No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:17
Hi and welcome to episode 445 of No Crying in Baseball, the I Just Want Salvy to Feel Good episode. My name is Patti. I'm here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
Hey, there. I can agree with that. Who doesn't love Salvi?

Patti 0:28
No one, absolutely no one doesn't love Salvi.

Pottymouth 0:31
Yeah, you know his his Off, off season antics have been an excuse the expression, because this is not somebody that we love and adore, but he's been working out with the oldest Chapman. But, so, you know, put a pin in that, but, but it's really fucking cute, because they're harassing each other about their workouts, like, if they don't show up, they post a little video, like, ragging on the other person, and who makes better coffee? And all right, it's yeah. So of course, Salvi is the much cuter and more endearing of that

Patti 1:02
dude, more role modeling, yes, and we're gonna talk about that later on today, for sure. Yay. Hey, it's Super Bowl Sunday. We're cross training. You know what? I'm excited about? What Green Day and only that. And Mr. Potty mouse cooking. Not bad bunny. Sure. I'm fine with that bad bunny. I'm fine with that you're excited about that there's no room for anyone else to have excitement, because your excitement because

Pottymouth 1:22
your excitement is filling all the space. Yeah. And so I was a little bit, I am a little bit lax with my baseball boyfriend guys, because I thought that I had finished my notes when I went downstairs to dance to the Apple Music with bad bunny, the Apple fitness thing. And it was so much fun that I had to find another one with bad bunny. And so then I was like, Holy shit, I didn't wasn't

Patti 1:40
a bad bunny rabbit hole.

Pottymouth 1:45
Absolutely excellent, absolutely I went on a bad bunny rabbit hole. So I am mostly excited also about the music part of this. But I am a mass hole, and so it is my duty to root for the New England Patriots. And you guys know what happened? I'm a little nervous because, you know, I just want to see the team do well and and also, there's the family thing, right? So I was talking to dad about this. My dad is actually angry and conflicted because the owner of the Patriots, Mr. Kraft, is a dickhead. Of course, my dad doesn't use that language, but like things like problematic. Yes, he does. He does. He's very stressed about it. He's a buddy of Trump's. He is a fucking asshole, and he is the owner of the Patriots. Now, you know, so I start, of course, trying to justify my fandom, as we all, you know, tend to do sometimes, and what do you have to do to make up for stuff? And I kind of feel like if we all judged our fandom by the fucking owners, we'd beat so many people would be screwed. Yeah, absolutely, totally screwed. So I kind of went on the Okay, what else can we compare between the Patriots and the Seahawks? And of course, like the Patriots beat the Seahawks previously in the Super Bowl, so I can sympathize a little bit with Seattle fans wanting revenge, because when they beat them, it was that ugly pick in the end zone? It was actually not ugly. It was really beautiful. But besides that, what else is there? So there's the dunks versus Starbucks thing, right? Oh, sure. So I go, dunks over Starbucks. You know, politically for sure. Why is it not Pete's instead of Starbucks? I Yeah, it probably should be. It probably should be. I think just like Starbucks is, like, known for the Seattle thing. But at this point, I'm sure people in Seattle would prefer Pete's for sure, over Starbucks. So there's that. And then there are, I mean, I haven't looked into this Seattle Seahawks, personal, wise. And actually, my dad was really funny about this, because he was like, Have you heard anything about the Seahawks? Because apparently, in Boston news, it's all patriots all the time, and the rest of the country is like, well, the Seahawks definitely have the advantage, but don't tell people in Massachusetts that. And I said, you know, honestly I don't I do feel like the Patriots do have a few sympathetic folks. If you're like me and want to look for another reason to root for the Patriots, follow Matt Collins on Instagram. He is fucking historical. He has great QR. He's known for going around barefoot. But he also has like, handy tips on his Instagram, like how to get the Sharpie out of your clothing, or how to Yeah, yeah, or how to fix your tires, or how to cook a souffle, or, like, just these,

Patti 4:20
really, this is, like, football boyfriend material. He totally

Pottymouth 4:23
is, wow, yeah. And he and Mike rayball, the coach who, you know, famously, was on patriots, Super Bowl championship teams have really embraced this. Remember the 80s movie, the warriors? Yes. So that's, like, their psych thing is the warriors come out to play and and both of them like hit it hard. And I appreciate a psych thing. The other thing I appreciate about Mike Vrabel is his consciousness about press the press room. When he gets interviewed, he makes it a point. And you know, most male sports press rooms are. Or heavily, I don't know what's the right word, sexist, machista, whatever. He makes it a point to find a female reporter and call on her first All right? And because he does that, Drake May the very young quarterback, this kid who's like, had this crazy good year, does the same thing, nice.

Patti 5:19
So that's role modeling, yeah. So, yeah, I have this conflicted thing. You know how we always talk about when you go to a ballpark that's not like your ballpark, how do you decide who you root for? Like, if you don't have a team, here I am without a team in the mix, and I, you know, I'm rooting for Green Day. And I gotta say, you know, I'm in the home of, you know, of Boston, people who I love dearly, and they're feeding me, and I'm also spending the night here, so I don't want to make any waves, but, you know, I just so it's like, Okay, I just hope everybody has fun.

Pottymouth 5:50
I do too. Yeah. Oh, and interesting. Another interesting thing, boregales, I think, is his name. Andy Bo regales, is the first Venezuelan in a Super Bowl, and he's on the Patriots. There are other Latinos in the mix. I think that Andy is the only one who is actually foreign born. The Seahawks do have a Puerto Rican player born in Puerto Rico, but that is not foreign, as we know, because of bad bunny, you know, cetera, all the Olympics. Yeah, right. There's that too, but, um, but I'm excited for this Venezuelan kid. I think it'd be good. Be fun. Be fun. So I'm

Patti 6:20
also happy, because this is my second slumber party in one weekend. It's like I am 14 years old again. We had a slumber party to celebrate our interns birthday on Friday. And the cool thing about this, the full circle thing, is we went to a brewery. We got delicious beer at that Slumber Party, which we are currently drinking for this slumber party. So we're drinking Nepenthe poly dribbles, which is a delicious sour. This one is like a mango pineapple Fantasia situation, and it's making me very, very happy.

Pottymouth 6:47
Yeah, it's kind of, you know, images of palm trees and little umbrellas in this very cold weather.

