Short Hops & Tall Tales

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon and Noah go deep in a story about the Mexican baseball legend, the great Héctor Espino! Then, they get in another argument as they try to sort out a trio of iconic outfielders: Duke Snider, Andruw Jones, and Jim Edmonds! Plus, the story of the first radar guns and 100mph pitchers! Timestamps: (01:52) Pickoff Trivia: 100MPH Men (03:08) Measuring MPH (05:58) The Rebel of Chihuahua: Héctor Espino! (24:21) Keep/Extend/Cut: Snider, Jones & EdmondsGet PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Noah and Brandon are back with another episode, and this time, it's all about pranks. They unearth a rapidly escalating gag war between the Hall of Famer Don Drysdale and the Cardinals' Ken Boyer, featuring a cameo from Ol' Blue Eyes himself! Then, they dive into another wild story, this time surrounding a trade from the MLB to Japan! Timestamps: (01:41) - Pickoff Trivia! Brooklyn Identity Crisis Edition (07:50) - Prank Wars! (08:37) - Don Drysdale vs. Ken Boyer (23:56) - Mr. Baseball... in real life? (33:18) - The Pickle Jar: "Bug Bruiser"Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — We have a doozy of an episode this week, as Noah and Brandon explore the awe-inspiring story of one of Noah's favorite ballplayers of all time, Eric Davis. We explore one of the premier talents of the 1980s, compared to Mays, Aaron, and Clemente, and one of the greatest 162 game stretches in baseball history. More than that however, Davis' story is one of perseverance, tenacity, and sheer willpower coupled with an undying love of baseball. Timestamps: (2:00) Pickoff Trivia (05:48) Eric Davis: A Career in Quotes (15:22) The Meteoric Rise of Eric The Red (34:37) Record Scratch (40:24) The 1990 Playoffs! (44:19) Eric Comes Home (46:33) Retirement (& Comeback!) (48:18) Bad News in Baltimore (50:34) Pinch Hit Heroics (52:03) A Last HurrahGet PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon & Noah are joined by baseball writer Patrick Ellington! Patrick shares the origin of his interest in baseball and writing, along with a story from his time covering the minors! Then, Brandon & Noah explore more baseball slang and the '5 O'Clock Hitter,' along with a wild story about Yankees pitchers not switching wives, but swapping lives entirely! Tune in! Timestamps: (01:20) Our Special Guest! (02:45) Pickoff Trivia: Cleveland Edition (09:21) Patrick shares a story about earning his stripes in the minors! (18:08) Patrick's baseball origin story (26:26) The Pickle Jar: 5 O'Clock Hitters (29:55) Pickoff Trivia: Weird Trades (34:26) The Yankee Life Swap!Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon and Noah are back (and now on Saturdays!) with a brand new episode featuring an old pitching soul, the talented fireballer Roy Oswalt! Find out why we call him a pitcher out of time, and why he feels like he should be from 1920. Then, an actual story from that time period, as Brandon recounts the rise and fall of the spitball in Major League Baseball. Yuck! PLUS: Noah has a run-in with Mookie Betts?? Timestamps: (1:00) A SHTT year: Our favorite stories from Year One of Short Hops & Tall Tales! (5:40) Pickoff Trivia! (8:13) A Pitcher Out of Time: The Roy Oswalt Story (34:21) Pickoff Trivia 2! (35:33) Noah's Run-In with Mookie!? (39:05) The Pickle Jar - The Eephus (42:42) The Rise & Fall of the SpitballGet PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — (This episode has visual elements available next week in the video recording on YouTube that greatly enhances the viewing experience.) Join us for a very special LIVE episode, recorded at Pitcher List's 2022 Pitch Con!! Brandon & Noah team up to help raise money for Feeding America, and break out two iconic stories from baseball history. Noah spins a tale straight out of a Mission Impossible film with Jason Grimsley's infamous 'bat heist' of 1994, and Brandon unearths a legendary battle between two of the game's greatest, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. PLUS: A cameo from Pitcher List himself, Nick Pollack! Tune in! Timestamps: (03:12) Pickoff Trivia: World Series HR Heroes! (06:26) Jason Grimsley's Legendary Bat Heist! (21:13) The Pickle Jar: "Muffinism" (26:41) The 1942 Negro League World Series (43:46) Pickoff Trivia: Postseason Grand Larcenists (44:35) Rent/Extend/Cut: Edgar, Kenny, & Chase! (55:13) Nick Pollack's Picks!Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon & Noah are back and diving into one of America's most interesting legends: the origin of the high five! Plus, they learn about the legacy of one of baseball's most important players, Glenn Burke, in the process. Then, Brandon takes us on a wild trip to learn all about the eccentric Chicken Hawks! Tune in now! Timestamps Pickoff Trivia (02:30) The "Archaeology" of the High Five (04:50) The Everlasting Legacy of Glenn Burke (16:35) The Pickle Jar: Doorkeepers (25:27) The Ballad of Chicken Hawks (29:37) A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (46:58)Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Short Hops is back to kick off the new year with a bang, with a pair of baseball stories you're going to have to see (hear?) to believe. Noah digs up some legendary quotes with the enigmatic Bill "Spaceman" Lee, and Brandon dives deep into one of the first instances of women partaking in America's Pastime. Listen now! Timestamps Short Hops Resolutions (00:58) Pickoff Trivia (03:34) Bill "Spaceman" Lee (07:08) Brawling with the Yanks (14:08) Spaceman's Spaciest Quotes (17:16) The Female Base Ball Championship of 1879 (28:44)Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — We're back with a very mature episode of Short Hops & Tall Tales! Brandon leads off with an odd experiment undertaken by the 1960s Cubs — a rotating 'college' of coaches? Then we take to the sea to get to the bottom of one of baseball's most commonly used slang terms! All of that and more, on a festive edition of Short Hops & Tall Tales! Timestamps Pickoff Trivia! (02:08) The College of Coaches (05:24) The Pickle Jar! - "In the Hole" (17:28) We say "poopdeck" a lot (23:52) Rent/Extend/Cut! (Shortstop edition) (26:24) We try (and fail) to come up with a new nickname for Tatis (46:13)Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon and Noah are back with a fun Hall of Fame twist! They lead off with a discussion about the Veterans Committee Inductees (and get angry for Dick Allen), and reflect on several players that they kind of already assumed were in the Hall of Fame already. Then, rather than rehash the same Hall ballot discussion again, they start up their own Short Hops Hall, celebrating the most decorated and iconic players in baseball film. Trimming a ballot of 18 to 5 inductees leads to heated debate, and multiple celebrity impressions. Tune in now for one of the funniest episodes of the year! Timestamps On HoF Discourse (1:26) Pickoff Trivia: Gold Gloves (2:30) Veterans Committee Inductions (4:10) Buck O'Neil (6:15) Minnie Miñoso (8:48) Gil Hodges (11:48) Tony Oliva (14:26) Jim Kaat (16:24) Bud Fowler (18:08) Dick Allen >:( (19:48) The Short Hops Hall (22:19) Pedro Cerrano (24:15) Crash Davis (26:56) Jack Elliot (27:47) The Ghost of Shoeless Joe (29:17) The Ghost of Moonlight Graham (30:18) Willie Mays Hayes (30:37) Dottie Hinson (32:11) Roy Hobbs (33:27) Brandon does a segue (33:31) The G.O.A.T. 🐐 (35:14) Noah poorly explains Space Jam (35:28) Nuke LaLoosh (35:50) Kelly Leak (37:01) BRENDAN FRASER SIGHTING (37:53) T-Rex Pennebaker (40:19) Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez (41:27) Stan "Mr. 3000" Ross (44:02) Henry Rowengartner (46:41) Jake Taylor (49:01) Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn (50:04) A Spirited Debate! (52:13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . psst. I see you, nosy.Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon & Noah get excited for a long-awaited episode, all about the magic and mystique of knuckleballs! They talk about what makes the pitch such a unique part of baseball lore, as well as some of its most infamous pitchers. Brandon reads a tribute to the many battered and beleaguered catchers behind the plate that have attempted to wrangle this pitch over the decades, and Noah caps things off with a special story of a time when a Hall of Fame third baseman unleashed his knuckler in an MLB game. Tune in now! Timestamps: Leadoff Quote(s)! (03:04) What is a knuckleball? (03:40) A brief(lol) knuckleball history (05:07) Hoyt Wilhelm (08:03) Wilbur Wood (11:38) Phil Niekro (16:16) Noah's Uncle Rico moment/talking pitch grips (20:50) R.A. Dickey (25:27) The Pickle Jar! "Submarine Pitchers" (32:01) Knuckleball catchers! (39:24) Rick Ferrell (40:20) The '45 Senators (42:40) Gus Triandos (48:13) Bob Uecker (50:58) Jerry McNertney (51:36) Wade Boggs' Knuckleball Adventure (53:10)Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon & Noah are back to chat all about the somewhat surprising retirement of Buster Posey, along with the player retirements that have had the biggest impact on us as fans. PLUS, baseball stadiums are weird! Let's talk about it. Timestamps Pickoff Trivia! (02:34) A Buster Posey Career Retrospective (05:30) Buster & Bench (12:33) Posey & the Hall (13:56) Noah can't help himself (15:19) Favorite Buster moments (16:30) Retirements that make us feel old (20:42) The Pickle Jar! (25:12) Weird Stadium Quirks (29:12) Noah goes on a rant (shocker) (46:47) The Ivy vs. The Monster (51:44)Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales — Brandon & Noah are back in action with an autumnal baseball harvest, featuring beanballs, clutch home runs, and our thoughts on the 2021 World Series. PLUS, the episode wouldn't be complete without a Yogi Berra cameo!! Timestamps Pickoff Trivia! Leaders in HBP (02:51) The Shot Heard 'Round the World (11:30) Yogi Beats Traffic (31:00) The Pickle Jar: Arm Barns?? (35:45) What we tentatively titled "The World Series of World Series" (41:50) Our dream WS matchups (47:14) Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales - Noah (@noahascott6) is joined by Pitcher List's own Dave Cherman (@DaveCherman) this week for a wacky episode about one of baseball's most legendary players. Plus, we get to the bottom of whatever a "duck snort" is, and close things out with the return of Rent/Extend/Cut! All that and so much more on this episode of Short Hops & Tall Tales! Timestamps Pickoff Trivia! (Breakfast Edition) (02:11) The Ballad of Rube Waddell (05:17) Rube Waddell: Volunteer Firefighter (11:52) Rube Clears the Infield (13:11) Puppy Love (14:57) ...Alligator Wrestling? Sure, why not? (16:40) The Original Florida Man (17:41) Get Schrecked (18:05) Malice at the (1903) Palace (18:55) A Turn Onstage (19:52) He did WHAT?!? (20:15) Going the Distance with Cy (22:49) The Straw Hat Incident (24:04) The Pickle Jar: "Duck Snort" (27:19) Rent/Extend/Cut! (Chipper, Jeter, & Beltré) (31:17) Check out the Across the Seams Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-seams-podcast/id1558766082Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Short Hops & Tall Tales - Brandon (@bdriddle) and Noah(@noahascott6) are back and covering a lot of ground this week with a Halloween(ish) episode! First, we unearth up long-dormant baseball trauma while digging into the origins of Cardinals Devil Magic™. Then, Brandon takes us on a surprising and entertaining journey into baseball's past as he researches the history of baseball cleats! All of that and more in our 25th episode! Timestamps Pickoff Trivia! Which is the oldest franchise with no MVP awards? (2:40) Hail Satan: The History of the Cardinals' Devil Magic (06:15) Brandon & Noah dig up their Cardinals Playoff Trauma (08:55) 2006 (10:01) 2011 (18:54) Roy Oswalt's Superhero Origin Story (21:19) Attack of the Rally Squirrel (22:50) Where were you for Game 6? (26:31) The Pickle Jar - "Dying Quail" (31:44) Cleats, Boots, & Spikes oh my! (36:03) Roman Legionnaires? (37:04) ...King Henry VIII?? (37:23) "Paul Butler" (38:28) Waldo M. Claflin (42:04) The Shoe Shine Sham (45:00) Follow Short Hops & Tall Tales on Twitter!Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices