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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Theo Epstein joins Buster to discuss the overlooked aspect of banning the shift, seeing stolen base attempts go up, when he decided to leave the Cubs, players disliking downtime and analytic trends pushing the game in the wrong direction. Then, Sarah Langs shares how she met Steph Curry and Steve Kerr, and plays The Numbers Game. Later, Hembo on Jeff Saturday’s Dusty Baker-like touch in the locker room, hitters that will benefit from the regulations against the shift and, why he’d sign Justin Verlander over Jacob deGrom. Later, Alden Gonzalez talks about Yasiel Puig’s guilty plea, the erosion of trust between the Astros and James Click and the players being talked about at last week’s GM meetings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, November 16, 2022, and today will be better
0:19.0	than yesterday.
0:20.0	I'm Buster only working for my home in Montana.
0:22.8	Sarah Abbott is working from the Sarah Abbott studio in Bristol, Connecticut.
0:26.9	My Taylor Schwenk is joining us from the Schwenk Studios in the Fort Hill of Connecticut
0:31.5	in Taylor.
0:32.5	Before we get started, I notice your voice is really horse.
0:35.3	What's that about?
0:36.9	Well Buster, the Reverend made his return this past weekend for a wedding for my buddy Dan
0:42.7	Dirk's and his beautiful wife Jenny down in Southern Maryland.
0:47.0	They requested the Reverend's services.
0:49.0	I happily obliged, but I think I practiced a little too much.
0:53.0	I'm like, how many weddings have you done now?
0:54.8	That's my second wedding.
0:56.0	So, I mean, the number of people that have come up to me and are like, oh, you should
0:59.3	start a side business.
1:00.3	I'm like, it's not a bad idea.
1:03.1	It's not too hard, but yeah, I practiced a little hard.
1:05.6	I played extra hard when I was done.
1:07.8	You know, a lot of nerves.
1:09.1	I will say I did lose my place for about 20 seconds.
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