Patti 6:52
Absolutely, we did very exciting things on the way. Yeah, so I'm excited. I thought you got to squirrel thing. I thought you know, we did excitings on the the drive home from the Slumber Party, potty mouth pulled up the the epic road trip, Google sheet with all of the tabs and the color coding. And can you tell us the joy of what it is that you jumped on that was miraculous, which makes the road trip absolutely happening

Pottymouth 7:18
so excited. So we went team by team, from the beginning of the road trip till end. And I was dismayed that so many tickets were not on sale yet. But we got to the end of the road trip and the Cardinals our very last game, who are playing the Orioles who so an exciting thing. Their tickets were on sale, and they had behind home plate, and you know, much cheaper than East Coast prices behind home plate. They had these two seats that were just screaming patty and potty mouth. They were in the seventh row on the aisle. Nothing around them was available. And you said, book them, Daniel, right.

Patti 7:52
And so Daniel booked him, and now I'm going to be one of those jerks on on TV who's wearing the other team's Jersey in every single shot, but I'm okay. City Connect is going to come out and play, man. I'm going to represent Baltimore there, but it's going to be super fun. I'm excited. Yes, on today's show, we've got arbitration score keeping we've got boyfriends in Cleveland and San Diego, two places where I've lived. The police blotter is Home and Away. We've got a very visually confusing serie del Caribe. We've got more WBC roster upheaval, and we've got more news about the epic road trip.

Pottymouth 8:26
Cheers. All right, hey folks, we've got to cram in this episode before the Super Bowl starts. So here we go. Um, you know, as the Red Sox fan of this group, last year, when Rafael Devers got traded to San Francisco. It was a big fucking deal. And you know, the trade that leads to other people falling into places, it's kind of interesting to talk about rabbit holes, to follow that trail and see where it turns up and where it turns up is in an airplane fiasco that happened this past week. So the reason why it connects to Rafael Devers is in that trade. The Red Sox got four pitchers for Rafael Devers. And so you want to know, was it worth it? Well, I think the worth it was getting rid of Devers. He was not good for the clubhouse. He had a shitload of money owed to him. Red Sox got four pitchers, two who were ready for prime time, and two are prospects. One of each of those are now elsewhere. So Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison were the pitchers prospects, James Tibbs, the third and Jose bayo, not related to Brian Baio. So Jose is still around. He's in, you know, rookie level. Salem a after two and a half years. Harrison was on the IL most of last season and then so I'm hopeful he's still around. He got two saves out of three games played in September with the three Ra. So pitching is looking good for next year. Tibbs was flipped back to Los Angeles with another pitching prospect for Dustin May. That didn't work out very well. So how did Hicks work out? That's the fourth of this. He just got traded. It this past week to the White Sox with David Sandlin and $8 million Wait, Hicks and Sandlin and 8,000,002 players, that whole package got traded over for gage zeal and one player to be named later, which I think that's kind of bizarre. You just like, do one, yeah, one way instead of two one way and one the other. Don't get it, I don't get it. So gage zeal is the guy that I'm talking about. And I just said all of that just to give it a little bit of background. So Gage, who just got traded over the Red Sox, he was living in Florida in the off season, working out, but he was on the White Sox, so the White Sox train in Arizona. He was on the plane getting ready to fly to Arizona from Florida when he got the text saying that he had been traded to the Red Sox, whose spring training is in Florida. And he said, quote, literally, the plane wheels had just gotten up in the air, and I got a message, and he had to sit through a five hour flight knowing that when he got to Arizona, he would have to turn around and get back to Florida. More fun. He had his car shipped as well. So luckily, luckily, the Red Sox took care of all the details, he said. So that was fun. He stayed over in Arizona. He flew back the next day. They shipped the car back, and I hope the best for gage zeal and the Red Sox. Just a side note for the Red Sox, they also, in this past week, signed my 21 Rangers boyfriend, Isaiah keener Philippa, to a one year deal since I chose him with the Rangers, he's been to the Yankees, Toronto, Pittsburgh, back to Toronto, mostly playing shortstop, but he's actually played eight positions, all except for, what do you think? And I didn't write down the answer, I would guess, catch her. Oh no. Now I remember. I do remember. It's the weirdest one that you would think that everybody would have played first base. He played all of the played catcher and not, and pitched and pitched. Yeah, I'm not first base.

Patti 12:08
I think pitching is more common than having somebody sub in for catcher if they're not a catcher. Yeah, weird.

Pottymouth 12:12
I think early on he was catching. That's amazing. Go figure. Wow. All right, so that's, that's my weird Red Sox news,

Patti 12:19
I like it, all right. Arbitration news as a reminder, arbitration is what happens when a player and their team cannot agree on contract numbers, and so they they can't settle it. They go to arbitration where an independent three person panel looks at the team's number and the player's number, and everybody you know presents a case. The player says, here's why I'm so great, and the team says things like, here's why you're not so great, that's awful, which is awful. And then, you know, the the arbitration, the board, the three people decide, and they pick one number, they don't do compromises. They have to pick one of the numbers, which gets very interesting very shortly. So the very first arbitration decision of the year was Kyle Bradish from the Orioles, who won over the O's is getting $3.55 million as opposed to the O's who offered $2.9 million so you know, like half a million dollar difference there. That made sense, followed quickly by the record that will never be broken for an arbitration situation where Terek scobel got a record $32 million instead of the $19 million that Detroit was offering. What the fuck were they thinking so well, I'm about to tell you, right? So just a couple of like context things. That's a $20 million raise from this past season. The previous picture record from arbitration was David Price, who got $19 million and change 11 years ago. It's also more than Juan Soto's record salary of $31 million for an arbitration eligible player like that was just a contract that was that did not go to arbitration, but he was arbitration eligible. So this is not only an arbitration record, but this is a record salary for anyone who's arbitration eligible. So usually, this gets back to your question. Now, usually when they make a decision about arbitration, it's like when you sell a house, the appraiser looks at comparables, right? But they look at comps in arbitration, right? So like, what? What's happened with other you know, Cy Young, winning pitchers when they get to arbitration would be a thing that they would look at. But small print, small print says if a player has five years of service time when they're entering arbitration, their comparables can include contracts for any player in the game, which means trig squid ball is getting compared to Zach Wheeler and Jacob deGrom and Garrett Cole's salaries, instead of just those that were the free agency salaries, instead of those that were just agreed upon during arbitration, he's also the first American league pitcher since Pedro Martinez to get back to backside Young's. So that also helped only 15 players will earn more. In 2026, than three school bowl, but those were all decided by my free agency, right or contract extensions. None of that was arbitration, all right. So the score keeping. Every year we score keep. Who wins more of these decisions, players or teams. Right now it's five to one for players. So weirdly, almost every, I think everyone is a pitcher or a catcher, mostly pitchers that's going to arbitrage. I haven't seen anybody else in any other position. So pitchers, Graham Ashcroft, 1.7 5 million over Cincinnati is 1.25 pitcher Edwin usata, 1.5 million over Tampa Bay is 1.2 catcher Yani or Diaz 4.5 million over Houston's 3 million the loss Keegan Aiken lost to the Orioles. He's getting 2.97 5 million instead of 3.37 5 million. So there are hearings done on two other players, but the decisions aren't announced yet. That's pitchers Eric Lauer from Toronto and Dylan Lee from Atlanta. There are five more hearings next week, so those, those arguments haven't been heard yet, so you need like the score. The scoreboard is going to change. We'll see how much. But again, there are only pitchers and catchers, so pitchers Chris bubick Read detmers, Calvin Foucher, and catchers Wilson Contreras and Tyler Stevenson. So we will see what happens next week with those. But so far, players are doing very, very well, especially if you're a pitcher for Detroit, well.

