No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:00
Hi and welcome to episode 429 of No Crying in Baseball, the A Cocktail of Mariners Fans Episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
Hey, I totally would have a cocktail with Mariners fans.

Speaker 1 0:30
I think it's like the new collective now, like, you know, a Murder of Crows or a pride of lions, just a cocktail of mariners

Pottymouth 0:36
fans. That totally works.

Speaker 1 0:38
Yeah. I mean, that's just one more reason for me to root for them, all right,

Pottymouth 0:41
I think over in this household. So we're on squad cast right now. So we might sound funny, and we definitely look different than than Patty

Patti 0:48
usually does. We always sound a little funny.

Pottymouth 0:51
Yes, odd funny, or different funny, I don't know, just funny. I'm in Massachusetts, the land of my birth, and here visiting dad and in the basement now, since the router is down here, so I think that was our connections problems last time. But it's kind of chilly, so you might notice me, or Patty will notice me, like putting on an extra coat, shivering a little bit. I don't know it's cold down here. We've got baseball to keep us warm. Yes, absolutely, I'm super excited. We were. It's actually even for Massachusetts, it's really not that cold here, just in the fucking basement, but outside, it was lovely. And yesterday, I was super, super happy to take my 90 something year old dad and stepmother, who is not quite 90, not even close to a no kings protest hearing I was so happy to see that you did that. Yay. It was great. And I think it was really, really good for them, because there were a lot of people there around their age, and there were just a lot of people there, and just to know that that was one of many, I think it was very reassuring. Because sometimes if you just sit at home and read the news, it gets a little sad. I mean, it's still fucked up. But, you know, going out there and being in person with other people who are saying the same thing, and being very nice and really friendly, like, it was just such a happy, cool scene. And my very favorite, well, I don't know there were a lot of good signs, but one of my favorite signs was a kid who was wearing a Brady jersey, even though the kid was probably, like, 10 years old, like not probably was not watching Tom Brady, but he had a sign that said, patriots, not kings.

Speaker 1 2:22
Oh, that's, that's the way I want to see some cross training happen. That's very, very good. Then, as far as, like, the ages represented at these different rallies yesterday here in in our county, there were at least 20 officially noted, no kids, wow, protests in our county, and one of them was at a retirement community. It was very specific. I think there were hundreds of people there, but it's very specifically, because the residents at that retirement community were like, yeah, no,

Pottymouth 2:51
that's so good. I think that's true here too, because we were trying to look up the closest one to go to, and there were a bazillion, but one said seniors or something like that. And I was like, I don't think that's high school seniors. I would bet not. Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:04
I don't think that's what it is, yeah. So in the world of baseball, my beer cruise dreams are crushed. Yeah, now we still can do the cruise part, but you know, the beer will have to be separate from, you know, yeah,

Pottymouth 3:17
the team. Well, I know that there are breweries in both Seattle and Toronto.

Speaker 1 3:21
So then, yeah, yeah. No, I, you know, I'm, you will sense from what I tell you later, that I am all in for Seattle, but I, I will absolutely throw in completely for Toronto. Yeah. Should the necessity, you know, arise, but yeah,

Pottymouth 3:38
there it is. Yeah. Well, we got a lot more of that stuff coming at you, including lots of caveats, but, um, but, here we go. We got stuff, right? All

Speaker 1 3:46
right. Let me tell you the stuff on today's show. On today's show, we've got Gold Glove nominations. We've got the best double play in the history of the world. We have the best single player performance in the history of the world. We've got a freaking sweep. We've got fans behaving badly. We're cross training with both the NFL and also, weirdly, with a police blotter and winter ball is here. Yay. Woo hoo. Should we start with those Gold Glove nominations?

Pottymouth 4:10
All right, so we just heard the gold Gloves a couple days ago, and if you count in our past baseball boyfriends. So for anyone who's joining us the first time. Hi, we do baseball boyfriends. We pick them in the off season. Each picked one guy per team because there was something super cool about them. And now we're sort of, you know, gloating or worrying or being sad about our baseball boyfriend picks from last year and getting ready to do the new ones. So if we looked at any baseball boyfriend pick that we've picked in our past, whatever nine seasons of this podcast, we would cover a lot of those nominees, an awful lot. But as far as our current guys go, I'm kind of excited that my Toronto guy, Ernie Clement, has two nominations for both third base and utility. Yeah, it's crazy. Crazy. So 66 of his 140 starts were at third, and he had a bunch of at second as well. Nobody has ever won two gold gloves in one year before. I don't know if anybody has been nominated. I couldn't find that

Speaker 1 5:13
if somebody, but that's what I was gonna ask. I just utility just became a category a year or two ago. Really super recently. So probably not.

