No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
No Hi and welcome to episode 424 of No Crying in Baseball, the No, no, no or No, no, no, no or No, no, no, no Episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth, hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:29
hey. I'm usually good on where to put the accent, but I'm not quite sure which no is the No. If it's no

Patti 0:35
no, well, you know, if you know, if you don't know, you don't

Pottymouth 0:38
know, or I will know soon. Explain it to me. I will, yes, we will know, but we did not know. No, yesterday,

Patti 0:45
we did not. But again, it was like, what the sixth inning? It was a while before,

Pottymouth 0:50
before, yeah, so we went to a baseball game yesterday, and it was lots of fun, despite the Nationals blowing it in the end. But the the pirates, and I'm guessing you're gonna allude to this later, had not only a no hitter going through six innings, but it was perfect. Did you know that I just was perfect through six? It was perfect through five, yeah, through five. So then I think, what was it in six? I mean, Dylan Cruz is so yay. It was his bobblehead day. And yay, he broke it up. So yay, Dylan Cruz, and yay for us for getting there in time for bobbleheads, for

Patti 1:19
sure. And it was really gorgeous outside. And it was it we had the seats were fun. And, you know, aside from the lanternflies, it was beautiful. And, you know this, it's like this late season baseball, when you're watching a game that doesn't matter for the playoffs, you're just there because you like the game, yeah, and you want to see that, you know, the guys have a good time on the field. And we did all of that. It was a little sad that it all went to hell for Yeah, for the Nazi. We say, Oh, it doesn't matter, but it does matter. Yeah, it matters in our hearts. I still say that Robert Hassel, the third was wearing a dickey. He really was. And those of you who don't know what that is, that's because you're way younger than we are, but it's like a little like turtleneck inset that you would wear if you didn't want to wear a whole turtleneck under your ear, you know, in this case, baseball jersey.

Pottymouth 2:01
And it does seem appropriate for somebody with a third in their name, right? You know, like that is the person who would have the Dickie. Yes, although there were so many people, so so many fun people on the Nationals, I was, like, excited, and I think I broke Patty's eardrums when I screamed at his first at bat that Jorge al Farrow is there. So I picked Jorge al Farrow way back in 2019 as baseball boyfriend was, he was on the Phillies, I didn't remember what team, and since then, there was so many, yeah, he went to San Diego, and then he was in the woo socks for a while, and various minor leagues, and then, like, went off my radar. And of course, was the hero in the Dominican League for the Tigres de la say, a couple years ago. And now he's on the Nationals, and I know it's for a sad reason. Caper Ruiz has, like, multiple concussions. He's been out for a very long time, and it's like, scary level of concussion. Yikes. So I don't know. I had no way do I want that to be a reason for somebody coming in, but I'm definitely, you know, happy to see that if a guy has to be there, that it's for hail Pharaoh. He once again, this is the second time I've seen him live and in person, and he has not gotten a hit for me, so I'm feeling a little under appreciated.

Patti 3:07
Last time you saw him, did he did he still have the glorious hair? Because he did, does not have the glorious hair anymore. I don't know if it's a Samson thing, and he lost his power because

Pottymouth 3:14
he doesn't have the glorious hair. Yeah, you know, I think he had the hair last time, but we, let's chalk it up to that.

Patti 3:18
So it's more you than it is the thing that's in common between those two. Yeah, very

Pottymouth 3:25
powerful. Yeah. Well. And also, you know, the NATs not doing well. I kind of felt a little culpable there, because at one point in the game, four ninths, yes, there are nine in the lineup. Four ninths of the lineup were past baseball boyfriend picks of mine, including my current guy who hasn't played much this year. Andres Chaparro came in to pitch it for a prior pick of yours, Josh bell. And when he came in, he joined former baseball boyfriend picks aforementioned Jorge Alfaro, plus CJ Abrams and Luis Garcia Jr. And it was just like a big potty mouth, you know, stuff to cheer for but they didn't.

Patti 4:01
Yeah, I only had, I only had James Wood in the lineup for once, Josh came out. So for a while I had two, and then just down to one. But yeah, Didn't. Did.

Pottymouth 4:10
No, it was hassle. Who'd got the other hit? I'm trying to, I don't know. Yeah, there were so few hits. We should be able to keep track of it. We should. The Other notable thing I think about the NATs lineup to make me feel a little bit better, yeah, better about the NATs not doing well now is I'm still super hopeful for the future, because I feel like they do have this young core that they got, like a bunch for just Juan Soto shadow at this point. So right now, the NATs, in person Yesterday, we saw three guys that were got, gotten that, three guys that they got out of the five in total for just, you know, Juan Soto, who wouldn't be here anymore anyway, so CJ Abrams, James Wood and aforementioned Dickey, where Robert Hassell, the third, were all part of the Soto deal, plus Mackenzie gore and then one other guy, who's an. I don't remember, because he's not playing, but you know, that's not good. Yeah, that's like, a crazy turnout of, like, prospects making it worth it. And you know, Soto has been in he's had his third team since then.

Patti 5:11
It's true. It's true. So, hey, go see some baseball. Because either you're gonna watch a game that you're watching just for the heck of it, because it doesn't matter, or you're gonna watch a game that's going to help a team get to the playoffs, or you're going to watch a team that's going to spoil somebody's chances, and all of those things make an interesting game to watch. So I know it's late in the season, you can still go, and you should still go see some live baseball while you can now the weather's better, right?

Pottymouth 5:33
Yeah, yeah, beautiful baseball. Know how to stomp those LAN flies? Yeah? There goes, Yeah.

Patti 5:41
On today's show boyfriends, featuring walk offs, clinches, 3030s, now and pretty soon, we've got a police report featuring horrible corporate cultures, both on and off the field. We've got a build your own cocktail theme you can draw from witches, cyclones, no nos, peaches and tequila, cheers.

