Doomed to Fail - Ep 254: We absolutely want this to succeed - The Women's Pro Baseball League

Episode Date: July 14, 2026

Wooo sports! The Women's Pro Baseball League starts up on Aug 1 - and the four official teams are named after four incredible women! Let's learn about them!   The San Francisco Firebells are named for - Firebell Lil - aka Lillie Hitchcock Colt - a firefighting volunteer & patron The New York Heights are named for - Dorthy Height - a Civll and Women's rights leader right up there with MLK The Boston Hunters are named for - Harriot Kezia Hunt - who, despite not being allowed to go to medical school, had a thriving medical practice and saved countless lives The Los Angeles Queens are named for Lizzie Murphy - the Queen of Baseball, who played on many a men's team throughout the early 20th century   Let's gooooooooo Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [e-mail] 

In the matter of the people of the state of California versus Hortenthall James Simpson, case number B.A.019. And so, my fellow American, what your country can do for you. Boom. Taylor, we are live. I am this close, this close to buying a Holland jersey. That's how excited I am for this game leader. And I've had a very merch heavy year, and I've bought a lot of merch. I have like three-hitted rivalry shirts. I'm like, why would I not buy an early Holland jersey?

Oh, oh. I thought you meant Holland a country. No, Holland the giant delightful man. The giant Viking man. You know what's funny is he came up randomly. I went to a dinner with Rachel last night, and we sat at this bar and this guy just turned around and was

like talking to me about him. And I only know anything about soccer for like five weeks. Yeah, and then it's gone. Every four years, then it's totally gone. Yeah, and I was trying to like, I was trying to hang with this guy. I was like, you know what, man? I actually totally capped out all my soccer knowledge.

Yeah. Airling Holland, Jersey. It's just like been the most, it's just been so fun watching him. He has 60 million followers on Instagram. He is delightful. Yeah, it's been awesome. Yeah, I'm going to go downtown, watch him play. It's such a big sporting thing going on today.

We got that, and then as that's going on, the early prelims for the UFC fighter happening, so I need to like watch that somewhere and then it's a big sporting day. Yeah, I literally am like, I'm listening to audiobooks because I'm doing a lot of like painting. I'm just getting a 20% coupon to potentially buy this Hollandersie right now that we're talking. They're so expensive. This one's $69 and get 20% off. Okay, so it's not an official one. No.

I think it's Adidas as the sponsor. I think the official ones are like 170 or something. No. I'm going to add this to my card. Well, I'm going to think about it. So, wait, wait, I lost it. What was I going to tell you about that? But yeah, I know.

I'm excited, and I'm going to watch the game as well by myself. And you've been by yourself. Actually, you want to introduce us and then we talk. Hi, everyone. Welcome to doomed to fail. We bring you historical disasters and failures and interesting stories. And I'm Taylor joined by Fars. And we're soccer fans this week.

Yeah. It's almost over, I imagine. I know. I will say. I, this is the part that I don't totally love when it becomes like the final rounds because then it's like there's a game every like three days as opposed to like three, four games a day because that was really exciting to have like. Yeah.

It's so fun. It like it brings everybody together. Like it's such a cool experience. So, and I started looking into 2020, what is it? 2030. Yeah, I guess 20, the 2030 World Cup. and that's going to be Portugal, Spain, and because it's one century, they're going to go back and play some games in the original home of the World Cup, which was, I think it was Argentina and I've got the other ones. So, anyways, whatever, we'll plan that out in four years.

I can't, I can't, I can't, it's going to be so fun. Yeah, I'm very excited. No, I remember what I was going to say. I'm listening to audiobooks and talking to my mom on the phone and, like, doing things. And the entire time in the back of my head is the Holland, Holland. Do you know that song about him? No. Have you not been on the internet this week?

I mean, I have, but I get a lot of funny memes, but the memes I get are like, here's what he looks like when he's chasing down another man. I feel like you just don't have a sound on when you're watching them. If you have a sound on, it would be that song. That's the only song that's on the internet right now. That's very funny. It's been fun.

