The governor of Maryland shows that he postgames like we pregame, so he is our people. Our Brewer’s boyfriends get our attention this week as Brice Turang grand slams for his first HR, and Garrett and Haley Cruse Mitchell have some social media fun. Patti’s CLE bf Myles Straw leads the league in stolen bases and gives Patti her only lead in fantasy baseball. In a BF plus one crosstraining note, we wish Mallory Swanson a speedy recovery. We note that Corbin Carroll does not dig himself out of the...
Apr 11, 2023•58 min•Season 7Ep. 297
Join Patti and Pottymouth for a conversation with Bryan Ruby , ballplayer, country music artist, and founder of Proud to Be in Baseball . Come for the important conversation about creating a safe space for LGBTQ+ baseball players , learn about the life of a journeyman baseball player, and share some country music dreams. Stay for the qHAR tips and the near miss of being named for Cal Ripken, Jr. Find Baseball Country , Left Field, and more of Bryan's music in "all the places," and look for him a...
Apr 06, 2023•52 min
In which we make likely terrible predictions for the upcoming season, celebrate the new CBA for Minor League players, and share a teaser of our upcoming interview with ballplayer, country music artist, and founder of Proud to be in Baseball , Bryan Ruby. Adley Rutschman sets an enormous number of firsts on his first Opening Day. Pottymouth heads to Boston to reassure Dad about some particular Red Sox. We look at the effect of MLB’s new rules on game time, stolen bases, and beer sales based on on...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 296
We kick off Season 7 (!) with a World Baseball Classic wrap-up, an Opening Day kick off, and an intro to our flocks of pitchers. The WBC left many happy results in its wake. Team Australia’s Mitch Neunborn was signed by the Phils, Nicaraguan closer Duque Hebbert signed on site by the Tigers, and Team Israel built new ballfields. There were so many more eyeballs on the games, fans in the seats , and merch in the shopping carts than ever before. Closing out our Fantasy Boyfriend Baseball League re...
Mar 28, 2023•49 min•Season 7Ep. 295
Do we sound sultry or gravelly after three straight days of cheering at World Baseball Classic games, the best baseball weekend of our lives? You make the call. We’ve got the details of what it felt like in the stands , where everyone hung on every pitch , made new best friends , and danced it off won or lost outside the ballpark. Because there is other baseball too, we’ve got our last weekend of baseball boyfriends. Our Astros guys were both drafted as seniors in rounds that no longer exist, Da...
Mar 21, 2023•54 min•Season 6Ep. 294
World Baseball Classic and Spring Training at the same time? It is an embarrassment of riches leading to overwhelming choices and lack of sleep. Pottymouth’s boyfriends this week are 22 year old shortstops that are a little mysterious, and Patti chooses center fielders playing for their home teams and we both have to get past childhood grudges to do so. For the Yankees, Pottymouth picks Oswald Peraza who we probably saw in Rochester and just missed in Pulaski. Patti picks new Yankee Harrison Bad...
Mar 14, 2023•58 min•Season 6Ep. 293
Pottymouth convinces Patti that Jason Momoa is thematic because Samoan and because Jorge Alfaro. We’ve got boyfriends on the Guardians and the Mets. Max messes with the pitch clock rules , the Red Sox mess with shift rules , and the Os and Pirates don’t need no stinkin’ badges . Cleveland girl Patti is so happy to talk Guardian boyfriends, and of course she and Pottymouth pick gold glove outfield pals – Pottymouth with breakout star Steven Kwan , and Patti with literally jumping to Kwan’s defens...
Mar 07, 2023•57 min•Season 6Ep. 292
We profile boyfriends from Toronto and St. Louis, detail the shake up in the Os quality hair above replacement (qHAR), and share first day fun with the pitch clock. Alejandro “Captain” Kirk is still a Spring Training no-show for all the right reasons, and is Pottymouth’s TOR bf for this season. Patti selects TOR trilingual utility player Otto Lopez because baseball is the universal language. On the Cards side of things, Pottymouth picks Pujols mentee Juan Yepez while Patti chooses the fast-track...
Feb 28, 2023•59 min•Season 6Ep. 291
Much ado about Manny Machado as he announces intent to opt out of his contract next year, has a cameo in Pottymouth’s bf conversation and a full on support role in Patti’s. Patti picked Ha-Seong Kim as her SD bf only partially to say nice things about Manny. Pottymouth goes all young, dynamic Dominican players this week by continuing with Juan Soto as her once and forever for SD, and selecting ROY Julio Rodriguez for SEA (which causes us to purchase tickets to a women’s soccer game because we cr...