Pottymouth 5:21
That's true. That's true. And so three people in history, because of that, right, have gotten the Gold Glove at different positions, and that's Darren ersta, DJ, LeMay who and Placido Polanco, and maybe up and coming Mookie Betts, if he gets shortstop now, because he's gotten an outfield one before. I believe I just wrote that down. I didn't actually check, but I'm gonna go by like the strength of my memory cells there. I'm really excited for Ernie. That would be amazing if he could do one of those first things. He does have super tough competition, including two former baseball boyfriends for the third place, one Michael Garcia and Jose Ramirez, and also Daniel Schneemann and Mauricio Dubon is past baseball, boyfriend for the utility. And I don't know the rubric like I'm a teacher, and when I grade a student, I like to have a scoring rubric where you have how many points each thing gets. But as far as I can tell, these rubrics are not public, so we don't know what stats like, what magic combination makes somebody a Gold Glove winner. And it was really fun to do the sorts on, I think it was baseball prospectus, or, I don't know, one of those websites with stats to see under which category, which guy got it. And so on the bright side, if they go for defensive run saved, which I should, I would think that that would should be huge, because you're literally saving runs and helping your team win, right? So that's because that's where Ernie Clement did really well. He had so much more than the next guy in both third base and utility. He also turned a lot of double plays. He was first in double plays for all of third baseman. But maybe that's because he played second base a bunch. He was second to Michael Garcia in games played errors and fielding percentage. So I don't know, but I know this doesn't count, but in ncib world, it counts character, along with all the cool stuff that he did. And I just wanted to remind folks that he is heart and hustle nominee for Toronto, so that's huge points for us, plus sweet stories. And last week, I talked about his hometown, and I have to do a little bit of a correction, because I said Rochester, and it's actually Brighton, but brightness to Rochester is only as to Rockville, so that's what I'm which makes

Speaker 1 7:36
sense if you're following our stories about James Wright. Where is he from?

Pottymouth 7:40
Again, right? So Patty picked James Wood as baseball boyfriend, and depending on the source, and either said only or rockville. And those of us who live in the in the montgomery county area know that rockville is the big city and, well, not big big. It's the city. It's bigger than, yes, exactly, although only has breweries. So more comment from Brighton, including a former teacher of his, who sort of echoed the superintendent quote last week, saying, as a Yankees fan, I'm kind of a little depressed, but as an Ernie Clement fan, you know, we're all ecstatic. So go Ernie. The other Gold Glove nominee that I am rooting for is Xavier Edwards, my Mylon second base pick. Actually, he was not. He was my Mylon Marlins pick. I'm in Boston. You guys, my Marlins pick. I picked him as short stop, and then he early had a, actually pretty small injury, but it put him on the IL long enough for Otto Lopez to do really well at shortstop. And so then they brought zebra redwoods, and they put him on second base. And he actually should be very, very grateful that they did that to him, because his Fielding, his outs above average, that's it. So he has a very high fielding percentage since moving over to second base, much better, actually, than he was at shortstop. So his fielding now is 989 I think over the season, it's 970 something. I mean, it definitely took, got better with that move, but also his outs above average. When he was playing shortstop, his initial position was negative seven, and since he moved to second base, it's nine. So that's, yeah, that's a 16 point difference. And yay Xavier Edwards for, you know, grabbing that second baseball by the horns and making the most out of it and then excelling.

Speaker 1 9:24
Yay, all those good things. So for me, I had five guys, five current boyfriends, wow, get Gold Glove nominations. And as much as I say, defense is sexy, all of my guys have sexy defense in the outfield. Isn't that weird. So Kyle Stowers and Wyatt Langford are both nominated for left field, sit down Raffaella and Pico Armstrong for center field, and Sal freelich For right field, which he almost always played. But hold that thought, because he did some magic in center field, which we're going to talk about in just

Pottymouth 9:54
a minute. That's amazing, though. So two of the races you have a 66.66% chance. Chance of a baseball boyfriend winning like you, the odds are in your favor.

Speaker 1 10:05
They are in my favor, and I'm just slack jawed that you did math by choice, right?

Pottymouth 10:12
I'm trying to, like, you know, keep in practice, and you could have an outfield sweep. Now that would be like I could, but, you know, knock on all the things, right? Yeah, okay, we'll celebrate. We will absolutely celebrate next week with, like, a beer or something.

Patti 10:25
What a shock. That never happens. Hey, what are you drinking? By

Pottymouth 10:28
the way, all right, so on the way home, and this may explain things a little bit with the way I'm chatting, we stopped at a brewery. We went to Kittery, Maine. We drove through three states today because we went little bit of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Maine. And on the way back in that little bit of New Hampshire, we stopped at a highly recommended brewery, Earth in earth, Eagle brewings. It is like a very dive Barry kind of vibe. It's just chill. They have a little bit of outdoor seating. They had sports on. We watched the Pats game. They actually won. It was all good. So I am drinking right now their Armadillo danger Pale Ale, which is very, very good.

Speaker 1 11:08
I feel like armadillos are really just dangerous to drivers,

Pottymouth 11:11
yeah, and they're not so many in Maine and New Hampshire, it says an armadillo also isn't a bird. Yet on the side of the can, it says, drink the bird. Love the bird, give the bird be the bird, yeah. Well, I think that's the Eagles. Eagle something, yeah, yeah. That's There you go. All right, you better introduce your drink.

