Brawls Were Brawls: Mariners Can’t Pitch on the Road; Michael Kay on Big Yankees-Blue Jays Series; Ballpark & Beyond

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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David Schoenfield and Buster discuss the impact of Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2131 game 30 years later, Framber Valdez’s agent denying Valdez intentionally hit his catcher, what the heck is going on with the Mariners, the American League wild card race, and the collapsing Reds. Then, the voice of the Yankees Michael Kay stops by to talk about a big series against the Blue Jays, frustrations with umpiring and the latest on Aaron Judge returning to the outfield. Then, Sarah Langs has an essay on Juan Soto. Later, Todd Radom shares details from his hangout with Buster, along with the Ballpark & Beyond, and the quiz. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:08 David Schoenfield 26:04 Michael Kay 37:58 Sarah Langs 40:35 Todd Radom 50:39 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:06.7	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, September 5th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.0	Taylor Schwank is working from ESPN today.
0:21.4	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:23.7	And I got to say, Taylor, I'm a little chap today.
0:27.0	Oh, what ails you, Buster?
0:29.1	Something that John Boy posted on social media.
0:32.8	The first time I saw it was on Thursday morning.
0:35.9	This was John Boy.
0:37.3	You remember last week when I told that
0:38.8	story about Eraldus Chapman reacting to Connor Wong using the pitchcom where he said inside
0:45.3	fastball? And I basically said, you know, this has been important for him. Well, John Boy apparently
0:50.4	had a problem with that story. Here's his conversation with Aaron Boone, the Yankees manager.
0:55.7	There's an article that Araldis Chapman is having such a good season this year because the
1:00.8	concept of locating his fastball finally arrived.
1:04.2	He said that Connor Wong hit the pitchcom button and said inside fastball.
1:09.6	And it was the first time Chapman thought, oh,
1:12.5	I should aim it and not just throw it down the middle. And I feel like that's a prank of an
1:17.1	update from a guy who's played baseball's whole life and he's never been told inside outside
1:21.3	on a fastball. Does that pass your sniff test? Yeah, I think it's something that's just, obviously,
1:26.8	a role this has, an amazing career.
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