Live from LA, it's GOOD MORNING SOCIETY with Becca and Ruel!

0:11 And good morning society. Hey, we're we're pretty good at that now.

0:18 We really are.

0:19 It's episode 94. We've had a lot of practice. 94, six away from the big 100.

0:26 Oh my god, what are we going to do?

0:28 Uh we've got some surprises planned. For me, too.

0:31 Yeah. I can show up, you guys. The first surprise is Becca. How did you you? How did you manage to

0:39 You. Oh no, really? in between us declaring

0:44 that it was so great that

0:45 Cuz I went pee. Well, good thing we got that on mic.

0:50 Yeah.

0:53 Clipping now.

0:54 Yeah, there it is. Friends, welcome to another episode of Good Morning Society, your weekly dose of board games, beverages, and

1:03 shenanigans. I always want to say strategy in there. That's why it throws me off every time. Strategy things, strategy things.

1:10 if we have too much of that, so.

1:11 Yeah,

1:12 we definitely have shenanigans. Yes. Um got another great show coming up today. It's Yeah, it's jam-packed with lots of goodies, uh the hottest games out there along with a jacked-up match-up that I've been very, very excited about for a long time.

1:25 the games you introduced me to, Ruell. You've never disappointed me.

1:28 Never disappoint you. We're going to play baseball game today.

1:32 [snorts]

1:33 What? We're playing Baseball Highlights 2045, the bases loaded edition today.

1:38 Bases loaded edition.

1:40 Yes. Uh this is from our sponsor for the jacked-up match-up today, uh Eagle Griffin Games, who also publish a lot of terrific games.

1:49 Do love Eagle Griffin, especially The Office's new hit, Tumblin' Dice. Tumblin' Dice. I wouldn't even say it's a hit, it's an obsession around here.

1:57 It's uh there's a leaderboard, and uh people play before work, at lunch, for 2 hours past when lunch should have ended.

2:10 Yeah, we like Tumblin' Dice around here. Yeah, it's a great game. So, um yeah, Eagle Griffin Games, they're sponsoring our jacked-up match-up, which is Baseball Highlights 2045, and we'll also be doing a giveaway uh for folks uh here in the in North America, I believe, and um we'll talk about

2:25 Baseball Highlights 2025?

2:27 Yes, 2045. Um Oh, thank god. I was like, otherwise we're on duty.

2:33 Uh so, stick around for that, friends. That'll be a little later today.

2:36 Sweet. Thanks for Eagle Thanks to Eagle Griffin for sponsoring this show today.

2:40 Yeah, and thanks for all of our two all of our Patreons, as well. You all help do help us do the cool things that we do here in the studio, and uh we're grateful for you and thankful for you. Yeah, that's right. You can go to patreon.com/goodtimesociety to support everything we do. You'll get access to secret episodes for really old role-playing games, but also we're eventually going to post that Gen Con show. And also uh access to exclusive merch, and um we're doing a sticker mailing. The envelopes are sitting on the conference table.

3:15 About to be shipped all over the world. So, uh yeah, that it's uh it's too late to get in on this one, because I already labeled them, but in the future, there'll be many more. Thanks.

3:27 Yeah. Coming your way if you become a Patreon. Uh totally random thought right now. Have you seen Project Hail Mary?

3:32 We don't allow random thoughts. Um no, just kidding. I got a babysitter tonight to have a date night, so no spoilers on what happens to Ryan Reynolds in space. Just kidding, I've read it twice. Yes. Um no spoilers, I haven't seen it yet. I was thinking about you, cuz Michelle and I going to go sometime this weekend. I'm so excited for

3:52 both of us. Yeah, super excited.

3:54 Yeah, this we've been like we forgot to get a babysitter, or else I would have gone opening night.

3:59 Yeah. We're going to be driving like 30 to 45 minutes to a theater that had good seats, cuz it's like sold out.

4:05 Oh, okay.

4:06 there's bad seats left in the theaters. Um and we got to see it in IMAX, I heard you got to see it in IMAX. If you don't know, Project Hail Mary, best sci-fi book, uh top five of all time. I'm going to say it. Yeah. And now it's a I said Ryan Reynolds. What's his What's his name?

4:22 Gosling, yeah. Other Ryan. The other Ryan.

4:24 Other other hot Ryan.

4:25 The other good-looking Ryan, yes.

4:27 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so excited about the Okay, uh that's it for my random thought for the week. That was a great random thought.

4:33 Thanks. Um you know, we have uh new videos up on the channel. Uh we'll start Yeah, we'll start this one off here.

4:39 There's always new videos.

4:40 actual play with lots of cool folks here, Becca.

4:43 Yes, that's right. Finally, another actual play from Good Times Society. And this is a one-off with Abria in the GM chair. We got Matt Mercer, Ross Bryant, Jason Charles Miller, and Rashaun Scott. Uh it was such a vibe having these people in, and a huge thank you to Annapurna Interactive. One, for their game People of Note, the video game, but um they were like, "Hey, you know what? Y'all like doing one-shots? Why don't you just take uh some voice actors that worked on our video game, and uh do a one-shot in the world of People of Note?" So, uh Jason Charles Miller and Erika Ishii, uh their name would be in the title if there were more characters allowed. Uh they're not a player, they're special guest NPC. Um so, make sure you check out that video. It's delightful. Nice. It's it's a musical turn-based RPG video game. And so, uh there's a lot of freestyle singing and rapping in the episode.

5:42 And uh Ross Bryant is there, so you know it's incredible. Right on. Truly, what a cast. Yeah, it's now out on the YouTube channel, folks. We've got plenty more to share with you, including latest [snorts] episode of Blood on the Clock Tower. Oh, snap. Hey, y'all know how I like Blood on the Clock Tower?

6:02 That's all I got to say about that. No, this uh this is a script I really, really like. Um in editing, I was like, there are things I'd do differently. We don't I don't know if poisoning on this script makes sense, but um [gasps]

6:17 Um I was excited about this. This was my first foray uh venture into the Blood on the Clock Tower world.

6:23 important thing I should have said first. And look, right there, a little spoiler, Ruell is the poisoner.

6:30 Uh yeah, how did you feel about um getting to be on the evil team your first play-through?

6:35 It was It was fun, but I was like a little lost.

6:37 feel about your evil team not giving you a bluff? Yeah, uh I I believe I I don't want to call any names, but I think it was Grant that didn't give me the bluff. Yeah, hard to name names, but Grant? Left you high and dry your first game. Thanks, Grant. We'll see if you all pull it out.

6:57 Yeah. This script is called Extension Cord, because um it's got a special type of demon that poisons their two closest townsfolk neighbors. Mhm. So, that means if you have your minion sitting next to you, or you have an outsider sitting next to you, that poisoning passes through them, because the way that you can figure out where the demon is sitting is by determining whose information seems poisoned. Um but

7:25 Oh, that's fine. This because the way the script is constructed, that poisoning can go really far. There's things that add additional outsiders. There's a marionette in the game, which is Kate, which is a minion, but doesn't know they're a minion. They only find out they're a minion maybe mechanically if someone does something to discover their actual token, or if their demon says, "You are my marionette. I know you've been convincing people you're good this whole time, because that's what you thought you were, and you're not."

7:56 This was a lot of fun.

7:58 Will Grant do that, or will he not? It's uh the point at which you tell your marionette is ever-changing. [snorts] Yeah, and it's yeah, it's funny, folks. Check it out. Had a such a great time with that. I was very honored to be included this with this cast.

8:13 Of course. And uh I had a great time running it and watching it many times during this edit, which our All our editors have so much fun with it, and there's a lot of very fun like artistic liberties that they take that I really enjoy. Yeah, be sure to check that out, folks. We still We have plenty more uh on the channel.

8:35 I'll stop talking about them so much.

8:37 Yeah. Um But no, I won't.