Feb 21, 2023•58 min•Season 6Ep. 290
We recorded right before The Big Game, putting “Go, Eagles” on record. Purely coincidentally this is Phillies (and Rays) boyfriend week. For Tampa Bay, Pottymouth chooses winter ball favorite Christian Bethancourt and Patti goes for Charm City Villain Luke Raley . Finally, FINALLY, Pottymouth names Kyle from Waltham as her Phillies boyfriend, while Patti scoops up an entire family with her choice of Josh Harrison . Amanda Komekona is named as the first woman on-field coach for Guardians, which E...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 289
Our Orioles boyfriends include Patti’s once and forever boyfriend and birthday boy Adley Rutschman , and Pottymouth’s selection of Ramon Urias , completing a boyfriend brother set. Pottymouth’s Brewers choice is a twofer as Garrett Mitchell is pretty great on his own but add in his wife Haley and he’s a sure thing. Patti goes for prospect Brice Turang and his large, remarkably athletic family. We celebrate Toronto pitcher José Berríos working to repair baseball parks in Puerto Rico through his f...
Feb 07, 2023•54 min•Season 6Ep. 288
This week’s boyfriends represent the Chicago White Sox and the San Francisco Giants. Pottymouth focuses on Venezuelan players and Patti pays attention to CWS draft picks from 2017. Pottymouth selects White Sox 2B Lenyn Sosa , who also plays SS for the Leones de Caracas. Patti selects Jake Burger , not for the easy pun potential but because of his remarkable generosity in sharing his depression and anxiety experiences including strategies for managing them. For the Giants, Pottymouth goes with Th...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 287
In this super-sized episode fueled by leftover holiday novelty beer, Pottymouth can’t stop talking Red Sox. For BOS bfs, Pottymouth picks good guy Rob Refsnyder and then fixes Patti up with shirtless pregamer Tristan Casas . Pottymouth’s Diamondbacks bf this season is possible ROY Corbin Carroll , while Patti selects Jake McCarthy for his periodic Gunnar-level qHAR. In the Police Blotter, Orioles owner John Angelos overshadows the team’s generous donation to Baltimore’s CollegeBound by lashing o...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 286
We walk you through both International Signing Day and the deadline to push slips of paper with numbers on them across the table (also how arbitration works and who avoided it). The Carlos Correa crab game has come to a close and Patti is not even smug about being right. We share our boyfriend picks for both the Twins and the Cubs. Pottymouth chooses the happy energy of Jose Miranda while Patti goes all family ties with Nick Gordon on the Twins side. For the Cubs, Pottymouth leans into a theme w...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 285
We’ve got a supersized Police Blotter this week, what with the Dodgers doing the right thing at the very last minute. We ponder why it took so long to DFA Trevor Bauer , and what may happen if another MLB team has the poor judgment to pick him up, ranging from T shirt purges to vandalism. We explore the relationship of adult beverages to crime as 1) the man who whipped two cans of White Claw at Ted Cruz during the Astros parade gets a pass, and 2) the man charged with a September break-in of the...
Jan 10, 2023•59 min•Season 6Ep. 284
We kick off the new year with Rockies and Rangers boyfriends. Patti is already considering Rangers pitching for our wacky fantasy league, but that’s separate from picking Josh Smith , because LSU and other compelling factors. Pottymouth selects Nathaniel Lowe because he’s a pottymouth, and other compelling reasons. For the Rockies, Patti and Dante Bichette both see the potential in Brendan Rodgers , and Pottymouth likes that Yonatan Daza is always dancing. A Dominican court convicted ten people ...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 283
As you might expect, Patti and the Pottymouth spend Christmas night talking baseball, fact-checking “The Chanukah song,” and drinking gin and tonickas. We cannot avoid the Carlos Correa kerfuffle, but we off-set it with other players on the move and Aaron Judge’s Rolex . We introduce our Tigers and Reds boyfriends: Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson , Tyler Stephenson and Jose Barrero . It’s Christmas so why the heck not bring up disappointing Trevor Bauer news? And we get to the AirBnB part of ...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 282
Are we Team Italy now? Our Royals picks point that way. Pottymouth orders the Italian Breakfast (and former flying monkey) Vinnie Pasquantino and Patti selects Nicky Lopez , who is boots on the ground with his community involvement. Our Pirates guys include a Cleveland favorite, Carlos Santana , and a rookie record-breaker in Oneil Cruz . Dansby Swanson to the Cubs is the last of the top tier shortstop free agents deals this go round, and it gives us a chance to talk about Mallory some more. Pot...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 281
The first FA shortstop moves tick off two major metropolitan areas. Pottymouth mourns Boston’s loss of the XMan to Xan Diego , and Patti shares the DMV’s piled-on feeling of Trea to Phils – another former Nat back to a rival NL East team. Josh Bell to the Guards just puts another jersey on Patti’s Christmas list. We kick off our off-season boyfriend profile picks with the As and the Nats. Pottymouth stocks up on catchers early with Oakland’s Shea Langeliers , and brings along his star athlete si...
Dec 13, 2022•56 min•Season 6Ep. 280
In advance of the Winter Meetings, starting pitcher signings are the big news but NCiB boyfriends are also on the move, including a full boyfriend trade between the Brewers and Mariners. Miguel Cabrera announces his upcoming retirement, reminding us that in addition to spectacular batting stats, he’ll leave a legacy of giving back to his communities. The Winter Meetings bring us a new draft lottery , the Rule 5 Draft , and the Take the Field program focusing on women working in baseball. Ideally...
