No Crying In Baseball

Patti 0:18
Hi and welcome to episode 449 of No Crying in Baseball, the Manly and Handsome episode. My name is Patti, here with my friend, Pottymouth. Hey, Pottymouth.

Pottymouth 0:26
I figure you're describing me. That's how I'm looking today, right?

Patti 0:29
You're manly and totally manly and handsome. That's actually how I describe you on the regular. No, it's absolutely true. It's absolutely true. I we were just discussing how I'm very sophisticated. You know what? With my favorite color being black, and that's not a goth thing, is a sophistication thing, and you're just manly enhance them. You can't stop

Pottymouth 0:46
sure it's backwards baseball cap, yeah, and it's and it's all this sports watching that I've been doing.

Patti 0:51
Yeah, there's so much sports watching. Oh my god, I can't focus on one game. I keep going back and forth. Well, that's

Pottymouth 0:56
exactly what happened to us. So I'm also lagging a little bit. I might be talking slower than usual, but that that's not going to last, because I'm starting to drink beer. But we just got back from Massachusetts last night, late, well, late in, you know, school teacher terms, so 10 o'clock at night, but I'm a little tired, but it was so much fun watching so many sports with my dad and stepmom. So Saturday night was just like, Mr. Potty mouth was on the clicker, and we were going back between the US Great Britain game, the Venezuela Israel game, and the Puerto Rico Panama game. And of course, like Puerto Rico Panama is where we landed, sure that was crazy ending, but it was so much fun going back and forth, and my folks really liked it. And then the baseball gods were kind enough to schedule more games pre flight. So we were leaving mid afternoon on Sunday, but there were noon games. We got to see Dominican Republic, Netherlands and Columbia Cuba, and then the Celtics started. And so we were all excited about Jason Tatum being back. So that was like the click a circuit on Sunday, and then we get to the by at the airport, and on our little mobile devices, we watch Great Britain, Italy. So it's just so much, so much baseball over the weekend. One of the

Patti 2:11
things that I like about how the timing is scheduled for the games is is in groups, they're kind of staggered by an hour, yeah, so you can watch the first hour and see, like, all the way through, like, the starting lineup for both teams, right? And then go on to and up, so you can get a legitimate size taste of a game before you move on to the next one. So I did a lot of that's like, an hour of this one, yeah, an hour of this one, and then this one, until I just felt really bad for the other team. And so I went back to the first one. And, you know, there was a lot of that happening.

Pottymouth 2:39
Yeah, I would get impatient at breaks between innings and be like, check the other team, check the other games. Like, is that one still going on? So we're doing more of like the rapid fire around the circuit. Yeah.

Patti 2:49
Thing. So do you have a Who you rooting for? I'm kind of Dominican, I gotta say.

Pottymouth 2:54
So the Dominican team is so fun. They're so much fun. I've been low key Venezuela rooting, because I feel like it would be really a poetic time. And we'll get to this a little bit more, get to our WBC thing, but I think it would be a pretty cool fucking time to celebrate Venezuela just, you know, they've been through a lot.

Patti 3:13
Honestly, I put on the Israel Venezuela game, I thought, wow, this is loaded with political overtones, and none of that got mentioned. Like, Okay, never mind, right? Yep. So I'll just keep that to myself, because we're here for baseball. Okay, so more of that. So should I just go on to on today's

Pottymouth 3:27
show? Oh sure. I should get my Okay, camera ready on

Patti 3:31
today's show. We've got suspensions and contracts. And does one make the other one? Okay, maybe it does. We've got boyfriends for Toronto and Milwaukee. It's our last boyfriend week. Oh my god, we're the top of the top of the stack, and we've got so, so very much. World Baseball Classic.

Pottymouth 3:46
Cheers, cheers. All WBC, all the time, all the time.

Patti 3:51
All right, what are we drinking? Do you remember? No, oh, wait, it was, it was a lager. It was a Munich.

Pottymouth 3:59
Munich lager from liquidity. Ale Works now. There we go, look at mine to the steel.

Patti 4:03
So we have a lot of things going on right now. So potty mouth just got back from traveling, and got back late, so tired from that we are both tired because the time change is stupid. It makes me ridiculously stupid. Why am I that tired? And also, I had a work event we're recording on Monday evening after work, which is what happens when we travel on the weekends, and I had a work event that was under social pressure to have more than one adult beverage because we were welcoming a new staff member. I just shocked. Potty mouth was like, wait, you

Pottymouth 4:32
had two nice shock. Yeah, okay, your eyes got really big. I was maybe jealous.

Patti 4:37
Okay, so that's fair. So there are a lot of reasons why today may go sideways. I'm just putting that out there, but we're going to start with jerks and profile and this, this also went sideways in a way that I find very interesting. So okay, so the facts of the matter are jerks and profile, who's currently under contract with the Atlanta team, has been suspended for the entire. Season because he just tested positive for the second time on a PD test. Right? He's currently appealing this. So he, if you remember, he was suspended 80 days last March for his first, you know, first infraction on this policy, and it goes 80 days the whole season, and see it on the door hit you on the way out for your third one. So this, he found this out. You know, he was gonna be on Team Netherlands right for the World Baseball Classic. They were doing an exhibition game on Tuesday. I think he found out, like, 10 minutes before, like, first pitch for that game. And so he just got up and left. So sort of left team Netherlands with like, but he's not allowed to play, yeah, so being suspended for the season is just not, not just MLB games. He can't play professional baseball for the entire season. His brother is still on the team. So when you hear a profile, you know, it's not jerks and it's

Pottymouth 5:52
even though it's a j also, I kept getting double taking Jeremy. Jeremy, yeah,