8:39 I'm really excited about this one we're going to share right now. Uh this is the TMNT, the Teenage Mutant Turtles, Turtle Tournament Co-Op Set Unboxing. Yeah, and this is the one you played last weekend. I got a text saying, "Ruell is playing Magic. The world has shifted."

8:55 person I had to text was, "Becca, look what I'm playing." And I I played Leonardo. And uh yeah, it's a co-op game.

9:01 Leonardo in white? Yeah, my buddy Oscar had his set. This is the one that we played, and uh we got to Shredder, but we did not defeat Shredder this time. Ah, well, better luck next time. Thank you. Yeah. What's cool about this box, not only are there four mono-colored decks in it, one for each of the turtles. Uh I was like, there's four, right?

9:22 Four turtles. Cuz there's five colors of Magic, so perfect perfect matching. Um And and it's an auto battler, so there's boss cards that you fight. Iffy and I do an unboxing. Iffy's given a little flavor, cuz he knows all about TMNT, and I like Magic cards. Uh and also, you know what? Respect it, but it wasn't like my thing at any point during my childhood.

9:47 Yeah. Uh it was around. Um but these cards are so much fun. I I actually really love this set, uh and gross pizza cards be damned.

9:58 But what's also

9:59 Yeah. What's also cool about this box is you can after you've played the auto battler a few times in co-op mode, you can also just take the four decks and face them off against each other as well.

10:11 Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Now once you're comfortable with that with playing Leonardo Yeah. you can say, "Okay, now I'll play against you." I I felt like I started getting the hang of Leo towards the end. After a couple of cycles, I was like, "Okay, what's this?" But my buddy White gives us plus one counters to its friends, has them flying. Yeah.

10:29 And then by the time we got to Shredder, I was like, "Okay, yeah, I'm ready." And we lost. It's hard. Yeah. Shredder be like that sometimes. But I'm not going to lie. I I had some fun with it. I I had a lot of fun. You see the synergy?

10:41 I start to see it. You see the way it makes your brain light up?

10:44 Yeah. I think I see what y'all were talking about.

10:46 the amount of text on the card was like four times more.

10:52 And that's a basic commander deck. Nice. Uh we got another video out um that was based on something we talked about last week.

11:00 Oh, I'm sorry. Did someone see that I don't know who I'm making fun of here, but that this made $14 million or something on Kickstarter?

11:10 already the biggest trading card game ever on uh Kickstarter. What are they at right now? I think they're at like 14 15. We got to change the angle so you can see the title of it. There it is. Oh, we played the $10 million Kickstarter. I got uh don't email me on our contact form and say, "Will you sell us your alpha kit?" The answer is no. Stop emailing.

11:31 Um I'm not even going to deign it with a reply, but uh yeah, we do have the alpha kit. We played through it and um there's there it's definitely like a beautiful game with very cool flavor. Very much feels in the world of Cyberpunk. And I'm really excited to see what more advanced cards and advanced mechanics do. Yeah. Um but yeah, the the system is cool. You can the cards in your hand, you can turn into eddies for the rest of the game face down if they have the eddy symbol in the corner. So you're essentially using those as your resource to play other cards in your hand. You can play one per turn, but really it's kind of this tug of war game between the dice. Uh Okay. So you see we have dice. They're called gigs. And you're rolling them to um sometimes certain cards are like, "If you have a gig that's over set if your cumulative gigs are over 10, then you get this effect." Nice. Um but really anytime you attack your opponent, you get to steal one of their active dice.

12:34 Okay. And if you hit them for over 10 damage, you get to take two dice. First person to like start their turn with six dice wins. So

12:44 it's a very quick play um which is a nice thing about it. Yeah. But um yeah, obviously y'all should check it out cuz it's going to be a big deal.

12:52 Yeah. It's it's awesome.

12:54 not be be considered a big deal.

12:56 Yeah. That kind of money is

12:58 like a money.

13:00 What I do like is I checked out the campaign earlier this week and before they even got to close to 14 million and the fans, I mean, it is such a passionate fan base. I mean, people love this world and love this game. And I love this

13:12 is sick. Yeah.

13:13 I loved it. Cool. Well, that's new on the channel. Again, appreciate your support. And why don't we look at what's new in the world of board games, Becca?

13:21 What What do we have? What's this? What's this right here? What's What's this? Into the grab BAG OF GAMES.

13:27 [screaming]

13:28 GRAB BAG O' GAMES. I love it. Um let's take a look quick look at some games that are going to be out on Kickstarter or crowdfunding. Are we hard pressed for time? We are not hard pressed for time yet, Becca, but we are going to check out the game Pressed. For He liked it. He changed it. Yeah. Nice. Thank you, Ray.

13:46 [snorts]

13:46 Uh this is launching in 42 days. This is from Play With This Games. Uh hey. Disclosure, I'm part of the ownership group, but this is a game that I'm excited about because it's got one of my favorite artists of all time, Beth Sobel. Yeah.

14:00 for this and you can sign up now to be reminded of the campaign. It's launching in 42 days. It's a flower collecting card game. Art by Beth Sobel, you sold me right there. I was like, "Yeah. I love Beth Sobel's art."

14:12 that name. She's very prolific.

14:14 Yeah. She's done stuff like Herbaceous and a bunch of other plant-based games, but also um did she do Cascadia?

14:20 that plant niche.

14:22 That plant niche.

14:23 That natural world.

14:24 That's correct. Fan, Cascadia, Calico. If it's cozy, it's got Beth's art.

14:30 It's cozy and uh photorealistic. Yes.

14:33 Yeah. So that is coming soon. It's a drafting set collection game. Uh 20 to 40 minutes, two to five players um from Play With This Games.

14:41 I'm still thinking about the tarot game. Remind me the name of it.

14:44 Oh, Soothsayers.

14:45 Soothsayers is an incredible Play With This game. Absolutely obsessed. Everyone should pick it up.

14:49 I I think we have a hit on our hands. Knock on wood.

14:51 do. No, you do. Becca said it's a hit. Becca said it. It's going to be happening.

14:56 [snorts]

14:57 Um yeah. So what else do we can we talk about um in the the world at hand?

15:03 I I'm tired of talking about the riffraff. Give me that curated list. Ah, the Curator. A game about how you see the world.

15:13 This one reminded me of Dixit. If you ever played Dixit, you have cards and it's a party game and you're trying to figure out what people are talking about by the cards that they play in front of them.

15:23 Mhm. Um but this uses um actual photos from uh this is a museum. Oh gosh, I just lost the name. Magnum Photos. So these are photos that um professionally done um made over the years and you're basically doing Dixit like that. You're putting the photos down and you're trying to guess the theme.

15:43 Theme. Yeah, right? And see some of these photos are just gorgeous. Ooh, I have a game uh that my sister gave me called We See that is kind of like this. Okay.

15:52 Starts with an O. Uh that you can kind of um play with children with a purpose or without. Okay.

15:59 this looks like a more directed version of that. Wow. And there's a bodybuilder from the '80s.

16:05 I just saw Mhm. Well, great.

16:07 pyramid. Yeah. So this is a game of creativity, deduction, and surprising conversations. Ah.

16:15 Yeah. So sort of like Dixit. I mean, they do have a scoring system, but um again, according to the creator, they said it's more about generating conversations and talking about your experiences.

16:24 Dixit is my um kids of a middle age or like towards younger cuz you don't have to read to play it. Um but there's a lot of there's still strategy. It's Mysterium light. Nice. Yeah. So uh yeah, that is um the Cultivator. Or no, the Curator. I read uh the Cultivator because it's uh the I want to spoiler alert the next game. Wow. Right? How's that, Ray? Technically.

16:52 a transition.

16:53 Technically, that counts. Okay.

16:55 This is Garden Club, a game of clever cultivation. Ah. Yeah, this is from uh Chris Couch Games. Um let me press the play button here. And uh nothing's playing, so I'm going to go back to this screen. Hey, internet.