Speaker 1 11:29
I'm drinking a cocktail. I'm drinking an autumn liqueur. Mule. The autumn liqueur is from our favorite woman owned distillery nearby 10th Ward, and with some ginger beer and a little bit of lime Seltzer, and it is very, very delicious. And it's beautiful outside and just chilly enough that I think fall. Yay, the autumn liqueur meal sounds so good. Cheers, yay. Should we talk about some of the games that happened this past week and our boyfriends? Yeah,

Pottymouth 11:57
I guess that means it's my turn again. Damn it. So damn it. You know, the Dodgers won, and I hi Dodgers fans. I love you guys. And I love all of the Dodgers, almost. I think probably a good number of them, individually, as human beings. I'm just as an entity. I really wanted Milwaukee to win, just because it would have been fun. However, you know, actually, since examining some of this stuff, since then, maybe I don't feel quite so bad. I do like the Dodgers. Jackson chorio as my my Milwaukee guy, and he really carried the team on his 21 year old shoulders, in a lot of ways. He played every game despite being the fact that, being the fact, oh my god, this is really good beer, despite the fact that he was previously injured, and he re injured himself, both in game one and game three, enough to leave the game, but then came back and played the next game. So as a mom, I am super worried about his long term health and the decision making that went into that. I'm just hoping that these folks know what they're talking about. When in game three. I don't know if you saw Did you see him getting it was he was batting, and he took a big swing and he hopped like he had pulled something batting, and he couldn't bend his leg. It was mighty concerning. He hopped off the field. And so here's, you know, if I'm doing sort of like tit for tat, keeping score, which side I'm feeling sympathy for Dodgers, fans booed him at that point, which is really kind of classless, because, you know, the guy just got hurt. The Brewers as a whole team only scored one run in each of those four games. So, you know, you got to score runs to win the game. That just kind of comes down to that. Chaudieu got two of those four runs. One guy. He got a sack fly in game one, and then Game Two was the big fucking deal, where he got the lead off home run, and then Yamamoto didn't let up anything else after that. Then 27 outs, yeah, the only postseason play, the only player who's younger than him who got a postseason lead off home run was him last year. So he's done it twice. Jake Bowers got the game three run, and chaudieu is second to Bowers for the postseason average in OPS, but he had 20 more at bats. He had 33 at bats to Bowers 13. So I think that's gonna you know, to sustain that high level. 303. Average, 890, ops. Pretty fucking impressive for did I say he's 21 so on the Dodger side of things, I feel a little bit of Fenway nostalgia. So here's, like, the point for the Dodgers, because, and I talked to my dad, and my dad's like, I like Mookie Betts, and, you know, I like Kiki Hernandez and I, like Dave Roberts, like, talk about a Massachusetts hero. So I get that. And seeing these guys, especially Kike and Mookie, who are both both past baseball boyfriends of mine, they're super sweet. They're really, really nice guys, and they're doing pretty good things. So Justin Turner, I had picked, I think. And he was with the Dodgers as a baseball boyfriend, and he holds a couple of really important longtime records. Because he was with the Dodgers forever. Thought he was going to be with the Dodgers forever, but now Pookie Mookie Betts took over his his record for postseason doubles. So Mookie Betts is now the Dodgers leader historical and Dodgers history for postseason doubles, Kike as of the time of recording, has tied Justin Turner's record of postseason's games played as a Dodger. And Kike found out about that mid interview. And I totally suggest watching the whole interview. It's going to be in our notes. It's like 12 minutes long, and it's the last question that he gets asked. The interview is beautiful because he's got a really great bandana on in his hair, like that, his daughter won't let him cut. Looks really good. But besides that, and he has his cool glasses on, besides the esthetic of it, he is flawlessly Well, as far as my somewhat understanding ears go, going between English and Spanish questions like one right after the other, and just sounding really amazing in both languages. And what I loved is sort of how his spirit came out a little bit in different ways. And and in one of the Spanish questions, they asked him about, you know, being Mr. October, about how he's so much better in the postseason. And he said, and this just sounds really cool in Spanish, so he said, entre el caste October, which means, in the chaos of October, it brings peace to my mind. So he's just like, that's him. He likes that chaos, and he just wants to focus and zoom in, despite the Dodgers dominance. My current baseball boyfriend is doing the worst on the team postseason. Now, I shouldn't shit on him, because he really had an amazing season. This is Andy paques, but apparently, at least according to our all bat AI bat, i don't know i The it'll be linked that he's on pace for the worst offensive playoff performance in history, somehow. So he has only three hits in his 35 at bats so far, he is currently the worst play postseason player in OPS, for anybody who's had more than 20 at bats. And by far right now, his Ops is 249, with an average of 068, I did look up the the record. So I'm not sure what the math entails for him to get this low. But in 1934 Marv Owen of the Tigers had a 169 ops in 30 postseason plate appearances. So still he's had so packages has already had more plate appearances than that. So I don't know how you compare apples to kumquats.

