamas, okay, he's out because, you know, we can't right what it's done, 112 and all that, um, and and he needs to go and be very sad. Yes, poor dude. He was, he was freaking amazing. Yeah, he was amazing. And it was hard thirds, and it was hard to to appreciate it, because it was against my team. Was like, yeah, look at you go, Oh my god, oh my god, oh my God. And he was pretty efficient at the whole thing too. So training comes in me, gets up a double to Jeremiah Jackson. So this is, this is your checklist, right? Okay, give up a double. Then he hit gunner Henderson with a pitch. Then he walked mount castle, and then he the O scored, because he also then walked Colton cowser, right? So then they say, Okay, well, clearly, Blake, try it inside our guy, because it's now three to two, we just need former Oriole, Tanner, tight pan Scott, to get one more freaking out, and then we can go home winning. And not the No no, not the shutout, but at least the Dodgers can win. He He gives off a gives up a walk off single to Emmanuel Rivera, which scores two and causes the song Oriole magic feel it happen to be pumped through the ballpark, because, holy crap, holy crap, the O's pull it out on Cal ripkens Day with two outs in the ninth.

Pottymouth 32:35
And you know that it was that intense and exciting because I didn't check Tanner's tight pants to make sure that they were still tight, because, I don't know, and

Patti 32:43
poor Tanner type pants, because he gave up walk offs to two consecutive nights to the Orioles. He gave up Samuel Visayas first home run in Camden Yards to be a walk off the previous night, and then gave up this walk off anyway. So Jackson holiday says, you know, they ask him quite Hey, did you do it was a no no going in, right? And he's like, yeah, that's all that was on my mind, honestly, going into the eighth inning, that's what I was thinking about. Oh, man, it's going to come down to me. So I was definitely thinking about it and kind of nervous, because it's kind of a big thing. It was fun being able to break it up. Trevor Rogers, who was the pitcher, starting pitcher for the Oz, and did a pretty damn good job. Yes, he did. His response was, what the hell did I just watch, right?

Pottymouth 33:26
He did. I mean, that's, you know, he did. Well, it was just he was going up against craziness.

Patti 33:31
So Kyle goon writes for the Baltimore banner. Had this, which just, I, I'm gonna, like, make a poster. I don't know. He said, never giving up until the bitter end. Offers just enough room occasionally for the baseball gods to smile upon you. Oh, man, yeah. So the we had walk offs by 21 year old baby birds to two days not walk off homes, but we had the walk off home or the first night, and then Jackson holiday, get the breaking up, the No no, both 21 year olds. That was exciting. There has been no, not one no hitter in Major League Baseball yet. This season, last year, there were four, including one that was combined, which I still say don't, shouldn't count as a no hitter. It should be a combined no hitter, agree, for a little bit of cross training, Caitlin Clark was in the house. The Indiana Fever was in town to play the Washington mystics, and so she got a big, big, big ovation when they showed her on the big screen. Oh, my God, we had such a freaking time.

Pottymouth 34:31
She notably, she was wearing an Orioles cap. Yeah, she was. So that is the thing to do when you're in the home city. And you know, she

Patti 34:39
knows what's up. So I also really enjoyed the fact that potty mouth was cheering with me instead of against me, which is not always, not

Pottymouth 34:44
usually, the case. I was so caught up. I really were so caught up. And I just, I mean, and it

Patti 34:48
won't hurt the there's, there's nothing you can do to hurt the Red Sox, so why not?

Pottymouth 34:52
Well, no, You never know. I haven't done the math,

Patti 34:56
but I don't know there's so far, no, I'm still on like. Pins and needles. We've got, you can be on pins and needles, but it's not gonna be the Orioles. The spoiler for that,

Pottymouth 35:05
you know, it's interesting. You know, the Orioles are really good at spoiling. They are fucking with the Al West, like, because the sweep of the Padres and then winning two against the Dodgers. It's like, you know, dodgers, they're just, yeah, whatever. That's equal, equal. Hey. So I'm almost done with all right, so I have, I have these two shot glasses. One has a sugar skull, it says Cancun Mexico, and the other one also says Cancun Mexico, and it has a little thing. And so I figured those would be appropriate along with this tequila a niejo, a soul from Jalisco Mexico, because I'm about to talk about Jalisco, and that is where tequila comes from. So we're gonna have a little bit of tequila. You're gonna pour a little. I was about to say you're gonna pour, like, some in these shot glasses, though I'm pouring now, yeah, it's probably better. It's probably better. And not, like, maybe half, maybe, wow, they're big