17:09 Hey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. It's uh our two favorite words, Becca, tile placement.

17:15 Ah, and competitive.

17:17 And competitive. The third best word ever. Uh it's a one or two player game, 40 to 60 minutes. So it's a little crunchier than say your the you know, two player 20 minute game. Ages 10 and up. You have strategic pattern building, easy and engaging turns, and advanced game play modes. So Chris Couch um got to meet him a couple of years ago. Great guy. He did a game called Holiday Hills, a Christmas themed game, which was an outstanding worker placement game. I think it was worker placement. I forgot. Sorry, Chris. Uh but uh this one he's um working with designer Andrew Styles, who's quickly becoming one of my favorite designers. He did the game Wine Seller, which we played here on the show I think last year. Um but yeah.

17:59 Wine Seller. Amazing. So this is um the deluxe version. You're going to get all the cool bits and you're laying tiles trying to create your bountiful garden. Yeah. Give me those those wooden components.

18:13 Yeah, look at that.

18:13 a little trellis? Look at that tiny little trellis.

18:17 Oh my god. Also these tiles are beautiful. They're gorgeous. Azul, watch out. He's coming for your beautiful tile. Aw, that double layer cardboard.

18:27 There it is. Look at your cubes. Yeah. Love a good spot for a cube. So Chris Couch Games, they this I think their third title and every one that I've seen so far has all the you know, really nice components and stuff. So I'm in for this. I'm in for tile laying laying and I'm in for food. Yes. We're always in for food, folks. Yeah. Go off the grid, build your own, and then have a game about it. Yeah. Um Wow. How do we go from food to Tile laying. Squares. Squares with little numbers. What you got, Ray? I love collective nouns. This isn't really a transition. It's just Do you know Do you Do you understand the name of this? Collective nouns. Yeah. Clouder? Yeah. Stop with your riddles.

19:10 Yeah, what's

19:11 know what a group of what a group of cats is called? A clouder.

19:15 Is it really? It is. Yeah. I guessed from context clues. Now I get it. Like a murder of crows or a fluff of bunnies. Yeah.

19:23 Is it really a fluff of bunnies?

19:24 No. Oh, yeah. But I just watched Zootopia 2 and they say what it is and I forgot.

19:29 Oh.

19:30 A warren? No, that's where they live. A clouder is I had no I thought it was like a herd of cats. Is it a puff? Is it's a puff of bunnies?

19:39 Puff of bunnies? That would be really cute. Chat. I believe it. Anyway, a fluff of cats. It's a fluff of cats. Get in Montgomery on the line. A group of a tim now.

19:49 That's not what I'm looking for. That's not what they call it in Zootopia 2.

19:53 And whatever Zootopia 2 says goes. Yes. Because of the copaganda.

20:01 Um Uh because if it doesn't, you're going to have to get on the ground and put your hands behind your back. Yeah.

20:09 Hey, this is a Clouder, a token collection that um Tachi Wu from Sunrise Tornado, he has put together these sets of tokens that you can use for any game.

20:21 Ah. So if you want to bling out your game, why not get a Clouder?

20:24 But do people even like cats? If you like cats, this is for you. If you don't like cats, well, I mean, they're super cute. People like cats, I think.

20:32 Yeah. It seems to me that people like cats. I I think so.

20:36 I've noticed. So uh you're going to need these meatballs. Yeah.

20:40 So you just uh these are sold by you know, groups of color. You can get whatever your favorite color is, whatever favorite cat you have you want. And uh replace them, you know, bring them to your next game night. And say if you're going to play whatever game, why not play it with cats?

20:53 Yeah, replace everything with cats.

20:55 Yeah. That's what I never say.

20:58 Okay, well, I'm looking for the dog expansion.

21:01 Me, too. I want pugs, but um yeah, you can check that out, folks. Got a couple more weeks. They're basically funded. Awesome. I was like, "What's What's a group of dogs called?" I know that one's A pack.

21:10 Yeah, that one's easy. Do you know what Three pugs are called? It is a fluffel.

21:15 Is it really fluffel?

21:16 about fluffel? Yeah, fluffel, herd, warren, or company. I correctly quoted

21:21 Very popular. Herd. Okay, see, I thought it was a herd. Yeah.

21:25 Um three pugs, when you have three pugs, it's called a grumble. A grumble of pugs.

21:30 Yeah, we have a pair of pugs at home, but not a grumble. Two-thirds of a grumble. Yes. Uh one more bit of news here uh for the final Grab A Game's item, we sort of like to go beyond uh just straight-up board games. And I want to share this uh new event called Play the North. A bunch of uh Canadian retailers, players, and publishers have gotten together and they're putting together this big old convention featuring and highlighting um Canadian games and publishers. Very cool.

22:01 Yeah. Okay, so this is This is more about the website right now. It's not an Oh, an event?

22:06 an event.

22:07 An event?

22:07 2026 in Edmonton. Uh they've got a couple. So we have Breakout Con.

22:11 Edmonton is where uh Rodney is based? Uh oh, Rodney Smith, he's even further out than that. He's further out than that. He's like floating on an island of board games.

22:21 Yes, I believe it.

22:23 Prince Rodney Island.

22:24 games, yeah. Uh so there's a couple events here. They just had uh two of them here, Breakout Con, Gotaphest, and they also have FallCon uh later in August. And

22:34 Hey.

22:34 As you can see, some really cool companies that are based in Canada, Kids Table uh Board Gamings, um Roxley.

22:41 Roxley, Off the Page, etc., Steeped, and Inside Up, and Burt Island. That's amazing.

22:46 great companies. Um I wish

22:48 Canada, a nice country that provides health care for people, respects indigenous people, has leaders that care about dignity. Yes, I was just going to say I wish we had their health care system here.

23:01 we had their anything. Anything but the weather. Not the weather, yeah. No, thank you on the weather.

23:08 have good weather here.

23:08 Don't want that weather. But uh yeah, check it out, folks. Uh Play the North. That is um happening now. You can check out the website and support our friends up north. Very cool. Yeah, cool. Well, we talked about a bunch of games. Um do you feel like playing one, Becca? I would love to. It's baseball season. That's fluffel again. Fluffel? A fluffel. I have a I have a I love to play games that are in um that are things that I that are I'm going to learn about baseball today.

23:36 It's baseball day, folks. By the way, happy opening night tonight and happy opening day tomorrow for all the baseball fans out there. We are excited and what we're going to do now is I just see how my arm is shaking my head.

23:52 We're Don't worry.

23:53 Oh, I was just looking for the baseball fans.

23:54 That's right. I'm going to I'm going to clip those two reactions into a social clip to walk with people to opening night tonight. Don't Yes. you worry.

24:02 Friends, it's time for our JACKED UP MATCHUP. YAY. YEAH.

24:08 CARTWHEEL.

24:09 Let's head on over there to the table. See how I did that cartwheel? That was cool.

24:12 Yeah, today's Jacked Up Matchup is sponsored by Eagle Griffin Games.

24:17 They have uh produced not only Baseball Highlights, but they've also produced our favorite game these days. Oh, we forgot the Mr. Rogers music um Do do do Don't start singing music when he starts taking his clothes off. You're going to get the wrong idea. Yeah, that's a little a little different.

24:43 What? Ohtani's in the house? Ohtani's in the house. I know that's the name of a person.

24:48 [clears throat]

24:49 Shorter than I thought he'd be. Oh, oh, and also Oh, Becca, can you just turn the TV a little? Oh. Oh, shoot. And a hat. Okay, got the hat.

25:02 I'm ready, folks. We've got opening day of Major League Baseball technically tonight, but um tomorrow's the big day. Uh the Dodgers are taking on the I it doesn't matter who they take on, they're going to beat them. Yes. And you know what? I'm so glad they're our neighbors.