Pottymouth 16:29
And, you know, school is something special. He

Patti 16:32
is something special. And I gotta say, I'm sure that Paul, Paul schemes, is like, you know, rubbing his hands together, saying that's gonna be me.

Pottymouth 16:40
Oh, my God above. And because

Patti 16:42
then he's a comp for arbitration as well as what's happening, and, you know, out in the wild. So no matter how you look at it,

Pottymouth 16:49
he's got it for skins, yeah. All right, we are moving on to our baseball boyfriends, the guys we pick in the off season, because they're oh so cool. And then after this, we're gonna make a fantasy league. So stay tuned and join us for that. We've been doing one Al and one NL every week, and we are up to Cleveland. Woo hoo. Patty's home for our al this week, and I'm going with Gabriella RIAs, who is either second base or shortstop, depending on what happens with Brian rochio. Like I guess they've kind of bounced back and forth. There they have. Gabrielle's 25 years old, and honest to god, I picked him because the first thing I saw about him was that his favorite musical artist is bad bunny, and it's

Patti 17:31
bad I've heard you say bad bunny in a normal voice.

Pottymouth 17:34
I'm usually like, bad bunny, yeah. Plus he has really great QR. He has, like, long, not naturally, blonde, hair, and he's looking pretty spiffy. He was originally signed by the padres, which is kind of funny, because that's the other team that we're talking about today. At age 16 in 2016 out of Venezuela, and he was traded to Cleveland 2020 in a nine player deal. So the Padres sent Mike Clevenger, ooh, please just send them all over the place, out of the league, preferably outfielder Greg Allen and a player to be named later, for six players from Cleveland, including two of Patty's former baseball boyfriend picks, Josh Naylor and Austin hedges, plus Cal cuanto and prospects. At the time, Gabriela Rios was a prospect, as well as Joey cantillo and Owen Miller. So Gabrielle debuted on 420, 2022 I will giggle, and played just 16 games that season. But then the past three years, he was on opening day. He played a full year on the majors on 23 and then he was kind of up and down to the AAA on 24 and 25 because of that combo of injuries, plus his numbers just haven't been that great. However, in AAA for 24 and 25 his average was over 300 at the end of last June, I think we talked about him because he had one of those ugly injuries where his foot got caught in the turf and his ankle did just a really ugly twist, and so that you know that was that for last year, one claim to fame he has is another April date for 1424 against the Yankees. He's the only Cleveland player ever to play first base, shortstop and right field in the same game. So I really, you know, the last I checked, yeah, who's only giving me credit for second base and shortstop, but you know, he's got other talents. The other thing about him, I am not a tick tock person. I do, I know, but who knows? After tonight I'm dancing with bad bunny.

Patti 19:41
There you go. That's what I wanted to hear. He

Pottymouth 19:44
on his Instagram, which is what I do, check had his Tiktok link with like emphasis, and he has a great fucking Tiktok. He does all those Tiktok dance things, and he has some with his daughter. She looks like I couldn't find details on the kids, just. Pictures, the oldest daughter looks like she's like 10 or 11, and just the Tiktok dance with the dad. Super cute. He also has twin daughters, and then very recently, in November, new baby boy was born, Gabriel. So check out Tiktok. Just for Gabriel. He also played in the Venezuelan league with the tiberones de guerra, which is a Ron the Cunha Junior's team in 2024 and 25 and so this is a sad this is remember, like a few weeks ago, when I was watching Venezuelan ball, I talked about how I was sad to see the betting stuff all over the fucking place. Well, I think, I mean, I didn't see anything connecting these dots, but thinking about what's been happening here in MLB with players that that might have had something to do with online death threats that Gabrielle got this year after making two errors in a game and basically losing the game for the tiburones. Oh, dear. So I kind of feel like this. It just sucks. You know, it sucks you know, it sucks in this country. It sucks in any country. People should not be using the anonymity of online to make fucking death threats for a game. And if it's that important to you, because you fucking bet on it, just don't

Patti 21:14
bet like, maybe like, find a way to earn money, like, a job, right? Oh no, yeah,

Pottymouth 21:18
get a fucking job. These guys are doing their job. He's trying his best. People make fucking mistakes, and that's what it is. So to give Gabriel a bunch of credit and baseball boyfriend credit, his reply was, despite the challenges, his love of the game and love for his family will always prevail. So I want to add a fun vocabulary word, because I found this in the articles I was reading about him, in the tip of an they referred to him as the torpedero, and so with he was playing shortstop, and we've talked about Campo corto, like short field, being the Spanish for shortstop, but they also call him torpederos, which is like torpedo thrower, like you're throwing that like sharp throw to first base. All right, so he and his wife, Genesis, are, you know, off season living in Venezuela with daughters Mia, which is bad bunny song, you know, coincidence, I don't know, and the twins, Antonella and Miranda, new baby, Gabriel, born November

Patti 22:14
20, yay. I'm so glad that you picked him. I had a feeling that you just might do that. Okay, and I'm

Pottymouth 22:20
telling us what's us what's next. This is a Dante blue jacket, light years. So we're starting light because we have a whole night of football ahead of us. This is a pilsner that is a mere four and a half percent alcohol, but it's very tasty, as I remember, and now we will find

