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Today, the topic of our podcast is the humble catfish. Did you know you can find subspecies of this feisty feline can be found in freshwater environments all over the world? What's more, those subspecies can range in size from 40 centimeters long (the South American Candiru, or toothpick fish) to over 3 meters long (the Mekong giant catfish, native to southeast Asia, which can also grow to be up to 350 kg!)

Coincidentally, there also happened to be a pitcher for the Oakland A's named Catfish Hunter who was a Tater Tot in the late '60s and early '70s, fulfilling our requirement for baseball content on this podcast. He was the first baseball player to receive a million-dollar contract in free agency, and is the namesake of a Bob Dylan song. 

Here is a Youtube video of an intrepid catfish hunter using a snake to flush 6 catfish from a hole using a snake. Seems unfair to me but whatever.

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Can you believe this year is the 46th anniversary of Orlando Cepeda's final season in the major leagues? Personally, it is impossible for me to believe or accept that. Regardless, on this episode, we discuss what it sounds like to rewind, the lack of commemorative plaques where old baseball stadiums used to be, and how Catfish Hunter got his nickname.

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In commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of Reggie Jackson's Tater Tot season, we humbly present you with a podcast. As we feel around for a new format, we stumble upon the talking points of champagne celebrations in the time of COVID, Reggie Jackson's online marketplace for vintage auto parts, and whether or not pitchers should be proud of giving up certain home runs.

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Players discussed on this week's episode:

Reggie Jackson

Carl Yastrzemski

Jim Lonborg

Rod Carew

Orlando Cepeda

Mike McCormick

Tom Seaver

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Reggie Jackson's Naked Gun cameo

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Sorry this episode is late, we were busy designing a locomotive. Our train is able run without tracks, helping it to navigate traffic. However, it does not work in the rain and has already been invented.

We discuss the MLB trade deadline, but, having recorded on Sunday, we missed most of the action, and there were a ton of blockbuster deals!

Today’s Tot is Sandy Koufax, and we narrow in on his 1963 season.

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Here's your precious podcast. We're talking about every baseball news under the sun as punishment for not doing any of our chores this week, including the Oakland A's' Nazi batting coach and the Miami Marlins' Olympic medalist second baseman. plus some fast facts about Meridian, Idaho. For your reference, here is a photograph of King Tut.

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It's back to basics week here on Tater Tots as we return with an episode on a player who hit just one home run in a season. However, we've got a special treat for you, because Don Kessinger was a Tater Tot not once, not twice, not five times, not six times. Seven times? No! Eight times a tot! That's right, we're bringing the life and career of the co-king of Tater Tots under our unrelenting microscope to try to suss out why and how he remained such a mainstay in in the 1970s.

If you are worried that our return to tots would mean we are returning to our format from episode one, then you would be mistaken! In fact, Tim continues to leap, and both of us continue to math. We also consider the return of the baseball season, and all the accompanying news. It's worth noting, though, that we recorded this on Sunday, and with the season in question, our conversation already seems wildly out of date!

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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, which means it'll shortly be curtains for your own beloved Book Boys.

Before we return to our regularly scheduled programming, we've got a top-tier discussion of Jeff Passan's 2016 exposé The Arm, which explores the problems of elbow injuries that have been vexing MLB these past few decades. Elsewhere in the episode, we talk about surd expressions and coterminal angles, and dream on all the chaotic results of the upcoming shortened season. This episode comes with the Henry the Orange Cat Seal of Approval!

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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 commit to an unannounced discussion of The Jackie Robinson Story, the 1950 biopic starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film features a short baseball player known only as “Shorty”, as well as disconcerting amounts of racism, and some strikingly composed shots.

This week also marks the formal introduction of our new and tenuous segment “Add Some Integers to your Integral” in which Tim and I discuss our various fascinations and frustrations with the world of mathematics.

There was finally some Tot Stove news this week with the announcement of a 60 game baseball season, but all is not well in Mudville, as coronavirus cases are spiking throughout America, including among MLB players and staff.

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Hellooooo, m'precious blueberries! Welcome back to the wonderful world of book club. I hope this podcast finds you safe and well. This week, with the absence of very much good news on the slam-dunking front, we've decided to put the "Add Some Inches to Your Vertical" segment of the podcast on the backburner (cue a very sad rendition of "Jump (For My Love)") in favor of a new segment, starting next episode: "Add Some Calculus to Your Brain" (title pending). Will we learn anything? Maybe. 

The Tot Stove has nearly disintegrated with the news that a shortened 2020 MLB season is likely to commence, over the protests of the Players' Association, and surprise, surprise, the MLB draft happened. I'm sure you watched it. I know I did!

This week book club went to Michael Chabon's YA high-fantasy baseball novel, Summerland. We discuss mythmaking, and baseball's role within it, as well as Chabon's clunky plotting. The man's a Pulitzer Prize winner he can take a little criticism from a podcast.

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Who could have guessed a book called the "The Resisters" would feel so timely?

Our next book will be Summerland by Michael Chabon.

Our theme music is Littlest League Possible by Guided By Voices.

Our artwork is by Shelby Criswell

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