Jackie Robinson Day came and went with Kareem calling out the President’s attack on DEI (although we don’t think it is a ruse for segregation, we think it *is* segregation), Mookie saying some hard truths about the LAD at the White House, and the commissioner saying some weak things and making questionable visits. Pottymouth got the Puk out of there and told us of fast boys, Patti’s flock is making with the Ks and she tells us how math works. Miranda has a bad day set to good tunes. Jazz stars in the police blotter (kids, put away the phones when you are supposed to put away the phones). Someone is crocheting for Crochet and weirdly it’s not Patti. MIN sponsors a Queer Women in Sports panel! PIT makes sure all those folks standing around for hours for a Skenes bobblehead go home happy, and the captain is the captain.

We say, “You wanted the Puk, yeah!! But you got the Puk, no!” “Church of Baseball,” and “Maybe this is a lesson that you should get a filter and save the environment.”  Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

So many catchers in this snack size episode.  We’ve got pinky injuries, rolled ankles, welcome back dingers with glasses, and only dingers against Toronto. The Orioles help build an outdoor classroom at Harlem Park Elementary with a donated playoff share, and players fill its library with their own favorite books.  Pottymouth is well aware that she should roster her NYY bf but you can’t take the Boston out of the fantasy team manager. What happened to Mike Trout is NOT what happened to Mookie Betts, it’s not against the rules, but please stop doing it anyway. Duran is missing a huge opportunity to atone for past mistakes and change lives, but nope. Please read this piece by Kevin Blackstone in the Washington Post about the team of Jackie Robinson visiting the Trump White House.  We would have just ranted, but he just lays it all out there, calm, cool, and cutting. Pottymouth walks us through all the connections between the tragic roof collapse of the Dominican nightclub and so many MLB players. Patti picks “person in front of whom all ideas for alternate team identities must be run before selection” as her next career.  The River Cats/Gold Diggers really put her over. Puerto Rico looks like the only place we can stand to visit for WBC games – want to join us?

We say, “Rivaling this on the classy scale…” “Honorable mention to a non-croucher,” and “That’s so much more concise for all those words I just said…” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

The reason torpedo bats are a thing is because they are not called bowling pin bats. Patti catches you up on all things torpedo. It seems like all the cool kids are getting contact extensions and we float a few more contenders. Pottymouth wants to complete her Walker set and Patti just wants a complete infield. Profar is a deep disappointment, and Ian Happ is still making us coffee 1000 games later. It’s that episode where we make our terrible predictions but we can’t not. Once again one of your hosts goes with heart and the other one wants to not lose. The WooSox give us Women in Sports Day proving we should never need to hear “Ladies Night” at a ballpark again. Kelsie goes for another first, and you’ve got an Eastern Womens Baseball Conference reading assignment. Pottymouth models how to constructively deal when terrible humans end up on your favorite team. Also, sell your Tesla.

We say, “he kept losing his patron saint of travel,” “You tell me you don’t have any tattoos but I don’t believe you,” and, “Some of our best friends are Canadians with basements.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

We made it to 400 episodes and celebrated in style. Kat D. Williams joined us to talk about her new book “All The Way: The Life of Baseball Trailblazer Maybelle Blair.” Kat is a terrific storyteller and took us along for the ride of childhood Maybelle demanding a girls’ team in elementary school, adult Blair playing professional baseball *and* softball, planning and executing the transporting (by ground) of a fighter jet through the streets of LA to the Air Force Base, escaping the raiding of a gay bar, inspiring legions of girls and women to play ball, and coming out publicly at age 95. We hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we enjoyed participating in it. Maybelle Blair is life goals, and Kat left us inspired to build runways. Find All the Way at your independent book store or online at Bookshop.org. Find Kat Williams on instagram at @tellagirlshecan and keep up with all the great things happening at and with the International Women’s Baseball Center.

We learn the answer to “What’s it like to have a beer with Maybelle.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

It’s the week of Hopening Day! Patti’s infield is a mess and Pottymouth is looking at the centerfield version of second base but nonetheless we have our fantasy team starting lineups ready. This week’s rant is geared at the scrubbing of history in the name of the wrong definition of DEI. And maybe it took messing with Jackie Robinson *and* The Golden Girls but people are paying attention. Except that MLB is also doing some scrubbing of their own. Pottymouth thinks Ron Washington would make a great high school principal and wants to give him a shoerack. We’ve got some fun cup, some new City Connects, and another how the heck did this get out of committee logo design. And an 11 year old gets a payday bigger than Paul SKenes.