Patti 5:57
and apparently Jeremy's cleats have both of his brothers on there. So jerkson is actually there in like, you know, cartoon image, Jeremy's cleats. So what he said last March when he had his 80 day suspension for his first infraction, was, I would never willingly take a banned substance, but I take full responsibility and accept MLB his decision. Sure. So this time, he's out for the whole season, so he's not going to be paid his $15 million that he would be due this year because of his contract. But here's where it gets interesting, and people are starting to turn on players a little bit. His contract with Atlanta goes through next season through 2027 and he's gonna get paid next year. So another $15 million dollars is coming his way next year, unless he gets dinged a third time, in which case he's out. But if he gets hurt, if he what, no matter what happens, he's going to get whatever's due Him by contract next season, 2027 season, right? So there's a really interesting article that Brilli did in the athletic that says, for some players, that makes the risk of taking PDS worth it, it's like, oh, you won't get $15 million next this year, but you'll get it next year. Wow. So maybe it's fine, and the appeal is being paid for by the union. And there were some disgruntled players who, I believe were anonymous, who said things like, yeah, he's got plenty of money. He can pay for this himself. Why is the union? Why is the union paying for this? He knows better. And there were definitely a lot of grumbling about it was worth the shot. Oh darn, I only get $15 million instead of 30 million. Right? Might as well appeal dollars and if and there, the point was that people, the players, are taking these drugs because they want to stay on top of their game, and they feel like those things are going to help them. So it's worth that risk. Either I'm going to play great and I'm going to earn this money, or I'm going to get caught and I'll earn half of an exorbitant amount of money. So it's really, it's icky. It's icky because I don't want to think poorly of players, but there seem to be some players who are thinking poorly of other players, like you, are gaming the system, and that makes me itchy, and I don't like it. So this, this, like discipline ladder here is in the CBA. So like, the contract that this, if you're this is your contract, you're going to get this, you know, unless you're suspended, you're going to get this money. And so that's something that could change if players wanted to float, making that change. So in the meantime, the Atlanta manager, you know what, White said, the moral of the story is something good is likely to come from the bad news, other players are getting a chance to play because he's not playing and they're not paying him this year, so they're not on the hook for that $15 million that year. So, like, we'd like to have him, but if we don't, it's an opportunity for other players. I was fascinated by this article. It's like,

Pottymouth 8:55
really, I just it's, it's such another world where somebody is willing to sort of be okay with not having $15 million one year, because, you know, you're going to get it the next year. Like that. Just blows my mind. How people can make that kind of calculations with huge amounts of money.

Patti 9:12
And then you think about, like, we've been talking many times about, you know, Class A and the sports betting thing is like, why is he risking this very lucrative contract, and the fact is, he wasn't getting a lot of money back. If you were, then I'd be like, so, you know, you're getting a lot of money, or a hell of a lot of money, right? You know, so that this is what you're risking, and so maybe that's worth it. So I don't know if that, if that tracks for sports betting, but apparently it's tracking for PDS, like, if you take it and don't get caught, you play great, and you get awards, and you get, you know, you get bonuses. And if you take it and you do get caught, then you don't get paid this year. But don't worry, you got, you got a long contract, you'll get paid next year.

Pottymouth 9:52
It's so crazy. The whole concept of, like, thinking you're not going to get caught is also blowing my mind. I thought that they had like, guardrails for that. Now. I mean, you're a teacher, you catch every. Buddy, oh yeah, well, but I also know of teachers who don't catch folks. So I guess, I guess Shit happens. People are conniving, but, you know, jerks and profilers. A past baseball boyfriend pick of mine, I didn't look up from when, but I'm pretty sure it was padres, and it was a while ago. So those are the guys. That's my segue. Those the guys that we pick in the off season, because they're cool. We each pick one guy per team if you're new. The podcast Hi, and we're gonna finish it this week. These are our last position player picks. Are our last position players. Holy cow, we've been working our way up from the bottom of the bunch for the worst records up to the best records, and here we are best record in the American League, Toronto, Blue Jays. And I'm going with Nathan Lucas, outfielder, probably a fourth outfielder, 31 years old. So the first thing that drama drew my attention to him, and I remember this from the playoffs last year, that his name looks like Luke's, l, u, K, E, S, but it's pronounced Lucas. And it confused me endlessly while I was watching those games. And so I had to, like, look it up, like, why is it pronounced this way? And the answer is, they just pronounce it that way, like there's no ethnic reason or anything that the family knew about anyway. As far as I could tell, we've just always done it that way. I guess that's what it is. It's Nathan Lucas, so that's what we're gonna call him. And also, so he's 31 years old, and last year was his first full season in the majors. So what I like about him is that, you know, journeyman thing, that just being tenacious and sticking with it. He was in the minors for 10 years. So last year, age 30, his first season in the majors, he had done well. So it's not like he had been wallowing in the base levels of the minors. He had done really well at AAA the previous five years to being called up, except for, of course, 2020 he was mostly at triple in in that time, his average was 297 with a 799 ops. He was originally drafted way back in 2015 by Cleveland, and then traded to Tampa a year later, August, 2016 released by Tampa in 2021 despite doing well in in Durham and then almost quit that year because his daughter was born that November. So that was the question of, you know, am I going to stick it out in these AAA situations, try to get picked up by another team or be a parent and make some money? And he decided to stick with it, with a lot of support from his family, and was picked up by Toronto on a minor league contract. So that's how we got to where we are today. He debuted with Toronto in 2023 in March, and both 23 and 24 he just had like, 20 something games, definitely under 3024. Was looking really good in triple A. And so it was looking like he was going to be called up for, like, the long term. He was batting 361 with a 961 ops by by the beginning of June in AAA that year, and then he ended up getting injured, and this is like, you know, horrible fate casting a shadow on his potential for that year. He missed most of June, all of July, and half of August, because, and I'm reading this because, you know, just cover your ears if you don't like gruesome stuff, and fast forward for two seconds. But this is how he injured himself. He said I was sliding into first base trying to reach for a hit, and my thumb just caught and the UCL tendon just completely snapped off the bone, so there was a lot of concern about him actually being able to come back that season, miraculously, he made it back up to the miners in August, did really well for 13 games, and then finally got called up to the Blue Jays for The rest of the season, starting August 30, and he ended 2024 with 23 hits in 22 games. So I'm very happy that that thumb tendon situation didn't totally fuck him up. He got to opening day for 2025 and 2025 he wasn't again slated to actually be an everyday outfielder, but Anthony Santander had a mighty bad season with injuries and some shitty play. And so Nathan got to play 134 games with a 255, average, 730 ops, 12 home runs, 65 RBI. So I'm thinking he has a good shot for the fourth outfield job for 2026 he's a California boy originally from Sacramento, went to Sacramento State, same as my former Dodgers pick James outman, and at Sacramento State, he was number two all time in both hits and multi hit games. Now here's where this long miners situation affects him as an old guy. So. Last year was his first year in the major so he's not eligible for arbitration until 2028 when he's going to be 33 years old. Yeah, he will be a free agent in 2031 when he's 36 so he is not going to be making a lot of money. So as you were talking about, like, that whole profile situation and playing with the big bucks, here's a guy who's going to be league minimum, you know, probably for most of his career, but he just wants to be there, right? And for his first year in the bigs, he made it to the World Series, and he was a super key, and this is where I also remember and appreciate him from last season. He was super key in the Blue Jays out doing the Yankees to get that division title that last series that the Blue Jays had against Tampa, they swept Many thanks to Lucas's Lucas's for RBI in the three games, he ended up batting 333, in both the division series against the Yankees and the championship series against the mariners, with four hits in the Division Series in four games, including the game winning two run single in the seventh of game four. And then in the championship series, he got nine hits in nine games. And this is where we get into a betting scandal that is not his fault, but I wanted to throw it in here, because we talk about betting and And whose fault is it when shit happens in betting? And you know, my bottom line is the companies like they shouldn't be there, but also MLB should be restricting it. So it's kind of like, who's anyway, draft King sucks, right? A Massachusetts resident won $934,000 by betting on Nathan Lucas in parley. So isn't that fucked up? Notably, the his minimum salary was $766,000 so this person won more betting on his postseason than he won playing for the season. Now, the key the controversy is, is the bets were actually quote illegal or against rules. So I guess when you do a parlay, I don't totally understand this. This is like a one stat thing or a one play, right? So the person who bet about his how many hits he was going to have in the ALDs, you're supposed to only be able to choose one, like he's going to get five or more hits, or he's going to get seven or more hits. But this person did four separate bets on five or more, six or more, seven or more, eight or more, and you're not supposed to be able to do that. But the bookie let the person do it, and apparently it was actually Draft Kings fuck up, because Draft Kings had listed him as a quote non participant instead of a quote player. I don't know why. Maybe he's not starting, but what it did was it stopped that mechanism from kicking in to prevent those bets. So Draft Kings was claiming that they shouldn't have to pay this guy because it's fraudulent,

