Pickled Biscuits, No Rocks

<p>The Cleveland Baseball Team officially becomes the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/23/cleveland-guardians-mlb-name-change/">Guardians</a>, which requires <a href="https://photos.clevescene.com/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-guardians-of-traffic-statues-since-you-might-be-rooting-for-the-guardians-soon/">footnotes</a> (but we’ve got’em). It’s always <a href="http://www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org/">Women in Baseball Week</a> for NCiB, but this week it is official for the rest of the world. We re-cap the wildly successful <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/500-girls-across-u-show-152000544.html">Baseball for All Nationals</a> and preview some steps to making college baseball more possible for women. We rant a little about the criticisms of the groundbreaking <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1017774045/a-major-league-baseball-first-an-all-female-broadcast-team">all-woman broadcast team</a> that called an Os/Rays game last week, and give Patti’s former BF Anthony Santander some props for knowing what’s up. Pottymouth presents the obligatory <a href="https://twitter.com/MacCerullo/status/1419036652920520710?s=20">Kiké Hernandez</a> Appreciation Segment, and Jon Lester’s 2 run homer gives us an opportunity to name check Big Sexy.</p><p><br></p><p>We give explaining the Oakland A’s current status re the <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/23/borenstein-its-time-for-as-to-end-their-ballpark-histrionics/">Port and the Strip</a> our best shot. Our proposed scenario is drop an expansion team into Vegas because how cool would that be, and figure out how to keep the A’s where they belong. Montgomery, AL pickles their AA Biscuits to become <a href="https://www.milb.com/montgomery/tickets/koreanheritage">Montgomery Kimchee</a> for a day, to honor Korean culture. The CPBL is back, but Mitch Lively and the All Star Game are not, so our excitement is tempered. <a href="https://static.wbsc.org/upload/b84f3fd8-6d2f-6ba7-9655-041f09bca4ee.pdf">Olympic Baseball</a> is ab