Dec 06, 2022•39 min•Season 6Ep. 279
The Thanksgiving weekend gives us the opportunity to highlight teams and players giving back, through hurricane relief , housing , and of course, providing meals to those in need. The Rule 5 Draft is fast approaching so we get you all caught up on what it means and why it is important. We belatedly congratulate Caroline O’Connor , new president of business operations for the Marlins, and we learn the new vocabulary term, “glass cliff.” At the college level, Olivia Pichardo of Brown just became t...
Nov 29, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 278
So many awards , so many failed predictions. Pottymouth’s pre-season ROY pick of Julio Rodriquez was the exception, reminding us all that our observations are for entertainment purposes only. Patti thinks Brandon Hyde was robbed, just a little, but otherwise we can’t really complain about the winners. We review the hot stove vocabulary word “ non-tende r” and things teams and players cannot say about contracts and perceived value of free agents per the CBA. We cross-train with the shame of World...
Nov 22, 2022•45 min•Season 6Ep. 277
We catch you up on Platinum glove , Hank Aaron , and Player’s Choice awards, which is like watching the Golden Globes to prep for the Oscars. The GM meetings happened last week, weirdly during the “quiet period,” kicking off the official Hot Stove Season. We provide the annual qualifying offer vocabulary lesson, with offers tendered to 14 free agents. Scott Boras drives Pottymouth to defend high-end vegan restaurants and Patti to note that hamburger is in fact meat. We touch on how teams for sal...
Nov 15, 2022•51 min•Season 6Ep. 276
We’re happy for Dusty, Pottymouth is happy for JV, Patti is resigned to scrappy not prevailing in the end. Birthday girl Pottymouth finds a way to make the World Series about the Red Sox and it just feels right. It also leads to more quality analysis of “combined no-hitter” vs. “no-hitter,” and big credit to the catcher, in this case Christian Vazquez . Jeremy Peña is the MVP and the “it” boy of the moment but we just need to note that NCiB claimed him first. No surprise that Patti names sexy de...
Nov 08, 2022•41 min•Season 6Ep. 275
We make our World Series calls official. Pottymouth asserts Astros in five, with all the feels for the old guys ( Dusty and Justin), and the promise of the youngsters (Mauricio Dubón and Jeremy Peña ). Patti leans into the joyful and the scrappy of what FoxSports calls the “ Greatest College Baseball Team of All Time,” Phillies in 6. Fun fact about our skill in boyfriend selection, all runs in Game 1 were driven in by NCiB BFs. Hey, don't go looking for conspiracy theories regarding Martín Maldo...
Nov 01, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 274
One solid prediction made by your hosts? We picked the Phils and the Padres as “fun to watch” before the season started and the NLCS has proved us right. Our postseason BFs include qHar-adjacent Brandon Marsh , once and maybe forever BF Juan Soto, Kyle “ King Tuck ” Tucker, and Machete Maldonado. Patti’s former bfs on the Phillies are embracing the chaos. Pottymouth’s former HOU bf Jeremy Peña makes an impression with his bat and that whole mom thing we love. All you folks complaining that the n...
Oct 25, 2022•40 min•Season 6Ep. 273
Junior Pottymouth and his hours-old Mariners cap sit in while Patti splits for the beach. Playoff ponderings include the rise of the underdogs, just how many non-baseball things you can do during an 18-inning game and still see most of it, and the lefty vegan pitching for the Hammers. Manny Machado not only being That Shirtless Guy but also learning phrases in Korean to encourage teammate Ha-seong Kim have almost won Pottymouth over. Wil Myers and his wife are already our people, buying celebrat...
Oct 18, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 272
Your BOS and BAL fan co-hosts relished the sweeps of AL East Wildcard teams, the crazy records for shortest game and longest scoreless game, SpongeBob walk-offs, shirtless cellies, multiple greatest comebacks of all time, shoes on heads , and Mets fans behaving predictably badly. Going forward to the next round we may see biblical plagues , all the Dusty, and none of the Chapman . Batting titles go to Jeff McNeil and Luis Arráez as do gifts from their teammates. Adley grades teammates qHar, Curt...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 271
We start off the last week of the regular season by setting up Wildcard Weekend, and looking to next year with Ohtani’s record deal and yet another return of Miggy. There was so much news about hair that we created a whole segment – Gunnar Henderson is Minor League Player of the Year, Harold Ramirez ’s blue hair for autism awareness may inspire more postseason blue for the Rays, and cross-training with hockey introduces us to Buoy the Sea Troll , the new mascot of the Seattle Kraken, who sports ...
Oct 04, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 270
As the regular season winds down, milestones both personal and historic are in reach, and our baseball boyfriends are all over it. We ponder rooting for or against these achievements either as a spoiler or as a judge of moral character , player overreach trying to get there, and just how many catcher-brother pairs actually exist in professional baseball. Patti found a law enforcement career to get behind, and it is the MLB Authentication Program . Who knew it was all due to Tony Gwynn? And that ...
Sep 27, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 269