Patti 17:54
because they made a mistake, and so they shouldn't be held responsible for making their own mistake, pretty much.

Pottymouth 17:58
And luckily, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission agrees with you and basically said, Too bad you have to be diligent in your offerings. This is an obvious error for Draft Kings. The in house controls should have caught this error so somebody is really rich off a bunch of parlays. And you know it, I don't know. I'm not going to condone gambling at all. Don't, don't like get a positive reaction out of this, but, but you want to say suck at DraftKings. I do want to say suck at drafting for sure, but I don't want more people to be betting shit tons of monies thinking that they're gonna get a million dollars off of this right anyway. Lucas got a Grand Slam last Friday, so that's good. I'm hoping that that bodes well for this year. Also has two adorable kids, his wife Taylor, Kid Remy, who's four years old, and baby jet, is going to be at one in April. Great names Remy and jet. And Remy joins the little Scherzer story that you talked about. I think it was last week with Max scherzer's kids saying, you know, I want to stay here. Remy just wrote to her dad and said, I love Canada. I love the Blue Jays, and I love you, Dad, thank you for playing your best all season. So Wow. Another family happy with Toronto?

Patti 19:07
Well, there's gonna be another family happy with the Blue Jays. And I, what is it about the freaking Blue Jays that the kids have so much say

Pottymouth 19:17
it's Canada. That's it Canada.

Patti 19:20
All right, so I picked Kazuma Okamoto, who's third base, 29 years old. He's from Gojo, Japan. He played in the NPB for the yamiary Giants. Oh, wow, starting in 2015 so he's been playing professionally for a long time. So the NP is, is the Japanese national league. He was within the NPV. He was an all star six times, two times Gold Glove winner. He was the league MVP in 2019 he was the home run leader in 2020 2021, and 2023 Wow. He's got a lot of nicknames. At that time, he was nicknamed the young general for his manager, Tatsu No. Rehara, who played for the Giants for 15 years and then managed them for 17 years. He was a big favorite. I guess he was not the young general. Maybe he was the old general, or maybe just the general. So okay, he missed half of the 2025 season for an elbow injury. There was a collision at first base, and he still hit 15 home runs, but he had 27 or more home runs for seven straight seasons prior to that. So the Giants posted him in the off season, which may meant made him available for Major League Baseball teams to to approach him and attempt to sign him. Right? That's what that posting means. Toronto signed him to a four year $60 million contract in January. Now the team that posts him, so the the Japanese team that posts him, gets a percentage. So they, the Giants, got $10.875 million from that posting agreement. So that's that's a lot. That's a lot it this, this one signing pushes Toronto's payroll to the highest in franchise history. They're actually over the competitive balance limit. This is not something they've done before, but they made some signings this

Pottymouth 21:12
win this year. I mean, they came so close, you know, right? They've got to have such a drive, right?

Patti 21:18
So he got a breaking down the $60 million is a $5 million signing bonus, and he'll have a $7 million salary this year and $16 million in each of the next three seasons. One of the things I read characterized him and his style and his stats as a less expensive. Pete Alonso, so bargain. Pete, all right, and $60 million for four years, apparently, is barking. Apparently, is bargain Pete Toronto sees him in a utility role. He had primarily played third base in Japan, but he's also played some first base, also some left field. So he's pretty flexible. He said, via an interpreter, he said, I consider myself a strong player with strong batting skills, but when it comes to defense, I like playing different positions. So after he signed, you know, they had the formal introduction. Ta da, here is our new player. So he said, and this is where the family thing comes in. He said, first of all, I love the city of Toronto, and the team is very strong. So I thought there was a lot of support here. But there was one thing that stuck in my mind. I put all 30 logos in front of my daughter and said, which one do you like the most? And she

Pottymouth 22:26
pointed out the Blue Jays. She's gonna pick a bird there. I mean

Patti 22:31
other birds, but okay, but yes, he said later that this wasn't going to be like the final but if there were two teams that were very close that he was trying to decide behind why wouldn't you let your kids say this one's pretty Yeah, and go with that. He then said, I was very, very impressed by the play. He's talking about how the the Blue Jays play, but more so I was impressed by the fans, how they cheered loudly, and how there's so much love for the Blue Jays. So Scott Boris is his agent, and Scott Boris gave him a nickname, big oak because, you know, his last name is Okamoto. I don't think that Boris is allowed to give him a nickname. That's okay. It needs to stay in his pocket. But he joked later, but he was asked, How do you describe yourself? And this turned into a nickname. Said, I describe myself as, you know, manly and handsome. Sure, we like that which he then, you know, said was a joke, but I think that's sticking so manly and handsome is sticking right there. So he's played as part of Japan's national team throughout the years in various tournaments, and he's playing for them now in the WBC, in the 2023 WBC, he's the one who had the go ahead home run in the finals win over United States, the outlook for Japanese hitters is often not great, because apparently, Major League fastballs, I don't know if they're faster or what it is that's different between that and what they're facing in Japan. So several folks, several players who come over from from the Japan league don't do well against that pitching, but in the very small sample size of World Baseball Classic, he's hitting very well. He's hitting fastball is very well. So that looks pretty good right now, a couple people are predicting him to be on this the starting lineup, probably at third base, but we'll see. So fingers crossed that that he does. Well, apparently he's kind of a fan favorite, because he's pretty engaging. And I'm sure it's not just a story about his kid, but it

Pottymouth 24:26
could be just a story about his kid that does that and the manly thing,

Patti 24:29
and then he Well, I mean, who doesn't like a baseball player who's manly and handsome? I mean, really, that's the first thing we

Pottymouth 24:34
look for. No arguments here. All right, yeah, I think my guy, Ernie Clement, is getting bumped over to second or something because of this, I don't know.

Patti 24:41
I have so much fun watching Ernie Clement. I actually, I know, I know potty mouth picked him, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I can pick him. No potty mouth, he really is. I do enjoy him.

Pottymouth 24:52
All right, we're off to Milwaukee whole new year. Well, several months actually, but you know, it's so exciting. We're gonna actually go to Milwaukee. Yeah, more on that later. So I'm picking David Hamilton because he just got there from the Red Sox. So kind of like I picked Caleb Durbin, who had just gotten to the Red Sox for Milwaukee. It was that same trade, so I might as well, you know, benefit from both sides of a trade. So it's a win win for me, right? David Hamilton, I'm a lot more confident about Caleb Durbin than I am about David Hamilton. But I I know David Hamilton better well, you know, not personally, but in my brain, because I've been watching him play both on the Red Sox and on the woo socks. And he is a Speedster. He and He has that attitude. He's just going for it. So in a 2021 article that I saw there was quotation from that said, I'm a guy that gets on base, steals bases, and is a good defender, and he's pretty much lived up to that same article he talked about that he's probably not that home hit run hitter, even though he'll get a few in, but he's gonna make those runs happen. It might not be through hitting it out of the park, but it's, you know, it's through that small ball and being a little bit more clever about it, which is super fun to watch. Fun to watch, he was actually drafted by the Brewers, so it's this is like a full circle situation, eighth round, 2019 out of University of Texas. His dad, David Hamilton senior, also played for University of Texas and ended up in the red system for just two years, but didn't make it too far up. But he had that, you know, baseball experience. Grew up playing with dad. Said dad was the one that pretty much taught me how to steal, always working with me with the starts and getting to jump. So what dad trained him for is what he ended up excelling at when he was he grew up in Texas, in San Marcos, and he was starting shortstop all four years of high school, but he also did two years as starting quarterback, including all state honors junior year as quarterback. So that's, I mean, cross training is always a good thing. It's a good thing mentally. It's a good thing for your physical aptitude. And so yay for doing football, although I get concerned about their brains, but yay for doing more sports at University of Texas. He was starting shortstop as a freshman, and that year, tied for the most stolen bases on the team that season, with 14 turned 52 double plays on the season, and then continued to just blossom sophomore year, 31 stolen bases. And what I love about this, you know, talking about the small ball, he had 11 bunt singles, you just don't see that anymore. I mean, bunting is one thing, but making, like, making it safe for a hit, yeah, and six triples. So that's it. He's got the wheels. He didn't play junior year, which is really bad year to not be playing when you're in college, because he had a scooter accident that was totally not related to baseball. He was on a lime scooter, you know, had rented one of those, you know, motorized things to get from one place to another, and hit a pothole and tore his Achilles tendon. And after, like, witnessing the recuperation of Jason Tatum, because that was an Achilles thing. And like everybody being all iffy, it's like, holy shit, junior year of college. That's not a good time. But despite not playing junior year and only playing freshman and sophomore year, he was fifth in stolen bases for all time career for University of Texas Austin. So he could have signed at a higher level coming out of UT, but scooter, so at least he signed. Even in high school, he could have signed out of high school in the 28th round. You know, of course, that doesn't exist anymore with the angles, no, that's supposed to be angels. That's so funny. Sorry, typo. But he decided to go to University of Texas, you know, one to get a better round, and also because he wanted to go and get an education, which is something, you know, I as a teacher, always appreciate. He thought about being a business major, and then he looked at it again, and I just think this is really cute, because I would probably say something similar if I were good at baseball. He said, you needed a three seven GPA to get in. It's a pretty good business school, and after my first semester. So he got in, he had the high school cred, but he said, Yeah, that's probably not going to happen. I was going to do economics after that, but I'd have to do calculus and Calc Two, and I didn't really want those during baseball season, I ended up with geography. I love geography, so I'm happy with my geography guy, a little bit of Kismet or fate, is when he was playing Little League in San Marcos, Texas, the team that he played for were the timber Timber Rattlers. And that's the same name as the Brewers, hi a team. It was constant Timber Rattlers. So his mom, of course, went into the, you know, way back shoe box in the back of the closet, found the baseball card. It's on his IG of his original Timber Rattlers and his grown up Timber Rattlers. He's associated with a guy that we both admire from the Red Sox, Jackie Bradley Jr. You picked him 2019 Red Sox guy in December so Jackie Bradley Jr was on the Red Sox and went over to the brewers. Um. And after being released and then came back a year later, the Red Sox got him on a deal, along with David Hamilton and another guy, third baseman, Alex Pinellas, the three of them went to the Red Sox for another pick of yours, your 21 Red Sox pick. Hunter Renfro, after his one pick and fulfilling his obligation to you to be his red sox guy, your red sox guy. He went to the Brewers So David Hamilton debuted June 21 2023 and dad, the his influence, said he was in the game that Tuesday, and they pulled him out in the first inning. I texted him to see if he was okay. I knew he either got called up or he was being traded. And it turned out he was being called up, and his mom, there's actually an article, I think, hopefully i'll link that one that talks about how the the two parents just supported him through his whole, you know, high school, college career, and somebody was always at a game. So mom said that call from him brought tears to my eyes. There was joy, and you were proud all of the hard work that he had put in, and all of the time we spent on the road getting him to the majors. It wasn't just his goal, but it was our goal. We're family, and we do everything together. So when he debuted, he was brought in as a pinch runner for Masataka Yoshida. And here's like that manufacturing runs. He stole a second base standing and then tied up the game on the next hit. So couple key moments due to his wheels, he went in June of 24 two for four against the Yankees with four steals in one game against the fucking Yankees that game, the Red Sox set their franchise record with nine steals that game, and Hamilton had four of those nine. And then in 2024 he and Jaren Duran were the first Red Sox pair with over 30 steals on the season since 1910 and this is with Hamilton not playing every day. And then he did that run out of the bunt thing. So he bunted, stole second, stole third, and scored on the sacrifice fly. So you can get a home well, not a home run. You can get a run without being home, without it being, you know, one hit wonder got there. Yeah, you got there. So he's back in Milwaukee. He went with Kyle Harrison and Shane DRO into the Brewers for my guy, Caleb Durbin and Andrew monasterio, who's actually also doing really well, and Anthony Siegler in future considerations. So David Hamilton, fast guy, 95th percent in sprint speed, not hitting too much. So he's got to get on base somehow. But spring training so far, he has. He had two hits in a steal in his very first game. He's currently at 280, average, 739, ops with four stolen bases in nine games. That's my guy. That was a lot. That was a lot good. Realize how much he was. But anyway, he's He's fast. I wasn't. It was very

