De-Developing Greatness: John Smoltz on the Braves; Gary Cohen on the Mets; NL West Chatter

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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John Smoltz and Buster discuss Smoltz hanging out with fellow Hall Of Famers, the Braves fighting for a playoff spot and the sport suffering from the loss of starting pitching. Then, Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen talks about the NL MVP race, the perceived weakness of the Mets, the most complete teams in baseball and Pete Alonso. Later, Alden Gonzalez on Francisco Lindor putting the team on his back and if the NL West has the three best teams in the league. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 10:05 John Smoltz 30:14 Gary Cohen 46:36 Alden Gonzalez 58:18 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:05.0	This is Baseball Tonight the Podcast.
0:10.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the Podcast.
0:11.0	This is the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:20.0	Taylor Schwink is working from the Swink studios back in Connecticut.
0:23.0	I'm Buster O' Lee working from my home in Montana.
0:26.0	Taylor, have you, first off, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this.
0:29.8	Have you ever
0:34.0	Okay, at some point do you think you wind up going there. I know you know you weren't a huge
0:39.4	baseball guy before you start doing the podcast but now you are a huge
0:43.6	baseball guy at some point do you want to go oh absolutely you got to go and pay
0:47.2	tribute I mean if you're going at some point buster I'm gonna I'm gonna latch
0:50.6	on to that trip you know what you Todd and I need to make a trip
0:54.1	because, you know, I like going to the Hall of Fame,
0:57.0	but Todd is like a walking encyclopedias, we know.
1:00.9	You would have so much fun going with him and they have this cool you know
1:04.9	room where they have all the artifacts that you know like down in the basement
1:08.7	besides the display and there are things if you were to say you know I want to see and I'm just
1:15.6	pulling I don't know if they actually have Cal Ripkin's glove for money broke
1:19.2	Lou Gehrig's consecutive game record September 6th 1995 but you could say you know I'd love to see
1:25.8	that glove and and they will they will you know put white gloves on you and hand you
1:29.8	that glove damn yeah that sounds amazing.
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