Pottymouth 6:01
I would take a make your own cocktail. I bet I could pick something out of tequila, which the tequila, which? Right? Then there's the titling of the cocktail. Well, that's your, well, that's it. That's right, that's no thinking, Yeah, okay, so I'll mix it. You name it, perfect. All right, we're gonna talk about baseball, boyfriend, Cyclone, the peach cyclone, yeah, that works, yeah.

Patti 6:20
Okay. I'm sorry, we I'm going down the rabbit hole because, you know, we talked about cocktail names, and I've had a

Pottymouth 6:24
few, just a few sips. Hey, cocktail. Oh, sorry. Actually, we might as well get the cocktails out of the way. We're a little like, this is like, our All right, I've been saving the caffeinated cocktails for a brunch recording, which we're doing now. We're recording earlier than usual so we can have some caffeine. And these are from our friends at 10th ward. And I think we like the non caffeinated ones better overall. I think we do.

Patti 6:45
I have a raspberry tea beverage, which I think if I was more of a tea drinker, I thought I'd like it, because I like iced tea. This isn't quite to my taste, but you like it. So it's me. It's a personal thing. It's not a bad cocktail. It's just not the cocktail for me,

Pottymouth 7:00
and this actually, I'm enjoying much more now that I've added some almond milk to it. It's a dirty Chai espresso, so it was very espresso y, and I was feeling it in my stomach, and I put in some almond milk, and now it's just like a coffee milkshake. So it's really good, and there's alcohol involved. So what could go wrong?

Patti 7:16
What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, so we are, in fact, we are recording on Sunday again. We have, we've been a couple of Mondays in a row, but we are recording, but it's Sunday afternoon, so most of the games are still going on. So we're going to tell you some things that are probably going to be like wrong by the time we're done recording. But okay, what's new? What's new?

Pottymouth 7:33
We'll kick it off with our baseball boyfriends, the guys that we picked in the off season, because they're super cool, and we've got one guy per team. And if you're new to us, and don't know about the baseball boyfriend thing, just shoot us a line if it's a little confusing, because we have a lot of fun with it. And then we check up on them as we as we go through the season. And I'm just checking up on one guy today, and he just kind of pops up every now and then with something miraculous after a whole lot of mediocre on my fantasy team. And that is Patrick Bailey of the giants. I think I last talked about him way back in July when he had a walk off inside the park home run against the Phillies, no less, which is like, you know, no shade for a catcher to be booking around the bases. And he did say when he finished that inside the Parker, and was sort of like panting in his interview that he really wishes it wasn't inside the Parker. Well, he made up for that this past Friday night in another walk off Grand Slam, this time against the Dodgers. So he's doing pretty well against some pretty big teams in the 10th inning. And he did comment that he was definitely not as tired this one as the inside the Parker, the connected little ncib guy that we follow is poor Tanner type pants. So this is Tanner Scott, whose wardrobe We first noticed when he was with the Orioles. And he made some certain choices in the manner in which he wore his pants, which is ncib proved he's kept, you know, the same sort of pants fit. You know, I didn't, I don't know. I think I have a little theory that I should be checking out his pants more. It might be the fit of his pants because he's been having a string of misfortune or poor pitching, depending on your your impression or your point of view, he, we saw him at Camden Yards give up that the run, so that the Orioles came back from almost getting no hit and then winning the game. And that was due to Tanner tight pants giving up that last run. And then he did this again. He gave up the this grand slam to Patrick Bailey. So poor Tanner tight pants, well, pause

Patti 9:40
for a second, because the walk off that he gave up was the second one in a row. He gave up one to Sammy bus I of the Orioles the night before. Wow. So he gave up two walk off here, back to back against the Orioles two days in a row. And now, and now also it

Pottymouth 9:56
again with the Giants. He did, and I didn't write down the exact. Quote. But I saw somewhere that he said, This is the worst year of his life. I feel very, very bad about him. The other weird connection, though, between the night that we saw and then this night against the Giants is Yamamoto started, and so both were strong starts by the Dodgers, that poor Tanner type pants just couldn't close. Close that zipper. Yeah, close

Patti 10:18
that zipper. Oh, dear. Oh dear. All right, couple of my boyfriends are very happy right now because their teams have either just clinched or about to clinch a playoff berth. South relic is my, my brewers boyfriend, and Milwaukee was the first team to clinch. They're at least, oh, at least a wild card, if not more. They have the best record still in MLB, and so now they're, they're a sure thing to make the playoffs. They actually clinched before their game yesterday, because the Mets lost to the Rangers, but they also then won their game. So you can say, okay, wasn't just the Mets losing, it was also there winning. But the important thing about that win, it was against the Cardinals. They came back from a five run deficit, wow, to walk it off, to beat the cards nine to eight. And where does my boyfriend come in? Well, let me tell you, he had two RBI, including a sacrifice fly and a double and he scored three runs in addition to that. So out of those nine, he hit two of those in and scored three. So that's pretty good. So yay. So yeah, you picked well. So Walker Bueller, as I told you last week, has just joined my pitching flock with the Phillies. He had his debut with the Phillies. Don't tell me. He did well. He did well. His debut the Phillies, Friday night. He pitched five innings. Got the win. They won eight to two over Kansas City, and that made the Phillies the first MLB team to win 50 home games this season. And as of recording, they are one game out to clinching a playoff berth. So yay, Walker. Welcome to my pitching flock.

Pottymouth 11:48
Yeah. And, I mean, I know I wish no ill against Walker Bueller. I'm sure he's done his best all season. I'm just really sad that the Red Sox maybe blew it by letting him go. I don't know.