Patti 33:02
easy for me to pick a Milwaukee guy because I've been watching the World Baseball Classic and Tyler black pays for plays for Team Canada. I'm like, wait, I should know who this guy is. Oh, that's cool, and that's who he is. The ironic thing is, he plays from Milwaukee, but he's from Toronto. So I kept getting confused, because we're profiling guys, yeah, on the Toronto team at the same time? No, no, no, he's Milwaukee. So we talk a lot about sort of like Father Son. Like, you know, the dad was in the majors. So second generation, Tyler black, has an interesting baseball relationship. His dad was the play by play announcer for the Blue Jays for 10 years, until Tyler was nine for Canada's TSN, there the total Sports Network, which is sort of like their, you know, their ESPN, Canada. So I have mixed feelings about this report I'm giving you right now. He called a TV game versus Cleveland nine hours after Tyler was born. Oh, which I think is maybe I've been doing some other things, but Tyler has the score sheet from that game, which I think is kind of cool, pretty cool. So Tyler and his brother, Brody, did a lot of, you know, going to work with dad, which some of the time it was sitting in the booth when they were broadcasting, at which point you had to be kind of quiet because, you know, we're on the air. But his dad said, if the game was really exciting, you can hear him in the background. It's okay because, you know, they're kids, it's okay if they're cheering in the background. But a really important moment in him, like going after baseball as his goal happened because of his dad. He was hanging out at the ballpark during batting practice, and he was sitting like, you know, the third baseline in the seats, and Toronto's second baseman, Aaron Hill walked over and started chatting him up, and kept talking with him. And it turns out they spent like half an hour together. He was this nine year old kid, right? And Aaron Hill was talking about, are you interested in baseball? Well, you know, you really need to work hard. Yeah, you know, you need to put the time, and you got to take it seriously. And it kept, like, kind of like, setting him up for here are the things you can start doing now, if you, if you really mean this, and if you do these things, you might get a baseball scholarship, right? Like, it wasn't like, Oh, you're going to be a big star, but it was like, what's the next thing, right? If you do good, if you do work hard, and you do good work, you might get a scholarship. Like, and it was like, this really, like, we talk about this where players remember those interactions they had with players when they were a kid, which makes them more apt to then pay attention to the kids, right, and have these conversations and take it all seriously. And he's, he's actually done some of that, but what he said was, what, what I'm Tyler black said about Aaron Hill, I said I always liked him, but that conversation just solidified it for sure. And his dad then said it was like a light bulb went off in that kid. It was crazy. Everything kind of changed for him from a chance meeting and certainly the way he approached the game. So he had been playing baseball, hockey, basketball and football, right? That's so good, right? All the cross training. And he said he was really good at hockey and not that good at baseball, but baseball was always more fun for him. And so he said, I wasn't as good at baseball at the time, honestly, not even close, but the hard work wasn't hard, it was just fun, right? So he focused on baseball. You know, moving on. He would wake his dad up at five in the morning before school and say, We got to go practice. And they would go to, like, a facility and do, like, indoor stuff, or whatever. They had a batting cage in the backyard because, you know, good baseball family. And in Christmas afternoons, if the weather held they would be outside playing baseball in the afternoon, just because that's what they did. His dad said, this is his dad didn't lead this stuff, right? Tyler was the one who was like, come on, come on, come on. I want to do this. His dad said there was never any time off. I think Ty sees how important it is to work hard. I would hope that we've instilled that in him. My wife's a tremendously hard worker. I think he sees how hard I work at my job. And I think some of those tendencies may have shown through for him.

Pottymouth 37:02
That's exactly what our kids say to us, right? All the time,

Patti 37:06
all the time, they just won't stop talking about that. So unfortunately, he had a terrible injury in high school, and so he went in undrafted, right? And he was like, not getting any interest from colleges, and he was considering maybe I'll start with junior college and see what happens. And then Wright State came calling. And so here's another relationship with me. Wright State's in Dayton, Ohio, not far from where I went to school, so I'm familiar with Wright State. So he went and, you know, they they said, Yes, we would like you please. And he was named Freshman of the Year for the Horizon League. He did really well for Wright State, and then in 2021 the Brewers drafted him in the competitive balance round. That's the round between the first and the second round that you get for various combinations of things like trades and all of that, right? So it sort of looks like a first round pick, but it's like round one and a third right? But he signed for a $2.2 million bonus in 2023 had he had a great he had a great minor league season. He had 55 stolen bases and a 930 ops. In 123 games, they were split between double A and triple A in 2024 he started in triple A his first 25 games hit 3035, home runs, three stolen bases. And so in April of 2024 he got the call up. What happened was this, his parents had just arrived in Cancun. His mom, Nancy's birthday was happening, so mom and dad went to Cancun to celebrate Nancy's birthday. And then he got the call up. So he called them right away, and they turned around, and they flew from Cancun till to Milwaukee.

Pottymouth 38:43
They blew off Cancun for Milwaukee, for Milwaukee. So that's stellar parents. It really is. Although there's beer in milk gets it gets better.