Patti 17:44
Oh, dear. Oh dear. Okay, yeah, I was 100% behind Milwaukee. I love these guys. I do, like a lot of the guys in the Dodgers, but kind of as a whole, I, you know, it's the underdog thing, man. I really wanted them. They were scrappy, yeah, and they gave me, already my post season highlight for over years, over this double play, holy, oh my god, crap, everybody, every single player involved in this double play, except for the pitcher, because we don't have pitcher boyfriends. Is a current or previous, no crying in baseball boyfriend, we can pick him. We can pick him. So Sal freelich, my current Brewer's boyfriend, starts this 862, double play. Eight is center field, six is shortstop, two is catcher. Weird. Numbers, right, 862, double play. And then, if you watched it, they had nice close up on his face when he looked puzzled and said, What the fuck just happened? Because here's what just happened, this play, and I'm going to describe it to you, was ruled a ground ball double play. The ball never hit the ground. So here we go. Max Muncy hit a 404 foot shot was headed over the center field wall and center field is important in Sal's world, because he usually plays right field, C Gold Glove, nominee for right field. He's playing center field. The ball bounces off his glove and hits the wall then bounces into his glove, so he did not catch it on the fly. This is key, and the the umpire out there ruled it correctly. A lot of people made assumptions. Yeah, a lot of people assumed that he caught the ball, even though absolutely on the field it was ruled correctly as not, not a fly ball catch. So he caught it. He threw a bullet to my boyfriend, Joey Ortiz. And Joey Ortiz right, on the money threw home to William Contreras, which forced out to Oscar Hernandez, right, also past pick of mine. Yeah, all these guys. All of these guys are what, either yours or my current or former Boy. One of them, wow. So, yes, yes, everybody. So Ben Contreras saunters over to third base and steps on it because Will Smith, who was on second base. Oh, my God, didn't. Didn't head to third, so he forced out both at home, because Tasker was on third going home, and Will Smith, who was on second, going to third. So it was, in fact, a double play. So Wow. Max Muncy, who was the batter, was running after he hit the ball, because that's what you do. He actually ran past his teammate, Tommy Edmond, who was on first base, because Tommy Edmond did not leave first base yet, because, you know, whatever, if they needed a third out, that would have been it, because you can't pass the person in front of you on another base. So him passing Tommy Edmond would have caused the third out, but they didn't need that. They already had an out. They only needed the two outs. So every one of those people who was involved in that except for the pitcher, was a current or former boyfriend of ours. So where does the pitcher come in? He was interviewed after the game, and he was interviewed but about the fact that it was ruled a ground ball double play. And he the pitcher, was asked, was there any ground in it? And he said, No, there was a wall. There was a wall in it. So it was actually scored that way, because the ball wasn't caught in the air, right? It was played off the wall. So as soon as it got played off the wall, it was considered a ground ball, no longer a fly ball, and frankly, I almost don't care what happens in the World Series, because I saw that play, and that play was the most mind blowing, amazing thing I've ever seen in baseball. So yay for that. The only thing I'm going to say about the Dodgers is something that you all already know, because there's been so much coverage of this is Shohei Ohtani, yes, my 2020, boyfriend when he's back with the angels had it keeps getting billed as the best baseball game. It was not a great baseball game. It was an amazing it was the best performance by a player ever. No one's ever going to top this, for sure. The game itself, he was the almost the whole game, right? So I wouldn't call but oh my god, this performance. He struck out 10 batters over six scoreless innings, and also hit three home runs. He had a crappy postseason. Until now he like he was the guy that played and won this, this final game, and then Pookie, Mookie vets said later, it's like, we're the Chicago Bulls, and he's Michael Jordan.

Pottymouth 22:25
So that clip from Mookie is on a video compilation. I probably didn't save it. Maybe I did of reactions of a bazillion Dodgers players to they're just asked, one by one, what do you think of Shohei Ohtani? And basically they're all like, the fuck do you expect me to say like, that is, it's inhuman, it's unreal, like, that's an unworldly, I don't know all this thing, yes, people, people don't do that, but holy shit, this guy does it, and he also looks like so innocent and sweet, very chill. All right? The other a, CS, right, ALCS. In this case, that is still going on at the time of recording is Toronto, Seattle. And I just want to point out that it is Sunday, no October, 19, at 6:19pm, and in this household, we are very, very excited to see game six. And so definitely my dad, I think my stepmom, are leaning Seattle, mostly because of the the excitement about Seattle winning for the first time. And my dad brought up today. He was like, it's like I felt with the Red Sox, because for the Red Sox, like they, they had won before, but it was a bazillion it was before he was born, let alone before I was born, so that he had lived a very long life before seeing the Red Sox win the World Series. I think he's kind of like feeling for Seattle like that. However, there's also Canada's really cool place, so I'll be happy either way. And I honestly would like to have a game seven, because I'm really pissed that the Dodgers had to sweep it like they could have been a little nice and given us more baseball, but more baseball. Yeah, what do you

Speaker 1 24:07
think baseball is always good, although I would love for Seattle to wrap it up again. I will absolutely be 100% by the behind the Blue Jays if they end up on top. But boy, do I want the mariners. So this series started out like, how? Remember, like the the the World Series that the Nationals won, each team only won away games. Yeah, that's how this one was starting to feel, right. And then Seattle, finally, they pulled out game five, after losing two at home, pulled out game five. And yay, my boyfriends came to the rescue. My former boyfriend came to the rescue. To that after two home losses, so Cal Raleigh tied the game with his home run number 64 which is fourth of the postseason, and then the bases got loaded up with two walks and a hit by a pitch. So that wasn't pretty, but it happened while the. Is going on, right? So Eugenio Suarez, my Red's boyfriend from 2019 is coming up to bat, the pitcher who started the game for Seattle, Bryce Miller, comes up into the bullpen. He's watching with Logan Gilbert, you know, one of their other starting pitchers. And Gilbert tells later, he said that Miller told him, Hey, I mean, actually, I'm sorry that Miller reportedly on the Gilbert told him, all I'm asking for right here is a home run. Nothing too much makes this little joke. So Eugenio Suarez, who already home run in the game, once hits a Grand Slam. So there the Seattle broadcaster Rick rizzes, his call is, get out the rye bread and the mustard. Grandma, it's grand salami time. Gilbert later said about his, you know, all the asking for is a little home run here. Said It started as a request, but, but, but we can say I called

