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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 culmination of an already historic career, already cut short by a previous stint in World War II. The story behind that historic home run is fascinating, historic, and largely sidelined by our digressions into Herbie Hancock, the demographics of Boston in 1950, and the economics of cryonic freezing. Aw well.

Links: 

 Ian Kinsler's hypocritical thoughts on passion, 

Ian Kinsler's previous racism, 

One of the all-time worst pictures of Mike Trout, 

Tommy LaStella's swing change and career renaissance, 

ESPN's retrospective on Ted Williams Day, 

The story of this home run from the Baseball Hall of Fame, 

The original game story from the Boston Globe, 

A photo of Ted Williams with his Jersey from the game, 

A photo of Williams's speech before the game.

Our music this week:

Herbie Hancock - Rockit, 

Guided By Voices - The Littlest League Possible.

Artwork by Shelby Criswell

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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 rebrand and identify a new mascot: bees. We also admire Derek Dietrich's sartorial excellence, discuss who deserves Albert Pujols's 2000th RBI ball, consider the case of Gio Urshela, reflect on Travis D'arnaud's topsy-turvy week, admire Yandy Díaz afresh, and consider the implications of Thairo Estrada's gunshot wound.

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Artwork by Shelby Criswell

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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 talk out some branding ideas in light of our new mascot: Toasty, the Rocky Mountain Vibe. Then, we preside over the fate of the entire Atlantic League over their miserable adjudication of some experimental new rules. Then, Tim issues a mea culpa about his horrible Melky Cabrera-related prediction, and we check in on Rosell Hererra. 

We visit with Tot Watch candidates Kelvin Gutierrez and Erik Kratz and Tot of the Week, Bryan Reynolds. Then, a brief detour into a discussion about alt-baseball rules and Detective Pikachu, followed by the outro music. Until next time, catch you cats on the flip.

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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 your hip, and try to name every fruit.

Links:

Bryan Reynolds and Cole Tucker

Greg Bird's home run

Garrett Hampson's home run

Buster Posey's home run

Artwork by Shelby Criswell

Our theme music is "The Littlest League Possible" by Guided By Voices 

Our outro music this week is from Natekings10 on Youtube.

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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 frustrated farewell to Alex Verdugo, and feel pretty sorry for Chris Davis.

Links:

Tim Anderson suspended for attempting to have fun

Rays tribute video to Mallex Smith

Chris Davis breaks hitless streak record

Chris Davis's hit breaks 0-54 streak

Chris Davis swats a nice donger

Tim's screamshot of those mad fans!

Artwork by Shelby Criswell

Our theme music is "The Littlest League Possible" by Guided By Voices 

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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 Frankenstein's monster, a breakdown of the Fairmount Little League parade, and Hamilton-style Tater Tots raps. See ya real soon!

* - One full week late, unfocused, and based on stuff we think is cool and not any real baseball analysis.

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Artwork by Shelby Criswell

Our theme music is "The Littlest League Possible" by Guided By Voices

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 (Ottley from the Phillies), look each other in the eyes and reminisce on the power of Andrew McCutchen.

*We're still doing episodes after this, but this is our last scheduled Tot 🙀

Links: 

Utley takes out Jedd Gyorko on dirty play

Ruben Tejada injured by Chase Utley

Andrew McCutchen’s incredible walk-off home run

Don’t seek out the video of Steven Souza’s knee injury

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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 Machado. We also talk about the Milwaukee Brewers' Hollywood dreams, Mike Trout's Hollywood dreams, and Fortnite baby!!!! 

Luis Sardiñas' game-tying home run

Dixon Machado's game-untying home run

Brewers' spoofs: Mean Girls and The Sandlot (plus bonus Dumb and Dumber content that we didn't know about until it was too late. Arguably Brent Suter's best work to date.)

BaseballSavant.com

RosterResource.com

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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 MLB's new rule changes, discuss how big catchers ought to be, and Tim watches a 6-hour baseball game in its entirety.

Links:

The Ringer MLB show rewatches the 2011 World Series game 6,

Jordan Schusterman on Martin Maldonado’s elite throwing arm,

Gushing article on Michael Perez’s abilities,

$1 million is not enough for Aaron Judge to participate in the HR derby.

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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, Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army. There will be a test.

Brandon Phillip's Dinger

Scott Boras' extended metaphor

Jose Canseco doinks the ball right over the wall.

Fastball the Movie

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Artwork by Shelby Criswell

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