Patti 38:50
Well that that also comes in soon. So usually we tell the story about a guy getting called up because somebody was injured. He got called up because his numbers were good, right? They, you know, they optioned somebody else because it was time for him to come up. But he didn't get the start in the game. But he got into the game because of an injury Gary Sanchez had, like, he pulled, he pulled up a muscle while, like, you know, making a play. And so Tyler went in for Gary Sanchez. He doubled at his first at bat, or his first hip first at bat, he double. Remember, his dad is the play by play guy, right? So they're the stance. And you know how you always see, like the reporters going in the stance of the microphone, talking to Paris, like, it's your kids, like, so took over, yes. So the reporter went over to him when Tyler's up for his second at bat, and he called it and all right, there's frickin crying in baseball. I watched this video, and I may have called the play. Maybe didn't burst into tears, but I trickled a little bit. What he said was this, there's a base hit to right field for my boy. Tyler black, there you go. Oh, there you go. Two for two. Happy birthday. Nancy, wow. And I just, I just get all you. Know, I get all of them. I feels for this. And then he said the thing that resonates with us, and every once in a while, we say we want the players parents to be our boyfriend. They said, I think we're gonna go start drinking heavily. And the reporter said, You're in Milwaukee, you'll fit right in. So there's that. So after the game, that same reporter showed this clip to Tyler in the clubhouse, and he said I wouldn't want anyone else on the mic, other than my dad, for that one, which was really, really pretty great. So he only stayed out for 18 games and then ended up back in AAA. So like it was, you know, longer than a cup of coffee, but not a lot more. He played a lot of first base in 2025 he had that handmade injury that you know may end up in a superpower, but that delayed the start in 2025 right? So he started in triple A, but not until June, and he was only up twice for short amounts of time, including for a Jake Bowers injury. So here's what the future looks like for him, right? They've got now got Andrew Vaughn and they've got Jake Bowers both playing first base. So is there room for him? Maybe corner outfield, that's a possibility for him. So it's going to be really hard for him to make the roster. So he's looking at kind of a make or break spring. And the spring for him is two things, is showing up in spring training and getting noticed, and also World Baseball Classic, right? That's kind of, you know, a lot of eyes on you. So in spring training, versus the athletics, he had a two run homer and a three run single in a Bases Loaded single that, you know, cleared the bases for five RBI while the game was still in the third inning, and then had another RBI double in the fifth, getting the six RBI on the day, and he was a triple short of the cycle. So he's doing his part in spring training again. He was named to Team Canada when Freddie Freeman backed out again. You know, first base, right? Freddie Freeman, so this is again, the make or break season. So he's got a big stage to show off. And so, you know, fingers crossed that he does that, because like, it's they say, you know, he controls his own destiny. He kind of does right now. So there's that. So next week, this is our last these are our last boyfriends, right? Let's petition for your boyfriends. So next week, we're going to talk about our pitching flocks. The rules for me and potty mouth for our fantasy team is we pick, pick, we each pick a team and select pitchers from that team. That is not a rule for other players in our fantasy league. We're going to try to do these pitching flocks and give you our starting lineups at the same time next week, which means you'll know who we have selected, and then the draft window is open for those of you who are participating in our fantasy league to start submitting your rosters. So I'm going to email folks who have signed up. If you got renewed automatically you don't want it let me know, but I'll reach out to you to confirm that this week, and starting next week, Wednesday, March 18, we can start taking rosters, first come, first serve for these guys for the offline draft. I'm very excited. Yeah.

Pottymouth 43:01
And if you have not let us know yet and you want to join as a newbie, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can figure out how much space there actually is, right? How exciting? Wow. Yeah.

Patti 43:13
Like real baseball. We're so close. We're so close.

Pottymouth 43:17
But meanwhile, hallelujah, we have the World Baseball Classic.

Patti 43:20
God, I'm loving it so much.

Pottymouth 43:24
A fucking blast. There's so much. There's so much to talk about. And I just, like jotted down a bunch of, I don't know, little anecdotes here and there, but it only scratches the surface. But, you know, we don't have that much more time. One thing that I thought was interesting is the pitching limits. Because this the challenge has been, how much of the bull print Are you willing to run through? Because you need these guys for the next day, right? Because some of these teams have been getting into serious trouble early with pitching, but the managers have this real weight on them, because anyway, if you have a pitcher who pitches more than 50 pitches, that requires four days rest, so that's a guy. And I don't think they even let Tarek skuba go that long. He just didn't announce today that he's not coming back. There was the like, is he gonna just pitch a game or not that?

Patti 44:17
But he wouldn't be available for pitch opening day if he pitched again in the

Pottymouth 44:20
World Baseball Classic, right? So he made that decision to, you know, be faithful to the Tigers. He's not going to go back for team USA. We'll see how that pans out. Because right now, that group is up in the air at the time of recording. If a pitcher has pitched between 30 and 49 pitches, that necessitates one day rest. So that's where, if you're using your bullpen and you have a pitcher that's getting to 30 pitches, you got to be careful, because that means they're going to be out the next day. A pitcher, no pitcher, can pitch more than two consecutive days without having a day of rest. So there's a little bit of management, you know. Juggling to do. There some math, some basic math.

Patti 45:02
And this current round, everyone's schedule is different. Some teams are playing four games four days in a row, and others have, like, break days in between, which makes us easier to manage. But not everybody

Pottymouth 45:13
does exactly, exactly, and then it depends on where are your tough games too. Like, do your plays have teams early in the group or late? So a lot of this is just the luck of the draw. And, you know, speaking of luck of the draw, some of the stuff has been decided this point. Some you guys know more than us, Group C, of course, they were the first ones to start. So they're the first ones to clinch, Japan and Korea, which actually I have, I have my predictions as a screenshot, and I did predict Japan and Korea coming out of Group C? You know, I think most people did. Taiwan and Australia both gave it a really good fight. They had some amazing games. Australia came really close to beating Japan, actually, so that would have thrown everything upside down, but they did not go on. And also there are fear. Now I've fucked this up enough. Just saying, Czech Republic, but apparently in 2016 the Czech Republic had a rebrand that I was unaware of. So Czech Republic is used in government stuff, political stuff, which is most of where I've read about it. But for for sports, they call themselves checkia. Now it's spelled C, z, E, C, H, I, a, so it looks like chechia, which sounds a lot like Chechnya, but it's Czechia anyway. That's the rebrand, and they didn't win anything. But you know, for guys who have jobs like that, electrician who struck out Otani and played again, or a firefighter or real estate agent, IT specialist like, that's the Czechia team. So so much admiration to these guys for going out to Tokyo and playing baseball. Also the media and PR manager of the Czech baseball association is on the team. So I was just kind of wondering, like, how would that, like translate to MLB? Like, could we make, for example, kiga Hernandez, the PR guy for MLB, God. Like, MLB would be so, so popular, would be really good? Yeah, I should talk more about Kike, but that, that'll come later. Anyway, Taiwan, so heartbreaking. I really want them to do well. Their captain, Chen Chen, who is on the uni lions, broke his thumb in the opening game. But like, here's like a testament to how these guys are just so emotional and committed playing for their own countries. Despite the fact that he had a fucking broken thumb. He came in on a as a pinch runner in the 10th inning against Korea, and scored the winning grin, which was a huge victory for Taiwan. Unfortunately, not enough to keep them going, because Korea, you know, it actually Korea, I think, has gone on for the first time in several versions. I should have, like, looked that up, but it's been a while, and following Korean play can be challenging. So breakfast baseball worked better for me last week with daylight savings being the other direction, because it started earlier today. I, like, just got a little bit, but I got to watch the Korea I think it was the Korea Czechia game, and they called a Kim to Kim double play. So I was, you know, realizing that Kim is a really popular common surname in Korea. So I did the math, because I do the rabbit holes, and I got the Kim count. So the overall Kim count for Team Korea is three infielders, one catcher, two pitchers and three coaches with the surname of Kim, that is nine of them. So apparently, this kind of like parallels Korea as a overall, because 20% of South Korea is Kim. That named Kim that's, you know, think about kindergarten like your elementary school just sounds so confusing. And then Lee and Park are the other two really common surnames. This is way beyond the Smith Jones thing. Lee Park and Kim is 45% of Korea, almost half of Korea. Now on Team Korea, there's only three parks and three lees, but nine Kims, despite the commonality of those names, there are three foreign born guys on Team Korea, and they all can tip their hats to Tommy Edmond, because he started this on the last WBC of being US born, but going Through the lineage to make it to Team Korea. Shea Whitcomb, who homered and says that he got his idea of getting on Team Korea from Tommy Edmond, Riley, O'Brien, pitcher, and jamai Jones. And I hope I linked the article, because there's a lovely, lovely article about his mom being a. She was adopted by a US born couple from Korea, and she is the link. And so he talked about the importance of his mom to him, because she was a single mom, bringing up six kids when after shoot, I forget how old he was when his dad died, but it was just this honoring his mom and the heritage, and that's why he wants to play for teen Korea. So there goes Group C. I'm Group D. Congrats. Dominican Republic in Venezuela. Also not shocking. Are moving on out is Israel, Netherlands and Nicaragua. So Dr in Venezuela, despite the fact that they're both going to the semis, they still haven't faced each other in pool play, so that game on Wednesday is just gonna be so much trash talk. So so so much trash talk. I feel bad for dusty Baker and Nicaragua, because they didn't win any games, and Nicaragua apparently has never won a game in the World Baseball Classic, despite making a few appearances. But I had a fun time watching Nicaragua Netherlands on Friday, tied at one going into the eighth inning. Cheater downs. My 21 Red Sox pick hit a two run home run to pull ahead, looking hopeful for Nicaragua, doing that for dusty and then my 19 hammers pick, Ozzie albies hit a three run walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, which was the first walk off home run in World Baseball Classic history. Which is crazy,