Patti 11:59
So my Pete crow Armstrong report is he stole two more bases this week, so his total is 34 but his home runs are still stuck at 28 so he still hasn't hit the 3030 mark. But one Soto did, one Soto is, is now the first MLB player this season to have a 3030 season. Everybody thought Pete Armstrong would be so far beyond that by now, and he is not. And also, former boy friends of mine, jazz Chisholm and Jose Ramirez, are right in there with bu Armstrong as who's going to be the next person to hit 3030, so not a sure thing in any way. And remember, at the beginning of season, people talk about, oh, maybe he's gonna have a 4040. Season. Doesn't look that way, but things are getting exciting because, you know, this end of the season stuff, people are hitting those marks and becoming the first guy to or, here's a landmark thing, here's here's an important achievement that's hard to do in a season, and you're doing it, so keep an eye on that. We'll keep you informed. Yeah, and be be

Pottymouth 12:56
wary of the dangers of extrapolation, right? Yes. Streaks happen either way. I'm psyched that you ended with the PCA, because I'm going to just follow up some with some more cubs, which is my former baseball boyfriend from 2018 from the Cubs, Anthony Rizzo is retiring, and I'm not going to talk about his sad years with the other pinstripes in New York. Focus on the happy with it. With Chicago, he's just, I mean, he's a good guy. He's a good guy throughout and he did many good things with his celebration, retirement celebration with the with the Cubs. He wore a jersey that was signed by kids from Lurie Children's Hospital, where he had visited throughout his years in Chicago. And famously, Anthony Rizzo is a cancer survivor himself, and so has spent a lot of his time. And, you know, in in what we give ncib accolades for not just signing the check, but also going in and in person and doing the work that's important. You know, of course, he's loved by Chicago for being part of that magical 2016 team. And he said, quote, that global impact that we had on a fan base, on generations of Cubs fans, it's still lasting. And of course, you know, like breaking that kind of losing streak for so many years is something that he'll be remembered for. You'll never have to buy a beer. However, he chose to buy beers. So I'm sure anytime he shows up in Chicago, somebody's gonna buy him a beer, but he chose to sit in the bleachers for the game with the fans, with the real fans, and the snake and the whole thing. And he had little cards that he can't hand it out to people that were worth a beer on him. What a cool move. Also randomly

Patti 14:38
error, yeah,

Pottymouth 14:41
from the from the bleacher left field bleachers. He had an error because Moises Ballesteros hit his first career home run as a rookie, and it literally bounced off of Anthony rizzo's hand, and somebody a couple seats behind him got the ball, and his expression is hysterical with his throwing. His arms way up. And, you know, I think it was hap, right, your former guy, who said, like, this is shows that he really should be retired, you know, just sort of catch the damn ball. And another cool thing for hap is he used rizzo's walk up song. I forget what it was, but it was just like a little, you know, tap of the tip of the cap, tap of the kit. Yeah, one of those things, the tap of the kit to hear it. What are

Patti 15:23
you drinking? I thought that was horrible. I think you just got started. Did you pregame before

Pottymouth 15:28
I got there? Not at all. No, shocking.

Patti 15:30
Um, so, so is there more to this? This like, so this is this rookies first home run, right?

Pottymouth 15:37
So the the cool thing about Anthony being there is that he was able to ensure that the ball got back to the right place, meaning back to Moises, and I'm sure that the fans who gave up that ball must have been appropriately compensated. However, I didn't see anything specific on

Patti 15:53
that. Probably more than just more beer from Anthony Rizzo, but I bet he bought a little guy, yep, yep. No, I love that, and the sitting in the bleachers just means so much to me. I think that's just great. So Chicago sounds pretty good. Detroit right now doesn't sound like a good place to be, especially if you're a woman working in sports. Oh no, it's bad. I haven't heard this. Yeah, it's bad. So back in April, the assistant GM of the Tigers salmons and resigned, and there was not an explanation. And the athletic poked around and got some rumors that he was accused of sending lewd photos to female staff. So the athletic said, Hmm, we are going to poke this bear and see what we find. Well, the results of their investigation have come out, and including menzen, eight men have been accused of misconduct, eight toward women since 2023 and the charges range from, you know, offensive, inappropriate comments to actual physical confrontations. Now, the assistant GM was the only person actually part of the Tigers, a part of the team, right? The six of them are part of ilch sports entertainment, and that's the basically like the umbrella, right? They operate the franchise, and also the Red Wings, and also they manage Comerica Park and Little Caesars arena and some other entertainment. So there's a big umbrella organization, but they're affiliated with the Tigers six. Six of these guys out of the eight, are with this one organization. All of those six have either resigned, were fired. Their contracts were not renewed, and one of them in particular was just suspended because the athletic requested comments from him, you know, based on these allegations. And so the organization basically just suspended him. So the most egregious one of these is with Illich, right? He's the vice president of premium sales and events, and among other things, including horrible constant remarking on women's appearances and just inappropriate, gross, like, you know, unsafe work place, kinds of activities. He actually had at least two relationships with female staff that weren't disclosed to HR, which, of course, is, you know, is policy, if you, you know, if you, if there's a non fraternization thing, you have to disclose relationships with HR, one of the women, there are three witnesses who say they saw him arguing with her, and the argument got so out of hand that he pushed her down a flight of stairs. Oh, my god, yeah, she was not she did not comment on this story, but the three people said they saw it happen, wow. So no charges. So the general culture in this like umbrella organization, they interviewed like 45 people who work there. Wow. So this constant commentary against women, it said that women have been told don't wear skirts like that. Don't wear pants with that, because it's too distracting for the men. Okay, we don't do that. We don't say that. So there's like, that whole level of just like, the general environment is horrible if you are a woman there. And just to show that it's more what it's wider than that, they're one of three teams in Major League Baseball that don't even have maternity leave for staff. I mean, come on, come that's so good, right? The last person, remember, there are eight. So there was one, the assistant manager of the Tigers, who was gone. Now, the six people that worked for this umbrella organization, they're all no longer with the organization. The last person was a broadcaster, former player, Cameron Maven, yeah. So he was broadcaster for the Tigers, apparently, constantly inappropriate comments and come ons to female staff. They have texts. They have just things people witness. Yeah, well, so eat it when that happens, I am sharing one quote because it's from a male staff person, and I think that's interesting, that this is somebody who observed all this, and isn't, you know, there's no way you can say, Oh, I can't trust you, because you know, you're just making a point where this is someone who wasn't affected. Did directly. You know, he wasn't victimized by this. He observed this. The dysfunction is woven into the culture. It feels like a bunch of guys who can do whatever they want. It's not a place women can feel safe. Oh my god, and that's horrible. That's bad enough. Turns out the Tigers themselves go farther than that. Apparently they also don't like the old people, and it's an old people, I'm ticked about this at least three times in the last three years, the Tigers have been sued in federal court by former employees who allege age discrimination. Holy shit. So if you're young and male, the Tigers and their umbrella organization and their broadcast team are great places for you. Otherwise, you might want to look elsewhere. Wow, wow.