It's been fun. I have a sports story to tell you. Is it? It's not about the guy who got killed, right? No, who got killed. The Colombian guy who scored on his own goal and then he went home and was killed the next week. No. That one was sad.

That sucks. But I found out, fun fact that I found out, the guy, the cartel boss who ordered that hit, he lost a shitload of money on him. He died like a month ago. He got shot in some restaurant and killed, which was. Whoa. That's scary. So, yeah, it's all stuff. Totally scary. Anyways, sorry, I interrupted.

Anyway, mine's not a doomed story. It's a fun story. And I told you already that I've been crying. So I just literally wrote in cap several times in my outline. I'm probably crying. That sounds great. I don't know why Taylor does this, by the way, for the audience that listens. This is also why I don't like, I don't like sappy movies. Like, it's something I don't feel things. It's just like, why?

do people voluntarily choose to make themselves feel bad? There's a whole range in spectrum of human emotions and there's one that you don't want, but people opt into it and I don't get it. I don't get it either. I also like don't

don't do that a lot. I don't watch sad movies. I watched back rooms last night. It was pretty good. It was pretty good. Yeah. And then I don't watch that movies. I did obviously like to talk about that book I read in February. I'd be cry out of February. But that's an anomaly. It's not like normal. So anyway,

now I'm, okay, I'm going to stop looking at with Hollandersie and tell you a little bit about women's baseball. Because guess what? There's a new baseball league. It's for the ladies, and it's starting this year. I didn't even know there was a women's baseball. It literally has not started playing yet. It will play this year. What is the WMLB? No. I do have a written down. somewhere. I'll get to it. But I'm going to tell you a little bit of history about women's baseball. And then there are four, don't look it up yet. Just wait. There are four new teams,

obviously, because it's a new year. And I'm going to tell you about who each of the teams is named after. Because each of the new baseball teams for the women's baseball are named after a woman from history who is awesome. And it's very excited. So I'm excited. There's also a new, not, I'm not going to talk about it yet because they don't even have names yet, There's a new professional women's hockey league. It's called Professional Women's Hockey League. I know that one. And then Las Vegas is going to get a team.

And statistically, they're way more likely to kiss than the people in the NHL. So I'm very excited. I would actually agree with that. I didn't look at that statistic, but I'm 100% sure it's true. I'm not sure it's true, too. You don't have to look it up. So that is exciting. So baseball, as a sport, became popular in the United States in the 1850s.

and women were playing it immediately, obviously, because women have always played sports. And there are some cute little historical things. Like the first African-American women's team was formed in Philadelphia in 1867. It was called the Dolly Varden's. The first time women were paid and people bought tickets was in 1875.

In Springfield, Illinois, it was the blondes versus the brunettes. I think that was just their names, not their thing. Personal distinguishing. characteristics. Yes. Springfield, Illinois, it's actually going to be where all of the women's baseball games are going to be played for now. So they're not going to be in the cities that they represent, like, they're actually all going to be in Springfield for now, and then they're going to, like, expand from there as it, like, goes. So as you know, women play baseball, of course, during the World Wars. There really was a Doddy. Her name was Doddy, Wiltsie Collins, and there really

wore Rockford Peaches. I literally at one point had to say to myself, I will not watch League of Their Own anymore because I cry so much. I was when you said, of course, I was like, okay, she's talked about League of Their Own. Of course, yeah. I cannot watch it and I cannot even think about

the end, we all sing the song. No, I cried so much. I was like young and I was like, I can't watch herself ever again because I cry too much. Don't. Don't watch things that make you sad. I'm not going to. That's why I said. So, But all throughout, you know, the past, you know, the hundred years before and the years after the war, there's been women playing baseball. In 1974, the National Organization of Women sued the Little League to allow girls to play.

