Podcasts by Tater Tots

Episode #70 - The Arm from 2020-07-17T12:32:33

Wellity, wellity, wellity - against our strong urging, it looks like baseball is back, back, back again! Starting July 23rd, the Boys of Summer will be breaking the COVID bubble to play ball, wh...

Episode #69 - I Never Had It Made from 2020-07-01T16:57:17

Happy 100th birthday to the Negro Leagues. We’re celebrating this week by discussing Jackie Robinson’s autobiography I Never Had It Made, as told to Alfred Duckett.

We also commi...

Episode #68 - Summerland from 2020-06-17T21:26:26

Hellooooo, m'precious blueberries! Welcome back to the wonderful world of book club. I hope this podcast finds you...

Episode #67 - The Resisters from 2020-06-03T22:25

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Episode #66 - Tater Tots of the KBO from 2020-05-23T14:28:17

좋은 날 to all our listeners! The book boys have shed our outer, bookish layer to re-emerge in our ardor for baseball players at the margin of the home run column. This time, we're catching up with...

Episode #65 - The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. from 2020-05-12T15:25:15

In 2016, Evan Ungar from Canada set the highest vertical jump Guinness World Record at 63.5 inches. Will Tim surpass that milestone? If this week's results are any indicator, I would say yes, de...

Episode #64 - The Cactus League Innings 7-9 from 2020-04-29T16:30:46

This is your captain speaking: please put your tray tables up and return your seatbacks to their upright positions, we're approaching our descent into the last three chapters of Emily Nemens' no...

Episode #63 - The Cactus League Innings 4-6 from 2020-04-14T21:43:01

Personally, I haven't listened to a podcast in a month. I usually crack open the podcatcher and throw back my earbuds on my commute or during a walk around the neighborhood, but to listen to a p...

Episode #62 - The Cactus League by Emily Nemens, ch. 1-3 from 2020-04-02T12:39:52

Listeners, take a deep breath of fresh air because finally, we have emerged from the bewildering fog of April Fools' Day. Finally, Truth has returned to its throne, like Persephone emerging from...

Episode #62 - Tater Tots from 2020-04-01T10:00

On this traditional, normal, and regularly scheduled episode of Tater Tots, we consider the Tater Tot™: the deep fried, shredded potato product that took Ore-Ida from a rinky dink frozen corn jo...

A Tater Announcement from 2020-03-23T22:29:22

This is just a quick announcement in lieu of a full episode this month. Catch us on Twitch at twitch.tv/tatertotspod tomorrow, March 23rd at 6pm EST/3pm PST....

Episode #61 - Ben Zobrist from 2020-03-18T12:52:38

Well, what else is there to do in quarantine but spend an hour with the tater boys? This week, we're covering Listen

Episode #60 - Steven Brault from 2020-03-14T14:45:21

I finally figured out why my sound has been so weird the past few weeks! Please tune in next week to hear my sound go back to normal. I’m excited. This weeks, Tim regales us with Stories From The G...

Episode #59 - Rajai Davis and Aaron Altherr from 2020-03-08T15:57:18

Are you you? Are you us? Are you Rajai Davis? Are you Aaron Altherr? These are the questions we can afford to ponder now that spring training is in full effect, and most of our tater babies have...

Episode #58 - Steve Pearce from 2020-02-28T21:21:58

This week, we debut our world-shaking new segment “add a few inches to your vertical.” Please do not stop clicking next until we tell you to. Thanks.

Today’s Tater Tot: Steve Pearce

Episode #57 - Matt Kemp from 2020-02-21T19:24:25

Come on and slam! And welcome to the yams!* The slam dunk contest has come and gone, which can mean only one thing: spring training is right around the corner. Tim pledges to train to slam dunk ...

Episode #56 - Greg Bird from 2020-02-12T23:04:03

When you Google “bird puns” the first thing that comes up is a meme of a toucan that s...

Episode #55 - Anthony Alford from 2020-02-07T19:30:08

*Monday Night Football voice* Are you ready for a podcast! Since we recorded this episode on the morning of the S*p*r B*wl, we decided to convert to a football podcast. Fortunately, the schedule...

Episode #54 - Jared Walsh, Brendan McKay, Michael Lorenzen from 2020-01-28T22:23:19

Whether you call it Spit-take Season or Sad Season, there’s no question you are reading the episode description for season 2 episode 11 of Tater Tots.

On this one, we discuss further fall...

Episode #53 - Abraham Almonte from 2020-01-24T13:39:56

A belated happy Old Rock Day to all of our listeners! I got a haircut shortly before recording this episode and it still needs to grow in a little bit so if the energy feels a little off, just k...