Pottymouth 20:43
I am so sad, because for the past two years, both last year and this year, they've seemed like such a good underdog story. They did well against the Yankees, which I appreciated, yep, but that's it's just so stressful when we find out crap. Yep, I don't crack the Crap. Crap. And I thought I was gonna have the crappiest story today. I think you outcrapped me, yeah, but you get to rant, and you love a good rant, sure, especially when the Yankees are involved. So it's not just because I'm bitter because the Red Sox have won the last one, no, lost him. It's not just because I'm bitter because the Red Sox have lost the past two games against the Yankees at Fenway Park, and I'm just it's that wild card race, so it's very stressful. I couldn't even watch because I'm so fucking stressed about this situation. And they're playing today, and hopefully you guys are all hearing my voice and saying, oh, potty mouth must have been so happy when she found out that the Red Sox won that third game after recording. So let's put that out there in the universe as a little because you're very powerful. Yeah, I'm trying so hard power, but the Yankees sucked beyond that. I mean, you know, it's a saying, right? On Wednesday, they decided to have a moment of silence in memory of Charlie Kirk, and it was even announced on the official Yankees Twitter that night at 7pm where they said quote before tonight's game, we held a moment of silence in memoriam of Charlie Kirk. Kirk founded the youth activist group Turning Point USA, and had become a fixture on college campuses. Charlie Kirk, a husband and father, father of two children, was 31 years old. Period, that's the end of the quote. So Kirk, um, before I go into any political issue, he's from outside Chicago. He went to college in Illinois. He was a Cubs fan. I tried to find any connection between him and New York, and could not so if anybody out there knows of one, please let me know. I don't think he was a Yankees fan. I don't think he spent any time in New York. So why are the Yankees choosing to you know, give it, give a moment for this guy. And I want to say that I do not condone violence in any way. I don't think anybody has the right to use a gun to take somebody else's life, period, including Charlie Charlie Kirk, I think that despite the fact that he had said that there, you know, it's acceptable to have some gun deaths so that we have our Second Amendment rights, he should not have been killed. I also feel like there are a lot of other killings in there, especially in fucking New York City, that the Yankees could have acknowledged instead of this man who doesn't seem to have any connection besides being a very famous, controversial conservative voice. I'm not going to go into more of his quotations, but there is a link if you want to read about some of the very disturbing things that he had said. Again, no excuse for killing him. Do not condone it. I, you know, I'm getting more and more stressed out by all the conservative Rage Against Violent liberals, because it does not compute with my personal experience as a liberal, the liberals I know, the circles that I'm in, and I am getting super freaked out at the this, you know, way that it's being portrayed, as these crazy leftists are super violent now, even though it was found out that a conservative killed him.

Patti 24:08
So I'm gonna add on to that. So we're gonna hold the Yankees accountable to this. Apparently, Charlie kept lists of professors right his watch, there are 20 in Maryland who are now kind of scared for their lives because they're on a list that this activist put together because he didn't care for their teachings, because they were, in his view, anti conservative. So if something were to happen to one of these 20 professors in Maryland alone say there's many more. So I can't even imagine how many there are countrywide. Are the Yankees also going to then say, here's a murder because of this? I don't know.

Pottymouth 24:53
Two politicians were just killed in Minnesota. Did they have a nothing

Patti 24:57
moment of silence for that? We did not. Right. So those were elected.

Pottymouth 25:00
Officials and there was a fucking school shooting in Colorado the same day. Nothing was said about that. Two kids were injured. The gun. Person ended up killing himself. Nothing about school shootings so, you know.

Patti 25:14
So this is a very selective choice exactly to honor this particular person, because there's many other ways they could have gone if they were going to say, hey, it's important that we acknowledge the violent

Pottymouth 25:25
deaths. Insane, insane, a very quick by the way, Blake trinan of the Dodgers, had Charlie Kirk's name on his cap with a cross on either side that night, and he actually gave up a run the inning before Tanner Scott give up, gave up that that Grand Slam. So, you know, they didn't bring him any good luck, or the Dodgers any good luck. But I believe that there was some penalty against other players who had had put stuff on their uniform and for him to be able to write. It's just, I don't know, it's a bad look. It's, I mean, there's been a lot of bad should break. Blake Trina has been been spouting conspiracy theories.

Patti 26:06
Oh, wow. On the bright side, the Orioles lit them up in the you know, the one of those walk offs.