So they created softball teams for the girls. Now in my little league, girls play softball, the boys play baseball, but there's no rule stopping the girls from playing baseball. There was one girl who played baseball. There is no actual reason for girls to play softball in boys to play baseball, like, nothing like physically that makes it better for girls who play softball. It really is that with Title IX money in the 1970s going to schools and universities, the more teams they had, the more money they would make. So they separated men and women and had men play baseball and play softball. Makes sense. Isn't it the only difference of softball is that it's an underhand pitch and the ball's bigger?

Yes. And the other difference is that in baseball, the pitching mound is about 17 feet further from home plate, and it's closer in softball. So in softball, you have less time to react to the ball coming towards you. It's like milliseconds, but still, that's the biggest difference. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. Also, is there professional softball?

Yes. Okay. I think so. I have no idea, actually. I said very confidently. You did? Yeah. I believe you.

I don't know. But I do know that there is a women's world series. It's in in 2001, the U.S. won the gold medal. That was in the first one. There's a women's baseball world cup every like four years. And Japan has won it for the last like 20 years. They just are killing it. So that's exciting. But now it's coming to the United States for real. And then I'm like, did I even write down what it is called? What this new league is called? Hold on. Let me. It's called Women's Pro Baseball League. Yes, the Women's Pro Baseball League, the WPBL, which is starting this year. It started in 2024 and then finally actually going to start playing. There are four teams. All games will be in Springfield, Illinois. Like I said, they are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells. So here's who they're named after.

The Boston Hunters are named after Harriet Keziah Hunt. she lived from 1805 to 1875. She was a doctor and an educator in the Boston area. When she was younger, she was a teacher, but she didn't love it. And her sister got sick. And she spent a lot of time with the doctors who took care of her sister. And they had like a different approach to medicine than like other doctors in the area. They were a little bit more with like, you should rest and like maybe take an herb rather than like bleeding people.

and stuff like that, like a more aggressive medicine. And she really liked it. But she wasn't allowed to go to medical school. She was the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School in 1847. And by that time, she already had a consulting room, which is, like, people would go to her, like, they would go to a doctor. You know, like, I don't think people had, like, a lot of insurance or, like, whatever. Weren't Barber's also surgeons? Exactly.

So she, like, didn't have to have a degree to do this. She just, like, was like, people would come over and she would, like, help them. them. And then she would really work a lot with, like, promoting, like, preventative medicine. What we would say now, like, eating healthy, exercising, resting, things like that, that, like, really weren't part what a doctor would do when they saw you during that time. So, 1847, she, because she had that experience, she applied to Harvard Medical School. They considered letting her in. But then the, all of the male students, like, the students were, like, absolutely not. You know, I would never want to, like.

This is West Point, Circa. What if she, like, gets her period? You know, like, what would happen? So they, she was not admitted. Guess when Harvard let a woman into the medical school? So in 1847, she was the first woman to apply. Guess when they let someone in? It had to be like the 1930s.

1945. Oh, I suppose. Because all the men were gone. Yeah, right. Of course. So they needed students. Both men were dead. Yeah.

So just like women's baseball, there were no men to play baseball, during World War II, there were also no men to go to medical school. So they finally were like, we'll let you in, girls. I kind of almost feel like the capitalistic instinct behind these decisions is like the more pervasively obamatic thing, which is like, we got to keep making money off tuition. Yeah. What else we got? It wasn't because they like, like, it wasn't altruistic.

It was because like, we got to fill these seats. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly what it was. But she did receive an honorary MD from the female medical college of Philadelphia in 1853. She was also a speaker. She lectured on abolition. She protested taxation without voting rights for women and promoted women being in careers

of reserve for men. She had a at the party for her 25th anniversary of her medical practice. There were 1,500 people there, three generations of her patients. So she really, like, saved a lot of lives and helped. lot of people, even though she wasn't allowed to, like, officially be a doctor and go to medical school. Her advice to women was, I have been so happy in my work. Every moment occupied, how I long to whisper in the ear of every listless woman, do something. If you would, you would be happy. And I wrote, I'm probably crying now in all caps, but I'm not. So I'm very proud myself. So those are the Boston