Patti 22:38
out, and also it's very close to nets park, so it's baseball thematic. There you go. That's right. So my hometown team, yay, guardians. I'm gonna talk about chase to Lauder, who's a right fielder, and he's 24 years old, and he's so new to the league, weirdly, that there's not a bio for him yet on his MLB page. I've never seen that someone was already debuted. He was born in Frederick, Maryland, which is so very close, and didn't live there for very long, because mostly he grew up in West Virginia. But the important thing about him is he grew up kind of as a perfectionist kid, like the shoes had to be tied a certain way, like no strings hanging off the clothes. He was always like, competing with his friends about grades, and if not on grades, like, who can finish, like the test faster and those things. But the way this translated to baseball is, every time he learned that he was doing something not quite right, he'd work super hard to get it right. Yeah. So, yeah. So again, it was, it ended up being a work ethic thing instead of just a hey, you're a little weird about everything being perfect. His mom, Melissa, said, ever since he played T ball. That's all he ever wanted. I'm going to be a professional baseball player. And I've always told him, Chase, you have to have a backup plan. And he always said, No, I don't, Mom, I don't need a backup plan. Why don't you believe in me? Oh my god. So yeah. So the kid had kind of a, you know, a one track thing happening, and so far so good, as it turns out. Again, I said he went to high school in West Virginia. He also played like football and basketball. In addition to baseball, he went, he got back to back Lowry Awards, which is the best prep baseball player in West Virginia two years in a row. And then he was 2019 Gatorade Player of the Year for West Virginia, which, as we talked about, you know, it's kind of spans all the sports, which is pretty exciting. So he went to James Madison University in Virginia, in 2020, and initially in high school, when they were looking at him, they, you know, they had he committed as a pitcher, but he had a growth spurt and a strength spurt, and all in his batting really kind of came through. So when he appeared at James Madison, they're like, Hmm, two a player, then he morphed into like starting center fielder. But could do all the things, but that arm from pitching absolutely helps for the whole playing center field thing. You know the torpedo arm, even though you know whatever, there you go. So in he started his freshman year in 2020, starting center fielder, but that was 20. 820 which meant they had 16 starts before covid Shut down the rest of the season. But out of those 16 games, he reached base safely in the first 15 of them, which set a school record, and he ended up as a freshman, all American. Even with a very shortened season, he has been plagued with injuries which don't seem to be related to each other. So people aren't like, worried long term, like, oh, no, you keep like, injuring the same thing over again. They all seem to be just a little bit different. But things happen a lot, so we're a little worried about that. Anyway, he broke his foot during this during the season in 2022 you know, the junior year, ouch, which is the draft year, right? Still picked in the first round by Cleveland, because his numbers were just that good. So he didn't play in 2022 you know, after the draft, because, you know, recovering from his injury. In 2023 he went from high a to double A, the Akron rubber ducks, which were big fans of. You know, more things happen in 2024 he started at Akron, ended at triple A, Columbus. And then, like, in there there was another injury, another like, there was a, like, a foot surgery that shortened one of those seasons. So he hasn't had like, a complete minor league season. They've always been interrupt either the beginning or midway. So his 2025, season, you know, starting in triple A had a delayed start because he had double hernia surgery. Ouch, right? So he ended up playing, not connected to the foot, coming back from that play 42 games. And then in July, he went out for hamate surgery, superhero, which were kind of fond of the hammy things people come back with with a big bat. So he didn't play the rest of the AAA season. So he's getting ready to go to the Arizona fall League, right? He's not coming back for the regular season. They're gonna, he's gonna, like, do his rehab. And he's been like, rehabbing. He's been batting some things. He's gonna go right to Arizona, except that the Guardian said, You know what, come over to Columbus for just a second, since GM is like, pulling him out of getting ready for Arizona. Can we watch a few live at batches to see how you're doing? Hey, you're doing great. We're gonna call you up for the wild card series against

Pottymouth 26:58
Detroit. What a time, what a place,

Patti 27:00
what a time. So he debuted October 1, 2025 he was a seventh player to debut during the postseason. That's crazy. It is crazy. I know there's like on those rookie debut patch cards we've been talking about, where a rookie wears a patch on his jersey and then that gets attached to an autographed baseball card. There's one of them, right? His is that that's only been around for three years. His is the very first one where the debut patch was worn in a postseason game. Yeah. So that is very, very cool. Stephen Vogt, the manager was talking about, you know, him coming in, like during the postseason, into this clubhouse, right? And he said, the beauty of that clubhouse is they embrace every single person that walks through it, because they know we're going to need everyone to help us win. To help us win. Those guys have welcomed him already in the first 24 hours, and when he walked into the clubhouse, he was like, I'm ready to go. He was not big eyed at all. He's ready to help us win games. His debut game was an elimination game. It was game two of a three game Wild Card Series. So here's how it started. He's starting in center field. Fly ball goes his way and he drops it. He drops it his first. He drops it. And he said I was in a shambles right away. So he's the guy, you know. He kind of wanted to walk off the field, but he also kind of wanted the next ball to come right to him so he could make up for it, right? And the other outfielders were really cool with him. They didn't like run over to Oh, it's gonna be okay. They know he knows. He knows it's gonna be okay. And so, of course, the next inning, he caught a fly ball very easily, got a huge ovation. So he was kind of waving to the fans, like, okay, like, now I'm here. It's good. But his highlight was actually had an outfield assist where he threw out Zach McKinstry at third base, which actually saved a run, and it got reviewed, and, you know, and ruled in his favor. So it was really, it was really, it was a very exciting thing. And again, another ovation. He said, That's a feeling every player wishes for. It helps you feel like you belong. So in game three, that's when he got his first career head. He singled off of Jack Flaherty. So weirdly, he's debuted already, but none of that counts for service time, right? Because I showed you, it was like two games in the postseason, right, right? So he's on the 40 man we're hopeful for opening day. And one of the things I read about him was, because of his, you know, his, he's apt to be injured weirdly that they shouldn't. Like, screw with the service time. Like, don't start him in triple A, because what if he gets hurt in triple A, start him on opening day. So you get as much as you can out of it before he has some other freak accident, like, you know, breaks a toe or something like that. So please, please stay healthy. I remember watching him in those two games. He was really fun to watch. He's really an exciting player. So fingers crossed, right?