Pottymouth 26:10
Yay, yay. Further Yankees bashing. Though the next day was 911 and yes, this is a day that, yes, the Yankees should commemorate. They're in New York City. It was horrific. 24 years ago. We all remember it. We were in the DC area that day. It was just

Patti 26:26
we were unimagining newborns during all of this.

Pottymouth 26:29
Yeah, yep. So commemorating that is important. I understand the President going to Yankee Stadium to be part of that as well. You know, despite the fact that I do not support the current president, all of that tracks way better than a moment of silence for John for Charlie Kirk. They had Johnny Damon, who's another like. It's so sad when somebody who used to like turns out to be just fucking idiot. He was on Fox News commenting about the whole thing and the clip, and I think it's in the notes. It's it was on Fox, like they, they are promoting this clip. It was just so pathetic, the way that it was just little sound bites that didn't make sense. He talked about how Donald Trump is just great and wonderful that he's there at Yankee Stadium. You know, I'm not sure how much money it costs. They had to put in more bulletproof stuff around the the owners booth that he was sitting in, except for Fox. So Fox just showed the clip of the USA, USA chants and Trump, sort of, you know, holding his fist. All of the other news sources that I looked at said that there were a mixture of cheers and booze. And so depending on which news source you look at, you hear the clips with the cheers or the clips with the boos. It does seem very clear that there were both. NBC said. Boos were heard at first, but many in the crowd eventually cheered. And then there's the Yankees themselves and their reaction. Aaron judge was very excited about meeting the President, he said. And you know, notably, the Yankees have not won a World Series in any of the Trump time in the White House, so they haven't gotten that chance to go there. Judge said meeting Trump was, quote, a surreal moment. I think he meant that in a good way, although I guess you could twist that either way, and something that inspired him and his teammates, when the only other time I know of that Trump attempted to come to a baseball park. He kind of snuck into nats park in the 2019 World Series. It was not promoted that he was there. He was very quickly on the whatever screen, and he was soundly booed, and there was a lock him up chance. So folks in DC are a little bit more single minded in politically than the current New York scene. Damn Yankees.

Patti 28:47
Yeah. I wonder who had to pay for all of those accommodations, security accommodations, right,

Pottymouth 28:51
right? Because it's not just the Plex or the bulletproof glass. It's like it scores him and Yeah,

Patti 28:56
is it taxpayers? Is it like, you know, his security, which we're paying for is it? I think ownership. Is it, you know, coming out of ticket sales, I don't

Pottymouth 29:06
know. I would. I mean, the right thing to do, of course, would be ownership. So that's probably not what happened. But you know, the Super Bowl NASCAR, he's done the tennis thing, he's done a lot of big events that

Patti 29:16
he does like going to see some sports because they're good for him. I do too, yeah, I do too. No one's paid for me to go, yeah. I have a very brief fun fact that's completely different from all of these things. So it was a good change. There was a lot of news this week about the general manager of the Orioles, michaelias, being promoted to be president of baseball operations. And so I'm looking at all of these. I'm like, wait a minute. You know these say that he actually got this promotion before the season started. Yay. They just never said anything. They always have been announcing him as the General Manager all of this time, he has been the president of baseball operations since before this season started. So they did hire the Nationals like scouting director to be the assistant general manager or special ed. Advisor to the General Manager. They just don't have a general manager so that, so that jobs open. So if you're interested, I think the OS are, you know, probably interviewing for that gig. There are a couple of assistants, and now they have this, you know, the scouting director is now a special, special advisor, but no general manager, because Michael is president of baseball operations. Who knew Four

Pottymouth 30:20
months. Four months, I think you should throw in your hat really.

Patti 30:24
Maybe I have opinions. Sure there. I do have a lot of opinions

Pottymouth 30:29
that's good, yeah, number one that they need to sign more long term players, yep, yep. We, like, you know, a little bit of superstition with our baseball, because it just goes together. We're not by far the only ones. It's a thing baseball and superstition are like peanut butter and jelly. And my question is, what kind of maritime witch are we? Are we celebrating here? And I thought of siren and mermaid. You thought of selkie? Anybody else have their favorite Water Water witch? Please let us know, because that seems to be doing good for the mariners who have won at the time of recording Sunday, September 14, at three in the afternoon. So we do not know the results of their game today, they're about to get started. I think at four Eastern Standard Time. They have won the past eight straight games. They're having a time crazy since fan Steven Blackburn posted on social media that he had literally hired a witch from Etsy to lift a curse on the team.

Patti 31:38
If you hire it from Etsy, is it like a crocheted witch. I don't

Pottymouth 31:41
know, I was like, wonder, why wouldn't you go to Craigslist for a witch? Where do you go to search for witches? I Etsy does seem like quite the choice. I'm wondering what kind of assortment of witches you have on Etsy, right?

Patti 31:54
So more than one, like, you know, do you sort of by like, media? I would prefer mine to be the fiber arts kind of witch or, you know, one that is sculpted out of and then reclaimed barn wood, I don't know.

