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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Buster begins the show sharing his thoughts on the game at Rickwood Field. Then, former agent Jeff Berry talks about why teams signing young players to longterm deals isn’t actually a good idea. Next, Todd Radom considers Buster’s idea to incorporate Mays into the MLB logo, shares this week’s Ballpark and Beyond, and administers the quiz. Later, Sarah Langs on the importance of Willie Mays to her family, Mays’ four home run game, the Dodgers’ big comeback against the Rockies and who she met at Yankee Stadium this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, June 21st, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:20.0	I'm buster only working from my home in Montana.
0:23.0	Taylor's working from Connecticut,
0:24.7	intern John, working from his home in Texas.
0:28.4	And I just want to say this,
0:29.4	happy birthday to my son Jake, who turns 20 today. we're going to go see his favorite team
0:33.9	together on Friday the Braves who were taking it on the Yankees Taylor so Jake
0:39.6	Fantasy fantasy, a famous Fantasy baseball owner, Tennessee Titans fan,
0:43.8	braise fan, we're going to a game where he just reported to me,
0:47.2	it's gonna be really hot.
0:49.0	It's, it's toasty up here in the northeast.
0:51.3	And I must also note the the the most befuddling
0:54.4	team that Jake is a fan of is the Charlotte Hornets I don't know he should just like you
0:59.6	know because no one you don't ever bring it up I'm the one who brings it up he
1:02.3	should push that aside and just root for you know the no I don't you I mean what kid from Westchester County New York winds up with a set of favorite teams that includes the
1:14.5	Atlanta Braves, the Tennessee Titans, and the Charlotte Hornets, a team with no hope.
1:19.2	Well, it's the same thing.
1:21.0	Why would a guy from California that moves to Texas still be a
1:24.0	fan of the angels you know see you respect and like Jake and you've never met him I
1:30.3	think yeah all right we're taping this right after the game in Rickwood, Alabama that was
1:36.8	broadcast on Fox, you know, a pre-game show on MLB network. They did a really nice job.
1:42.9	And a game I think brought everything that we would hope.
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