Pottymouth 25:51
it credit when you can. Man,

Speaker 1 25:53
yeah. And then Eugenio Suarez says, I have a good amount of beautiful moments in my career, but today is something else. I've been waiting for this moment my whole career. So we've talked about the Etsy witch. You have seen on TV people with shoes on their heads, their rally shoes on their heads. There's any number of things. So Tyler Thompson is the mariners director of game entertainment. He said people believe in the power of weird. Yeah, wow. I'm like, Yeah. I totally get that A fun fact that when you talked about the spell, Did you note how much it cost? It was a $16 spell. How about that?

Pottymouth 26:29
Not know that? Wow.

Speaker 1 26:32
It was a $16 spell, but price. But Tyler Thompson here that you know, the director of game entertainment, is the one who coined the phrase cocktail of mariners fans. This the meaning of all of this has created a cocktail of mariners fans that are superstitious. They want to be here early. They want to have an impact on what happens on the field. I believe, as much as they do, what they do has an impact, whether it's what jacket they wear, what mustache they grow, or what fish wins.

Pottymouth 26:58
Yeah, man, that 15 inning game, I think that was home field advantage.

Speaker 1 27:02
You know, hubby's now, like, totally famous. A lot's going on. So, so, you know, it's weird because, like, the first two home games didn't work out for them, but they they have something to cheer for now, and they believe for Toronto. I want to note that my former Cleveland boyfriend from 2021 Andre cementis Hit homers in two consecutive games. Nobody saw that coming. That's very exciting. And I will say that Anthony Santander, who got traded to Toronto this past year, who is my O's boyfriend from 2020 got removed from the roster due to his back injury, which allowed them to call up my current Toronto boyfriend, Joey loperfido, who wasn't on them the postseason. So so far, he's only had one pinch hit. Was was for George Springer when he went out for injury the last game. But as you know, as we noted, that George Springer is back, but Joey Little perfido is not replacing Springer. He's replacing Santander, so he's still on the roster. We'll see what happens there. I hope good things happen,

Pottymouth 27:59
just not that, right? I hope George Springer is okay, because that also a former boyfriend looked really yucky on his knees. Yeah, it sure did. Just to see that he's, I mean, he's DH, so there's that, but he's still like, unless he's hitting home runs, which he does, he might have to run the bases. So, yeah, we'll see what happens. All right, police bladder segment is, Don't say stupid shit, especially because we live in a digital world, I don't know. Just don't be an asshole. Is one thing you should think about, because you should be nice to other people. Also, you should be aware that people can record stupid shit that you say anything in public is now like public to the world. So watch it. This is in the Brewers Dodgers fan in Milwaukee game two, there was a pretty drunk, somewhat exuberant Dodgers fan sitting there in an away stadium. And from what I can tell, just from video evidence, I think the guy really was kind of being a dick, like he was standing up. But, you know, I've seen Yankees fans do this, and probably Red Sox fans, you know, in the opponent stadium, when you just stand up when your team's doing very well and laugh at everybody around you. And if you've had a few alcoholic beverages, you might do this more enthusiastically. Still, it's, you know, it's common behavior. It's nothing totally out of the ordinary. So apparently, there was this guy. He was kind of sparring with a woman in his section, and he stood up and on video. So he's actively taking a video, sort of panning the sex section, asking, Why is everybody quiet? And it was right after the Dodgers were ahead. The Dodgers, you know, had been ahead since Jackson chariots first inning home run, and then the Brewers were quiet, so Kike has a lead off double in the seventh, and he is videoing everybody who is relatively quiet. And so a woman gets annoyed with him, which I can see doing, and the first thing she says is, right away, not very endearing. She says to him, real. Men drink beer, pussy, which you know, for there's every part of that sentence I don't think needed to be uttered at this man, like, whatever, what he drinks, he drinks. And it was one of those, I don't know, seltzer y kind of things. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Not your fucking business. But then it gets worse. She taps the guy in front of her and says, you know what let's call ice because the guy who was filming was Hispanic. The guy who was filming was Hispanic, but he was a US citizen and a war veteran twice. So he said that out loud, and he

Patti 30:29
was Hispanic, and he was, yeah,

Pottymouth 30:33
those things in this one human being who was, you know, drunk and being obnoxious, but still, that's not a reason to call ice on somebody, and so he or

Speaker 1 30:42
even or joke about, it's not funny. Not funny. We've seen way too much that shit in our own neighborhood. It's not funny.