25:18 Yes.

25:19 Yeah. They are our neighbors. Uh friends, we're playing Baseball Highlights 2045. This is one of my all-time favorite sport. Actually, it is my all-time favorite sports game, my all-time favorite baseball game. It's a deck-building game, Becca. Okay.

25:31 And um I'm earning me back.

25:33 Okay, cool. Cool. Slowly but surely we're going to earn you back.

25:36 baseball. I'll be back with deck-building. Uh we both start with a basic team here, 15 cards of consisting of rookies and veterans.

25:44 Uh-huh. Okay, and what we're going to do, we're going to play mini games of baseball. So it's true to its name, Baseball Highlights. So these game each little game is only going to be six cards. That represents a whole baseball game because it's just the highlights.

25:57 innings. I know.

26:01 Now, what we're going to do is we'll play a mini game first. So go ahead and randomize your um shuffle your deck and then draw six cards. Boop. Boop. Boop. That's six. There's six. Okay. And put the rest on your lineup. This will be in your hand and this is going to go into play. And

26:16 Baseball's so brown. Did you ever notice? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe we should Yeah, they should uh color it up a little bit here. Yeah. Um so what we're going to do, we're going to play a mini season right now. This is the regular season. And then we'll play a World Series. So we're going to play three games real quick. And what we're going to do, you're going to look in your hand. I have rookies and veterans. Yeah. So what you're going to do is you're going to play one card at a time. Um yeah, there we go. There we go. So for instance, if I played my rookie here, I would place it here in in play, and then you would uh play a counter card, okay?

26:47 Veteran. Okay. So what I do is when I play my card, I look at this box here. If there's any immediate action text in that box, then I resolve it immediately.

26:56 Okay, I'm changing my play now that I read the card.

26:59 Okay. Uh and we're playing a rookie. Okay, cool. With natural. All right, so mine goes first. Uh so actually, you would go first cuz you're the visiting team.

27:08 rookie card.

27:09 Oh, yeah, let's put it up here. Okay, look at this. Boom.

27:13 All right. So what you're going to do is when you play it, you're going to resolve any text that's in this. Is it immediate action? And then you go down there. So glove, cancel one hit. So if I had a uh batter that was going to make a hit, then you would cancel it. No. No to that. No to that. Cancel.

27:31 So um you might want to Okay, and then we'll talk about the

27:35 Yeah, so what that is, uh let me get a better example here. So this one here, uh this means these are the threats or the hits that I'm threatening to make. I'm threatening to make a single and a double.

27:46 Oh, no. So that would be

27:48 are one and two of something. Yeah. First uh so I place those there. And this represents the speed of the uh runner. So average speed is blue, slow is white, and red is fast, okay? So it's just A for average speed. Ah. Okay. There's no immediate action text here, so we just ignore that. So uh as the first player, Becca, you may want to you might want to do something that has some hits on it.

28:13 Oh, I see. I see. And save the like cancel hits for later.

28:18 Okay, okay, fine. Yeah, no, fine. We'll do a robot. Okay, so the robot, um you look at the immediate text, there is none. And then right now you're threatening two singles, and they're both slow, so you put two white tokens on home home plate. Home.

28:43 Now I play a card. Um so I can do this one, the rookie. So what I would do is play this card, I would cancel one of those hits. So what you do, Becca, is just take off one of those tokens. Uh cancel a hit?

28:58 cancel single.

28:59 you? Sorry, I was just reading about uh Queer Eye for Baseball. I agree, we need a new color palette.

29:04 Uh yes. Um [snorts] so now, we resolve any leftover hits. You have a single that's going to go through, so you get a single, you're on first base. Hey, just like that. I see, a single meaning you get to one base. Correct. Double, how many bases? Um home run. All right, there you go. Perfect. Uh so that's uh that's the first card. Now we go to the second card, which you will play. I've already played mine. Oh, wow. Okay, so really fast.

29:30 Yep. And but I'm going to go first again?

29:32 Yes, because you're the visiting team, I'm the home team. Okay. Okay. Okay, so once again, I need hits and not trying to cancel your stuff.

29:42 Mhm. Mhm.

29:43 Now if I had someone here, then you would try to cancel it, but I did not threaten any hits, so no need to cancel. Mhm. Well, uh

29:54 [sighs]

29:55 let's see. All my things care about whether you have hits. Oh, okay. Okay, well, it's uh this is pretty good actually.

30:04 Yeah. Ooh, I'll put it in this spot. It's a veteran. What's two about?

30:09 two. I'm glad you asked. Uh those are going to be Yeah, those will be after we play this mini game, we're going to start drafting free agents, and that's the currency you're generating. Oh, snap. Okay. Um pinch runner. Replace all base runners with fast base runners.

30:25 Very nice. So, you resolve that immediately. You were a slow runner, but you replace them with the red one, which is fast.

30:30 Oh, boom.

30:32 I would just like to say that Becca has played two Seattle cards and Ruelle has played one Los Angeles card. Becca, you're representing me here.

30:39 Yeah, you're welcome.

30:40 Yeah, so you're doing great.

30:42 My pleasure.

30:43 We did have Yeah, we have our starting decks. I have the LA team, Becca has the Seattle team.

30:47 Ah. It's not chance. It's not chance.

30:51 It's not Yeah, so I don't deserve thanks, but I'll take it.

30:54 Okay, so I had a single, which means just one runner, but I have two speeds. Oh, okay, so you're threatening a single, so go ahead and put a blue one out there because the A's blue average.

31:04 Nice. And the PH right here means pinch hitter. That means if you wanted to, you could have discarded this card to grab your pinch a pinch hitter, someone to substitute. And what you would do Yeah, we'll talk about that in the This is We're just doing the basics right now for the mini game. Okay, so that goes into your your in play. Boop. So, now I need to do this card here. Well, I don't have a card that will do anything. So, I'm going to play my veteran robot. So, I did not cancel that hit, so that hit goes through.

31:35 [gasps]

31:35 You have a single. Okay, so then this guy has to run as well. And I know that's when you go to the next base. That's right.

31:43 Counterclockwise.

31:45 That's right. And because it's a fast runner, you get an additional base. Ooh, boop. Yep. Damn, why is it counterclockwise? I've never thought about that, and now it's going to bother me for the rest of my life.

31:56 Yeah, it's pretty messed up that you did that.

31:58 My theory is is it was it this based on cricket back in the day in England, and do they do that?

32:03 back and forwards. Oh, yeah, that's right.

32:05 right-handed, then you do it It probably is.

32:09 And it's like the way you throw the bat, you want to run the other way.

32:12 It probably is based on

32:13 hating of left-handed people.

32:15 Yeah, it's hate It's hate

32:16 It's hate for lefties.

32:17 a thing in this country for sure. Yeah. Okay. So,

32:20 lefty, I'm deeply offended by it. Uh so, Becca's done that. I Now, I threaten a single and double, and you'll notice there's uh different players. We have naturals, which are humans, robots, which are robots, and also cyborgs, which are humans with um robot limbs.

32:36 And just um to clarify, in in real baseball, there are cyborgs and robots?

32:42 his name's uh Shohei Ohtani. Got it. Okay. Uh so, now you play a card. Now, I am threatening you, so I don't know if you have any cards that say cancel hits, cuz that'd be good right now.

32:52 Uh-oh. Okay, now the question is, do I want to cancel one hit or reduce all hits? What would happen if I reduce all hits?

33:02 Oh, yeah, so um I have a single and double, you just reduce it by one. So, one would go to zero. And that would be an out, yes. And then a two would double would become a single, which is only one. And if I cancel something, do I get to choose or you choose? Uh you get to choose. So, same difference. Let's go with um the natural glove. Cancel one hit.

33:23 Okay. Um I'm assuming you want to cancel the double. That's canceled, and then my single does go through. Okay, and then um You threaten a single.

