Never fear, dear listeners, our bunker is six miles from the military lockdown in place to protect a peaceful transfer of power, and we have sports. And beer. MLB’s PAC is suspending and reviewing its political contribution policy in light of the insurrection. Owners and players remain free to donate money wherever they like, but you don’t have to condone it. Citifield joins Petco Park, Dodger Stadium, and Minute Maid Park as a vaccine distribution location, with more ballparks likely to come.Th...
Jan 19, 2021•56 min•Season 4Ep. 178
Cleveland fans mourn the loss of Francisco Lindor and Cookie Carrasco , as the Mets made the hottest of hot stove moves last week. The Nationals, and Patti, come to terms with Kyle Schwarber , the target of one of Patti’s most vehement sports grudges. RIP Tommy Lasorda , he of the long and colorful Dodger history and the despicable denying of his son’s life and death . Mookie Betts and Brianna Hammonds finally make it official after 15 years and one child. Our boyfriend segment brings random the...
Jan 12, 2021•55 min•Season 4Ep. 177
The Red Sox hire Bianca Smith , the first Black woman coach in the MLB, who could not be more impressive. We may have to come up with a new boyfriend category. Smith played college softball, club baseball, and has degrees in sports law and sports management, preparing for when she’ll be a GM. Crosstraining with women’s hockey, the way we do, not only will the NWHL season be officiated by an all-female crew, the season will be played at Lake Placid’s historic Herb Brooks Arena and NBCSN will broa...
Jan 05, 2021•57 min•Season 4Ep. 176
In a purely mercenary move, Patti declares that Ryan Mountcastle will be AL Rookie of the year this season so claims him for her Orioles boyfriend, even though she finds him Mike Troutish. Pottymouth is more true to form with her second hair-based boyfriend selection of the season, the Os Rio Ruiz . She exercises her keeper option for the season and extends the boyfriend tenure of National’s star Juan Soto . Patti happily selects Andrew “CW” Stevenson for reasons beyond, but not excluding, hair....
Dec 29, 2020•45 min•Season 4Ep. 175
This past week Major League Baseball acknowledged the Negro Leagues with the unfortunate word choice “elevate.” Timing and vocabulary, and a history of discrimination aside, voices we trust see this as righting a wrong and therefore ultimately good. Let the fun of combining stats and declaring some new record-holders begin! The Cleveland Baseball Team announced it will have a new team nickname in place for 2022 even though Patti is sure they’ve already got it selected and the logo designed and i...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 174
Pottymouth is looking for a good lawyer willing to defend the Minors from the MLB power grab. Owners of the 120 teams “invited” to remain or become affiliated with an MLB team are ticked about the process, the timing, and the sketchy details of what will be a ten-year contract. The teams that were cut are ticked about being jettisoned, and by learning the news via social media. It’s bad all around. Patti goes for a good parenting and big-name trade theme for this week’s baseball boyfriend, Daz C...
Dec 15, 2020•47 min•Season 4Ep. 173
The return of our baseball boyfriend segment leads to the discovery of an unfortunate vacuum in Pottymouth’s pop culture experience. She’s never seen High School Musical, and it shows. “ Hair guy” Cole Tucker , her choice for Pirates BF, is also Vanessa Hudgens choice for BF, and we are all in this together . Patti goes for Anthony Alford based heavily on his work with the Player’s Alliance and other social justice issues. Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Leody Taveras are our Ranger pics for the coming y...
Dec 08, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 172
Patti and the Pottymouth welcome back illustrator, designer, writer, and baseball fan Anika Orrock , to talk about her book, “ The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League .” Anika shares stories of conversations with these Incredible Women, and fitting together her illustrations, comic strips, narrative, and players’ quotes into a cohesive whole, à la Criminal Minds. We dig a little deeper into stories that were new to us such as this was a well-paying job that he...
Dec 01, 2020•51 min•Season 4Ep. 171
Theo Epstein departs the Cubs, leading to lots of speculation about his next steps . Team ownership? The Commissioner's office? Shake things up? Or focus on his Foundation to be Named Later and the Player’s Alliance? NCiB votes for revolution. Also in CubsWorld, Wrigley Field is designated a National Historical Landmark, which seems overdue as well as a windfall in tax credits. The Washington Nationals find a new Triple A home with the Rochester Red Wings, which Patti and the Pottymouth endorse ...
Nov 24, 2020•48 min•Season 4Ep. 170
Kim Ng , the new GM of the Miami Marlins, has blazed a trail of firsts in her 30-year career in baseball: youngest person and first woman to win an arbitration case, youngest assistant GM, first Asian-American GM, and more. Her overqualification for the job is par for the course of women working in sports , as Pottymouth says, backwards and in heels. Ng, along with the first woman play by play announcer and a burst of new women coaches, gave us a welcome bright spot in an otherwise crappy 2020. ...