Pottymouth 30:48
Yeah, you're totally right. That's like, the bottom line is, you just, why would you think of saying that to another human being? Because it means something really traumatic, and you don't know this person, you know, I mean, or anything about them, although you know, even if you do, you're right, you just don't say stupid shit like that. You just don't say that. So he said, Go ahead, call us you fucking idiot. He she reported him to the stadium. He was escorted out, which if he was being drunk and obnoxious. I can understand that. But then the video went viral, and it had really bad consequences for her. She was actually fired, it seems, from her job at Manpower Group, and she resigned from the Make a Wish Wisconsin board. She was on the board of Make a wish. So make such

Speaker 1 31:32
poor decisions. And that's a question attitude that screen your board members better nonprofits,

Pottymouth 31:36
it's, it's kind of boggling. The Dodgers fan, to give him credit, he said he feels bad for her. And, I mean, I guess, you know, he can probably understand that sometimes when you're drunk, you say things like, you don't mean, but you don't say, I guess that's the line. Like, when something horrible comes out, like, that's in there somewhere people, you know, many people wouldn't just say, I'm gonna call ice out of the Yeah,

Speaker 1 31:59
if it's the first thing that comes to mind. You've thought this before, yeah, he

Pottymouth 32:03
so he said he feels bad for him that she shouldn't be judged by just one mistake. So good for him. He's better person than me. I wrote, yeah, and he said that it was his first time at a Brewer's game. Said, This is my first time at a brewers game, and I got kicked out. But you know what? I had a great experience, and everybody was really friendly and welcoming. So I don't take that, he said, so I don't take that one incident and label the whole entire day bad. That one incident that led him to get, you know, kicked out of it. I mean, it was seventh inning, so I guess there wasn't that much left, but still, he must have paid a pretty penny for getting to fucking Milwaukee and buying tickets to that game. But, yep, don't, yeah, don't stay stupid shit,

Speaker 1 32:40
right? And also, let me say, please go to ball games and other ballparks. Travel, right? See ball games and cheer for your team. That's fine to cheer for your team, but we don't like it when anybody picks on other players or in other teams. That's no whether you're the home team or the away team. That's bad form. Don't do that crap. Absolutely. Cheer for your team. Go for it. And if people give you crap for cheering positively for your own team. That's on them, not on

Pottymouth 33:03
Yeah, and there is, I mean, we've been caught up with friendly banter with you know? Oh, sure, then that's fun. But there's a line. When you get there's just a line, there's a fucking line.

Speaker 1 33:15
Don't get personal. You're not calling anybody. You're not calling names. You're not making jokes about things that are not funny, yep, yep. Let's move on to labor a little bit. So a couple of things that I read were really posing the whole Dodgers versus brewers game as sort of a referendum on the upcoming labor negotiations, because you've got a gigantic payroll team and a very small market, very low payroll role team against each other, and either, either one of them winning was going to give somebody fuel to for making their arguments. So for context, the MLBPA, the players union, the CBA expires next year in December, December 31 2026 everyone already says there's going to be a lockout in 2027 and here's why, Major League Baseball is really pushing for a salary cap, a limit on how much players get paid. The players union says that's a non starter. If that's on the table, we're not coming to the table. The end, you can't, don't limit what players can get paid. So the MLB was looking at, like, you know, if the Dodgers are already going back now for like, a second world series in a row, if they win a second world series in a row, they're claiming it's fuel to the fire. Like, we'll see what happens when salaries, you know, where there's no ceiling on them, because then this team is just gonna roll over everybody, whatever you whatever. On the other hand, Milwaukee got almost there with a super low salary, and honest to God, if they could spend a little bit more, maybe they would have had one more pitcher. And you know, maybe not if they could spend, if the owners had spent a little. More. They could have one more picture, or what, whatever, that might have pushed them over. So the lead so owners are saying, Oh, well, you know, it's a parody issue. You know, if some teams pay more than others, it's not a parity issue. It means you don't want to pay so much. The idea is, get the other other owners to pay more, right? You can, if you can afford, you can afford this, pay what players are worth, right? MLB, Pa can say there's already parity because of how well the Brewers did, right? If they're, if the teams are skilled, they're going to get there. But if you So, go ahead and pay up. Pay them better. And that's where if you want parity. Yeah, you know, encourage other owners to pay their players more. So the Washington Post had a piece about that, and they said that the brewers are the team in MLB smallest market as the way it's measured in the CBA, and have the best regular season record and home field advantage. So I mean that was regardless of, you know, the ability to pay it's just that they didn't pay them. It would have been better. It could have been it could have been better if they just did that. So go ahead and pay up. So please, you know, stop using these teams as like these little flash points, and just pay people what they're worth. Yay.

Pottymouth 36:17
Amen. Oh, I got another beer. So it's been delivered. And I think, I mean, you can see it, but it's called the New England gangsta. And I think that's just adorable.

Patti 36:26
That's like your new nickname.