33:33 I I threaten a single here. It's going to be blue.

33:37 Yay. Okay, and then um I'm going to play my rookie here, so I cannot stop your single through from going through, so it goes through. Wahaha. Okay, and these are just slow guys.

33:51 Mhm. And the red guy scores. I scored. One to zip. All right. Okay, and then you go back to the dugout. Yep. That's probably the discard cuz it's card-shaped. Yep.

34:04 And then I'm threatening a double with my robot rookie. Forbidden. Mhm.

34:10 [snorts]

34:11 And this is the game. We're just going back and forth uh six cards, and that's uh the game, the mini game. Ooh, threatening a double. We're going to cancel again. Same card.

34:21 Okay. Same card, but this one does not give me any. It does not threaten anything. Okay, so I'm going to threaten two singles from a robot, and they're both slow. You're going to love this. Oh, no, another cancel? Knuckleball. Reduce all hits by one base, and I get a triple. What? Okay, so I reduced these hits to nothing. They're both outs. And you're threatening a triple. But it's slow. Okay. Well, yeah.

34:49 Wait, you can reduce to zero? Yes, you can reduce If it says reduce by one base, it was a single to nothing. Wow.

34:57 Well, I cannot stop your triple, so that's going to go through. Okay, so I go one, two, three, and these goes home. Uh yeah.

35:05 So, I scored twice. One, two, three. Baseball's fun.

35:10 I'm threatening a slow double from a robot. All right, my last card. Natural teamwork. Walk if you've already played a natural, which I have, and I get a single that is the blue one. Okay, and I threaten a single.

35:26 Yeah, you threaten a single, but this walk, that means you get an automatic walk, so you're going to place a blue pawn on the on first base. Oh, I just skip straight ahead?

35:35 Yep. Okay.

35:36 Nice. Or the one I placed gets to walk.

35:39 Uh this This is a automatic This is like an extra player. You just put it on the base, and then this is the threat. Very nice. Wow, that's some nice Seattle's pretty strong. But

35:49 Maybe it was just my sequencing. It really Yeah.

35:51 you saying? Now, you did not stop my uh single, so I get the single here. And then I'm going to play I cannot stop your single, so that's going to go through. Score yet another runner. Score a runner. Okay, and then I have a single I'm threatening a single. At this point, you may do a save. And a save, what that is, if you choose to do it, is just draw the top of your card and play the defense only in order to go against my um guy here. Is there any reason not to? Um not really. I'll save. Okay.

36:23 It's not a block.

36:24 Nothing. So, that just goes to your dugout. That's your discard.

36:26 Dugout. So, I get to score No, now I place a single here, and because I have an average runner, this gets an extra base cuz he's on second, so he goes one, two. This goes here, this goes here.

36:38 [snorts]

36:38 And that's the game. You win four to one, Becca. GG. Well done.

36:41 GG.

36:42 That's the mini game. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to improve our team by shopping for free agents.

36:48 Hard to imagine it's possible.

36:49 Yeah. Uh so, what you're going to do is take the cards that you played, the six cards, and you noted the green numbers earlier, you just add those up, and that's your currency for the round.

36:57 Shopping, my favorite kind of game. eight. I have eight. I have four. You have four? Okay, so it's your choice. Would you like to go first or second in the buy? Uh first, because you'll probably buy out that four from under me otherwise.

37:14 probably would, yeah. Yeah, so um Mini Motor FX from Detroit.

37:19 Yeah. Four and zero. Stolen base advance all average and fast base runners by one, two singles and a fast.

37:26 Yeah. So, now what you do is to add that um a free agent to your team, you're going to send one of your players that you played right now down to the minors. It's basically like trashing a card, and you just tuck it in here under the minor leaguers at the top of your board. Oh, all my cards were so good. Okay. You love the walk. Everything's got hits. I'm thinking either my cancel hits so good, but it's not proactive in getting runners out,

37:56 Yep. and my robot gets runners out, but I'm going to get rid of that. I like the the cancels. I like making you not score. Hey.

38:04 All right. So, yeah, that just goes to your minor league, that's out of the game. And what you do is just discard those to your dugout, you'll draw your next All right, I'm sorry, the one that you just purchased, uh your new player goes on top of your deck because we access to them in the next Yeah, and then you draw six for the next game. That's sort of interesting.

38:19 Yeah. So, I've got two, four, five, six, seven, eight. I'm one short from getting one of my favorite players, Barry Sosa. Uh so, I'll spend uh let's

38:29 Very so sad for you. You know, Al Guscia. Scia is a robot, threatens two home runs, it scores seven. I'm going to send down Let's get rid of uh one of these robots here. I'll get rid of this robot that has slow stuff. And you're going to see this one on the chandelier. There it is. Okay, so this goes to my dugout. Then you draw six cards, Becca, as like we did last time. Perfect. And then now I'm the visiting team, I flip this over, so I'll go first, and then you're the home team, you go ahead and flip over your pennants. Okay. Uh reset your score, and you've won one game so far, so you can do that.

39:06 this is going to be as good for me. Clear my bases.

39:09 Yeah, clear bases. They don't stay between games. You don't start a new game with some people out there like last time. Unfortunately, that's the rules. They can't They build a little tent in between games. Now, uh again, the mini season is just like a warm-up, so we've uh shown how the basics of work. Now, the on-deck circle right here, that's where you can when you have a pinch hitter, like you saw the this symbol here, that's where you can discard them and take from your on-deck or from the top of your deck. Okay. Now, what you would do first is look at the six that you have, and if If like to place an on-deck, you could place it face down like that. And anytime I have a pinch hitter, I get to flip that card?

39:46 Correct. So basically I do two in one turn.

39:48 Correct. I don't know what the benefit of that is, but okay.

39:53 Yeah, a lot of times like I'll I'll just straight you know you want to put some like good card like a good card here that you know your opponent may not know you have or whatever like something that has a lot of home runs or something like that. Or could be defense, your choice. Yeah, but just a reminder in order to play it you must have the PH card here. So then to swap it out. Now I've selected one to place in my on-deck circle, so now I draw back up to six. And I'm the visitor, so I'll go first but I'll wait until you're ready.

40:24 Okay, I'm going to try an on-deck card. It feels risky. Okay, and then go ahead and draw back up to six.

40:30 Oh, we draw back up? Yeah, that's a great reason to do it. Okay. I'm the visitor this time. I'm going to go back down to zero. I'm going to play this card a natural. It's a lead-off, so because it's the lead-off, this is the first card I played, I automatically get a single. Boom. Here we go. Here we go Dodgers, here we go. Uh your turn. You automatically get a single because of your lead-off? Oh my gosh. I'm not threatening any hits, so you're good to go. Okay, okay. Well, um we're going to start off simple. Just a single from an average runner. Okay. Um I'm going to Okay, that'll go through cuz I have no text that cancel it, so go ahead and take your single.

41:20 And then I will threaten a single. I don't want that. Uh let's see. Folks in chat talking about is this the new baseball highlights? It is the latest and greatest version the bases loaded edition which comes with all the expansions a couple of promos and also all the different teams. So we have LA and Seattle right now.

41:48 Okay, we're just going to go with uh a robot double and average speed.

41:54 Okay, and you had no text to cancel my single, so my single goes through.

41:59 Okay. Uh you're threatening a double, is that correct? Okay.

42:03 I yeah. I am going to play um I'll play this one here. So pick-off, I remove one of your base runners. Uh actually not the one on home plate, that's the batter.

42:17 Base runner, okay. But then your double will go through. And I am not threatening any hits, so it's back to you. Okay, well can I peek at my on-deck?

42:33 You may. You always peek at on-deck. Great. I'm going to If I play a card with text and it's got pinch hitter, can I do both of those things? Uh yes, so you'll resolve always resolve the text first. Oh actually no, if you're going to pinch I'm sorry, if you do this for a pinch hit you discard it. Oh damn.