Nov 17, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 169
Danny Shih spent months building community with English-speaking fans of the CPBL, running the league’s Twitter feed , creating hype videos and excellent game wraps. He joins Patti and the Pottymouth to relive the excitement of the Taiwan Series, and highlight what makes this league so special. Danny rightly notes that Taiwan was the only place on Earth with sold-out ballparks for a championship, which made the Series a statement and a symbol in this time of COVID-19: This can be cured. This can...
Nov 13, 2020•56 min•Season 4Ep. 168
What a week! A couple of important wins, including NCiB going 2-0 in bets on the UniLions in the Taiwan Series. Pottymouth gives our pal, CPBL Social Media Guy Daniel Shih , dating advice and recaps the championship series. That other important win gives Patti a chance to steal a joke deftly combining the Electoral College and baseball. No fewer than 39 professional sports venues became polling places this year to provide safe places for large numbers of people to vote. President-Elect Biden is ...
Nov 10, 2020•54 min•Season 4Ep. 167
They must, right? Or else why would a team full of talented, enthusiastic, exciting, and outspoken players hire Tony “unwritten rules” LaRussa ? The 76 year old white guy called out Tatis Jrs’ grand slam, allowed that protests against racial injustice are okay as long as they are “sincere,” and claims not to have a racist bone in his body. Yeah, we rant again. And really, are there only three candidates qualified in the whole world of baseball for the three open managerial positions? Way to grow...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 166
It’s the day after the end of the 2020 World Series and Patti and the Pottymouth are super tired, a little hungover, and very stressed. It’s a good time for a rant. Pottymouth is beside herself with Kevin Cash’s decision to pull Blake Snell while he was still dealing. Patti tries to play devil’s advocate but can’t even convince herself. There’s a failed attempt at both Bonnie Tyler and Kim Carnes songs. The rant really gets rolling over Justin Turner’s behavior after learning he tested positive ...
Oct 29, 2020•28 min•Season 4Ep. 165
Brett Phillips of dance off, mom jokes, clipboard, and oh yeah, a walk off hit in World Series Game 4 fame, is the hero we need right now. Randy Arozarena broke multiple post-season records this week, but the thing we will remember is the grin on his face while slapping home plate after the tuck and roll. Austin Barnes’ crazy stat of a homerun and safety squeeze on one WS game encourages Patti to talk bunt and define safety vs suicide squeezes. Kershaw’s stellar performance in G5 will be most me...
Oct 27, 2020•44 min•Season 4Ep. 164
Friend of the show, Holly Simonette, is the only human we know personally who has attended an MLB game in person this season. She joins us to tell us about her (death-defying) visit to Globe Life Field, including confrontations with both that f’n chop, and possibly rattlesnake-based concessions. Pottymouth uses her teacher’s voice in our annual vocabulary lesson about “Games Seven,” which we enjoy saying and really enjoy watching. The Rays are suddenly America’s Team and getting framed as Good t...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 163
It turns out that strong and steady won out over magic and momentum in the Division Series. We are grateful to Mike Brosseau for a moment of poetic justice as he hit the series winning homer off of Aroldis Chapman. We will miss the joy that the Padres bandwagon brought to us and yet we hopped on the Rays train pretty fast after the dance off . Patti learns how to pronounce Arozarena , because Pottymouth already called dibs on next year’s boyfriend so we’ll be saying it a lot. We examine our bias...
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Season 4Ep. 162
Patti and the Pottymouth welcome artist, writer, and baseball fan Anika Orrock to tell us about her vintage style baseball illustrations, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum art show and benefit . Through October 10th, a percentage of your purchase from any of 100 artists helps raise funds for this important museum. In that crazy week of Wildcard games, what the hell happened to Bieber? What happened to the runner on second? How about that Bauer gem that was still a 1 run loss in 13 innings? T...
Oct 06, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 161
Hard to believe, but we got through the whole dang season. Patti and the Pottymouth give you their good, bad, and ugly of how it went, should it have gone? And what about all those new rules? It felt like a lot more guys were injured, but also a lot more got their call ups . Hunter Pence retires and we wish him well. This crazy Wildcard Week is just beginning so we try to lay it all out for you. We even make a few predictions with absolutely no conviction whatsoever. MLB gives staff election day...
Sep 29, 2020•52 min•Season 4Ep. 160
Patti and the Pottymouth welcome Marla from the Mansplain Baseball Elsewhere podcast to talk Atlanta baseball. We share some Freddie love, talk changing problematic team names, and feel tremendously old as our Jethro Tull jokes fall flat. Playoffs are a week away so we get you prepped with the layout of the rounds, seeding, and quarantine rules. They aren’t bubbles, they are neutral sites with protocols. Will there be fans in the stands for the World Series? It’s Texas, so who knows? What are th...