Pottymouth 36:30
Yep, it's a West Coast IPA. So I don't know why they called it a New England gangster, but it's a really cute bird with a little hat. So that's me. I'm going gangsta, and I'm gonna start watching winter ball. So for anybody who's feeling like maybe a little done with MLB or just needs more baseball, because there aren't that many games anymore, we just have a few left. It's time to start watching ball from south of the border. And the Dominican league lead on opened this past Oh, I can't do math, the 15th that was Tuesday, right? I think it was Tuesday. The Tigres de la say versus Leones delcojiro are the two big teams the two previous champions. Escogido won last year, Lisa won the year before, so big opening day, and they had Juan Maricel there, who is the first Dominican in the Hall of Fame in MLB. He had 243 wins, 2303 strikeouts. Played from 1960 to 1975 mostly for the Giants. From 60 to 73 then yay, a year with the Red Sox and a year with the Dodges, but incredibly beloved in in the Dominican Republic. So it was a big marical Fiesta, and Vladimir Guerrero, SR was there to catch his pitch. So how cool is that I'm not going to talk about the leaderboard, which means that escogido is not doing well right now, because there's only been, like three or four games. So that's not enough. But the leonos del escogido Not only won lead on last year, but they also won the serie del Caribe the Well, now it's four countries. Oh, man, things are weird with with Caribbean playoffs now, but they are the reigning serie de Caribe champs, and they invited the kids. So there was a serie del Caribe kids that I mentioned briefly a few months ago, and I don't think I ever mentioned that the Dominican Republic won. So the winners of the adult version invited the Leonard winners to the of the kid version to their home opener, and the MVP kid got to throw the first pitch. So well done. You know, it's good to include the kids. And a bunch of my former baseball boy friends, or at least a couple, are on the lanyes del escogido, which I'm pretty excited about. Francie Cordero, who remember from Cleveland fame, and Pedro Severino, who was all over the DMV for a while. And last year, actually, I picked Alexander Canario for my cubs boyfriend before. Oh no, I picked him. Did I pick him for cubs? And then he got traded to the Mets, and they got traded to Pittsburgh. Anyway. He's still trying to break through, so he's getting some time in this winter with mileno's desk cogito, as is Jonathan Arauz. So I could have sworn I picked because we talked about him so much. But apparently he was a I was gonna pick him if he had stayed in MLB. They also have pictures johnny johnny Cueto, who I think I lost it, but I re I posted on our story a really cute video of him dancing. He has got the moves off the field. So I'm hoping he has the moves on the field as well for the May Leonis escogido and Phillips Valdez, who pitched a couple years somewhat poorly for the Boston Red Sox. But hey, he was there. John Kenzie, no, well, big Christmas is on Toro's del Este. So not my team, but he's playing in the Dominican League. So you can watch big Christmas hit some big bombs, probably in the Dominican Republic. He's along with my former way back first season, I picked Ronald Guzman for the Texas Rangers. I don't know why can we. Remember that the Condor and he's still playing in the Dominican Republic in estrellas, or on the estrellas Orientales. Fernando Tati senior is still managing. And Ramel Tapia, who I had picked, who played with both the Blue Jays and the Red Sox and other people and magnolias Sierra, who had a hot moment with the Marlins just long enough for me to pick them and be disappointed those guys are also playing. So tune into Dominican ball. I believe you can still get it with your MLB subscription if you have that, and then Venezuela not to be out adorable. Is that a thing they did a kid? So the cardinales de Lara, I like, hit the gold last year. They're my Venezuelan team, and they also won the LV BP last year and the Little League team from Barquisimeto, which is the town where cardinales de Lara is, they made it to the Little League World Series. They were the team that we were wondering, are they going to let them in or not? Because they're from Venezuela? They got in, but cardnales de Lara hosted those kids, and they did. They made it super cool. So each player was paired with a little kid, and they came in to sort of that smoke, like the dry ice kind of thing, like they came up this weird looking lift and with lots of lights and smoke with the little kids. So like, what a cool thing for each kid to get, like a big buddy on the same team, just in the big guys League, the big guys. Rafael Ortega, who was my boyfriend for a hot minute before he posted something transphobic, and then I dumped him forever, a former never going to be a boyfriend. Him and Juan Yepes, who I picked not too long ago, actually, for St Louis, I believe, and then he got traded to the nationals anyway. They're both on the cardinales. William astudio, the ever what is it? The bunny Energizer, Bunny Energizer, Turtle Tortuga. He's back with the caribes. Dan swadehi and Sandy Leon rugnet odore and tukapita Marcano are all on the navagantes like that. Just saying those three names together is enough to spin my head.

Speaker 1 42:03
Because also, it's important to point out that took a pizza Marcano has a lifetime ban for Major League Baseball because of betting on baseball. So this is where he gets to go play now, maybe only Yeah,

Pottymouth 42:17
betting on the team he was on. That was the like, No, you don't do that. Yeah. And then, I mean, root, we remember from being he was here in the Orioles, and he punched Jose to Bautista, and then San De Leon, I think, was catcher for all our favorite teams at some point. Well, definitely for Red Sox and for Cleveland. Eduardo Escobar, another passbook of yours is with the Tigres de Ottawa. I think that's it. Anyway. Watch watch baseball. There's, there's

Speaker 1 42:45
basically yeah, so many guys to see. Yeah, so guys that you haven't seen for a while or may never see otherwise, and but also guys that are just having a great time in the offseason and keeping their skills sure exactly. And I have a feeling that potty mouth is going to come back with some Spanish language vocabulary to help you watch those games