42:58 Yeah, my bad. No.

43:02 Oh, do I want points or do I want to stop you from getting points? Okay. I can't make these choices. It's too hard. Mhm. Um All right, I regret everything.

43:20 Uh-oh. Now you could if you'd like you can pinch hit Oh no, it's off the off on-deck, that's right.

43:27 I'm just going to I believe you can go off the top of your deck if you want to gamble. I can? I believe so. But then I'll get one less I'll in the in the round with the card in hand. No, we'll always play six cards. Six cards is a whole game. Right, right, right. But if I go off the top of my deck I that means I'm not playing something in my hand. Oh no, you will still have to discard that a card with a PH on it for pinch hit. You'll discard the PH and either go on-deck or off the top of the deck. The advantage being on-deck you know what it is, off the top of the deck you don't know what it is. Ah, so if I want to play my pinch hitter Mhm. I can just lose whatever on top even if it doesn't have a pinch hit symbol.

44:08 Oh sorry, so in order to go off your on-deck or your top of the deck you would discard a card with a PH. But like I did, I didn't even do that, I just played it for what it was. Yeah.

44:20 [sighs]

44:20 Well, what I'm trying to decide Oh, but I won't get my three money if I discard it.

44:25 Correct, yeah. Okay, so for that reason I'm just going to advance I'm going to double steal. Advance one average or fast base runner two bases.

44:35 Oh my gosh, straight stole home base or home plate. Nice.

44:40 Boop boop.

44:41 Well done.

44:41 Stealing home, scoring. Nice. Okay, I'm going to play my natural. He threatens a home run. So it would push all of them through?

44:53 Correct. Can I discard the top to play my on-deck card? No, just check it. Yeah, great great great great great great. That's incredible. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Bummer. All right, well we're going to do this rookie and I can't do anything. I have no preventative measures.

45:22 Ah, so the home run will go three through three-run home run. Boom. Um and I'll play this card, I cancel one hit. Too many hot dogs. Okay, cancel the hit.

45:35 a single. Well, I'm pretty effed. Uh you you get your single. I'm going to play my big card, my robot. Now what's this four do?

45:48 Uh that was just the cost you paid for the hit, yeah.

45:51 I remembered that I did that. Stolen base, advance all average and fast base runners one base. I don't get to do that with any other pieces, but I can do it with this piece that I'm playing right now? Uh those are just threatens, so you're threatening two singles that are fast. Damn, all right. Best I can do. Yeah, the immediate action always just affects your current board.

46:12 I see. Okay, so this single goes through. I am going to play this one which doesn't Oh, it's changes all hits to walks. You had two singles? Uh-huh. It's the same thing, so your singles will go your walks will Okay, so but they have to spread out?

46:29 Uh yes. So that's cool.

46:30 First and second, yeah. So that was my last card. You got one final card here. Yeah, it's not great. It's just single, so nobody's getting home. Um single single I know they will all you'll get one home because the red always gets an extra base cuz they're fast. Okay.

46:46 Yeah.

46:47 So you can't do anything about this, so they're going to walk. Yeah, so I could play my I could play a my save, that's the one where I just reveal the card.

46:54 Yeah. Which I think I'm going to just in case. And it says cancel all hits versus a robot. Is it a robot? Yeah. All hits are canceled.

47:03 The save, all right. That was how India's coming in. You had me liking baseball last round because I was winning. So now I only get to score one cuz the red gets to move again? Uh no, because the hits were canceled, so they just get stuck there and remove from the game, we just remove those.

47:20 I get one point. Correct. I am I had three, so Yeah, I noticed.

47:25 Yeah, so that was the second mini game. Now what we're going to do is your on-deck card, GG. You may decide to keep it there or you may decide to discard it if it's if you want to take a look at it. I'm going to keep mine here.

47:36 to keep mine.

47:36 Okay, and then we just look at the six cards we played, that's going to be our currency for the bye round.

47:41 Right. Two.

47:43 Oh. And four five six. I have seven. I have six. Nine.

47:51 Okay. Um I can either since I have the fewer money, I can decide to go first or last. I'll go last and you can Nine's a lot. Nine, so I can only buy one card? You can maybe buy more than one if you can afford it.

48:06 buy more than one. Two home runs with Sammy Sosa and that's the one you wanted.

48:12 the one I want.

48:13 And this is a single single double. That's a pretty good card, too. Because you also get the action cancel all hits versus a cyborg. Yeah, I think I like the dual action of Catfish Carlton from Cleveland.

48:27 to your top of your deck.

48:29 Top of my deck. The other ones get discarded.

48:32 [snorts]

48:32 Then I've got three four five six seven to spend. I cannot afford Barry Sosa. We'll go with this one here, Blue Moon O'Doul. A cyborg.

48:43 types of beer. Yeah.

48:46 I did Is it Blue Moon? Yeah, I do like Blue Moons. I love Blue Moon. I love an NA Blue Moon.

48:50 Yeah. Mhm. All right, so that goes top of deck. I have three cards here, so what I'm going to do is shuffle these and add three more. Same. Okay. All righty. How you feeling about the flow of the game? Baseball. All right, baseball. Six.

49:09 Now how come I didn't get a save because I was the Uh yeah. I was the home, but now I'm the visitor again. Which visitors have a shot at save.

49:19 All right.

49:20 Okay.

49:21 Just had all my veterans round one. Now back to just rookies. Oh no. Okay, so visitor goes first?

49:30 Correct. Okay, keep that. Keep that. Nice. Freaking sweet. Becca, if ever you don't know what to do, just remember all my hopes and dreams ride on Seattle winning this. Yeah. Winning the the the playoffs. The the March Madness. Yep.

49:59 So, baseball fans, you'll notice some of the names of the free agents are pretty funny mashups, like Berry Sosa, Dizzy Drizzel. Yeah, I did notice that.

50:10 What do you play there, Becca? I just got a rookie with a double and it's slow. Okay. Um I can't do anything to stop it, so goes through. Woo, one, two. I did play off play my lead off card. If this is my first card played, I get an automatic single. Nice, nice.

50:26 And then it's back to you.

50:27 need the names from that Japanese baseball game where they just changed one letter in every name. Was that that video game? Yeah, and it's like Sleeve McDichael.

50:36 Yeah,

50:37 Sleeve McDichael. It was a a Nintendo game, right?

50:40 Mike Mike Truck.

50:41 Mike Truck.

50:46 Mhm, you got a natural over there.

50:48 Yeah, and I'm threatening no hits cuz I just got an automatic one. Mhm. Really good. Dude. Threatening no hits. So, it's not even that exciting for me. Okay, we're just going to go boring and play a natural cancels a hit that you don't have and I get a single of average speed.

51:19 Okay. I'll play my veteran. This has immediate action I get to steal a base, but I cannot stop your single, so your single will go through.

51:28 Woo. And I'm threatening two singles. Threatening two singles. And it's a robot.

51:37 Robot, yeah. Oh, where was my on deck guy? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Singles, you say? Mhm.

51:57 This is pretty difficult. We're just going to play this veteran. Mhm. Natural. I've already played a natural. So, teamwork walk. So, that means I get a new free guy.

52:10 Uh no, that means Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Yes, it does mean you get a walk, so that's a triple base, yeah.

52:17 Everyone is one. Nice, base is loaded. And then I have an average with a single threatening.

52:23 Okay. So, that means my singles go through, so one here and then again, because it's an average or fast on second, it gets the extra base to score. Yikes. There. Wait, what? Yeah, whenever there's an average or a fast guy on second and you hit a single, it automatically scores.

52:40 Okay, I'm just going to say you need to put a little reminder text here. I love a reminder text on the board. Just saying. You can write it in with a permanent marker.

52:49 Uh let's see. I am Is it

52:50 Oh, I forgot I had plans. Is yours a natural right now? Uh yeah.

