Contrived Controversy

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Karl Ravech joins Buster to discuss the Padres hiring Bob Melvin, if the A’s organization is happy to shed Melvin’s contract, the Mets watching traffic zoom by, the potential for a rainout throwing the World Series into complete disarray and the inevitability of Atlanta changing its name. Then, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game with notes on the Astros’ offense thriving, the ballparks where the Braves have played home World Series games and Atlanta’s home losing streak in the Fall Classic. Later, Todd Radom stops by to weigh in on PETA’s insistence that cows are offended by the term bullpen and to administer the weekly quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, October 29, 2021.
0:17.1	And today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.4	Producing from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut is the Reverend Taylor Schwank.
0:25.2	Buster only working from my hotel room down in Atlanta.
0:28.5	We're later today.
0:29.7	We hope they will play game three of the World Series and be talking about the weather coming
0:34.0	up with Carl Ravich.
0:35.4	To news and notes from yesterday, the San Diego Padres have hired the Oakland Athletics Manager,
0:40.6	Bob Melvin, as San Diego's new manager.
0:43.5	According to sources, Bob Melvin is going to get a three-year deal.
0:47.0	There's a lot of interesting dynamic to this, whether it's from the Padres perspective
0:52.6	in an excellent hire or from that of the Oakland Athletics, or the whole industry.
0:57.0	Where were the New York Mets on this hiring?
0:59.7	Miguel Rojas has agreed to a two-year $10 million contract to stay with the Miami-Marlins.
1:05.0	They lock him up for the next two seasons.
1:07.7	Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Derek Johnson has been promoted and given the added title,
1:12.0	Director of Pitching.
1:13.6	Yesterday, at optional workouts, at Truist Park near where I'm sitting today, Dusty Baker
1:19.6	spoke with reporters and he talked about how the assos have a disadvantage.
1:23.8	It's a bit of a disadvantage that our guys can't really be working on it now, trying
1:29.2	to get on the field for a few minutes.
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