hunters named after Harriet Hunt. The next, we have the San Francisco Fire Bells. So it's one word fire Bells. They're named after Elizabeth Hitchcock Colt. She lived from 1843 to 1929. She was a firefighter and nicknamed Firebell Lil. So that's why they're named after her. That's fun. Yeah. So I wrote, she seems, she seems fun. She smoked cigar. She wore pants. She would dress like a man to go out gambling, you know, like fun stuff like that. She inherited a lot of money and did a lot of traveling. When she was 15, she saw a firefighter engine that was short-handed going up a hill in San Francisco and she kind of jumped on to help them. And she became like their unofficial, official mascot and would be with them in parades. And there's pictures of her wearing like her fireman hat. And like she was, would like, you know, donate money to the fireman. She would be there when they like got sick.

She would be there when they died for their families. And she was just with them a lot. She was a real, a real guy's girl working with the fire department. And then when she passed away, she gave one third of her money to the city of San Francisco. And they built the Kuwait Tower, which is something that you would know if he was in San Francisco.

It's like a landmark. Great. So, yeah, she seems fun. Little, little firebell, little. Little firecracker. You were to say firecracker, weren't you? Yeah, maybe a little firecracker. But, yeah, so she seems great.

Next, we have the Los Angeles Queens named after the Queen of Baseball, Lizzie Murphy. She lived from 1894 to 1964. She was just like a great fucking baseball player. She and herself the queen of baseball and she also called herself Spike Murphy, so also fun. But she played for like a ton of professional men's teams, just like on the team. She was like on the roster. She was the first women to play in a game against any major league players in 1922. She played on the all-star teams.

She was the first person male or female to play in the all-star teams for both the American and national leagues. She played with the Providence Independence, which was like the men's team. And then she was on a team called the Ed Cars Traveling All-Stars, who I imagine are like the Savannah Bananas. Because they just like play for fun, I think. I don't really give it. Yeah. I don't really do, but it's delightful.

It's like prison leagues. Like they just exist. So she was a pitcher, a first base person, and a great hitter. She played for the women's leagues on the team with Bloomer Girls for 30 years. And she was really, you know, big on her own publicity. Like she would stay after games and sell her own picture and, you know, give her autograph to people and really, like, made herself into the queen of baseball and was one of like the first women to like really pioneer it and be there. Which is cool. Yeah.

I also really like their logo. Yeah. I don't know why. It feels really unique. That's the cue with the stars. Yeah, it's like the simplest one out of them, but for some reason, it's like I got a cool, like, casino gambling vibes to it that I like. Yeah, yeah, it's fun. I'm, it's going to be exciting. I think it's going to be fun. And then our last one is the New York Heights named for Dorothy Height.

Dorothy Height lived from 1912 to 2010. She was an African American civil and women's rights activist. She was one of the first people to say from within the civil rights women, because she was one of like the big six, like with Martin Luther King, she was out there. And you don't hear a lot about her. Like a lot of people probably have, but we don't hear about her as much as you hear about other people because of media just didn't talk about her because she's a woman, you know, but she was there doing all the things with Martin Luther King, with that group of people. She was one of the first people from inside the civil rights movement to say like, you have to include women and all these decisions. Like we have to come in together rather than like

separated by sexism. She was a president of the National Council for, for Negro women for 40 years. She started to be politically active when she was in school, like in high school because she was barred from swimming in the YWCA pool. And she wanted to be able to, you know, do that. And she would work with the YWCA for many, many years in New York and on the East Coast. She did, she would do speeches against lynching. And she was accepted to Barnard in 1929.