52:56 to play Blue Moon O'Doul, my free agent. He has a fastball. He cancels all hits versus natural.

53:03 Uh okay, so just this one.

53:04 Yep. And he's threatening a single. Okay. Okay. So,

53:09 guys. I got your lineups up there.

53:11 [gasps]

53:13 Wow, really impressive. Okay.

53:17 Willie Dustice. Mhm. Classic. And you played a cyborg. Uh yeah. My cat's asking uh why you average get [clears throat] us You only get the extra base on or extra base on second. It's like a scoring single, basically, in the game. What? Spitball. All hits against the cyborg are canceled. Boo.

53:41 And what's that? I get a single, a single and a double all of average speed.

53:46 really? What? And I cannot go to my deck because I don't have a pinch hitter. Woo. Oh. All right, Becca. I'm going to cancel one of those hits. I'll cancel the double. Okay.

53:58 But uh your singles go through.

54:00 Two singles go through. One, two. And then So, the fungus there. Uh-huh. And then we keep on moving and then we keep on moving.

54:09 Moving, moving, moving.

54:09 on moving. That's two that are home. And then what about an average speed on second? Uh first Oh, so it was a single that Oh, it was bases loaded, correct?

54:21 Yeah. Uh the slow one and then the slow one scored.

54:25 They were all average. Uh this slow one was on third.

54:29 Yeah, slow one third. That's third and then Yes, and then so the one that was on second and third would score as well. So,

54:37 already scored.

54:38 and that was Yeah, that should score, too. And this one?

54:40 That's it. But not that one.

54:42 Correct. And it's super easy to remember that.

54:44 Very nice. Yeah.

54:45 I scored three. Yikes. Catfish Carlton, baby.

54:50 Dang it. Don't mess. Well done. How many cards do you have left? Two.

54:54 Two. So, I um

54:57 [snorts]

54:57 I got my single through. Yes. Okay, so that scores because it's on second.

55:03 Mhm. And then it's back to you. But you didn't play a card.

55:08 I didn't play a card. What am I doing?

55:11 It's cuz I'm good at baseball. Yeah. Wait, where was I? I was there. Okay. Wait, no. I had two guys on here. Is that right? You just moved it because your last card scored. Mhm. I don't freaking know, man. I don't remember. I don't remember. Anyone remember I got that on Let me see if I can

55:31 you had two runners and one getting ready to go. Okay. Bauer says well played to cancel a double. Does that help? Oh, I cancel Oh, I cancel I played this to cancel. That's correct. To cancel Becca's and this would go through because it's on like that. This was on second, so it scores. And then now I play a card. That was resolving that last one. Now I play a card. Okay. Um I'll play a robot threaten a single and a double. Mhm. Mhm. This doesn't sound right because you're the visitor. I should play the last card. The home play home play or home player always plays the last card.

56:20 So, we just resolved that previous hit. Now it's back to you. Okay. Yeah. Sweet. I'm not confused. It's normal. Thank you, Bauer. Okay, so this change all hits to walks. I'm not going to play that because with that would be really helpful if you had like two home runs, right?

56:47 Correct.

56:48 That's when you play that card. So, instead I'm going to use it for its pinch hitter.

56:51 Ah, so you discard to the dugout?

56:52 Yeah. All right, what do you got?

56:54 um remove one base runner. I'll take the second base. Nice play. Thank you. Yeah. Okay.

57:02 Um and then Oh, yeah, okay, got it. Okay. So, then I will threaten a single and double with my robot. Yikes. All right. Uh and then we're going to cancel one hit. Uh the double.

57:16 The double's canceled, so the single goes through. Then I play a final card where I threaten two singles. And this is where you can play the visitor save where you may go off the top of your deck and play the defensive part or the text part of the card. Nada. So, these go through, so it's a hit. There, that scores. And then this is another hit and that scores there. Boo.

57:40 to score. Okay. Yeah. All right.

57:44 You beat me. I only had three. Okay. It was helpful. It was close. Now you go to Oh, you go to the in play and you would buy new cards. Okay. Three, four, five.

57:57 Okay, we're shopping, we're shopping, we're shopping. I got seven bucks. Got five, six, seven, eight.

58:04 Okay. Um I get to choose where to go first, right? You can go first. Mhm. With eight, I can get Hideo Tanaka from Cleveland. Cyborg and curve cancel all hits versus a robot.

58:17 Woah, that's a strong card.

58:19 versus a robot.

58:20 Yeah, I got a couple of robots. Yeah, and it's triple singles. Uh three singles. Very different than a triple. Yeah. Triple singles. Uh what about a quadruple? Yeah, nice card.

58:30 Hideo Tanaka, you're with me, bud. All right. And that'll go on top of your deck. I've got three, four, five, six, seven. I'm going to take Sandy Gibson. Top of the deck. And we reset everything. Um All ready? All right. One, two, three, four, five, six.

58:48 [clears throat]

58:48 Did I get No, this Good stuff, good stuff. Let's go. Okay, one. This is still my card there. So, now we reset the game. So, we've played the regular season, Becca, now we're at the World Series. Oh, wow.

58:59 This is a best of seven. So, whoever wins four games first, that's it. They're the champ. Okay. Okay, so we reset the games one to zero. I'll be the home team because I won the regular season. And you'll be the visitors and we play

59:14 Okay, got it. Got it. We are playing a two, three, two, four match, so I'll play the first two games at home. You'll play the next three games, if necessary, visitors or at home.

59:24 baseball-y.

59:24 Yeah. Very baseball-y, folks. Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay.

59:28 And then go right ahead. So, we play four games in a row, but

59:31 But shopping? No shopping?

59:33 With shopping. Okay. Yes. Always with shopping. Felt like we already played a lot of games. Yeah. That was the regular season. And now this is the The World Series.

59:41 Series of World Now Now this is an abbreviated version. Presumably the real thing you would play all 162 games of the regular season. If you're a maniac, yeah, like us, right? We would play. All right.

59:51 Absolute maniacs.

59:54 How do How do we retire more to the minor leagues? Oh, yeah, sorry. We shouldn't have been doing that. Uh anytime you add a new player, we should be dropping someone to the minors. I got so excited about it.

1:00:05 Yeah. So how many um You should have a total We We can do this. You have a total of 15 cards. Okay, so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1:00:18 just go in rogue?

1:00:19 11 12 13 14 15. You should discard or you should trash two cards. But we would have trashed them from our hand we just shopped from?

1:00:28 Yeah. I already mixed all mine up, so trashing as is, yeah. We can put an asterisk on this. Maybe that one. Maybe Okay. No, I will the last guy I bought was Sandy Gibson, so he will be in my deck, but then everything else will be in the minors.

1:00:54 I guess I want to get the two out of my hand. Sure. Goodbye rookies. Yeah, get rid of the rookies. Minor leagues for you. I'm going to shuffle this. Yep. And you will lead. You're the home of the visiting team. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's going to be great. It's going to go so great. Someone's asking if Becca's a Dodger fan. No. She is not, apparently. Because it's baseball. Yeah, I already I already covered that. Oh, thanks, Fred. I said Becca's barely containing her rage at being EXPOSED TO BASEBALL. UM I'VE BEEN TO HUNDREDS OF ROYALS GAMES IN my life.

1:01:34 Oh, that's right. But not by choice, because I was a child and I had no choice. Do you have any fun memories of being at the ballpark? Hot dogs and

1:01:42 I like the frozen lemonade. Frozen lemonade. Very Um and I feel sick thinking about cotton candy. Oh. Uh do we put a pinch hitter in our on deck?

1:01:52 Yeah. I I should do that, too. Well done. Thanks for the reminder. Uh And you can do the text or the the runner when you do that? Uh yeah, I'm sorry. Uh It will on the when you put it on your on deck, is that what you're talking about? Yeah. You can do any part of the card? When you bring it in as a pinch hitter, you will I treat it like a regular card, yes. But it has to have pinch hit written on it. Um that's to It's sort of You can play it to play it.