Pottymouth 32:06
Apparently, this one had to have something to do with water, because the witch, in the gender of the witch, I'm not clear, of has done a lot to lift this curse. Not only eight straight games of winning, but one of those games on September 7, they beat Atlanta, 18 to 218. That's a big number, and on that night, the actual mariners account on Twitter posted shout out to the Etsy witch. So that goes to show that we're not the only ones who believe in this kind of stuff. The mariners or ownership or social media folks that that that they would jump on this bandwagon. So again, they're playing today against the angels. There's a quote from Mr. Steven Blackburn, who did this as a joke. He's not taking it seriously, but he said, I say, Hey, can you please help the man mariners get out of the funk? I didn't expect it to go anywhere. I was just kind of hoping for the best. And then all of a sudden, they scored 28 runs in two days. So I did have mariners pitching last year. So I don't know if I'm just behind the times. I also know that the Red Sox are really dependent on beating the mariners for the wild card, or some, you know, conglomeration of that happening. I think the mariners during what doing well are not good for the Red Sox. I'm wondering if there are any Red Sox fans out there looking on, say, Facebook marketplace or Craigslist. I don't know where do you go for it, but, oh, there's Salem, it's right there. Folks, just go up the fucking Road, route one out of Boston. Salem, got follow

Patti 33:37
it, just so if it's not like Etsy, if you're going in person, you just need to go to, like, the craft show, right? And get, get, make sure you go to the right booth. Yeah, get the right founder. You get the right witch. But, I mean, you get the whole city of Salem, you do. I'm sure they have, like, you know, witches are us sort of situation, or, yeah, rent a witch. There's got to, I think it's a lot of things happening there, these things, oh my gosh. We have this crazy fantasy league with stupid, stupid rules. And I keep saying nothing changes, but little things are changing, and also the races are tightening up in unexpected ways. And let me just put this out in the universe, that second place may be very important this year. So wicked awesome is so far ahead in first place. You know, congrats. Wicked awesome. You're at 194 points. Bo no's boyfriends at 180 2.5 and pandemonium at one 80.5 that is tightened up by several points since previous weeks. And I'm just saying that is now, in the words of you know, NBC, the too close to call, right? It's like the wild card like, and then so leftist field next, and then Karen's crew. Those are pretty and then not mattering for wild card births, but dingers, dinos, are two points ahead of me, so they're in sixth. I'm in seventh, only two points separating us. Granted, all of my catchers are on the aisle. I. Mean, I'm missing a lot of people, but still, that's really not out of this world here. And also, also eight and nine, bring back renell And the rant. Keep swapping back and forth. They're only half a point apart right now. So I think the final tally is up for grabs in ways that I did not anticipate. And I let me just repeat this for you know people, the back row, second place is very important this year.

Pottymouth 35:25
Wow, yes. Well, Canadians, let me know what kind of whiskey you want me to get. I'll join you in the basement, and we'll just hang out try to regroup in this off season. All right, I've got there's more, though we have more for this show. Quick. Congratulations to the Brooklyn Cyclones, who the potty mouse went to see in mid August, and we saw them beat the hub city spartanburgers in a double header, and today, actually, as we're recording right now, the Brooklyn Cyclones are playing the same hub city spartanburgers in the South Atlantic League Championship Series, and that is the high a Brooklyn Cyclones hire high a Mets, and it's fun because they're in Coney Island with the roller coaster in the background, and the hub city spartanburgers are high a from Texas. And I meant to look this up before the show, so I'm just going to make shit up because I think this is true, but I'm not 100% so send in your corrections. Hub City, I believe is a nickname. It's not a city. Spartanburgers, I believe they're from Spartanburg. So I feel like they fuck the you're supposed to have your place, and then your name of your team, and I feel like they have the nickname, and then they have the team name. That's half place and half nickname. So that's just confusing and needlessly confusing.

Patti 36:46
So can I just say, Sure, baby, Spartan burgers are a food.

Pottymouth 36:49
Yeah, I think it's, it's an actual food. I think it has to do. I don't know we gotta. Are you looking up Spartanburg? I'm looking at, okay, while you're looking at pub city. To give me some correction, I do want to bring everybody's attention to the celebratory when the Brooklyn Cyclones clinched to go to the championship series, their manager Gilbert Gomez, who we've been following because he was the youngest lead on manager Dominican Republic winter league to get the championship in the Dominican Republic, with the Tigres daily say, in 2024 at the mere age of 30 years old, which is probably younger than several of the players on his team. He is super adorable with the congratulatory champion champagne. That's it. Champagne popping celebration in the clubhouse. So I I encourage you to check that link and look at Gilbert Gomez party on. So any any news on hub city?

Patti 37:43
Yeah, so I'm Spartanburg is, in fact that the team is in South Carolina, Spartanburg, but Hub City is a nickname, right for Spartanburg.

Pottymouth 37:51
So that's where I get confused, because it's Brooklyn. Cyclones. Brooklyn's is the place. Cyclones is the team name, Hub City, spartanburgers.

Patti 37:57
But spartanburger is not the city name. Spartanburger is a team name. So Hub City is a nickname for the city, is a nickname

Pottymouth 38:02
for the city, which is Spartanburg, which is part of the spartanburgers, right?

Patti 38:06
So, but, but the team name is spartanburger. So Hub City is the city, yeah, in the name. So it is following the but hubs is also a nickname for Hagerstown, Maryland, which is, but I think spartanburger Sounds delicious, if a little maybe, like, cut down to the basics, yeah, frills, a lot of frills. To the Spartan burger.

Pottymouth 38:26
I think it would go crazy. It would go, it would go, I was, No, I was about to riff on it. It would go very well with a peach cyclone. Maybe right, right, sure. And so we'll go into the pea or, yeah, I think all of that was, it would be, tell us of the peaches. So Steve Cohen did a good thing. So Steve Cohen of the Mets, I think has sort of, you know, been an up and down. Is when you say of the Mets, I mean owner of the West, yeah, that would be it, the guy with the big bucks, the guy with the wallet, who has opened his wallet at times and not at others. And I know that there's been criticism and admiration from Mets fandom, depending on how well things are going, I think they're a little bit on the up. Mets. Have a good shot at the wild card. Also a tight race right now, but Steve Cohen is celebrating and funding women's baseball coughing up $2 million from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen foundation to the International Women's baseball center in their renewal of Byers Stadium, which was the home of the Rockford peaches from the All American girls professional baseball league, and a historic site that hopefully will be the home of future games. In addition to that, the amazing Mets foundation added another $350,000 all this money. So I'm going to give the full quotation, because it's pretty fucking impressive what this money is doing. Of course, there's the Cohen bleachers. Well, he's gotta have his name on something new, restrooms, field re grading and sodding, irrigation, electrical upgrades, dugout upgrades, a scoreboard, foul poles, batting cages, pitching areas and the amazing Mets foundation press box. Very cool. Is the May Belle Blair Park, the green space north of the stadium, which is going to feature women's baseball gallery, a major outdoor exhibit consisting of commemorative pylons honoring women's baseball's most significant achievements, also the restoration of the historic main entrance ticket booth and visitor friendly walking paths and recreation areas. That's a lot of stuff. They need to get it presentable by next year, because they're going to be hosting the women's baseball World Cup there one of the parts of it. So that's so cool. So to get this influx of money now so that they can get this phase one thing done for the women's baseball event next year, I think is really important, and I'm excited to see it. I think we should do a field trip when they're done, or something like that. And by the way, anybody in Minnesota on October 4, go see, see her, be her, it's going to be playing there on part of their, you know, countrywide tour. Check it out.

Patti 40:59
Very cool. And it's this sounds like it's going to be make this historic place into kind of state of the art, right place, which means that when these events like this, this Women's World Cup, come around, they have a place that is a a put together professional, Yeah, ballpark to use that is also, at the same time meaningful to women's baseball. It's both of those things. It's not vitally Park set up very nicely. Sure, we could do that there, right? But this is better because of the historical significance, but also has all the amenities you need to put on a professional yeah tournament.

Pottymouth 41:36
And so you learn something when you go. Let's talk

Patti 41:39
about the no nos, oh no, oh yes. Well, in fact, it's no no no nos that we're talking about. So the last time there was a no hitter in 2025 was spring training. There was in spring training, in spring training, but it was a seven inning spring training game Orioles over Pittsburgh on March 22 Hey, yeah. Do you know who pitched the I don't the last regular season no hitter was the Cubs, over a year ago, September, 5, 2024 right? There have been no no hitters in the regular season this season, let me tell you how rare that is. There's been at least one no no every year for the last 19 years, 19 years, that's a long time where there's been at least one every year since 1960 there have been only five seasons with not a single no hitter, Just five times in all of that time, three pitchers took no nos to the eighth or later in the last couple of weeks, including Dodgers back to back for two games, one of which we saw, and then Tyler glass. No, I guess the following night, 11 games total this season had there have been no hitters taken into at least the eighth inning? Wow. None of them were successful for us all the way. But the season is not over yet, right? I mean, teams are either competing to get in the wild card or being spoilers. So not done yet. It's just unusual that we have gone this far. So keep your eye on that. And you may be one of those people in the stand saying my team is currently getting no hit. How do I feel about that. Do I really want my team to, like, prevail here, or do I want to see the only no hitter that's going to happen this season? Well, either way,

Pottymouth 43:27
I was super, super stressed last night checking on the Red Sox game, because the Yankees did have a no hitter for a very long time going and I was like, this is just can't happen. So I'm okay. I like, I think the breaking up of the no hitters has been a little bit of joyous. Yeah. I just went to the Google and it says that the O's no no was actually a combined No no, which is not really a no no. Yeah, it's a different thing.

Patti 43:51
And in fact, this, this piece that I read in the athletic had a star next to one of the the more recent no nos. Oh, I didn't say there were 23 of them in the last five seasons alone, 23 no hitters in five years and yet, combined, none this year. One of them had a star next to it. It was the World Series combined, no hitter, which I again feel like those are combined, no hitters. They are no hitters. They are different. They are important. They are impressive. But it's not one pitcher doing all of the work here, but 23 in five seasons and zero this year so far, but it's not over yet. Wow.

Pottymouth 44:30
Can we talk about tequila? Yeah, I'm gonna hold out hope for some more tequila. Those of you who listened last week might have noticed that we had some tequila at the end. There's no tequila happening today, but we have another opportunity. We'll see what happens. And this is because the Liga Mexicana de baseball, Mexican league L M B, which happens at the same time as M L B, is in their championship series right now, the Serie A del Rey, and it's the A dablos rojos against the Charles de Jalisco. And we learned all about the tequila coming from Jalisco last week. And so if the charros win, lots of tequila is gonna flow. It's not over yet, at least at the time of recording, it might be but no, hopefully not. We'll see anyway, the Diablos rojos, which is the non tequila team. However, it's the team with all of the past, no crying and Baseball, baseball baseball boyfriends, so we kind of lean that way. They have won the first three games, which means that if they won, win one more, they are champions, and they are playing today. So we'll see what happens for the Davos rojos. It would be their second straight championship they won last year. But it would also blow the opportunity for the manager of the charros, Ben Benji Hill, who we talked about last week, he would be winning both winter League and summer league, since he won the winter last winter, and now it's summer, and both of those are our charros big news. However, out of game three, which happened yesterday, Robinson Cano, our favorite Energizer Bunny, the 42 year old. According to the Diablos rojos Instagram account, which sources quote baseball reference, they said that he reached his 4,000th professional hit in the game yesterday.