But she was denied entrance because there was like a not-referenced. and down rule, but like side rule that they only admitted two black students per year. So they wouldn't, didn't, they accepted her, but then it was like, she was like third or whatever, and they wouldn't, they didn't let her in. So she went to NYU. She got a bachelor, she was on a master's and then did more work at Columbia. She worked for the New York Department of Welfare, where she met Eleanor Roosevelt. Whoa. And she would meet with, with Eleanor a couple times. There's a picture of them together in 1960 as well, but she met her in the, in the 20s and 30s. She was, she wrote a column for the New

New York, Amsterdam News called the women's world, just talking about women's rights within the context of civil rights and civil liberties. She has so many awards and so many different committees and things that she was on. One of the interesting ones is she was on the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. And that was directly created after the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments as a way to be like, you know, people need to know what they're doing. Like, you can't experiment on humans. So she was like part of that committee.

She formed the African-American women for reproductive freedom. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton. She received a congressional gold medal from George Bush. And when she passed away in 2010, Obama did her eulogy. And he called her the godmother of civil rights movement and a hero to so many Americans. Americans. Man, she died old, too. Mm-hmm.

98 years old. Good for her. I know. And she said, quote, I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom.

I want to be remembered as one who tried. That's awesome. I know. I like all their logos now that I think about it. Because even the New York one has this like retro

look to it that's really cool. I'm a little worried that they might change. because they're just like, it's just like the beginning of it. But no, hopefully they stay. I like them too. I am very, very pro.

It's really cool when people start sports leagues, I think. Yeah. I don't know. It's just there's like, man, you got to have like a lot of determination and drive. Like that is not an easy thing to do. But you got to also have a lot of money. But like, it's not an easy thing to do. and I don't know.

There's something really wildly aspirational about it that's intriguing. I know. It's exciting. And I hope that they do well. And I'm excited to, um, I'm excited to watch it. You know,

it's going to be fun. So, so if there's only four teams. Well, they're all, okay, so they're all going to play in Springfield. So I think what they're going to do is just like live there,

like live in Illinois. And then, you know, play the games there and then hopefully be able to like, build or like participate you know um but how many variations oh i shouldn't know this you can only play you can only play 16 games total right well it probably will like yeah i don't know but i mean they're gonna play less games than like the seven million baseball games per season and men's baseball probably but i wonder i think let's see if their schedule is online

schedule. Actually, yeah, I think that's right. I think they can only play 16 games. It looks like, there's more than 16. They can play with my games as they want to. I feel like I've seen more than 16 on this page. They have, the first one is August 1st,

Los Angeles versus New York. And you said they're all, oh, you're right, they're all in Springfield. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. But they're going to, hopefully move around. I guess there are there, oh my God, I want, well, crap, now I want these jerseys.

But I mean, they are really cool. Okay. So, so are, do they play on like a regulation, like MLB regulation-sized field? Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. It would be fun to see how plays out. The tryouts were at the nationals field.

So I think, yeah, that's where they did it. And then I, oh my God, all these jerseys are sold. out already. Oh, God. Well, that's a good sign. It's a really good sign. I'm very excited. Ooh, the,

the fun merch that says, we play hardball. I love it. I love it. I'm excited. Yeah, a lot of this stuff is sold out. Yeah, isn't cool?

Yeah. You can, um, oh my, it's all sold out. No, no, no. No. can get the New York team

hoodie in black. Okay. Crap. Which you can't wear for a while in your case. I know. And they're actually pricing their merch reasonably.

Like, man, you go by like a regulation, Dallas Cowboys jersey. That's a second mortgage on your house. Well, that's fun. You didn't cry. I didn't cry. I just will not think about a league of their own.

And it's good. I'm excited. I think women are allowed to play in the NFL, aren't they? I think, I feel like this is a good question. Yeah. They're legally allowed to play in the NFL. Yeah, NFL has a no gender restriction rule. But, man, like that would be tough.

I mean, if you were to put like all the seniors. a kicker because that job's easy but like you shouldn't be like a linebacker yeah no I mean no one should honestly nobody should I was literally doing the math and I was like if you were to take the number one NCAA team and put them against the worst NFL team

they would probably the NFL team would probably win 7 million to zero every single time yeah it would just be it would be a lot and I've also been well I was also thinking I was talking to my dad out this last night because like Holland again who everyone can't stop thinking about.