Patti 51:29
he has cited that as his like, his favorite moment, his most important moment in his career so far, of anything he's ever done was that walk off.

Pottymouth 51:36
That's amazing. Yeah, so cool. And, I mean, I don't know, I feel for the Netherlands team not moving on, also because, like, what an amazing team. And who knows what would have happened if jerks and periphery and fucked up like that. But despite the fact that that was the first walk off home run Saturday night, so the next night, Darrell, or nice of Puerto Rico, also walked it off, and that was the crazy Puerto Rico Panama game, and Panama was ahead. And I'm thinking this stadium is going to implode if Panama wins, like they're in Puerto Rico, and

Patti 52:09
didn't Puerto Rico score a run on, like, a unfortunate thing, like, it was like, I can't remember

Pottymouth 52:15
if it was an error or the first one, because it was a while that I think, I think that's, I think, one the thing that

Patti 52:19
tied it up wasn't there, wasn't there, wasn't there, like, some weird run that was like, oh, like, they it wasn't one that they, like, earned. It was some weird little crap.

Pottymouth 52:28
I thought it was just from behind to go ahead, all right, I gotta do more research clearly, because I thought that they were behind. And then when Daryl or nice got the like, that was the but, you know what? Now, now I'm thinking I wasn't,

Patti 52:42
yeah, something happened tied up that was like, oh, that's, that's gonna come back and bite somebody. Yeah?

Pottymouth 52:48
Well, the cool thing about the guy who walked it off, though, is that he's the he was playing shortstop instead of Lindor, instead of Francisco Lindor. So it was like, you know, this is, I mean, they had lost so many shortstops, right? They lost Lindor, they lost Correa, they lost Baez, yeah, and so it could have been big name shortstop there, but no Darrell or nice is the guy who's in the A's system, apparently, third base, and maybe he'll be able to play more this year because of this heroic so I don't know crazy

Patti 53:20
before you talk politics, can I talk coffee? Can I just break in? Talk coffee real quick? Yeah, please. Okay, so one of my favorite things is the way countries are sort of expressing themselves in the midst of themselves expressing themselves. So yeah, so team Italy has an espresso shot Sally. And I care about this because two of my very recent boyfriend picks are on this team in my one of my last year's picks is also on this team. So canzonie and Cagliari are on the team, which means I may be renaming my fantasy team powered by espresso. So yes, Team Italy has an espresso machine in the dugout. But not only that, they are in fact, because of your former boyfriend, Vinnie pasquintino, who we adore, he suggested, you know, we need to do espresso shots, which hasn't gone over great with everybody, but the manager Francisco survey says the following, why this is important for Team Italy is in Italy, in Italy, we drink coffee about 20 times a day. It's a tradition. You're walking down the road, you see a coffee spot, get some coffee, then you chit chat, and then keep walking into the same thing all over and over again. That's how Italy is. I think that's lovely. So that's how team

Pottymouth 54:29
Italy is. And I was shocked. I didn't realize that my Marlins pick Jacob Marcy is on Team Italy. So yay for that. I did see an interview with Zach desenzo Saying that several of them burned their mouth the first time around or didn't have the temperature control.

Patti 54:46
Yeah, I think that's their that shots aren't shouldn't be done as shots when they're actually espresso shots.

Pottymouth 54:53
Well, they did say that they made adjustments.

Patti 54:54
Yeah, I hope so.

Pottymouth 54:55
Multiple espresso shots, that's a lot. They're fine. It up. All right, I'm not really going to talk about politics because, well, Omar Lopez, the Venezuelan manager, has been repeatedly asked during interviews about politics. Because you might remember that we did. You know the United States had been bombing Venezuelan boats, kidnapped the president, things like that. We were worried about the safety of MLB players during the Venezuelan league that was way back in January, and so Omar Lopez just doesn't want to get into it. I, you know, I feel super mixed. Because on one hand, if there were somebody standing up and saying, This is all wrong. You know what's been happening. It would, it would mean a lot, but he's got a job, and he's got a tournament to get through, and they're

Patti 55:50
currently in the United States, right? This is not, this is not one of the pools that's happening somewhere else that's they're actually on USA ground, which is not a comfortable place if you're not from here. It's not even great if you're

