Collective Personality

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Tim Kurkjian joins Buster to discuss David Cone’s rosin experiment, the Rays and the A’s on the extremes of the league, Logan O’Hoppe’s injury and Drew Maggi’s call-up. Then, Marcus Semien stops by to talk about his feel for the Rangers during spring training, the differences between this year’s team and last year’s, how they’re celebrating home runs and victories, and how he feels about the Athletics leaving Oakland. Later, Sarah Langs on the Rays’ 13-0 start to the season at home, Masataka Yoshida’s two homer game and the opposing batters’ average when facing Ohtani. Plus, Roxy Bernstein’s interview with Brandon Nimmo. 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 Monday, April 24, 2023.
0:16.8	I'm Buster only working for my home in Montana.
0:18.9	It's our Abbott Taylor-Schwenker working back in Connecticut and it's just, I mean, it's
0:25.5	hit it had on.
0:26.9	It's a really tough day here at ESPN.
0:29.2	A lot of good people, guys, have been let go by the company and I've been through about
0:36.0	four of these and each one is just so difficult because these are people you work with every
0:41.8	day.
0:42.8	These are people you care about.
0:43.8	These are people who really care about what they do.
0:47.4	It's a tough day.
0:49.4	Yeah, there's a couple of people in our orbit who are let go and people who I admire
0:54.7	and respect and have really done a lot for me in my, you know, almost four years at ESPN.
1:00.0	So it's been challenging for sure, but we will try and power through here and give you
1:04.7	a little content that you want.
1:06.2	Yeah, and Sarah, I think what we've done, learn in the past is that you know, we go through
1:11.0	these situations and you acknowledge them up front and then you pivot and you talk about
1:15.5	baseball.
1:16.5	But how are you doing?
1:17.5	Yeah, it's definitely a hard topic to discuss.
1:21.4	The only thing that I can really say is just I'm thinking of all the families affected
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