Pottymouth 29:32
And so that you can have him on your team and have a Cleveland player. Yay. All right, we are on to the Padres San Diego, and I'm picking Ramon Laureano, outfielder, who I have looked at multiple times in the past and turned away from, and I am so glad I am picking him now, because as I've gotten to know him, I have totally fallen for this guy. So he was suspended for 80 games. That's a lot due to p. D I do feel like, especially when it comes to ped that you can live and learn and you know, don't be Robinson, can no and get better, and especially if you're doing that age old claim of, I didn't know, so his term has been served. He was with the A's of that time. He also had a suspension for charging the Astros dugout in 2020 so I think that was another thing that I didn't look into enough. But he did that after he had been hit by a pitch three times in that series and two times that game. And what happened was, as he was going to first base, apparently he had some words for the pitcher. That's kind of normal. You just got hit by a pitch. And then Alex Cintron, the hitting coach front for the Astros, like, took it upon himself to then yell towards Ramon Laureano, took steps out of the dugout toward him at first base, and made a gesture like, yeah, come on and get me. And said quote something about his mother, so I didn't get the exact language around there, but Roman said, obviously, I don't take that lightly. I don't think anyone would take that lightly. And he charged toward the dugout. So he's one dude charging toward the opponent's dugout who's insulting his mother Exactly. So he didn't get to Synchron two other Astros players tackled him first. So I kind of feel like, you know, fuck the Astros again at this point. You know, I know dusty Baker was there also, and we love dusty Ramon got suspended six games for the deal, but it got reduced to four on appeal, whereas Alex Cintron actually got suspended 20 games after review of the video and blaming him as being the instigator. So all right. Ha there. So he How did he get to San Diego? So he went with my 20 4o boyfriend. So I feel like this is another Cosmic Connection, Ryan O'Hearn to the Padres at last year's trade deadline. So I kind of feel like, you know, it's kind of sad I didn't pick him last year, but I get to talk about him now. He was originally signed by the Houston Astros in 2014 in the 16th round. So it took a while. He was born in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, an only child, not common there. His parents were not athletes. Were not baseball fans, also not common there. His dad's a banker. His godfather took him to a tigress de Lysse game, and he was like seven or eight years old, and he fell for baseball at that time in the DR that's late, you know. So like kids who are primed for baseball are doing it from basically when they can walk at age 13. He thought, I want to be a baseball player. His parents, bless them, these are more parents I want to have beer with. Were just supportive. He said, quote, The only problem was, quote, I wasn't very good, and 13 is too late to not be very good in the DR, because you get drafted at 16, which I think that's going to be my next soapbox, because that's fucking ridiculous. If we don't draft kids out of high school at age 16 in this country, we sure as hell shouldn't be doing it elsewhere anyway. His supported parents realized that it wasn't going to happen in the DR, so they looked for scholarship opportunities in the United States. This is so cool. He finally got one going into his second semester of sophomore year in high school. Like, what kid sophomore year in high school wants to say, I'm giving up my friends, my family, everywhere I've been to go someplace where I don't speak the language and I don't know anybody, all by myself. Well, he did that. He went to a private Christian school on Long Island all by himself with zero English. Mom said this decision was not easy on our little family, but we decided to let him pursue his dreams. Oh, mom. Ramon said, so I'm thinking like, man, no English. He said they said they'd give me English class after school, but they didn't, so I just talked to anybody. I was just me. He's a gregarious sort and he is social, and he just made it a point to learn English himself. He did get a little stressed out by the winters, not, you know, never been out of the DR so he almost went home in the snowy winter of junior year, he actually had a ticket bought called dad and decided, all right, I'm going to stick it out in those two and a half years that he ended up being in the US. In high school, he stayed with seven host families, oh my gosh, bounced all around senior year, he got seen by a junior college like he was just out there trying to get picked up because he knows he doesn't want to go back to the Dr He got seen by Northeastern Oklahoma, amn, A and M, and accepted it on the spot. He was like, I'm going, I've got an offer. I'm going there. The recruiter was really impressed by his attitude and his charisma, and he kind of lied to the coach about pitching. He said that Ramon had a really good arm, and they were looking for a pitcher. Oh no, so Ramon had never pitched before. They did try two times, but the ball, apparently, was all over the place, and so they put him back in the outfield, where his arm did well, but he made it his point to improve his batting and he worked and he worked in the batting cages. He. He heard that the Astros were coming to campus to see another guy, and he made sure that he was there, and he got seen as well, and he was signed on the spot, without an agent or an advisor. So his college coach, who he told after the fact, said he probably left a lot of money on the table, probably so right? But Ramon said, I don't care. I just want to get out there and hustle and learn. So he got traded to the A's in 2017 debuted in August of 18. Super strong 18 and 19. And then, you know, 20 was a hard year for everybody. He had a struggling 20, little bit of improvement at the beginning of 21 and that's when the PED suspension came in. So you've got to kind of wonder about the factors that went into the whole ped situation. He was suspended for the rest of 21 into 2227 games, and had a really hard time coming back from that. He said, I had no confidence. That's the truth. Coming back from suspension, you feel a little weird and different. And he struggled. And so with the A's, he wasn't doing great. They DFA ed him. August 5, 2023 got picked up by Cleveland. He improved a little bit, but the beginning of 24 he was really not doing well, and Cleveland released him in May, he got picked up by Atlanta on a migrant minor league contract, brought up for 67 games because of that hard work, and ended up with 296, average, 882, ops for the rest of that season. Worked his ass off back in the DR with Elena's de las Cogito in that off season, batting 259, but in 824, ops in 17 games. And then the O's noticed all that. Signed him in February, and he started that season last year, where he left off with a 290, average, 884, ops with Baltimore. I think Baltimore loved him, but, you know, there was that big shake off, and he went to the Padres second half of last year with the Padres went well, I feel like he might be back to his true form. He had a 269, average, 812, ops and 50 games with nine homers and 30 RBI. So as an only child, he's married his wife, Susanna, and they have an only child, one kid, and he's very private about his wife and kid. His Instagram have has various posts thanking his parents, who I do want to go have a beer with. And notably, his very first post on Instagram was congratulating David Ortiz for getting into the Hall of Fame.

