No Crying In Baseball

Opening weekend brought us PitchCom, a couple of bench-clearing conversations, and a labor rant about MLB mobile ordering not allowing us to tip our stadium workers. Seth Beer proves our bf designation absolutely on point, plus boyfriend heroics from Teoscar Hernandez, Bobby Witt, Jr., and Juan Soto. There’s former bf joy with Nelson Cruz (if you *have* to have a DH…) and picked too soon Joey Bart, plus dominos falling with Pedro Severino.  Jazz and Rachel go full Pottymouth. Patti searches desperately for a rhyme with Buck to describe her feelings for the Bucks Showalter and Joe. We add Staten Island to our ballpark tour plans to see Kelsie Whitmore in action. 20 year old Rōki Sasaki’s perfect game leads our international baseball news. And because we can’t help it, we spend a lot of time on sock height, what “striking out the side” really means, and imposing our own rules for ballpark behavior.

We say “extra slippy,” “I can hook you up with that koozie,” and “our frickin’ Church of Baseball.”

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Patti and the Pottymouth boldly predict the upcoming season’s award winners and champions. Our logic is as airtight as you would expect (Patti goes where the Matts go and Pottymouth follows her heart). The minor leagues are brazenly getting to second base more quickly, and taking all of our money with this year’s ¡Copa de Diversión! merch. We congratulate the Tigers for treating Tork right, the Cardinals for bringing back Tio Albert, and the O’s coming to an agreement with Trey Mancini. Our police blotter drags the litigation happy usual suspect as well as the universal DH. We’re watching for an expat Cuban team in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and welcome the start of the season in the CPBL, KBO, and NBP. Heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of baseball icon Shirley Burkovich.

We say “the piña poof,” “Say Yes to the Beverages,” and “I have Monkees 45s.” 

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Patti and the Pottymouth reveal their Fantasy Boyfriend Baseball rosters for the new season, backing up their selections with references to Wardle vs Wordle strategies, adult beverages, philanthropy, children, and cars. So that tracks. Sticky stuff is back, bringing a new level of awkward to umpire duties. NYC caves to the sports lobby and rolls back a vaccine mandate, while Toronto fans tell unvaxxed players on US teams where to put their accusations of competitive imbalance. The Red Sox hold the line and Trevor Story makes a good choice. Pottymouth highlights women’s baseball in Pakistan, Malaysia, and Venezuela. UK Women go to France, and Australian women go to the finals. How about the view from this ballpark, setting the record for game played at highest elevation? Bernie Sanders wants to Save American Baseball from the whims of billionaire owners and we were with him even before he said “oligarch.” We say “hogwashy,” “if she says so, it IS so,” “back up articulation,” and refer to the Blue Jays as “that other bird.” 

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NCiB boyfriends of the past are making splashy news in trades and free agency.  We dwell on Freddie and the Welcome Matts, Eugenio’s qHar, and Miami’s Soler power, among other big bats and homecomings. We profile our fantasy pitching squads – Pottymouth goes west coast with Giants pitching, and Patti is still grooving on Hammers pitching since the World Series. COVID protocols are back in conversation, along with juggling NYC vaccine mandates and Canada’s public health protections. How ‘bout those Red Sox getting stragglers vaxxed? 

Our Police Blotter is on repeat with extensions of Trevor Bauer’s admin leave, but also drags Ohio Girl Patti’s Cleveland Browns down to the gutter. Also a crime? The spring training caps frying the scalps of the faint of hair. Big news in the world of Minor League Baseball as a federal judge rules that minor league players are full time employees, not seasonal, so minimum wage and other labor standards apply! Stay tuned! CA State Senator Josh Becker introduced the Minor League Player’s Bill of Rights. Things Are Happening. Spring Training Breakfast Baseball is back with the CPBL.

“We say “horrific piece of legislation,” “a lot of people spend a lot of time on those bridesmaids,” and “Benji but with schnauzer ears.” 

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Cheers to the end of the lockout, the beginning of spring training, and finally an Opening Day countdown. Patti walks you through the new CBA agreement including the rule changes, the Police Blotter feels like old times, and Pottymouth suffers the first bitter breakup of the current boyfriend season. We celebrate Pottymouth’s restraint in having saved Wander Franco until this year as her Ray’s pick, while Patti chooses dancemaster Ji-man Choi. With the matchmaking skills of our West Coast Correspondent, Pottymouth is set up, maybe too soon, with Heliot Ramos of the Giants, and Patti looks forward to CupCheck and crosswords with Curt Casali. Hamate surgery rears its ugly head but could lead to superpowers for CPBL boyfriend Lin An-Ko.

We say “Ukraine strong,” “99 bottles of beer on the wall,” and “pour one out for the DH.”