Episode #52 - Troy Tulowitzki from 2020-01-15T19:27:42

Tim told me to “get out of town,” but I didn’t realize he meant it as in “wow.” Long story short, I spent the last 3 weeks in a tent on the lawn out front of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

Episode #51 - Nicky Delmonico from 2019-12-27T01:01:08

This week on Tater Tots, we're breaking down the sun, its powerful rays, and their strange effect on Madison Bumgarner. We wonder about how to stop the rise of the machines, the White Sox's chan...

Episode #50 - Tim Locastro from 2019-12-16T20:22:48

"Fair is foul and foul is fair”—The witches from Macbeth, who were the first MLB play-by-play commentators

The Winter of Our Discontent: the disheartening news that Madison Bumgarner is s...

Episode #49 - Odubel Herrera from 2019-12-10T22:30:13

This episode contains discussion of domestic violence.

As the MLB Winter Meetings kick off in sunny San Diego, Tater Tots podcast kicks off in Brooklyn New York, for a rare in-pe...

Episode #48 - Tyler Heineman from 2019-12-05T15:03:40

Scheduling dilemmas and technical difficulties marked our post-Thanksgiving swoon but the Tater Boys emerge as ever, unbowed and unbroken, to bring you another week of nonsense.

This week...

Episode #47 - Josh Harrison from 2019-11-27T22:06:45

Someone's mother has four sons; three of them are named North, South, and West. What is the fourth son's name? ***DM ME WITH THE ANSWER IF YOU LOSE YOU HAVE TO SHARE THIS PODCAST***

This ...

Episode #46 - Hyun-Jin Ryu from 2019-11-18T14:03:58

As we often do on a weekly basis, we’re releasing a new episode of Tater Tots today. The subject of this week’s episode? Free agent lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu.

On this one, we dive deep into the ...

Episode #45 - Erik Gonzalez, Alex Blandino, Nick Martini, John Lester from 2019-11-12T19:52:16

Twice is nice this week on Tater Tots! We're visiting with the members of the Tater Tots Class of 2018 who found their way back on our list in this season. But first, we discuss the vices and vi...

Episode #44 - Stephen Strasburg from 2019-11-04T17:10:38

We’re back. We’re sorry we were away for so long. We missed you. We are here now and that’s the most we can give! Hopefully you enjoyed the postseason action. Sorry again.

As the real-lif...

Episode #43 - Joe Sewell and Tim Raines from 2019-10-01T19:47:49

Playoff baseball is here! If you are listening on Tuesday, the first Wild Card game is today. Who will be the winner? Will it be those weird Nats or perhaps that strange Brew Crew. If, as is lik...

Episode #42 - Carl Mays and Tsuyoshi Shinjo from 2019-09-27T11:19:19

🎶They tried to make us do a podcast and we said ... sure, you got it! 🎶 Another week of Tater Tots has us wondering what kind of a jazz villain Paul Whiteman would make and whether Listen

Episode #41 - Lou Gehrig and Ellis Burks from 2019-09-18T14:29:10

Hello. Thank you for calling episode 41 of Tater Tots Podcast. Para español, oprima numero dos. 

To reach a customer service representative, press 1 now. Otherwise, stay on ...

Episode #40 - Babe Pinelli and the Quick Tots of 2005 from 2019-09-11T13:13:17

Wow! It's another episode of Tater Tots! 2005 is old hat for your friendly neighborhood tater-boys (cf. Listen

Episode #39 - Goose Goslin and Curtis Pride from 2019-09-04T15:40:31

September is back again. It feels like every year we have one of these. We don’t have an episode every week though. After taking a week off, we promptly lost the recording of last week’s episode...

Episode #38 - Juan Pierre and “Chick” Gandil from 2019-08-13T22:06:41

Please, we beg you to join us on this journey of discovery. What is a spitball? Should a spitball be allowed? Can human beings defeat a computer? Is the movie Eight Men Out an accurate movie? Ho...

Episode #37 - Jim Thorpe and Emilio Bonifacio from 2019-08-07T17:57:17

Friends, welcome back to the dog days of Tater Tots. The MLB trade deadline has come and gone and we discuss the moves that did and did not happen. Later, we try to probe at the connection betwe...

Episode #36 - Mike Gonzalez and Carlos Zambrano from 2019-08-01T14:14:37

Sorry I recorded into a potato this week. I discovered just as we were about to start our session that the cable for my microphone was broken, and it uses a mini USB port, which was onc...

Episode #35 - Death to Flying Things from 2019-07-23T22:25:14

Hey, it's Tim! "Savages" is a really nasty racial slur, and I shouldn't have expressed my support for Aaron Boone's umpire rant without at least acknowledging that. Listening back to our convers...

Episode #34 - All Star Break Special from 2019-07-17T21:26:53

Usually when one of our episodes is themed around something that's already ancient history when the episode arrives, it's because it took us a long time to edit and prepare it. But to be honest,...