Patti 37:29
Very nice. I like it. I think you would also like Freddie Freeman, who I think would be a very good boyfriend for you too, but he's mine

Pottymouth 37:38
and he's a catcher. Like I did look at him, and I was like, Oh, I promised I wasn't gonna get

Patti 37:42
more catchers. Yeah, yeah. And Allison convinced me, like, Okay, I could actually maybe use a catcher, because we've both been burned with catchers. I was absolutely burned last year with both of mine, like injured at the same time. So ready for me catcher, 30 years old, older than you'd think. He's from Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, which is five minutes away from I want to say Guyana, is that I think so Okay, which is important, because that is the birthplace of Carlos Hernandez, who was also a catcher for San Diego, really, in 1998 when they won the National League pennant. So like this, this tiny little place has given us two major league catchers for San Diego. So anyway, but Carlos and Freddie for means senior, right? So Freddie's dad played little league together. Oh yes, Carlos is now a commentator for a San Diego's Spanish language broadcast, so he's there, right? So years ago, when Freddie was a teenager, his dad asked Carlos to, kind of like work out with him a little bit, and at the time, he said his mechanics, his footwork, he was so quick. I said, he's got something this kid. I said, I don't know how big he's going to be. I don't know his swing. I don't want anything else. The only thing I know that guy is quick. And then said he's got more heart than a lot of people in this game. So when, when Freddie gets, you know, traded to San Diego, his dad called Carlos and said, Can you watch out for him? And what? What Freddie, what Junior said was, it feels so good to have familiar people here, right? He said, I get here in San Diego, and I have Robert Suarez too. So the relief pitcher, also from Guyana. Apparently, he said, it makes me feel like I'm around my familia makes me feel good. Back up to when he originally was signed with Kansas City. He was signed as an international free agent in 2015 at age 20, that's like geriatric time right out of Venezuela. And it was that late, because once it was past like 16 or 17, other scouts were like, well, he looks good, but if no one has signed him yet, something must be wrong, because now he's old. So finally, Kansas City was the one to give him a chance, right? So he signed as a 20 year old and played the Dominican summer league and then worked his way up through the minors, starting at age 20. So he. Played rookie Level Ball in 2720 1720, 18, and those teams that rookie level doesn't even exist in the minor leagues anymore because of all the restructuring and the cutting of all the teams that doesn't happen anymore. But this is what I think the potty mouth will appreciate the most at the time, he said his goal was to learn English to communicate with pitchers better, so we asked for extra classes with with the ESL coordinator. They met at 530 in the morning to study before practicing and again after practice, and then in covid when there, you know, weren't games, right? They weren't minor league games. They practiced over zoom and WhatsApp. There is an award for this potty mouth really won. Kansas City has what they call the Carlos Fortuna Award, which is given annually to the Royals, minor league player who is dedicated to improving his English. Wow, I know gay Royals. I know so now you know he does his interviews without an interpreter. His instructor said, the first interview I saw of him in the major leagues, I cried. I lost it. I was so proud. I was in awe of him. And everything that he's done, the amount of sacrifice, the hard work to get there is priceless. It just melted my heart. All right. So he moved up, you know, single a, double A, 1919, you know, nothing in in 2020, his debut was the wackiest debut I've heard of. His cup of coffee in July 15, 2022, for Kansas City was because Kansas City had 10 players who were not vaccinated, so they were all on the restricted list and couldn't go to Toronto. I remember, remember 10 players. So he was one of those guys that got called up just for like that three game series,

Pottymouth 41:38
which means he got vaccinated Absolutely. Yay. Yeah, and ready.

Patti 41:41
So of course, after those three games, they sent him back down to triple A, and then took him back off the 40 man roster at that time. But in November, they put him back on the 40 minutes they wanted to protect him from the Rule five draft, which means now, now they got to play it, right? So 2023 he starts in triple A play 70 games he started 2024 as the regular Kansas City backup catcher, which means he's backing up Salvador Paris. That's right. He sure is. So. He shadowed him every single minute to soak up every bit of you know of role model, work ethic and skill building all that stuff. He said, I have a lot of respect for Salvi. I see how he's working. That makes me feel like, Let's go Freddie, you got to keep working. I just want Salvi to feel good and comfortable that he's got someone back there for him who can help him if he needs rest. I'm there for him and for the team. So salby says we're on the same page. He said, Every minute, we're going to work together, no matter what, for me, prepares himself every day. It makes me feel safe when I got an off day, or play first, or DH, I feel like I have a guy who can do even better than me behind home play pretty good, huh? And then you end up being, you know, a Gold Glove finalist in 2024 the catcher position. And it was a common opinion that if he wasn't behind Salvi, he would be the starting catcher. Yeah. So you got to balance the I am learning from, like, I'm getting a master class with this could be me, right? So at the trade deadline in 2025 it became him, because he went to San Diego at the tread at the trade deadline. So he's now there. They're starting catcher throughout all this time, he has played winter ball in Panama and Venezuela. Wow. You know, a couple years ago, he was the MVP for the Venezuelan league in 2023 and Rookie of the Year. And his wife, Consuelo Ortiz, and he apparently still have a home in Venezuela. I don't know what's going on. There was no, like, news, like, yeah, they're there. They're not there or whatnot about that. But apparently that's still, like, their primary home is still basically, you know, land of his birth.

Pottymouth 43:41
I was looking up the town. I think it's Guyana. I was Guayana.

Patti 43:45
That makes more sense. Yeah, thank you. But yeah,

Pottymouth 43:48
I was looking at the accent. I think that's it. Yeah,

Patti 43:51
next week Boston in Chicago. So that could be fun. I bet you have some opinions.

Pottymouth 43:55
I have so many opinions about Boston. Actually, the good news about Boston, well, the good news is that we get to talk about Boston, but also I'm thrilled. The other good news is there are so many opportunities, like there are many guys that we could choose on Boston so To be continued. All right, I have an idea. Okay. He good. Okay. Police blotter. Cue the sirens. A few weeks ago, I talked about yase el Puig, who was playing in the Venezuelan League and was pulled before the finals because he had to go to court in the Estados Unidos de America. Turns out he's not going to be going back to play in the serie de las Americas, which is happening right now in Venezuela, and he probably would have been pulled into that team because he did stand trial, and he is guilty as charged for obstructing justice and making false statements. He could get up to 15 years or 20, depending on the article that you look at, the sentencing is going to be happening on May 26 he's actually. Vote on bond, but he almost wasn't, because they were worried about him being a flight risk, so he needs to check in with the judge before doing any international travel, hence probably not going to be playing anyway. So the issue here isn't that he was betting, it's that he lied about betting when they were investigating this illegal betting that eventually took down ohtani's translator and other folks, and I think it probably didn't help him that he pled guilty and then took it back. His defense is blaming and this has happened in multiple criminal charges against Puig in the past. They're blaming his accent and the translator not understanding his accent, cognitive issues and PTSD, but the jury did not buy it. Fun fact, if he had actually kept his guilty plea, he would have just gotten probation in a fine, but he did not, so his defense, and he's probably got money for the defense, they're arguing motions. I don't understand the legal thing. Talk to Mr. Potty mouth. But if the motions argument doesn't fly, then they're gonna appeal. So not the end of this story. But, you know, kind of a sad note. Well, no surprise

Patti 46:12
to anyone. Our other police plotter story is also about sports buddy. This is this fuck.