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There should be a new NCiB drinking game for the number of times we say “league-imposed lock-out” in this episode. This week’s CBA negotiation update requires Patti to add yet another layer of complication to Rule 5 Draft, talk about ghost wins (they are a thing!), note that the player’s union is taking steps to protect stadium workers but as yet the League is all talk, and remind dear listeners that spring training and the regular season could have started on time, while negotiations are in progress, except for the, say it with us, “league-imposed lock-out.”

Pottymouth chooses Martín “Machete” Maldonado, and Patti highlights Kyle “Maybe MVP” Tucker as Astros boyfriends. For the Dodgers, both of us lean into the good guy and excellent significant other aspect of boyfriend selection with Pottymouth going with Chris Taylor and Patti selecting Matt Beaty. Our women in baseball segment notes Baseball For All's upcoming 1st Women's College Club Baseball Championship tournament, Mexico’s moves to start a league, and the Mets hire of Elizabeth Benn to direct Major League Operations. We crosstrain with women’s soccer to say it’s about damn time equal pay happenns, and with women’s basketball to share our concern and support for Brittney Griner, currently detained in Russia.

We say “our pal Bernie Sanders” and “The owners should suck it the hell up and write big honking checks.”

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We get feisty over “hostile” CBA negotiations, and stand with “furious” players. We call Rob Manfred on his ridiculous assertion that there is a deadline that needs to be met or games get canceled. It’s YOUR lockout, MLB!  Thank you Atlanta Hammers for being compelled to release your financials therefore providing actual data. And for you billionaire vs millionaire folks, please give Sara Sanchez’s Thousandaires piece a read.  Pottymouth requests a vegetarian version of new CWS boyfriend Leury Garcia’s “Tres Golpes,” while Patti picks Gavin Sheets, only partially because she gets to name check Journey, Larry Sheets, and Cal Ripken. Pottymouth selects mindfully meditative Tyrone Taylor of the Brewers, and Patti selects Jace Peterson only partially because she gets to name check Mallory Pugh.

CPBL players and the league have their first CBA, and a sixth team on the way. We hope for a World Baseball Classic sometime soon and we root for a Baker/Tebow appearance on Team Philippines. We say “Sistine Chapel”, “Did a Google” and “Backseat Hairbrush.”

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Forced to find the good in the Yankees, Pottymouth is clearly won over by new BF Estevan Florial. Patti gives the nod to impeccably groomed Giancarlo Stanton and his “fricking forearms.” For the Cardinals, Pottymouth flies like an eagle with Edmundo “Mundito” Sosa and Patti cheers Noots-not-boos for Lars Nootbaar. We note that it is the lockout, not CBA negotiations, forcing a delay in spring training games and we catch you up on the latest proposals. We ponder the sheer size of the deal Juan Soto turned down, and wish Mr. Walk-off well. In our Police Blotter, the testimony of Matt Harvey and other players blows open the story of widespread drug use in major league baseball, while Eric Kay is found guilty of supplying the pills resulting in the death of Tyler Skaggs. We share a fashion moment from the minors and take a stand for televising women’s sports. We say Haitian/Dominican political situation, trans flag, and deep down I'm Ironman.

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Superb Owl Sunday was the greatest cross training day of our lives. We discuss the problematic boys vs men conversation in Olympic hockey and then immediately reference baby goalies, and Patti gets uppity about her alma mater. This week brings the longest police blotter of all time, featuring domestic abuse, assault, a class action suit, and controlled substances. We are very quick to judge, but that’s the beauty of us.

Pottymouth has had her eye on new Red Sox boyfriend Jarren Duran all through winter ball, and possibly since the 80s. Patti dips into Red Sox prospects and finds Hudson Potts who comes with a hitting coach overtly recommending him as boyfriend material. Are we at the World Series Champion Hammers already? ATL catcher William Contreras, Willson’s little brother, catches Pottymouth’s eye, while Patti picks tenacious veteran Adam Duvall. The commissioner assures us the league is doing everything they can to “get a deal done for our fans” except, apparently, make sincere workable proposals that come anywhere near addressing what the players need. We say “Contrerii,” “Austin Adjacent,” and “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

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CBA negotiations heat up a notch as the League tries to bring in the Feds while the Players instead bring in the fans. Cowboy Joe hangs up his chest protector and yet still no women umpires in sight. Pottymouth adds a prize to her Hernandez collection, naming Teoscar as her Blue Jays boyfriend. Patti puts in a bid for beer with the Biggios with her pick of Cavan. For the Reds, Pottymouth Blind Sides us by selecting Kyle Farmer, and Patti is swayed by qHAR, Mookie, and a wacky career path to pick TJ Friedl. Colombia comes out of nowhere to take the Serie del Caribe and Pottymouth tells us what we missed. Cedric Mullins further cements his boyfriend cred by sharing his Crohn’s Disease story. The Dodgers sign two players from Uganda, so can a Disney movie be far behind? We say CTRL-F is my friend, thrusty swivel, and breakfast hockey.

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