Patti 46:15
That's a lot, right? It's

Pottymouth 46:16
crazy. That is crazy, shit, 4000 so of course, I went on like this is where all my research time went, yesterday and today, I went on a very deep rat hole trying to add up to that 4000 because nowhere on the Diablo Rojo stuff that I could find, did it say? Where were those 4000 hits achieved? Because they weren't all in Mexico. For sure, a big chunk was in MLB. So were they talking just the MLB, you know, moving around the letters, or were they talking other leagues? And I eventually found something that said it was everything. So I was like, Oh, fuck. So now where do we find the everything? I went to baseball reference, which they had quoted. Baseball reference said totals all levels over 25 seasons is 3620 so that is lacking. So I went to find that 380 hits. Where are those hits? So I went team by team, Major League Baseball, 2639 minor league baseball, 582 Mexican baseball, 278 lead on Dominican baseball, 154 independent leagues. 278, serie del Caribe, which was not counted with lead on because it was a different category, I believe. 17, I had to add that up from a couple of different times World Baseball Classic. 19, he did that baseball United thing in Dubai. Got two hits with them. Also did this other champion League Baseball, Champions League of Americas from 2025 somehow that went under my radar. I don't know what it was, but he got 12 hits there. All that totaled up is 3908 81 so I'm missing 19 hits, and if anybody can find those 19 hits for me, I would really appreciate it. Please contact us by the information that we're going to be giving later, because I was trying so hard with the math. I was trying so hard with the math.

Patti 48:05
I believe in you. I believe in you. I kind of want to check your math right now. I'm not going to. I'm sure you did three times i

Pottymouth 48:11
Well, maybe not three. And I might have been like a passenger in a driving car. I was not driving. It was the passenger, you know, punching numbers, so I don't know, and looking up scat stats, the good news for you is your 2019 pick from the Padres. Jose pirella, who's playing for the Diablos rojos, was the man of the hour yesterday for game three. He went two for three with a homer and four RBI in a seven to two win. So is looking bleak for the Charles. They're down zero to three. They've got to come back today. The they haven't been in the finals for 54 years, 54 year drought here. However, 54 years ago, when they were in the finals, they came back from being down zero to three.

Patti 48:53
I also firmly believe that like celebrating with tequila if they win, they would likely also drown their sorrows in tequila if they don't win. So tequila is not the piece that we're worried about, because that's going to show up either

Pottymouth 49:06
way. But yeah, tequila will be involved. But that's pretty cool that they did it before. Yeah, 54 years. But you know, it's possible. Yes, anything's possible.

Patti 49:15
Anything is possible. So this week I've got some things that are not baseball related. And my baseball related thing is hoping that the Orioles do some spoiling when they have their four game series against the Yankees. Amen to that. So that'll be kind of fun. Amen. So what are you doing? You got you got actual activities that you can talk about?

Pottymouth 49:34
Yeah. So not baseball related, but tracing. I'm at the end of the drink trading bats for lances. Yeah. So the little potty mouth actually both of the combinations of junior and potty mouth, potty mouth, Junior and junior potty mouth, and us, and a whole slew of other people are going to pretend that we live. Hundreds of years ago in the times of the Renaissance, and go to the Maryland Renaissance Festival next week. Beer is definitely involved. Jousting may be involved. Baseball won't be involved, but I'll probably be. You know, following how the Orioles are doing at least as we're

Patti 50:14
two pictures does not include me. Yeah, who is choosing to go right to the hanging out with friends and in air conditioning and maybe having some, you know, adult beverages without the rioting in cars or costume or being outside and being in crowds, because we all have things that we care about deeply, yeah, and mine is avoiding those kinds of things. So thank you for hanging out with all of our kids and all of our friends, and except for the ones who are staying back with me in the air conditioning and the quiet,

Pottymouth 50:40
I'm hoping for some shade and a nice bar and some good music, and me too.

Patti 50:45
There we go with that, the costumes of the drive, of the crowds or the high

Pottymouth 50:49
ticket. Yeah, we've got stuff in common there. Yeah, all right. And then the week after. So we don't have any more baseball in the books, so we might have to figure that out before the end of the season. But the week after this, which we'll talk about again next weekend, we're going to a baseball concert. Baseball concert. Now we want to give people a heads up. If anybody is in the DC area and interested in seeing the baseball project, they're playing on Thursday, September 25 at the Hamilton and they are fun. And even if you're not in the DC area, go to Spotify or Apple Music, wherever you get your music, look up baseball project and just listen. It's so

Patti 51:21
fun. So similarly, former members of REM and a couple, you know, if you are of a certain age, you'll recognize several of the band members. So I'm looking forward to that.

Pottymouth 51:29
Yeah, and if you're a baseball level lover, you will appreciate the stories.

Patti 51:33
It's like Boston and baseball. Love your baseball lover, yeah? Oh my gosh. Okay, hey, so you should find us on social media. If you can find those 19 hits that are missing, have an idea of how you're how you're creating a cocktail out of all the choices that we gave you. You want to tell us about concerts or games that you have gone to or are going to. Where can they find us? Potty mouth,

Pottymouth 51:55
yeah, first check behind the cushions of the couch and then give us a shout on blue sky. That's it. That's why. Or if you have to go to the Twitter, that would be ncib podcast, Facebook and Instagram, no crying and B ball, join the fun on Patreon. P, A, T, R, E, o n.com/no, crying and B ball. And your dollar a month makes sure that our podcast happens, and you join a fun community of people that we Uber super appreciate, because we couldn't do this without you guys.

Patti 52:27
Thank you so much for your support all the time. All right, my friends, if you qualify, or you live in a state that you know gives you a little bit of slack, get boosted. Covid is freaking everywhere right now, even if there's no CDC to tell you about those things send your game balls to Meredith fight the man. It's the right thing to do now more than ever and until next week, say goodnight.

Pottymouth 52:45
Potty mouth, goodnight. Pie mouth, you

Oh, all right, I'm looking I'm looking low. Why am I looking Low? Low? How low can you go? Maybe I started high. Well, you know, after being in

Patti 53:20
Section, yes, I know. All right. I.