He, everybody's like, why don't we have in the United States. Like if he grew up in America, he'd be like a basketball player, you know? Like, he just like wouldn't be a soccer player. Like that we just like don't, we like invest so much less in that sport than in other sports. So I learned a lot about that because I was really curious as to why the U.S. is so bad of this. And you remember Lance Donovan who was like the, the eight guy in U.S. soccer for the longest time? who's in a bunch of World Cups. Okay.

If you saw them, you recognized them because he was everywhere when we were kids. Wait, I do know that the women's have won at four times. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah. For the United States. And we've never won.

We were third place in like 1920. And we never. I don't totally understand it because I don't see why it would be different for women that for men. But what he was saying was, he was on a bunch of podcasts. He was trying to like do something similar to where you're talking about,

like doing his own league kind of a thing. But for kids and he was like, yeah, when I was coming up, he was like my mom made like 40 grand a year and we were like one of those teams where you got to travel and get hotels and flights and this and that and the other thing and he was like the only way I was able to do it is because somebody decided to like fund me to do it but like what he's what he was basically he said some stat where it was like um only 2% of kids who are playing pee we to youth soccer in the United States have a household income of 50,000 or a lot.

because it's just too expensive. And he was like, that's the problem. He's like, all the other sports, it's so ubiquitous. Like, you can play in your own town because there's a baseball team and a basketball team and a football team all around you. But you can't do that with Sarkreys is not as ubiquitous. He's like, that's the gating function is the only people end up doing it or the people who come from Walthickness, which like there's not, you're cutting off a huge pool of people when you do that. I think once you get to travel anything, it's just so expensive. travel ball and all of that.

Like I just signed the kids up for soccer. It was like 160 per kid for the season in the fall. And like you don't need a lot of stuff. At least when you're just like playing it like, you know, recreationally. Like baseball, like some of the girls that are, you know, serious about softball, they have like bats that are like $500. And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. Like I don't know how it can be that much better than like a.

Yeah, just go get a two by four. No, well, but also, but, sorry, real fast, but the women's thing, I think potentially that is because it's the, if you want to play professional women's sports, like soccer is kind of the one, you know, because. I know, but then on a national level, or sorry, an international level, why are the women more successful than the men? Because better. But you can't say that across the entire globe. No, but I don't, but I don't know why it is. like that one in the U.S. I don't know.

That's weird. Yeah, I don't know. That's worth investigating. Because usually what that Lance Donovan guy was also saying was like, or he was talking to Chad Ochosinko. And when he was talking to him, he was like, yeah, I knew that if I don't perform,

I'm going to have a horrible life. And so I killed myself to become a professional in this sport. And that's what Lance was saying, too. He was like, yeah, when you're in a lot of these countries, they have to be the best. Otherwise, their lives are just abysmal. And there's like a different driver behind it, which is why the whole women's soccer thing is different to me

because it's like if they're only able to have the top, the richest families send their daughters to play soccer, but they're also competing against people in like Paraguay or wherever else who are like starving and they're, you know. Yeah, and I also, that's a good, question and I don't know the answer because I also know that like women young women who like go to college and play softball with unlike a scholarship some of them died by suicide because it's so stressful it's like a really hard thing to be like on a softball scholarship for whatever reason weird and then that

like recently like in the past like you know a couple of years like several of them have died by suicide and so I don't like why because they feel the pressure to perform otherwise they to go back to like their old lives yeah yeah yeah that's got to be rough uh they didn't talk about that too apparently he wasn't allowed to play in like the gold cup or some shit and he was saying it was because i decided to take like the time off my mental health because i felt the pressure of yeah this performer was so high that and then he and then ochosinko was like yeah i felt the same pressure but i couldn't take that time off because if i took that time off they're like cool take the time off and there's another,

there's four more guys behind you waiting for that position. Mm-hmm. A lot. Yeah, I don't know. This is why we're not professional athletes, Taylor, because it's the mental, the mental pressure is the only reason why we never cut it out in professional sports. Physically, I could absolutely do it.