We say, “I wouldn’t get the hat but I appreciate the nod to the farmers of Wisconsin, “Soft, squishy balls in Venezuela,” and “They’re making lemonade out of Georgia O’Keefe imagery.” ”Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

MLB is just printing money now, with deals for bad hats, alter-egos for minor league teams, and gold patches that will turn into collectibles and replica jerseys.  We really do buy all the things. It’s time to pick our pitching squads (flocks?) and weirdly we leave LAD alone. Pottymouth finds her ideal law firm, and inner 12 year old, in ARI and Patti says PHI is the place to be. The Dodgers and Cubs visit Japan for exhibition games and the official start to the season, while the kids enjoy the Spring Breakout. Anyone want to buy the Rays? Because they are burning some bridges in Tampa. And Devers eats some humble pi.

We say, “Oh dear, Tampa? It’s usually Oh hell, Florida,” “Vento-mocha-cream-whatever the f*#k it is,” and, “We will get in a car and drive for Hooch Pooches.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

Baseball boyfriends are by definition guys we like, but sometimes it takes a while to get to that part.  Welcome to the show where we profile Yankees and Dodgers. LA brings us a defection story and a high profile international signing, and NY brings us a childhood Pesky pole situation and a putting one over on the parents with a dirty uniform. Spring training gives us Walkers and talkers, and Vegas tourism finds a way to put a city name on an As jersey. You too can own a baseball team, just ask Billie Joe Armstrong. WBC qualifiers wrap up with qHAR questions, and Chris Kluwe gets canned for dubious reasons. Read this about Rachel Balkovec.

We say, “If you throw rocks really, really far you could hit Boston,” “audacious little f&*ker,” and “You dropped a lot of pirate words talking about a 5-year old.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth.

It’s always a holiday when we get to pick boyfriends. For CLE, Pottymouth has her first Noel and Patti picks a postseason star, then we find some Clemeni and some long game with the PHI. We throw some love to Jake Burger’s baby, and admire how Pottymouth sweeps an outfield. Cashman backpedals on Duck Dynasty and Manfred shares some lock out thoughts with a tinge of threat.  The WBC qualifiers feature a pod favorite, Yu Chang, and we learn that Andre and Steffi made a baseball player! Patti crosstrains with romance novels and wants you to read The Prospects for some trans athlete affirmation and stunningly accurate baseball details. In related coping strategies, Pottymouth recommends Chatting Practice. And we both recommend the president shuts up and dribbles.

We say, “Sir, you have no jurisdiction here,” “I think he may be able to out-drink me,” and “So Kardashian-ish.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

Thank you to brave governors and former NFL players for speaking truth to power. Spring Training is back and that means our guys are hitting bombs, speaking out of turn, gifting cars, and sneaking freshly baked bread into cubbies. We’ve got boyfriends on the Os and Pads including a once and forever, a guy that just wants to make us happy, and additions to our Jackson and Rosario collections. The NYY make some babysteps in allowing grown men to control their own bodies. The ABS Challenge System is live and well in Spring Training which means we know how tall you really are. World Baseball Classic qualifiers continue. And what’s a police blotter without some raw milk and embarrassing consequences?

We say, “It’s kind of a danger if you believe in science,” “long-haired dudes who have been good at baseball,” and “Holy f*ckn spitballs.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth. 

We love a good anthem kerfuffle, especially when we get to cross-train with it. The big news is Bregs to Beantown and Pottymouth and her dad couldn’t be happier.  The boys are back – from injuries and to Spring Training.  We check in with Christian’s actual back, Freddie’s ankle, Shohei’s throwing arm, and Tito’s triggers. We’ve got new boyfriends with HOU and MIL, so you’ll hear about an addition to the Walker collection, Ohio and Mass boys, and a new forever boyfriend. Qualifiers start for the World Baseball Classic, and Pete’s got stars in his hair. And we try to work out what constitutes drinking for the cycle.

We say, “If we made them the 51st state we couldn’t have a ‘world’ series,” “An Ohio boy and a Massachusetts boy so they are just like us, except we are not boys,” and, “The chances of that are two in a Brazilian.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, get boosted, and find us on Bluesky @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. We now have episode transcripts available!  They are available for free at our Patreon site. Say goodnight, Pottymouth.