Pottymouth 56:01
from here, yeah, especially Venezuela. So he said, if anyone asked, my answer is going to be next question, please, if anyone asked about politics. But what blew me away, and I think you started talking about this, is during the Venezuelan game, the announcers were just spitting out fun facts. It was like Angel's waterfall, like how big the waterfall is, and all these other sites around the country, without mentioning the fact that there were just huge military operations. There people were killed. The President was kidnapped. It's fucking insane. And it's like, this is Venezuela vacation time. Little clips, yes, yes, yes, yeah. Baseball still happening. So I don't know. I mean, yay, Venezuela is going on. We'll see what happens with that. Another fun part of the series is all this father son stuff. So I you know, on one of the broadcasts, they said six. I think it's way more than six feels like a lot, because there's, there's two that I know of that both of them are actually in there. So like, by Father Son duos, I mean things like, like the Guerreros, like, right? Yeah, Vladi senior, Vladi Junior. Vladi juniors in senior played MLB. He's proud of his son, the two that are both in the game, Andrew managing Jones and son drew Jones so cute when watching the Netherlands. Drew is adorable. And apparently, after their first win, Drew made the decision to give the ball to his dad for his first win as manager. It's his first managing experience, so that's fucking huge. And then I saw another interview with Fernando Tati senior, who's coaching on the Dominican team, about how it's just amazing, a blessing to be able to see his son there playing. And then my favorite is, like, it's not really a father son, but he's everybody's Poppy. Is big Poppy. David Ortiz with both Laddie JR and tatis Jr looking like little kids next to him, like, cuddling up to him, and he's him being like, I feel old because I knew these kids when they were literally, literally kids, and here they are.

Patti 58:14
Yeah, I had a bunch of Father Son highlights, and a lot of it was watching the USA Brazil game and my highlights are not USA highlights. They're Brazil highlights, in this case, so Manny Ramirez, who's near and dear to both of our hearts because of Cleveland and Boston 10 years his son Lucas Ramirez, had a lead off home run against USA, and it was great. It was so much fun to watch. He was so happy, and he was so in there. My favorite, favorite part, though, was Jose Contreras, son the 670 my god. 17 year old Joseph, two months shy of his high school graduation, pitching Aaron judge into a double play with a basis loaded. What did you do on your you know, your spring break or whatnot? Dante bet another you know, son of, you know, so Right? Is on this team. And he says about, about Joseph Contreras, and he's got aura. He comes out here, and he shines very bright. I was amused, because Joseph said, all my teammates just want to party all the time. Because this is, you know, this is fun. This is like, this is what this is, right? And he said, I got homework. I have to do my homework.

Pottymouth 59:23
That's insane. Before getting Aaron judge to grounded. Like, how many high school kids could dream of pitching to Aaron judge like, massive man.

Patti 59:34
So the sort of like aside to all of this was one of the broadcasters is talking to Mark DeRosa, you know, the manager of Team USA, about Joseph Contreras, and said, Wait, doesn't your son to mark? Doesn't your son play in the same high school circuit as him? Yeah, he does. He does. Yeah. He plays against this guy who just got Aaron judge to hit into a double play. So I love, I love the World Baseball Classic for the moments like that, for the opportunity to people, for people who don't normally get this opportunity. Yeah, right. I mean, the MLB world is so small, and the World Baseball Classic cracks that open, just enough for you to get these stories and for people to get seen and get these opportunities. And it's just so much fun. It's just such a good time.

Pottymouth 1:00:25
Is Dante Bichette, the one with the green hair? It is, yes. He said aura. I was thinking it was his hair that had the aura. Yeah?

Patti 1:00:33
No, yes. He was like, you know, bestowing aura there. Yeah, bestowing aura.

Pottymouth 1:00:39
Yeah. Just for the record, the group with the United States at the time of recording is tied at two with Mexico, Italy in the us all being two and Oh, which is kind of, it's intense, yeah, that at this point of our recording, none of them have played each other, yeah? So that's what's happening the next couple days. To wash out what's going to happen. And, man, Italy, like, I hope they have a lot of espresso in the can, because that's a big,

Patti 1:01:06
yeah, yeah, you guys are gonna know what's already happened. But we've got, we've got US Mexico tonight. Now I'm psyched for us.

Pottymouth 1:01:14
All right, really quickly. I just want to mention rugby cross training, because I think we need to speak up against transphobia, wherever it happens, and a lot of the rugby teams are so I want to, you know, tap my tap cap. No, my beer is gone. Tip my cap. There it is. You got it? You got there. I'm so proud of you. Single syllable words can be so hard. I've gotta get them in the right order. That's the complication, the cap right to the individual rugby rugby teams, who have been pretty much, I mean, over and over, speaking out against what USA rugby has just done. So basically, USA rugby says that they're complying with the the Olympic people's safety policy that limits women's rugby, to quote, individuals who are assigned female at birth. So World Rugby actually did this in 2020 and US rugby rejected it at that time. I don't know what's happened. Well, what happened to this country? Yeah, so we're at the point where USA rugby is like, well, actually, I guess that's the way we're going to do it too. They are developing an open category, which allows, quote, any athlete, regardless of sex assigned at birth, to participate in open division competition, full contact or otherwise. So there are a lot of women's rugby teams now that are trying to figure out what to do. Do they stay as they are, accept trans women and just say we're not policing your bullshit policy? Do they go into the open category and say, Okay, fuck it, fuck it. Gender is gender, and we're gonna just accept anybody. Or do they, you know, follow this policy? I don't think any of them are doing that. One example, Seattle rugby club said, quote, Seattle rugby rugby club strongly disagrees with USA rugby and their decision to exclude athletes from the game we all love. So if you want to find the bazillion other rugby clubs that are complaining about this, I haven't found any like individual clubs and support hashtag rugby for all and power to the rugby players, because this is 12 shades of fucked up. And why are people wasting their time policing people's bodies?

Patti 1:03:30
Well said, yeah. Well said, Wow, we got to wrap this up, because we are. We have to. We have a we have a game to watch. We have USA, Mexico to watch. So hey, friends, please get a hold of us on social media if you have things to say about the fantasy league, if you want in, if you want out, if you need to know the rules, which I will let you all know very soon. That's my story. Where can people find us on social media?

Pottymouth 1:03:53
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Patti 1:04:22
Yes, please. Thank you all so much for hanging out with us. We really, really appreciate you all the time. So please, are you boosted? Because, you know, be safe, fight the man because, man, he's a jerk right now, it's the right thing to do. Send your game balls to Meredith and until next week, say goodnight. Potty mouth. Good night. It's

and it's very, you know, sophisticated, and I like to think of myself as. Very sophisticated. Why does that make you laugh? Wait a minute, I'm a classy, classy woman. You absolutely are classy. Thank you. That's better. I feel better about that.