Pottymouth 43:02
in a later date. I have homework you do, you do, but you can

Speaker 1 43:05
stretch it out over the whole season. We're going to cross train with the National Football League. I told you last week, I think that the the LA Rams were basically renting out Orioles park at Camden Yards so they could practice all this past week between when they beat the crap out of the ravens and going to London to to play. So interestingly, the the Orioles technically rent Orioles Park from the state. There's a stadium authority, right? So the state of Maryland technically owns it. And then, you know, the O's have a very, very long lease, so they were subletting to the Rams with permission from the state of Maryland. So I've seen photos like from above that are incredible. Like they didn't use the infield, but they they overlaid the outfield with, like many sections of football fields, like 60 yards of football field here, and like, 30 hours of football field over there and that part of the outfield. So they didn't officially use the infield, but these are guys playing in a having some fun in a ballpark, and again, a baseball park. So there are photos of the quarterback, Matthew Stafford, throwing pitches, you know, from a tarp covered pitchers. Man, right? Because I think they had a great time with that. So like the Rams coach, Sean McVay said it's a really cool thing for our players, right? They had a good time doing that, and it saved them all that travel. But also, what I like is part of the deal, the rental deal, was that the rams are going to pay to re side of the entire field before next season. Usually baseball fields are just sort of like spot re sided, like where they need it, because pretty expensive to do the whole thing. There's other renovations going on at Camden Yards right now. It's gonna be like a new video board, new scoreboard. They're upgrading a bunch of things. So this is gonna just really feed into the whole, you know, refresh the Camden Yards is getting and so thank you NFL for helping to make next year. Is in a lovelier place for the Orioles. This other one, we're cross training. I was I called it cross training with FIFA, but I'm thinking, actually, maybe we're cross training with the police blotter, because our fascist in chief is throwing threats around again, and these are soccer threats. He's threatening to move World Cup matches out of cities that have Democratic mayors, or, as he says, are, quote, run by radical left lunatics who don't know what they're doing. So nine of 11 of the World Cup cities have Democrats as mayors. He does not personally have the authority to move games from one city to another, but FIFA does like their contract says, and it's, you know, it's like if there's war, if there's extreme danger or whatever. And of course, we know who's causing the danger in these places. And the FIFA president, Johnny and Fantino has been hanging out at the White House, pals with the fascist in chief, super so some things could happen, although part of it, I mean, even though the cities are billed as Boston and San Francisco, the games aren't actually being played there. So I don't know if that matters. Like, like, you tell me, is Foxborough actually within the city

Pottymouth 46:12
limits of it's not even fucking close. Like, a lot of us claim Boston Foxboro does not even try. Like, if you live in Foxboro, you don't say, I don't live in Boston. You live a fucking hour south, right?

Speaker 1 46:22
And the same thing for San Francisco. The games are actually the matches are actually scheduled in Santa Clara, which is not San Francisco, but they may get the wrath of the fascist because, you know, we were calling it San Francisco, like on the big list, or whatever. So yeah, no kings and No, no decisions about sports.

Pottymouth 46:43
I just, they've already started selling tickets.

Speaker 1 46:46
Like they're, yeah, they're so I think they're sold out everywhere. Frankly, I think that. I think the

Pottymouth 46:50
whole it must be so, like, if you have, I mean, he's full of shit. He's just full of shit. Do you know how much chaos that would be to say, like, okay,

Speaker 1 46:59
care, doesn't care. Doesn't care. He wants to be in charge of all the things

Pottymouth 47:04
I am, you know, I'm, did you see his response? His AI response to the no Kings Day. It's vile, like it's a it's an AI video. I don't even want to describe it like folks you can look at if you want to, but it's, it's something that, like a middle schooler would have put into AI, but it's scary, because he's the president, and it's

Speaker 1 47:25
just scary even, you know, even the spokesperson for the White House was saying, Oh yeah, we don't care about this protest. Well, maybe you should, because it's the people, the people are speaking. You need

Pottymouth 47:36
to care, right, right? No, it's

Speaker 1 47:40
so fucked up. Hey, the World Series is coming up. You know where I'm gonna be when the world series starts? At the beach? Oh, wow. I'm gonna be at the beach with, possibly without other baseball fans, or not fans that care about other than the nearby team. So we'll see how much I actually watch to begin with. But I'm very happy to be going to the beach and getting a little bit out of town and hanging with friends and having some peace and quiet and nature and stuff. That sounds really good food, because my friends can cook. Let me be in charge of happy hour that sounds I get to do drinks and snacks. So it's gonna be all good. I'm excited about that. Sounds like a really, really good deal. Yeah, excellent. Well, I'll be holding on the fourth then next week, once we get back from Massachusetts, tomorrow night, yeah, so yeah, one more game tonight, and maybe another one after that. We'll see how tonight goes, and then we'll know what's happening, and we'll have all week long to think big thoughts about the

Pottymouth 48:32
upcoming one series. Yeah, and then comes baseball boyfriends. Yes.

Speaker 1 48:38
Sure enough. So actually, our friends out there, if you already thinking about why haven't you ever profiled? This guy? I like this guy, please feel free to let us know if you have some recommendations for who you want to see us pick for for future baseball boyfriends, because we'll be getting to that in a couple of weeks. Let us know on social media. Potty mouth, where can they

Pottymouth 48:54
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Speaker 1 49:39
Yeah, thank you for your support. We depend on it. We really, really appreciate it. All right, my friends, get your booster if you still can, where you still can fight the man. I bet a lot of you did that yesterday. Keep it going. It's very, very important. The White House might not care, but everybody else does. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight, body. Mouth, good night. Kindness?

Pottymouth 50:20
No, it was right where my foot was, and I didn't even realize it. I was just moving my feet and I put them on my chair, and I guess I hit the power strip that took care of everything. I.