1:02:23 but not to not to hide it.

1:02:25 Correct. Correct.

1:02:26 Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I will hide this one and draw back up to six. Yeah, I'll do that. Okay. Is there Do you put a really good card there? Is there a downside? Uh sometimes I do. Sometimes Yeah, I put a pretty good card here. Interesting. Sometimes I like to hide like either a defensive card, like something that has like a bunch of cancel hits. Yeah. Or like home runs. I like to surprise my opponent like, "Oh, I'm going to threaten for a couple of home runs now." Oh, wow.

1:03:02 But it depends. It's situational. All right. There we go. And I draw my last card, which I knew what it was.

1:03:07 Okay. Trash. All right. Hold on to those. I don't forget to play my best card.

1:03:13 people out. That's like art. And I go first because I'm the visitor?

1:03:16 Yeah. You've been to Dodger games, haven't you? I've been to one. One? Mhm. I did it. I went to one. Did you enjoy the food and or beverage up there? Uh I did. I I went to the fancy room. Oh, nice.

1:03:33 I got I got that fancy room. Okay, I'm playing a triple. A triple? And it's fast. Uh I don't like that. Is it a natural? Yeah. All right. I'll play Blue Moon. He cancels all hits versus a natural. Boo. And he threatens a average single. Hate that. Blue Moon. That's my dog right there. We were just looking at the new baseball food for this year. Yeah. It's no longer just like cheap hot dogs. It is truly crazy how things have evolved. Oh, yeah? It's getting kind of disgusting.

1:04:14 The opulent options you have at the ballpark. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's no longer hot dogs and soda.

1:04:22 [snorts]

1:04:22 Facts. Okay. You know, you really really can't can't be doing this. You can't be doing this. You can't be winning like this. All right. We're just going to get this rookie out here with two slow singles. Okay. That does not stop my singles, so I'm going to go up there. I noticed. All right. I am going to play my robot that does a stolen base, so I get to advance my runners one base, but I cannot stop your singles from going through, so those will go through. And then I will threaten two singles. Okay, that's a robot? Yeah, your singles go through first. Singles go through. Nice. Yeah, you have a robot with two singles.

1:05:05 Do I run home? Uh no. They're slow. It's slow. Okay. Let's discard a pinch hitter card.

1:05:18 Pinch hit. Let's see what Becca has on deck. Uh we got a Hideo Tanaka. Cancel all hits versus a robot.

1:05:28 Dang it. Hideo. Three singles of average speed. Oh my goodness. What are you going to do about that? What are you going to do about that? What kind of Is it a Oh, it's a cyborg. Cyborg?

1:05:41 [sighs]

1:05:42 Just a regular cyborg baseball player? Dang it. Well, I'm going to pinch hit. I'm not going to stop that, so go ahead AND RESOLVE YOURS. I'M GOING to need some help. This goes here. This goes here. This goes here. That means these go home? Correct. Two runs. Nice. And then because I'm stopping with average speed, do I get to run home? Steal home? Ooh, okay. So the first one you had two slow guys. Two slows. The first single gets you bases loaded. The second single scores the slow guy. Uh-huh. But then the average speed gets to steal home?

1:06:24 Gets the extra base, correct. Extra base, but no extra base for second. Cuz someone was in the way?

1:06:29 Correct. Okay. So three nothing. Well done, Becca. Thank you. Hideo. Do you have Yeah, Hideo came through. Um I played this card. I couldn't stop Hideo, but I do threaten a home run average natural. Mhm.

1:06:58 We're deep We're deep in talking about you know, the geopolitical economic political ramifications of new baseball food, so. Oh.

1:07:11 Don't let me up on my soap boxes. All right. I can't stop that, but I could reduce it by one base. Oh, nice. So still

1:07:21 let your other one get home?

1:07:23 Yep. 1 2 3. This guy scored, Yeah. Yeah, well done. And I was

1:07:29 threatening a triple, but it's slow. Is it a natural? Cyborg. Dang it. I cannot stop it, so it goes through. Ooh. So let's go ahead and resolve yours. 1 2 3 for a triple means these two go home and I scored two more up to five. I've got a cyborg that couldn't stop that, but he's threatening another home run with one player on base. Terrible. Terrible. Ooh, I should probably should have saved that card now I think about it.

1:08:05 This is fun. All right, we're going to play robot pinch runner. Replace all base runners with fast base runners, so this slow goes to fast. And then a single of average speed is threatened.

1:08:23 Very nice. So that allows me to go through my home run. Yay. That scores two runs thanks to that cyborg. And then I cannot stop what you're going to do. I will just threaten a double.

1:08:33 Okay, so the single goes through.

1:08:36 Yep. And the fast gets to steal? Uh the fast gets knocked in from the single, so Those are run. Well done. I got six. Oh my gosh, high scoring round.

1:08:45 Yep. Um and then you play a card. Stolen base. Advance all average and fast base runners one base.

1:08:54 Mhm. And I'm threatening two fast singles.

1:08:58 me to get my double go through. I'm playing my final card here, a slow double. That means I cannot stop what you're doing. One. Two. And this is average speed, so it races home.

1:09:11 Gets the extra home. Gets the base. Seven. First game of the World Series. Yeah. This guy scores, but does not not do enough. You crushed me in the World Series seven to four.

1:09:24 I did. Now we're not going to be able to play a full four series of the World Series.

1:09:30 we have reached our time limit, but you know how to play baseball highlights 2045 now. We all know baseball now. Dodgers Yeah. There it is. GG Becca, well done.

1:09:43 well. I think that it was two games to two games technically.

1:09:46 Yeah, it was. Yeah, I liked it.

1:09:47 I think that's a tie. So I mean baseball. Baseball. Obviously I'm a fan.

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1:10:17 Oh yeah, it's set up. So for those of you who are watching live and also we're going to give folks a chance to watch the VOD, correct? That's right. Yeah, we'll be giving it away Planet next week.

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1:10:42 You already know. You already know. So check out that link and so glad we got to play this game. I know

1:10:49 Well, I'm so happy that you're happy.

1:10:52 Thank you, Becca. Folks, you can also play the solo because Michelle's not really into this game either.

1:10:58 I play this game solo all the time.

1:10:59 YOU WANT TO PLAY it solo? I don't I don't understand.

1:11:02 It's the greatest thing ever. Yeah, I love this game. Baseball season is here. That means I'll be at Dodger Stadium a few times this year. Just a few. Yeah, just a few. Michelle and I are so happy and fired up, but fired up for the show today. It was a great show, Becca, as always. Great show, Rey Weal.

1:11:18 Yeah. Got any reminders or anything? Any Are you doing any cool things like you did last Do I do cool things? Last night I was in a show at Dynasty Typewriter Call of Cthulhu Live with Glass Cannon and they're on tour. They're going to Portland next and then they're heading home to the East Coast, but if you want to watch the VOD Dynasty Typewriter is a really cool theater local to LA that live streams everything. You've probably seen stuff from Laser Vision come out of that. So many wonderful comedy shows and I'm I'm sure you can still get the VOD if you go to glasscannonnetwork.com/tour. You could probably get that ticket there to watch last night's show which was absolutely delightful. Jared Logan and Ross Bryant pulled some shenanigans was one of my favorite live one shots ever. The crowd was incredible. Got to meet some really cool people in the VIP room before and I was blessed. Nice.

1:12:15 Yeah. Awesome. Cool. Yeah, yeah. I think that's it for this week. I just want to say go Dodgers and Go Dodgers. And why don't y'all uh Felt weird. Yeah. I didn't like it. I'm not going to do that again. All right, we'll we'll we'll cut that out and we'll take it again. Play some games, will you?