Right. Correct. You'd be the best running back in the NFL right now if it wasn't for the mental game. Here comes Taylor. She's 5'3. Nice. Like, we're running through the guy.

You can do it. Oh my God. Also, another funny thing. You know, and everybody's like, you know, super young, obviously. Like, you can't be old and play sports. But the guy who was the goalie for Cabo Verde, he was 40. Did you watch their games? That was incredible.

It's Cape Verde. It's, I thought it was both. Is it? I don't know. I thought it was Cape. They keep saying Cape Verde on the TV, on the TV. Like I'm 80. No, it's both.

All right, I'll stand correct to them. It's also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde. It's a republic of Cabo Verde. But that guy looked 40. Yeah. I was like, that is the first person I've seen. All my friends are in their 40s who like, I'd be like, yeah, no, that guy looks 40. He looks rough.

I can't imagine how stressful it is for like 36 years of your life to have balls kicked in your face at 100 miles per hour 15 times a minute. That's kind of stress you out. Yeah. I think it's against Argentina. I saw a cute video of like afterwards them taking their pictures with Messi. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

You're a superstar and we are normal people who are just happened to be good. And that's cool. That was really cool because the whole country I looked up was 500,000 people. Yeah, I heard that they'd like advertise on like LinkedIn for the team. Like they didn't like have a team. They were just like, hey, anybody play soccer? Don't try this? We're in country.

You know, that's cool. So Bob Lasso. That's fun, Ted Lasso. It's fun. Ted Blasso, sorry. Yeah. So I will take this knowledge into the fall soccer season where I will complain about how allergic I am to the soccer field the entire time.

And I will think about how much I don't understand what off-sides is. And I will watch those games. I did my, I do my friendship. Shannon and I were talking about soccer and her daughter, Taylor, is a, a ref. Like, you can, like, have that as a job as a teen. And she says that, like, some of the adults swear at her, like, her daughter. It's crazy. It's crazy.

I'm sorry, she's, like, a 15-year-old girl, but who's wrong with you? Yeah, it's insane. And this is children's soccer. Like, nope. I was a ref, too, in high school for, for youth, like, like, wee basketball. I was horrible. I was a paying attention. I was.

just face out and just be like thinking about the place I want to go for dinner that night and just totally face out, make the worst calls ever. And the parents were really upset at me. Well, that feels fair. Sometimes it's deserved, but not for, not for Shannon's daughter, Taylor. Maybe for you. There was one time where even the team where I made a call in their favor, even that team's parents were upset

and I was like that must have been a bat. I was like, probably I should probably start paying attention what's happening. Oh my God. Did you see the video of the in the WMBA that one woman pointing at the other women they're pointing each other? It's so good and the ref is like a

foot shorter than both of them and they're just like pointing over has had at each other. I love it. Oh man. That was fun, Taylor. That was a fun episode. More sports. Okay, I'm going to log off log off this computer and not buy anything. I am not buying any New York height stuff even though I want to. I'm not buying a Holland jersey because I need to calm down. It's probably going to be over today. I'm looking at the odds. The odds are not good.

The odds are good that I continue to see Holland content because I'm now one of the 60 million people following him on Instagram. I am. I am also one of the 60 million. Well, Taylor, do we have any listener or mail? No. Mostly it was me and Shannon talking about soccer on our Doom to Fail Instagram. And yeah. Nice. Nice. All righty. Well, guys, if

y'all have any idea, suggestions, anything for us, please write to us at DoobniffelPod at gmail.com or find us on all the socials at Doom Method. And I think that's it. That is it. If you are attending any of the women's baseball games, let us know. Definitely let us know. I don't know. I don't think that

I wonder how those small Venn diagram of people who listen to our show and go to a, is anyone? I don't know, maybe. We'll see. Springfield, Illinois, home of Abe Lincoln. So anyway. Sweet. We'll go ahead and cut off there. Okay, bye.

Thanks, Taylor.