Patti 35:57
shot glasses. Okay, so, right, you want more than I do, for sure. But that's the way it is with

Pottymouth 36:01
shots. So the other Besides singing tequila Guadalajara won't do or might do. So I'm going to be talking about winter baseball, even though it's not winter yet, because that's where we're going once the playoffs are over and there's a little bit of a preview happening now. So there is going to be a pre season. So pre winter season, redo of the Serie A del Caribe. And if you stick with us through the winter, and you've stuck with us through the winter before, you know that I follow the the teams down south, and the Serie A de Caribe is the finals between now. Actually, it's just like four countries. So we'll see what happens this year, last year, the serie of the Caribe finals were between the Leones de las Cogito of the Dominican Republic and the charros de Jalisco. You know their Ergo tequila of Mexico, the Leone is one, one to nothing so mighty close they're having a rematch in just a few weeks, the beginning of October. So October 4 and fifth. It's only a two game series rematch. So it's either going to be everybody walks away happy, or somebody's really happy and somebody's really sad. But they're calling it Duello la campiones, which is the fight of the champions Serie A del Tequila. It's the tequila series. So cheers to the tequila series. So October, 4 and fifth. I haven't quite found out yet how we can watch it, so I have a few weeks for that. 6pm sent. No, it's central standard time. I guess that is right. I'm sure I did my notes right on the fourth and five, on the fifth at the Estadio pan Americano and sapopan Mexico, which is right outside of Guadalajara. So some places say Guadalajara. So that's why Guadalajara might do because it's not quite Guadalajara, but we can still sing about it. So the fun

Patti 37:53
fact is that I just want to sing the OH NO PART Yes,

Pottymouth 37:57
tequila and mariachi both come from Jalisco. So we can go there and drink and sing really poorly. You could just get cielo how to do wheat cross, because they could do both, actually, and tequila. You're right. We can then the commute is like, you know, I wonder if they could get the games. This is like, our local Mexican restaurant. That's really Mexican. It's not like gringo Mexican, it's like, really classic good food. Yeah. The way, you know also that tequila is from Jalisco is the so the Jaros have four mascots. They're all very entertaining. But one of is a guy whose name is tequiliano, and he looks like just a very happy tequila drinking cowboy. And the other three, I didn't write down, but there's a link so you can look up the other three mascots. They're also equally entertaining. So, you know, more mascots. Maybe they race. He wouldn't race it straight line. It would

Patti 38:50
be an inadvertent is not on purpose. But here we go.

Pottymouth 38:55
It's sort of like the junk drunk Shakespeare thing. Like, give one of the mascots five shots of tequila and then, like, see other so should we, like, you know, do the shots of I don't know if I'm gonna shoot it, because this one looks really big, but I'll take a healthy sip. That was a healthy sip. I almost got all of it. I shot it. This is really good. And, yeah, look, it's good. That is really good. All right, done now. Oh boy, I have more nuts to go through. So to go back, holy shit, to go back to the manu sesco Gita from the Dominican Republic. Just want to give you a little reminder. And you know this is also a really good reason to follow the winter leagues, is because so many players in MLB have something to do with the winter leagues. And Junior commonero, who's been just a huge breakout for Tampa this year. We got a sneak preview of him in the winter leagues when he was on the Leone is Tesco hero. He hit the Go ahead home run in the top of the ninth of game seven of the championship to win it for the Leones, and that was with Albert Pujols managing the team. He is not coming back to man. The season. So I'm not sure what's in store for Albert Pujols. I'm sure his career in baseball is not over. Who knows if he's on some sort of list for MLB management, but the new manager for the Leones is Alex Cintron, who is actually Puerto Rican. He is the current Astros hitting coach. He was the the bench coach for Puerto Rico in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and he is going to be also doing the same thing for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. But in the meantime, he's managing for the LA, no, no. He also played in Major League Baseball from 2001 to 2009 for the D backs the White Sox and the two teams near and close to home, the o's and then nationals change is not unusual for the Leone is de la cojiro, because they have had at least one manager a year since 2019 before that, They had one stable manager from 2015 to 2019 and here's just I go on rabbit holes. That manager was Luis Rojas Alou, which should ring Exactly. And Felipe Alou, yeah. So Felipe, dad, Moises son, apparently there's a bunch of egos there. There Moises and Luis and nine more. They're a whole bunch of ALU kids, but those were the two who made it in baseball. You can get merch if you go to the charros website, at least I know you can get Lance de los Cogito merch. I have a great hat Charles merch website, though I went to it just to check it out. Just know it's in Mexican pesos, because it says something like 3224 money units for