Pottymouth 46:16
This sucks. Like, what the fuck this is a problem that we did not have, not that long ago, and it's snowballed.

Patti 46:23
It is, it is snowball I mean, we could be talking about things like, you know, MLB Network now, like being the primary network because we're losing, like, these cable networks because of craziness. But we're not talking about that because we don't have time, because there's sports betting. I'm just saying so Emmanuel Class A, you know, yeah, guardians, all star, amazing pitcher, as we know, young guy, yep, so he and Luis Ortiz were, you know, accused of rigging pitches. Everything just got worse for class. I it just got so much worse for him, right? The original indictment listed nine games they were reviewing for him where he was possibly, oh, hold that thought, rigging pitches. Now it's 48 what the court documents that were submitted last week say there was, there was suspicious pitching that would benefit betters in 48 games, which is a full quarter of games he has played in.

Pottymouth 47:13
I'm just picturing Stephen votes face reading this article like, can you imagine?

Patti 47:20
Yeah, so Luis Ortiz was also, you know, accused of rigging pitches, and he's been sort of like swept into this thing, as if he and Class A were working together, and his lawyer said, we are going to sever these cases, because Ortiz has been accused of rigging pitches in two games. I do not want him to be like guilty by association, because this guy's now got 48 games on his list. We're out of here. Both have pleaded not guilty, and the trial is on May 4.

Pottymouth 47:49
Oh boy. All right, well, so we're going to be stay tuned for staying tuned for some all the tunings in May. So much tuning. All right, well, before we get down to bad bunny, we're going to do a little international ball seria del Caribe ended last night in the most fantastic of fashions, amazing. I just want to do a little quiz. So I didn't watch too many games. I saw three, and the first game that I saw was Mexico Rojo against the Puerto Rico. And I got very confused, because what color Jersey Do you think Mexico Rocco Rojo was wearing during that game? I mean, it's been since high school, but Rojo is red, yeah, so, and especially noting that the other team is Mexico Verde, which is green. So Mexico rojo, in that game, was wearing green jerseys. And I was so fucking confused, because the announcer kept saying Mexico, Rocco. The you know, scorecard said rojo, and I'm looking green going on. So they had, it's all in, apparently, the hat and the belt. So they, I don't know, they had red hats, red batting helmets that said Rocco on it, and red belts. So the next game that I watched was Mexico verde. And should I forget who they were playing? But guess what color Jersey they were watching? Well, I want to say green, but I'm guessing if the trick question means they're wearing red, they actually were not wearing either one. They were wearing white. No, I didn't like this game. It is, it is the other color in the Mexican pitches. So the fun fact about that jersey, oh, my god, gorgeous. So not just white but embroidered flowers, like the wipiles, like the traditional embroidered Mexican Guatemalan shirts, so beautiful I posted online. Where can I find one? Somebody answered to go to the charros de Jalisco website and the charos were the Mexico Rojo team fuck. They were both wearing white. Then anyway, the Jalisco were basically sold out. But not only were they basically sold out, so if I had wanted to buy one for 100 and whatever dollars tariffs made. Fucking much more expensive. So fuck that. So yes, that was Mexico rojo, which was white with red lettering, and that was the the, yep, yep, yep. That was where, I don't know that was where I found that shirt. So fun fact, Panama against the Dominican Republic, has the record for the most runs in a serial de crib game, with 31 total between the two teams, between the two teams. The sad fact for this, for Panama, is that they lost by one run, so it was 15 to 16. Oh, wow. And Panama lost. They had actually already lost two other games. So this is the third game that they lost, and then they ended up losing all four games that they played. So not only did they lose by one run, 15 to 16, which must have really sucked, but they also lost by one run against Mexico, Verde, one to 202. Yeah, poor Panama. My heart goes out to Panama. So in the first phase, Panama got a living, eliminated Dominican Republic and Mexico rojo, where the two top tier, who went three and one, and Puerto Rico and Verde went two and two. Day five was the last game, the last day of the you know, the regular playing before they went to the semis. And so it was game five, Game Two, and this is the one that we watched. This is when I watched Mexico verde. They were playing the Dominican Republic. And the programming was weird, because I looked online and it said the game started at 805, but it wasn't starting on MLB Network because they delayed the start, because they were announcing the teams for the World Baseball Classic. So on one hand, I'm happy that they're paying attention to the World Baseball Classic, but they delayed the start of the game by 25 minutes so that they could do that, and then the game was behind reality. So you know, you just had to not wait.

Patti 51:58
I'm sorry, did they did the game start on time, but the broadcast didn't, or they pushed

Pottymouth 52:02
start time back, right? The game started on time. The broadcast didn't, so that the broadcast the whole first part of the game because they were announcing, but actually, you didn't. They just delayed the whole transmission, so the broadcast was happening 25 minutes after reality. Okay, so there's that, and then to so then we finally tune in, ignore the phone, because I don't want to know what's happening. And the announcer leads off. This is a very gringo sounding announcer saying, you know, we're going to be telling a lot of stories, because this game quote doesn't mean anything. Because Panama had already played, had already been eliminated, they already went over four they knew that the other four teams were going to make it to the semi. So this game doesn't mean anything. So I'm just going to tell a lot of stupid fucking stories. And I'm like, I am watching this game because I want to see the game I don't want to see right? The other announcer. So it was sort of like the two extremes. So there was this very gringo announcer saying things like Mexico Verdi and stuff like that. And then there was Adrian Garcia Marquez, who was, like, over emphasizing and like doing lots of 100 Years of Solitude. I think there's got to be, yeah, there's got to be a relation there. Maybe there is. The other thing about the gringo announcer is that he was criticizing using the strike zone, you know, the strike zone box that you see on your TV, that they don't see in reality, I do they. He was saying that they shouldn't have that because it's too hard for the umpires when people are second guessing their decisions, right, right? Like we shouldn't know if they're fucking up on the regular anyway. So we get to the finals. The two finals ends up being Mexico against Mexico, Rojo against verde. It We are watching the final game. Last night. Rojo was running away with it nine to one in the bottom of the fourth inning, and then the fifth inning, and Mexico Verde, just like put in their batteries and kept scoring and scoring, and finally, the quote, no lead is safe actually happened. It was nine to seven by the bottom of the fifth. They each scored another in the bottom of the seventh. So it was 10 to eight in the eighth inning, and I was really tired, and Mr. Pie mouth was really tired, and we fell asleep before the real excitement, because Mexico verde got those two runs in the top of the ninth, top of the ninth to tie it up 10 to 10 after being behind nine to one. Wow earlier in the game. Crazy. So then verde scores the go ahead run in the top of the 10th. Huge comeback. But Mexico Rojo mon want got two runs in the bottom and walked it off on a couple of really ugly wild pitches. So there's that. So the charos de Jalisco were Mexico Rojo. They are the serie del Caribe champs for the first time for that team, but it's the 10th win for Mexico by comparison, Dominic. Republic has won 23 times, and Puerto Rico 16.

