An Era Defining Matchup: Terry Francona on how he'd approach both lineups

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Reds manager Terry Francona and Buster discuss how to approach the loaded lineups of the Yankees and Dodgers, why Juan Soto has some David Ortiz in him, and why there are too many days off in the playoffs. Plus, Hembo joins to discuss the importance of Freddie Freeman, Soto's future, and the x-factors for each team in the World Series. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 4:06 Francona 19:20 Hembo 37:14 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Thursday, October 24th, 2024, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:20.0	I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana Montana about ready to get on a plane down to
0:25.0	Los Angeles for the start of the world series and Dan Stanzick pinch hitting for the great
0:30.5	Taylor Schwink who's going through some medical procedure today.
0:33.6	I can't wait to hear the back end of that.
0:35.9	Yeah, Buster, what kind of comp do you have for me?
0:38.4	Who gets called up to the big leagues for the World Series like this?
0:42.1	Wow. Wow.
0:43.0	Okay.
0:44.0	Well, I'm trying to think in this world series, who's...
0:46.0	Well, you know what?
0:48.0	Fernando Valenzuela, right?
0:49.0	At the end of the 1981 season, he stepped up, he had a great finish to
0:54.0	or the in 1980 season stepped up and and did great work out of the Dodger
0:57.8	bullpen I think this week that would be an apropos comparison what do you think
1:00.8	perfect perfect I love it okay well I appreciate you jumping in for for tail What do you think? Perfect. Perfect.
1:03.0	Okay, well I appreciate you jumping in for Taylor, who's going to be back and I'm sure he's going to have
1:07.5	stories from what he went through today.
1:09.8	All right, the two teams are preparing for the start of the world series.
1:14.3	Aaron Judge spoke about Shohay O'Tani.
1:17.0	Other than the obvious, what do you admire about Shohay?
1:19.8	Other than the obvious. I feel like everything's obvious. It's for it's for
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