Episode #49 - Odubel Herrera

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-person recording.

Unlike the Winter Meetings, there will be no trades made or big free agents signed during this episode. But, like the Winter Meetings, this podcast features a fair bit of inane conversation between white men, much of it about baseball.

We consider the issue of bipartisanship—whether there’s hay to be made of Kevin McCarthy and Bernie Sanders singing the same baseball-letter, along with a vulgar word* uttered by Rays pitcher Blake Snell upon learning of a trade involving his teammate. Tim loses his whole mind thinking about statistics, and we celebrate the major and minor signings from the hot stove.

Finally, we discuss the case of Odubel Herrera, and the role of domestic violence in major league baseball.

Links:

Unity on congress cause of baseball,
Sam Miller’s divisive article on statistics,
Odubel Herrera’s home run (April 9),
Phillies management comments on Herrera.

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*The word is “slapdick”