Sep 22, 2020•56 min•Season 4Ep. 159
Zack Wheeler proves what we’ve been saying all along. Pants are dangerous. Not as dangerous as ticking off Dodger fans, who trolled the visiting Asterisks by land , air , and art . The legendary Vin Scully is auctioning off his extensive collection of memorabilia in order to make a meaningful charitable donation, and leave the kids and grandkids a little something. This year’s Roberto Clemente Day saw Puerto Rican players, and the whole Pirates team , wearing number 21, and a call for that numbe...
Sep 15, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 158
Patti and the Pottymouth talk all things Cardinals with guest Tara Wellman , co-host of the Chirps and Gateway to Baseball Heaven podcasts. Tara takes us through the aftermath of the COVID-19 shutdown, the responsibility of national media to get the facts straight, baseball towns, and “The Cardinal Way.” We look at the lightning rod that is Yadier Molina, and the resurgence of Cy Young-ish Adam Wainwright. Tara is happily on the I told you so end of knowing great things would come from Kolten Wo...
Sep 11, 2020•47 min•Season 4Ep. 157
Patti and the Pottymouth talk all things Cardinals with guest Tara Wellman , co-host of the Chirps and Gateway to Baseball Heaven podcasts. Tara takes us through the aftermath of the COVID-19 shutdown, the responsibility of national media to get the facts straight, baseball towns, and “The Cardinal Way.” We celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ironman Cal Ripken Jr.’s historic 2131st game and share some tidbits you maybe didn’t get the first time around. Slam Diego won the trade deadline with Mike ...
Sep 08, 2020•51 min•Season 4Ep. 156
What can two die-hard Cubs fans, a third generation Red Sox fan, and a Cleveland girl agree on? Jason Heyward. In our full conversation with Cuppa Cubbie Blue co-hosts Andi Cruz Vanecek and Sara Sanchez , we all stand with J-Hey, even when his team let him, and us, down. Sara and Andi walk us through what the Cub’s bad decision-making in the face of an historic moment for racial justice in professional sports looked and felt like close up. And share their strategies for handling baseball heartbr...
Sep 04, 2020•39 min•Season 4Ep. 155
Cuppa Cubbie Blue co-hosts Sara Sanchez and Andi Cruz Vanacek join Patti and the Pottymouth to talk all things Cubs, with a focus on this week’s racial justice actions and inactions , and strategies for moving forward when the team you love the most disappoints you in non-baseball ways. In unity with those protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Dominic Smith and Jack Flaherty make emotional calls to action, the Dodgers stand with Mookie Betts, and Jason Heyward and Dexter Fowler sit alon...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 154
In this complete and (mostly) uncut conversation, Patti and the Pottymouth hang with their San Diego sisters, Angela and Liddy of the Hell’s Belles podcast , and agree that your first time should be special, whether it’s your first grand slam or your first World Series. Pour yourself a Crown and Coke and settle in for #TeamTatis’ take on unwritten rules, replacements for Rob Manfred, the economics of cardboard cutouts, and the curse of dubious ballpark advertising. The dancing is implied. An exc...
Aug 27, 2020•57 min•Season 4Ep. 153
Our pals, Angela and Liddy , better known as “ Hell's Belles ,” join us to celebrate the joy that is the San Diego Padres -- grand slam records, Air Tatis , dugout dancers and more, a conversation quite possibly fueled by adult beverages. But not before we show some love to Patti’s Giant’s BF Joey Bart , who at last got the call up, and almost completed a Rookie Cycle in his first game (h/t to friend of the show Deborah). We’ve got a little Yaz, a little Evan, and a pasta party with Tim Anderson...
Aug 25, 2020•59 min•Season 4Ep. 152
Plesac, Clevenger, Cintrón, we’ve got ‘em all going on. Turns out breaking your team’s code of conduct , disparaging someone’s mother, defending said mother , and pouting all have consequences. The Cardinals are back after 19 days off, just in time for the Reds to have an active player test positive putting a few games on ice. We will enjoy any opportunity to set Trevor Bauer off on a righteous rant, however. Oh, hey, the Orioles are still above .500 and Austin Hays hit the league’s very first t...
Aug 18, 2020•48 min•Season 4Ep. 151
Patti and the Pottymouth have a new best friend in Clive Hsu , English language broadcaster for the CPBL. We talk with Clive about how a high school guidance counselor gets the baseball gig, the importance of singing at the stretch, Pottymouth’s Lion’s BF, the Baltimore Orioles, and why everyone should be watching the CPBL. Did we mention the Os are at .500 and have a better record than the Red Sox and the Nationals? The Oakland A’s show us their good (9 straight wins and excellent Matts), their...
Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 150
The return of the Joe Kelly Fight Club puts Pottymouth in the excellent company of Dusty Baker. Dave Roberts thinks we’ve got that whole Astros cheating thing out of our system now so Alex Bregman’s head should be safe from here on out. Patti believes Joe laid the groundwork for his defense with his video of a wild pitch breaking a window in his home. There’s actual good news to report this week with BabyTrout and a swath of young baseball boyfriends making their presence known. Luis Robert and ...
Aug 04, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 149