Patti 41:46
Wait, you did not even shoot your tequila, and you're talking about

Pottymouth 41:52
all gone. This is so good. It was really so the charros, which is super exciting, they are, and I'm, I hope I get this the order of this, right? The charros, the Algona, algo doneros, de wasade gua sabe and the Sultan is de Monterrey, are the only three teams in Mexico that play both leagues. So Mexico has two leagues, the LMB, which plays the same time as MLB, just in a different order of letters that that's their major league. And then there's the Mexicano de baseball de Pacifico. I think it's L, and there's a P in there somewhere. So, and then that's the winter League. So three teams overlap both leagues, like the same stadium and the same organization. Just play your round sponsors. It's not the same players, but it's the same organization.

Patti 42:44
Oh, sure, because the winter league is going to pick up players from the from Major League. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

Pottymouth 42:48
So it's, it's the same, you know, ownership and the same stadium. So the charros, even though I was just talking about their winter league team playing against the Leones right now. They're finishing up their regular league because it's L and B, and they just won the semi finals in five games against the Sultan is, which is another one of those teams that has two, you know, plays double time to go on to the championship and shoot. I forgot to write down the name of the champion. It was something really good, like the Serie A de Serie A de reyes, like the Kings, or something like that. They so they there's two divisions in Mexico, the south and the north. So the charros are from the south and the Diablos no rojos are from the north. And that is starting this Wednesday. So here's the part where you can pay attention now the Liga Mexicano baseball finals starting this Wednesday. Benji Hill is the manager of the charros, and he will be, or would be, if the charros win, he would be the first manager in Mexico to win for the same franchise for both seasons, for both the LMB and the BP, three managers have done it before with different teams, so like one team in in the winter and one team in the summer, and he would be the first one to do both. So he we've actually talked about before on this podcast, because he managed team Mexico in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and that was a huge successful team, because they beat Puerto Rico to get to the semifinals. And we saw that game in Miami, and then they were beaten by Japan. That game, we also saw six to five. So super close to beating Japan. So Ben, he killed is definitely an adept manager to increase the the challenge for him, it's been 54 years. That's where the 54 since the charros last won the L, M, B title. But even though I'm all excited about this idea of Ben he Benji and the charros winning. Double I really should be the charros is a band. Yes, it's a

Patti 45:07
Saturday morning cartoon band that, yeah,

Pottymouth 45:10
we already really have a couple of tunes that they could cover at this point. Sure, even though Benjamin the charros should be or it has been like the excitement of the moment, the Diablos, rojos, the Red Devils, are technically ncib favorites, because they have four of our favorite former baseball boyfriends on the team, Robinson Cano. 42 year old Robinson Cano is on that team in the league. He is number four in RBI, number three in hits, and number six in batting average, with the 372, 42 years old Energizer Bunny, for sure. Put on those ears, along with Robinson Cano Rio Ruiz, who I had picked for the Baltimore Orioles and right down the Euros few years ago, I he had really good hair. Then he has less hair now, but he's still playing well. And Aristides Aquino, who was a pick of yours, and Jose Perella, who I know I picked, but I forget which team we have nobody on the charros, so I don't know. I feel a little split. If you want to check into the winter leagues, both Mexico and Dominican Republic start on October 15. Stay tuned. I will be reporting on that. I am still pissed about the Dominican Republic Puerto Rico showdown that's happening in November at Citi Field. This is like an all star thing, and it's being billed as Robinson can no his last visit to MLB stadium, but their tickets are only $107 plus, and it's by section, so you can't even pick your row. It's like, you know, pay 100 enough. No, that's not good. It's not good. And I would go to Citi Field to see this if I could pick my fucking seats for that much money.

Patti 46:56
Yep, right. You're gonna you're gonna cave. You're gonna

Pottymouth 46:59
go anyway. We'll see what happens. Maybe stub will be my friend that tequila was really good.