Episode #33 - Phil and Joe Niekro from 2019-07-12T21:40:20

Listen, I tried to find a clip of Free Jazz to drop into this episode, but all my options for YouTube rips were 40 minutes long. Here's a Listen

Episode #32 - Craig Lefferts from 2019-06-30T14:36:58

This week on Tater Tots, we consider the marque baseball season of 1986, which famously culminated in Bill Buckner’s devastating error, gifting the Met...

Episode #31 - Don Blasingame from 2019-06-24T15:12:50

Jazz is dead, long live jazz. Also snakes. Did you know that the average snake can live between 10 and 2...

Episode #30 - Dontrelle Willis from 2019-06-03T22:38:32

This week we take our mission as historians to heart, delivering a sober and thorough analysis of the year 2004 in Jazz. We also consider how big you could make a TV—could you make it big enough...

Episode #29 - Pumpsie Green from 2019-05-29T11:45:27

In 1959, Pumpsie Green made his Major League Baseball debut. He was the first black player on the Boston Red Sox, who were the last team in Major League Baseball to integrate. On September 7th of t...

Episode #28 - Ted Williams from 2019-05-22T21:46:23

On April 30th, 1952, Ted Williams hit a home run in the final plate appearance of his final game before being drafted into the Marines to fight in Korea. Most thought this would be the culminati...

Episode #27 - Thairo Estrada (The Jazz Boys Podcast) from 2019-05-13T13:25:25

What's swinging, hep cats? This week, we're taking a stroll down Bourbon Street to treat you to some of the hottest jazz you've heard on a baseball podcast. We take another opportunity to rebran...

Episode #26 - Kelvin Gutierrez, Erik Kratz, Bryan Reynolds from 2019-05-11T03:56:04

Welcome back to the pumpkin patch, my little chickadees. As summertime peeks around the corner, so too are we peeking ahead into the future of Tater Tots, starting with some new business: We tal...

Episode #25 - Greg Bird, Garrett Hampson, Buster Posey from 2019-04-30T13:38:28

Hold on to your hats because this episode we are coming to steal your hat right off your head! We also establish the Canadian National Stickball League, consider how bad it would be to to hurt y...

Episode #24 - Melky Cabrera, Mallex Smith, Chris Davis from 2019-04-24T16:33

We’re back, baby and we are a lil’ rusty baby sorry about that baby we are wee babies still figuring our our new format. This week, we declare the Pirates the best team in baseball, bid a frustr...

Episode #23 - The Good Guys from 2019-04-08T13:51:44

Welcome to the bonus content! We wanted to give you a season preview, Tater Tots-style*, as well as a preview of our multimedia empire. Also included in this bonus baby is a discussion of Franke...

Episode #22 - Chase Utley from 2019-04-04T17:59:07

Listen, listen…listen! We’re real sorry this episode took so long to come out.

If it’s any consolation, we’ve saved the best for last.* We examine the career of Chase Utley (O...

Episode #21 - Luis Sardiñas and Dixon Machado from 2019-03-24T21:30:40

We're less than a week away from a full-blown case of baseball fever!! Hope you're up to date on all your vaccines. This week we're breaking down a double tot, with Luis Sardiñas and Dixon Macha...

Episode #20 - Trevor Plouffe from 2019-03-18T18:34:56

Wow, 20 years of Tater Tots...how the time flies! You know what also flies is the baseball off the bat of this week's Tater Tot Trevor Plouffe! In this weeks episode we lay down our rulings on M...

Episode #19 - Brandon Phillips from 2019-03-11T13:48:33

Hi there, it's great to see you. We've got a new episode of Tater Tots out. And with it, we've brought a new Boras metaphor, tot takes on proposed rule changes, and discussion of James Jordan, C...

Episode #18 - David Freitas from 2019-03-05T23:20:57

Hey tater babies! Welcome back to the neighborhood. There is less than ONE MONTH until opening day and we are jumping out of our seats. The Philadelphia Phil-Harp-monic has finally completed its...

Episode #17 - Jett Bandy (mini episode) from 2019-02-28T14:22:19

On another miniature (or "bite-sized") episode of the podcast (or "pod,") we discuss the exploits of Rangers catcher Jett Bandy, notable across the world for having a funny name. We also conside...

Episode #16 - David Fletcher from 2019-02-25T15:00

Baseball's back! Well, spring training is anyhow. Nevertheless, we are effervescent. That, paired with the Manny Machado signing, lifts a weight off our shoulders as we shoot the breeze about Ka...

Episode #15 - Ryan Schimpf (Mini episode) from 2019-02-20T21:07:02

Welcome to our miniature edition of Tater Tots. A totlet, if you will. We need to squeeze in a few home runs before Opening Day, and we're passing the savings on to you!

In this episode, ...

Episode #14 - Lonnie Chisenhall from 2019-02-19T18:48:18

On a wet and wild episode 14, we consider starting a Kenny/Ken themed podcast, forget the existence of AJ Burnett, and compare Ben Revere to a binary star.

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