Or Lion swag, if you’re Pottymouth. NCiB talks Taiwanese baseball with Daniel Shih, sports director at @tstvsports and host of “Rants With Danny Shih.” The CPBL is the only live baseball happening worldwide, and as such is simultaneously playing to empty ballparks and thousands of international Twitter followers. We talk teams (Patti and Danny back the Rakuten Monkeys, and Pottymouth is a Uni Lion for Life), the culture and history of baseball in Taiwan, and how to get Monkey and Lion merch to NCiB hosts. You can reach Danny on twitter @daniel_shih88

The Commissioner’s report on the sign-stealing investigation of the Boston Red Sox is released to a great deal of suspicion. How is the front office off the hook? Did Manfred read his own report? Even Pottymouth, third generation Red Sox fan, thinks something is fishy here.

Pottymouth reports back on the standings in the various fake baseball tournaments, after bravely trying to watch a Dream Bracket simulation. We’ll stick to 7am CPBL games, thank you very much. Over in actual postponed baseball land, the Cape Cod League already called its summer season, and the Cal Ripken League postponed to at least July, with a final decision coming in June. The pandemic is causing such an economic hit to the minors that MiLB is no longer contesting the contraction of the league and is working with MLB to design a 120 team full-season program.

In this week’s cross-training segment, the NBA plans to open its team training facilities in those states with little regard for public health, starting May 1. Because that keeps the players safer than getting on planes to work out in public gyms in Georgia. 

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