Patti 47:06
Tequila was really good, but don't have all right,

Pottymouth 47:10
I have my last sip of beer,

Patti 47:14
but I am not so down that I can't talk about our fantasy league, where almost nothing ever changes. The only change happens way, you know, in the second half here, where the rant and bring back Cornell switched again, so the rant is now number eight, and bring back Cornell is number nine. That is the only change. We are kind of stable in a way that makes me want to abandon all hope. You know, it's not about me. It's not about me. I've got my guys. I'm living with my guys. I'm fine. Oh, also, Hey, Sean Murphy went on the aisle. I have no catchers, I have no first baseball and I have no third baseman. That's a problem. Nobody available to me. Because why we have rules? We have stupid rules. We have stupid rules that punish really, you and I more than anyone else. And there we go. So there's no hope for us. But hey, you guys, wicked awesome and Beau and pandemonium and leftist and Karen and girls dinos, they're out and bring back. We're no the kids and the Canadians. You have a great time. We're just gonna hang out here and not drink tequila, as it turns out. But hey, you know what? It's still fun. It is. It's totally fine. We love right?

Pottymouth 48:19
You guys. It's great. I love to see the team. We

Patti 48:21
have only one more baseball game on the books, so we may have to shuffle crazy and pick a new thing, because Saturday, what are we

Pottymouth 48:28
doing? We are going to see the Nationals play the pirates. And I just looked up the pirates to see if we had any chance at Palestine. And we do not. He's pitching Wednesday, yeah, damn it, but it is Dylan Cruz bobblehead night, and he has underperformed all season for the nationals and also been injured a lot. So I don't know, I don't foresee huge crowds, but we will be loud. They will hear us, and it will be fun. And I also want to give folks a head Heads up, heads up, because so Saturday is the 13th. My dad's birthday is Friday. Actually, my kid's birthday is today. So many birthdays. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Yep, and dad, happy birthday. And my father will happy birthday today. Oh, that's right, yes, so many Virgos.

Patti 49:09
Wow, that's exactly how I think

Pottymouth 49:12
about it next. Next Monday is Roberto comment today. So I always find this out too late. So here's your heads up so you can prep and try to get baseball tickets for next Monday night. And maybe we should look into that. I don't know.

Patti 49:27
Okay, yeah, all right, we hope you're still going to games. You know, your team may have either, like, locked things up or in a good way or a bad way. You know what baseball is still super fun, case in point, or Saturday night with a team that's going like, that's got no hope for getting anywhere in the postseason, and was fought with grit, and it was fun, and it was moving, and, yeah, I cried a little bit. That's fine. Yeah, that's fine.

Pottymouth 49:51
And go out and support those guys because they're still playing. Just go out and yell for them,

Patti 49:55
show them that what they do matters to you. Yep, right, right. Absolutely. Okay. I. So, um, tell us what you're up to right towards this end of the season. Find us on social media,

Pottymouth 50:04
please. You can find us on blue sky at ncib podcast, and we will check Twitter once in a while. Uh, Instagram and Facebook are no crying and B ball, and join the fun on Patreon, P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying and B ball. And we super, super appreciate you guys, because you literally keep us going. Our base level is $1 a month. And if enough people do that, we can keep doing this. And thank you, thank you for going there.

Patti 50:30
Also, um, the Jalisco gear is pretty attractive. So if you go shopping in, what is it that the Mexican money units? Is that right? Yeah, if you can, if you can, if you can, work with the whole peso situation, please send us your photos of you donning your holistic wear, because it's really, it's very

Pottymouth 50:50
nice looking. Oh yeah, yeah, although, like, I love my escojito hat, so I will be, yeah. Well, not you, because, yeah, maybe I don't know, and

Patti 51:01
you're looking at the tequila bottle too. So that may influence the

Pottymouth 51:05
shopping. And they both have really nice stadiums, actually, to tell you the truth, both the charros and the Diablos rojos, I would love like that. There's like a pipe dream. Send us to Mexico.

Patti 51:17
Sure on that note, oh my god. If you're allowed to get a booster, get a freaking booster. Everybody's got covid right now, and it's not just because they were screaming of ball games, but sometimes it is. So you need to know. You need to know, Please fight the man. It's the right thing to do now, more than freaking ever, send your game balls to Meredith if that woman from Philly doesn't take it out of your hands and until Next week, say

Pottymouth 51:43
goodnight. Potty mouth, goodnight. Potty mouth, you

I didn't bring the plug in. It's not, I don't know. It's three. Oops. I think the battery will last. I think you

Patti 52:09
sound confident, and if it doesn't, what happens if it doesn't? We just start at the beginning again, right? Because that won't be a problem

Pottymouth 52:17
in a plug, maybe. And the bracelet.

Patti 52:22
As you go get that, I'll finish my beer, and then I can start with with a fresh, fresh glass. Okay, hang on.