Patti 55:04
Can you just back up and tell me, did for this particular game? Did Mexico Rojo wear red and Miguel verde wear green?

Pottymouth 55:12
No, it went well. They didn't. So nobody wore the wrong color, but they did have those. Rojo, I think, had the whites and Verde war green. I'm pretty sure. Okay, I'm pretty sure the winning manager, Ben hegu, look him up. Fascinating, dude. He was on the angels world Sox World Series winning team that took down the Yankees. So yay for that. He also has been managing for a while. He managed Mexico in the 23 World Baseball Classic, and he's going to be doing so again in 2026 so now he has sere de Caribe championship going into the World Baseball Classic. Lots of momentum. And his son was on his team. Oh, nice. And his son was the batter in the 10th inning that, like, ate up a whole bunch of pitches before that ugly wild pitch that, you know, sealed the deal. So the sere de las Americas is what's happening right now. That is what Venezuela did, because they didn't want to go to Mexico, because they wanted to host, and so now they're hosting Because apparently, everything's okay in Venezuela. Now it's underway. I don't know how to watch it. I couldn't figure it out. If anybody knows, please tell me, because it's happening. Wednesday is the end of the regular play, and then the semifinals on Thursday and the finals on Friday. So super quick. World Baseball Classic. That is the next thing that I know we can watch. And oh my god, there's been so much talk about it. The rosters are out. Venezuela is looking super hot. Dominican Republic's looking hot. The United States, crazy and poor Puerto Rico. You know, Puerto Rico, they're hosting the group. And when it rains, it apparently tropical storms for Puerto Rico. So last week, I talked about how all these folks weren't getting insured. And, you know, crazy stuff happening with that. So, you know, I talked about how Francisco Lindor was gonna be their, their captain, and they, he had announced, they announced that a while ago, and then they just said that he is not being insured. I still kind of feel like, you know, he's got a lot of money. He could have just done it. So Javier Baez was the backup short stop for Lindor, not a bad backup, but just a couple days ago, and this, it's the timing. I think that's really fucked up. Why didn't this all get decided months ago? They decided that Javier Baez cannot play because he smoked pot in 2023 at the time around the World Baseball Classic, he got a two year suspension to be served from 2024 to 2026 apparently, including this game. Now note, marijuana is legal in many parts of the United States, and it has been okay, not tested by MLB since 2020 also important to note, it's not a performance enhancing, enhancing substance. It is not at all. So why do this now? Especially because, yeah, I mean, the insurance has been, has been announced. You know, poor yarior Molina, coming off of this, like, hot championship in Venezuela, going back to manage this team that is kind of crumbling in front of his eyes. Katia Lindor, like, bless her. She is really outspoken. She went, she's outspoken on a lot of political stuff, and went off on Instagram defending her husband. So the new Captain after Captain to captain to captain is going to be Martin Maldonado. Yatty Earth managing, so we've got some catcher intelligence there, notably Martin Maldonado, who retired last year, both from El Moby and then after playing for the Mayaguez team in the Puerto Rican League, is going to be managing my ways next season. So I think you know, pointing him as Captain makes a lot of sense. Notably, Maldonado has always been amazing at the pitcher relationship, at calling the pitches, at the defense as a catcher, his bat is not that solid. So we'll see what happens the World Baseball Classic Yara Melina, after he goes back to Puerto Rico to manage this team, has signed on to go back to Venezuela. Had such a good time winning that league going for two more seasons with the navagantes de magianes. One more notable Captain pick this past week, Manny Machado is going to be captaining Dominican Republic. So we will be putting in a link that has you can look up your favorite MLB team and see who on your team is playing in the World Baseball Classic, because there are just too many to list

Patti 59:41
that's all pretty darn exciting. I like it.

Unknown Speaker 59:46
Yes, good

Patti 59:47
timing on the beer lesson. Yeah, look. How about that? Just in time, we got some some bad buddies. I mean, actually, for some green day to see so many good things see us. But okay, so we're gonna need some help from you on maybe not so much Boston, but to have. Really, you know, for some cubs boyfriends, yeah, we need hotty mouth needs help trying to figure out how to watch the series the Americas. Yes, right? And also, we have this epic road trip, which is a real thing now, and we are, we have a target date for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which is Saturday, August 22 so if you think you might be interested, we, a few of you have already said, so if you think you might want to join us for that, and there also is a Royals home game that night, so we could do two things that day, please get in touch with some let us know, because we might be able to set up some group deals and do these tours together. Hang out at a game together. Let us know if you're interested. Please find us on social media.

Pottymouth 1:00:42
Sure you can find us on blue sky and see IB podcast. Also, we're checking those Twitter messages, and I don't know it's between just a hell hole and kind of amusing at times. Facebook and Instagram are, did I say NCBI podcast? I don't know. Those places our NCAA

Patti 1:01:00
just sort of washes over me. It's your dulcet tones.

Pottymouth 1:01:04
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Patti 1:01:41
you know? And as we get closer to the trip actually happening, we might be asking for some recommendations for if we're going to be at a ballpark, and it's a ballpark you go to, what's your favorite food at the ballpark? Where? Where should we stay? What thing not at the ballpark? Should we make sure we see, you know? What? What are some must do's or must visits along the way? We would love your input. Yeah, that bar is for pre gaming, for instance, for instance, or post gaming, or all those gaming

Pottymouth 1:02:06
except for the betting, no fucking betting. No fucking

Patti 1:02:08
we're about to leave you all to go do some Super Bowl pre gaming, and then gaming, and then probably not post gaming, because we're old and tired. But, you know, slumber party, yay. So okay, my friends, please get boosted. Take care of your health. Fight the man is the right thing to do. Send your game balls. Game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth. Good night. You

Pottymouth 1:02:44
all righty sound, check,

Patti 1:02:46
oh, my god, ear, check I have slippers on slipper. Check I can plan ahead for slippers when I it's a slower party.